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>> the senate is working on the 20 14th federal budget. ma.y are having a voterabm they could be there all night and into the early hours of tomorrow morning. joining us on the phone, kathleen hunter. she reports for bloomberg news. they have been taking a slew of amendment votes. what is going on? >> this is a voterama. it has been four years since he had one of these on the senate floor. the senate has not done a budget in four years. they take several hours. sometimes 12, routine hours. two-minute debates. .hen the next amendment two-minute debate. five-minute vote. proposal after...

i.d. but not a student i.d., you know this thing is being designed with partisan implications. our job is to make sure that we put some light on it. hopefully we will be able to pass legislation to prevent this from going on. hopefully some people will be embarrassed because there seems have been exposed. let me ask, you have done the order registration in the past and you're doing them under these laws. how many fewer people do you think your drives will be able to register as a result of the schemes? >> is it on? at this point, i could not give you a solid number but i can say that...

Country. there is a distinct section of the populist in our country that views education as a privilege and not a right. there is an element where you -- roland was referring to the two-parent household, and that's not dealing in reality on the ground. it's something we hope for, but it's not something that you can legislation. what you can do is fund afternoon and preschool programs. >> but it's not about just legislation. now, you said -- >> it has to be, though. >> no, it's not. >> it has to be, because that's what we can control. we collectively could do something about it. >> give you per...

2.2 million jobs through the first three months of year. but ben bernanke stressed it will take a long time to recoup job losses. so the question is, does this recovery have legs? we will pose that question to wall street journal columnist, john fund, and steve lee, and joanne. i will put my bias out there. i am a confident guy, and i think the economy is going to recover. i think that's where we are headed. i am also a journalists, as a couple of you are, and we have to turn that stone over and say there are mixed messages out there, so where are we headed. what can we tell our view...

>> charlie: welcome to the broadcasts. tonight, race in america in the aftermath of the arrest of a harvard professor by the cambridge massachusetts police officer. we talk about the meaning of this with the reverend floyd make, david remnick and raina kelly. >> when this happens, it comes another time when you say we thought we were past this and here it is again. if it can happen to dr. gates, then it can happen to me. >> these are not questions anymore about, you know, kind of binary questions about water found towns and lunch counters they are questions about institutional racism...