senator collins said it s a good first step. i certainly didn t expect the plan developinged my colleagues is anything set in stone. we continue to work and modify it and broaden support. but i wouldn t be surprised if elements of it form the basis for the compromise that finally brings this impasse to an end. bill: looks lonely in that big hall, doesn t it? her plan would have funded the government for six months, extended the debt limit through january of next year. martha: meanwhile lindsey graham raising new concerns about his chamber passing a budget and a debt ceiling deal that the majority of the house gop won t support, putting speaker john boehner perhaps at risk. watch. if you want to go on offense it has to come from the house. the last thing i want to see happen is a bad bill pass the senate that goes to the house where majority of democrats vote for it and minority of republicans vote for it, putting john boehner s speakership at risk.
amending our lawsuit for the third time because as this information comes out, now our cases a civil case. as these case, information, comes out we re amending the complaint to specify now more on what is called 6103 or unauthorized disclosures. bill: 6103 forbids an irs employee disclosing return information in any manner, as an employee. what is the punishment for that, jay, if proven? well, there is both civil aspect of it and a criminal aspect of it. felony under the code itself. that would be a job for the department of justice. they would have to do that. remember there is an ongoing fbi investigation. none of our clients have been contacted. any kind of criminality has to come from the justice department and fbi. that can t originate in a civil suit. bill: okay. the civil suit can allege a violation of 6103 and seek injunctive relief and civil damages which is what we re doing. bill: i still don t understand why you re exchanging taxpayer
dictionary, it s termed as offensive. i think it is offensive. the fact that a lot of people don t find it offensive probably has to do with the fact that they probably don t know exactly what it means. it s about 90% don t. so that s an argument certainly in the favor of the redskins owners, but the fact that our dictionaries referred to this as an offensive term that none of us would use, none of us would ever refer to an american indian in this way. president obama weighed in and agreed with you, kirsten and said he would change it. charles? i m not able to achieve high like costas, i m in a low dungeon over this, i think this is not something that is sort of a matter of principal. and i respect the snyder position. i don t think there s any intent of malice. there s no intent of a slur and there is 80 years of history. but words have histories of their own and they evolve. the word negro 50 years ago was
that all takes time. the 17th is on thursday. and again, it was really a major distraction that democrats would want to try to bust the budget caps. the reason these, you have these forcing moments, bill, is to reduce spending, to put in place spending reforms that make our nation stronger. for them to have this move in the other direction was not helpful to this process. but again, we ve got a few days. bill: i take your answer you re not sure at the moment? i respect that answer. i m not sure. i have more optimism than i had yesterday. bill: one other point here. you said earlier that the environment in washington, d.c. is unlike anything you ve ever seen. you are fairly new to washington, d.c. right. but what is it you see in the conflict back and forth that would lead to you describe it that way? well, it s the environment around this particular issue. you know we ve gone through several episodes about this, bill and i ve been pretty
if she were, you should see some of the photos of her up close. this woman is, has a look on her face, like, holy cow, how will i survive this thing. martha: unbelievable. thank goodness they were nehr biwith a 24-foot ladder. brought her down. bill: frustration over the deadlock in washington. what is the president doing in the middle of all this? ed henry live at the white house with info on that. martha: yes he is. a motorcycle chase with a pursuer on four legs, bill, not giving up. bill: keep going. come on, you can do it. a little closer. come on. martha: this is our favorite video of the day. ho ho ho