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Tougher even to raise fees and close loopholes and eliminate subsidies. >> well, this is a problem for both parties because, robert, if you can't get any give from the republican side on revenues, on taxes, even on an increase in revenue through reform, if you can't do that, it seems to me very hard to get the democrats to agree to any kind of cut in spending and the president can't get a party to do a budget adjustment, any kind of effort to reduce the deficit that's real if the other side won't increase revenue. neither side will move then. is that where we're at? nobody wants to do anything...

Difference here. look. the reason republicans almost universally, not just tea party republicans, but mainstream republicans oppose any tax increase is because if they do they're guaranteed not just a tea party challenge, they're probably going to be challenged in a primary of another mainstream republican and it's got on the the point where tax increases are now defined at least by some like the friend glover nor exist as the elimination of tax subsidies for things like the ethanol industry so it's getting tougher and tougher even to raise fees and close loopholes and eliminate subsidies. >> ...

There. a couple more than that. and then next tweet here is 10:48, bridesmaids arrive at 10:55. bottom line, mark, there's no breathing room here. >> no. there isn't. but you've got to remember, all of the roads are closed. you wouldn't make the trip on a normal day, not in four minutes. but i'm most interested on the people that have to arrive at 8:15. >> two hours. what are they doing in. >> there is no entertainment. they won't be doing anything. they will just be sitting there and waiting. interesting that carol middleton, katherine's mother, comes before the foreign royals and also before...

Ajdabiya itself. we heard from some rebel opposition spokespeople last night that told us they're welcoming nato strikes on these targets but apparently, because they're in a town, because they're close to civilian buildings, that may be preventing the jets at least so far from firing on them. >> that's right. all right, rick leventhal, thanks very much. "the washington post" says this morning that the no-fly zone means nothing to libyans because qaddafi only had a few planes really when you think about it and they weren't doing anything. they say we need a no drive zone because it's the tanks...

>> shepard: feds accused our blago of trying to sell or trade president obama's former senate seat. last year a jury deadlocked on all by one count giving our blago conviction on line to the fbi. now his lawyers claim there is a missing phone call between the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel and a blago aide. the defense argues it will help the ex-governor. it will -- i should say will help prove that the exgovernor was not trying to personally profit from the seat. that he just wanted to help get a bill through the state legislature. no comment from the prosecutors. blago's lawyers say...