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i spoke about that earlier with democratic strategist james carville and former bush press secretary scher. currently you can follow him on twitter at, @ twitter.com/ari fleischer. >> so james, it seems like some of the stiffest opposition to boehner's bill at least to start with came from his own party. is this kind of a rebellion in the ranks normal or are we seeing somewhat unusual here? >> you know, they told us exactly what they were going to do. think of what you want of the tea party. i don't think very much of them. but they said that this is what they were going to do when they got here. and by and large, that's what they're doing. i have a theory that only thing more dangerous than someone that this about re-election all the time is someone who never this about re-election. and that seems to be what some of them are. but they're very true to what they said they were going to do. >> ari, what about that? the tea party members are really a minority block in one half of one branch of the government. it seems like they're kind of steering the ship now. is this how it's supposed

joining us now, democratic strategist james carville and ari fleischer, former george w. bush press secretary. thanks both of you for joining us. ari, that poll today is pretty striking. eight in ten americans upset with washington right now, six in ten inclined to look elsewhere when it comes to election time. we're one day closer to a possible problem with the debt ceiling here. was this really the moment to spend an entire day on what everyone thinks is a symbolic gesture? >> i don't think it was symbolic at all, sanjay. the only institution of the washington the house the senate and white house that has actually done its job and done anything meaningful on spending or debt is the house of representatives. they passed a budget. the senate has not. they passed cuts today. the senate has not. and president obama in his budget never propose today do anything about the debt except to let it grow. so only one institution is doing it. the president isn't for it, so therefore he wants to belittle it and act as if what the house did isn't meaningful but it is. the other reason it's

diplomats, head of the nsa, admiral shanahan, the two chief security advisers to the first bush, brent croft and james baker. they gave interviews and went back to their work. there was no infrastructure. i called george sorrows several times. i never get a return, and i wanted to say to him if he put $200 million in those nine months with a massive infrastructure of media, lobbying to take those 300 very imminent people, unherd of in american history to a pose a -- oppose a president in the pre-war stages which would have tripled immediately with nor generals, colonels, ect., security, former diplomats, had he put 200 million, and i was opposing that war, and i was very close to the dynamics. i was convinced that he unleashing all of these people on capitol hill in the media, would overcome the media complicity like the new "new york times" and the democratic party passivity in congress and torn apart the lies and deceptions that bush-cheney used to invade -- weapons of mass destruction, cooperation with al-qaeda, saddam, threat to the united states with drone-like technology, ect., ect -- all know w

. >> reporter: james powell under president george h.w. bush.s been briefing members of congress saying he's been separating fact from fiction, even getting asked if the government can issue ious. >> if the debt ceiling is not increased, if no deal is made, then people need to understand there's no secret bag of tricks. there's no magic bullet that will allow us to avoid defaulting on our nondebt-related payments. >> bottom line, jay powell says is there's nothing the executive branch can practically do in the absence of a deal. >> so in the absence of a deal we know there will be a pretty immediate and stark cutback in government spending, 38 to 40% of everything that we spend is borrowed money, so that means you're going to see immediate results in the economy. >> it's going to be like a 30 to 40% shutdown of government because that's -- something has to stop being spent. it will be very interesting. jay powell, not an alarmist about this by the way is saying clearly still not being an alarmist, but there isn't a solution if they don't raise t

she has no skin in the game and frankly i hope people compromise like president bush and howard baker and jamesp in and make comments about pulling the country together and not just how the crazy folks make comments. we can not afford to have this country go into the fall. i don't care what sarah palin has to say. >> a couple of weeks ago you were here and seemed to be concluding she is likely to run for the republican nomination. >> i thought and i still think while she hasn't 100% made up her mind, she is sending more signals. the country cannot afford the silliness. roland is correct, but it sends a signal that the essence will be she will have an impact. it's not just stop spending, but reform the entitlements or going to have the kind of future that is envisioned in the commercial. >> a reminder of $3.3 trillion. the tax cuts contributed over 10 years and frankly both sides have to own up and they have both contributed to the problem. >> roland and mary, thanks for coming in. he is the republican leader going head to head with the debt crisis. i have a closer look of the house speaker john

