>> i would encourage the american public to listen to the president.ses. if you go all the way back to the 15th of april two years ago -- a year ago when the president was here at the kennedy space center, he talked about his desire to explore and get beyond lower earth orbit. just friday after the launch he sent a message of congratulations to my nasa team and reeveryone siszed the fact that he wants to have humans on or near an asteroid in 2025, and he wants us to be in martian orbit with the intent of landing in the 2030s. those are two well-defined destinations we are working hard on. and everybody has to have the same sense of urgency that my nasa team has now. american contractors are anxious to get on with this, and we'll do that. we'll retain our leadership and facilitate the success of commercial entities to take our astronauts on american-built, american-designed vehicles that come from american innovation so that we can explore deep space. and the president has set the goals. an astroid in 2025, mars in 2030. i can't get any more definitive

that the reason that i'm animated is because i think the american public are absolutely sick and tired of the situation, every minute it goes by with political posturing, the american economic is getting worse and worse. by the time you stop squabbling, it might be too late anyway. >> i think the fact that i voted against my speaker's bill demonstrate that i'm more committed to my principles and my country than i am about going along to get along. i was the primary sponsor of cat, cap, and balance, a bill that passed with overwhelm support and five democrats. that bill passed -- with amazing numbers. goes over to the senate, it's so frustrating. i hope if you look at it objectively, without partisan glasses on, for the senate to just table it without a discussion, without a debate is offensive to the american people. we are about to be in a chris is this bill had this last week. they should have at least debated it. don't you think, piers, it's unreasonable? >> no, i think what they think is unreasonable ars of they -- when the democrats rejected a bill by speaker boehner, went through

a few percentage points more and that's about it that's about it since fifty percent of the american public does not pay a nickel i would have a problem i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in this shared sacrifice it all depends on how much work you put your life if you know if i'm working hard and i make you my good my good share you know why they want to get taken away from me when people who you know don't. you know you just spend a lot more money in taxes so that more people have my service says you have to pay

he has the gall to tell the american public that it's not a war because they're not shooting back. i think people see that and are concerned with the person that will so manipulate the facts to say fighting and bombing is not war. we have already missed all the deadlines. what i am saying is we were not supposed to be in session at all next week. libya would have to occur the following week. we insisted on coming back to talk about that and we want to put up a proposal. we will introduce a proposal to raise the debt ceiling contingent on a budget -- on a balanced budget next week. i think libya can wait another week because the president is ignoring all the deadlines and rules anyway. >> what was your reaction to the president's press conference and saying his daughters are more disciplined about their homework and congress is about their business? >> i sensed a certain air of arrogance that i don't think the american public is going to be too happy with. the next day, we wanted to debate him and what the democrats do? they adjourned. the president was campaigning and fund raising i

out across the american public, they want to go back to work. in policy, that will fail so i don't want to go back there. i don't know any american household that has increased spending 73% in the last three years. i'm tired of the gimmicks and the budgeting tricks. this has to be an honest approach. we're at a threshold. we're not losing jobs because our credit card didn't have a higher limit. we have sat in the room honestly with the democrats and moved forward with them all the way but they keep saying one thing, they want to raise more taxes. >> and you keep saying no. i have to leave it there. >> even when they were the majority, they said no. >> thank you. you have your work cut out for you. >>> up next, chris value hallen on what his democrats want from a debt deal. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ [ dr. ling ] i need to get the results from the m.r.i. see if the blood work is ready.

the president needs to explain to the american public why please against balancing the budget. >> gretahe tea party.hd"ñ i think they are saying maybe you are impractical that we are down to the line, because the deadline is rapidly approaching. are you spoiling in the isn't it might make sense to work something out in the short run? >> we have been the tea party conservatives in the senate and in the house really against leadership advice got cut, cap and balance going through, we passed it through the house, against great odds many we showed we were willing to raise the debt ceiling under certain conditions. i think what is impractical is a trillion and a half new debt every year. if interest rates rise by 1 point that adds another trillion in interest payments over 10 years. if they go back to s we are going to be at trillions in interest payments. >> greta: if you don't have the numbers to win in the u.s. senate, you are going to walk away with zilch, other than principle. and you met obligations to your constituents. >> right. i think that is important. >> greta: i'm not denying th

ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of hubble in fact it was the public the american public that insisted that help those to be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life time of trouble or extended would you validate helpless contribution to science on the one hand and nasa this p.r. on the other hand what impact has it had there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing hubble but in fact i don't think that's really the key to success as we all know you can try to publicize something that doesn't really have much value and you don't succeed i think humble really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that is been very easy for nasa to. be successful in its p.r. of the telescope i just mentioned that we're going to speak to they have. eight crew members and everyone is that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you see responsible for perhaps the most sensational photograph of this guys and who really got it from point a couple at nothing how much of a

public does not get the economic drivers. and the american public likes the european -- even when they understand that, their cultural fears compete. it is very hard to have our rational conversation about immigration. people would be all for the policies. it takes a long time to get to that rational conversation because of the polarized choices. >> that is precisely the attitude we find when we polled most americans. i never said that if you work hard, you're going to get far in this society -- a high percentage say that if you're working hard, you're going to get far in this society. the muslim community in this country tends to be much more highly educated. the middle class, when you look at the educational levels and income levels, and there's some immigrant communities with a higher percentage of immigrants into american and even higher levels. the educational levels and this country, those levels are held by hindu americans. it's quite extraordinary. it depends on what end of the immigrants and spectrum you're talking about. >> i wanted

strong, that we share the same love and commitment that other families do, and that, in fact, the american public changing and the president has said clearly that this is a bad law and that congress today is showing the american public the truth about our families. >> executive director of the family equality council, jennifer chrisler, thank you very much for sharing your story with us tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, rupert murdoch may have more testimony to give. why he could face questions in the united states about his employee's activities and why is james o'keefe using a guy in a kilt to go after medicaid? that's in the rewrite. >> announcer: there's a new breakthrough for men experiencing hair loss. introducing the new extreme lasercomb from hair club. it's quick, easy and affordable, and the extreme lasercomb is revolutionary. here's how it works. d.h.t. forms around the hair follicle, which shortens the lifespan of your hair. the extreme lasercomb combats hair loss, causing the hair follicle to grow thicker, stronger hair. this new technology is f.d.a.-cleared and clinically proven

here's what he said for instance about the fact that a grand bargain that the american public was alreadyfor it, they didn't understand why republicans weren't. >> the notion that somehow the american people aren't sold is not the problem. the problem is members of congress are dug in idea logically. this is not a matter of the american people knowing what the right thing to do is. this is a matter of congress doing the right thing and reflecting the will of the american people. >> michael, i'm sure there is a political reality here though for speaker boehner, for a lot of these republicans in that they primaried and they would lose if they cut sort of grand bargain. >> they're sort of stuck. i agree with charlie. they sort of positioned themselves in a way that they probably are looking at more of the blame as this thing goes forward. the president was clearly today looking behind -- beyond the next couple of weeks and looking to 2012 and looking to start that conversation about what was responsible. i will say this, i think the original question you ask which is what if no deal would be

strong, that we share the same love and commitment that other families do, and that, in fact, the american publicchanging and the president has said clearly that this is a bad law and that congress today is showing the american public the truth about our families. >> executive director of the family equality council, jennifer chrisler, thank you very much for sharing your story with us tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, rupert murdoch may have more testimony to give. why he could face questions in the united states about his employee's activities and why is james o'keefe using a guy in a kilt to go after medicaid? that's in the rewrite. [ female announcer ] love that freshly colored look? now you don't have to wait six weeks to get it. natural instincts now comes with a new color refresher. just color, then give it a boost two weeks in and get a freshly colored look once again. natural instincts. it's all good. but also a caring touch. you learn to get a feel for the trouble spots. to know its wants... its needs...its dreams. ♪call 1-800-steemer. >>> james o'keefe's attempt to expose medicaid f

