republicans have brought the democrats into these fiscal conversations. you know what, last year, we were able to make tax cuts permanent for 99% of the population this time around, we are looking at the government staying at a lower level funding. we don t continue to break the bank, we try to live within our fiscal means and you know what, i don t think there will be a government shutdown, i think we will be able to resolve these issues. it s aulgss darkest before the dawn. we haven t had a shutdown before 95- 96. i think it will work out. here s the problem, house republicans want to raise the debt ceiling. obama refuses to raise the bar on authority. alexis, how do you prevent a government shutdown, then? i think what obama needs to do is let the republican drama play out because at the end of the day what speaker boeh ner is showing not only is he increasingly, i think that has
what s exactly happening? they didn t want to listen to women s voices. they would do anything to pass this measure, including throwing the rule book by the side, by altering documents at the very end on the time stamps. it was incredible to see the legislative process be made a mockery. michelle, does the republican party in your view understand their core problem? because you keep seeing this drama play out over and over again on the issue of abortion, and this time literally dramatized in this texas state senate, this direct confrontation with women over their rights, and then literally not listening to them. i think this is a problem for the rms at the national level but it is actually not really a problem for the republican party in texas where the republican party in texas is the party of rick perry in many senses. and dewhurst is facing a challenge but from his right over his failure to ram this thing through. in certain ways it is a sort of microcosm of the problem facing t
or less likely it is to get in the right hands when they need it. so s a tradeoff that the nsa and other intelligence agencies have faced. bart, i think the number one question here as we watch this drama play out beyond mr. snowden s travels at the moment, but more globally, is who do you trust. he said that someone like him, a single analyst sitting at the desk, could, a metaphor, but flip a switch and listen to any conversation of anybody in the united states. he said even the president of the united states if he had that number that e-mail address or the like. nsa says that s not true, that no single analyst has that power. from what he shared with you, do you know the answer, who is telling the truth? i can t verify the answer on that. i think his most important point and the point he was trying to make here was that once these capabilities are in place, there is only either a policy decision or a few lines of code that
year s to avoid the fiscal cliff. but that just set up another deadline. if congress doesn t act by march 1st, $85 billion in spending cuts go into effect all at once. in addition to the pentagon cuts, it would mean tsa agents are furloughed. expect longer lines at airport security. 1,000 fbi and other law enforcement agents forced off the job. 70,000 preschoolers dropped from their head start program. it was never meant to become implemented policy. reporter: 80% of the pentagon s civilian workforce is based outside of the washington, d.c. area. virginia and california are the states that would be most affected by the furloughs. rob and diana, back to you. our thanks to karen. you can see from that piece just how widespread these cuts are. but we ve seen this drama play out before. we re going to get to the 11th hour, they re going to come up with a deal that prevents all of it, but kicks it all to june 1st.
of congress packed up and went on vacation. so now 4,000 faa workers are not being paid. tens of thousands of others involved in airport construction and maintenance are also off t job. and some $25 million are being lost every day in taxes because there is no one there to collect. that is more revenue lost in one hour than you will probably pay in your lifetime because congress members cannot reach an agreement agreement. weill tear into this developing dispute in just a moment, but here are some other stories we re watching tonight. the last pharaoh. for 30 years hosni mubarak was the lord of the nile. today he was wheeled into a cairo courtroom in a hospital bed and kept in a cage. egypt gets its show trial, but is the middle east a safer place? and the book of mormon. it s not just a broadway musical. for millions it s a road map to salvation. mitt romney follows it religiously. one ex-latter day saint says that should disqualify him from being president. then, we fin