what about the lone liberal rumble joining me tonight out of bitly horace cooper let's get back to it tuesday house democrats introduce the public option deficit reduction at this is so cool the part of the gods of the deficit reduction in one sentence which would give consumers the ability to opt into it into a government run health insurance plan in the obamacare exchanges bill sponsored congresswoman jan schakowsky said of the bill quote the public option deficit reduction act will give health care consumers more choices and lower their premiums and by providing a low cost alternative to private insurance it would put pressure on all insurers to lower their premiums in order to compete so is in the public option the best way to lower health care costs the united states at no why not we are already at a point where we're looking at a bill to fix a problem that's already been created as we saw law just this week democrats and republicans in the in congress are faced with having to update the mandate because as it stands they're not going to be able to get enough money to fully fund t

benjamin co-founder of the human rights group global exchange and the peace group code pink and horace cooper a conservative commentator and a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and welcome to all of you thanks for joining us tonight ok d.c. court of appeals ruled that president obama's recess appointments at the beginning of the year last year unconstitutional because the reason why the president needed to make the recess appointments the first place is because of the republican filibuster in the senate on thursday senate leaders harry reid mitch mcconnell came to a deal on a very modest watered down so-called filibuster reform package which virtually guarantees that all legislation the senate is going to run up against this fifth the sixty vote. barrier so bottom line here why why are republicans are afraid of democracy which i don't think the republicans are afraid of democracy and if you vote sustain i think small d. i think the filibuster has been a vital part of the micro see for centuries i mean well it has it's been a wild card since the one nine hundred t

automatically the big picture of all joining me tonight are patrick howie medea benjamin and horace cooper let's get back to it austerity continues to cripple the british economy according to new economic numbers the u.k. economy shrank three tenths of a percent last quarter two thousand and twelve this will be the third time since the conservative government came out of the great britain came out and said you know we're going to cut our way to prosperity it's never been done any time in history anywhere and you know it's it's messing with the u.k. when what are people going to learn the financial times this morning b.b.c. was talking about the one zooms are pointing out it's like the consumes patrick well i mean first of all you said conservative government it's a coalition between the conservatives a little bit we have a nick clegg is is you know isn't our ally kerry really isn't a little rosier you know austerity is a two headed beast you can't have a sturdy alist you have tax hikes in taxes cripple the economy. we were doing this austerity is all about tax cuts we're going to cut spend

are about to go lower on the joining me tonight are horace cooper and judson phillips let's get back to a death penalty republicans in the state of new hampshire actually republicans and democrats together in the state of new hampshire have repeatedly voted to end the death penalty in that state and republican governors a veto the legislation is passed one thousand senate at least once that i know of i used to live in new hampshire i lived there for about five years back and eighty's . which was not when that happened but now they've got a new governor maggie hassen and she opposes the death penalty so they may be knockin this thing down washington post reports the governor martin o'malley in maryland is close to getting enough support to knock that down in his state. of the whip counts he's got probably enough votes so it looks like the nation is moving away from the iranian saudi arabian solution and toward the every other civilized country in the world solution to to murder which is life in prison without bail judd's parole parole you know. i spent twenty four years practicing law

rubble our former congressman ernest istook now distinguished fellow at the heritage foundation and horace cooper a conservative commentator a research fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen thank you both for joining me thank you i appreciate all the kind words you've been saying. let's get into it knew you knew you could respond heading into this senate gun hearing consider these numbers among the twenty three richest countries the u.s. has the most guns in the weakest gun laws and accounts for eighty seven percent of all child gun related deaths what you guys make of that congress well you know it's interesting because just like anything in automobile three times more americans are killed every year by all the mobile accidents than with guns but we hand them automobiles we'll let you put but again we don't. know the point here let me just finish the point though when you say we have to have it i mean even you know president obama claims he's not against guns but you know whether we're talking about hunting or for self defense. you know there's a ton of people whose

rubble our former congressman ernest istook now distinguished fellow at the heritage foundation and horace cooper a conservative commentator a research fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen thank you both for joining me thank you i appreciate all the kind words you've been saying let's get into it knew you knew you could respond heading into this senate gun hearing consider these numbers among the twenty three richest countries the u.s. has the most guns in the weakest gun laws and accounts for eighty seven percent of all child gun related deaths what you guys make of that congress well you know it's interesting because just like anything in automobile three times more americans are killed every year by all the mobile accidents than with guns but we hand them automobiles. well you but again we go through those that have been let us know that point here let me just finish the point though when you say we have to have it i mean even you know president obama claims he's not against guns but you know whether we're talking about hunting or for self-defense you know there's