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Congress did manage to get a few important things accomplished before they skipped town today. but they also left a few things rotting in the refrigerator. during that press conference today nancy pelosi predicted that congress would not be able to pass a farm bill before the current farm bill expires on october 1st. now, you may remember that republican house speaker john boehner failed miserably to pass a farm bill earlier this summer. a farm bill that he supported was defeated by members of his own party. democrats oppose that farm bill at the time because it gutted the food stamps program ...

Insurance. or to get crop subsidies. by the way, some members of congress who are voting against this bill were getting crop subsidies. and so they were making up their own facts about what needed to be done to be fair to the taxpayer. >> can you imagine if all american homeowners had to undergo a drug test in order to get their mortgage interest deduction on their 1040s? >> that's comparable, yeah. >> exactly. democratic congressman -- >> there's so much we're not getting done. you know, we need to deal with climate change. we need to break up the banks and continue to put cops on the beat on...

Before december of 2008. these numbers aren't exactly something to throw a party about. but things are still moving in the right direction. after having let the interest rates for federal student loans double previously, washington finally reached an agreement this week to bring those rates back down. those rates skyrocketed back on july 1st. but congress managed to fix that problem before they left for the summer. you might think that nothing is happening in washington right now, that it's just complete gridlock. but that's not exactly true. congress has gotten a few important things accompli...

Nothing could get by the silly 112th congress, and then before i could actually live the dream and do the cocktailish moment, there was breaking news and my dream was deferred, preempted, blown out. so we went back and examined not only the recipe but the idea. here was an idea. the feckless congress, about to take a vacation in 2011, applied to the congress two years later. so here we go. a cocktail moment, a recipe and a tribute to the day's events that has endured for two whole years. except i can't even have a drink, because even a half a glass of wine turns me into dean martin, so rather ...

Protect embassies are the same people arguing that drone strikes in yemen should not be happening and that the people that are targeting our embassies should not be targeted in drone strikes. so i think you can make those arguments, but it doesn't make sense to be on both sides. you have to decide, either there are people out there that are a threat to us or there are not. >> evan coleman, nbc news terrorism analyst, senior partner of flashpoint global partners, i appreciate you anything through this with me this evening. ahead, it's a friday. it's summer. and we have a salute to our vacatio...