increase the debt it was the result of bush's wars bush's tax cuts while spending for these programs. earlier this week rupert murdoch and his son james appeared before a u.k. parliamentary inquiry into the phone hacking scandal the media mogul denied the wrecked responsibility stating that senior managers and those directly involved in reporting stories were to answer james has now been accused of trying to mislead british m.p.'s after saying he was unaware of the true extent of phone hacking by reporters prime minister david cameron led the calls for him to answer further questions after his evidence was challenged the murdoch's could now face legal challenges in the u.s. over claims the voice mails of nine eleven victims were also targeted meanwhile britain's hacking scandal appears to be spreading beyond murdoch's newspapers with claims the sunday mirror tabloid also infiltrated the voice messages of celebrities but as artie's garnished account reports critics believe the issues just the tip of the iceberg in a society that no longer values the privacy of the people. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch's media empire

increase the debt it was the result of bush's wars bush's tax cuts while spending for these programs. earlier this week rupert murdoch and his son james appeared before a u.k. parliamentary inquiry into the phone hacking scandal the media mogul denying direct responsibility stating that senior managers and those directly involved in reporting stories were to answer james has now been accused of trying to mislead british m.p.'s after saying he was unaware of the true extent of phone hacking by reporters prime minister david cameron led the calls for him to answer further questions after his evidence was challenged the markets could now face a legal battle in the u.s. over claims the voice mails of nine eleven victims were also targeted you know while questions are asked over the demise of journalist sean hoare the man credited with revealing the phone hacking scandal and artie's lore and reports his death is drawing striking parallels with another whistleblower. another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sure who was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was

nothing to do encounter in the protest bush like kids died michael moore you know fahrenheit nine eleven it's things like that they're completely to the left i'm james marshall i find him very you know very charming intelligence clean cut individual. no animosity for him you know and eventually yes i think if this were a perfect world we would be occupying iraq oh there was another counter protester bringing the total counter protesters to three and he was young kid he had to hear the camouflage talk on but i don't think he was in the military those people demonstrating that should their disgrace threat to our country once again certain for that kind of people they need to get them out of here and go live with the tears for all i care. because i said. what what are they doing to people to troops that are just going home where they don't know that they're saying you know what you guys what you're doing more is better when all we're doing out there is trying to go out there and make a difference trying to help trying to trying to make so we can live here trying to make so people don't come here and kill innocent people buildings so we're trying to do

james. i voted republican every insurance icen however and bush one. bush two the first time. when he ran up the deficit and putting in a prescription care plan they didn't pay for and fought two wars that weren't paid for where were we on that? the republican party then, they voted to raise the debt ceiling the same time. guest: glad to have the guy calling in on the republican libel using democratic party talking points. that's one of the reason the tea party movement is an important corrective for the modern republican party, post reagan. when gold water came in and began to make it the principal conservative party. all you knew was that they were born north of the mason dikson side. beginning the process of turning the modern party into a limited constitutional party that wanted to have lower taxes on you less regulations of how to run your life. spending continued to drift up. the government is always to spend more money. going back to the last $4,000 years of history, governments tend to do so because they have the swoerds and spears and guns to take everybody's money an

james. i voted republican every insurance icen however and bush one. bush two the first time. when he ran up the deficit and putting in a prescription care plan they didn't pay for and fought two wars that wen't paidor where were we on that? the republican party then, they voted to raise t debt ceiling the same time. guest: glad to have the guy calling i on the republican bel using democratic party talking points. that's one of the reason the tea party movement is an important corrective for the modern republican part post reagan. when gold water came in and began to make it the principal conservative party. all you knew was that they were born north of the mason dikson side. beginning the process of turning the modern party into a limited constitutional party that wanted to have lower taxes on you less regulations ofow to run your life. spending continu to drift up. the government is always to spend more money. going back to the last $4,000 years of history, governments tend tdo so because they have the swoerds and spears and guns to take everybody's money and do just that. y

