. >> john: chuck schumer would say let me get on tv. [ laughter ] >> no, he would say it's my law. >> the tools have been developed and are in the marketplace and readily acceptable and distracted driving is a problem whether you are eating a ham sandwich or drying your hair. >> john: see what comes and i've seen people and women putting makeup on. we taped drivers. >> the dancing queen, do i have anything stuck in my teeth. brushing their hair, eating an ice cream cone or an apple. not illegal but how about driving one handed while eating pizza or taking big bites out of a sloppy sandwich. would you steer with your elbows while doing paperwork. >> they are doing bad things behind the wheel. >> maybe if a cop saw you eating a sandwich and every passing more laws world they would be banned. >> we have laws against distracted driving. if you are veering out of your lane. >> it's the same as distracted driving? >> we need tech neutral laws. if you are driving in a way that is dangerous, that is clearly evidence you should be held responsible for that. >> john: one company sells a device

democratic senator chuck schumer of new york and george miller of california are roomies, sharing a home people do here to save on rent. >> did you close up the cereal before you left? >> reporter: their other housemate, dick durbin of illinois is already at work. he got up early to talk to matt to throw cold water on speak boehner's revised debt limit bill. >> we've got to be careful that we don't fall into the fold. >> reporter: it's a deeply drived congress. republicans control the house. democrats control the senate, and nothing gets done until both chambers agree on what to do. in the speaker's office spokesman michael steel makes the first of many pots of coffee. >> this is the best coffee in the capitol. the speaker is very, very particular about it. >> reporter: they need the jet fuel just to deal with the phones. they've been lighting up ever since president obama urged americans to call congress and complain. >> speaker boehner's office, how may i help you? >> reporter: a nice guy named tom andrews has the terrible job of phone supervisor in the speaker's office. >> there are 2

chuck schumer's an extremely rational and calculating politician. that's not the way he operates.is very deliberate. and behind it, ultimately, is the state of the economy. when you have stewardship of an economy like this that is so rotten, you are desperate to do anything to distract attention from it and to try to make the other side unacceptable by this sort of venomous name calling. >> my point is joe wilson set the tone for the year, so we shouldn't be surprise bed this is where we are. >> oh, please. so chuck schumer does not have control over his own tongue? >> >> you know, unfortunately -- rich? rich? >> that's absurd. >> the fact is, unfortunately, you know perfectly well this kind of rhetoric is working right now in washington. that is one of the big reasons -- >> wait a minute, hold on,. [inaudible conversations] mary ann -- bill: this is ultimately to raise money? >> what republicans are calling democrats terrorists and hostage takers? which ones? >> i'm sorry, bill, what did you say? bill: the only reason they're talking this way is to raise money? >> no, no, no. i p

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senator chuck schumer of new york is calling on at&t, t-mobile, and other major wireless provide forceermanently deactivate phones not just sim cards when a customer reports a stolen device. the move follows a new report showing cell phone thefts are on the rise. in a list of the top 20 cities where cell phone theft is up, sacramento ranks fifth and san francisco is 13th on the list nationwide. >>> new airline rules aimed at protecting passengers take effect tomorrow. airlines can now be fined up to $27,000 for leaving an international flight on the runway for more than four hours. passengers bumped off an oversold flight will now get double the price of their ticket. if they're significantly delayed, up to four times the price of their ticket, the rules also require airlines to be more transparent when it comes to extra fees for checking bags, providing food, and canceling reservations. the stricter rules could translate to fewer delays on the tarmac and fewer passengers being bumped from flights. >>> for the first time in its history dating back more than 150 years, u.c. berkeley's b

the sharp sword above their heads as chuck schumer called it this morning.y of describing what a trigger is here. if you don't have it holding it above their heads. democrats have plenty holding above their heads. it involves medicare and spending cuts to things they care about. if there wasn't going to be tax increases on the table as the trigger for republicans. had to be something like this. and watching this play out over the last few hours it clearly is a motivating trigger. >> chuck todd, i know you have to sit down. the president is going to be coming out in a couple of minutes. andrea mitchell of "andrea mitchell reports" is here. what have you been able to find out? >> i think basically, the outlines of the agreement and we'll get the further details as we hear them in the next few minutes. but the outlines of the agreement are in place. perhaps there will be a change in the amount of defense cuts and exactly how this is going to be worked by this super committee of congress. but the outlines of the deal, i believe, are as we first heard them earlie