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on committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of hubble in fact it was the american public that insisted that help those should be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years responsible for perhaps the most sensational photographs of the skies and who really got it from pointing hubble at nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker and model life when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night i took it out to see how far i could see fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates hubble space telescope it seemed to me to do the same thing scientifically look to see. just how far out that could see galaxies i was willing to take a recess and point at undistinguished spot in the sky for ten full days to see what it could see some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we

was, and he announced it on the floor of the house, we can fashion something that is where the american publiche key of john boehner being speaker of the house, not speaker of the tea party. >> we have been talking policy all morning here on msnbc saturday but i'd love to know from you what it is like to have a front row seat of the u.s. defaulting on its loans, losing its pristine aaa credit rating. how nerve wracking is it to be in that chamber right now? >> it's appalling. i've been doing this for a long time, i've been in congress 15 years. but i've never seen anything like this, where we really have no idea how bad it could be. where we're rolling the dice, and it's absolutely unnecessary. but, you know, in a strange way, it's actually smaller than life. you would think it would be such a monumental decision. last night you watched what happened when the republicans got their bill passed. there was no joy, there were no high-fiving, they were just kind of sitting there looking at each other and just kind of -- there was dead silence and they left the chamber. this is something that is not

. >> the speaker of the house is lying to the american public. tonight, i'm going to set him straight. congressman john garamendi of california says the president needs to use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling. the congressman is here. scott walker's assault on democracy continues in wisconsin. tonight, senator lina taylor and ben jealous of the naacp on the latest republican efforts to block the vote. >>> the faa shutdown. just how much does that cost and how many jobs does it kill? >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. have you digested what we witnessed last night on american television? well, john boehner clearly is not a leader. the speaker of the house is desperately trying to get enough members of his party to sign on to his plan to hold president obama accountable? boehner held a house republican caucus meeting 12 hours after he lied about president obama in front of a national audience. last night boehner said something that really caught my attention and the attention of "the ed show" audience. take a look. >> the sad t

that but now that's i guess money's being spent waiting to be done about it it's not clear the american public ever believed it the american public has turned against this faster than any previous war which is much to its credit the problem is we don't control our government in washington you know not only has congress never appropriated a dime for war in libya and never authorized it and passed resolutions declaring that it's unauthorized but allowing it to continue but they they voted down in this biggest ever military budget they voted down an amendment from congresswoman barbara lee that said get rid of that five billion dollars slush for and that let's presidents do these things without asking us they voted that down they said leave that in place in case a president wants to do this sort of thing again that's that's reckless and criminal and that's what this president is on there's nothing humanitarian about bombing people's homes there is nothing to say that that isn't hostilities as the president's legal advisers now argue is absolutely outrageous i want to get this question going for j

the transportation secretary said of the new rules, quote, the american public must have confidence that our nation's air track controllers are rested and ready to work and we have the safe of the system in the world and we need it to make changes and we're doing that. the faa and air traffic controller's association agreed to continue the policy of not allowing air traffic controllers to take naps during a break in their shifts. they must be available for recall at all times. in washington, molly hennenberg, fox news. >>> thousands of people are expected on the national mall during the holiday weekend and the park service is urging you to take metro to get there. the metro trains will be open from 7 in the morning untilmed night. for security reasons, the smithsonian station will be closed most of the day. you can use it on the way home. and for more details, road closures and where you can find the entry points to the mall g to www.myfoxdc.com and look under hot topics. >> more than 1 million people will visit the national mall this weekend. there is plenty to see. the big draw is the

the american public gets that there has to be shared sacrifice. ican public gets some folks, milliontarys haven't been paying their fair share. the american public poll after poll says let's let everyone pay a price to have some gain in future no pain no, gain. >> bret: congressman, you were on the president's debt and deficit commission, the bowles-simpson commission and you voted against the recommendations at the end. during the meeting, one of the meetings, you said this. "as you just said here, i don't want to leave the table because i started off the first day saying everything must be on the table." what you just said. "but as the negotiations in the debt ceiling increase have continueed you said this week -- "i don't see why i would support any plan that would cut benefits to seniors to pay for the reckless fiscal policies that led to us the massive deficits." that seems like a big change. so now there are some things that are off the table for you. >> when i was on the fiscal commission and any proposal comes before me for a vote i would t

