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in the room. and a source says only the oldest wife spoke. defense secretary robert gates says he is going to pump up security around the navy s.e.a.l. team that took out bin laden. gates says that the s.e.a.l.s are concerned about their safety and the safety of their families because details of the raid have been made public. rain today across the mississippi delta is only adding to the flood misery. the national weather service says the mississippi river is at the highest level e...

Reducing tax subsidies, to corporations, i dont nowr know how we can take them seriously on any of the deficit reduction. >> senator, i want to show you a clip from one of the welfare queens in the senate de, rex tillerson. he had the nerve to threaten us. >> you give me a different tax burden than my competitor, im going to take my capital, since the u.s. is not attractive, ive got to go somewhere else. >> he wasnt the only one. two other ceos said ill leave the u.s. i say, god bless, go to som...

Floor pretty quickly. you cant say we need to cut our deficit, but we wont tough big oil. i think it will be an uncomfortable vote. if not, well figure out the next best strategy to get it passed. i think its pretty important we stay on this one until we get it done. >> all right. senator clair mccaskill, thank you for joining us. >>ç thank you. joining me is john hoffmeister, the founder of citizens for affordable energy and author of "why we hatele the oil companies." great having you here...

exxon mobil, for example, had an effective tax rate. three points less than what the average, and youre paying a higher tax rate than the richest company in the world. does that sound fair to you? senator chuck schumer also grilled a conoco phillips kreismt on about the company statement that opposing the oil subsidies was, quote, un-american. >> do you think anyone who advocates cutting these subsidies is un-american? >> thats a very important could, make a comment or two to respond. ...

So, than their more liberal colleagues and if you look at clair mccaskill, in missouri, she clearly has a re-election problem, in this -- and the issue is a big one but look at somebody like mark warner from virginia. he is not up for relook but is clearly a democratic moderate, who has fiscal concerns, and i -- hes going to want to see something potentially done with the debt ceiling hike. and that doesnt have to do with re-election but if you want to look at others, there is ben nelson in nebr...

>> jamie: rebel fighters praising nato for the blow to the leaders family and it cannot be independently confirmed, but nato insists all of its targets are military in nature. welcome to americas news headquarters. im jamie colby. >> eric: and im eric sean, brand new video from the ground, showing heavy damage to the building in tripoli and nato saying it was a command and control building, and, they claim they are not targeting muammar qaddafi. or members of his family. this reports s...

How far do they extend? if you listen to the president, the reason hes taken on republicans on the debt ceiling so hard here is because they know republicans are going to blink. they know corporate backers. they know john boehner has said the debt ceiling will be raised. theyre going to have to raise the debt ceiling anyway. its going to be raised, so why give up so much now, could spending caps be out there in some form? yeah, probably if theres enough sensors who want this to happen, there isn...

On the protests and think think suddenly emerged out of nothing. they group over time as republicans, as the republican media found they could fuel these things. they pitched picked up their own steam, and as we debate this whole republican package. >> now, speaking of the package, i do want to ask you again about the cap act we talked to congressman mcdermott about that. that seems to be what the republicans are pushing, which would be a hard cap on spending. if they reach that cap, theyve got ...

have a disabled child. i dont want to make that trade-off. >> those are good fighting words. all right. here we go. and now the simmering outrage is also boiling over at local events. every day we get new reports of republican lawmakers getting grilled by voters in their home districts over plans to privatize medicare and on their plans to reduce taxes for the risk. chick out what happened to congressman shawn duffy. i dont want to penalize businesses. i want to encourage them to come ...

another shooting at a gas this time... a man is shot and killed in parkville.its the second gas station shooting in just 3 days. days.a customer was shot and killed early yesterday morning. the customer was pronounced dead at the scene.surveillance cameras are set up all around the station, but a workerr tells us they wwrent actually working at the time of the shooting.friday morning, police say a worker at the carroll fuel gas station on the baltimore national piie survived being sh...