you heard chuck schumer talk about having this sharp edged sword hanging over the head. because you're not going to have taxes hanging over the hefd republicans to compel this super committee to work, the other olution that vice presidentcc1: biden and mitch mcconnell came up with, the threat of pretty cuts.efensecc1: now house republicans are balking and there is a lot of hand wringing over this. there has been an odd soap opera today. the first part of the day everybody thought it was democrats holding up the deal and that was who was waiting. democrats are saying they're there, they're they're. then democrats sinld on. now they're balking. how does this get through house? nobody has a path yet. >> and yet another groundhog day in washington, d.c. for that matter, the rest of the country. house.todd at the white cc1: we'll talk to you later, thanks, chuck. now what about the damage just cc1:done?ss has whether we have a deal or no deal? the whole world has been watching this. the ratings agencies, the markets and the number do tell part of the story. we are coming off

called the tea partiers terrorists this week we had he said there is a terrorist attack senator chuck schumer argued the gun was being put to bed he actually did a gesture and pointed a gun at reporters basically implying that republicans are terrorists and you did. two just now i find that offensive they are calling republicans in the tea party terrorists and i am a proud tea party and i'm going to say something i said this the other day and i'm a proud african american and i'll tell you what if they other side wants respect and quit calling our president tar baby referring to our president is born there in lies the problem turned down the heat on both sides but he's a family attorney but it is using republicans there is me and calling the president tar baby and a liar which member of congress which member of congress are busy there are no excuse me can the put the. congressman from colorado get joe wilson said karen said you lie i mean all i'm saying is well i'm offended because you're calling me names and then we sit here with the president of the united states and president of all of us a

. >> so there's chuck schumer, the democratic senator from new york together with the other democratic leaders in the united states senate. they're very pleased the senate has just followed the lead of the house of representatives and passed this legislation, raising the nation's debt ceiling. the vote, a resounding 74 in favor, 26 opposed. the legislation having passed the senate, having passed the house, it will now go to the president's desk. he will later today sign it into law. the nation's debt ceiling will go up. they have set the stage for some initial cuts in spending and much more robust cuts down the road, including the creation of this super committee, 12 members of the house and senate, democrats and republicans in equal number, both parties will then come up with a plan to see if they can come up with a plan to have entitlement reform which in effect means cuts in spending for social security, medicare and medicaid as well as tax reform which in effect means tax increases, increases in taxes. we'll see if they can work out some sort of deal on that, that the house and sen

this is how new york's chuck schumer is saying how the gop is handling the faa right now. >> i would like to say something to jonathan. in all due respect. the issue is not essential air service. it is not even a labor issue. it is issue of hostage-taking. it is as if someone put as gun to your head and says give me your money. you say, why won't you give them their money? you leave out the whole context there is being a gun held to your head. that is not fair and that is not right. >> reporter: so democrats want republicans to go along with a clean bill of extension for the faa that is something transportation secretary ray lahood wants as well. he just said at the white house he wants congress to do this right away. >> leave your vacations. just for a couple of hours. come back, congress. help your friend and neighbors get back to work. >> reporter: the reason democrats in the senate don't like the bill that passed the republican house is partly also because it tries to get rid of wasteful spending at rural airports. house speaker john boehner is not taking any of the fresh attacks

chuck schumer says senate rules make it go slowly.means rand paul has given his unanimous consent to allow this debt ceiling thing to do because he knows it has to go. it seems to me there was more of a veto threat possibility here for the president to wield earlier in this process to avert what is happening to them now. >> i think that's right. you can do a veto threat and a demonstration if you believed they were really going to do this, if the republicans were going to make this country default, which is a claim now that has become something of a conventional wisdom although i to this day doubt whether in the final hours that would happen. if you believe that the only responsible thing to do is to plan for it, to do what any ceo would do, get ahead of the deadline. the president could have come out a month ago and said he's going to start withholding social security checks for the top 5% income earners as a preventive measure to start closing the national parks one day a look and closing air traffic controller use that's a federal

