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Voters more than anything else that i think will tell us something. now what do we want to know, what counties to watch? look at these counties that both obama carried in 2008 and walker carried in 2010. brown county, i think its a swing as they come. the green bay market as rte presidential race, a bush 04 market and obama 08. he got 54%. walker got 56%. obviously here barrett doesnt need to win it but he probably needs to be holding walker to 51%, 52% of the vote and this is working class blue...

not necessarily legitimately because both leading democrats and leading republicans say wisconsin is its own microcosm, but the reason it is so relevant is because debt and spending have been major issues there. those are major national issues. and many of the big picture issues we seen play out across the nation are playing out in wisconsin right now, namely money and the influence of super pacs. an independent nonpartisan group estimates dlfr 70 million to $80 million will be spent i...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> we begin in wisconsin where voters have three more hours to cast ballots in an effort to recall their republican governor scott walker and replace him with the democratic mayor tom barrett. both parties see it as a potential weather vane for novembers election. the exit polls are fascinating to begin with, number one and number two show a very close race and how polarized and partisan the electorate is. we mentioned governor walkers efforts to l...

Language around this president, and the incendiary language and the painting him as the other is something that no other president has dealt with in terms of the -- >> bill clinton has more freedom to be black in public than barack obama. >> that is absolutely right. their deepest fear is that they would seen by america as pushing a particular list agenda, and barack obama as a black man looking to aid his people against white america. that is what terrified them when the reverend wright problem...

that happens to the track with the electoral college projection, the state by state race. a multi-million dollars campaign attacking mitt romneys record on the issue we all know will define the election. >> when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millio...

Candidates talking about the urban areas, some places actually work. we can certainly a building of a prison complex getting parents involved works. >> the finest speech that i heard that barack obama made in the 08 campaign was in miami and he said that problems of the cities, of the metropolitan areas, rather, the cities can be the solutions and im going to commit and the kinds of things he promised and spoke of doing, i have been wanting to see more of that because youre absolutely right. if ...

Biggest miracle of all. an unbelievable rescue mission to save one man who has crept dangerously close to the edge of the falls. the call comes in on march 19th, 2003, 5:08 p.m. sergeant pat moriarty is on duty. hes a 19-year veteran of the niagara falls state park police. >> our radio man yelled down the hall and said, we just got a call from the canadians. theres a man on the ice at terrapin point. >> not a safe place to be. terrapin point is a piece of land that sits as close to the falls as ...

The year. the s&p is just one point away from an official correction, defined as a ten percent decline from a recent high. nasdaq is in a correction, down 12%. the stalling jobs market has version worrying about the health of the economy. and europes debt crisis remains the biggest threat. it could worsen europes struggling economy and drag down its bank, especially if greece exits the euro zone. >> a credit crunch of that magnitude could easily push us over the edge into recession. i dont think...

They have been a magnificent asset to our forces. >> brian: how do you feel about the way were using them? >> jump cut to gretchens question about how bloody it is and how in a way, how savage it is or how deadly in every regard these drone strikes are. i dont care about any of that, brian. i have to tell you. i like that we are killing bad guys. now, i hear from charles krauthammer and others that wait a second. do you want to hear from -- this is probably the biggest objection people might hav...

Right -- what happened was the right thing here. >> we are running out of time. >> i dont know that society would have been served. >> let me bring back our attorneys here. he was not a sympathetic figure. this brings a whole new meaning to what two americas are like. he was talking about one wife, one girlfriend, one plus one -- forget it. but we have the picture of him doing the hair thing. >> he comes off as an arrogant narcissist. >> he does. he denied of having knowledger her back in july o...