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i'm erin burnett, "outfront" tonight. the group of 12 taxed with axing $1.2 trillion from america's deficit. last night, we brought you what was frankly a breakthrough. the architect of the plan told us he would support an increase on tax revenues on some of the wealthiest americans. today the top democrat said toomey's plan didn't go far enough. >> we came to the table to begin with and every day have said that for us it's extremely important. this -- whatever we end up with at the end of the day is balanced and fair and has real revenue on the table. >> we still haven't seen from t...

u.s. service members who were killed in that korean war. they will hold these bilateral meetings like you just saw there taking place at the white house with the president. he will also attend a state dinner. jessica yellin was there in that room, as they spoke. i'd like to see with a she thinks. jessica, if you're with us and you can hear me, let me know what you think the highlight was there of this appearance between the two presidents. >> well, the president -- i asked the president a question about both iran and about the economy and he refused, randi, to say how high up in the ...

Perspective, we are using all of the state laws that are within our authority to take action against all of these banks. but i will tell you that as you know, they are federally regulated, federally charted, so they always make the argument that there is a federal preemption. and we as states can not necessarily take action. particularly in the actions that we move forward, when the litigation we move forward in, we are taking action against them -- using our state statutes, our unfair and deceptive trade practices act, and filing against them in state court. that is what we are going to conti...

And federal statutes being struck down. but activism is activism. if by activism you mean the supreme court stepping in and striking down state statutes, striking down congressional statutes and giving a particular lead narrow interpretation to laws that they don't like and a broad interpretation to laws that they do like, almost every court is activist in that sense. >> fair assessment really quickly, ted. activist is in the eye of the beholder. >> people who say that over and over again. what david, i think, was saying is one important point. we have an independent judiciary to enforce the c...

Activist court. of course, that's a twist on the age-old complaint by conservatives of judicial activism on the left side of the spectrum. do you think that roberts court is a conservative activist court or is that activist label just become kind of a catch phrase for saying, we don't agree with those decisions? >> well, i think the roberts' court, to some extent, is a conservative court, at least when it's deciding things usually chief justice and majority. but every court is activist. what happens is that the losing side always decries the winning side as activists. when that court strikes d...