now, with us now is christopher hahn a democratic strategist and former aid to new york senator chuck schumer. i'm trying to put myself in your position here. i'm trying to channel i'm a democrat, i'm a democrat. i'm seeing this thing unfold with the bus tour and announcing the plan. would you advise president obama on a bus tour during a campaign season to announce that he is going to announce a jobs plan four weeks from now after labor day vacation and martha's vineyard. >> politicians are marketers never roll out a new product in the summer. george bush said that i think we can wait for september for this congress to reject what the president is going to propose. they will reject it they don't have ideology they have theology. you can't raise taxes ever and you can't spend new federal dollars ever. the only way to create jobs in this country is really invest in infrastructure. if you talk to mainstream morks like chairman micah who sits on the transportation committee. >> laura: infrastructure spending. >> pass a surface transportation bill. let's spend a lot of money on it because every b

o'connell, former director for rural outreach for senator john mccain's campaign and former aide to chuck schumer and democratic strategist. great to have you. >> great to be here. christopher, the straw poll itself. take me back and tell me whether or not it's gain or lost muster, how significant is it or should we focus more on the upcoming caucus? >> i think rick perry just proved that the straw poll is completely irrelevant. whoever wins here today and it's going to be either bachmann or pawlenty, this is going to be the last good day of their campaign. and this is a two man race right now between rick perry and mitt romney. that's what you're going to see. listen, say what you want about rick perry, i've had lots of criticism about him. i think he timed this right. he's saying, look, i'm in this race, a serious conservative with serious credentials as a governor as opposed to some of the people who have light resume's, including bachmann, pawlenty has something there, but hasn't been able to capture anything and conservatives don't buy him as a conservative. and he's made a lot of people lik

. >>> senator chuck schumer recently accused republicans of sabotaging the economy to hurt presidenthhmmm... melissa harris perry on that important story, next. ugh, my feet are killin' me. well, we're here to get you custom orthotic inserts. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center recommends the custom-fit orthotic that's best for your tired feet. foot-care scientists are behind it. you'll get all-day relief. for your tired achy feet. for locations, see drscholls.com. thank you... >>> i just want to tell you as we head into the close, we are down 514 points. the low since december 1, 2003 is the last time we were down more than 400 points. >> a worldwide panic sent markets plunging today. soeting off political shock waves across washington and across the country. will this be the shock therapy needed to jolt washington out of political dysfunction and pave the way for real action on jobs? with me now is melissa harris perry. she is a professor of political science and columnist for the nation. also with me is peter goodman, chief business editor for the huffing torn post. he is also

feels like the president gave up on harry reid and chuck schumer. even tactically, harry reid could have forced this. it would have been an ugly partisan fight. i don't know if the house could have handled that, but that's going to be that kind of arm chair quarterbacking. and you'll have -- we've already seen it among some of the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives. very unhappy with this deal. so that is why they have to move this fast. any delay in this could make this house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, john boehner, at the end of the day on this one, because, frankly, it would cost a lot of -- they could cost leaders their job. on this one, they'll have some back-up votes. they'll know at the end of the day when one is -- when you have the democrats promising 80 to 100, that's a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have. so i think it's going to get through. it's going to be a close vote but they'll probably have 10 to 15, each party, of sort of like in case of emergency v

at a news conference today senate democrats played a little bit of chuck schumer later, blamed the media for misreporting supposedly how all this has evolved. basically there was a short-term bill that the white house wanted a republican bill. and the senate democrats said, no, we want a clean bill. >> it looks like a fukushima daiichi between senator rockefeller and the house chairman dan mika. it's -- it's gotten to be -- it's so messy and it's costing $1.4 billion. >> billion with a b. >> in tax revenue coming in. you know, it just furthers the narrative of the town looking dysfunctional. >> in terms of dysfunction, we saw the evolution of the tea party coming out of the august recess two years ago. chuck, what's going to happen when members go home? >> you know, i'll be curious to see. remember the tea party got fired up in 2009 because there was some astroturf. there was an organized effort, groups out there trying to create trouble at town hall meetings. it was definitely an orchestrated campaign. you don't sense that there's any orchestrated campaigns. i'll be curious to see espec

