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Tonight, more than 2,000 former players are part of the largest class action lawsuit in sports history. the plaintiffs say the national football league created and covered up unsafe working conditions. the lawsuit filed today says the nfl concealed information related to head injuries in football and in connection no long-term brain damage. it says the nfl deliberately and fraudulently misled players about the link between brain damage and concussions. the league said in a statement today, any a...

david axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders faux rasmussen and the exit of afghanistan. and chewing over the week with jeff zell mi and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." vice president biden questioned mitt romneys bu...

axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen on the exit of afghanistan. and chewing over the week with jeff zeleny of "the new york times" and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while vice president biden ...

Would go a long way. >> dana: if i were graduating today i think the advice i would give is go overseas. go an do something. not just volunteering but go and learn something. when you come back you will be a much more attractive employee to a potential employer if you have experience and shown you have gone and done something a lived in a different cometure and you can bring it back to your country. >> bob: people in the peace corps with me, every one of them came back and bot good jobs. we work...

Grow the middle class. its way to grow a lot of things isnt it? here is paul ryan explaining why he would not consider closing corporate tax loopholes to offset student loans. >> wuld you support closing corporate tax o loopholes to pay for that? >> nope. well i support closing tax loopholes for tax reform. let because thats more spending. lets cut spending that is lower priority spending to address it. >> theres the thought leader of the republican party when it comes to the budget. he is peddl...

>> dana: if i were graduating today i think the advice i would give is go overseas. go an do something. not just volunteering but go and learn something. when you come back you will be a much more attractive employee to a potential employer if you have experience and shown you have gone and done something a lived in a different cometure and you can bring it back to your country. >> bob: people in the peace corps with me, every one of them came back and bot good jobs. we worked out in places, wel...

Stage no way to go through two years of a presidential campaign or four years as the president of the united states anymore, without stepping it. thats the fact of life and i mean, i dont mean seeing every candidate on the probably side do something, say something, we all go, what was he thinking. the same thing with the president. thats going to happen from now on the regardless who the president is, we saw it, you know, president bush would occasionally gaffe as president of the united states....

But for them to uphold the mandate, they have to take the outer reach of the commerce clause and move it way, way out from where it stands. >> how is it moving that much farther out? look, i didnt go to law school. but reading the case that everybody brings up. it is among the reasons why the government believes theyre going to win this argument. that they will convince possibly kennedy, roberts and maybe even scalia, all three of them on this. how did that not stretch the outer limits? >> it di...

Commodities as well. many markets are going up like that. im not saying only speculation is driving prices. theres all this other stuff. but a big part of it is money coming into the markets in vast amounts. everybody would agree that typically if you see a market that has participation in it that goes up $400 billion, that almost always affects the market no matter what it is. >> its not that the real way money is coming in is more people are buying oil. china and india are buying it. not peopl...

>> well, i think that what we need -- this is a leader issue. it blows my mind how a soldier walks off by himself. we use the battle buddy system in combat to ensure things like this dont happen. but what we need to start asking now is what is this fitness that the army is implementing? what it is is it puts a positive spin on combat for soldiers. its something thats not optional. so its resiliency training. its putting a positive spin on combat. >> what are people to take out of all of this tod...