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republicans recognize that this is an issue that needs to be dealt with, and the debt ceiling needs raiseed and we need to avoid defaulting for the first time in the country's history. to allow ourselves to fall into default would be catastrophic for all americans and increase the financing of homes and cars and credit cards and so forth. that would be a horrible result. it would put in question the core economic streng of our country that's unavoidable. neal wolin, thank you for your time. >> tom: sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped to a seventh-month low last month as the industry struggled to overcome rising unemployment and foreclosures. existing home sales decreased eight-tenths of a percent from a month earlier, according to the national association of realtors. it was the third-straight monthly drop. meantime, mortgage applications jumped 15.5% last week. the mortgage bankers association says that's the biggest increase in four months, helped by a flood of refinancing applications. >> tom: mortgage lender wells fargo will pay $85 million to settle civil charges that

. >> what about the argument raiseed by "the wall street journal" editorial that an overstock.com doesn't require the same services that a local grocery store or local pharmacy would have, a local macy's may need in that city, if it burns down, the macy's in the local city is not going to come to overstock's rescue in utah. >> that's very true, but i think we're confusing tax collection burden and tax burden. the tax burden in this situation is the consumers, and the consumer does use the fire department and the police department where they are sitting. their house burns while the u.p.s. truck shows up with the overstock.com box, that fire department is going to protect the u.p.s. truck, overstock's box and the customer. you could make the argument that the state may not be able to tax the income of overstock.com, although a lot of states would disagree with, that but that is the only direct tax burden on overstock. all we're asking overstock to do is collect their customer sales tax. they collect sales tax in you utah today. they presumably benefit from the fire protection and police pro

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with uncertainty over whether the limit will be raiseed in time and the markets are responding.tery today, both in the u.s. as well as overseas. take a look for yourself. we're seeing red arrows across the board. the dow jones down by almost 50. the s&p down by almost 5, and the nasdaq down by roughly 7. joining me now is cnbc ace mandy drury. stocks, we see, are down. these red arrows. what are the fears that the asian and the european markets will really fall off a cliff when they reopened after the weekend. that didn't happen, so explain what are we seeing as we kick off the new workweek? >> you're right. markets are kaushts and jittery, but they're certainly not falling off a cliff. we're really down to the wire here with only eight days more to go, and congressional leaders have yet again failed to agree on a deal or even a compromise to raise the nation's debt limit to avoid default. well, president obama wants to raise revenues by letting tax cuts for the wealthy americans expire. republicans have rejected that idea of higher taxes, and they're pushing for more spending c

they raiseed rates through the roof, causing five million americans under the old system to lose their health care, three million of whom went on the state medicaid program, which ballooned the deficits of both the federal and state governments. but nobody knew. you cannot turn truth into power if you don't have the facts. and people don't connect the dots. now, i didn't think that health care reform bill was perfect and some changes needed to be made. already bipartisan votes have cleaned up some of the small business reporting requirements. but the real reason that there was such a passionate desire to repeal that 11 hundred-page bill is one line. which said that from now on, if you're in a big insurance company plan, 85 cents of every dollar you pay has to go to health care, not profits or promotion. if you're in a small pool, give them a better margin, 80%. now, ask yourself whether you saw this. about three weeks ago, i saw a small article in the paper, which said america's largest insurance company, and one of its best, etna, had filed a petition in connecticut where it's health

. >> it's not something raiseed by political opponents, well, exterior political opponents, and not by media. these are former staffers who brought this up, and i'm wondering if that somehow legitimizes it, clarence? >> well, whoever brings it up, it is a legitimate issue. it is one that people would namly be concerned about. i'm thinking about john kennedy. we have learned that he was doped up most of the time he was president. but the word didn't get out nap was different day. nowadays you can't keep secrets like you used to be able to. so i think, pawlenty's second response was smarter than the first. put it that way. other candidates are wise just to stand back and not even give a hint of trying to get some political advantage out of this. >> alex, i don't know that we know the full story of brian ross? >> holding on to that to release it when the rating -- the idea there was a physical kerfuffle, is that the word? i don't know. >> kerfuffle. >> a kerfuffle. you know, sharon angell, pursued by the press, not wanting to deal with it and if not physically putting a reporter in his pl

>> they race race -- they raisee debt ceiling several times.president should be focused on is the debt. that's what will cause a downgrade in bond ratings in the united states. it many the debt the american people are concerned about. we continue to spend more than we have, and you can't continue to do that. we need to balance the budget in this country. the president talks about a balanced approach, we need a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. alisyn: the boehner plan cuts $9 billion from the deficit over the next 10 years, is that enough for you? >> i would like to have more reduction. would i like a bigger number. whatever happens in the next couple days and whatever is signed into law, that's round one. we'll continue to look for ways to cut the spending, to get the spend under control. we have won the argument that we have to cut spending. none of these plans have a tax increase in them which i think is very important. to not raise taxes on anyone when we have 9.2% unemployment. we need to get people back to work. alisyn: neith

the reality is it will be raisee one way or another and the only issue now is how much fiscal reform and what politicalallout. fallout. b if the plan fails in the house,h the advantage shifts to the plan which would raise the debtllion ceiling by 2.4 trillion in oneet swoop through 2012 would come without a tax increase but also to .7 trillion in mostly fakeess spending cuts like less government waste, fraud and weed abuse.thate're how many times have we heard we, are going to cut waste, fraud $i and abuse and a $1 trillionns i savings from the structural down t iraq and afghanistan that aro as fiscal reform this is worse than mr. bonner's plan. in the speakers made mistakes in the negotiations, not least interesting that mr. obama once serious fiscal reforms butn thanks to the president's overreaching on taxes, mr. boehner now has the gop position in sight of a political and policy victory. this is something close to it cn becomes law democrats will haven conceded more spending cuts thad they thought possible and without giving the gop to raiseo taxes and without being able to blame

for theo next three to four weeks we can, begin to amortized over time, reduce deficit over time, raisee the expectations of the american people and caused a brighter future for children and part in grandchildren. i yield the floor.n and i >> madam president, i meant wha, he said about senator isakson from georgia. he's a republican and i'm a democrat and he's my friend and mo we don't agree on everything.his or pretty wreckers are muchhink different. but he said this morning was the right sho thing. we what he had to say this morninga i think should open the eyes of america about where we need toyn go. we yesterday the president sat down and said, we need to be seriousi about deficit reduction. we don't need a.hing we need something that speaks te authoritatively to the world, mahe that the united stateses understands this stuff this stuff is a challenge and is prepared to make the hard choices tosi address. i think the president's right. i was interviewed this morning by it in on a radio station isug said by when you take a mini a deal, just get it over with? a well, if you think you t