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>> you know, he has a difficult hand to play because he just converted to drilling earlier this year. you know, before that he was much more over on the environmentalists side of this debate and in order, as you indicated, to pick up some votes for his climate change legislation he moved. hes not in the drill, baby, drill camp. remember, that was the mantra of the 2008 republican convention. that was what john mccain was literally running for president on in 2008. so obamas not there, and as a p...

Damage. offshore oil drilling -- new offshore oil drilling is dead. >> is this a strategic mistake by newt? >> newt is ahead of his time. i agree with you, earlier, i think for the time being offshore drilling cant be done. when we get through this cycle, whether a couple years or longer were going to come back to the same issues we were facing. $4 a barrel oil. gasoline. all the stresses on energy and all this energy sitting out there. so at some point were going to get back to it. we know how ...

Should be concentrating on requiring that employers start checking and verifying people are legal. that should be universeally done. everybody in the federal system does it, every contractor now because of president obama has got to do it, even congress used this system. let me tell you, if congress can use a system, its pretty simple. why arent we agreeing to apply that universeally? lets get to the source

By those candidates in their committees in the endorsement. >> there he is promoting his psycho sister. lets go to huckabee. huckabee has his own show as well, and, of course, plugged the huck pack on the air. darn it, if i start promoting big eddies north country lodge nobody better give me smoke on this. i mean, this -- i guess i havent really paid attention to the money connection for candidates. why arent the democrats complaining about this? >> well, they should be, and every reporter in am...

Do and we all sound tough, but i think as americans we need to understand that there is a real human element to all of this. the folks that are coming across the border want to go to a better country. they want to work for a living. they want to provide for their families. they might want to do everything youre doing with your life. and, yes, we are being overrun. the latest number shows by the department of homeland security that there are 460,000 illegal immigrants in arizona, or politically c...

Forma back and forth that lapped last time and closer to the election. the white house is is going to try to compress the time between nomination and confirmation. the more time your nominee hangs out there, the more chances someone is going to find interest. republicans are going to try to stretch it out. >> you know, this is going to get very interesting. obviously, the democrats, back when bush was there, tried to slow things down, tried to stop a vote for coming up. thats when you had your g...

Well get you back up to boston, but first we want to go to cape canaveral, florida, where space shuttle "discovery" is set to launch in about 1:30. one of only four left before nasa retires the fleet. nbcs jay is at cape canaveral. were coming up on the end of an era, arent we? >> reporter: sure are. just four to go and this is going to be a beautiful launch this morning. i want to tell everybody along the eastern sea board f you look this way, we have a big clear high, you can see the shuttle "...

World war ii. were talking about record rains leaving parts of new england under water. major roads closed, homes flooded and residents evacuated. a state of emergency in rhode island. our reynolds wolf is on the banks of the river in cranston. reynolds, look, were expecting this river to crest pretty soon here, arent we? >> reporter: absolutely. tony, originally the river was forecast to get to 20.2 feet and it surpassed that at 20.2 and it could still get higher. if you wonder why this happens...

Recovered. its going to take years and years of a growing economy in order to create the jobs, the new jobs that we lost in the last couple of years, and thats why one of the reasons why even though well get some positive jobs growth, a lot of people will say, so what? i still hurt a lot. and they another reason which is that you have a whole hunk of people, big hunk. 40% of the unemployed people are long term unemployed, the skills they have, construction or manufacturing or things of this natu...

Several others injured, after authorities say twisters touched down the state, trees have been toppled and homes damaged, 1600 power outages, also reported in that state, and, in the east, further east -- well, east of arkansas, anyway, central alabama, flood warnings are now in effect, rain over the past 24 hours, causing rivers to rise, above flood stage, and, folks are being warned not to drive through the flooded areas, you do not know how deep the water is. here in the north the national we...