losing the full and why would the president do that? why would the president talk about shutting down government? unbelievable to me. why did you put into a continuing resolution which should be normal business this poisoned pill in order to oh, we re not doing anything unusual. this happens all the time. this is an extraordinary act on your part. otherwise we wouldn t be talking about it on national television. what s extraordinary is that for every year of barack obama s presidency, we ve had over a trillion dollars in deficit every year. never happened before. the worst year of big spending george bush s deficit was under $500 billion. that s the worst year. you want to talk about george bush tax cuts, the george bush wars and the george bush crash? and now we have obamacare that will one at a time. continuous into the future of deficit. that s what we re trying to stop. it s not politics. do you agree with me that the
together do this for the good of the country. it s difficult. i no though it is. i voted for the extension of the george bush tax cuts. this is something we have to do because they are all extending the george bush tax cuts were only temporary and, of course, we have now got the says questions station. we have to come together as democrats and republicans and i think we did too this it. shannon: congressman thorn berry as a republican are you okay with that deal? i asked your colleague congressman pete king earlier, he said he would be on board with whatever the speaker negotiated. is that true for you, also? i think all of us support the speaker in having one negotiator. but etch auto of us is going to have to evaluate whatever we is present to us for a vote. we can t know that until we see it. i think it s important to just emphasize one number with all the blizzard of numbers going around, one number is 20.6. since the end of world war ii, total tax revenue coming into the gov
it s not quite clear whether the tea party members want to cooperate with the administration and how they figured that out. and i think they need more time. i think the white house handled it well by saying if you need to wait until november 30th that s fine. but we need to start working together. shannon: i know the meeting went on with democratic leaders at the white house. there is a lot of polling that shows the american public doesn t think it s going to get better in washington. they have big things to get done in the lame-duck congress. what are the odds of bi-partisanship. reporter: hroep flee it s a scheduling snafu. you have the whole question of tax cut he can tensions, the george bush tax cuts that the gop says hey we are running out of time, we ve got to do this now. at the same time, hey we can t meet with you. it just doesn t make add up, really. then you ve got the problem of we are running out of time and
violates his constitutional rights. a store owner in brooklyn, new york, fights off a robber with the only weapon that he had. a plastic trash can. take a look at the surveillance video. a thug with a knife charges into a tobacco shop. when he starts grabbing money out of the register, the owner starts hitting him with a trash can. oh, man! the thief eventually ran off with less than 20 bucks and is still on the loose. what a knucklehead. no kidding. brian? since republicans won the majority in the house, president obama may be hinting that he s open to compromise on extending the george bush tax cuts. we are going to have to have a negotiation and i am open to, you know, finding a way in which they can meet their principles and i can meet mine. but in order to do that, i think we do have to answer the question of how we pay for it. all right. well, one of those compromises may be from senator orrin hatch. maybe this is a good idea.
here, a new set of proposals that would have cut none security government spending back to 2008 levels. in fairness, would you agree that the president should at least get his facts straight if he is going the atck somebod i think you try to say t,hi is new, somebody puts this on paper. that was new, freezing it back to 2008 levels that was brand-new? it s not that significant when you talk about what john boehner wants to do, tax cuts. extend the george bush tax cuts. you are talking about the bad economy, and last four quarters inad a row, we have had growth n our economy. we had four quarters of job growth. the president has done a lot. what the democrats have not done well at is defining themselves and defining their economics