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>> reporter: troop level has dropped below 50,000 this week before the august 31 deadline set by the president milestone highlighted in the weekly internet address. >> the bottom line is this. the war is ending. like any sovereign independent nation, iraq is free to chart its own course. >> reporter: six months after national elections, iraqi lawmakers failed to form a government. wide-spread concern is continued political instability will result in deteriorating security. >> im not sure how muc...

Malini wilkes has the latest. >> under the heightnd alert, the military says it expects the iraqi security forces to conduct more patrol, more aggressively target terrorist networks. 56 people died in at least two dozen bombings and shootings around the country. al-qaeda has claimed responsibility. fear and frustration after attack this is week in cities across iraq. now a warning of more to come. iraqi intelligence officials believe more suicide bombers are in the country ready to strike again....

Jerusalem. the president is expected to be involved in the peace talks and the last time the white house played a big role was in 2000. president clinton personally handled talks at camp david and when they failed, palestinians staged a violent up rising and 07, president bush took a more hands-off approach when he invited palestinian president mack mood abbas and ehud olmert to the table and made only a brief appearance and provided minimal support believing the two parties had to work it out t...

>> kelly: youre right about that. boy, thank you for showing us some hope in hopedale, louisiana with the red fish, have a good lunch. >> thank you. >> jamie: president obamas firing back at critics today using his weekly radio and internet address, defending his economic policy and blasting republicans for trying to filibuster, he says, the recovery. malini wilks joins me live from washington. good to see you, malini, the president is harsh with the republicans and what theyre doing, tell us ab...

Than 250 million dollars in separate scams every year. estimated 60 to 90 billion dollars in medicare abuse is absorbed by you, the taxpayer. >> nato saying a commando raid has foiled a terrorist attack on a major conference in the afghan capital today. secretary of state clinton among those set to attend the meeting of more than 60 nations tuesday in kabul. secretary clinton expected to press the afghan president to follow through on reform pledges and outline plans to improve security in the n...

>> gregg: sharp words from president obama firing at critics over recovery spending. president defending his economic policy during a weekly and internet address accusing republicans of playing politics with the recovery. lets go to malini wilkes reporting from washington. >> president obama slamming republicans at his public address, congress has battled for weeks over extending jobless benefits for the long term unemployed. republicans have jumped it because the democrats proposal is not paid ...

>> live from americas news headquarters. hi everyone, im jamie colby. president obama in his weekly radio and internet address accusing republicans of playing politics with americas recovery. >> we need to take new common sense steps to help small businesses, grow our economy and create jobs and we need to take them now. for months, thats what weve been trying to do. but too often, the republican leadership in the united states senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress....

That talk about the need to off set it, to pay for it, to not go further into debt to extend unemployment benefits. theyre trying to do. that but this is deemed emergency spending. it is deficit spending. and this time the difference is it is not passed. and that is a reflectionst concern that republicans and democrats have as we head into an election year. unemployment figures came out yesterday. the rate is down from 9.7 to 9.5%. the economy added private sector jobs for the sixth consecutive ...

[ female announcer ] with aarp you get so much more out of life. discover the best of whats next at the new aarp.org. >> from americas news headquarters. good morning everyone. im jamie colby. president obama is making a big push for the financial overhaul bill in his weekly radio and internet address, urging

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