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Secretary rumsfeld. governor mitt romney is betting president obama to the punch. he laid out his jobs plan two days ahead of the presidents speech thursday night. how is he planning to put americans back to work? we asked the government fore. republican presidential contender and former massachusetts governor romney went on the record. nice to see you sir. >> thanks greta, good to be with you. >> greta: governor, everyone is horrified at our unemployment rate 9.1%, 14 million people unemployed....

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>> i dont think so. you get a weird consensus among the left and the right. even the anti-cheney, but you have even maureen dowd and george wills both attacking him. what is interesting about the book is the extent to which it brought the interim republican critics out at the fore. colin powell saying this is the -- the vice president was taking cheap shots. >> condi rice. >> absolutely. and you really saw the tension in the republican party. and that gave the press something to talk about. othe...

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On the ground. and officials say the recent counterterrorism campaign against al qaeda, culminatincul of course with the killing of osama bin laden, has crippled the terror network in that region. an x factor is the ability of the afghan army to provide for its own security and who is the person who want the u.s. press stones stay for a wail? a guy named hamid karzai. meanwhile, the issues becoming presidential campaigned fore, exposing surprising divisions in the republican party and that domin...

The socialist leading newspaper this morning. they summarize it this way, dsk for dominique straus-khan out, out. it seems almost impossible at this point that he could somehow revive his political career. among other things, until his trial takes place, if the judge takes away his passport, hell be stuck in the united states. pretty hard to imagine you could campaign for president of france while youre in the united states facing criminal charges. here in france, a thunder clap keeps rumbling o...

Karen, how bad is this news for the president? >> it is not great news, but i have to tell you that i think to some degree it is not unexpected because, look, gas prices, we have talked about it before, that is one of the most immediate ways that people sort of feel the pinch because it not only affects the money in terms of putting gas in your tank, but also our food prices, there is that ripple effect. and i think you cant underestimate, things were getting a little better, and then all of a s...

Tripoli. and, nic, i want to talk about gadhafi first. because youve told us before that his sons might be working on some sort of deal for him to step aside. and the most interesting thing about this, these two sons are talking constitutional democracy? really? >> reporter: this is something that they say has been in the pipeline for some time. saif gadhafi has been trying to push his own democratic reforms for a number of years. moussa koussa, the foreign minister who defected last week is see...

Disruption, even with libya. libya supplies just 2% of the worlds oil production. most of that going to europe. saudi arabia said it would pick up the slack. still, a very volatile issue. a wide-ranging interview today from the newly installed chief of staff bill daley here in the west wing on "meet the press." another issue that came to the fore, speaking of libya-s another controversial issue, whether or not to impose a no-fly zone to be administered by nato, much like we saw in iraq and befor...

Makes is so crucial. we know the research. its very clear an effective teacher can bring a child at the 50th percentile to the 85th or 90th percentile with three years of instruction. and a very poor teacher can take the child to the 50th percentile and drop them back to the 20th percentile with three years of instruction. we know that matters and makes a difference. often in the union contracts that difference isnt recognized. people get paid the same, try to replace that poor teacher with a gr...