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shot wound to the hid. shes made remarkable recovery, but shes stepping down to focus on it. there was a call to action in the house and senate who have gotten precious little done lately. well talk with a senior advideser for the house. first, though, here are key moments from tonights speech. >> we are not going to settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do well while a growing number of people barely get by, a weak can restore an economy where every gets their fair s...

an idea that has bipartisan sport, at least outside of washington. some of whats broken has to do with the way congress does its business these days. a simple majority is no longer enough to get anything, even routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blamed. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i ask them to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public nominations receive a simple umor down vote within 90 days. the executive branch also ...

routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often its inefficient, outdated, and remote. thats why ive asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureauc...

If you hear rick perry, you hear that romney and bain went in to destruct the companies, destroy them or something. that is not the private equity firms do. they go in and try to make mem profitable. sometimes they cant. i have to liquidate them. people are out of a job which they would probably be out of anyway. >> the conventional wisdom is the republican party overall is not happy with the line of attack. they believe its obama line of campaign attack, which it will be on mitt romney. is ther...

If you hear rick perry, you hear that romney and bain went in to destruct the companies, destroy them or something. that is not the private equity firms do. they go in and try to make mem profitable. sometimes they cant. i have to liquidate them. people are out of a job which they would probably be out of anyway. >> the conventional wisdom is the republican party overall is not happy with the line of attack. they believe its obama line of campaign attack, which it will be on mitt romney. is ther...

easy to attack. >> i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means if you dont like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. if someone doesnt give me good service, i want to say im going to get somebody else to provide that service to me. >> seven of those words, i like being able to fire people, knocked front-runner romney back on his heels. ...

Agenda. the social conservatism is what propelled him in iowa. like mike huckabee before him or pat robertson in the 1980s, thats not enough by itself to win the nomination. he does have a distinctive second strand though. he has an economic nationalism. he talks more than any other republican candidate about upward mobility, the decline that he links to the decline in manufacturing jobs. he wants to revive that sector of the economy. and that potentially contrasts interestingly with mitt romney...

there. in about 100 soldiers are on lockdown at a military base in washington state. that means no one in, no one out. commanders at joint base lewis mccord are looking for anyone who may have possession of some sensitive military equipment that didnt turn up during an inventory last month. and crowds of people packed public spaces across syria again today demanding the ouster of president bashar al assad. officials from the arab league are talking today about whether to increase t...

Big. for whatever reason, weve grown more affluent, yet compared to countries much, much poorer, much more inequality, but have this extraordinary number of increase in people who cant work, socially isolated because of mental illness and the controversial thesis is that it is due to our heavy reliance on psychopharmaceuticals. it is an incredibly beautifully written book. very compelling and speaks to a deep problem. 1 in 76. a ton of us are related to people that have this problem. its somethi...

choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and be...