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♪ caller >> and now, here is a look at some of the state dinner guests as they arrive through the east wing and make their way through the booksellers area of the white house. ambassador rahon [unintelligibl] >> mr. stephen palmer and mrs. connie palmer. the hon. mr. robert [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [indistinct chatter] mr. steve wesley and mrs. leo wesley. [unintelligible] chan.ck the ch andie -- mr. jackie chan. >> are you going to show them any moves in there? >> no...

with more. >> thank goods were not in minnesota where they -- goodness were not in minnesota where they have had temperatures all day below 0, this morning starting off 40 below 0 actual air temperature, but that is the source region for our cold air. well stay cold this weekend and remain cold for several days, too. lets go over and show you some temperatures right now, dropping in the city down to 22, gaithersburg 18, dulles 19 degrees, still a little wind out there and when temperat...

and the end. if you actually track his telegram, they occasionally fact strongly. when he leaves in 2004 he is optimistic, not pessimistic. and interesting piece of evidence was given to general debt and who said when he went out in 2005 he went out on the basis that things would be in the right direction. two years after we were in there. any planning problems or bureaucracy issues that we could have resolved. the problem he goes on to say, terms of duty straddled that period, suddenl...

Senators. im looking at it on balance, and on tuesday morning when i woke up, there were 23 democrats, and i counted joe lieberman as one, because he functions as one, that were up for re-election in 2012 in the senate. by the time i woke up yesterday morning, there were only 21. were watching the shift over there right now. and i think there are six or seven or eight democrats that are in a position where they might well vote to repeal obamacare. and so i predicted about 2 1/2 weeks ago that if...

Something else, or, you know, in one of those other moving vehicles. senator dodd said that is possible. i think senator mcconnell will do everything he can to find a way to get it to the floor, which will mean, at least, congressman king, that senators will be put on record as being willing to vote to allow it to go forward or not. it will have to get past a 60-vote threshold at least to move forward on the floor. so you will have some sort of at least indirect vote on repeal, i think, on the s...

Program last night, when i asked him, is it possible in those loose rules of the senate for this thing to somehow get to the senate floor, as an amendment to something else, or, you know, in one of those other moving vehicles. senator dodd said that is possible. i think senator mcconnell will do everything he can to find a way to get it to the floor, which will mean, at least, congressman king, that senators will be put on record as being willing to vote to allow it to go forward or not. it will...

the world, and i think that that has happened and you cannot have been a peace corps volunteer and lived the life on the ground that we all lived all over the world, and have been a part anything that has been in the helines in the last few days. it just doesnt exist that way. and im sorry that some of those lessons are being lost. i wanted to remember -- sargent shriver has been responsible for giving so many of us our greatest moments in life, those of us who were peace corps volunte...

>> a lot of great news for the president. >> what do you say from the president, that the president is officially running for re-election? >> i think its likely that thats going to happen. >> president obamas lake duck boost has the white house feeling optimistic. >> hes being rewarded for that lame-duck period. >> for the first time, its almost like he got rid of the health care weight. >> he certainly ignored jobs for a long time, but did some things right in the beginning. >> but vo...

that is moving in the wrong direction. >> reporter: hell make up the gap with $940 million in spending cuts. some state facilities will close, and several state agencies will be merged. >> our fiscal challenges are the result primarily right now of this prolonged national recession. >> reporter: in the next 25 years, maryland faces $18 billion in unfunded pension costs. to preserve the public pension the governor is proposing to increase out of pocket costs for current retirees and the...

the white house and michele bachmann. >> a lot of great news for the president. >> what do you say from the podium that the president is officially running for re-election? >> i think its likely that thats going to happen. >> president obamas lake duck boost has the white house feeling optimistic. >> hes being rewarded for that lame-duck period. >> for the first time, its almost like he got rid of the health care weight. >> he certainly ignored jobs for a long time, but did some things...