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Elected representatives who are carrying their views and the message of the majority of americans to washington and to this debate are somehow helping al qaeda. these are -- many of these democrats including mr. brennan who served in the last administration faced many of these same attacks under then, president bush from the left. the idea that we can't challenge the administration and their view on the fight on terrorism is -- >> what happened to democrats when they challenged president bush in the same way? >> some of the same claims were made against them. but whether it's closing guantanam...

New york are as unsettled as any set of voters. at at the end of the day many in the state don't no senator gillibrand but there will be time to lit i ghat line by line. the bigger issue is what david raised and partly what the congressman has raised here. democrats, we are in a position to make things happen. people are no longer interested in keeping score in washington, they want outcomes. at the ends of the day if we are not seen, not able to show how we're producing jobs and at least mindful of reining in the size and growth of government because every business and household is reining it...

Billion, mostly of tax breaks, to get people back to work. is this going to go anywhere? >> it will go somewhere. if this was your week to hate washington this was a good week for you. we got this bipartisan bill that emerged in the senate filled with pork and all sorts of things that people hate. fine. but at least the white house signs off on it. but harry reid decides after the white house signedff on it that the liberals in his party have objected so we got the pork and he decides i'm getting rid of the whole thing or scaling it back, so then we get partisanship. then on top of that it's b...

But it was mcconnell who told reid i will not work to collect votes for this bill if you bring it to the floor. there has to be a genuineness here. republicans say they want deficit reduction, and deficit control, they vote against a deficit commission. i hope that president obama will use an exclusive order to create a commission in spite of what republicans say. you can't have it one day in the morning and have a different message in the afternoon. i think it has to be fair. democrats deserve some blame. republicans have to be honest too. >> it's like two guys fighting in the ocean to see wh...

Republican votes when they passed the house is a key of what's going wrong. there is a real problem in the senate. and the democrats need to be able to show that they are doing the things the country needs to be done in this difficult economy and with the broken senate that can't do it and i think that what they need to do both practically to get stuff done and show voters that they are serious, they can't get rolled the way republicans love to roll them is by taking on what's broken in the senate. >> congressman schock, what is the reason that americans should restore republicans to power in ...