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when there s not enough support to get either bill through, and when you consider the fact that the whole thing is a made-up political event, basically preventing usç from the real conversation about job creation and structure in the banks and tax code that could create prosperity, we are left with little more than pro wrestling, which actually rates well, it actually doesn t just get us anywhere. nbc s luke russert starts us off with the latest. reporter: around around around they go, where it stops, nobody knows, you re alluding to the fuzzy math. let s start off with the harry reid plan the cbo scored it as 2.2 trillion. they re still going to present that plan, not so much on the other side, the republican plan by john boehner promised over 1.2 trillion in cuts. that number was scored by the cbo at $850 billion, about $350 billion short. that caused john boehner last night to pull the bill from the house floor. they are rewriting it as we speak. it will be on th ....
when there s not enough support to get either bill through, and when you consider the fact that the whole thing is a made-up political event, basically preventing usç from the real conversation about job creation and structure in the banks and tax code that could create prosperity, we are left with little more than pro wrestling, which actually rates well, it actually doesn t just get us anywhere. nbc s luke russert starts us off with the latest. reporter: around around around they go, where it stops, nobody knows, you re alluding to the fuzzy math. let s start off with the harry reid plan the cbo scored it as 2.2 trillion. they re still going to present that plan, not so much on the other side, the republican plan by john boehner promised over 1.2 trillion in cuts. that number was scored by the cbo at $850 billion, about $350 billion short. that caused john boehner last night to pull the bill from the house floor. they are rewriting it as we speak. it will be on th ....
i can t not agree with you more. i look forward to that debate, congressman. thanks for the time. megapanel here in new york. msnbc contributors emerson lloyd weber, jonathan cape heart, and rupert cox, a pleasure to see the three of you. mr. cox, financial markets showing some squirrelyness, on the currency side you re seeing a bit of activity. at the same time there is not much of a we need a market smackdown. it will galvanize considerable all of a sudden you know, i don t want you to get hedge fund managers. they re going to çsay, my god,y pension is now wort 10% less than the day before. whether you liked t.a.r.p. or ....