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the house of representatives passes paul ryan's 2013 budget plan. >> i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. >> the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it's dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president's budget, it's a no-go too. according to republicans, it's a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn't rein in spending. here's the bottom line. america hasn't had a budget in 1,065 days. both si...

I'm michael bazinet, president of creative digital imaging of bangor, maine. we have customers all over the united states. we rely on the postal service for everything that we do. the eastern maine processing facility is vital to our operation and our success. if we lose this processing facility we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. we would have to consider layoffs as a result of that. closure of this plant will affect all of us. ♪ more with breaking news on the killing of trayvon martin and joining us now, charles, editorial writing for "the new york times," joining...

And it turns out that don regal was on to one of the themes of this book which is we have disconnecteded war from the american experience of 99% of this population. >> i'm so glad you zoomed in on that. both regal's point, that's exactly how i see it. that was the right debate to have because congress still had some sense, whether or not we started that war would depend on them. so they debated it as if americans' lives depended on it. and that's the way the constitution is set up in terms of how we're supposed to make democratically deflected decisions. yes, we have a commander in chief in th...

>> i want to read something about one of my favorite pages because it's a senate debate on the first iraq war, a debate i was there for on the senate floor, and it was one of the most innobling debates i witnessed. there was no questioning people's motivations. some people were in favor of giving the president the authority to do it. others were opposed to it. and no one called anybody names. and you note that in here. i want to read something that a senator said. at that time war is about fire and steel and people dying. if the sons and daughters of all of us of the president, the vice presid...

>> it's looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. that's the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we won't know it until june. it's an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnn's congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral arguments. let's start with kate. what's your take, kate? how did it go today? >> wolf, after three...