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as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. were talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2nd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see thats three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the la...

everyone. im erin burnette. is the president hiding up to 200 layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this update. now, it was quietly posted to the labor departments website just yesterday. as we reported 46 days ago the law called the warn act calls for employers to announce layoffs of employees 60 days before hand. were talking about ones like the ones related to the defense industry thanks to the 2 hnt $1 trillion in sequestration cuts. since they take effect on januar...

Believe that the syrian opposition at this stage, while bashar al-assad is so aggressive are going to turn that down? its unlikely. bill: on the intelligence front it takes months if not years to catch up for lost time. what the al-qaida affiliated groups are trying to do in all likelihood is when and if bashar al-assad goes down they fill the vacuum. >> they fill the vacuum, now, you know, part of this is also hinged on iraq. iraq is not a finished story yet. we tend to forget about iraq, and w...

Despite the window into karl roves soul, the takeaway is no matter how fractured and dissatisfied the republican party may be this year over their nominating process and their eventual nominee, mr. rove is still the guy doing all the soap selling. to finance the republican campaign. we are told to expect him to be controlling hundreds of millions of dollars all aimed at destroying the barack obama presidency. and ending his second-term hopes. the money on the establishment side of republican pol...

Is expected to have an easy night, and wisconsin. common wisdom is that rick santorum has to win wisconsin in order to stay in this thing. and so as of today, mr. santorum is being outspent in wisconsin advertising roughly 10-1. between the romney campaign itself and the affiliated romney super pac, theyre at over 3 million romney bucks in wisconsin advertising. thats versus a little over 300,000 santorum dollars. for his part, mr. santorum is starting to sound like he realizes that winning may ...

Matter how fractured and dissatisfied the republican party may be this year over their nominating process and their eventual nominee, mr. rove is still the guy doing all the soap selling. to finance the republican campaign. we are told to expect him to be controlling hundreds of millions of dollars all aimed at destroying the barack obama presidency. and ending his second-term hopes. the money on the establishment side of republican politics is no less daunting in the primary than it will be in ...

Organization, but its all about help. whats the greatest need now? >> the greatest need now is obviously shelter. we cant obviously give that. we give hot meals, drink, we just want to do what we can. just to lift the spirt of these people. the devastation is obvious. >> reporter: you helped them pick through the pieces as best you can. >> people were looking for momentos. just personal items. they want to find them and keep them. its memories. we help in any way we can. >> reporter: thank you f...

martin frost is a former texas congressman. and connie rice is a civil rights attorney. nice to have you joining us this morning. lots to get to including conversations about whitney houston and i really want to talk about whether it is religious liberty or are we really talking about contraception. first, though, the headlines. christine romans has that for us. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. workplace dispute between two im immigration custom agents went into a shootout. left...

Republicans, and we should say senator susan collins and olivia snow broke into the republican line, is interesting, because the politics of this, the way its playing in the different coalitions, seem to have completely reversed in the last week. you were seeing splits in the democratic and now youre seeing it in the republicans. in the house, are you seeing any movement of similar frictions? >> first of all, let me tell you even before the compromise, the majority of americans were in favor of ...

Senator susan collins and olympia snowe have broken with the line because the politics of this the way it is playing in the different coalitions, appears to have reversed in the last week. a week alg you were seeing splits across the democratic coalition now the republican one. aside from collins and snowe, in the house are you seeing any movement of similar frictions? >> well, first of all let me tell you that even before the compromise, the majority of americans were in favor of organizations,...