john ryan, their executive director is here. he has a great relationship party. party means nothing. and, you know, i keep trying to think of myself as a relatively young man. but i've been attorney general for 30 years. and during that time, i've had a lot of -- involved in a lot of multistates that work with the federal government, work with the federal government in a lot of ways. and have had good relationships and sometime not so good relationships working with the feds. that may surprise you. but it's true. but all -- of all that time, i've never seen such a wonderful , effective -- based on respect perelli and shaun donovan.with they treat us as equals. they roll up their sleeves. we get the job done as best we can together. it has been a model for federal-state relationships, the relationship we've had with them. and just going back for one second to the assistant attorney generals. the attorney generals offices over the last 4 1/2 years, since the mortgage meltdown in 2007, we have done more on dealing with working with, prodding, pushing, threatening to

have in common what the senators mitch mcconnell and jeff sessions and representatives john boehner and paul ryan all have in common beyond just being republicans what is it give up they've all signed multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist anti-tax pledge forbidding them from raising taxes on anyone anyone except one hundred sixty million working americans by letting the payroll tax cut expire and these four lap dogs aren't the only guys who signed the pledge so to have two hundred thirty six other representatives all but six republicans in the house and so to have thirty nine other senators all but seven republicans in the senate. and since president obama's budget calls for making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of three major tax increase republicans are contractually obligated to vote no on it just as their anti-tax master grover norquist demands in other words republicans are choosing grover norquist. over our founding fathers. according to the article six of the constitution members of congress shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the constitution that oath

john ryan, their executive director is there. again, a great relationship. you know, i keep trying to think of myself as a relatively young man. but i have been attorney general for 30 years. and during that time, i have been involved in a lot of multi stakes, worked with the federal government in a lot of ways. i have had good relationships, and sometimes not good relationships working with the fed. that may surprise you, but it is true. in all the time, i have never seen such a wonderful, effective, based on respect relationship as we had with tom and shaun donovan. they treated us as equals. they rolled up their sleeves. it has been a model for federal-state relationships. the relationship we had with them. just going back for one second to the assistant attorney generals, the attorney-general offices over the last few months since the mortgage meltdown in 2007, we have been prodding, pushing, threatening to sue the servicers of loans and anybody else in terms of knowledge. us and the banking regulators are unparalleled in our knowledge and experience in

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remember you had the ryan budget and the groups saying the world is coming to an end, he's cutting 6 trillion dollars. and it's 4 trillion dollars how can you get 6. >> johnit was over ten years. >> under the ryan budget government spending was going to increase by an average of 2.8% a year, but because it wasn't going to grow at 5, 6, 7% a year that somehow magically becomes a budget cut. >> john: and people buy it and then the press buys it? we're supposed to be the skeptical watch dogs, but i read in the washington post about draconian cuts when they're a slowing rate of increase. >> the politicians know the gain and the special interests know the gains and they get to go back and say, from the bush and obama years when the budget was going up and sooner or later we are greece. >> john: the military for military spending. >> we wind up with bigger government every single here and the trend lines especially because of demographics, the trend lines is that we're going to be europe. we have ten, 15 years of advanced notice and what's frustrating, we're not taking advantage of that even as we see these other countries collapsing into social chaos and disar

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and nebraska attorney general john bruinage joins the governor and ryan freedman, how his party can go head to head with the obama reelection machine. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. ♪ (applaus (applause) >> thank you. thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. you know, if i say anything nice about barack obama on this show, some of you get angry and you send me some very nasty e-mails. and because you think we ought to never say a kind word about the man. i better warn you now, you might not like what i'm about to say because i want to publicly thank president obama. he's singlehandedly done more to energize, and unite the republican candidate than any of the presidential candidates combined. because his decision a little over a week ago to force catholics hospitals and universities to provide couldn't sen tiff and abortion pills in direct conflict with the position of their faith. went over about as well as michael moore at an n.r.a. convention. (laughter) >> even loyal democrats and bona fide liberals were running from tha

