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from professional bike cycling. he said i have been notified usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought for and paid for by promises...

the investigation has already had consequences for his career now as an athlete. hes immediately banned from competing in triathlons which hes taken up since retiring from professional bike cycling. . he said i have been notified usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice departm...

hes taken up since retiring from professional bike cycling. in a statement, he says, i have been notified that usada, an organization largely funded -- usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are base...

Deficit. maybe we didnt care about it four years or eight years. but it is a main talking point and have a lot to do with who you vote for. >> if he blames bush for having him hold the bag now. why didnt he attack that first thing when he got in office. instead we did health care and here we are today. deficit and debt that dones. - continues. >> the debt talk took that shot at george bush and republicans as well but james carwell many years ago when bill clipton was running for president. it is...

Mr. president, no body believes your message that the economy is getting better. you have to come up with a new narrative. people are out there and they so things economically . if they are going to do polling and doing focus groups and for them to put out a statement like that. when they asked the question who of the two men did a better job. everybody in the polling group would have said mitt romney. >> they were in the states like ohio, which we all know if you look back in historic times ohi...

The productivity of companies. youre not looking at hiring and firing, thats not your purpose. your purpose is profit. and that is if you look at the focus groups that have been done by different democratic and other polling firms, thats the problem for romney. people dont think he cares about people and jobs. >> joy reid and krystal ball, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. coming up, how little we know about mitt romney and his money. we know less about his ...

im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the largest bank of the united states is called to before congress to explain a $2 billion loss that one lawmaker compared to russian roulette. jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon appeared before congress saying he could not defend or justify the trades that ultimately imploeded. liz zi was there watching it all unfold. and it was very dramatic. >> it was very dramatic. ive known jamie dimon and covered jamie dimon for a long time, wolf. usual...

Pollsters who conducted the focus groups, margie omaro, president of momentum analysis, and lisa menendez, a host of "huff post live. margie omaro, why did walmart conduct focus groups with these women? >> this has been an ongoing analysis that weve been talking to these moms over the course of a couple of years, through surveys and focus groups, and really, as far as walmarts involvement, its really to see what these moms think. and weve, i think, really injected the views and positions and nee...

A small part of the democratic base. white college-educated women. that is a small part of a larger group that democrats will need to turn out in november. this conversation about the economy expands to a much larger, much broader group. >> and alicia, these focus groups are great for showing you, i think most interestingly, what voters dont care about. you can pick several of the topics that we talk about here in the course of the week, and they wont care about them at all. theyre focused on th...

Mccain last time, some of them are pure undecided this time. they really were all over the swing voter map. and then we did a group of latino moms in las vegas, who were also a mix as well. and it was a fascinating look at how they really grapple with the decision that theyre going to have in november. >> but margie, just so i understand walmarts position on this, is most of your research about trying -- about walmart trying to serve these people better as customers and the political stuff is ju...