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harry reid came out the day after with his media blitz, and what he did was he just began to pour tons of money our way. the press from -- the press, the pressure from the press was designed, also, to keep me off balance, to catch those things in sound bites. as you know, we're working in sound bites, out of context, and i was thefer allowed to really explain -- i was never allowed to really explain thoroughly what i was speaking about at the moment they caught that sound bite also we were never able to do the rapid response to that. so they got ahead of us in that first three weeks because we just didn't have the money to fight the fight that we needed to fight. and i would just be very, um, a word of caution to whoever comes out of this primary. have enough to be ready to go on television and rapidly respond to whatever attack comes to you from that arena because we know we're not just going against the op session, we're going against the press that is aligned with that candidate. >> host: how long did it take you to write "right angle"? >> guest: i started in 2009, it was actually f

. >> it seems to me, 2010, when harry reid won the election, sharron angle basically decided she was going to win with anglos. she wasn't going to get any hispanic votes. >> and you can't afford to do it. about the same in 2010. if they up another point or percentage point or two, there's also a higher than you might expect african-american population. here you have 25% of the vote in nevada is not white. if that number creeps up to 26, 27%, which it's likely to do in november this year and you have obama winning by the margins that he simply won by in '08, it makes nevada a very hard slog for the republicans. they have got to fix their hispanic messaging. brian sandoval, from the west, a former squa former judge, forget about marc can rubio. >> chuck, we'll be with you all tonight. it's going to be a great night. msnbc has had campaign enbeds. this is the romney imbed. tell me something i don't know, of course. imagine the white house is watching right now. we assume they are. the top political people in the obama campaign are scouting in nevada. they are doing their job. what do yo

harry reid he is m.i.a.. what are we paying their salaries for when we have no budget to operate from? >> and problem is a fiscal crisis. you don't address a fiscal crisis until your government budgets. we're still living the 2009 budget that was passed by senator reid and pelosi. that is the last one that was passed. what we're saying we need to make choices in this country. sooner we tackle these problems the better we'll be. >> greta: how can you do it if everybody is not participating? congressman, thank you, good luck. you asked for the job, right? straight ahead, president obama getting he had from cardinal from them think dolan, it has to do with contraceptive accommodation and sarah palin is here. that is next. also new photos from inside the hotel room where whitney houston died. live report minutes away. plus, israel and iran could be close to the breaking point. israel accusing them of three bombings attacks in two days. some fear that iran may be planning attacks on israel right here on u.s. soil.

senator harry reid, the democratic leader, said it would be foolish for us to pass a budget. he didn't mean that -- and i've said this on the floor. he knows i've said it. he didn't mean that because it's foolish for america that we would have a budget. he meant for the politics of the senate because, as has been suggested, you pass a realistic budget today, some people are going to be complaining. it's not easy. it takes courage. so i thank all of you for having the courage to produce a budget, and i am embarrassed and i apologize the united states senate has gone over 1,000 days without having a budget. so, martha, thank you for introducing it. i'm hopeful senator snowe and i believe she couldn't be with us today, but olympia and i believe that if the house can move this bill to success, i don't believe there can be many logical and principal arguments against it. and i think it would increase dramatically our ability to get it passed. thank you for your leadership. any questions that you'd like to -- yes. >> the debt now equals the size of the economy. s&p is warning of an

senator harry reid's feet to the fire pass a budget on time by april 15th. i hope the members of the press will also hold the democrats accountable. thank you. >> i'm saxby chambliss from georgia. it is truly a shame we have to come out here and force the hand of the democrats by passing a law saying you guys truly do have to present a budget. your constituents want to see how much money we're going to spend. and i commend jeff and olympia and martha for coming forward with a meaningful proposal that not only says that you have to pass a budget, but that also you have to be responsible in the way you do it. you can have the greatest budget in the world and have all the right numbers in it, but if you don't have enforcement mechanisms in place, like requiring the right number of votes as this particular bill does, moving the 303 point of order from 51 votes to 60 votes, for example in the senate. then all of the great numbers in a budget mean nothing. that's the type of enforcement mechanisms we need to have in place, and i'm very pleased to stand beside all

if you look at the last ten or 12 years there is no exceptions. >> greta: so if harry reid was to return to the senate? >> so in reid is majority leader we won't be able to pull away ourselves from a cliff. we have to make hard decisions. democrats are incapable of cutting spending. their whole platform is based on more promises from government. we're seeing it this week with payroll tax cut thing. they won't cut anything to pay for it. republicans have a choice of taking the tax cut away or not just paying for it. we don't have good choices with the democrats here. that is what i'm trying to get across. it's not like ten years ago. democratic party is the party dependent on government. if we don't beat them, america loses. >> greta: so let's assume republican senate and republican house. is there any difference to you at all among the four candidates to become president? >> there are. >> greta: what makes a difference to you? >> i know i act like i'm waffling. i certainly like the business aspects of mitt romney. the ideas of newt gingrich and conservative things that rick santorum talk

