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Everything was black, it was like i was in a black box, and i just drove through it, and i couldnt breathe, and then there was fire everywhere, like you turn around everywhere it was on all sides of you. >> reporter: fire officials have not determined the cause but it started off a series of lightning strikes, and, jon, lightning has caused dozens of wildfires throughout the state. back to you. jon: and other western states arent doing much better, huh? >> reporter: yeah, dozens of fires burning...

Swing states. it could be bad news for the president come november. it is interesting in the swing states, the swing has been particularly onerous, no doubt or spell it out? >> here is the thing. gas prices are the way voters and people measure their economic well-being. they pay it on a regular basis. they notice it. therefore it colors their view of the economy. when gas prices are high, it implies something is not right. therefore the people in charge arent doing real well. >> neil: flip side...

Romneys ira? >> i know first-hand experience, and talking to my constituents, how hard middle income families work to try to scrimp and save and set aside some money at the end of the month for their retirement. we know that families arent doing very well because they dont have enough disposal income to make those contributions to their 401(k)s, to their iras. and most middle income families have tens of thousands of dollars in it. when i read that he had amassed somewhere between $20 million an...

Reporters -- you know, reporters just want to ask him about what hes saying, in poland he praised the small government. maybe he doesnt know, but in poland they have a universal health care system paid for by the government, and anybody can go to state college or university paid by the government again. so its not a small government, yet he can say the stuff because he doesnt have to submit to any questioning. >> and he doesnt have any sense of the history. were not asking him about polish poetr...

Bd. he praised the small government. maybe he doesnt know, but in poland, they have a universal health care system paid for by the government, and anybody can go to state college or university paid by the government again. so its not a small government. but yet he can say the stuff because he doesnt have to submit to any questioning. >> and he doesnt have any sense of the history. were not asking him about polish poetry. were just asking him what the heck is going on right before his nose. perha...

Weve heard from him regarding congress and what is called obstruction from republicans. >> no, im saying something i guess slightly different. look, i have nos confidence in the ability of this president to be able to ever function with this house and if this house is re-elected, then i fear were on a path for more intransigence from the gop control of the house. what id like to hear him say, what will he be able to do even if they continue to be ob sti nant in their opposition to his agenda. th...

The common assumption is that elites are always hiding something, those people at the top are nowhere near as smart or as wonderful, as pure as all-knowing me. he ends with i dont know if america has a leadership problem. it certainly has a followership problem. i will let you respond but i also want to bring in -- one of the examples used is occupy wall street. thats an example of the incredibly self-important crowd, not partaking in the political system and fundamentally, this mistrust of inst...

More to lift their profits for their clients. so it is kind of a two-edged sword. you have rising economies in other parts of the world and bad money managers or financial consultants here in the united states. jenna: is there any way to tell that that 129,000 millionaires just dropped the amount of money that they made and thats why theyre no longer part of the club? or did they actually physically move somewhere else and take their money out of the country? >> reporter: this study doesnt addre...

>> another steel company. >> another steel company. even within the steel industry, bain appears to be a net job creator, how many people can say that in the steel industry? >> one of the things that private equity does, it investigates in companies that are down on their luck, that have maybe poor management, that nt arent doing well and tries to turn them around. and at times it works, sometimes it doesnt work. >> so what does this ad tell us about the obama campaign? that ad, after listening ...

We all need to get real serious about helping poor kids learn. and weve got to change the way we do it. we know what works. weve got to be willing to invest in it. early childhood is a big part of that. randi has some great ideas. we brought randi to the state to talk to us about what it would take to turn schools around. shes a national leader and has done so much on this issue and this has been a process. there were some elbows thrown in connecticut, there were some ruffled feathers. i probabl...