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analytics chief economist mark zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. ca...

The american people who are losing their homes because the banks are not willing to modify the loan. we have to look at the programs out there that are helping people keep themselves together. whether its food programs or housing programs. thats where our focus should be. the american people are in great pain and meanwhile the republicans are trying to kill planned parent hood once again when they are the most watched program and they are the most audited among the many programs we have. >> it s...

Immigration enforcement. really? cuts in job training and border security? >> well, a couple of things, chris. number one, at some point you have to quit spending money that you dont have. we just came off our first trillion dollar deficit and the second trillion dollar deficit now under president obama and the democrats, the single largest deficit in america is a history an dick said everything has to be on the table. but under their plan, nothing is on the table. now, heres what we have done, ...

About 27 to 30% unemployment, its already a depression. not just 9%. were laying off bus drivers of mass transit and racing fares and cutting services. were closing public housing and private and foreclosing on private housing. and closing public schools and yet, were quicking to find fund more for afghanistan, $100 billion. were quick to maintain the tax cuts for the wealthy. that obstruction is not good for our country. >> it is not good at all. i want to play this sound cut from fox news this...

Investigations youre in the midst of or would like to see get more fully engaged in. you have the countrywide home loan. a special vip list. the s.e.c.-gold man filing. the administrations response to the oil spill. white house and google, google working with the white house for personal e-mail. treasury and housing programs. some of these seem like very serious allegations. people want to know connects to fannie and freddie. some seems petty like the white house google thing. i have so tay, do ...

At this point for what theyre now doing as organizations for reform, organizations for social justice, is it more of the same? >> well, theres been a rogue ruling by a federal district court in new york saying congress acted unconstitutionally when it took away acorn funding. i guess once you get any money from the federal government, youre considered an entitlement or something. but i think acorn has been severely damaged. i dont think were going to see it doing voter registration programs like...

Orleans. so, take a look. its hitting the fan. gretchen: also the big headline this morning is that the acorn ceo bertha lewis who had first came out with a blame game against the two young undercover spies for lack of a better term went into these acorn offices and blamed them for exposing acorn. she now came out yesterday and said, guess what, we are going to suspend the programs, at least the housing programs at acorn until we clean up our act. she basically admitted that there was some corru...

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>> thank you so much. >> thank you. theres developing news on yet another unsolved new jersey mystery. it is one weve been following very closely and i want to get to the bottom of it. heres the thing. why did the state part ways with its single largest sandy relief contractor? it is a question sandy victims have asked chris christie himself. >> why was hgi fired? why did you pay him $50 million and why did you privatize most -- why did you privatize most of the grant program? you didnt have t...