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There and they took away the regulations, starting chipping away at them, we had the savings and loans crisis, the hedge fund meltdown, and now the crash of 08. when dodd says -- this isnt to say there wont be other disasters. that wasnt his word, but other problems in the future, hes admitting this could very well happen again on some level. and that this doesnt really -- i agree with paul krugman in the "new york times" a few weeks ago that it might be better not to pass this bill than to pass...

Regulations and started chipping away at them, we had the savings and loans crisis and the hedge fund melt down and now the crash of 08. # when dodd says -- this isnt to say there wont be other disasters. that wasnt his word, but other problems in the future, hes admitting this could very well happen again on some level. i agree with paul krugman in the "new york times" a few weeks ago that it might be better not to pass this bill than to pass a bill that gives all of us a sense its okay now, we...

Actually, its terrible. but thats the burden that lawrence has. hey, so, lawrence also says something that i love because he says its never happened before. its kind of like after i got elected i was 30 and everybody came to me because i didnt know anybody and they wanted to know the secret. everybody would come to me and it was all the same. i basically said the same thing. i was like you know what in the tides you cant fight the tides because every republican said im the republican thats going...

Expert. lets bring in a guy who would know. >> yeah, bring in anchor of fox news sunday, sees a lot of aliens and weird stuff. >> in washington, you know. >> chris, whats your assessment? >> my assessment is that its actually the new york knicks coming to try to get lebron james. >> see, i knew it. >> well said. he is a free agent, chris, i like that. 7:30 is about tip-off time and chris does his homework. >> exactly. >> as surprising as that story, chris, is, another surprise this morning you r...

Hands on a bunch of new documents, what did we learn about more fraud and corruption allegedly perpetrated by acorn? >> well, we have learned that in state after state, whether it was missouri or whether it was wisconsin, or whether it was ohio, there were reports that came in, from fbi field office, all around the country, to the justice department, saying this is a problem. and, as we know they were -- the offices were raided in nevada by a democratic attorney general, democratic secretary of ...

The -- azazi afghan living in the united states. and an american from illinois charged in the 2008 terrorist attacks that killed 174 people in mumbai. that is just to name a few. according to homeland security chief janet napolitano the threat of homegrown terrorism has increased over the past year. joining me is fox news terrorism analyst and senior fellow for defense of department sees. wall lead always great to have you. you have suggested that al-qaeda and others will use females to organize...

>> without gravy. >> hold on gravy, you cant say without, say hold. >> swiss sausage and a belgian waffle. >> and id like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes, instead, cup of coffee, and, wheat toast. >> no substitutiones. >> we got his order wrong, do you know what this is. >> i dont know what it was. >> what is it really like to be a lifelong career waitress, we explore the dying breed, in a new book, "counterculture" and were joined, with one of the women profiled in the weak, an 08-year-...

Coffee partiers are saying were right in the middle, but some are saying theyre a little bit on the left. >> reporter: its a very good point, very good point. annabel park does admit she worked as a volunteer for the obama campaign and before that jim web back in 2006 when he was running for the senate. but she says the coffee party isnt in line with either the democrats or the republicans. tea party movement, what do they think? ive talked to people at cnn and a bunch of the organizers from the...

Triggering the great recession reportedly cooked the books before it collapse. the financial giant lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 08. in an explosive brand new report, a court-appointed investigator finds that lehman executives manipulated the balance sheet, hiding billions of dollars worth of debt. according that report they withheld information from lehmans board and inflated the value of toxic real estate assets. all that led to the largest bankruptcy in the united states...

The result? lehman wildly inflated the value of their company in the days before and after they issued their quarterly reports. in the last quarter of 07, they hid $39 billion in troubled assets using this technique. in the first quarter of 2008, they hid $49 billion. finally in the second quarter of 08, $50 billion. it was the end of the next quarter when citibank and jpmorgan called lehman to pay up on all that money that the entire house of cards ultimately collapsed. in some ways you cant bl...