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Talking about? a man who will be the next president of the united states, barack america. three letter word, jobs, j-o-b-s. >> i dont know, im getting four letters, not three. as tired as joe biden at a deficit speech. the job of the vice president is to go to weddings and funerals. that is a great idea. lets send joe biden to a bunch of events that take place in churches with no air conditioning. that will wake him up. were adding that snoring sound. maybe we should ae mend the job description....

Hes not dropping f bombs into an open mike, asking a disabled state senator stand up, messing up his bosss name, or trying to account for foreign failing. behold the greatest gaffes of joe "lullaby" biden, the awake years. >> this is a big [ bleep ] deal. >> chuck. stand up, chuck. let them see you. oh, god love you. what am i talking about? >> a man who will be the next president of the united states, barack america -- >> a three-letter word. jobs. j-o-b-s. jobs. >> three-letter word. j-o-b-s. ...

Live in the egyptian capital. ivan? >> reporter: for nearly 30 years hosni mubarak was the president of egypt. now hes been detained for 15 days in connection with the deaths of hundreds of protesters during egypts revolution. more for you at the top of the hour. >> reporter: it all started when this woman disappeared nearly a year ago. im allan chernoff in jones beach, new york. ill have the latest in the search for her body. >> reporter: im dan lothian at the white house. bush era tax cuts bac...

Fully aware of the deep divide on the tax issue and on some of the issues regarding the future of medicare. but that doesnt mean theres not an awful lot we can work together on. i think thats what the coming weeks are about. even if we cant agree on everything, we should agree on what the size of the problem is, we should agree on the pieces of it we can agree on, and put a mechanism in place that keeps the political process focused. >> jack lew, thank you. >> thank you. ahead for us tonight, ...

>> hes still from akron. >> hs still from akron. thank you both. >> cant undo that. >> thank you both for joining us. trivia time, we asked only two u.s. governors have ever been successfully recalled. we told you one, governor gray davis. well, the very first one was lynn frazier, governor of north dakota. he was recalled in 1921. and you know that it is unconstitutional to recall a united states senator. >> right. if it were not -- >> imagine if it were not. >> -- i think wed have this probl...

Highlight ways where the president essentially had to give some ground on that. and thats kind of laying the battlefield yet again before a new debate starts. >> all right. kelly odonnell on capitol hill for us this morning. thank you, kelly. well, the president does not have to start from scratch with this deficit speech. he appointed a commission to study the deficit problems but so far has not enthusiastically embraced that commissions recommendations. this is a point chuck raised with him ...

Specific the president will be about where to cut, how to cut, what goes and what stays. >> savannah, there is any concern in the white house that they have made expectations so high for this speech and its coming after the presidents already had a couple of shots at this and he stiff armed his own commission, he didnt put out any of these serious choices in his own budget earlier this year, there is any fearç in th white house that this could land like a thud and disappoint folks? >> reporter...

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