happens. for all of these reasons or more the national debt tops 13 trillion dollars. some estimate it s growing at the staggering rate of $5 billion every single day. here s the question. is everyone serious about tackling the nation s deepening financial crisis? go to cnn.com/cafferty file. give us your thoughts. if you have a fame. please sthar share it. great question. stand by. want to go to dana bash. there s a new development involving the united states senator and u.s. justice department. dana, what are we lrping? that s right. senator john enson of nevada, if you remember a couple years ago got into hot water bus he allegedly helped his former chief of staff get a job, with impropriety after he was having an affair with senator ensign s
federal government is done with african-american farmers who have been discriminated over the past many decades. steve king is very opposed. roland we ll get your response then i ll bring in ed. sure. figure this out. we have a very urban senator barack obama who decided he s going to run for president and what does he do? he introduces legislation to create a whole new pigford claim. that s the settlement now cast after so many years of trying. very, very what i guess is controversial, explain why you think it s so controversial when he talks about a very, very urban senator. first of all, what is very urban. why don t he say black? what that meant you don t buy advertising on radio station targeting african-americans.
wife. john ensign is now saying through his lawyer and spokesman that he has been told by the department of justice that he has been cleared of all charges. that is what he says, he s no longer the target of any investigation, we should be very clear, this is coming from senator ensign s office. justice department is not commenting on any of this, cannot verify this is the case. that is what we re told by senator ensign s office. i m sure we ll get more information on that shortly. let s make the turn to a rather dramatic development on capitol hill. only yesterday, they came out of that bipartisan meeting at the white house. president, republican loaders saying all sorts of things about bipartisanship, good meeting. they re going to work together. all of a sudden today the republican leadership drops a bockshell. tell us what happened. that s right. they certainly did drop a bombshell. the president, actually just moments ago, wolf. called it it lingering politics on both sides of
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