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Of cases pressed by obscure 1982 ruling by the agency. they may legally make up to 49% of their expenditures political in nature and accordingly come to play a large role in modern campaigns. one of them, american crossroads founded by fox news contributor karl rove raised $70 million in the 2010 cycle. >> i am unaware of any donors to american crossroads with a letter. there are 137,000 such organizations across the political spectrum. a lot outside of politics. im highly skeptical that the i.r...

1982 ruling by the agency. they may legally make up to 49% of their expenditures political in nature and accordingly come to play a large role in modern campaigns. one of them, american crossroads founded by fox news contributor karl rove raised $70 million in the 2010 cycle. >> i am unaware of any donors to american crossroads with a letter. there are 137,000 such organizations across the political spectrum. a lot outside of politics. im highly skeptical that the i.r.s. after decades treating c...

To do that. >> governor haley barbour, thank you so much for being with us today. and our great sympathy with all of your constituents as you struggle against this flood. >> thanks, andrea. and lets bring in our political panel, david gregory is moderator of nbcs "meet the press." mitt romney what a week. the wall street journal hammering him. is there a good way for him to get out from under this problem of explaining his health care plan for massachusetts? >> those who are sympathetic to rom...

Season after the 08 cycle, candidates running around for two years doing a million different forums. i think summer to labor day, the field will set itself, chuck. >> you dont mind some of the folks are taking their time as long as they get in before september? >> yeah, i dont think so. they are adults. they know what kind of money they need to raise to be competitive and i think they are making those calculations. i dont think theres any doubt that we are we are going to have a lot of different...

Will give obama problems but i dont think hell earn the nomination. thats the other problem. and i think hes smart by waiting until the riffraff -- >> although hes waiting into a big point tomorrow. hes going to give this speech on health care. hes going to try to walk this interesting line, yes, he did health care in massachusetts. hes going to point out whats wrong with the way alabama did it as pop posed to the way he did it. is that a good strategy? >> i think hes trying again but probably w...

Penalty first if they are in this country. if theyre paying their taxes, there should be some way they can do that. hes going to make that case, but i have to tell you, its an uphill climb on capitol hill. the chance on getting a deal seems pretty remote right now. >> the critics will also point out that this indeed is the presidents first trip to the border since he was elected. it was a campaign promise he made. probably this is just panderring for the hispanic vote for the next election. >> h...

As being able to lower costs and increase accessibility. what do you think? >> thats certainly one alternative that can be pursued. here in arizona were looking at lower cost avenues that are available to students. if you simply look at adding a financial aid component to a differential to help mitigate the potential negative impacts. in arizona, for instance, the board of regents adopted a policy that more than 17% of the incremental revenues will go back to need-based financial aid. oregon has...

Obama administration. what do you make of this now coming out on the sunday talk shows and saying, look, our methods worked? >> i think theres a genuine debate that went on. it went on during the campaign in 08. its continuing on the airwaves today. and its a debate over torture. i dont really go for the euphemism of enhanced interrogation technique. if you describe the techniques, 90% plus of americans would call it torture. slamming peoples bodies against the wall. threatening to kill their fa...

6:35 pacific:00 out of a commercial building on alameda street. its a two-alarm fire, and 75 firefighters on the scene. 6:08 local time. so that time would not be accurate. you cannot get a call at 6:35 in the morning. its 30 minutes being that time of day. check that at 5:35 pacific coast time. >> it looks like some sort of industrial building so nobody presumably would be in there at this time. bill: well get in touch with the fire department in l.a. how is this for news now? gas prices are ac...

How far we could go, what was legal and so forth, and out of that emerged what we called enhanced interrogation, and it worked. it provided some absolutely vital pieces of intelligence. >> donald rumsfeld and dick cheney defending those so-called enhanced interrogation techniques once again in the wake of osama bin ladens death. lets talk about it with cnn contributor errol lewis, cnn contributor for new york one. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> unsurprisingly former bush administr...