is because look, there's a lot of people across the spectrum, my party, there are people like olympia snoweho was in the senate at the time, it would have been better for them if they could have lassoed john mccains and olympia snowes at the time. it was a democrat passed bill that makes the politics tough. you know that. >> really quickly before we go, "washington post" robert costa reporting that the house -- the gop's debt ceiling strategy has stalled. "boehner, cantor, mccarthy, final gop options discussed monday have been dropped." what happens now? >> john boehner, the speaker of the house, has already violated the rule over and over again. there's to reason for him not to do it again. one thing that came out of the cbo report, that the yearly deficit has dropped from $1.2 trillion to $514 billion. that socialist obama, he really is bad on the economy. >> we're going to leave it there. thank you all for stopping by. >> thank you for having us. >>> one day away. here we are. the olympic torch now in sochi. the competitions are set to again. but is russia ready for its close-up? we are

colleague, senator landrieu with the small business committee was a great champion along with olympia snowe and others. some people really do understand. melissa: i hope so, senator. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you, melissa. melissa: economist peter morici is listening in from d.c. and someone used to compile data he knows the employment report inside and out. don't miss what he has to say about america's job prospects and what he thinks about the validity of today's number. vice president biden going a step too far, this time bashing one of my favorite airports, the nerve! trust me i'm not only person around here upset bit. do you ever have too much money? [ male announce] e new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's y n york s a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... 're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. melissa: so you win some, you loose some. a

it's a bit like wapd with democrats and people like olympia snowe and susan collins at the beginningtheft like harry reid was taking advantage of them and their willingness to work with democrats and they sort of backed away and were unwilling to do anything, then we went into obamacare and they became much more adversarial. we're starting to see that dynamic with their own leadership. it points to the fact things are not going well within the republican conference. >> if we talk about mounting frustration, enl, robert costa in a great piece of reporting says that when boehner announced what he was going to do to his own people, which was to say this this fairly procedural thing that's become so fraught, when he announced he was going to go for a clean debt limit passage, costa writes on his way to his seat, boehner shook his head then turned to the nearly mute crowd and wondered aloud why he wasn't getting applause, then said, i'm getting this monkey off your back and you're not even going to clap? that is behind closed doors, but in context of john boehner expressing publicly his o

distinguished guests that i would like to say especially pete domenici and my good friend senator olympia snowenrad, steve bell and bill hoagland all people that i've worked with and congressman and secretary clinton. i'm sure i'm missing other people and i apologize. but by policy bipartisan policy center has been at the forefront of shaping public wolesi since it was started seven years ago. at a time when our nation critically needs a place for bipartisan discussion on complex issues the bbc has become that place on a broad range of important topics. a perfect example of that role as the work that this organization has done to shed light on the significance of protecting the full faith and credit of the united states. as we meet here this morning i want to emphasize as the president did in his state of the union last week this can and should be a breakthrough year for our economy. as the gdp report for the fourth quarter of last year underscores, our economy ended 2013 strong and is poised for growth in 2014. the table is now set for us to build on the economic progress we have made over the

nancy -- republicans and democrats -- may be the last one to leave because of frustration was olympia snow. so you have a large number of people, most of whom could have been reelected forever who left in disgust because they couldn't get anything done and that is the new phenomenon over the last couple of decades that is especially worrying. the other theme in this book and i think it is an important point to make, despite my frustrations and even my anger at the congress, reality is i got a lot of things done with the congress. most of my predecessors if they were lucky to get two or three or four big military procurement programs canceled that were over cost, over do, or no longer relevant. i cut nearly 3 dozen and ended up getting congressional approval or acquiescence in all of them. i cut $200 billion out of the pentagon's overhead. even eliminated a combat command. i got the congress to support me on that. partly because i had enormously strong support of president obama and veto threat behind me but it was also working across the aisle before members of congress that -- and figurin

olympia. it's mainly going to be a snow event. that's why we have the winter storm warnings. this will take place as we get into the evening, overnight into monday. conditions going downhill around minneapolis, and into chicago. >> in egypt former president mohamed morsi is expected to make a third court appearance, where he's on trial for spying, he was kicked out by the military in july, and accused of ipp citing -- inciting murder and using violence against protesters. 10 were killed outside the presidential palace in 2012. 20 others are charged. prosecutors say muohamed morsi worked with hamas and hezbollah. two other charges are for escaping gaol and insulting the judiciary. mohamed morsi could face the death penalty. >> the trial of three al jazeera english journalists detained in europe is due to begin on february 20th. they are part of the a group of 20 people charged with or accused of having links to a banned group. mohamed fadel fahmy, mohammed badr, and peter greste have been held for 50 days, accused of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. which egypt declared