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House republicans held their own conference call yesterday to try to do some damage control about how to better message their votes for the paul ryan republican budget. a congressional aide telling reuters today, quote, some members are feeling the heat. but post citizens united, if you're talking about politics really happens, frankly the parties can almost be irrelevant. the republican party can hold as many as conference calls for its members as they want, it's the corporate side of republican politics that will be fighting this fight for them in big dollar amounts. and the corporate side o...

Approach very clearly. >> which is different from plan. >> no. he'll be clear about the type of deficit reduction we need in terms of dollar amounts, over what period of years. he's going to give remarks on this. >> but he's willing to cut medicare, you seem to indicate. >> there's a couple things in the congressional republican plan. one, they leave the medicare savings from the affordable care act in there. the president's already gotten real savings in medicare but his approach is how to really it. how to squeeze every dollar out of inefficiencies without putting the burden on seniors. yes,...

Senate majority leader harry reid. both democratic and republican sources telling us that it was positive that it led to discussions today among top aides, and sources telling us the fact there isn't a meeting at the white house, that maybe you can read into that as a positive sign, suzanne. >> what are the sticking points for the new budget? >> of course, the sticking points have to do with the amounts of cuts, the dollar amounts. there's also something else in play that has to do with hot button social issues. one of them woib to defund health care reform. republicans arguing this would guar...

Exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun. and the low level radioactivity was easily removed with soap and water. and they were surveyed. no further contamination was dehe can teched. -- detected. so they moved back those ships away. they were operating 100 miles away from the nuclear reactor in question here. no one, it is important to also note, that has died from this radiation so far but it is a an emergency situation that the u.s. is watching very closely to try to provide help. jon: you know at a time when our own budget is stretched and stres...

But also beyond, check out this map. this shows that nasa boosts economies. this is -- it's hard to see because it's to the got dollar amounts. we weren't able to make them big enough. dollar amounts in every single state. nasa invests in every single state in the country, mainly through the hiring of contractors and purchasing goods and services. the states that make the most money are texas and california with also $3 billion each. keep in mind texas and california are also states with very, very large populations. the contracting industry stands to lose a lot in this program. 7 to 9,000 con...