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Still confusion, there is still chaos in the white house over exactly what happened in benghazi, exactly why a u.s. ambassador was killed, and yet he stepped in front of that story when i suspect the more we look at the situation, willie, the worse its going to look for the president. >> they looked at it in the short term as a political moment of opportunity and didnt think about the long-term impact of it. another interesting thing yesterday, joe, is the raising of the massachusetts health c...

Struggling for almost two minutes in the middle of a 500-foot-wide river. >> come on, man. >> matthew buford is losing strength. for the first time his head slips under the water. there seems to be no official rescue response. what would you do? what would the bystanders do? should they risk their lives for someone who might not want to be saved? >> and then all of a sudden he went under and i turned around to look and garrett was gone. >> theres somebody out there coming. >> garrett couples, th...

Back up, bring your hands down. >> after two years in the orange county jail, clarence butterfield has seen a dramatic change in his day-to-day life. hes now in the second week of his murder trial. >> pretty long days, though. im kind of tired. now its like, what time is it by the way, 8:00, 9:00? my watch is broken. i have to get this thing fixed. im sorry. >> thats okay. >> i have to start being serious one of these days. >> but his day in court had a serious side. butterfields other adult chi...

We do have emergency procedures available. we have not put any of those in place at this time. >> yee allegedly mentioned the shooting would be like the aurora, colorado, massacre. he is being held on $1 million bail. and a line of fierce storms is making its way up the east coast. flooding rains and strong winds struck all along the heavy populated i-95 corridor. >> tornado watches were in effect until just a short time ago in new york state, including here in new york city. thousands of peop...

Tough hes going to be. >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we dont have any idea what he wants to do or which policies hes going to support. we saw the stock market go up 200 points today. romney is allegedly running on the economy. well, for most people, the economy isnt the unemployment figures. the economy is two things, your house value, and your 401(k). housing values are going back up, and the market is almost back to where it was almost four years ago, so the one thing that he ...

The president wasnt helping out that i think harry reids chief of staff essentially took the president aside and lectured him. what do you mean there is no plan b? what do you mean the united states government doesnt have a back up plan? also its revealed that at one point, nancy pelosi had the president on the speaker phone, put him on mute. and at one point when they were talk being coming up with something, i understand harry reid and also john boehner essentially asked the president to leave...

For this week as we move out of tampa. on we go, huh? >> martha: all right, president obama heading to louisiana, tomorrow to get a first hand look at the damage from hurricane isaac. some areas, obviously had a harder time than others in terms of bouncing back from the storm, more than 400,000 people are without electricity. severe flooding is preventing thousands of people from returning to their homes. casey steegel has been live on the scene throughout the storm and hurricane and is in new o...

On cares about the need of people that like you, 12 points above honesty. he needs to narrow those things down. the karl rove, haley barbour argument, you dont have to be super popular and likable but can have an incumbent with that kind of advantage on leadership qualities and win. >> do we make too much of the likability question? is that something people vote on? president obama, you know, some people may object to his economic policies, economy is not going the way they want it to but they l...

And more special interest trying to gain an edge because washington is going to grow ever bigger under his watch, and the feeding of the trough will never stop. thats the difference between us and what the other side is trying to do. we want to stop that. >> sean: as you look at numbers, because the one thing i always think about -- already, we borrow 40 cents of every dollar we spend. when we think of our kids and grandkids, do you really think america could become greece? are we reaching a poi...

Gotten back up -- power supplies. in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. so, that so far seems to be working. our thanks to the reporter, from the new orleans "times picayune." this time last year, the hurricane making news was irene. battered the caribbean and east coast more than a week killing at least 67 people. from the carolinas, up to canada, rivers and roads were flooded. power knocked out. and hundreds of thousand of people were displaced. irenes trail of destruction estimated to be...