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so, too, mike spence pledging to kill it in the house. because the deal would increase the deficit. john ensign sounding a similar node note when asked about borrowing from china. >> is this going to help the economy short term? yes. the longer term effects to the economy because of the extra borrow borrowing, higher interest rates we're going to have to pay. moody's threatened today to downgrade the united states' bond rating. that means it will pay a higher borrowing government. >> let's bring in robert reich, labor secretary in the clinton administration. now at uc berkeley. author of "aftershock." thanks for your time. >> good evening, keith. >> what are the implications of moody's thinking about downgrading? >> it's a warning shot in terms of the debt that we are accumulating. it would be one thing, keith, as moody's said, if that debt was turned around into genuinely boosting the economy and growth. so much of that is going to people who are already very rich in the united states. that means that they, the rich, don't spend very much. they already -- what it means to be rich i

there's are billions additional spences to the states that the federal government by virtue of passingis provision in health care is forcing states to assume. i don't think the stays would necessarily and the government and taxpayers would pick up this cost. at the end of the day we have a good argument on this as well as on the individual mandate matter. which the two taken together, i believe give us persuasive argument the ruling that judge hudson made today. in fact, this is not one or two pieces that are severable. that the entire health care law should be declared unconstitutional. it is all tide together. i thought general cuccinelli careful explained why that rational was wrong judge hudson did. and why even the federal government agreed with the premise that the rest of the insurance provisions can't stand without the individual man the rest of the bill can't stand, the rest of the law can't stand without the individual mandate and medicaid -- forced medicaid enrollment provisions that are there that the states would have to pay for. >> i side with judge hudson on the severabi

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>> and then the spence over michael steele finally making a decision, right? >> yeah.e he is now going to run for a second term as head of the republican national committee. you know, he had been mum for about a month now, hadn't given us any kind case which way to go. in fact, yesterday there were reports that he was not going to run and then reports that he was going to run. well, last night, he put that all to rest. he is now going to run in a conference call with rnc members acknowledged that he's had stumbles and said he's been forthright at the head of the party and said that the rnc deserves credit of the republican gains. the election is in january and will have competition. other people looking to run against him. kyra? >> thanks so much. >>> well, we'll have your next political update in about an hour. join the jaguar platinum celebration ! come celebrate exciting cars that are stunning to look at, exhilarating to drive and worry free to own. celebrate this holiday season with the gift of platinum. jaguar platinum coverage: five years or 50,000 miles of compl

. >>> and minor accidents can be extremely spence s extremely expensive.e that i ever bueir t match up. >>> you want to talk about gender poll ticks, we'll do wih brianna. >> i think it's a story any woman can appreciate. did you know that off the house floor, the only people who have restrooms are men. women have to go pretty far to use the restroom and there are 71 women in the new congress so the transition team says they will change this and they will have a restroom for women built off the house floor. and then also on the ticker, a story about mitt romney. he is not running for president yet. he was on jay leno last night. he said that if he does take a gig with fox news, then that is going to be an indication that, yes, he is running for president. obviously taking -- having a little fun at the expense of sarah palin. he did praise her, but also had criticism saying that he couldn't -- he's the former governor of massachusetts. he said he couldn't imagine a circumstance where he would have stepped down from the governorship, though he said sarah pal

you don't know what to do so let's start right into t listen, your major, page ex-er spence in life is your mortgage payment. if you own a home, my advice to you would be, after the point of maturing the retirement account get rid of the mortgage. you need more money in the retirement account to pay the mortgage than if you just paid the mortgage off. >> make sure people heard what you said, don't stop contributing to your 401(k) plan, get up to the match point and then take the excess money and pay off the mortgage. >> only if you plan to stay in the house for the rest of your life. you get rid of the mortgage payment by the time you retire, you're sitting pretty. >> second thing now this some ways takes a piece of conventional wisdom and turns this on the ear. usually you say, okay, you are ten years away from retirement, you start to get out of the stock market and into bonds. you say today's economy has changed that equation. >> you bet he be very careful. we are at very version low interest rates when interest rates go down, the price of bonds go up. when interest rates go up, the

we also spence today and tomorrow, our combined delegation taking deeper into shared concerns and pointsomats to kick off our morning discussion. sandy berger and secretary jim steinberg. first i'm going to introduce sandy berger, of course now chair of the albright stonebridge group and former national security adviser to president bill clinton and national security adviser sandy guided foreign-policy from the balkans to cosa bow and operation desert fox in iraq on the passage of the historic pnt are, the normal trade relations with china and then with secretary of state madeleine albright who was also in our front row and i think bill cowen is here as well. we are having a little bit of a west wing clinton reunion if you will forgive us here, but together they kept a watchful eye on a strategy of diplomatic engagement to maintain stability of the korean peninsula which is back so much in the news today and i am sure that jim will discuss that. i am going to turn the podium over to sandy in just a second to introduce secretary steinberg who willed deliver remarks. at the end of that our

and i note that former energy secretary spence abraham wrote a column in "weekly standard" recently that made the same point, that regardless of what's done on the start treaty, this modernization needs to move forward. i made the point earlier about how the house democrats conditioned the funding on ratification of start, and i hope that in the comments that are made on the floor here, it may be the subject of -- in fact, it probably will be the subject of at least one amendment to the resolution of are the if i occasion, but this is a place where the debate that we have, the comments we make may be just as important as an amendment because it's a statement of our intention as senators. i think you will find that senators who support -- republican senators who support the start treaty and i'm sure democratic senators who support the start treaty will all say one of the things that has to happen is the modernization of our facilities along the lines of this updated 1251 plan and the statements that the administration as well as we have made. the presiding officer: the senator from massac