he has harry reid's ear. he may be able to get this on the floor. it will not pass before the supreme court hears arguments. >> as you point out in your story, this idea has been bouncing around between the house and senate for the last decade. led in part by former senator arlen spector and now senator chuck grassley and now jerry connelly. >> that is right. the proponents of the bill are careful to point out it is not a partisan issue or ideological issue. it boils down to whether or not you think the congress should have the authority to, you know, mandate its will on the supreme court obviously under the separation of powers. there are some people who feel like that is not proper. diane feinstein, the democrat, is one of those people. she voted against the bill in the senate judiciary committee. the issue is making that statement of why are we telling them their business. if they don't want cameras, they shouldn't have cameras. why not let them make that decision? >> if this passes by the house and senate, it doesn't force the supreme court to p

but every time we even ask harry reid or the president to go along with with us. >> chris: harry reid the senate democratic majority leader. >> every time we want to cut a dime of spending we are rejected because they don't want to cut spending and every time we advance a progrowth type measure there is some excuse as to why the senate can't take it up. again, i don't blame the american people for the frustration. we are trying to go and find those opportunities for us to work together. >> chris: we talked about the -- on friday the house passed this extension of the payroll tax cut that so many of you opposed just a couple of months ago in december. you don't pay, you still don't in the bill that you had you still don't pay the $93 billion cost of extending the payroll tax cut. you pay for some of the other elements. just add the $93 billion to the deficit. a lot of your members doubt that it will help the economy and also note the fact that it takes money away from the social security trust fund. didn't you cave to the president because basically he has the political high ground? >>

and chosen candidate would have beaten harry reid but she was itself tea party favorite. would have some influence on tea party followers. it would help rick santorum in his effort to topple gingrich as the alternative to mitt romney. >> greta: speaking of endorsementss making the announcement that tomorrow he will make a big announcement. we assume it's an endorsement. if his endorsement worth something in nevada? >> the thing about endorsements is something the profile size of donald trump has certainly will make news. if he does endorse someone, the candidate will be happy to have the endorsement and donald will tell how great the candidate is. it will make a lot of news in the state of nevada where the next event. caucuses. >> greta: is he the anti-establishment candidate? >> that is question there. there is a lot of officeholders and party veterans who think newt gingrich would be poison for the ticket. who resist him on that basis. i remember in congress, you didn't want him to run on the top of the ticket. there are lot of other people that feel he a true you conse

we'll begin with the comments of harry reid as he spoke to reporters on capitol hill. >> the payroll tax is important to keep the money in the hands of the middle class. that's why we should be getting serious how to extend that still the end of the year. so far republicans as we just got a report of what they've been saying here, are talking about the payroll tax but not willing to do anything about it. at the conference committee today, all they did is talk about ways to cut. we know that there's going to have to be cuts with some of the man dapper to programs. we understand that. but there's going to having to also be something done with tax incentives enhancements reven s revenues. they're unwilling to talk about that. we're right back where we were last december. instead of finding common sense solutions, the republicans are talking about things that have nothing to do with middle income taxes. like the keystone pipeline. rolling back regulations to keep our air safe, and our water clean and pure. these tactics are stalling, more evidence that republicans don't want to extend th

harry reid has not put one thing in relationship to the gao report from 2011 on the floor. i don't fault that as administration, i fault that as harry reid not allowing those kinds of programs to come and eliminate some of the hundreds of billions of dlarth of annual waste. >> neil: thank you, senator. >> meanwhile, the republican race, democrats show how republicans picked number two. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> neil: democrats are digging deep into marco rubio's history. they are hoping to get dirt on republican senator on all these vice presidential short lists. explain. >> what i think,. >> i think if they are counting on doing this. the whole family doesn't want to do this. he sneered and dug up an attack and all of this is prelude of what would happen. but i have to tell you something. it's really bad politics. it's amazing to me the reason it may help the republicans is kind of backfired. we never had another incumbent president except for richard nixon, 40th anniversary watergate which i

the harry reid issue is right here. you have catholic voters. only 49% of catholic voters support catholic institutions having to supply this kind of contraception exactly like all americans, only 49%. and you get more resistance than you get from all americans. you get 52% resistance. and so the political question, electorally is just where do they live? you know? and are they in pennsylvania? >> i think it's also a question of -- i think it's important that we're in the midst of this conversation in which this has high sail yens now is tease apart preference and salience. how brightly will this burn? >> is it a single issue? >> the margins -- >> is this the only thing i'm on? >> i agree with you. >> and the margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 points. so really it's a tossup. >> but what you're looking for in re-election politics, you're looking for numbers that are on your side are up here somewhere. these are very, very uncomfortable levels, 49%. alex, what about women on this? is there a benefit in the polls if the president sticks to his g

