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We do need arts in this country. but the cowboy festival is not the place to start. >> may i ask a question. >> do i want to get to the npr story and wisconsin. but go. >> as i understand it, pat, how many years consecutively have you been going to the cowboy poetry festival? >> been out in elco two or three times. this is cultural pork. if harry reid wants to preserve all three of them, lets take npr and the endowment in humanities, why doesnt he say, okay, you want to kill them, were not going...

Out. theres no doubt that tunisia and other protests in the region have given a big jolt to egypt, but its still too early to tell whether this really is the beginning of a change. alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. chicago politics have taken another strange turn. the illinois supreme court ordered election officials to keep rahm emanuels name on the ballot for the mayors race while they decide if he can run. absentee and early voting begin over the next few days. if the supreme court agrees wi...

Proposition that saddam hussein had the weapons of mass destruction. >> all right, nbc jim mic miklaszewski at the pentagon for us. thank you, mik. >> you bet. joe miller is now officially the winner of the states republican primary. miller held on to a slim lead after thousands of absentee and. miller won a fifth gop senate primary and a crushing loss for murkowski who has served in the senate since 2002. >> we all know this has been a long week, a terribly long week. well, we have counted an...

Was 1,600 votes behind after the election, officials counted absentee votes yesterday and she told workers in her campaign -- >> we know this has been a long way wooek. a terribly long week. we have counted and speculated and it has really been difficult. we know that we still have outstanding votes to count in this primary. but based on where we are right now, i dont see a scenario where the primary will turn out in my favor. >> now miller a little known attorney who was outspent by murkowski w...

>> greta: alaska is on pins and needles not knowing who is the republican nominee for the senate. is it sarah palin-backed joe miller or sitting senator lisa murkowski? its still neck and neck. state officials are starting to count the 23,000 absentee and provisional ballots. joining us joe miller who is inches ahead of lisa murkowski for the republican nomination. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for joining us. give me an update in terms o...

>> greta: alaska is on pins and needles not knowing who is the republican nominee for the senate. is it sarah palin-backed joe miller or sitting senator lisa murkowski? its still neck and neck. state officials are starting to count the 23,000 absentee and provisional ballots. joining us joe miller who is inches ahead of lisa murkowski for the republican nomination. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for joining us. give me an update in terms o...

The bruising gop senate primary there that is still unresolved. absentee ballot counting starts today in this race that is too close to call. tea party-backed challenger joe miller is calling for an investigation. he accuses campaign workers in senator lisa murkowskis camp of possibly tampering with votes. dan springer is streaming live from anchorage. how many absentee ballots are out there and how many havent been counted yet, dan? >> reporter: well, between absentee and what they call challen...

Miller made it official. filing allegation with the atto senaey general asking for investigation of vote tampering. msillers lead is at 1668 trtes with 23,000 yet to be added. those will be absentee and challenge ballots. both sides are confident and they say the votes will break their way and, bret, if the final vote count, gwsk is less than one-half percent which is 400 votes in this count, it would trigger automatic recount. bret? >> bret: dan springer live in anchorage. thank yohe nevada dem...

Ballots, ballots that have been challenged that are also going to be reviewed and looked at and that could take several days. the process stars tomorrow. jenna: as far as actually compete fog that absentee -- absentee vote, carl, did candidatesgate out there and really try to get these guys that they knew were going to be absentee vote stphers. >> sure, but the problem is the political campaigns are supposed to be optimistic, not pessimistic, so they play to win, not taoeurbgs and only when race...

Troops are dead, following two separate roadside bomb attack necessary southern afghanistan. this is new videotape just into fox news. witnesses say a u.s. humvee hit a roadside bomb. fourteen u.s. troops have been killed in the last three days alone. this news coming a month after learning that july was the deadliest month of the nine-year war with 66 u.s. troops killed. jenna: well, in the republican senate primary in alaska, absentee and questioned ballot counting is said to begin tomorrow an...