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Trusted everywhere. today on a special edition of andrea mitchell reports, guns in america and the guns of war. ending the conflict in afghanistan and combatting gun violence here at home. two big topics as president obama prepares to hold a news conference minutes from now live from the white house. good day. i am andrea mitchell live in washington where we are awaiting hamid karzai and president obama who will be addressing reporters in the east room following their meetings on the pace of t...

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Economy this whole year has been about 1.9%, were not growing. >> that puts the focus squarely on what president has done so far, and what he plans to do minute by minute from here on. youre harping on the big jobs program -- >> is that an ethic reference. >> no, just focussing on -- and the romney campaign, the obama campaign will say look, we have to explain that romney is not capable of getting us out of this situation. that may be true, but before voters get to that, they need to know what p...

Indefensible which are some of the pensions and benefits that public employees have amassed over recent years. mitt romney talked about this today and analyzing wisconsin, i predict you can expect republicans from mitt romney on down to focus on public employees even though their risks, theyre going to do it. >> lets go to joe williams, howard is focussing on the number im fascinated by. 30% of familys with a member of a union in their family voted with walker, the republican. it was supposed to...

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Kristen this is the first time here as of late that the president has gone to an area where unemployment is considerably higher than the national average. do we know or can we speculate what he might say to this particular group thats been different from what we heard him say at some other stops? >> reporter: we can expect him to focus on jobs. he will probably talk about the importance of extending the payroll tax cut. he might talk about the importance of passing some trade agreements. he will...

Speaks before thousands of union workers in detroit later today. this has been a difficult year for union workers. if you ask them, they say theyve been fighting tough battles in places like wisconsin and ohio where gop lawmakers have been trying to chip away at their collective bargaining rights. they also havent been that pleased with the president. they say that they are opposed, of course, to the fact that he extended the bush era tax cuts. they also think that he wasnt on the right side of ...