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I have, therefore, considered it essential to relieve general mac arthur. it is the deepest regret that i found myself compelled to take this action. >> you there go, it was on this date on april 11th, 1951, one year into the korean war, the president, harry s. truman fired a very popular military figure, general douglas mcarthur. with the government averted on capitol hill friday, the next it over raising the debt

Two years agoious 24 hours was time enough to raise taxes on the taxpayers of wisconsin by a billion dollars. now a week and 17 hours of public hearing testimony by the joint finance committee is not long enough, the reality is they're not doing their job. they belong back here like all the state workers across the state who i appreciate went to work today to do their job. until they do, we're going to wait. this is imperative we get this done first. >> is it essential to collect the bargaining rights of an employee of the state? how is that a modest request? >> it's modest in terms of what we...

President's blueprint? >> well, the republican response has been unified in their criticism of the president's blueprint, not a surprise. they think it doesn't go far enough and in truth it does only tackle a very small 16% of our spending, leaving untouched all of these entitlements, but, suzanne, you bring up an incredibly powerful point but there is a huge fight brewing within the republican party, and the tea party elements have been able to push their own leaders into making deeper and deeper cuts than they even planned to make to begin with in terms of this year's funding. so thoez tea p...

Isn't it essential that we integrate our kids and that every child no matter what their color is should get a quality education? >> certainly, kyra, and we value that. here in wake county, we are one of the most integrated counties across america. we are rich community in terms of our community and that has helped us grow. in fact, in 2009, we were the fast effort growing metropolitan area in america and that's for a reason. but this policy, as you noted earlier, was merely around for the last ten years. it's not something that was born out of an age of desegregation. it was an experimental po...

Young william pitt the younger came to office without election. is it essential you be voted in? can't this work? >> i covered william pitt the younger and that was very, very controversial indeed. as you may remember yourself of course. there was a great line john major came up with, indeed he was hoisted into power while margaret thatcher had been shuffled into the background, stabbed in the back, and that was an unelected prime minister like me is like living in sin with the electorate. to be honest, we've had too much living in sin. john major did it, but then got elected finally. gordon b...