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Teleprompters, she dubs teleprompter of the united states or totus one and two, she said the president, "let americans know that the gulf is open for scripted rhetoric." ♪ >> bret: our top story at the bottom of the hour. senate majority reader harry reid has broke within the president over the proposed mosque near ground zero saying it should be built some place else. the continued fall-out left many people with personal interest in the 9/11 attacks feeling particularly upset. national corres...

Were on the scene. the employee says that one girl actually suffered an eye injury. that would be quite a scare for the parents and kids onboard that. we move on to a developing story out of orange county, california, where nine hours ago a man barricaded himself at a home after a repo man tried to repossess his car. police say the man then rammed a rented u-haul into the tow truck and at one point the man tossed a laptop computer out of his home. the suspect is reportedly out on bail for making...

Attack in this country by mainly republican policies and also by conservative democratic policies. and thats got to end. but whats astonishing at this point is the number of middle class american who are being tricked into supporting the republicans this coming november. you know, its staggering to imagine that middle class americans are actually going to vote against their own economic best interests once again. its happened before and it looks like its going to happen again where the republica...

The shrimp season gets under way in mobile bay this morning after a delay of about two months. the government says repeated tests have shown no oil in that area. also, first lady michelle obama returns to the gulf today for her second visit. and the white house has announced that the first family will spend a weekend in that region next month. fired government worker shirley sherrod has accepted president obamas apology. secretary of agriculture tom vilsack forced her to resign over an inter...

Afghan war. >> jamie: as we have been reporting, a homicide bomber striking crowded market in afghanistan of kabul today. police say at least three people are dead. dozens more wounded. the latest attack coming just two days before secretary clinton attends an international conference focussing on the afghanistan war and what its future is. so what more can the u.s. do to secure the region? what should it do? chuck nash, fox news military analyst. great to see you, captain nash. thank you for be...

Categories, too. talent from california, alaska, florida, to new york. here is what is going on now. focussing down toward the hall of fame here. the group of people that you see, the people coming out of the doors there are the people that will not make it to the next round. so were talking here and we may see some of the sad faces coming out that way. other side of the building are the people who do make it past this round. what they have to do now is they go to a next round and then if they m...

Which political story will be making headlines in the next 4 hours, chris cillizza joining us now. whats going on? >> too much. the president has been going particularly to the upper midwest in the last month or so. he was in ohio recently. hell be in michigan tomorrow. hes focussing on how the recovery act, the economic stimulus package, how its helping create jobs in areas that might not have jobs otherwise. this iscritically important. in any poll, the economy is upmost on voters minds. he ne...

Fairly significant because it is the first time as far as minimum can remember that such a visit would take place with the vice president and his wife coming on. perhaps, this is an indication how the u.s. is viewing this war now. she is -- here she is attending these forge events and shes also expected to meet with civilian embassy officials. heres something else that will be happening that will be fairly interesting. shes going to be conducting a roundtable with iraqi women who teach english. ...

We know for sure that the government lost at least 240,000 jobs. thats the census workers no longer out there doing the census. at the same time, most think the private sector maybe added about 100,000 jobs. all told, it tells the story of an economy that isnt getting better as quickly as anyone thought. those shovel-ready jobs. everyone is asking the question, what did the stimulus money go for, where are the jobs going to come from. >> thats the question. we saw a little flip in housing becaus...

Afghanistan, and the focus turned to iraq, we lost ground. and now, were trying to play catch-up. now were focussing on afghanistan. and theres concern that well lose track in iraq. what makes you think this will be different? >> we have the largest embassy in the world. we are very much focused on the civilian tasks here, on building this long-term relationship. in addition, over on the military side, we have genere odierno, certainly the most senior person who dealt with this country, been her...