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preplanned this attack for several weeks. >> people need to place to go when theyre going to do harm. >> neil: people making sense of that awful attack on innocence. were learning a little more about the alleged shooter. lets get the latest from mike tobin ahead of authorities giving us an update as well in highland park. mike? >> neil, the very sad detail today is that another of the shooting victims as you mentioned succumbed to the victories. the death total here from the highland p...

Important is it that elizabeth warren run that? >> it is essential to the bill and very, very important that elizabeth warren be appointed. first, understand that the consumer protection function is important on two levels. first, it will protect consumers. until yesterday when the president signed the bill, consumer protection was assigned in the united states government to the bank regulators for whom it was an afterthought. their primary job was whether it was the federal reserve or controlle...

And today treasury secretary tim geithner praised ms. warren. everything we do in this area should be subject to brutal, independent evaluation, mr. geithner said. and she has played a role in that. finally, now that the deficit heavy bush tax cuts are close to expiration, some democrats are calling for their extension. the tax cuts would expire at the end of this year. lets bring in the chairman of the house financial services committee, congressman barney frank, whose bill, the consumer prot...

In the financial reform bill. and today treasury secretary tim geithner praised ms. warren. everything we do in this area should be subject to brutal, independent evaluation, mr. geithner said. and she has played a role in that. finally, now that the deficit heavy bush tax cuts are close to expiration, some democrats are calling for their extension. the tax cuts would expire at the end of this year. lets bring in the chairman of the house financial services committee, congressman barney frank ...