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Reagan question are you better now than you were four years ago? >> stocks were down again today. the dow lost 63. the s&p 500 was off eight. nasdaq dropped nine. the top republican on capitol hill is drawing a line in the sand on the tet ceiling. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reports on an opening shot of the war on the borrowing limit. >> boehner is ready for a fight. >> when the time comes i will again insist. principles are greater than debt increase. >> it led to a huge battle that ended with creation of a super committee charged with finding $1.# trillion in cuts only to...

Across the board cuts from the previous debt deal. the speaker says the house will tack that in the coming month. >> so this before the election, house of representatives will vote to stop the largest house increase in history. >> trying to avoid the sequester alone will be a mess. >> there will be hair and blood and eyeballs all over the floor. >> there will be extension of current tax policies to buy lawmakers more time. >> in the lame duck you will see we don't have a train wreck. >> in many ways, this can be viewed as presymptive strike by boehner. he is taking heat from the right on the s...

Money for his reelection campaign. joining us now is doug luzader. he is covering the story for us live from washington. what happens now? >> it is one of those things that i don't know boehner. he needs to cut an check to the american people. trips this week to three college campuses in three swing states. officially he was there to talk about preventing a hike in student loan interest rates. taxpayers picked up the travel plan which included air force one. that alone 180,000 dollars an hour. republicans say the president was making a debate here that doesn't really exist. the event looked li...

Romney has a problem, less attractive personality than obama is. if you look at numbers, gender gap of 5%. republicans are on the short end with women. and i think as predicted i'm not sure there surprises here. the one thing i would say is that on both sides of the decline is enthusiasm. obama is not going to have the young people coming out as they did in 2008. i think romney has an enthusiasm gap. conservatives are not going to come out as they were in 2010. i think each has to work on his own constituency. >> bret: a.b., the president over the past couple days has been talking to the stude...

A long way and he seems to puddle up. i mean, can i tell you because i do know boehner pretty well. what you see is what you get. there is no artifice about him. he is rock-ribbed republican from the heart of the country. grew up poor. 10, 11 kids. he did, in fact, sweep out his father's bar in cincinnati. he wears his emotions very close. i mean, a couple of years ago i emceed an event for catholic school kids. he and ted kennedy were the co-chairs of it and he started crying during this event. there were no cameras there. no people -- that's just who he is. but it obviously upsets some peopl...