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they bear the name of his predecessor. president obama is seizing the bush tax cutted and calling for them to be extend, but not for everyone. the president wants to let them expire for the wealthiest americans. that puts him at odds with congressional republicans, as well as his rival mitt romney and sets the stage for a very heated battle with less than four months to go before the election. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is covering this for us. first of all, why is th...

I think ryan ought to know that. our goal is to make sure the men and women who are on the front lines, out there, confronting the chinese in pacific, dealing with iran where they want to close off the oil supply, its our navy that have to face those threats. if our men and women say they want this technology, im declined to give it to them. going on a witch hunt for far left radicals is not what this is about. >> shannon: thank you both for weighing in and we appreciate your time on this very i...

>> obviously, your mother is very special to you. >> shes deceased now, but she raised ten children by herself. very strong woman, right? she kept us clean. she made us respectful. >> he spoke very highly of his mother. essentially, this impression that it was a happy childhood, except for the fact that his stepfather, you know, was very physically abusive to him. >> did your mother protect you from your stepfathers beatings? >> well, i came in on him one time and james came out mad -- thats his...

Lamar smith asked attorney general eric holder to explain why the doj used a firm that works for president obamas reelection campaign to provide research on whether the lone star states voter i.d. law would prejudice the rights of voters in texas. james? >> reporter: im at your service. attorney general eric holders fighting in court to block texas from enacting its voter i.d. law which requires all registered voters to produce a valid state-issued voter i.d. the d.o.j.s civil rights division sa...

Passages from dreams from my father for the first time in many years. follow me on twitter that is at jame james rosen f nc. as soon as i leave this studio ill tweet out to you the things the future president said made him wince when he read this memoir. martha: that is a tees. we are all going to follow you and see what comes out there, thank you, james. gregg: walk dont run to your computer. no injuries here. it may be the next big shoe to drop in the healthcare battle. why the supreme courts ...

Intellectual property and kill jobs. >> james is a national correspondent for "the atlantic" magazine and author of "china airborne" and has lived there for many years off and on. and vijay is a correspondent for "the economist" and author of "need, speed and greed." both have spent a lot of time in china. thanks so much. what is your take, because you come at this not from a political perspective, of what mitt romney says about what he would do about china and about what we really need to do ab...

it has been given to the lawyers. spending all their time with this to witness. i dont think he left for canada saying i will be in trouble. i think he left. it was planned a long time ago. i dont think sarkozy is going to show hes in trouble. >> well, we do appreciate that. it came as a bit of a surprise to us and probably to the former french president as well. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. top of the hour now. im ashleigh banfield. first, we got this news. he was the ...

Is it the business of the chief justice worried about burnishing the courts credentials rather than doing justice and a sane and rational and not extraordinary bizarre piece of reasoning? >> james. >> whether this strategy hes adopted is genius or too clever by half only time will tell. lets get together in 20 years and look back. i will say he looked good on the commerce part. the commerce clause is not a general license to regulate an individual from cradle to grave because he was particularly...

Night briefing of the majority opinion, which is a really signaling that justice roberts at the last minute decided to go over and write this really weak opinion whereas the rest of them, james was suggesting on the commerce clause, was very strong, thoughtful material. this was just made up at the last. >> paul: it looks to me, justice roberts was looking for a reason to uphold this bill. >> thats right. >> paul: and he found it. >> thats right, one of the most disturbing things about this asid...

Unusual, so that suggests that something happened at the end. >> the phrases like the fly by night briefing of the majority opinion, which is a really signaling that justice roberts at the last minute decided to go over and write this really weak opinion whereas the rest of them, james was suggesting on the commerce clause, was very strong, thoughtful material. this was just made up at the last. >> paul: it looks to me, justice roberts was looking for a reason to uphold this bill. >> thats right...