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Comes out and says i want less money for police departments but they're pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if you're trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and here's what it's going to go for, what's the answer? >> readiness. in one word that's the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. they're actually functional, ready to go out and hit the ground. following up on robert's points on the n...

Disappointed. that we haven't found a new partner to find common ground. bill: you had 21 republican governors seven years ago, now you have 31. you have a republican majority in the house and senate. by this measure have the policies of this administration failed? >> if you take a look at what happened over the course of last year, we made a lot of progress. working with a republican majority in congress we reformed the no child left behind bill to make sure our kids aren't being tested too much. we succeeded in reforming the imf contribution. we actually passed a budget agreement that funds ...

Sequester levels and i mean it cuts everything from w.i.c. to subsidies for amtrak, to health care for veterans. it hurts not only the very, very poor, but the middle class as well. it raises taxes on the average american by $2,000 and lowers taxes on the very wealthy by $200,000. so we don't expect him to walk back from that. but, he has seemed to be interested in having a conversation about ending poverty and we certainly agree on that. so we see this as a tremendous opportunity to talk to a powerful member of congress, the chairman of the budget committee and potentially the ranking member ...

That was just loud. brian shakt man, in the show, we have interesting followups on the kenyan mall shooting courtesy of the new york city police department. we want to begin in washington, d.c. a budget deal has been reached between the senate and the house negotiators. so the called cease-fire on capitol hill buys lawmakers time to address the nation's larger fiscal issues such as the tax code, health care and social security. paul ryan and patty murray brokered the deal which raises military and dmen spending through 2015 replacing over $60 billion worth of sequester cuts. joining us for mor...

Divorced from it in his re-election. he wasn't running on that brand, on sarah palin. >> and i hate to bring reality to the table, but the fact of the matter is the republicans, a, didn't shut the government down. this was the democrats who decided, we want more money -- everything that sarah palin just said is exactly right. we are borrowing money -- >> the debt ceiling is not about money -- >> we are borrowing money. oh, okay. so -- the deficit -- come on, ron. the deficit has been shrinking >> the deficit has been shrinking because of the sequester. >> granted, but all that we did here was ...