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Lobbyists. >> if a member has a troop of lobbyists coming through thinks office every single day it's still up to them to say no but they love to say yes. they absolutely love to say yes. you want something, i want to give it to you because i need your vote. they have to learn to say no a lot zbloochbh there are so many advocates with so much need. this woman is upset about the governor's cut. >> i am a nurse, he will not give me a voice to advocate for them. >> john: she says budget cuts are racist. >> and people talk about the big lobbyists, boeing and intel, and here but outnumbered 20 to 1...

let's get you up to speed on this tuesday, november 22nd. a million man sit-in is taking place on tahrir square as violence erupts around it. security forces are using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters armed with rocks and molitov cocktails. you're looking at live pictures right now of tahrir square. 24 have been killed, many injured. they have a new demand, this time aimed at egypt's military leader. >> we have a crowd here angry, young, furious at the loss of life here over the course of the past three days, demanding that the supreme council step down. >> mr. ivan wat...

captain dennis davern was one of those people. in the past he said that wood's death was a direct result of a fight with wagner onboard his fight. listen to what davern told "today" show this morning. >> you're saying that wagner did not do everything he should have done to look for her after she went missing. >> exactly. >> was he responsible for her death in some way? >> well, like i said, i think we all made mistakes that night and -- >> that wasn't my question. was he responsible for her death? i am not asking about your story. >> yes, i would say so, yes. >> robert wagner's publ...

Table and we've got to control them if we want to control debt. >> reporter: so it's up to the supercommittee designed to find more than $1 trillion in savings over the next decade, debating changes to tax it is and entitlement programs like medicare. democrats have mostly defended against substantial changes to those spending programs, asking republicans for tax increases in exchange, and republicans maintain a pledge to refuse any tax increases, saying the problem is unsustainable spending increases. jon. jon: seems like we're doing a lot of lot of spending based on those numbers. rich ediso...

Businesses. if you took all of the income from every millionaire in america today it would run the government for about four months. second i had a better idea. in stead of tax increases why don't we stop subsidizing wealthy people. let's go off the corporate welfare in the tax code, in the spending, and why don't we income adjust our spending programs so we don't subsidize wealthy people as much. i think that's a better idea, get more savings in the budget, get our debt down without doing economic damage. and third i think this divisive rhetoric is divisive. i think it's trouble. sowing class...