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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:06:00

conversation. jonathan, you covered the hill and do so extensively and the washington post is reporting that democratic senate leaders are advising the white house to go arc comed do that and bypass congress on this issue. i ll show everybody this letter to president obama and they advise him to take any lawful steps to avoid default with congressional approval and they talk about the 14th amendment and is there any way for the white house to avoid another fight like this with the congress completely. they ve been writing about this letter that senator reid said to the president and if the president if they want to can certainly direct the treasury to ignore the debt ceiling and then basically say go ahead and sue me and see if anybody does and go to the core process and i don t think that s something the president wants to do that he doesn t want to evoke this 14th amendment and that s the shorthand used for it and i think what s fascinating here

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:03:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:03:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:27:00

his first term and climbed to 55% in his second term. other post-world war ii term presidents, harry truman and richard nixon all lost ground in their second terms especially nixon. congress approval rating stands at just 14%. that s down from 18% in november and december. the 2012 congress averaged just 15%. it was the lowest rating in gallop s 38-year history of tracking congressional approval. new york s governor has now declared a public health emergency due to the flu epidemic and we ll bring you the latest on the number the illnesses as well as the death tolls across the country. gun appreciation day has is set the same weekend as we celebrate martin luther king jr., who was gunned down by an assassin s bullet. keep it locked in here. you are watching msnbc, the place for politics. and completely reimagined it?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:08:00

increased and some tax revenue is raised and some tax increases and spendsing cuts are available and there s some possibility, and some compromise. and something like that. so right now we re in these as we are watching all of the time, the posturing stages. i will not negotiate and in reality, everyone has to negotiate and there is room for, promyself here. we re hearing fresh voices, jonathan and freshman senator fisher, speaking out and calling for spending cuts and i want to play it for everybody. take a listen. the president will soon ask congress to raise the nation s debt limit again. i believe we can increase the borrowing limit without increasing the out of control spending. to cut spending we must find ways to reduce the cost of social security, medicare and medicaid. the primary drivers of our national debt. so jonathan, do you think the boehner rule will go into effect

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130112:20:11:00

now particularly if they ban, the first step might be governors like andrew cuomo passing legislation themselves. i think some of the gun laws may change in states instead of federally because of the republicans in congress. jonathan, do you think that that s going to be that we see at the state level action is going to be the first place where state legislators will be working with their governors to have something rise up that maybe federally can be used and it will happen at the state level, first? sure, i think the president like perry said had some ability to do small things in the margin, but really the states do have thea authority to enact some strict gun control laws and if they run a foul of the second amendment that becomes a huge constitutional problem for the states. in 1994 joe biden was the author of the crime bill that included the assault weapons ban. essentially, we re still talking about the same types of gun control despite advances inec it

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