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This isnt a rule that just affects power plants or businesses. its going to affect every american as it takes affect. >> right. this is -- what theyre doing in the past, the epa has always regulated power plants, heavy industry. here theyre going outside the fence line, which is a technical term, but means these apply to the entire state, it applies to consumers, small businesses, basically everybody. so they say not -- not only cut back on coal-fired power and natural gas, but have all kinds of...

Eight minutes after the hour. all right, later this morning we could find out more about the threats facing the u.s. from overseas. lawmakers will be briefed on the latest world dangers and the impact of the edward snowden leaks by the director of national intelligence, james clapper, along with the directors of the cia and the fbi, all appearing before the house intelligence committee. after three years of haggling, congress is poised to pass a new farm bill. the measure just cleared its la...

The country. on the other side is the argument that, look, if you allow this, if you allow congress to force people to buy a product from a private company, theres no stopping them. they can require you to buy only american cars because the economy needs it. they could require you to buy only health foods because we dont want you to get fat and become a drag on the public coffers because youre getting sick and a drag on the health care industry. so thats the problem. and i think there is somewha...

Care and social security. >> paul, so the court of public opinion is changing ever so slightly. weve got these nine appellate judges who have upheld the health care law. three ruled it constitutional. the white house is saying now we know the affordable care act is constitutional and are confident the supreme court will agree. and we just heard from pete williams earlier in this hour thats a supreme court will give 5 1/2 hours dedicated to hear the sides on this. so any clues from your legal opi...

Beast." his new article appears this week in "newsweek." explain to all of us so we can understand, the sort of handouts were about to investigate here, how did they all get uncovered and how much are we talking about? >> this is about $30 billion annually that goes to the top of that half 1%. senator tom coburn of oklahoma asked the irs for some of the data to look at how much money was going. half of this is direct payments and programs like social security, agriculture payments, conservation ...

ill get a live update from tripoli. in china, vice president joe biden says the u.s. will never default on its debt. ill have more on what hes saying about the u.s. economy just ahead. and for many members. u.s. military, returning home is just not complete. well, until they get a heros welcome from mans best friend. their dog. a very special welcome to all the servicemen and women who are watching us right now on the armed forces network. lets get right to it. we begin with liby...

of the turmoil on wall street has been triggered by fears over the european debt crisis and the anemic economies. and richard quest, one of the best people to turn to when we want perspective on the global economy. he joins us from london. what happened in the european markets today? >> reporter: the europeans went down initially and then down further and they rallied with wall street. we closed down 1% in london, and paris 1%, and frankfurt, once again the german market is being cream...

Eisenhower. now some of the savings will come through less waste and more efficiency. to take just one example, well give -- well save billions of dollars by getting rid of 14,000 office buildings, lots, and government-owned properties that we no longer need. and to make sure special interests are not larding up legislation with special projects, ive pledged to veto any bills that contain earmarks. still, even as we cut waste and inefficiency, this budget freeze will also require us to make some...

And more efficiency, to take just one example, well give -- well save billions of dollars by getting rid of 14,000 office buildings, lots, and government-owned properties we no longer need, and make sure special interests are not larding up legislation with special projects, i pledged to veto any bills that contain earmarks. still, even as we cut waste and inefficiency, this budget freeze will also require us to make some tough choices. it will mean freezing the salaries of hard working federal ...

In terms of, melanie, mitigating potential damage to the environment, what are you local, state, federal resources, how successful are you in potentially mitigating the damage? >> its hard to tell. i mean, everybodys putting forth heroic efforts, and the louisiana coastal initiative is a program, a conservation program with the national autobahn society, and the national autobahn society is trying to mitigate immediate damages to monitor for long-term recovery of population, as this gets cleaned...