very wealthy. not everything he wanted, but quite a lot. he won on the debt ceiling question. the they did lift it. and i don t think they ll ever do that again unless they completely lose their minds. that is no longer a hostage worth taking. and now we ll see what they do on the sequester. i look with faith to the house progressive caucus that any deal that is reached does not include bad cuts. and i think there s still a little danger ahead. but the president has a much stronger hand than he s had since the beginning of his first term. congresswoman, can he use that stronger hand to push forward his agenda? americans came out all over this country. many stood in line for hours to see the country move forward. at the end of the day, will we see the agenda and the fairness
president? this issue was foremost in the campaign. the people spoke. the republicans need to listen. in the end, i think that will happen. and how critical do you think the debt ceiling question is to any agreement that you re willing to take? i think steve rattner was correct. i think we cannot continue to just have it hang over our heads. i think it needs to be resolved as part of these discussions of the fiscal cliff. it cannot simply be allowed to hang there for the next few months. i think they have to be both resolved. i think they will be. congressman s sander levin, you very much. thanks. coming up next, they are suving in iraq and afghanistan and in huge numbers, but without either the pay, benefits or other side benefits of being a combat troop. what do women really want next on andrea mitchell reports.
warren is just huge forég progressive women, for notion that you can talk backbanks and win. us a deeper bench to president. hillary may run. run in 2016. if she doesn t, we suddenly have mofrom. this is a year that we were expected it was possible we were going to lose women, but espec claire mccaskill s situation. yes.we have to thank todd akin other idiots opining about rape. well here are the numbers. we ve four women to the u.s. senate, possib depending on what happens in that means there are at leasin the u.s. senate. that is an all-time step would take a step back and say what? under 20%? it s still underrepresented, and so for women there that are watching and thinking about throwing their halt into politics, you re needed. do it. exactly. then you say wn to hav well, in the case of elizabeth warren to echo joan walsh, you have someone who is a fighter, and i think the debt ceiling question goes to fighting not bipart sfwlmore. this is msnbc, the place for politi
the most recent cnn o.r.c. polling says 51% of americans would hold republicans responsible if the debt ceiling is not raised. just 30% would find president obama more responsible. peter moresi joins us. i have to ask you this, you are an economist, you re a well-respected economist and we have spoken together for years. do you have any evidence of what so many conservatives are saying that if we were to increase taxes at all, at all at this point in an economic cycle, that it would actually hurt our economic recovery? well, increasing taxes wouldn t hurt anymore than, say, cutting spending. both would decrease the amount of demand in the economy. to say taxes would hurt the economy is kind of code for, cutting spending is okay, but taxes are not. that s simply not true. in fact, raising taxes may be less deleterious than cutting spending. economic theory says so. did anything that happened yesterday, friday, have any effect on you when you looked at those gdp number that
if it works. bret: ab does this sway, change the dynamic with seven days left to go? first of all ronald reagan, as everyone at this table knows, would not be able to win the republican nomination in the republican party of 2011, period this is one of the reasons that president obama continues to mention him. this is, if you look at polling from last week s national polling that came out on how vastly these numbers have moved on the debt ceiling question, i believe the president believes that the momentum is on his side. people are paying attention, worried about mutual funds and their mortgage they are afraid of default and they are going to respond to his call for a balanced approach. i think the president spoke 60 times during the health care crisis we saw it become less popular. we ve seen the same since july 1st, to today the president s approval ratings have dropped. bret: thanks for joining us for this special fox news coverage. speak we will of course have a