>>> the terror attack killed 270 people in 1988 and now new york senator chuck schumer is calling for the mastermind of that attack to go back to prison. joining me now a woman who lost her husband in the bombing of pan am flight 103. vick 20r -- victoria, thank you for joining me. what was your reaction to what we're seeing in libya? >> well, i'm elated to see the progress that the freedom fighters have made. in the last six months these people have done more to pursue moammar gadhafi and take him out of power and out of business than our government or any of the world superpowers have done in over 22 years. you have to remember that only seven months ago, these were average, ordinary libyan citizens who had the majority of them, 95% of them had never held a weapon in their hand. they're students, they're plumbers, they're doctors, they're people from all walks of life who courageously took up this fight and not had any military training. and here we are at a very pivotal time in our history with libya. this is the closest that we will -- we have come in 22 years to bringing moammar

feels like the president gave up on harry reid and chuck schumer. even tactically, harry reid could have forced this. it would have been an ugly partisan fight. i don't know if the house could have handled that, but that's going to be that kind of arm chair quarterbacking. and you'll have -- we've already seen it among some of the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives. very unhappy with this deal. so that is why they have to move this fast. any delay in this could make this house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, john boehner, at the end of the day on this one, because, frankly, it would cost a lot of -- they could cost leaders their job. on this one, they'll have some back-up votes. they'll know at the end of the day when one is -- when you have the democrats promising 80 to 100, that's a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have. so i think it's going to get through. it's going to be a close vote but they'll probably have 10 to 15, each party, of sort of like in case of emergency v

democrats hate this deal, and feel like the president capitulated and gave up on haryi reid and chuck schumer, and gave up on harry reid and could have been a ugly bipartisan fight and i don't know if the house could have handled that, but that kind of armchair quarterbacking, and we have already seen it among the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives and guys like erick erickson is very unhappy with this deal and that is why they have to move it fast. any delay could make the house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, and john boehner at the end of this one, and basically it could cost to leaders their job, but on this one, they will have some backup votes. they will know at the end of the day when one is -- when you are the democrats promising 80 to 100, that is a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have and i think it will get through, and it is going to be a close vote, but they will have 10 to 15 and each party of sort of like in case of emergency votes. you know, the break-glass-here if you need this vote, and they will is

democrats hate this deal, and feel like the president capitulated and gave up on harry reid and chuck schumer, and gave up on harry reid and could have been a ugly bipartisan fight and i don't know if the house could have handled that, but that kind of armchair quarterbacking, and we have already seen it among the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives and guys like erick erickson is very unhappy with this deal and that is why they have to move it fast. any delay could make the house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, and john boehner at the end of this one, and basically it could cost to leaders their job, but on this one, they will have some backup votes. they will know at the end of the day when one is -- when you are the democrats promising 80 to 100, that is a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have and i think it will get through, and it is going to be a close vote, but they will have 10 to 15 and each party of sort of like in case of emergency votes. you know, the break-glass-here if you need this vote, and they will is

he is aligned with chuck schumer.she has a re-election fight and she -- >> she could have a re-election fight. and she could have a tough fight. >> and not only in primary fight, she could have a serious opponent you don't know if somebody could materialize. most of her money has come from wall street. she worked on wall street. so for her to vote against the againstal wisdom of wall street on this is very interesting. it shows where she think she's vulnerable. on the primary side. >> absolutely. i heard some democratic rumbling for a while they thought if they want to challenge her in the primary. that's why a bunch of republicans didn't jump in because they thought why am i going to do that when that's going to go away with barack obama. >> she's turned out to be a very smart politician. i don't think they can beat her from the left or right. i think she was protecting herself. >> don't forget who stood up with her when she was very nominate. al domatto. >> michael steele, i want to bring up the republican president

