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The countrys largest private employer dared d.c. lawmakers to call their bluff today. executives and lobbyists from walmart issued the following threat to d.c. councilmembers. try to force us to pay our employees a living wage, we wont build a store in the d.c. area. promising to cancel plans for three of six stores planned for the district. it felt like walmart was sticking guns to councilmembers heads. still, the d.c. council held their ground and voted 8-5 this afternoon to require retailers ...

Would it hurt job growth in the area, yes, if you have a wal-mart backing away. that is why they backed away from new york city because new york city tried to push forward a living wage too. >> neil: is eight bluff on walmarts part? >> no, its not a bluff. this is big planet. there are three cities in china, its a legitimate thing. these guys are destroying it. its a steppingstone. >> why doesnt say the president, hey, raise your wages after the fact. let walmart build and then go in there, your...

Negotiation is incredible. >> given the current political situation and the relationship between the administration and karzai, i would say right now its not a bluff and that it is on the table. and if given the opportunity, the administration will pull out of afghanistan sooner rather than later. >> the "new york times" story that launched all the tongues wags here in washington, as attention according to the "new york times"s, the u.s. is now prepared for zero troops in afghanistan. all 61,000...

News a recent video conference call between the two leaders was, quote: an unmitigated disaster. and the "new york times" newspaper reports president obama is now looking for closely at the so-called zero option. in other words, get every single troop out of there after next year. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight. whats the thinking about whether this is a bluff or some sort of trial balloon or what? >> well, shepard, congressman buck mckean who heads the house services committee issu...

>> the most likely scenario is david and tiffany hartley had wandered into a drug war and were mistaken as the enemy. >> reporter: zapata county sheriff sigi gonzalez now believes the hartleys not only wandered into a war but had arrived on the mexican side of falcon lake at the exact moment a cartel was about to move a large amount of marijuana. up on a bluff the spotters, his sources told him, caught the first glimpse of a possible glitch in the drug deal. >> that area is an area thats notorio...

He sent out a tweet showing himself in jogging shorts and announcing he was moving on to the, quote, next leg of the marathon, the south carolina primary. but perry was doing so badly he didnt even meet the trishhold cry tear for inclusion in the debate on cnn. cnn waived the rules and decided to let him in anyway. but then the day of the big debate came and he decided not to show up and instead dropped out of the race and endorsed newt gingrich. somebody did the math and spent $16 million on th...

Janga on lunch break. >> what about jay carney over there he has a worse bluff than marty feldman holding pocket aces. >> always got this time of year. >> that cat blows more smoke than a death rattle. couple more weeks like this obama is going to be claiming is he kenyan. i dont want to say anything but they asked the white house dog bo to change his name to checkers this week. [dog barking] >> do you remember obama telling us this is when the oceans start to recede you know why bs is less dens...

>> you cant take out a gun and shoot and kill someone. ? if its true, how many times would you let your head be pounded into the cement if it happened that way? two, three? >> but look, i wouldnt summa -- assume an african-american kid walking around in my neighborhood was up to no good, follow him against the advice of police. >> sure. those are all part of the story. but youre the lawyer. what is the criminal charge here, murder two. what has that got to do with his mindset ten minutes before?...

George zimmerman had a bluff from the lead investigator who said we have a videotape of this incident. turns out there is no videotape of the incident but zimmerman responded with elation. he was so hopeful. he said, oh, im so glad. i hope there is a videotape. he pointed out some video cameras in the community he hoped would lead them to a videotape. does that tell you something? >> whats it tell you? >> that he thinks that his story is true. whether its true or not, when he says trayvon martin...

Because a finding of murder two is a finding he intentionally took this life with a depraved mind. can i tell you about this piece of evidence that nobodys talking about that i think is important? george zimmerman had a bluff from the lead investigator who said we have a videotape of this incident. turns out there is no videotape of the incident but zimmerman responded with elation. he was so hopeful. he said, oh, im so glad. i hope there is a videotape. he pointed out some video cameras in the ...