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Schehenandoah, iowa. we apologize in advance. its in rural america. the cell phone connection isnt all that great. we want to try this. chris, good to have you with us tonight. i want to know, whats the reaction of the gingrich campaign with the polls that are out, especially the one from nbc news, confirming that hes on the slide? wheres the confidence level right now, chris? >> well, newt is really blaming the attack ads that are gone against him over the past several days. you certainly notic...

>> well, this end of mission ser knowneny is under way right now and what this signifies is the closing of the u.s. military command here. this is the official -- this is officially called the casing of the the colors ceremony. that means, after right now and just a few minutes ago, the american military command flag was taken down. that means the u.s. military command in iraq is closed. now, what happens next is going to depend a lot on the iraqi people and many iraqis are concerned that sectar...

>> greece cant do that, many people fear it would then go bankrupt. it would be very, very difficult for the euro to survive, greece to survive in the euro if it goes bankrupt. banks could stop lending to each other, recession could come back to europe and especially in that -- the u.s. market just think what happened after lehman brothers collapsed in 2008. >> jim boldin, thanks so much. analysts say a bankrupt greece would also drag the economies of european countries beginning with ...

New york city is desperate for people to speak english. ever take a cab in this city? you have got to speak farsi if you want to go -- they dont know. if you speak english they want you in the cab. thats 50 grand. yeah, you got to drive around and work. they dont want to do that. >> thank god im fluent in farsi. if you opened up a job out there, you would see con trails heading away from that park. >> bill: there is no way. herman cain, since this is absolutely true. since miller endorsed herman...

New york city is desperate for people to speak english. ever take a cab in this city? you have got to speak farsi if you want to go -- they dont know. if you speak english they want you in the cab. thats 50 grand. yeah, you got to drive around and work. they dont want to do that. >> thank god im fluent in farsi. if you opened up a job out there, you would see con trails heading away from that park. >> bill: there is no way. herman cain, since this is absolutely true. since miller endorsed herman...

New york city is desperate for people to speak english. ever take a cab in this city? you have got to speak farsi if you want to go -- they dont know. if you speak english they want you in the cab. thats 50 grand. yeah, you got to drive around and work. they dont want to do that. >> thank god im fluent in farsi. if you opened up a job out there, you would see con trails heading away from that park. >> bill: there is no way. herman cain, since this is absolutely true. since miller endorsed herman...

Slump. >> reporter: but president obama in his latest proposal to congress dropped earlier proposals to do exactly that, increase the age of eligibility for medicare. another witness said u.s. debt is so far out of control that it must be contained. >> weve had $5 trillion of decifit spending since 2006, the most enormous keynesian stimulus you can imagine. i think congress should turn its attention to major spending cuts as soon as we can. >> reporter: now, he argued that congress should turn t...

phillips. two stories facing our political future. barack obama will unveil his plan to create jobs and his same own job may be on the line. mitt romney and rick perry faced off in a national debate. jim acosta has the story lines for that. also this hour, my interviews with two very different members of congress republican joe walsh who is boycotting the presidents speech and democrat maxine waters who is invoicesing her own skepticism. we will hear from her in about 15 minutes. a...

official that he will be unveiling his job plan when congress returns in september. they return early september after labor day. a senior administration official billing this as a major speech and telling us that this is likely to be a mix of tax cuts, of infrastructure spending, and something to address those that are the long-term unemployed. the thing to consider, kyra, all of those things laid out there are items republicans are flatly opposed to or opposed to the way in which the ...

affecting our kids. max page. or should i call him mini darth vader. you remember max page. we introduced you to him last we week. he is 6 years old and on his third pacemaker. he took capitol hill by storm this week. max and his family came to washington with a group of kids to put the pressure on lawmakers. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> to protect medicaid coverage for children and preserve funding for the programs that train half of the pediatr...