. >> "outfront" now, john avlon is with us and ryan salom.uple of months ago, republicans were just like this over the election. let's go, let's go, and democrats were sweating bullets. now, it's almost like it's changed. what do you make of this? >> i think that's very true and it partly reflects the fact that we've had an economic environment that's improved. it's improved in the right places and ways for the president. in the midwest. the manufacturing sector has healthy. if you look at the voters that have tilted, they're doing a lot better. it's those swing voting constituencies doing better, where as a lot of the president's core constituencies, like african-americans for example, who are still hit hard, but they're not about to go and vote for republicans. >> you say it's better somewhat. it is what is better, but housing prices are still terrible. unemployment still over 8%. but the trend is the president's friend and that's the most important thing. unemployment still high, but moving in the right direction. gdp growth moving in the

joining us will be senator john mccain, congressman paul ryan, senator mike lee and senator jim demint. >>> newt gingrich is focusing on winning the upcoming contests in the south, some people say that southern stralt at the gee might not work, we'll talk to gingrich's campaign chairman straight ahead. >>> plus, this strange story, a woman alleges domestic dispute, a judge tells her she should go on a date with her husband. our get real is a question, did the judge make the right call. you're watching "starting point" we'll be back in a moment. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they

want to bring in my panel, alex wagner host of "now alex wagner" "the national review" ryan hans salam and the johncal review. >> rick santorum claims he's going to attack mitt romney today but i don't want anybody to watch it so i'm going to wait until today, not when i have a national platform. >> gingrich is his guy. he is going for the gingrich vote. this is not waiting for goudeaux but implode. i'm going to wait for a guy. he's betting that gingrich is going to dig a grave for himself and he'll be the person last left standing to get the conservative vote. >> the thing we learned in florida is there is still a chunk we can say as big as 38% of the party just in the state of florida, who showed up to the polls to say they're dissatisfied with the field. they're going to go somewhere. there is a none of the above vote. >> absolutely. >> newt gingrich has been the vehicle, does rick santorum become the february vehicle for that in. >> you know, i think the thing about gingrich he doesn't represent a particular movement or constituency. he does represent generalized, vague anger where is rick sant

john hen son to zeller. next next defeats virginia. fear the beard. that's the slogan for ryan pearson.e for the caa player of the year. tonight, pearson and the patriots on the road at unc will mington. it's nice. pearson wide open, he's smooth. knocks that down. he had 15 points, zen rebounds. patriots up five at the break. second half now, top of the your screen. playing good defense. he had a team high 16 points. later, brian allen drives and dishes to mike morrison. big-time dunk. george mason beats unc wilmington 75-69. george mason with a 13-2 record. in the atlantic-10, george washington on the road against richmond. colonials down six. forces the turnover. this is sweet. alley-oop to david pelham. he had a team high 16 points. less than 1:30 to play. now tied at 64-64. colonials up two. last chance for the spiders. darian brothers for three and the win. uh-uh. no good. colonials get the rebound, that's it. george washington hangs on to beat richmond 69-67. snaps a five-game losing streak. wow, good for them. elsewhere, army defeats navy in double overtime and american loses to

ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker, and the commander in charge of the war, marine general john allen. 10 years in the country, sir, how could these corans have been burned? >> it is something we're not happy about, frankly. and before the sun went down that day, scott, i issued an order from my headquarters that called for the retraining of the entire force, to assist us in understanding the significance of the koran and of the other religious materials to the afghan people. that's my obligation as a commander. that's our obligation as a people. >> pelley: ambassador crocker, the united states has been building a relationship in the afghanistan for more than a decade now, and i wonder how much has that relationship been set back by this incident with the korans? >> scott, clearly, it's been a bad week. but i'm quite confident that, you know, we'll get through this. the pace of the protests has dropped dramatically. a decade's worth of relationships doesn't go away in a single week. so we'll-- we'll move forward. >> pelley: there's more of the interview with ambassador crocker a

