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And left us lying in a pool of blood. many years later, to be exact, in february 09, one of the men that had beaten us came to my capitol hill office. he was in his 70s with his son in his 40s. he said, mr. lewis, im one of the people that beat you and your seat mates, had been a member of the klan. he said, i want to apologize, will you accept my apology, will you forgive me. i said, sir, i accept your apology, i forgive you. his son started crying. he started crying. they hugged me. i hugged t...

Of blood. many years later to be exact, in february 09, one of the men that had beaten us came to my capitol hill office, he was in his 70s with his son in his 40s and he said, mr. lieu. >> randy: -- mr. lewis, i was one of the people that beat you and your seatmate, was a member of the klan and i want to apologize. will you forgive me? and i said, sir, i accept your apolog apology, i forgive you. his son start crying, he start crying. they hugged me. i hugged them back. and i started crying. it...

Closely because they are very close to bare market territory. thats a 20% drop from the high. if you take a look at the fear gauge as well, this morning we hit above 50. that is the highest level since the absolute depths of the stock market roust in february 09 and were tracking for the biggest gain in that fear gauge. weve had a big drop in the s&p, and i think the nasdaq is in its worst month since 2008. were watching people start to say, well, maybe this is a healthy thing where in the seven...

Country without raising revenues anywhere in our budget? >> i think we need to reform the tax code. >> what does that mean, though? in a way that raises revenues? >> yeah. i think at the end of the day, you have a raise revenues. >> i wish you were back in congress. you could have been our ally. >> i wouldnt be an ally to somebody that demagogues health care. i wouldnt be an ally to somebody that allowed deficits to go up a trillion dollars a year. it takes leadership from both sides. paul ryan ...

jobs last month. so it was private sector hiring. companies hiring that drove the jobs number. this is the last year, carol. 2011 i want to show you. last spring things are pretty strong. we were having 200,000 jobs gained every month. in the summer it got real slow. we were worried about a double dip recession. picked up again in the fall. now we have revisions. the bigger picture is a little bit better. you have better than expected january, february, now its 8.3% the unemployment ra...

The white house, including white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, who was chief of staff at that time, to look into the announcement value of solyndra in preparation for speeches by either the president or vice president. >> steve: this solyndra thing, and i know if you watch the other channels, its not a scandal. believe me, it is a scandal. weve talked about that, the main stream media is trying to downplay it. but just the fact that now we are learning that there was apparently a stimulus c...

Ratification, theyre going to put 1,200 jobs in a plant here in the city of chicago. >> your employment rate in chicago is higher than the national average. lets look at the national average. new jobs numbers that came out over this week, over the term of the obama presidency going back to february 09, 8.2%, the high point october of 2009, over 10%. and now its been distressingly steady here at 9.0% or 9.1%. are there government remedies that are left to really solve this? >> sure. let me take o...

Should change the law to make it more fair and to have shared responsibility. >> greta: now, everyone in this country is worried about jobs, if you are unemployed you are really worried. im curious, how you grade the february 09 stimulus bill for job creation? in many way was the president has proposed somewhat parallels that one. what grade do you give the february 09 stimulus as it impacts jobs. >> all you have to do is look at grades given it by nonpartisan groups like the congressional budge...

Comprehensively, you can have that conversation. place of a couple thousand pages or more i find that difficult to deal with. as a person who is supposed to read something like that and express an opinion or vote on it. but also as somebody who is being regulated or affected by the legislation. lets look at things piece by piece. which would suggest lets go after securing the border and making sure that those who come here legally are able to work. and those who come here illegally are no longer...

Trees like quail hide and i waved and went on. we see them all the time. at one time i think 30,000 or 40,000 people crossed my ranch each year. >> jim, thank you and good luck. i hope congress listens to you. thank you. >> thank you. >> now we want to hear from you about the february, 09 stimulus bill. we want you to sound off. has the 2009 stimulus bill helped you or your family or your community? we are asking you to go to greta wire and answer those questions. heres what some of you have alr...