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Agreement, the two sides cant even agree on what theres no agreement on. john boehner says theres no agreement yet on spending and thats the sticking point. democrats just dont want to cut enough, he says. wrong says harry reid, there was an agreement on spending. this is all about a conservative republican social agenda aimed at crippling planned parenthood and the health services it provides to women. who is right? whos spin? whats at issue with planned parenthood and how does president obama ...

Move as quickly as possible away from foreign oil where were spending about $350 billion a year, move to energy independence, move to energy efficiency and to sustainable energy. but we cannot continue to keep going to war in the middle east every time there is a crisis there. look, the truth of the matter is, i am focusing right now on a budget situation where our republican friends want to devastate programs like head start, the social security administration, college grants, the middle class ...

Have tried not to step into the lead of all of this. >> reporter: this has been the argument of robert gates all along. behind the scenes he has been arguing, look its one thing for nato and european allies to call for the strikes on libya but who has the majority of the capability, who has the majority ability to support this, its the americans of the 124 missiles, 122 are american and two are from the british subs. they dont even have an aircraft carrier capable of being deployed to the fight....

Executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. >> nbcs mike viqueira is at the white house now. mike, is that going to solve the political problem for president obama, handing over control a coalition authority? >> well, it depends on when that happens, how it happens, and where, exactly, and what is the intersection between the stated goal of the u.n. military operation that weve seen unfold over the last several days and...

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Yemen. the man accused of being the east coast rapist is under suicide watch. 39-year-old aaron thomas tried to hang himself in his jail cell. dna evidence allegedly links thomas to 12 sexual assaults on women in several east coast states the last 12 years. heres how his neighbor reacted to the news. >> nothing like having it next door. its truly devastating. >> and police in florida have arrested the adoptive mother of a little girl found dead and wrapped in a plastic bag. seven accounts of c...

Hideous, a pretty bad man. >> lots of people are arguing, front page story in "the new york times", to weaken saudi arabia, at the end of the day, all of the regimes were pretty anti-iranian and pro-american. but the street feels more anti-american and the argument is more pro-iranian. >> all of the experts that snow know what egyptians think -- i dont know what egyptians think. i do know thai didnt see much evidence of people in the streets of cairo saying death to america. i did see young egyp...

Going to do it. those days are behind him. this is the administration that spent the last two and a half years that arguing and arguing that you had to spend in order to save the economy. stimulus or debt, its the only way. the tea party people will destroy the country if they cut spending. now, he wants you to believe that he has the virtue of spending cuts down. im going to go way out a limb here and say, i dont think he believes that. something in my tummy says, i dont think so. lets look at ...

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Do you have the votes to get that ratified? >> i believe we do. there are other legitimate concerns. 18 hearings, 1,000 questions weve answered. but others, they simply are against any arms control agreement. >> wishful thinking, or can they get it done? >> theyre clearly very close. the problem is the attention. the democrats are hoping, putting pressure on, having biden talking about it, theyre saying, look, this is the time to vote on it. mcconnells arguing i think a little bit hypocritically...