let me say at the outset weergs have a great leadership team there and ryan crocker is best in the business. general johnllen who took over from dave petraeus, superb officer. troops, contractors putting their shoulder into the mission. major takeaway for me, there is a general sense that u.s. policymakers will not see the mission through. there is a lack of confidence in it. that is disturbing, it's driven by the fact that pulling the surge forces out over the objection of petraeus. we didn't leave any forces in iraq which were over the objections of general. that has not been lost on leaders in afghanistan whether they be afghan leaders or international community leaders or american leaders. with all that said, we have made a major turnaround in security in afghanistan. improvement has been dramatic in the south and beginning to do the same thing in the east. >> liz: i hope we will give our commander is on the ground and troops the support they need. thank you again for your service to the country. thank you for being with us tonight. >>> coming up, time to hold the mainstream media accountable for out

ryan mcdunna. troy slides past and puts it right past noyvert. 3-1 rangers. capitals with the puck. john the slapper, redestructed to make it 3-2. the caps back in the game. under 2:00 to go now p jay beagle with the puck, he just can't get it past lundkwis. the capitals will fall 3-2. they are ninth place in the conference. now four points back in the division standings. they host san jose tomorrow night. then it's a four-game road trip. >>> when you look at the numbers, georgetown doesn't seem to do anything real well. they rank 123rd nationally in points per game. 84th in rebounding per game. they play three unheralded freshman on a regular basis. greg winnington had a career day this afternoon. former center checking this one out. nate lubuk out to the freshman. he drains the three from the corner. georgetown up by five at the bre break. winnington not done yet. second half, only leading by three. winnington from distance, he's doing it. a career high 12 points for the freshman. up by six, those peskies wouldn't go away. harrison hits the deep three. st. john's back within three. geo

i'm convinced that our ambassador, probably the best in the business, ryan crocker, great general in john allen, welcome that addition al support. >> general, thank you. >> good seeing you. >> shannon: we are two days away from votes into two crucial states, arizona and michigan. mitt romney has a razor thin margin in michigan where he was been and raised. steve is live in michigan. >> reporter: pretty timely endorsement arizona's government brewer on meet the press announced she would be backing mitt romney for president in her home state's contest tuesday romney already had a double digit lead after the broadcast governor brewer explained her decision. >> his experience being a successful businessperson understanding what the fix checks are to make this country great and his political experience. you put both of those together he's the right man for the right time. the country is in terrible shape. it is upside down and we need a leader, somebody that can make a difference and lead the people and work with governors. >> reporter: that will be good in arizona pack it will have in michiga

ryan crocker and the top u.s. commander on the ground. general johnt is going on. >> general allen and investo cr, thank you for joining us. first to you, is there a lack of trust now between the afghan national force and the u.s. military in the wake of this incident? >> no, i don't think so. in fact, i know so. during the recent difficulty. the demonstrations that turn violent the afghan national security forces at great risk. both defended the afghan people. but they also defended international forces. international civilians, they have come a long way. there have been occasions where elements in the afghan national art or the ministry of anterior recently have turned on our forces. every one of those is a tragedy. none should be minimized. what we have done in cooperation with the afghan partners is take series of assertive steps to reduce the possibility of this to the maximum extent we can. we have trust and confidence and we have to be careful if time to time but we will continue to maintain the relationship through sense time as you describe i

there is no question as early when they passed budget led by paul ryan, they have offered serious ideas. there is no question they have had john boehner pushed an energy plan that would dramatically increase revenues to the federal government. there is number of steps the house republicans can take. they get stopped by democrats in the house and senate and get zero leadership out of the president. they ought to say, look, here is how we avoid going on a debt ceiling. let's do the things we won't have a debt ceiling before 2013. new president can cooperate and make changes and you might well be at the peak of your debt ceilings if you are aggressive about other methods of solving the problem. >> greta: you've been quoted as saying, i know that you are in favor of constitutional ban on gay marriage. quote says, you are okay with state's legalizing gay marriage through popular vote. are both those statements correct and how do you reconcile them? >> what i said was. that the process where the legislature in washington state is putting it on the ballot, that is a better process than having a single judge decide that the people of

