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Health benefits for them. shouldnt everybody agree on that, be in favor of it? not quite. not democrats and republicans. a proposed bill sparked heat in congress last week. democrats made a procedural move that meant the bill would need to have a two-thirds majority to pass rather than a simple majority. they did that so republicans could not add any more amendments to the bill. this is how new york congressman, peter king, sized it up. >> we are doing tonight, its a cruel hoax and charade. ever...

>> well, the majority of americans are looking at this -- the video became youtubes number one all day on friday. its not because it was seen as particularly governmental or effective, but because it was a quick political hit. the congressman, while screaming at his colleagues for being political is doing that for a variety of reasons. both sides are using tremendous deflexion maneuvers. it doesnt reflect well on congress is the general consensus. it doesnt look like -- the idea that these guys ...

Ethics violations from republicans. this is a very, very hard year for democrats. the economy, the war, and now comes these two very high profile ethics problems or ethics charges. its something that they would like to have go away before september opens. >> the other huge issue, the other huge story this week, wikileaks. the president and the administration said they did not see anything new coming out or anything that was not out there from these documents. needless to say, this was explosi ex...

The coast guard approved more than 74 exemptions in 48 days. >> day 104 now of the gulf oil disaster, and bp preparing for what could be the final solution for that well. they are going to try and kill it, and its starting tomorrow or possibly tuesday. >> and reynolds wolf is live in new orleans with an update this morning. morning, reynolds. what is the latest on the schedule, and there is likely an important visit from somebody into the gulf? >> reporter: yeah, i can tell you that there is goi...

The figure we have here, $7.4 billion over ten years, and it talks about long-term funding for monitoring, treatment and research. there is a lot in there about the on going health needs of the people. as part of it, it would re-open something called the victim compensation fund. this is interesting. it was closed back in 2004. at the time it was closed, they said there was more than 7,000 claims processed by this fund. now, what we are hearing -- there has been debate about this, but if it were...

Professor just said is true, but the perspective on racism in america and what these two events mean is notice that benjamin jealous, of all people, called on the teepee pull a par admitted that there is not evidence that the tea party is motivated itself by racism as many people said. and notice what shirley sherrod was doing, explains that somebody of her generation came to realize that perhaps its time to think more about class than race. those two things go together. they are the real story ...

And cop cars with the lights flashing around here. >> all right. kevin tibbles on the scene there in milwaukee, wisconsin, where they get a heck of a lot more rain than the stuff in south florida. thanks very much. the woman at the center of a classic washington firestorm this week, fired usda employee shirley sherrod finally spoke to the president. >> with all ive been through, i kind of needed that. i told him right away, you are my president. youve always been my president. and ive always w...

>> going to paint b.p. like wildcats. >> these other four, conoco, phillips, exxon mobil, shell and chevron, trust me, theyll be portraying b.p.s methods of not representative of the industry when they testify tomorrow because lets face it, the public perception right now of oil drilling, we talked about this on your radio show not so great right now. and that has a lot to do. you saw what happened in florida during the elections last year, they voted down more off-shore drilling. so this percep...

Political stand for the republicans to take to reach out to the president? wouldnt this be one issue? because lets face it. votes do count! >> well, i think the one issue you get into is arizona two years ago implemented e-verify, and everybody thought that was going to be the end of the world. >> but e-verify, i have to challenge you on that. e-verify is a program and not every employer goes by it. there is a lot of cheating going on out there. >> and that is why what you do with the schulervil...

Now. studies show it allows men with advanced prostrate cancer to live four months longer than men who were given a placebo. >> lady gaga known for her outlandish outfits and music videos like this one. >> ♪ i dont want to talk anymore ♪ >> i was going to say, the only part of this video that we can show of all the 10 minutes only that little clip there. now a remake of the video is taking the internet by storm and american soldiers in afghanistan are now center stage. all right. take it. sh...