america, john king, usa starts right now. good evening, everyone, tonight rare good news for president obama in the polls as he warms to a jobs fight with republicans, the new numbers show big support nationwide when the president says this if you want construction workers back on the work site, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this jobs bill. but there s bad news for the president, too, and lots of it. for starters, democrats lose a new york congressional seat, the party has held it for 90 years. and the republican winner predicts it s just a down payment. i am telling you, i am the messenger, heed us, this message will resound for a full year. it will resound into 2012. that s hardly the only headache for the obama re-election team. also of note your collective answer to the question that doomed the last one-term democratic incumbent. are you better off than you were four years ago? we begin, though, on capitol hill with the
and the american people in catastrophic terms unless you get your way. we re tired of bullying. we re tired of babies saying give it to us all or else we re going to wreck the whole çhous. i don t think that is what the american government should be about. senator, i would to put up on the screen a chart of what s happened with the debt ceiling over the last decade from 2001 to 2008. it s been raised several times. it s had to have been raised. as i say as we talked about here, it doesn t in any way increase spending. it simply acknowledges that the government has done this spending already. that the government has committed to this spending. and it takes legislation to change the spending the debt ceiling has nothing to do with incuring one additional dollar of spending. that s correct, lawrence. again, i think we need a good debate about how we move toward deficit reduction.
the extent don t increase spending. if you want a dollar for high speed rail, subtract a dollar or more somewhere else. bill: i don t think we can hole lighten at $14 trillion. i think you have to get it down. notices one on one any more. the money is social security, medicare, medicaid and defense. those are 60% of the budget, let s have a serious conversation as he started last night about what to do there. paul ryan could make a serious contribution. i don t agree with the vouchers on medicare and privatization of associate security but he is serious about solving the problems and we should work together. bill: al sharpton says the tea party should stay away from dr. martin luther king and his did he goly. and i have a beef with jon stewart over something he did
the extent don t increase spending. if you want a dollar for high speed rail, subtract a dollar or more somewhere else. bill: i don t think we can hole lighten at $14 trillion. i think you have to get it down. notices one on one any more. the money is social security, medicare, medicaid and defense. those are 60% of the budget, let s have a serious conversation as he started last night about what to do there. paul ryan could make a serious contribution. i don t agree with the vouchers on medicare and privatization of associate security but he is serious about solving the problems and we should work together. bill: al sharpton says the tea party should stay away from dr. martin luther king and his did he goly. and i have a beef with jon stewart over something he did
and started arizona 98 to help those patients. steve joins us tonight. steve, thanks for being with us. i appreciate your time. thank you for having me, ed. it s a privilege. you bet. you started arizona 98 to advocate for people who can no longer pay for transplants due to state budget cuts. what s your reaction, hearing that the data wasn t true? elation at first. i can tell you it s been a very long process thus far. it started off when the governor and a number of individuals said the money s just not there for the transplants. i went through the budget line by line, went through thousands of pages of documents, came up with 26 different ways to fund the transplants that don t take away from anyone else. they don t increase taxes, don t increase spending, don t cut state services. we thought we made a break through. we felt fantastic. we showed where the money comes from. then we started being told the medical data does not support the transplants. so we went out, we asked a