john allen, the top u.s. commander there in afghanistan and ambassador ryan crocker pulled all u.s.ersonnel out of the ministries. again, a critical part of any u.s. strategy if they intend to have the mission succeed there. but over the weekend, the ambassador asked everybody to step back and take a deep breath. >> tensions are running very high here, and i think we need to let things calm down, return to a more normal atmosphere and then get on with business. and it doesn't mean that we're not doing business now. we are. with both military counterparts and civilian counterparts. again, these are terrible tragedies. and very worthy of the condemnation they've received. but this is not the time to decide that we're done here. we've got redouble our efforts, we've got to create a situation in which al qaeda is not coming back. >> but it's difficult to see how you return to a normal atmosphere as the ambassador suggested there any time soon. after all, again, a key to any success there is to train up the afghan military and security forces, think of yourself, mika, or willie, as a sol

john wall has new instructions. >> my new coach told me that i need to be more aggressive. >> and a new outlook on the wizards' sluggish season. and ryanrman locked in as a national. call network control. because we're going long too. "sports final" starts now. >>> hello and welcome. i'm your host hakem dermish. the "sports final" oscar for biggest debbie downer at a sporting event goes to, the envelope please, thank you very muc much,. mother nature! on sunday mother nature rained on nascar's parade. the daytona 500 has been postponed for the first time in its 54-year history. the race is now scheduled to start on monday at noon. meanwhile, the nba all-star game started on time. they play indoors. let's hit the highlights. lebron james and the east taking on prince george's county product kevin durant and the west. first quarter, blake griffin loses it. east on the break here. lebron behind the back pass to dwyane wade. back to lebron. you take it. lebron led the east squad with 36 points. later chris paul off the backboard to kevin durant. one-handed throwdown. then chris paul bounce pass

ryan playing center stage. >> you do not see any of the establishment, eleskted gop talking about it. johns a story and jonathan said as conservative ls tell you there are now more than "them" than us, obama lost the over 45-year-old voters, and -- >> this is an important point because in 2008, you had more people under 30 voting than seniors voting that, was the first time in our history, actually, despite the knocks that they get, the youth vote has been increasing and they are a much more tolerant, even though that consider themselves republicans and independent, they are more tolerant and diverse, they are browner, and the way they think of their lives is different. they do not say, why do i care who you marry? this dog whistle politics does not appeal to them. the republican party, i guess i put it back to you, and i do not mean to make you speak for them, that is the way of the world, that is the way the country is going, i see a smaller and smaller group of people clinging and holding on to a 1950s re reality that is gone, and not accept thanksgiving you have to change -- accepting

ryan, and jamal. hey, guys. you all agree. >> good evening. >> let me start with you, john, on this issue, that i think actually is an amazing and perhaps a good think. 90% of americans feel they're midclass, which on some level speaks to the level of hard work and dedication and equal opportunity that defined america. >> it's about midclass values, the sense that we're all in this together, and there's a modesty and amare talkristy. americ aelections are won by the candidates who connect with the middle class. what was fascinating about mitt romney, what he was doing was unveiling the fact that his campaign strategy is all about the middle class. just like barack obama, he's accepted barack obama's terms of debate. that's what the election is going to be about, a war for the middle class. >> john, what the president always says is that old mario cuomo line, i'll care about the middle class and those trying to get into the middle class. that's the part that americans who are compassionate people want to hear from their people. they think that people who are being left behind ought to still be giving a ladder up. >> let's lis

ryan wild past michael jordan to become the top scorer ever in all star events the thirty three year old finished with twenty seven points while his teammate for the night john got thirty six again through the high scoring affair one hundred fifty to one hundred forty nine the final score with the western conference team prevailing for the second straight year while john said he never thought he'd get the chance to shine brightest on such a huge stage. is an exciting feeling to be named all star but to step it up in love and become a v.p. this is only something as a kid you dream about and come from work come from i didn't think i would be here so i think it's just been a been a blessing to me i'm excited. you know taking us back to oklahoma city as well. now in tennis austrian your good meltzer has overcome a broken toe to claim his fourth career title he beat canadia miller's roenicke seven five seven six two in the regions morgan keegan championships in memphis the thirty year old hasn't won a title since winning his in his own town of vienna in two thousand and ten and back injuries have seen him slip to thirty eight in the world rankings over the last t