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Defend themselves. they are being massacred. this president does nothing. in afghanistan, im telling you that it is unraveling there because all the president talks about is withdrawal and leaving. and you are seeing a reinsurgentence of al-qaeda there. so as far as the middle east is concerned, this presidents national security policy has been an abyssmal failure and i want to go back again to syria. how can you not speak up on behalf of these people who are being massacred by the hundreds ever...

this is a big day for republicans running for president. one of the most conservative groups in the country is about to announce results of its straw poll. dana bash will join us live in a moment. in maine, republican voters are finishing their caucuses. mitt romney and ron paul are campaigning in the state trying to break their string of losses. overseas now. the besieged syrian town of homs endures a seventh straight day of bombardment there. opposition activists say hundreds of pe...

>> no. one is public. one is private. one is president of the united states. the other is a guy who made millions off of this down sizing. you know what in the stock holders arent going to be left holding shares worth nothing with president obama. >> bill: to me its the same. because here you have mitt romney at bain and they come in and see a company. they say, you know what? we are going to reorganize this company. we will lay off some people. we are going to approve this one and that one. inv...

>> no. one is public. one is private. one is president of the united states. the other is a guy who made millions off of this down sizing. you know what in the stock holders arent going to be left holding shares worth nothing with president obama. >> bill: to me its the same. because here you have mitt romney at bain and they come in and see a company. they say, you know what? we are going to reorganize this company. we will lay off some people. we are going to approve this one and that one. inv...

Bain, we are down sizing. >> no. one is public. one is private. one is president of the united states. the other is a guy who made millions off of this down sizing. you know what in the stock holders arent going to be left holding shares worth nothing with president obama. >> bill: to me its the same. because here you have mitt romney at bain and they come in and see a company. they say, you know what? we are going to reorganize this company. we will lay off some people. we are going to approve ...

Treat us poorly, then you probably think to yourself, i might not go shopping there anymore. thats kind of the way it works. but when youre running for president of the united states, you have to be careful with every single word that you say because everything is taken out of context and turned and twisted. now, usually, its only the democrats that we do that against the republicans and the republicans would do that against the democrats. now the other republican opponents pounced on that state...

Desperately because we know how it works, folks, theyre not going to run that whole clip when they come out firing. and it happened immediately. and not just from the dnc who lined up their videotapes to put out an ad lickety split. no, rick perry went after him. if youre a victim of bain capitals down sizing, it is the ultimate insult for mitt romney to come to south carolina and tell you he feels your pain because he caused it. theres something inherently wrong when getting rich and sticking i...

>> one solution that collins is proposing 8 to million dollars payment into the retirement service should be returned and that money used to buy out postal service workers. she said it would result in savings of about 20% of the workforce. shep? >> shepard: are these proposed cuts the end of it, doug, or are there more to come? >> there are a lot more to come. this is basically just a cutting into the surface of it a little bit. we are talking about the elimination of saturday mail delivery and ...

Panetta. lets sis listen to what she said. >> we are on track to come home july 2011. i was there over st. patricks weekend and i visited our troops there at that time. what i saw was a preparation for our down sizing in afghanistan and a turn to what our civilian presence might be there and we deploy out of afghanistan militarily. so change is in the air there and now its even more so. >> no doubt wolf blitzer is continuing all of this coverage in a matter of moments on "the situation room." be...

Middle age white guys basically, its like, kevin costner and tommy lee jones, these guys and chris cooper, the cowboy looking guy they are all oust work, they had jobs 30, 40 years, thrown out of work. as part of down sizing. youre attitude about this whole thing. what do we know? >> what ive learned and what i know in the four months since ive been on television with the president is that things arent always what they seem. the thing thats been very troubling to me and i was thrilled that you i...