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Put the u.s. on a path to becoming europe. does that sound like someone bullish on spending cuts? the discrepancies in the republican austerity plan next on "now." [ female announcer ] did you know the average person smiles more than 50 times a day? so brighten your smile a healthy way with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. its the only rinse that makes your teeth two shades whiter and two times stronger. ♪ listerine® whitening... power to your mouth. you walk into a conventional ma...

pulling this graduation stunt on stage. >> wait until you hear the whole thing. i have a mixed reaction. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start,". >> were bringing you the news from a to z, its 5:00 a.m. in the east. so lets get started. were following breaking news out of maine. firefighters battling a fire on a nuclear submarine for close to 12 hours. the uss "miami" was in dry dock when a fire broke out in the forward compartment. six people suffered minor injuries. the ...

Grover norquist author of "debacle" and what we can do now to regain our future. its great to see you. >> good to be with you. >> let me ask you first. its nato and g-8 season. do you feel like what has happened in europe vis-a-vis were seeing the beginning of rejection of austerity plan has been a thumbs plan for the republican plan and your plan to make this all about cutting spending and not doing any revenue raisers. >> the idea of spending more money and stimulus spending what greece has be...

Austerity plan in place in the eurozone greeces unemployment rate is 21.7%. 136,000 businesses are expected to close in greece this is year alone. >> yes. if you have regulatory regime as greece does, if you spend like crazy and put every third person on the government payroll as greece does, if you pay the government workers more than everybody else, it doesnt work very well. greece and europe are basically california and illinois in five years if we keep going on obamas path. thats what we wan...

How he developed his relationship with the president? >> he visited the white house yesterday before both he and president obama came to camp david. they seemed to have a pretty friendly relationship right off the bat. the reporters there described a comfortable feeling there. the thing were going to see here is german chancellor merkel has an opposite point of view. she wants the other countries to crack down on their finances and have a more austerity plan. i think thats going to be the debate...

Would most likely serve as the base for an operation target gts the united states, i think yemen would have been at the top of most peoples list. and it is something of a foreign policy issue that really has not gotten a lot of attention in the u.s. presidential election, but its a very serious issue. afghanistan, pakistan are still important, but yemen is a real problem with regards to terrorism and al qaeda right now. >> were enforcing it by drone. evan coleman, thank you for bringing us persp...

Trying to force him to clarify what he calls his evolving stance on gay marriage. politicians are getting cold feet about the austerity plan that the voters dont like. we tell you why it could spell trouble for obama. we look at the campaign issues and look at how romney and obama differ on the war on terror. plus, blaming america in the return of the grapevine. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> bob: well, we talked about the...

Revolution and the rippling effects it may have on your 401(k). president nicolas sarkozy with his tough talk on austerity and his supermodel wife there is now officially out. and a socialist, francois hollande is now in with a promise to raise taxes and also emphasize growth. that makes u.s. markets very nervous as does the result of a vote in greece that put its austerity plan at risk as well. also investors in asia are the first ones to have a chance to react to that result in france and th...

French were tired of it. and i think the fact that hollande real sold his boringness and the french like his boringness right now, that shouldnt be discounted either. its not just about the euro. >> all right. >> quick question. obviously, theres tremendous ripple effects to all of this. but one of them could be felt in england, which is obviously in a double dip recession right now. and im wondering has the cameron government looked at this and decided maybe its time to change course with its o...

What is frustrating about the white house is they have had four budget submissions and they decided to duck this challenge every time. more debt, more spending, more taxes, and that hurts our economy. that will lead to austerity, and we think thats wrong, and thats why we put out alternatives. we had tim geithner who game to the committee on thursday and said, quote, we dont have a definitive solution, we just dont like yours. i cant think of a better example of what stems up the crisis. >> cong...