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Encouraging, so how -- it can't be possible that we are losing this next generation, not when you see that proof of that acknowledgment of how important an american is and living that american ideal is when you see who is enlisting in our military. >> juliet: the dinner was expected to bring in more than $200,000, making it the most successful fund-raiser in the university's history. >> rick: is the world broke? issue number one as the g-20 summit kicks off in canada. around the globe, many countries are hemorrhaging financially. the u.s. no exception. u.s. governments gross debt is over 92% o...

Taxpayer money. this new fee would impose a less than 1% tax on the u.s.'s biggest financial institutions. critics question whether it's fair to tax banks that have repaid all that bailout money that they've received. the proposal coming on the heels of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations that just passed in the senate. >> a potentially key vote in the wall street overhaul bill is not yet on board. massachusetts senator scott brown holding back his support, at least for now. the senator says he's upset about the last minute addition of $19 billion new fees for taxes on banks, hedge fu...

>> rick, it looks like the cutters are winning this debate here in toronto. the spenders include president obama, who came here with the goal of trying to convince some of these european countries that are very worried and shaken by the debt crisis over there to hold off cutting too quickly to make sure that the global economic recovery stays on track. a lot of those countries, germany, france, britain, say that those big budget deficits and all those big national debts have shaken confidence in their governments. they worry that it will lead to higher interest rates. the president's treasury ...

They were growth towns because toronto had been warned. we are taking it seriously. we're not going to take these protesters lightly and the guys, who ever, men and women running around in these masks taunting police, is exactly what toronto was worried about. then you hear people complain being how it's a police state there. >> well, the police will crack down and they're going to -- they're using these maneuvers that mike tobin was talking about and what else are they going to do? it seems like this is an intentional thing going on. the demonstrators trying to create a confrontation. we'll k...

Responsibility because shifting the responsibility to bush -- >> i want to give you the last word. at what point do democrats, really the last word, at what points do democrats take ownership of everything that's going on? >> well, we'll take ownership once we have a have to stop cleaning up the mess. george bush is playing golf, he started to wars and he drove this economy into the ditch. it's going to take barak obama more than a few months to clean up eight years of a mess. if i were dick cheney, i'd be in the hospital, too. >> how about the gulf? >> president bush, by the way, stopped play...