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li on the difference in 24 hours. susan? >> a new reality that inflation is higher and may stay elevated for some time. todays wholesale prices are the inflation that producers pay still much higher than a year ago. sure, coming down from the previous month. couple that with yesterdays consumer price jump and were close to the 40-year highs and thats more than four times the way the federal reserves thinks is healthy for the economy. close to a third predicting a full 1 percentage poin...

Today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on ms nbc. for americans with family members in iraq, the news is sinking in their loved ones will come home by the ended of this year. we have new reaction along with veterans about the plan announced by president obama. my colleague is joining me with more. good morning to you, mike. its been a few days now. whats the reaction been like? >> good morning, alex. we sampled opinion and reaction coast to coast on this. from the carolinas and northwest and chicago in th...

More details from the authorized biography of steve jobs. this one is about his ties to former president bill clinton. the book states that in a phone call with the former president, clinton reportedly asked jobs how to deal with the "lewinski" issue. he said i dont know if you did it, but youve got to tell the country. the biography based on more than 40 interviews with steve jobs goes on sale tomorrow. applications up. check my email and text messages. hands in position. airbags. ten of em. pe...

The church will call for reform, stronger regulations and a greater focus on people over profits. joining me from washington is father thomas reese of georgetown, university. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> i know that youve described this statement of support as the vatican positioning itself to the left of nancy pelosi, which to me sounds like a bit of a new place for the vatican to be. is it? >> well, thats a problem. i mean, a lot of people in the united states think the pope is a...

Id like your thoughts on his 9-9-9 plan. what makes the flat tax better than 9-9-9-9-9? >> caller: the 9-9-9 has a 9% sales tax which is a very tough sell politically. most sales taxes are 8%, 9%. to add 9% to that, really its a turn-off for people. they have problems of regressivity, which is why hes coming up with proposals for rebates for people with low incomes. so i think its just simpler and easier to take the current code, junk it, replace it with a simple flat rate with a generous deduct...

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Medicine, whats that all about? >> because theyre going to try to say, theres some ridiculous amount of standards from -- all right. lets put it this way. culpable negligence in a manslaughter case is whether he knew or should have known that death could occur. this is a doctor. what theyre doing, its like a malpractice case where theyre saying what he did was so outside the norm and the standard of care and now theyre trying to discredit this doctor by saying hes not talking about regular stand...

Advantage. if he had been able -- if nevada had in fact gone earlier, he would have been able to argue to new hampshire, voters particular about it, romney he may come from next door, you may think hes one of you,but he was pushing for nevada. this is moot. this is not going to happen. they can all campaign there. romney, at this point anyway is poised to do fairly well there. >> lets talk about the word moot there and silence. michele bachmanns campaign was taken left with egg on their faces wh...

Point next year with no specific plans for high office runnings and reelections and the like. talk about the state of that and do you see anyone on the horizon? >> isnt it amazing after all these years, you can go through three names and thats it, were finished. >> geraldine ferraro too. >> and shirley chis om. she ran all the way to the convention. but she knew. she always knew she couldnt make it. the first woman to be taken seriously as a major party candidate for the presidency was hillary c...