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Break any laws. but authorities confirmed yesterday they have, indeed, cut her off. michigan lawmakers are pushing bills to automatically disqualify big lotto workers from state benefits. there is concern over federal food program fraud among stores. federal inspectors testified on capitol hill today about a new report that claims dozens of merchants are still taking part in the aid program even after the government banned them for crimes like swapping food stamps for cash or liquor. cost taxpay...

new york, im christine romans. carol has the morning off this morning. here are the mornings top stories for you. herman cain heading home to atlanta today, and he says the decision about whether to continue his campaign could come by monday at the latest. its a decision that could be in his wifes hands after another woman accused cain of having a 13-year affair. with a $1,000 tax hike looming, congress cant get it done. the senate defeating competing payroll tax cut bills, one fro...

2004 presidential election, john kerry found a new stature at the line of the senate. the foreign relation committee unapologetic acting as chairman. last week he was working the south central asia account to repair the frayed ties with pakistan and persuading islamabad to return chopper tail damaged in the bin laden raid. >> well take possession from that in a coordinated operation that will take place. >> he is a powerful chairman in long line of powerful chairman. he went to afghanistan, paki...

Malnutrition there, people eating grass to survive. i was reading a foreign policy report that said a north korean child can expect to be seven inches shorter than his or her counterpart in south korea. seven inches shorter. >> that is so dramatic. >> malnutrition. >> i remember covering president bush, he hated kim jong-il, didnt want anything to do with him but the bush administration provided a lot of aid. how is the obama administration hitting back here? >> the u.s. state department has ref...

Shortage of food and gas. our correspondents tell us there are long lines outside bakeries and many gas stations are closed. egypt is proving to be a delicate banning act for the pentagon. look at the tar gas lobbed at protesters this past week. a lot of the egyptian military equipment this was made in the u.s., everything from teargas to tanks, cairo gets $1.3 billion in military aid from us anl yul annually. second only to what we give to israel. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. bar...

Chiefs of staff and dennis blare. clinton met with pat rhysia espinoza and later with mexican president felipe calderon. the meeting was to expand and improve programs under whats called the merida initiative. its a $1.4 billion multi-year aid program to fight drug crime. this includes also modernizing border crossings, better inspection of vehicles and people crossing the border, but one of the really main strategy expansions here is to do more on the social economic front, helping poor communi...

>> i think it would be wise to let the fbi -- >> you are going to be the director of the fbi. here is what i want you to tell every politician. if you get a call from somebody suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the fbi. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state or any non-state actor is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> i will take that we sho...

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Rule. he was scheduled to speak three-and-a-half hours ago to the country a the world. he did not show. fox news does not know his whereabouts. government attempt to suppression demonstrations in egypt are swifting eroding support from the united states. which is suddenly forced to choose between the most important ally and democratic uprising demanding their presidents ouster. this afternoon, washington threatened to reduce or review $1.5 billion aid program, foreign aid if mubarak escalated th...

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