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This was a bad recession. the financial sector, the housing sector, millions of americans lost their personal assets, their wealth. so it's going to take time to recover. the question is are we going in the right direction versus, you know, being stuck in the past. we are moving in the right direction. we need more help from the private sector and i do believe with 44 months of consecutive job growth, the american people will begin to feel some of the strength of this economy. >> we could be in the midst a few weeks from now in a huge battle over raising the nation's debt ceiling which could h...

Government. it raised some serious doubts in the minds of people around the world about our country. >> the president's argument is he had to do something to end this practice of what he calls holding the government ransom and holding full faith and credit of the united states ransom. as someone that spent a lot of time in the oval office, do you think from a presidential point of view it sort of makes sense to maybe end this process of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool? >> if i'm wearing my treasury secretary's hat, which i wore for four years, i would love to see us do away with t...

Officer first. accused of being one of the key players in the attack. i heard he didn't see the assault. then we had later video surfacing where he punched out the back window of the suv. heather, where do the prosecutors go with that? >> they have charged him with gang assault, arthel. i think what will happen here when he testifies in front of the grand jury he will have to use the information he has as a negotiating tool to try to get immunity, the assault, the gang assault charge is a little bit overcharging. there is no evidence that we've seen he actually struck the driver of the suv. so...

Example, they want to hold obama care, use that as a negotiating tool. so, i don't know that there is a lot. you know, i don't want to give people the sense that in this particular case, we're just talking about this really narrow funding bill that just goes two months. and likewise, just getting congress to pass legislation to pay their bills when it comes to the debt ceiling. i don't know that there's a lot of negotiation for the president to do directly. he'll continue to make the case to the american people. we feel that that case -- you know, i think there will be more attention paid to t...

Mickey this is a very serious situation going on. moody's analytics chief told the budget senate committee this past tuesday, quoting him here, that shutting the government down for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage. what are you concerns about a partial government shutdown? >> the thing we can really do is just look back at what's happened at the past government shutdowns. al remind our viewers that the government has shut down 17 times in the last 38 years. so this isn't something that's unique. something we go through frequently. in 1995, we saw the stock market fall ...