james. i voted republican every insurance icen however and bush one. bush two the first time. when he ran up the deficit and putting in a prescription care plan they didn't pay for and fought two wars that weren't paid for where were we on that? the republican party then, they voted to raise the debt ceiling the same time. guest: glad to have the guy calling in on the republican libel using democratic party talking points. that's one of the reason the tea party movement is an important corrective for the modern republican party, post reagan. when gold water came in and began to make it the pncipal conservative party. all you knew was that they were born north of the mason dikson side. beginning the process of turning the modern party into a limited constitutional party that wanted to have lower taxes on you less regulations of how to run your life. spending continued to drift up. the government is always to spend more money. going back to the last $4,000 years of history, governments tend to do so because they have the swoerds and spears and guns to take everybody's money and

james' point. one of the problems here is uncertainties and the debt talks are a perfect example of this. one of the reasons it was so important to pass extension of the bush so that businesses could plan and yet, four or five months on from that debate. we are already-- president obama put those, the potential of a huge new tax hike on companies, back out on the table and adding that uncertainty back again and that's playing into their lack of hiring as well. >> the extension of the payroll tax cuts seems to be the white house's for another year. it's a 2 percentage point cut in payroll taxes for workers this year and they want to extend it for another year. very expensive 120 billion dollars or so and it does add to the deficit. if it was going to work in 2011 wouldn't we see, more job creation now? >> the more exciting opportunity that you hope would rise to the form of these discussions is repatriate tryings, allowing a tax cuts and the businesses can bring home all the cash they have overseas and that's the real potential game changer, but-- >> i don't know about that, james. even that would just be temporary. and-- >> well, i'm talking in the context

bush's last. had his policies been put in place, we would have shrinking federal budget deficits. >> that's right. >> dr. james peterson, david cay johnson, thanks for being with me tonight. >>> remember to answer the question at the bottom of the screen. we also want to know what you think all the time. president obama called out republicans for proposing spending plans for the nation's infrastructure. a new report shows many tough talking republicans aren't as anti-spending as they want you to believe. and if he were married to anyone else, he would just be your run of the mill bigot. why are the views of dr. marcus bachman mattering to all of us? naturals from purina cat chow. delicious, real ingredients with no artificial flavors or preservatives. naturals from purina cat chow. share a better life. the motorola expert from sprint. its powerful tools help you work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it lets you access business forms on the go, fire off e-mails with the qwerty keypad, and work securely around the world so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it's the androi

if we take the guys that was in the bush administration for eight years and let them take back the money for medicare. host: james're going to leave it there. we're talking about the parks service today. we're going to pittsburgh. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. having visited several of the national parks, what expectation is there for revenue from some of the private concessions that i see within or adjacent to the parks to utilize and help with the funding short falls we have for our national parks? guest: that's a great question, vicki, we have about 80 private vector that provide lodging, food service, guide services and those things at the national park. all of the renew generated by that is aggregated and we get some of that coming back to us. we are in the negotiations to increase the franchise fees. this is about a billion dollar business. we gather about $200 million from those private concessioners that operate in the national parks. it's a contributor to the maintenance backlog and the other challenges we have. host: new orleans, you're on the line. eustice you're on. caller: i would like to in

bush's last. had his policies been put in place, we would have shrinking federal budget deficits. >> that's right. >> dr. james peterson, david cay johnson, thanks for being with me tonight. >>> remember to answer the question at the bottom of the screen. we also want to know what you think all the time. president obama called out republicans for proposing spending plans for the nation's infrastructure. a new report shows many tough talking republicans aren't as anti-spending as they want you to believe. and if he were married to anyone else, he would just be your run of the mill bigot. why are the views of dr. marcus bachman mattering to all of us? [ man ] they said i couldn't win a fight. but i did. they said i couldn't fight above my weight class. but i did. they said i couldn't get elected to congress. but i did. ♪ sometimes when we touch ha ha! millions of hits! [ male announcer ] flick, stack, and move between active apps seamlessly. only on the new hp touchpad with webos. once i get these little white pieces off you. how many do i have? more than you think. [ female announcer ] you can't pass mom's insp

