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Papers. "usa today," new governors face big battles of the 29 governors elected last year, most are trying to address budget shortfalls. in the process, are upending politics in their states. a little later on "morning joe," we are going to bring in connecticuts first year governor daniel malloy who cut spending and raised taxes and is now paying for it in the polls. >> financial times, boost for libya rebellion. the country of qatr has become the first to recognize the rebel national council in...

Willing to do. >> i hope the president will be dramatically clearer than he has to now, i hope hell say hes consulting the congress not just the arab league and the u.n. and hope hell say second it is clear the qaddafi dictatorship has to leave and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure that he leaves -- >> whatever it takes. >> i think it means dishes should we strike at him? >> yes. with -- once you engage air power, use it in its most effective way. you dont need to send in grou...

To appear on the history channel but the series was plagued by the beginning by questions of accuracy in the script and reportedly pressure by the kennedy clan. >> unless there is a significant change, i think we stay the hell out. >> the hollywood reporter says that caroline kennedy and another pushed to kill the miniseries. why? matthew told today that along with a business decision, part of the concern film. he created 24. joel definitely believes that this miniseries was targeted because of ...

Fall in love or select a candidate. some of it is conscious and some of it is unconscious. for example, some research at princeton, they gave people a one-second look at candidates this races far from where they live. those people would predict with 70% accuracy who would win that election. >> did they actually pick competent? people? >> yeah, and heres the thing. people think foreign aid, think 25% of the budget. we check out the competence of the dentist, the plumber, the teacher. theres a per...

Social animal." youve done a lot of writing how the brain works, how it makes us do certain things, make certain choices. apply it to ideology. >> all the choices, whether you fall in love, select a candidate, some is conscious, some is unconscious. some research at princeton, they gave pima one second look at candidates in races far from where they lived. they said youre looking at these people for one second. who do you think is more confident. those people could predict with 70% accuracy who ...

>> greta: steve, in terms of the safety on the ground, i dont know what time is it there now? >> reporter: six hours time difference. three, four in the morning probably. >> greta: it is actively going on the strikes? the strikes are actively going on? >> reporter: strikes have happened three times tonight in the past three hours here it has been quiet. it is interesting. while those strikes occur you hear the loud explosion then see the anti-aircraft fire. much of the city life in the earlier h...

Defenses were done, then you could send in. save casualties on the civilian side and on the pilots side. >> just to give people a sense of how careful allied forces are trying to be in this. they halted a mission because they received information that civilians were in the area. this crossed within the last hour, they said, that decision to do that underlines their capability of protecting civilians. is this keeping people on the side of the coalition on whats going on right now? >> one thing is...

Likelihood, they will be hit by long range missiles, cruise missiles. but you cant establish a no fly zone without making the area safe. >> theres a trade off, however you are from targ gets and accuracy? >> we have fairly accurate weapons. you have to punch in a ten digit grid core accurate down to a meter or so, we can knock them out, thats no problem, but there are lots of them. and we dont know where all of them are. we have a great deficiency in intelligence. while we may knock out some or ...

>> shepard: new questions now about the accuracy of the information on the nuclear crisis, here in japan. that comes from official channels. according to the official news agency, kyoto, the countrys prime minister has blasted executives from tokyo electric power company, tepco for not telling him sooner about the latest explosion at the plant. and in fact since the disaster began we have gotten a number of conflicting or very vague reports from both tepco and japanese officials and as a matter ...

>> wow. you know when we look at whats happened obviously in japan, people factor in what happened in christchurch new zealand, you know, youre a professor, but we ask common questions at the dinner table and you wonder, is it all connected, the ring of fire, how it all go into some analysis that we believe has some accuracy. >> so the question of accuracy is an interesting one. in our forecasting what we do is actively back test. what we do is we make a probability model essentially. we use dat...