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their jobs. thats what happened at the kansas city steel mill thats the focus of the new obama campaign ad. featuring workers who say that mitt romney and his company ruined their lives. take a look. >> having a good paying job that you can support and raise a family on is hugely important. >> that stopped with the sale of the bane capital. >> i know how business works. i know why businesses come and go. >> bain capital was the majority owner. they were responsible. mitt romney was dee...

Ineligible to vote voted in large numbers in the 2008 election. >> how did he reach that conclusion? they compared two data bases from computer. first people who voted the second people charged with felonies. that search turned up hundreds of names. the minnesota majority suspected were felons who voted illegally. by then the state supreme court already declared frank enthe winner by a razor thin margin of 312 votes. >> the story wasnt over for ana mcgrath with his long list of people suspected ...

Happiness. how did you measure it? >> we worked with three huge data bases to find the happiest region or country on the four continents. when you look at the data points and do the correlations, what sorts of characteristics travel around with the happiest nations, you find that number one, gdp is a pretty weak predictor of happiness. at least for poor countries. what correlates most strongly to happiness is trust, tolerance, short ladder between the richest and poorest, and how well a nation i...

Programs. we will get into examples in a program. how are they able to monitor kids information? >> what happened is a texas two-step. the federal law prohibits the federal government from collecting housing data bases on student information. we are talking about highly personal information. but where theres a will, theres a way around the constitution, and around statutory prohibitions i suppose is the thinking. so in the 2009 stimulus bill, what congress said was that if a state wants stimulus...

program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. >> id like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. im just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. >> the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney a...

Certify whether they have a significant tax delinquency. that requirement is deterring tax delinquents getting federal contracts. skeptics wonder if companies that havent paid taxes have any real hesitation about signing a piece of paper falsely representing they have. analysts say the current data bases need to be cleaned up and coordinated so agents can find out if a company that comes looking for taxpayer money is up to date on the own obligation. >> we need better data, better oversight and ...

They knew what the outside looked like. well tell you how they managed to get in there and figure out what to do once they got inside. its 53 minutes after the hour. >> its quiet in professor jings lab. dont be fooled. his team is hard at work, using computer keystrokes in the fight against crime. >> we are working in the area called biometric recognition. goal is to identify a person based on body character tests, could be fingerprints, face. >> matching data bases helps shrink the pool of susp...

Growing. this is the vault. these servers hold vast data bases containing at last count 24 million records of lost or stolen travel documents. and more than 100,000 dna records. the dna data base didnt even exist before 9/11. interpols headquarters is the gate keeper of this vast data bank. the information arrives in the global members, its pooled and then deployed where its needed most. that happens up here in the command center under the watchful eye of the assistant director emmanuel laclair....

By the way we should be glad about raising revenue, given the budget situation, the deficit situation we have in our country and thats what these people do is collect revenue. >> stuart: all right, charlie, what do you say? >> im going to skip this for a second because i dont want to be audited. (laughter) >> just dont call them names. >> stuart: and have a name and-- >> thugs, irs, now weve added 5,000 more, im only kidding. i agree we need a flatter tax code and some of this is the result of t...

1,000 cases of misconduct over the last three years. many are highlighted right here in confidential summearies of disciplinary disorders. why many of the employees didnt lose their jobs? including a sex tape, sleeping with informants, tapping into fbi data bases for unauthorized searches. viewing pornography on bureau computers. even driving drunk. we went to the president of the fbi agents association. it was pretty appalling, reading some of the acts of misconduct. is that ever acceptable? no...