we have to have that overarching message to the american public. the programs can create the opportunity for for this economy to return. hopefully we can grasp this and run with this. how are we going to do that. give us an answer. >> from what we can tell, with senate your congress, -- we say buy american. the currency is a bill aimed at china. it is the biggest of the several subsidies killing us. i detect within your members, and other support for china's currency. -- high-speed rail. the international rail companies, not one company in america. it can work. i am carrying two pieces of legislation. why should we allow our tax dollars to buy chinese solar panels. it makes no sense to me. >> as dynamic as the politics may be, i think we are going in the opposite direction. i am talking about presidential politics. it seems as if the political strategy of the administration -- let's talk about the specifics if we can. talk a little bit about in detail the china trade issue, the environment in getting comfortable with china. >> i am a member of the s

macro economic picture, the amount of taxes that americans are paying as a percentage of gdp is one of the lowest since world war ii. there is lots of flexibility and the american public politicians to work together. that is a no brainer. >> in the end, i think public spn probably going to make this deal get cut. the american public believes that politicians are not behaving and republicans are getting much more blame than barack obama. barack obama's numbers are not great, but republican numbers are worse. in the end, it's going to be in everyone's self interest, not only the country's. >> the former president of pakistan, mushareef is weighing in on the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden. you will find out what he said is extremely embarrassing about it in my knew. with president mushareef coming up. you probably know him from his now famous super bowl ad, but you may not know the touching reason why this little darth vader is about to come right here to washington. no, it's just for new people. hey ! chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ? chocolate ! chocolate it is ! yeah, but i'm new, too. umm... he's new... er... than you. even kids know it's wrong to treat new f

can you reassure the american public that you will get a deal before the deadline? >> thank you, everyone. >> speaker boehner says he's going to get some kind of agreement together by tomorrow. he issued a statement earlier saying congress would forge a responsible path forward to a bipartisan solution on the debt and deficit. senate majority leader harry reid also released a statement in which he reaffirmed his opposition to any kind of short-term solution. he went on to say senate democrats want an extension of the debt ceiling through at least the end of 2012. you can check out a number of the statements being issued by leader on capitol hill at c-span.org. go down to the featured link section at the lower right-hand side of the page. mr. boehner's office says there will not be any remarks after this current meeting but we will continue to bring you any updates on the negotiations on the c-span networks. on news makers, congress net kit congressman john larson, chairman of the democratic caucus, offers his perspective on the debt ceiling negotiations and what's a

[laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause] >> you have said what families need to do. as a person in school, we know how much of our children's time is spent in school. we are often the surrogate parents for a length of time, so we have a particular responsibility in schools to get some of this truth out. i just want to throw this out for black history month. we need to ask ourselves, what information is being shared that is worthwhile, that will help young african-americans, and others, understand the nature of the society we live in? many useless activities are engaged in in black history month. i am sorry to say. it is still early. we have a chance to review. but i want to

the president speaks to the american public today. a news conference less than two hours away from now. 11:00 eastern. we will carry it live. >>> let's get to the white house and dan lothian. what do we expect the president on say come 11:00? >> reporter: well, a senior administration official telling me the president will be explaining to the american people where they really are in this process, what he has asked congressional leaders to do, and how he is still pushing for the biggest deal possible. another white house aide telling me the president will continue in that press conference to make the case that now is the time to sort of seize the moment in order to get the big deal, but i can tell you, after five cadays here of meetings at the white house, still this grand bargain deal does not appear like the republicans pushing back and resisting that. so it seems likely that it will be something either much smaller than that or perhaps something in the middle. what we do know is that after yesterday's meeting, the president called o

them and backing the private mortgage insurers who are we not becoming and how could we as the american publicon in the first place. >> once you made them king÷ú kog and godzilla there's nothing you can do. you have to prevent them from becoming that. >> jon: do you have faith there can be an aggressive streamline, not cumbersome bureaucracy, regulatory regime that could control these things or is it politcally not feasible? >> i don't know about the politics. in the book we have a three-stage plan to get from where we are now to where we want to be. first we stop messing around and wind down fanny and freddie. second we need to wean mortgage finance off the government. you can't do it cold turkey. you have to do it gradually. our plan takes a decade to do that. >> jon: we'll be here then. if they fight for a decade that should be all right. we're all going to die! [laughter] >> it's been three years we haven't done anything. you have to address it at some point. you would hope a private mortgage finance system well functioning. you have to have it well regulated and if you have that you have