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Fund-raising goals our deputy political director paul steinhauser is back, as promised. does it seem really early? much earlier than usual, a president, an incumbent to say im back in? >> president george w. bush, example, he did it in may 2003, the year before he ran for re-election, we are in the same timeframe here what we think, good reporting by our national political correspondent, jessica yellin, as early as tomorrow, the president will file papers with the federal election commission, al...

Switch tower. -- power, so were going to be back to where we were in april-may 2003 in iraq and thats what concerns me. this has been always the end game, and im delighted to hear by the way that the president is concerned about it as well. but youre going to have a counterinsurgency there, and who is going to counter that? clearly the rebels have shown that theyre not strong enough to do that. martha: you raise great points about who these rebelses are composed of, the al-qaeda influence and th...

Will we hear tonight from the president and, what about the visit to fort bliss, this afternoon? >> reporter: hi, martha. yes. we will hear from the president, while he is here at fort bliss and this is strictly a meeting between the president and the men and women who are stationed here at fort bliss and he wants to thank them personally for the work they did in iraq and this is before he heads back to washington to prepare for his oval office address to the nation and senior white house offici...

2 million miles since its launch back in may 2003. >> steve: i think its got some asteroid dust in it that somehow has been sent to earth and theyll analyze what asteroids are made of. >> gretchen: lets talk about bp and the oil latest because the ceo today will face a grilling by congress after his team met with president obama yesterday. >> steve: also why are dolphins and other wild life from the gulf suddenly going toward the land? theyre worried that they could be sensing there is big troub...

The united states? and unfortunately, all too often. i got a timeline for you here. post- 9/11, the first big event after 9/11, this one. richard reid, the would be shoe bomber. december 2001. and jump up to the next one. jose padilla. we have some video of him. when you see him, you probably think of the term dirty bomb because she was originally accused of attempting to set off radioactive dirty bombs in the united states and he was convicted of supporting terrorism and conspiracy charges. tha...

The next one we heard a lot about, may 2002. he was arrested later convicted of supporting terror. when you hear about jose padilla, you might be thinking of the term dirty bomb. he was originally accused of trying to set off these dirty bombs in america. he was ultimately convicted of something he, of conspiracy and supporting terrorism. lets bang through a few more. the lackawanna six arrested september 2002, later convicted of providing material support to al qaeda. that was up near buffalo, ...

With uae or seychelles or anywhere else. >> dana: i do want to ask you about george nader. he had cooperated with mueller. he had done some work for ben zayed. hes cooperating. you see the records that he might be an unreliable witness, accused of sexually abusing minors and sentenced to a one-year prison term in may 2003 in prague for crimes that occurred between 1999 and 2002. is this the most reliable witness? >> yeah, thats a stacked question. he is probably the very definition of an unusabl...

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