>>eric: so, harry reid, senator harry reid, he said that he wants to block efforts do make that illegal. how is he doing that? >>guest: so, senator sessions and vitter put together a plan that would require individuals to give a social security number so the inspector general and department of treasury said the best way to combat the fraud is to require individuals to give their social security number so that is what the senators have done. well, of course, harry reid has blocked this by not, by not allowing the senate to vote on this bill. and he claims this is not that big of a deal, and this is too extreme of a measure for the problem and it is not that big of a problem. >>eric: i will read a statement from harry reid saying "tax fraud is a very serious problem we should address but this poorly constructed proposal is so broad it would take away tax credits from millions of hard working family whose childrens are american citizens." what does he mean by that? >>guest: well, that is not true. if you look at the report, they interviews individuals who are illegal immigrant whose admitt

in a sense, we're a response to harry reid. he passed the obama care legislation which increased bankrupt entitlements, bankrupt the day it was born. and that's what we're fighting against. and as we pay more attention to the election coming up, we're going to realize that the senate is standing for progress on the economy, on right-sizing the government, and reestablishing the proper balance between washington and the state. >> joy reed, as republicans accuse the senate democrats of stopping economic growth and stopping jobs and driving unemployment, this is something where they're going to fall on their swords. this is a self-destruct move by your friends, harry reid, chuck schumer, and the other leading democrats. what do they think they're doing? >> by the way harry reid, no relation. i have to say three cheers for the do-nothing senate. the founders of this country created the senate to be moderating bodies to sort of put the brakes on the house, which is sort of the more wild and crazy body. right now the legislation comi

do you think harry reid is presenting this with obama kind of pulling the ventriloquist string?in other words, this is a soak the rich, which is appealing he thinks to the general public, who are not in your class. and that is not only intrinsically unfair, it's undemocratic, it's unamerican, but it is also a tactic that obama is encouraging on the part of reid. >> he may be doing that. if i were to be tell you the -- what motivates this whole thing, our campaign contributions. that's the way i look at it. >> what do you mean by that? >> who will be gaithersburg the democrats enough money at this stage to combatted all the -- what this campaign is going to be looking like? which will be a one of a huge -- [overlapping speakers] >> he wants to pull the subdonations and the sublevel donations? >> no -- >> that's why mort, they're going from 250,000 to a million. they just -- all those people making between 250,000 and a million are voters! and they -- that's why harry reid is saying, let's get them their -- extend their tax cuts and only get the super-rich. >> and raising the tax

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are to blame what about harry reid he hasn't passed a budget as which are the leader of the senate in three years would he still have a job and then there's the famous g.s.a. party. what about the g.s.a. the people who run the g.s.a. in government when you book a smoking clown and a mind reader and then tell everybody you've got to tell the some of the guys to dress up like women and say that's a good morale building is that effective way to lead your cult well probably not it sounds to me like a waste of time and money. but of course when word got out people were fired suspended and it's pretty good bet it's not going to happen again but where did the g.s.a. get the idea from a consultant who really routinely produces events like this for corporate america remember the two point two million dollars party that tyco international threw on the island of sardinia complete with an ice sculpture of michelangelo's david with vodka coming out of his penis that would made the news but the fact is that corporate america is a walk in lavish spending of their customers money from corporate je

republicans objecting to a plan being put forth by harry reid. he attempted to pass by a simple voice vote a bill to deter iran from developing nuclear weapons. they complaint senator reid had given them only a few hours to review the legislation after he made some changes, but the democratic leader said not so. the original bill had unanimously cleared the banking committee months ago. senator reid saying that an amended version was delivered to republican leader mitch mcconnell midday yesterday. needless to say, mitch mcconnell disputing that claim. here is how the story unfolded on the senate floor with the two leaders from the democratic and republican parties, harry reid and mitch mcconnell. >> what is wrong with sitting down on a bipartisan basis looking at the language, making sure we get it right, and achieve the goal that i think virtually everyone in the room would like to achieve? nothing i think to get angry about. a proper response would be to work out our differences and to go forward. timeliness is an issue. we need to do this quic

and so is harry reid.ed to do this before the election and not mess around with shifting money from one side of the sequestration ledger to the other. that's a waste of time. now, of course the problem is that boehner and reid could end up like thelma and louise, they end up choosing death over compromise. >> you sure? >> yeah. yeah. >> that was going out in a blaze of glory. of course, it ended in a fiery pit on the ground. harry and john are heading at high speed for america's great fiscal cliff. and the problem is that we, the people, are in the backseat. outfront tonight, a man who has made this the cause of his life, david walker, ceo of comeback america initiative. good to have you with us. david walker, let me just start with you. you have some really terrifying numbers here. first of all, you have a number for our overall debt obligations which makes the $15.7 trillion formal debt number look like peanuts, and you note our financial hole in this country is growing at the mere rate of $10 million a

