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♪ g serious conversations about the im mri indication of a fiscal cliff. it is really going to come down to this election. the lines have been drawn. this week in the senate barack obamas tax hike proposal was brought up and passed on a party line vote. >> that is house majority leader eric holder. is he right that lines have been drawn over the budget? you bet he is. and while congress debates, mayors in cities across the country are already feeling the pinch, h...

already knows how to roll over. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> jennifer: more sad news. the university of colorado confirmed that before james holmes committed his grizzly crime he sent a package to a psychiatrist at the medical campus. in it he laid out his plans in details. tragically the doctor did not receive that package in time to stop him. there has also been renewed calls to stop such strategies from happening in the future. just a few minutes ago the president told the national ur...

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> jennifer: more sad news. the university of colorado confirmed that before james holmes committed his grizzly crime he sent a package to a psychiatrist at the medical campus. in it he laid out his plans in details. tragically the doctor did not receive that package in time to stop him. there has also been renewed calls to stop such strategies from happening in the future. just a few minutes ago the president told the national urban league that ak-47s belong in...

millions into the political system. guns and money, meet angry and motivated. ♪ as the nation picks up the pieces following the tragic shooting in aurora last week there are renewed calls for tighter gun-control regulation even from gun owners themselves. a new poll out today from republican pollster frank luntz shows that 71% of nra members believe people on the terrorist watch list should not have guns. thats 80% of all gun owners. 75% of nra members believe that those convicted ...

>> wake up! wake up, wake up, wake up! up you wake, up you wake! >> jennifer: progressives, just like samuel l. jackson did in the spike lee film, do the right thing im calling you to wake the heck up. many of you assume that everybody thinks like we do so maybe you decide you dont have to get active because obviously the presidents going to win or maybe you dont like one of his policies so youre going to protest by sitting this election out. let me tell you sitting it out is going to ...

patriot, to be poe pro-american? the "daily beast" ran a great article today praising the presidents ad where mitt romney sings "america the beautiful" over the images of the cayman islands and switzerland empty factories. the author noted that mitt romney and republicans and tea party patriots really embraced the flag but then they turn around disrespect it by doing things that are decidedly unpatriotic. the author wrote being a good american means doing whats ...

>> jennifer: the crowd at president obamas rally in san antonio, texas today had a message for his opponent yelling "show us your taxes"! and as weve reported, it is not just democrats. there is a growing chorus of republicans clamoring for mitt romney to release his tax returns already! and romneys response? hes just not into it. in fact, 16 high-level republicans have recently called on him to show us his papers! today, ron paul and texas governor rick perry and -- where is ron paul,...

>> jennifer: we have breaking news tonight that mitt romneys role at bain capital may have been more significant and lasted longer than he had originally claimed. we have uncovered documents that reveal that he was actively involved in bain capital businesses even though he claimed that he retired from the private equity company in 1999. current tv has learned that mitt romney was the 100% stakeholder in 11 bain capital entities later than 1999. he signed a document in 2003, right here...

boat. you live next door to someone for so long and you dont know it and then all of a sudden, you start talking about it. hey, you too? and yeah. >> a couple of months, havent paid the mortgage, struggling to decide to pay it or to not because if you dont pay it for a couple of months then you go into the >> jennifer: thats a moment from the powerful new documentary hard times lost on long island. which is collision airing on hbo. hb on. on demand and hbo go. s...

>> obama: we cant satisfied because our goal was never to just keep working to get back to where we were in 2007. i want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to getting to middle class have some basic security. thats our goal. we got to grow the economy even faster. we got to put any more people back to work. [applause] >> jennifer: thats president obama at a campaign stop in poland ohio, today reacting to junes anemic jobs report. and according to the dep...