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the story is a bit different and the president fares a bit better. he now has a six-point edge over mitt romney, topping the 50% mark for the time in that survey. in an interview with nbc he talked about his accomplish ams in the face of republican opposition. >> even with a bunch of obstruction over -- on capitol hill, weve been able to save an auto industry. weve been able to take 750,000 jobs being lost a month and move it so its 250,000 jobs being created this month. weve been ab...

damascus. >> where can syrians go? theyve been calling out to the world for help. >> we want to see actions, we dont want to see talk. were really tired of talk and talk and talk. weve seen no actions at all. the syrian president still has his legitimacy. until now no country said this president lost his legitimacy. until now. why did they not say that? why does he still have his legitimacy after all the killing he did? >> and that activist is talking about this weekends lack of action...

mitt romney in all 50 of the delegates beat newt gingrich by a wider margin and beat him in south carolina. the former house speaker let his lecturn do the talking. 46 states to go. seven states are up for grabs. the caucuses in maine goes on for a week. wolf blitzer was watching it all last night great election coverage once again. dominating florida, some might look at the comments that he made, certainly to our soledad obrien. he told soledad, im not concerned about the very poor. s...

Million to shore up aids assi assistance programs. one interesting and i think sort of telling thing to note here, in secretary clintons dramatic speech announcing that goal of an aids-free generation, at one point in that speech secretary clinton was talking about mother-to-child transmissions. and she said that we can actually get that number down to zero. thats what she said. and then she paused and explained how her speechwriter kept hedging by writing virtually zero. and she said she just...

Every year. even though it opens $33 billion of u.s. debt. senator tom coburn said, "borrowing money to country receiving our aid is dangerous for the donor and recipient. if the countries can afford to buy our debt, perhaps they can afford to fund assistance programs on their own." others say much of the aid such as in programs for disease eradication, human rights advocacy or drug trafficking serves our interest. especially in places like mexico and colombia. >> most of that aid is used to tar...

Senator tom coburn who requested the report from the congressional research service says, quote: "borrowing money from countries who receive our aid is dangerous for both the donor and recipient. if countries can afford to buy our debt, perhaps they can afford to fund assistance programs on their own. at the same time, when we borrow from countries we are supposedly helping to develop, we put off hard budget choices here at home and the status quo creates co dependency and financial risk at home...

Our nation. the amount of we spend there hoping to get so many things that are so important us to and then we run into this. >> i think youve got to restructure the assistance programs in ways that minimize the possibility of that happening. and i think theres too much pressure really from places in the state department just say look move the money. it doesnt matter what it is spent on. >> greta: i think the american people -- it does to the american people it is their money and they dont like t...

Our nation. the amount of we spend there hoping to get so many things that are so important us to and then we run into this. >> i think youve got to restructure the assistance programs in ways that minimize the possibility of that happening. and i think theres too much pressure really from places in the state department just say look move the money. it doesnt matter what it is spent on. >> greta: i think the american people -- it does to the american people it is their money and they dont like t...

Joined by christine romans and senior editor from "bloomberg businessweek." its got to be terrifying. >> yeah. >> you get anxiety listening to what she says, but what do you think she could be doing differently? >> one thing that stood out, shes applying, sending out five resumes a day online. thats notoriously infecttive. very easy. thousands of people are applying for jobs that way. what shes doing is not strategic. i think thats one thing. stop carpet bombing your resume and look around your ...

About the problems with greece, but the problem with europe. the euro zone, the zone of countries that have adopted the euro is made up of countries in wildly different economic situations all sharing a common currency. now that means when greece falls into deep recession, as it has, it cannot do what many countries would do at that stage, which is devalue its currency. that would make greek goods more competitive on world markets and get its economy growing again. an american state thats in rec...