harry reid, like mitt romney, a mormon.e is between a man and a woman. but in civil society, i believe people should be able to marry whomever they want and it's no business of mine if two men or two women want to get married. the idea that allow two loving, committed people to marry will have any impact on my life or my family's life always struck me as absurd. howard, i'm noting a certain libertarian, ron paul note in there when he says it's no business of mine. >> well, it's -- it's also nevada, it's also western. you can call it libertarian if you want. i thought that was a pretty impressive statement from harry reid, who laid out his personal views and views about civil society. and i would say that while the country is divided on this, if you look at the polls, i think harry reid's statement probably would garner -- the way he framed it would probably garner pretty strong majority support in the country. the business about my belief versus civil society was pretty deftly done by him. >> that is the kind of statement w

because i see that statement from harry reid and want to throw my hands up in the air.ly, he wants to get rid of the tax cuts for middle class americans and raise them for everybody else. that's his point of view, but it would seem when the cbo comes out with something like this, the first thing that you want out of your leader isn't just to go out with the line in the sand that you've drawn that hasn't worked so far. >> it is disappointing. i think there are really three things to take away from this. first, it's a very big deal. i cannot remember the last time the congressional budget office predicted a recession. for them to do so is really quite an extraordinary moment. the second thing is that they said two things. they said it would be a good idea to avoid the fiscal cliff and a recession but they also said it would be good to avoid the cliff and take care of our long-term debt problems. that leaves us with number three which is the state of play and the house has, in fact, passed legislation to substitute the sequester and they will pass an extension of the bush

vamos al punto, hoy regresa al programa el líder del senado harry reid, que dice que paral el matrimoniosolo es entre un mbre y una mujer >>en histórico anuncia barak obama dijo que esta a favor del matrimni entre personas del mismo sexo como le afectará esto, tenemos invitados. >>para discutir las noticiase la semana pilar maero con nosotros, miguel pérez columnista y profesor de periodismo y maría antonieta collins >>como ven los jóvenes próxima eleccion presidencial? tenemos invitados para debatir. >>a una semana de elecciones en república dominicana tenemos entrevista. comenzamos. ♪. >>vamos al punto, con jorge ramos. >>vamos al punto esta semana serarecordara sin dudas por la declaración de bara obama que dijo que apoya el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. comenzamos con el programa con harry reid, quien nos acompaña en vivovía telefonica desde washington senador, esta a favor del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. >>yo personalmente estoy a favor entre las unnes entre hombres y mujeres, mis hijos y mis nietos para ellos no es problema. no creo que yo deba meterme en

the one thing that i can see, though, that harry reid put out a statement, his office, saying that the debt ceiling increase won't be needed until the end of the year during the lame duck session. that will come up again. the other issue that we have what some have called a lame duck loll plooza that is going to be the sequester issue and whether the military is going to face deep cuts and domestic spending, as well. to reach the $1.2 trillion in savings and deficit savings that both sides agreed to last year. >> and you have the bush tax cuts expiring, too. >> most definitely another problem. i think it is going to depend. if that is the case. if we don't need a debt ceiling increase until the end of the year after the election then i think it will be whoever wins the election will have a mandate. they have the american people on their side. if it is divided outcome somehow republicans lose the house and obama gets reelected we will be in the same situation as now. if it really is something that we can put off until the end of the year i don't think we are going to see the mid summer

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by the way, the harry reid bomb, 1981.ut a bomb on someone who worked frd the nevada gaming commission. couldn't have been mob related at all, could it? i want to go to the best laid plans of the obama white house. they have a bunch of new ads. they have one, their version of morning in america. they have one on don't change midstream. doing a whole thing on the chart of job losses versus job gains. this is the time to change things. yet it became gay marriage week. >> they do? >> exactly. >> it became gay marriage week. it started on sunday. and then, you know, you had the secretary of education come out. to say he supported gay marriage. and the president had to say something. wednesday afternoon was that something. and it dominated the week. >> and he's going to go on "the view" which might have been the place that they were intentionally going to do this the first time. what do you make of this decision to make sure it's clear joe biden falls on the sword once, twice, maybe three times about -- this is a fear of making

campaign advisor, ford o'connell and democratic strategist and former senior advisor to senator harry reid, penny lee. your guy had a substantial lead in the economic domain. what happened? has he blown it? where has that narrative gone? >> i don't think he has blown it. i think what happened as the poll shows if essentially the economy doesn't improve, president obama is going to be out of a job as mitt romney can paint himself as a plausible alternative on the economy. he is still lacking that personal compelling narrative. only time is going to tell but this poll over all is not a good sign for president obama. and that comes from abc news amy walter. >> every time you are on the show you keep saying he has got to paint the narrative and tell the narrative. when is he going to do it? this game only goes unfortunately for some of us 167 more days. >> that's absolutely right. this is why he is going after bain, because if mitt romney cannot defend his record on bain, the totality of it being having saved more than lost, then president obama is going to win this argument can mitt romney ac