all right, let's talk about this with christopher han, former aide to senator chuck schumer and democratic strategist and stephen hayes, senior writer at the weekly standard and forecasts news contributor. -- and fox news contributor. it's an interesting look at the scenario when we watch, stephen hayes, the gop contenders struggling for a frontrunner and the very real option that a new person could come on the scene or one could sprinter -- splinter off and run as a third party candidate. >> it is. i would say just to put this in its proper context, you have 58 percent of people saying in this current poll that they could see a need for a third party. back in the summer of 2007, gallup did a poll and also found 56 percent of people saying the same thing, and in 2003, you had a gallup poll that found that -- i think it was 53 or 52 percent saying there was a need for a third party. so america constantly flirts with the idea of a third party presidential candidate. what i think makes this different, if you look at the gallup numbers in particular, is what -- where the ideological hunger for

henry reed, chuck schumer spoke this morning, holding a press congress discussing the failure to act. take a lesson. >> as leader reid has pointed out today, almost 4000 federal employees and some 70,000 workers, contractors from round the country are being held captive. they are out on the street because republicans have refused to work with us to find common ground. the essays shutdown would jeopardize $11 billion in construction projects. it will cost more than 200 million per week. it has already cost us three others $60 million. this is from the party that is worried about fiscal responsibility. >> unfortunately republicans continue to practice the politics of confrontation and hostage-taking. it is severely damaging our economy and livelihood for people across our nation. as leader reed pointed out, we have been, for months holding 315 million americans saw santa the entire country hostage to this address of taking us over the press of this into default. because of the work of the white house, leader reid, a policy in others, we avoided that. at the last minute. however, helped

bill: looks like everyone got the same e-mail yesterday, harry reid, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, presidentere all talking about finding religion through jobs. matt, thank you, good to see you, thanks. >> to the middle east now, breaking news, a fresh round of explosions and gunfire in a city under siege by its own government. the sound of tank fire, and automatic weapons, filling the air in the town of hama, syria. forces loyal to assad say he is slaughtering his own people in attempts to squash the revolt and, this line of tanks in amateur video are shown towards hama and foreign media is banned and the phone lines are cut, so it is hard to know exactly what it going on there. reports from local activists say more than 1700 people were killed, in protests, against the assad regime... since it began. a report is supposed to come out, to fight the threat of homegrown terrorism and extreme molly henneberg is live at the white house. >> reporter: it has been drafted and redrafted and expect it to be an 8-page plan to lay out the obama administration's approach to combating terror ideology, in

christopher han is former aid to senator chuck schumer and brad blakeman is a former adviser to president george w. bush. good morning. >> good morning. bill: is the love fest over? >> we wouldn't be democrats if we didn't complain. will rodgers once said i don't belong to an org need party, i'm a democrat, and that has been our tragic flaw in this country for the last 40 years or so. democrats are quick to criticize each other and quick to say well, what if we would have picked this one or that one. >> bill: i think you can take it a step deeper, chris, and that is this, do they have reason to complain? >> there's always reason to complain about any elected official on either side of the aisle. democrats are just better at complaining. now, do i think there are people in the party who feel that president obama has not been true to his liberal leanings that they thought of? i mean, republicans accused him of being a socialist and democrats complain he's a conservative so there's a real mix, but i think at the end of the day the democratic party is so afraid of what would happen if the tea

chuck schumer who was my classmate a harvard aouple of weeks ago in the hamptons. he was at a party. he went up to the dog would written a piece -- doug who had written a piece he said you are required to use as talking points en if you do not believe in them. it is -- my reaction to that is what woodrow wilson said in 1916. he said i loved the democratic party but i love america much more. when the democratic party becomes an end unto itself, i rise in dissent. i rise in dissent. [applause] it was once the voice of the common man. it has been taken over by a an elitand plunge of over educated people who have decided their job is to be dictator to the people, to the common man. to tell them what they must believe and do even when they do not lived up to it themselves. i know a lot of these people. when we were in serious and i was young we never let these people in the room. while we were not paying attention they took over our education system and our foundation. they are now taking over the government. if you knew them like i knew them, you would not sleep at nig