harry reid and the president's on political party have simply refuse to do it. i guess the worst part about the debt is not only looking at the television and seeing what is happening over increased now and what is happening in europe, with their unsustainable debt review what is happening over in greece now. it is the impact on jobs, the fact of the matter is this $15 trillion plus debt has kept job creators on the sidelines, because they don't know what the taxes are going to be. they don't know what kind of new regulation is going to be promulgated. they don't have any predictability that allows them to plan for the future. so they do what a rational person would do, they sit on the sidelines. meantime, unemployment is unacceptably high and apparently the president is going to do nothing about that, except to raise taxes on the very people we are depending on to make the investments and create the jobs. completely unacceptable, and i think the american people understand that. >> i will be brief. i know a lot has been said. all of us to come here are shocked b

what i do hear is any proposals that they are having any proprose sals on, i get back to harry reid, then he says no. he's trying to pull the rug out of any successful completion. i want to extend the federal tax holiday and the unemployment insurance and that people on medicare can continue to see their doctors and harry reid has a big road block to that happening. >> senator, barasso, just as a follow-up, should that be paid for? >> we're continuing to look for ways to pay for all parts of this and there are blocks in paying for every component of what i these we need to do. i want to make sure that we're looking for things thash actual paid for, the republicans and the house have come forward with proposals in terms of pay freeze on federal workers and a numbere to the house and i support all those. >>> president obama announced his 2013 budget prop poe sal. you can read the budget proposal on cspan.com. >>> president obama unveiled his budget proposal at northern virginia community college in annandale earlier today. his comments were about a half an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen

. >> as negotiators closed in on a deal, harry reid said he's confident the payroll tax cut will pass both houses. >> not everything we do here has to be a big fight. it appears that the republicans in the house acknowledge that. >> reporter: congress is expected to vote on the bipartisan compromise in the next few days and the measure could end up on the president's desk by the end of the week. on tuesday, president obama said the tax cut helps boost the economy and urged lawmakers to act quickly so it doesn't expire at the end of the month. >> the last thing we need is for washington to stand in the way of america's comeback. >> the deal will also help jobless americans, long-term unemployment benefits will likely be renewed although lawmakers say the number of weeks it's paid may be scaled back. something the democrats did not get, renewing some to expire tax breaks for individuals and businesses, including a clean energy tax credit and tax breaks for companies buying new equipment. betty? >> susan mcdpin is in washington for us. thank you, susan. the economy will be a key issue in

problem and not just a harry reid, democratic thing.veryone in washington-- >> fair and balanced, dagen. >> because it's blueberry, or my personal favorite, swine and animal manure management. that it's right and the left. >> neil: and this morning about your personal favorite, dagen. >> because i've lived down wind from a hog farm before so that's my personal favorite, but again, it's the issue is, and you hear this, and there are republicans and democrats who are not in favor of earmarks. >> not enough. >> but, it's the lack of transparency, and i tell you, i've said it before, until people make it prohibitively expensive for the congress and lawmakers to spend borrowed money, they're going to keep doing it, particularly when it gets them elected or reelected. >> neil: adam? >> well, i just don't think this is an issue that we need to turn up to 11. i mean, we're flashing the trillion dollar debt, but the earmarks are not a trillion dollar problem. there's far bigger problems, far more important ways to attack the-- >> oh, no, i love

. >> you can't call harry reid and the senate budget plan a fantasy, can you? >> phantom. >> phantom! >> doesn't exist. >> on a serious note, you are on the senate budget, you are in the minority on the republican side, what do do you if you haven't put together a budget? >> we hold hearings. >> for what purpose? >> we listen to experts and talk about budgetary matters on the assumption, at some point, somewhere in the distant future we might some day do a budget. it really is. it's a complete sham. >> we called senator harry reid's office office because i wanted to be sure we would be fair to him. the president has put one up and the house has put one up and the senate has not done it. he says there is no intention to put the president's to the floor and he is satisfy that the budget act last august suffices. >> yeah. well, you know, i -- what the democrats and the senate are doing is following their leader, following the president, in terms of not taking any of these big issues on. at least the president has to put forward a budget. he gives us a budget. it d

meanwhile, senator harry reid critical of the process on the other side of the chamber. he spoke to reporters earlier, he spoke on the senate floor earlier in the day about the house approach to this legislation. >> the house of representatives, led by the republican caucus which is overwhelmingly tea party, they decided they were going to do some legislation. now, that is a dandy. their legislation is so bad that the congressional budget office sunday it would bankrupt the trust fund. huh. we're trying to replenish the trust fund. they're bankrupting the trust fund. but as i hear on the news this morning, the republican caucus over in the house is fractured. and now they can't figure out what to do with that bill. they're thinking maybe break it into three different pieces. even with the power of the tea party it is so obnoxious and so out of control, that piece of legislation, that they're not going to appear to allow a vote to take place on that, the bill itself, because it's so bad. >> senator harry reid on the action in the house of representatives, the decision by