a senator from nevada by the name of harry reid. it is not necessary. to waste $5 billion. >> a lot of people are saying in this economy do we need to spend money that we don't have. $35 billion is allocated for railroads. they are saying we have the money and going be spend why not spend it on the high speed rail so we can be compared to china. >> sean: a train in the middle of the desert so take you half the way when you could fly for the same amount of money. >> this is a government loan so if it is successful the loan will be paid back. >> sean: sort of like solyndra. >> people were saying that. we'll see. the middle of the summer it will probably be passed. >> i'm watching you way too often. i go to bed late and i'm up early. >> i watch you all the time, too, sean. >> see you you at 5:00 a.m. >> thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. greta is next to go "on the record" and we will see you captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> greta: tonight, governor chris christie says no to president obama. what did governor crist

. >> that was harry reid. he now says he made a mistake in is not supporting filibuster reform.re anything that ever needed changing in this body, it's the filibuster rules, because it's been abused, abused, abused. it's only going to get worse as the republican party sends more extremists to the congress. nebraska state senator deb fischer won the primary in an upset. it's another reminder of more republican extremists possibly headed to washington. richard mourdock clobbered the incumbent senator, longtime senator, richard lugar in indiana, and murdoch says that republicans shouldn't be compromising with democrats at all. that got the attention of former president bill clinton. here's what clinton said about mourdock. >> he said, i'm totally against any compromise, our world views are irreconcilable, and we have to keep fighting until someone wins it all. if that were the view, there would never have been a constitution, never ban bill of rights, the federal government would not have assumed the debts of the colony from the revolutionary war. >> let's put it in perspective, re

now i can't tell you what president obama or harry reid will do. you have to understand, we've been putting our cards on the table. we've passed budgets -- >> yes, you have. there's no question you have. have you been clear, absolutely. you have been clear. but i have a different point. okay? and i've been around. reagan in '81 gave some ground on his tax cuts. you remember that. he postponed them. we actually never got 30%. we took 25%. right or wrong, it was part of the deal. in '83 there was a grand design, democrats, labor, pat moynihan, george -- alan greenspan, everybody, kudlow was one of the secretaries of this committee, and everybody had to swallow hard. the same thing with clinton and gingrich. if you had to swallow hard right now in order to send a signal to business, how would you swallow hard? you got to give up something. you can't have a deal just by saying this is my invie lat position. >> i'm not into negotiating with myself on television. that's futile in my opinion. more important and to the point, we have put solutions out ther

el senador harry reid dijo que intentaria trabajar con los republicanos nuevamente para llegar a un acuerdos de interes estudiantiles....ambos paos, selos conductores mientras manejan un automovil. pero lo que no saben es que una nueva investigaciÓn advierte de los efectos de pasar largas horas abordo del auto. jaqueline hurtado nos las cuenta. "es un serio problema, el trafico afecta demasiado eso porque si tu vas de un lugar a u otro de una hora el trafico de lo hace el doble".ventura mao ya ha visto los efectos de pasarse largas horas dentro de su camiÓn de carga "esta afectando parte de rmi cuerpo, no tener ejercicio adecuado". el asegura que los largos trayectos le han perjudicado su salud. "yo he subido un poquito mas de peso por que cuando vamos de un lugar a otro, nos transportamos alrededor de 3 o 4 horas sin pararnos, sentado en el camión, y comemos en nuestro camión y no tenemos un ejercicio variado como tiene que tener el cuerpo". pero ventura no es el unico. "si hay mucha desesperación mucho estrés". "permanecen mucho rato sentados, van comiendo no hay ningún ejercicio y no sud

>> just last week harry reid took the floor to apologize for his actions in january of 2011. a group of senators including tom udall from new mexico, tom hark enfrom iowa, and several others, recognize there is one point in the legislative year at the beginning of the congress where an extraordinary procedure can take place. when that extraordinary procedure takes place you can amend the rules with a simple majority. on all other legislative days it takes a super majority even to correct the flaws of the filibuster. we're hoping that the pressure that we're building with our federal lawsuit and with the support of not only some of the members of the senate who know the filibuster has been destructive, but also harry reid's comments last week. we think we can build momentum. there is a bill that senator hearken introduced who said, let's keep it at 60 votes. but three days later make it 57. three days later, make it 54, and then eventually get to a majority vote. there are many changes that could happen. i would also like to see us go back to a talking filibuster like we saw i