franken and the 29 democratic senators who voted for the war authorization bill, including senator chuck schumer, dianne feinstein and john kerry. plus, future maritimes editor, bill keller in the editor of the liberal magazine, "the new yorker," all supported the war. the times ran many bogus front-page stories about how saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. he later apologized for their cheerleading of this were. but the damage had been done. he had given bush the cover he needed and the ability to claim it's a liberal paper like the times says so, it must be true. it must be true. so here it was, the fourth night of a very unpopular war and my film, "bowling for columbine" is up for an oscar. i went to the ceremony, but was not allowed to talk to press on the red carpet going into the kodak theater. there was fear that someone may see some team and in wartime, we need everyone on the same ph. the actress diane lane read the list of nominees for best documentary. the envelope was up and she announced that one. on the main floor, the actors, direct readers, writers, gave me a standing

one thing i would like to say is chuck schumer and christine gillibrand -- the staten island ferry, running on liquefied natural gas. we have two natural plants that we could utilize. we touched -- he touched upon a few key things. when he was at the mexican border he talked about how the employers break the law by hiring illegal immigrants. my thinking is this -- he needs to focus even more into that, into the illegal medicaid claims because of the employer is breaking the law. host: we will leave it there. we are talking about the impact of the president's economic bus tour. if you could tie your comments into that, that would be great. carl and new orleans. -- in new orleans. carl? we have to move to los angeles. what do you think? caller: i think it is about time he actually goes out and speaks to the people. i really believe in him. i just don't think he has been very vocal lately. host: what is your economic situation? caller: i am part time. i have no health care. i do believe in him, i do believe that he cares about people, but i -- he is worried about speaking out for the people, b

franken and the 29 democratic senators who voted for the war authorization bill including senators chuck schumer, dianne feinstein, and john kerry, and the "new york times" editor and others all supporting the war. the times ran many bogus front page stories about how hussein had weapons of mass destruction. they later apologized for their cheer leading of this war, but the damage had been done. they had given bush the cover he needed and the ability to claim if a liberal paper like the times says so, it must be true. it must be true. here it was, the fourth night of a very unpopular war, and my film, bowling for columbine was up for an oscar. i was not allowed to talk to the press going into the theater. there was fear someone might say something and in wartime, we need everyone on the same page. the actress dianne lane red the list of nominees for best documentary. the envelope was opened, and she announced i had won. on the main floor the actors, directors, writers gave me a standing ovation. i invited my nominees 20 join me -- to join me on the stage, and they walked up with me, and i spoke

franken and the 29 democratic senators who voted for the war authorization bill, including senator chuck schumer, dianne feinstein and john kerry. plus, future maritimes editor, bill keller in the editor of the liberal magazine, "the new yorker," all supported the war. the times ran many bogus front-page stories about how saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. he later apologized for their cheerleading of this were. but the damage had been done. he had given bush the cover he needed and the ability to claim it's a liberal paper like the times says so, it must be true. it must be true. so here it was, the fourth night of a very unpopular war and my film, "bowling for columbine" is up for an oscar. i went to the ceremony, but was not allowed to talk to press on the red carpet going into the kodak theater. there was fear that someone may see some team and in wartime, we need everyone on the same ph. the actress diane lane read the list of nominees for best documentary. the envelope was up and she announced that one. on the main floor, the actors, direct readers, writers, gave me a standing

during a briefing by democratic leaders, chuck schumer said jobs will not have to play second fiddle to the deficit anymore. a added that we added this -- we welcome this chance to shut the playing field to jobs. this is from "usa today." jesus is a democrat in connecticut. caller: i have the answer for all united states financial problems. we could have 50 million jobs within two years. we have to tax on 8.4 million millionaires at 9.5%. then you get full immunity from the tax if they can show us they have created one new american jobs within a year. one job, one year. host: bruce an independent. what would you like to see the joint committee on deficit reduction focus on? caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i would like to have you put on a economist to illustrate the victory entitlement programs. if we continue on the path we're on right now, they will go big growth. -- they will go bankrupt. that is a pact to bankruptcy. we cannot continue. we have to reform those. personally i would like everyone to have a lifelong retirement account and a lifelong health savings account

