the guardian. how much is the press being spun by the president and the republicans. i m howard kurtz. this is reliable sources. the murdoch media empire is in all-out damage control mode as the scandal at the british papers continues to spread on this side of the atlantic, the fbi opened a preliminary investigation on whether phone hacking took place in the u.s. and the dizzies pace of developments has made headlines around the world. mps finally forced murdoch to withdraw his bskyb bid. his empire has cracked, but is it broken. following breaking news in london where the embattled chief executive of murdoch s newspaper has resigned. news international will issue a statement to say that rebekah brooks has resigned as the chief executive of news international. more damaging details are emerging in the phone hacking scandal. other news corp properties are being implicated in the growing scandal. rebekah brooks resigned leaving the fight for news international s
doing this is what conservatives like myself and others, warn would happen if we followed his economic model. now that it has failed and he spent the money. now we find ourselves in this situation. do you think anybody out there would vote for a politician today, juan, that s gonna spend money like this, raise taxes like this, like this president has? is that what america voted for with hope and change? sean, my hat s off to you. i think off to many of the republicans who right now are intransigent in their point of view. the whole discussion has shifted to shrinking the size of the deficiency. that is on everybody s mind. the president has said, it is time to shrink the deficit. we must do something about it. when you hear from moody s this week they are going to downgrade america s numbers. that s shocking news for the whole country. i don t care if you are a republican, democrat, that s bad news. if you say, what are people
doing this is what conservatives like myself and others, warn would happen if we followed his economic model. now that it has failed and he spent the money. now we find ourselves in this situation. do you think anybody out there would vote for a politician today, juan, that s gonna spend money like this, raise taxes like this, like this president has? is that what america voted for with hope and change? sean, my hat s off to you. i think off to many of the republicans who right now are intransigent in their point of view. the whole discussion has shifted to shrinking the size of the deficiency. that is on everybody s mind. the president has said, it is time to shrink the deficit. we must do something about it. when you hear from moody s this week they are going to downgrade america s numbers. that s shocking news for the whole country. i don t care if you are a republican, democrat, that s bad news. if you say, what are people
surtax. we ve got to do all of these thing. we can get to way over $100 billion deficit reduction if we widen the debate and it s a mix of taxes on upper income people just restoring what it was in the clinton years, closing tax loopholes, then going afterรง se of those entitlements like farm subsidy. we begin to move in the right direction then. senator brown, let me press on that. sure. i think that anybody who is following this closely sees that the republicans are being unreasonable. you have to be almost crazy to not see that. they keep wanting more and more. it might be a reasonable negotiation stance but as far as reasonable for the country, no way. it s obvious that they re the ones being intransigent. everybody gets that, right? how do you get what you want? because you want to get rid of the oil subsidies and the farm subsidies and you have an overwhelming percentage of the american people behind you. but somehow we never get to that. we always have the republican prio
need to move here. so, yeah, i think that that s an accurate portrayal, whoever s seen as being intransigent on this thing is going to get the blame. if that s the case, then how do you explain these numbers to the american people, the house republicans started at $60 billion, democrats came up to $33 billion, maybe even $34 billion, $35 billion, depending on how this all plays out. doesn t it appear that the democrats met more than half-way and republicans are holdinging it up over a couple of billion dollars? is that an unfair assessment? well, we haven t really actually seen what the makeup of that figure is. you can use a lot of gimmicks, believe me we ve used them over the years, to make up those numbers. so until we actually know what s in those figures, it is tough to say. but i think we certainly heard in november where the public is on this. they recognize if we haven t that we can t continue to run a government like this. we can t continue to have