the fear i think of the democrats and harry reid is that was that if he blew up the filibuster in two thousand and ten and they lost the senate in two thousand and twelve then. you know all is lost politically. is that and by think there's a lot of truth to that and that may well be the case if you guys are successful although odds are yours is going to go always for in court it's going to be a few years down the road but isn't it more important to have a clean procedure regardless of the political outcome of the chips fall where they may i agree i think this is about accountability in our elect. i think it's voters send their senators to legislate not block and obstruct abate we have we have no debate on these bills and that's that's precisely what this is about this is about restoring accountability so where is this going to go this well this was filed in the united states district court here in washington d.c. court first circuit court with common cause for members of congress including congressman john lewis keith ellison co-chair of the progressive caucus and three undocumented s

harry reid, senate majority leader made a strategic decision early on that rather than negotiate with the republicans in the house, he was likely going to let all of their bills languish. why? first because he really believed there was no point in negotiating with them and he believed that they were intent on dragging america further to the right to then the democrats could abide but second she believed on the messaging level it made more sense to leave the republicans out there and frame them as extremists rather than dignify them as it were as negotiating. by understand the frustration of not only members of the republican house but also americans as a whole for that strategic decision it seems very cold and cynical. but we will see in november whether or not it's effective, whether or not harry reid will be punished and his fellow democrats for basically stiff arming the house legislation and whether that effort to paint republican legislation as extremist legislation is going to bear fruit. >> host: robert draper's book is published press do not ask what could we do where did you

no offense to senator harry reid. he's a u.s. that deserves respect and i understand that it was stupid but it was his own money. why doesn't congress look into how much money fannie mae has losted, freddie mac has lost, the post office continues to lose? when is the hearing of why the post office should go to vegas and continues to lose money every year and is going to need a giant bailout. i understand they are made about jpmorgan's own loss. but it's their own money. they were stupid, they are going to pay the price, the stock got wiped out. dimon may or may not lose his job. but why doesn't harry and everyone else look into the government agencies that are a bunch of black hole and i apologize for that rant. i feel like santelli. >> your keyboard didn't survive. washington responds to big headlines and big news. >> somebody has to be the scapegoat. >> we just saw this with the government with the gsa story. >> every corner fannie mae and freddie mac come to the taxpayer like this. more arms for the poor, sir. >> yeah. >> it w

so, i mean, the fact of the matter is there's no way that harry reid -- or obama would allow harry reidput it on the floor. but put it through the house and let them explain to the american people why not. >> mark penn, isn't dick armey right on both counts? number one, romney and the gop, who are going to sweep this fall, should wait for their own 100-day agenda. but number two, the gop in the house should put the pressure on democrats in the senate just on one item. extend the tax cuts. because all those democrats are up for re-election, mark, and they may lose if they vote against tax cuts. >> well, as you know, the republicans are really scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to approval. i doubt some symbolic show votes about the bush tax cuts are going to do the republicans any good at all. look, if there was a deal now before the election, it would obviously help president obama and actually probably help the republicans in congress, just as president clinton won re-election in '96 and -- but that's not happening. i think both sides are well dug in. you're not going to s

we have harry reid. did not seal one person in the house and one person in the senate can stand there and turn around and you have one guy like a dictator of a third world country to have a debate. host: does get a response from bob edgar. guest: harry reid can stop a lot of legislation. republican senators have done the same thing. one senator can put a hold on an appointment. president obama had the use power to appoint the head of a consumer agency that was passed by the house and senate. a handful of senators did not like the law itself, they blocked a qualified person for that position. in all states, they have been blocked by one senator making that decision to put a hold on that vote. the senate has complicated rules and a lot of respect for each other. we think that is fine and appropriate. we think the majority view of the nation and of the house and senate should be the rule of the lands and not the tyranny of the minority. host: rick from connecticut. caller: good morning. the majority of peop

obama commenting on it on "the view" and harry reid commenting it.eally about the fight to regulate banks and has the regulation gone far enough. >> i never like hearing vegas and banking in the same sentence, but you make it sound so fair. >> one man's opinion. >> there you go. he was the leader of the international monetary fund. and ewe know what, today he could have been sworn in as france's president, but instead a woman accused him of rape. and dominique strauss-kahn found himself in a legal bat. now he's striking back. you won't believe what he is saying and what he's doing to get back at that maid. there's a health company that can help you stay that way. what's healthier than that? where they grow america's favorite wpotatoes. idaho, everyone knows idaho potatoes taste great. but did you know they're good for you too? they're high in vitamins and potassium. and idaho potatoes are now certified to carry the heart checkmark from the american heart association for foods low in saturated fat and cholesterol. so they're good for my family, and fo