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maryland democratic congressman chris van holen joins me now. if this is the price for getting the payroll tax holiday extension and unemployment benefits extension, this key stone pipeline which does have opposition in your party but also some support, is that too high a price? well, chuck, let s remember where the republicans were a week ago. first they were totally against the payroll tax cut. even though they pushed really hard for tax breaks for the folks at the top, they were willing for several weeks now to say we re going to increase taxes on 160 million americans. now after the president made very clear that he would not take any kind of bill that attached extraneous issues, the republicans decide to put that on anyway. what they are trying to do what they wanted all along, which was
the imf, alexus glick, experienced on wall street and covering and she is the ceo of the gen youth foundation, will cain is the cnn contributor, cloudy with a chance of rain has been your forecast. anything that s going to part the clouds? i don t think anything will part the clouds until europe clears up, which might be a while. we re probably in for stable, slow growth, but there s more risk to the downside than the upside. let s talk about europe. just this week it became more difficult and expensive for spain to wore ro money. we re looking at bond yields and this is telling us there s potentially a funding problem in europe. explain why that is so important? europe is a quarter of global economy. european banks are interlocked with our banks. so we want them to fix this, but i wonder, they might need a new constitution before this is over and do they have the political wherewithal to get a new constitution? you think we had political problems on debt in this coun
he has since recovered. time for your money. less than one year until the presidential election, where is the u.s. economy headed? i m christine romans. less than half of americans believe things will be going well in this country one year from today. even that faint hope appears ton on decline. the number of americans thinking things will get better has been steady dropping. no surprise as unemployment remains high and housing prices are not recovery and there s fear of another global recession. alexus glick, experienced on wall street and covering and will cain is the cnn contributor, cloudy with a chance of rain has been your forecast. anything to part the clouds? i don t think anything will part the clouds until europe clears up, which might be a while. we re in for stable slow growth but there s more risk. it became more difficult and expensive for spain to bore rerow money. there s potentially a funding problem in europe. explain why that is so important? europe
you ve written about senator mcconnell, the minority leader, let s talk first about the budget talks and you re reporting on whether they re getting any closer to some sort of compromise. yes and no. the thing that congressman van holen just addressed putting together hard binding, spending cuts. and forcible numbers that everyone takes a blood oath on is a mandatory for two years. for this current budget year and the next year after that. republicans are willing to set caps. they re somewhat more flexible for the next eight years. that s the positive part. that s the part they re working on. the part that s not positive is tax increases. senator mcconnell said to me unegively, republicans will not raise tax of any kind in this agreement. period. period, end of sentence, end of talks. i said to him, you know what the white house is going to say and the congressional democrats. be reasonable, we re going to make cuts, you ve got to give