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You housing market? thats the flip side. e-mac, explain this one. >> yes, its bad because look, about 11 to 12 million homes are in negative equity. meaning thats 25% of all mortgages out there that are tipping, and theres he a-- basically a big fat inventory of homes set to be defaulting or delinquent. i propose a new green job program, rehab and refurbish dilapidated old homes and thats how air going to get job creation in this country because we have a problem of suburban poverty right now fr...

Is take away guns. im arguing this mostly as a u.s. one of the countries that took away guns was the soviet union. you didnt put up the murder rate in russia. it has low gun ownership rate. studies getting to the factual reason why many dont want to regulate guns because in a place like russia they didnt have guns and the murder rate is by far the highest. there is not a correlation between gun laws and murder or between gun ownership and murder. >> there are two things. studies on these very pr...

didnt have that gun? >> no, sir. >> you feel you would not be here? >> i feel that it was all gods plan and for me to second guess it or judge it -- >> is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit? >> no, sir. >> joining us this morning criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor ann bremner is with us. thanks for being with us. >> nice to see you. clearly it was a friendly interview. how would you measure and gauge how he did? >> it...

Natural disaster? will you be able to make some changes? >> you know, we havent cleared a natural disaster. we are declaring a national emergency. our city has been hit pretty hard. probably worse than any city in this nation from this economic downturn. we have the highest -- one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. highest foreclosure rates. sales tax, revenue, and the state of nevada is down. tax revenue down 42%. it has hit us especially hard. we have asked our union for concessi...

that. >> that is very bold. very bold. cant wait to share the ending with you. good morning. welcome to "early start." im zoraida sambolin. >> im john berman. this morning mitt romney is in ohio. so is bobby jindal and jeb bush. >> parade? >> coincidence? it is sort of a parade. all about the veepstakes. also the key state of ohio. more coming up. also nelson mandelas 94th birthday. well hear from former president clinton who just visited with the icon in a cnn exclusive. thats com...

counties across 26 states. the bone dry conditions are destroying farm crops and one analyst estimates that 75% of the corn crop in the drought region is now wiped out. that could drive up food and fuel prices across the entire country and brings us to rob marciano live in bu. >> we have corn that should be taller than it is right now because of the drought and because of the heat. this stalk should be well up and over my head. theres a couple of examples of ears of corn. this was toug...

Rich. in fact they are having an internal debate over what is rich. some people say 250, some say 500. maybe we should extend the tax rates for another year and were going to do something. were going to go through comprehensive tax reform again because were in an uncompetitive situation with a corporate tax rate with the highest in the world. >> greta: and disclose act. your thoughts on the act? >> latest absurdity. here they have managed to come up with a bill that opposed everybody from the ac...

Dont pay taxes as corporations, they pay taxes as individuals. >> greta: money goes to them personally? >> they are corporations organized in such a way, that they pay taxes at the individual rate. that is some of our most successful small businesses in america. its 53% of small business income and 25% of the work force. here we are going after the biggest job creators small businesses under the gies of raising taxes on rich people. it would be bad for the economy. we ought to use that year to r...

American history we had our sovereign debt downgraded. we have federal spending, percentage of g.d.p. the highest since world war ii. we have long term unemployment highest since the 1930s more people on government assistance than ever before in history. fewer people paying taxes than ever before. obama said he is going to cut the deficit in half. he was going to get rid of earmarks and turn this economy around. you are going to say he succeeded. >> if you asked ee, we are better off. we are lie...

Rich. in fact they are having an internal debate over what is rich. some people say 250, some say 500. maybe we should extend the tax rates for another year and were going to do something. were going to go through comprehensive tax reform again because were in an uncompetitive situation with a corporate tax rate with the highest in the world. >> greta: and disclose act. your thoughts on the act? >> latest absurdity. here they have managed to come up with a bill that opposed everybody from the ac...