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States senator who has just filed legislation to essentially stop large-scale u.s. military construction projects in afghanistan, to limit them to projects that cost $50,000 or less. the estimated $800 million this would kibosh in afghanistan would instead be transferred to the u.s. department of transportation to be spent on building road and bridge projects here in the united states. senator claire mccaskill of{ missouri, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate the chance to t...

Joining us now is a united states senator who has just filed legislation to essentially stop large-scale u.s. military construction projects in afghanistan, to limit them to projects that cost $50,000 or less. the estimated $800 million this would kibosh in afghanistan would instead be transferred to the u.s. department of transportation to be spent on building road and bridge projects here in the united states. senator claire mccaskill of missouri, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i ...

One thing i think people dont understand is how intertwined the military is with the economy. it runs many businesses. has lots of perks that are related to those businesses. letting go their hold on power and their economic privilege is really -- seems like thats at the nub of what this showdown is about. can you say a little about that? >> yeah, absolutely. in fact, thats one of the thorniest issues here. in the run-up to the elections which are scheduled to take place on monday, the egyptian ...

Two months after the protests began, occupy wall streeters will tell you they planned this day of action as a sign that theyre not going anywhere any time soon. abc news, new york. >> as you know, this story goes way beyond new york. hundreds of protestors marched through chicagos downtown streets and rallied along a chicago river bridge and stopped traffic for about a half an hour. 46 people sat down on the span. police led them away without handcuffing them, issued them all citations and event...

Regulate almost everything that moves. we are the saudi arabia of natural gas . if we want to go with a clean energy that provides tens of thousand and hundreds of thousands of blue collar jobs thats where you go and not down a silver rat hole. it doesnt set the scale in the way steven chu thinks. >> but natural gas is carbon and carbon is evil according to the administration. >> natural gas is better than coal. shut them down and get natural gas on line. >> vicki? >> if we dont build that pipe ...

presidential candidate will speak out about the latest allegations of sexual harassment dogging his campaign. hes scheduled a news conference that well bring you live at the top of the next hour. it comes one day after a fourth woman said he groped her. were also revealing details about one of the other accusers. jim acosta is following this for us. >> wolf, herman cains campaign is making the politically risky move of raising questions about the woman who came forward yesterday to say...

cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers -- documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, hes raking in lots of campaign contributions. cains campaign now tells cnn theyve raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accu...

police fired tear gas canisters. its not clear if thats what caused his wound. olsons injury prompted occupy wall street protesters in new york to rally in his support the movement continues to show life around the world. occupy protesters in pakistan marched on the world banks offices in islamabad chanting down with capitalism. a deal made in europe is putting money in your pocket this morning. stocks jumped at the open after european leaders agreed on a plan to end their debt crisis....

And a lot of them will be bad. >> where do they borrow that money from? >> through these off balance sheet subsidiaries. >> across the world? >> yeah. >> heres the important point. >> has anybody across the world raised a red flag and said, hey, wait a second, maybe we need to take a closer look at just pouring money chinas way, letting them borrow for these infrastructure projects? or is that still considered a safe loan? >> i think china still has free access to capital. i know people view it ...

For cash, not to mention the feds, there is little they can do to fix our nations crumbling infrastructure but now some are turning to the private sector to do the work. many projects like rebuilding public roads and bridges being done by private companies with no taxpayer money. brenda but never, anchor of bulls and bears joins us. i was surprised, there is a great article in the "washington post." 70 infrastructure projects being privately funded and buy. how do they do it? >> its very interes...