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>> i think that is something that grover's going to have to with atr really get clarified with the members. if a bill is presented that has in it the automatic expiration of the bush tax cut is that considered when you vote for that bill, you know, a vote to increase taxes? by what he said on monday, the answer was, no. by what he said today, the answer is well, maybe. >> michael steele thank you for your time. >> you got it. >>> coming up, rupert murdoch's son james murdoch may have been less than truthful when he testified tuesday before a parliamentary committee in britain. now the justice department in this country is investigating whether the murdoch empire broke the law. that's ahead. woman: saving for our child's college fund was getting expensive. man: yes it was. so to save some money, we taught our 5 year old how to dunk. woman: scholarship! woman: honey go get him. anncr: there's an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. to your kids' wet skin. new neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips an

>> i think that is something that grover's going to have to with atr really get clarified with the members. if a bill is presented that has in it the automatic expiration of the bush tax cut is that considered when you vote for that bill, you know, a vote to increase taxes? by what he said on monday, the answer was, no. by what he said today, the answer is well, maybe. >> michael steele, thank you for your time. >> you got it. >>> coming up, rupert murdoch's son james murdoch may have been less than truthful when he testified tuesday before a parliamentary committee in britain. now the justice department in this country is investigating whether the murdoch empire broke the law. that's ahead. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] if it's true that sharks can sense even a drop of blood from a quarter of a mile away, which razor would you use? ♪ ♪ ♪ can be even more powerful, with precise pain relieving cream. it blocks pain signals fast for relief precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol. a network of possibilities. in here, the planne

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august 2005, an atr 72 turboprop fitted with the wrong fuel gauge runs out of fuel and ditches in the mediterranean sea off the coast of sicily. 16 of 39 on board are killed. seven airline employees, including mechanics, executives, the pilot and co-pilot receive prison sentences of up to ten years. more than half a century ago, there was another ditching, and amazingly the entire incident is caught on camera. the old coast guard film is startling, but it doesn't tell the whole story. this graphic animation shows what it might have looked like if you had been in the middle of the pacific ocean on october 16th, 1956, watching pan am flight 943 go down in open water. the images are eerily similar to the so-called miracle on the hudson, us airways flight 1549. but there are also major differences. >> it's open ocean, so it's going to be significantly more different than a river, because of the swells. and the difference is that they had hours to plan this. the hudson river crew only had a couple minutes. >> pan am flight 943 leaves honolulu, hawaii with 31 people on board and 44 crates o

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. >> i think that is something that grover is going to have to with atr really get clarified with the members. if a bill is presented that has in it the automatic expiration of the bush tax cut, is that considered, when you vote for that bill, a vote to increase taxes? by what he said on monday, the answer was no. by what he said today, the answer is, well, maybe. >> what happens to the caricature, the republican caricature of the president as a big spender if, in the end, he puts together a deal with speaker boehner that has with it a lot of spending cuts? >> i think that changes certainly for the democrats the argument about the president's spending habits. certainly republicans then would counter with, well, let's look at the $2 trillion spent before speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell and the senate tried to bring some sanity back to the process. you're going to have the political argument continuing into 2012. if you think, michael, this thing is going to end once they sign a bill by august 2nd, no. the hot rhetoric just continues. >> you know this turf well. it puts republicans

areael, asking me constantly what in tht world was going on back there wt are dealing with our budget atre the local level at the state level making choices that aren'v popular and are not easy tino me but we are moving ahead makingde decisions in our businesses and what's wrong with washington,em d.c.? part of the problem in this place is people aren't just in inions title but seems to opinions thed are also entitled to their owned set of facts and i think when you get paid by the tax payerllt you have an obligation to out actually not you're own set of facts but to come out here and . say what the facts really are ae and what the facts are in theane debt ceiling, the debt ceiling and the vote is this is not a case of deciding you're sittingo at theo kitchen table and you ae spending too much so you're going to cut up your creditalkig card. here. that's not what we are talking about here. these are about bills that have already been incurred by the united states. owed by the united states.p you so what this is about is nott he cutting up the credit card, it's t home saying idn't bud didn'