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his death sends a clear message. >> this mission was carefully planned, rigorously minimize the risk of harm to other civilians. and one week ago after being advised the conditions were optimal, i gave the final approval to go get him. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. >> the white house has just released this photo from july, president biden meeting with his national security team...

Mark in the democratic whip count but shes keeping her cards close to the vest and so as a result, shes facing immense pressure from all sides. you have republicans including john thoon who say they have been lobbying her to oppose the bill and appeal to her known aversion to tax increases and play up what they say will lead to an increase in taxes and inflation but then on the other side, you have joe manchin, a centrists democrat trying to sell krysten sinema on lowering prescription drug pric...

Youre looking live at the white house where tonight a select group of republicans will join the president for a cozy dinner in the presidents private dining room. shall we say intimate. senator john thoon is among the guests. what expect to come of the dinner. its a tight squeeze in there. what expect to come of it? >> my hope is that we can have an honest conversation about what the presidents plan is to save entitlement programs, to strength and save social security and medicare and when he in...

There are many tax prepayers in america as police and firefighters. john, you say those stats say it all. >> there is no doubt about it. we dont need a marginal increase or decrease. we need to throw the entire system out. and accumulated 72,000 plus pages was i.r.s. restriction and code and restrictions because of politicians that granted favors for decade toz different people. affected tax rate is 24 percent. only people who pay the highest tax rate is small business who cant afford to the lob...

Market signals and romneys plan creates more energy. we need more to increase the size of the economy and oil is the way to go. >> morgan, canada. we get 30 percent of the imports from canada and key stone could have replaced 32 percent was what iran? >> i think it is not a supply issue. i agree with john. look at domestic supply up 14 percent of last year. i think it is a issue on the refinery side. we have taxs and regulations that made the process of refining so expensive they are close. thre...

Out everybody turned their back on it. it is a ridiculous conversation if you think about it in the sense that congress is not going to do anything. no one is going to do anything. even when they have to, they will kick the can down the road. they will cut some spend raise taxs and mealy mouth their way through the thing until the people rise up and get them out of office. >> i disagree. i want to take it to john. they will have to do something but because of the election thinking among wall str...

but they conceal some very real dangerous designer drugs blamed for horrifying acts of violence. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." it may be the most crucial of the battleground states, and today barack obama and mitt romney are turning ohio into their personal battleground. the slug-fest takes the form of rival speeches. but one candidate started swinging before the bell. lets go to jim acosta. hes watching it all unfold. whats the latest, jim? >> wolf, they were alm...

Requirement for additional trainers. chairman levin talked at considerable length two weeks ago as we worked our way through the numbers at what the requirement is, what has been put on the ground, what is pledged and what is still out there as a requirement. and i will state to our nato partners the importance of filling, in particular, those trainer and mentor billets because thats all about the development of the afghanistan national security forces. jon: general david petraeus the man who he...

Other people hes clashed with directly and you can disagree but theres the civility to it thats truly been happening in this country for over 200 years that those people in the senate and house that we dont see wrestling like we see, physically wrestling like we see in other countries usually adhere, too. he evidently clashed with la mar alexander and another because theyre against him sools john thoon who i imagine wasnt pleased with that. you might not agree with the republicans. do you have t...

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