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Over a million dollars with your entities. owned by you. i dont know 100% owned by you, but i presume. owned by you, over 1.6. you said it was 300,000, it was a million six. whats the difference? >> whats the gross revenue at bain capital? >> very substantial. but i think thats beside the fact that you were working for freddie mac? >> you didnt do any work with the government, medicare, medicaid? >> we didnt do any work for the government. i didnt have an office on k street. ive never worked in ...

Im going to be one of these conservatives thats going to come in here and do maybe what anybody else on this stage wouldnt do. richard, what did you think when he said that? >> well, he tried hard and often to point out how long his conservative record was, and personally, i find it kind of crazy when he has to go back to goldwater or every other sentence is reagan. when you stand that up against mitt romney, youre looking at a big contract. when romney tries to show how conservative he is, he h...

I think it was a pretty smart strategy. >> romney gained some openings tonight. he played presidential demeanor, is what he did. heres mitt romneys answer to immigration. its another new one. here we go. >> governor romney, theres one thing im confused about. you say you dont want to go and round up people and deport them, but you also say they would have to go back to their home countries and then apply for citizenship. if you dont deport them, how do you send them home? >> the answer is self-d...

Brief period. >> the commercial that romney has taken out right now is saying it paid him $1.7 million, so if you go 25 grand a month, my math is telling me a little over six years. isnt it? >> that couldnt work because -- i think that goes -- i think the contract was before that. im pretty sure from what i read the contract was during the period of republican control. gingrich is forced out of the house by his -- unsuccessful speaker. >> is this a problem for gingrich, in your opinion? >> it wo...

Facts that in 2007, when the democrats took over, thats when fannie and freddie got regulated -- could i just make one point -- if you look at that contract, i bet they stopped paying him when the democrats came into power and they paid him while the republicans were in power, and lets look at the facts. hes getting paid by freddie mac. they gave him a lot of rhetoric about being paid by freddie, but in 2012, a deal will happen that freddie wont want. >> this was in 2006, a year of mid-terms jus...

You know, this is completely amazing. thank you, everyone. >> heather: she wants to be a marine biologist and the family moved into a shelter on january 1st after they were evicted because the parents and nursing assistant, cab driver couldnt work after a car accident. and now she and her brother and sister all have a home to live in. >> gregg: good news. outrage over mass pardons in mississippi. including four murderers and one robber freed by former governor haley barbour, the victims families...

Minority leader, republican leader, managed to have his caucus divided and reed keeps his together? >> i mean, this is pure victory for harry read and its a democratic strategy and to hold the vote again and again and against to force republicans to say, we renews to tax millionaires so democrats could run on this next year and include the pressure of working and you have some of the republicans, deciding that theyre not going to go on the record against these sort of-- these tax hikes, so, this...

Minority leader, republican leader, managed to have his caucus divided and reed keeps his together? >> i mean, this is pure victory for harry read and its a democratic strategy and to hold the vote again and again and against to force republicans to say, we renews to tax millionaires so democrats could run on this next year and include the pressure of working and you have some of the republicans, deciding that theyre not going to go on the record against these sort of-- these tax hikes, so, this...

The people were given the kind of opportunity that has never been in power given to 12 people in the history of the united states. they didnt take the opportunity. none of them had tough re-election campaigns. none of them had any particular pressure on them. they could not have dealt with. yet, they buckled. the democrats did not come forward with the entitlement cuts which have to happen. republicans if they stick with this, no taxes were going nowhere. i blame the republicans more than democr...

Scientists may be on the verge of a cure for hepatitis c. that according to two new medical studies. more than 3 million americans suffer from this contagious liver disease but a new class of medications could bring hope for the future. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now with details. >> good morning, christine. hepatitis c kills 12,000 people a year, and doctors have really just been desperate for new treatments because the treatments out there couldnt work very well. wha...