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Legal birth certificate. he was found to be wrong. christina, that doesnt exactly give you credibility. >> well, and why meet with him at all? this says a lot that mitt romney is obviously taking this person seriously enough to have a private meeting with him. i mean, given all of those things, he wants to be able to have sort of -- say that hes reaching out to this person who still does well in presidential polls, by the way, and who has still said he could get him himself. hes definitely tryin...

Him keep a low profile. the lack of excitement for romney and lack of ability from perry is pleading gop voters to fill the void. lets join patrick gavin. heres a quote from former governor of new jersey tom keen saying its real. hes giving it a lot of thought. i think the odds are better now than a couple of weeks ago. hes not going to tease anybody. if circumstances do change, hes not going to hide it. patrick, explain the political significance of tonights speech. the one that hes giving at t...

they also met. whats also interesting, kyra, rick perry met with three of donald trumps children. you know, i spoke to michael cohen who is trumps top political adviser. i just got off the phone with him and cohen said he spent some time with perry, as well. they talked about the economy and jobs and talked about family. all topics we would expect to come up during the conversation with donald trump. what is the take away from trump? cohen tells me that trump likes him as an individual...

that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs cant. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and ...

suzanne malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for wednesday, august 31st. firefighters are calling in air tankers to battle wildfires outside of dallas. more than two dozen homes have burned in palo pinto county and firefighters say the fire is 25% contained. several hundred people had to pack up and run as fires spread. texas is in the middle of an epic drought and heat wave that is dragging all summer long. >> reporter: more than 100 homes are in jeopardy and those who lost their h...

thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start w...

keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the "new york times" and the "wall street journal" that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. >> the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we contin...

She wants to be a king maker and troublemaker. >> bret: how about that? if he doesnt run, she is still going to have a lot of influence, charles. >> absolutely. but i think her arrival in the state is a coincidence. i think her driver made a wrong turn on the new jersey turnpike and they accidentally ended up in new hampshire of all places today. im not a conspiracy theorist here. look, she obviously is not running. this is -- if she is, it would be one of the most unusual spectacularly original...

In. i think shes angling to be a king maker here. if she does get in, she will probably be the king maker in that process as well. but the fascination of sarah palin is what fascinates me, that had anybody else done something like this, there wouldnt be media coverage of that. >> i agree 100% and, again, were getting criticized for being here because shes not a declared candidate. as you criticize those of us trying to cover her, i would ask you to look around and i mean this with no disrespect....

The support of the president but he did run into criticism from senior folks over at the pentagon because they felt that they were going behind their backs to offer advice to the president, in particular, when he had the opposing position of smaller troop levels inside afghanistan. one source telling cnn that many people that he was not a team player. and so this source saying that the president before going overseas on that trip to europe, he sat down with him for 30 minute and told him at that...