chuck schumer he was my classmate at harvard, a couple weeks ago in the hamptons, was at a party andwent up to -- we write together -- went up to him and doug wrote a piece in which, in front of a number of people, senator schumer explained that doug and i couldn't describe herself as democrats because we didn't use the democratic points. and he said you are required to use those talking points even if you don't believe in them. my reaction to that was woodrow wilson said in 1916, in nebraska. he said i love the democratic party but i love america and much, much more. the democratic party becomes, the democratic party becomes an into itself, i rise in dissent. i rise in distant. [applause] the party which once was the party of the common voice, of the common man, has been taken over by george soros and an elite bunch of over educated people. [applause] decided that their job is to be dictator to the people, to the common man. to tell them what to must believe and what they must do, even by the way when they are not living up to themselves. i know a lot of these people. i've said befo

. >> after the vote, senator chuck schumer said it's time for jobs to move to the front and center.about our jobs is when they're about to lose their jobs. that's the only time. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. >> gretchen: welcome back. with president obama signing the debt deal into law, congressional leaders have to choose that super committee of 12 lawmakers, equally divided between the house and the senate and republican and democrat. their task, to find more cuts over the next decade. with so much at stake, who should be on that committee? let's ask our political panel, victoria, professor of political science and a faculty fellow at northwestern institute for policy research. jason wright, ed tore of political derby.com and author. and political strategy, deedee. good to see all of you. you did all your research and thought process

head of the senate campaign committee, a political perspective, durbin, his deputy, did not put chuck schumerants to make a deal. and he's not putting in an extremist. in terms of the senate republicans, though, mcconnell did it totally differently. he put on real conservatives and tea party types. he put pat toomey, club from growth, portman just elected senator from ohio with huge tea party support who kyle who has been a strong conservative from arizona. so mcconnell who played the debt deal more conservatively and basically advocated a cave-in now has appointed members that are going to be pretty principled whereas boehner and reid are keeping their guys on a very short leash. >> that's really interesting. regarding max bakus, he's the democrat from the great state of montana. he has kind of leaned to the right a bit and some republicans are saying, hey, that could be our seventh vote. he could actually come and help us. do you buy that? >> no, there's going to be no seventh vote in this thing. >> what this shows you is that the leaders are going to have to make this deal. the committee m

tryout of khalid sheikh mohammed in new york city refused, including his democratic colleague, chuck schumer and i guess that a response would be as soon as you can identify the locale of where they can hold these trials, i'm sure they'd be happy to get them started. so i don't know why he hasn't closed the base, but i think that is something to do with the reasons why they haven't held trials. in terms of the larger question of race, and this is my friend did in terms of attention and is the. mayor stephen i have both been speaking as if everyone has read everything william james and john dewey have ever written. just a couple words about philosophical pragmatism. it develops in the 20th and early century from exasperation some philosophers felt with the confidence that some other philosophers had that there were systems that would answer all the questions we have about issues of politics or ethics. and they said when you don't have certain answers, you should feel free to experiment and you should judge the consequences of your experiment. and that's not going to work in every case. mathem

. >> who chuck schumer defended and protected from having to pay the taxes you pay because they gave him campaign money for the democratic party. talk about hypocrites. molly norris was a paper in seattle. she was a cartoonist when the cold thing of drawing mohamed was a crime and to be punishedded by death around the world. she was outraged in the name of freedom of speech, she suggested they have a cartoonist day, and now the head of al-qaeda issued to have her killed. the first came to her in seattle and told her it was a serious threat and she should hide, but the fbi would not protect her. she had to change her name, give up her job, go into hiding because on american soil would not protect her. the attorney general with the support of many republican senatorring, just an outrage, nobody ever calls for his resignation, but he's put the united states, a muslim woman in chicago for the first year teacher decided she wanted to have a leave of absence to go to mekkah, and she wanted to be paid while she was doing it. the school board said you're out of your mind. we don't let any fi