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track to passage, a fast track that seemed to have been created a few weeks ago after steve croft on "60 minutes" revealed that congress members were legally allowed to use inside information that they learn in briefings or reports to make money, something like regular people like us would be arrested for. >> why does congress get a pass on this? >> its really the way the rules have been defined and the people who make the rules are the political class in washington and theyve convenie...

Bain. gingrich is cleverly taking him up on an offer he didnt really make seizing on this comment romney made to politico. >> im not going to say outrageous things that can be used to thing them down the road if they happen to become the nominee. i am going to point out my distinctions with relative to newt gingrich and relative to the other people who are on that stage. >> gingrich is conveniently ignoring the second half of that sound bite. so first last night at a town hall in windham, new ha...

Slide downward. >> heres the thing. what is he known for? his charisma and his character? whats been attacked? his character big time. i dont think that herman cain is the answer on foreign policy. was he a guy that can grow into position? look what he did in business. another one of these stories which is something that republicans worried about not winning the white house cant afford to nominate somebody like that. >> he moved to the fact that i heard something this morning that he might consi...

With them. she says her side of the story is very different. >> well see what the national restaurant association decide. its their decision. martha: are you confident if she tells her story, the stories will match up? >> correct. i have total faith in mr. cane. and so does the country. the media this week has been a cesspool and we are not going to sphwhiment cesspool anymore. martha: you spoke yesterday to megyn kelly and said you were moving off this that the perry campaign was to blame. >> w...

Illegal alien who is have been allowed to stay in this country. >> then newt gingrich with the reading of the 11th commandment. thou shalt not speak ill of other republican. he was railed against a broken washington and former colleagues in congress. >> look at this model of a super committee that has a magic number to achieve and if it doesnt, we will all have to shoot ourselves in the head so when they come back with a dumb idea to merely cutoff our right leg, we will be grateful that they are...

And they went back and forth on that. the only time i saw newt gingrich flumux in the last seven debates is on that issue. he said no, i wasnt, it was the heritage foundation. you supported the heritage foundation. thats right. you got me. >> newt who has been very pleasant, noncfrfrontational to the other people on stage throughout the debates, last night, he -- you could tell that he was a little steamed at that interchange and in fact, on his last opportunity to do some soundbiting, he said t...

Theyve thrown the 11th commandment under the bus. megyn: let me ask you about the reports on governor christie because new york magazine had an interesting piece titled five things conservative voters would hate about chris christie. and number one on the list is illegal immigration. they say, they go after chris christies policies with respect to illegal immigration saying, look, you know, he talks about how america needs to come up with a clear path to citizenship. they talked about gun contro...

both of you. >> thank you, kyra. we start in texas. exhausted fire crews are battling an enemy is astonishing and relentless wildfires burning somewhere in the state for nearly ten months without any break. today is the 296th consecutive day of work for those firefighters. just in the last week, 120,000 acres have burned. more than 700 homes have burned since sunday and then near austin, a blaze has killed two more people raising the overall death toll to four. jim spelman is in bsat...

ill ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. im wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." weve been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. theres a lot of huge ifs involved in making...

tea party demanding more cuts in federal spending, a cap on future budgets, and a balanced budget amendment. but at a republican caucus meeting speaker of the house john boehner told everyone in his party, and i quote, "get your ass in line." and listen to senator john mccain. >> what is really amazing about this is that some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with its present reputation, and that is foolish. that is wors...