james, i'll let you weigh in one second. the federal government grew the most under the bush administration. >> sure, sure.ng the hole homeland. we entered wars in iraq and afghanistan. but i think after 9/11, there was an understanding in congress the debt ceiling was raised during those years. >> right. >> now, the public is -- you know, really the place where the far right of the republican party, the tea party caucus, if you will, the traditional republican establishment and the vast majority of independent voters, the place where there is the most consensus among those groups is around the size and the cost of the federal government. so certainly drawing a line in the sand against increasing this country's debt and against raising taxes is not an extreme position. it actually represents the desires of the mainstream of america. >> james, the president painted out to be the pragmatic centrist here. he said i'm willing to make the liberals angry too. but we have to get something done. he's in a tough position right now. how does he sort of find a way to reconcile this with this countdown ticking? >> wel

if we take the guys that was in the bush administration for eight years and let them take back t money for medicare. host: james, we're going to leave it there. we're talking about the parks service today. we're going to pittsburgh. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. having visited several of the national parks, what expectation is there for revenue from some of the private concessions that i see within or adjacent to the parks to utilize and help with the funding short falls we have for our national parks? guest: that's a great question, vicki, we have about 80 private vector that provide lodging, food service, guide services and those things at the national park. all of the renew generated by that is aggregated and we get some of that coming back to us. we are in the negotiations to increase the franchise fees. this is about a billion dollar business. we gather about $200 million from those private concessioners that operate in the national parks. it's a contributor to the maintenance backlog and the other challenges we have. host: new orleans, you're on the line. eustice you're on. caller: i would like t

if we take the guys that was in the bush administration for eight years and let them take back the money for medicare. host: jameswe're going to leave it there. we're talking about the parks service today. we're going to pittsburgh. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. having visited several of the national parks, what expectation is there for revenue from some of the private concessions that i see within or adjacent to the parks to utilize and help with the funding short falls we have for our national parks? guest: that's a great question, vicki, we have about 80 private vector that provide lodging, food service, guide services and those things at the national park. all of the renew generated by that is aggregated and we get some of that coming back to us. we are in the negotiations to increase the franchise fees. this is about a billion dollar business. we gather about $200 million from those private concessioners that operate in the national parks. it's a contributor to the maintenance backlog and the other challenges we have. host: new orleans, you're on the line. eustice you're on. caller: i would like to

bush work? >> i think, look, this -- that flavor is going to move away as we get closer to november if things don't turn. look, it is the economy, stupid, as jamesthink people are still -- enough people are still giving the president the benefit of the doubt that if it turns, you know, defeating him in november is going to be a problem. >> jennifer? >> if the election was a referendum on how people thought about the economy or the direction the country is going, then obama would probably not do very well. at that point, it's going to be a choice between two candidates and, you know, if they look -- auto he's specially if the other guy or gal has credentials that make it look like they've been in a situation where they've bailed things out. >> maybe or it looks like they had the same proposals that other republican presidents have had that their answer to creating more jobs is have more tax cuts, that's proven not to work. so the choice is going to be what, you know, what ultimately matters. >> don? final word. >> i think any one of these candidates are going to give the president a run for the money based on the numbers alone. he's going to have

james, independent line. caller: 5 believe the oil companies and big businesses should pay their fair share. republicans are nothing but a bunch of lawyers. they have -- lawyers. -- liars. they have been line ever since george bush was in there. host: what kind of spending and programs are you talking about? caller: all of their subsidies and not paying any taxes. host: we will leave it there. please turn down your television sets when you call in. florida, this is a comment from twitter. another call from minnesota this morning, what to cut what to keep? caller: i am a republican. it is hard to hear that we are the party of no, no, no. at the federal level, of our government has shut down because they cannot come together. republican-led states that do not have cannot of raising of taxes, the states are not in a deficit and not in a shutdown. we do need to possibly raise revenues. across the board, only 50% population pays any federal taxes at all. if you want to talk about shared sacrifices, go across the board for revenues as well. if everybody has a fair share in something, you have a fair share of wanting to have input on where the money goes. if 50% of the population pays no taxes, they will not care if ta