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Dana, can you hear me? >> i can hear you. >> greta: lets move ahead to the president today and skip last night began to the president today. he had his press conference at the white house. rather chasened, some say. what was your thoughts? >> i think no matter where you sat on the political spectrum you probably heard something a little bit different if you are a democrat that lost you probably said okay if thats what you really think. if you are a republican and won or a tea party candidate you...

With our orange mums and those are mums, right. >> mums the word. >> brian and i took the pickup over to home depot and got the biggest ones they had. >> yeah. >> in the meantime lets talk about this, president obama is back on the campaign trail and about to join vice-president biden for a full court press. julie kirtz joins live from d.c. the president spent the night in his his home town and they made the first public appearance since election night 08. hes trying to drum up enthusiasm for th...

Reflect a shaky economy and you need to get it down to the 400,000 area to make progress in the situation and molly henneberg is looking at this from the white house. and, what do the numbers show? what do you think about this. >> reporter: those unemployment numbers you showed, those are new claims, they declined 6,000, as you said and some economists suggest the pace of layoffs is easing a little bit and as you say, in a healthy economy, the overall unemployment claims, you want to see those u...

Congressman and proud moderate and supporter of stem cell research and supporter of cap-and-trade and supported much of the obama stimulus, et cetera. and in delaware, hes been elected nine times by groups, and he was endorsed by the state republican party for the nomination to take back joe bidens senate seat, the democratic seat joe biden held, and republicans have a shot at winning this year and that is who mike castle is and for the longest time it was thought hed be a virtual shoo-in and no...

James jay lee has out there, we can start to put a profile together ourselves, at least from a distance about what this persons intentions may have been back in 08 and how theyve transpired and ramped up in a little more than two years. >> absolutely. what took this from rants on the internet, protests in front of this building to being armed and inside this building and firing at least one shot. hes obviously escalated from the rants on the internet and his myspace page including this website t...

They react very calmly and the people ive spoken with actually say thats exactly what happened. that they were scared and shake ebb up but at the time people acted very calmly and were able to evacuate very calmly and even after it happened they were milling about the area discussing it amongst themselves and at no time was there any panic despite how terrifying it must have been. >> mara, when you spoke to the person before that had been witness to the protests in 08, did they say that they saw...

Theres his picture. he says the discovery channel doesnt give enough attention to issues like global warming and overpopulation. and in essence, he accuses the discovery channel of hypocrisy for saying they cover environmental issues but not giving coverage to what he thinks they should. so as i say, thomas, he has a long history of protest against the discovery channel. >> and forgive me for not knowing this, but in february of 08, is this something that this network covered? or did anybody cov...

Grievances and problems with the company were and he was willing to engage and was not swayed by the arguments that they were making. this is not someone that was a stranger to the building. this person who worked there said that when he heard of the news reports he recognized the man immediately. >> okay. mara, thank you so much. we want to talk now about agnes jazinski, a reporter who interviewed this man back in 08 to find out what he was doing and also to find out more about his protests. wh...

Arguments he was making made no sense and everybody would try to point that out to him, but he was stuck in his ways and he wasnt going to let anybody change the way he thought. >> nathaniel harrington, a former employee of discovery. thank you very much. were learning mbt at the situation that took place in 08 and the protest that never really got off the ground>> its pretty scary this individual was on the radar of employees there. they would see this as the individual you interviewed would se...

Ballot is strange in that theand republicans have shared the advantage a couple of times in the spring and early summer, and in july, democrats enjoyed a six-point advantage in the ballots. but if republicans can hold this advantage and hold it between six and ten points between now and election day, it would be hard to imagine democrats being able to hold on to the house. jon: its kind of interesting, you say that the best democrats can hope for is to try to scare independent voters away from t...