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Spend to now save, save, save, just look at what rand paul has proposed. now, i read through this entire proposal that he came up with. i don't agree with everything in it but i think most of the ideas are very sound. i like what he's talking about with education. look, we created the department of education back in 1979, we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars at the federal level on the schools, and the schools are worse today than they were when we created the agency. so what he's saying is give that money back to the parents and let them spend it on the schools, let's get washington ou...

$500 billion is a lot of cuts, rick. even in the house where you've got the tea party candidates, they're only calling for $100 billion of cuts. so this is a big, big reduction in spending. now, you're right, a lot of the spending, about half of the budget, is social security and medicare right now. eventually, we're going to have to do something about trimming those costs. i think that leadership for that has to come from the white house. i think once the white house comes up with some proposals for trimming those costs, maybe raising the retirement age for social security and medicare, i thi...

Pointing out, are crying uncle as well. good to talk to you, have a great day. >> thank you martha. martha: there is very tough news to america pts -- america's unemployed, a new report says the jobless are struggling to find work and that's not being alleviated in any way. out of the 14 million people who are unemployed, close to 2 million of them have been out of work for almost two years. meanwhile, those who do have jobs are likely to get laid off than at any point in the last 14 points, so it continues to be a very, very tough employment situation. rick: tough weather as well, extreme wea...

Started talking about it and it is hard to talk about it because it is a... a wonderful human being. that you love. >> his memoir, "known and unknown" comes out this week and there are many, many other revelations in it, especially about who he liked and did not like. there's a lot of people in the other category that will raise eyebrows in washington, martha. martha: doug, thank you so much, reporting from washington. rick: we're waiting for word on the fate of the wikileaks founder, julian assange, accused of leaking stacks of classified government documents on-line. accused of endangering a...

Agreement to protect, the suez canal, we have the training of the egyptian army, and we have a lot of economic issues. but at the end of the day, mubarek says he's going to be leaving and he would have to sign a lot of of decrees before he leaves. so he's going to be on his desk, but not with full power. rick: when we think of what a democracy is, the infrastructure for that does not exist. realistically, we've got a couple of seconds, how long would this transition need in order to get to where everyone is talking about wanting egypt to go? >> constitutional transics should not exceed septemb...