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House. there was $100,000 come straight out of the ambassador's fund in tokyo for these kinds of disasters. japan being the third largest economy in the world does have more resources than pretty much any other country out there. there's an offer really of the technical expertise more than a financial burden i think where people are looking at the financial cost, not direct aid. it's what this does to the global economy. we're seeing already an impact on the markets now of this terrible human tragedy. >> richard, really as a backdrop, is the debate over the budget. president obama did have som...

Money going out to schools all around the country. and secondly, there is a new bipartisan bill, they've just introduced and trying to get bipartisan support that would put in a code of conduct for schools that get federal money and put in there as part of that code of conduct that bullying violence, assault, harassment et cetera is unacceptable. $120 million is decent money for these schools as a starter but as you know, the budget fight is ongoing on much bigger line items like medicare and the like. this is caught up in everything else. we'll see whether or not the president's budget goes a...

Party wave last november. there's a supermajority in the texas house of conservative republicans, i mean really conservative republicans. but in the end, i think its downfall will be the business interests, including some of governor rick perry's biggest campaign contributors who are interested not so much in these social issues as they are in taxes, and certainly don't want to shut off the tap when it comes to an expense of labor forces in texas. >> you talk about $27 billion shortfall, that is a shortfall you cannot close by taking on liberal sounding line items in the budget. that's somethi...

Real spending 9%. every department of state government was cut. and we balanced the budget without any new or increased taxes on the people of the state of new jersey for the first time in eight years. and the budget they called did on arrival without an income tax increase was passed two days early with 99.8% of the line items exactly as they were when i submitted them back in march with a democratic legislature. why? because we stood up for what we believed in. and we made it very clear that we would not compromise on our principles. we compromised on things that were not core principle item...

Republicans are offering? >> it's going to be really fascinating because the republican ron on and were successful in binge-- the moment they hit the ground running in 2011 and to their credit they're keeping their promise, but when you look at the line items what they are he a cutting, it's pretty big cuts, a billion dollars from the environmental protection agency, not a million, a billion dollars. that's a lot of money from one single agency. but if you want to get to 100 billion you're going to make some tough cuts. i think what the president is going to have to do, okay, i'm not going to ...