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Position to keep going here. >> we were just checking the betting market. and it turns out you are a sure win. >> from us to you we say happy birthday to you. >> were so glad you were >> it is truly a privilege to be your friend, you are a lot of fun, too behind the scenes and we wish you a super happy birthday and many, many wonderful years to come. we love you, brit. >> brit: this will be my last night in the anchor chair. brit will be here after the holidays and so in a new year, in a new rol...

>> bret: china is pushing back tonight on a comment made by president biden co-worker his chinese counter part and this springs flying of a spy balloon over u.s. territory. this has critics in this country are charging that the biden administration has been too soft on china. correspondent gillian turner has both sides tonight from the state department. >> gillian: president biden apparently believes chinese president xi jinping is a dictator that revelation coming during a political fundraiser ...

>> good evening, bret with life support dwindling the international effort to save the five people on board the submarine that disappeared is ramping up. not slowing down. >> when you are in the middle of a search and rescue case, you always have hope. >> sounds picked up by canadian military aircraft provide just that. >> noises have been described as banging noises. but, again, they have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential man made sources other th...

Multibillion-dollar relief packages are beingages rolled ot across the continent, and francis just called for a 10% reduction n in energy use to avd rationing ang and/or cuts this winter, bret. b >> bret: amy kellogg in milan, italy,re thanks. a suicide bombing outside russias embassy in a afghanistanfgs capital of kabul killed two staffers and at least one afghan civilian. was russias state newts agency says the devil that was calling out names for visa candidates when that explosion occurred. ...

Of the people on the left side of the screen, they brought out the bill, and the bill, 2010, the president will sign each letter in his name with a different pen. there are also souvenirs will be -- to be given out. the way this will work is the congressional leaders will come in first, that will give us a rough 2-minute warning to when the vice president will come out, he will speak for ten minutes, then he will introduce the president. on top of what you just talked b.bret, is the fact that a ...

Year or more that the president was talking about health care, he is speaking as what is known as the conditional tense, action that might take place. this moment, this speech, the president shifted to what grammarians call future tense, what is that, action sure to happen in the near future. through the unlikely prism, trace, of english grammar we get an insight into the politics, conditional and application of power, future change, and there in his speech, we have an historic day for americans...

Have tried to get health care, comprehensive health care reform through in one way or another, and while there is tremendous controversy over this particular piece of legislation, and as youve talked about, legal challenges to come, and republicans saying how is it going to be paid for, what is it going to do to generations to come, this is a huge win for the administration, and make no mistake about it, this signing is the beginning of a p.r. effort that this administration will make to go arou...

Have insurance will be insured. and subsidized by the federal government. so the question becomes on this bill that will become law when the president signs it, will the benefits that kick in right away be enough for the american people to sustain them until 2014, to where the substance, all of the package, goes into play. thats the give and take. the benefit, will people see it and feel it, because the people, the 32 million, 16 million of them will be put on medicaid in 2014, and obviously, th...