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Hes talking about the financial crisis. just to be clear here, the thing that is the tiny, harmless ant, the thing we shouldnt be bothering anything trying to do anything about is, take your pick, heres some of our favorite visual summaries of what john boehner is referring to as just a little ant. theres this "new york post" headline summing up the mood of the country pretty well. "economic crisis, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." then this front page, the day the dow had its big...

Students. >> reporter: and republicans on the committee have sort of supplied us with a large graph of documentation which includes e-mails from military officials within the government, as well as back and forth to harvard, and essentially, republicans are accusing kagan based on some of the supporting information of having given the military a runaround, arguing that they stalled and did everything they could to keep the recruiters -- reconcrete us off examplessum it came down to a matter of m...

That same spokesperson quoted to us its an operational company, not a research and development company. so bp doesnt do any research into oil spill response. and the company bp claims does it for them doesnt do it either. and isnt even the kind of company that would. so back to the graph. remember, this is how much bp made in profits over the last three years. ding, ding, ding -- $58.5 billion with a b dollars. this is how much they spent on researching safer ways to drill over a three-year peri...

Over three years on researching how to drill more safely. thats .05% of their profits for that same amount of time. but that little line you can barely see there, thats just safer drilling. were still not even talking about better clean-up. so back to the graph. during this three-year time period when they were making $58.5 billion and apparently spending $29 million on safer drilling, what was bp spending on making sure if something went wrong theyd be able to handle it? on spill response resea...

But that little line you can barely see there, thats just safer drilling. were still not even talking about better cleanup. so back to the graph. during this three-year time period when they were making $58.5 billion and apparently spending $29 million on safer drilling, what was bp spending on making sure that if something went wrong theyd be able to handle it? what was the company spending on spill response research? because remember the way oil companies get approval to drill in the united st...

The issue of how bad oil spill response technology is something that is now getting asked about in congress. it is something that "new york times" touched on last week and the "associated press" hit on it over the weekend in some pretty stark detail. when a bunch of people start chasing the story, ultimately you all turn up enough details that if you combine them, you can get a pretty clear story. in this case, you learn something amazing about bp. over the last three years, bp made about $58.5 ...

Into oil spill response. and the company bp claims does it for them, doesnt do it either. and isnt even the kind of company that would. so back to the graph. remember, this is how much bp made in profits over the last three years. ding ding ding. $58.5 billion with a b dollars. this is how much they spent on researching safer ways to drill over a three-year period. $29 million. and this is how much they spent on oil spill response research. zero dollars. bp has spent zero dollars researching how...

It is something "the new york times" touched on and the associated press hit on it over the weekend in pretty stark detail. when a bunch of people start chasing the story, ultimately you all turn up enough details that if you combine them, you can get a pretty clear story. and in this case, you learn something amazing about bp. over the last three years, bp made about $58.5 billion in profits. i said $63 billion earlier, that was wrong. $58.5 billion in profits over the last three years. so thin...

>> it will be a good game. you watch. >> that does sound pretty good. its a great event. >> the funding is going to breast cancer. >> thank you, senator. >> bye. up next in todays decision 2010. debate night, one in arizona and one in north carolina. governor jan brewer in arizona wants to talk immigration. her republican opponent has a different game plan. but first, savannahs special, washington speak. >> we are at a kind of inflection point in the saga. >> we are at an inflection point in...

And move forward with it. >> all right. were going to talk much more about this coming up. also big news out of afghanistan as well. president obama, though, making his fourth trip to the gulf region in the wake of the oil disaster. we will talk to chuck todd joining us live from gulf port, mississippi w a preview. first, check in with bill karins with the forecast. >> good morning. big story over the weekend is the flash flooding and deadly flash flooding in arkansas. this is an amazing graph...