harry reid said, mr. president, the senate will be coming in for pro forma session during the thanksgiving holiday to prevent recess appointments. that's how he opened his speech that day. he closed his speech that day by saying, as a result i am keeping the senate in pro forma session to prevent recess appointments until we get this process back on track. harry reid knew, madam speaker, that the president could not, could not under the law that govern our land, under the rulebook that is the united states constitution, he could not make appointments if harry reid kept the senate in pro forma session. 2007. then majority leader harry reid talking to then president bush. fast forward, madam speaker, to the holiday season, 2011-2012, same majority leader sitting in the united states senate, harry reid, same pro forma session, continually through thanksgiving and christmas, the same pro forma session that harry reid said clearly would prevent constitutionally the president from making any appointments. and w

harry reid has that title now and it is not a partisan thing. the president has a whole administration, and the speaker has the rules committee, and the majority leader in the senate has only the power of persuasion and respect for the position. it is not a constitutional position, but it is one of leadership where you have certainly for the republicans very few rewards and no sticks, and at least in tom's case in the democratic side, he had something to say about who got on committees, and on the republican side, i tried to manipulate the system, i confess, but it was, you know, you start with the most senior person who has come down the line, and they make those picks. so this is a challenging position. making it even more important that he be important to communicate with the leader on the other side. what we are seeing now, the gridlock and the politics and all of that, it is the time we are in and the personalities without being critical of them. when i look at the next generation of leaders, house and senate republican and democrat, i beli

hand -- when we take that gamble -- when we take that gavel out of harry reid's hand.] that is right and we're going to retain the house. the reason the tea party movement has been so successful is because we have great ideas and we understand that we have to take action to implement those ideas. if you truly want to implement change, you change the players, and the most powerful tool we have as our vote. we showed that in 2010, and we are going to show it in 2012. in occupy wall street, on the other hand, they resorted to all kinds of tactics. are not want to get into it because it is not worthy of our time. we are here to save america and to protect the great constitution that america was founded upon. that is what we are here for. that is what we are going to do. this movement -- it is something that has been created by the left. these people -- i mean, obviously they were out in front of the hotel yesterday. i do not know how many of you were here and saw them. it paid, i guess, $60 a day to come here. the unions are infiltrating them because they see the value of

harry reid says he now wants to see this go to a vote in the senate.uestion is, is he trying to trap republicans headed towards elections? we'll talk to senator rand paul about that coming up next. gregg: and a last-minute deal to extend the payroll tax cut. keeping more of your money in your wallet. critics say washington is focusing on the wrong issues. >> why are we arguing over a middle class tax cut that has been given to us for, by name to reduce the amount of we're paying into social security. what we should talk about is real tax reform. ♪ what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if youbank doesn't let you talk to a real perso24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. gregg: developing right now in "america's newsroom", the prosecution wrapping up in the murder trial of george huguely.

get harry reid marx jurorty leader in the senate to ask the senate to vote on your budget. a put pass the senate for $1,000 days. >> that remarkable, isn't it? >> bret: budgetary measures can pass the senate with 50 votes. >> it's so completely wrong, so how can jack lew who was the budget directory twice under the clin top administration and today make a mistake like. this i don't think he lied. he would have known he would have been caught out. the administration is so used to blaming evening on republicans, connection, hailstorm, who knows. rising of the ocean. either jack felt he had to blame this on republicans when the passal of a budget in senate has nothing to do with the republicans. it's in the hands of the senate. >> i think you are being generous to jack lew. he said it not once but he said repeatedly this guy served a the budget director. it's unconceivable he didn't know. to me it budgets he did it on perp. >> how did he get away from it? >> they got away with the argument all day long. if you look at budget, it's extrapolation of that claim we have seen from

there is reason why harry reid we're not taking it up. they couldn't pass. >> greta: why do we pay to have created. the contents of it. i'm arguing why didn't they decide beforehand instead of wasting all this morning. >> guest: this president has not been serious about the budget process nor has the senate democratic leader. president of united states has an obligation to present a budget and he has failed to meet the obligation three out four years. senate is obligated under law to pass it each and every year and they have not done it. we're going on three years. we're running a $3 trillion a year enterprise called the u.s. government and we don't do it with a budget that is passed in the normal course of things and 13 appropriations bills and signed before the budget year. we are running a gigantic enterprise as if it were a neighborhood lemonade stand. the president is not serious about the budget and neither the democrats. house republicans passed a budget resolution last year. we had the president's chief of staff on sunday saying,