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National economy. the unemployment rate in florida right now is 8.6% in may 2012. thats down slightly. its an interesting dilemma if this report is accurate. sources were unnamed. they are saying this is whats going on behind-the-scenes for these republican governors they cannot tout the recovery without giving some credit to the president. >> right p.m. tap ron not just in florida, its in ohio, michigan, wisconsin. i point out to you that in pla the unemployment rate is at 8.6%. back in 2009 it...

Forward looking vision. and i just think romney is going to be better on offense. it is easier to be he fighting in a lot of different places poking at the presidents record as long as he shares his own vision and for romney to get where he needs to go. >> when you were trying to get president bush elected his may 2004 approval rating 49%. president obamas may, 2012, 47%. george w. bush won reelection. that is not that -- >> and if you look at where our ballot position was it is roughly comparab...

plumbers. all kidding aside, its not the same job requirement. so, its totally legitimate for the president to point this out. >> this comes as a new ad from president obama highlights the, quote, real people who were affected by bain capital, that private equity company that mitt romney ran for 15 years. take a look at that ad. >> makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money that theyll ever spend, yet they didnt have the money to take care of the very people that...

Dramatic opportunity? >> he never does. he never does. you always say, this is the time where romney can roll the dice. he never does that. >> hes pretty boxed in. because of all of the statements that he made during the primaries. he has to be extremely careful because i would -- i would venture to guess that the obama campaign has a dozen ads in the can waiting for him to say well, let me move to the left. and you listen to what john boehner says about any fight in congress, theres going to be...

facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. its not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. well h...

top of tf of the hour. a terror blot here at home. the feds say this frgroup of a anarchists are accused of wanting to blow up a bridge in ohio. the target here, a four lane bridge in cleveland. but get this, the fbi says it controlled the plot the entire time. under cover and the public was never ever in danger. so coming up, more on that alleged plot and how they planned to distract place. but first breaking news. im hearing now president obama has made a surprise visit to afghanista...

But now its for members only. so you have to be dutch, 18 years or older, and theyre going to limit the number of members each of these coffeeshops has. so you cant just go and buy or smoke weed in a coffeeshop, as you perhaps were able to do in 2011, but this doesnt kick into effect until may 2012. so if you want to go to the netherlands, now is your time. you should probably do it. >> theyre coming down on the sinners. okay, hungry now. a lot of outrage from people complaining about limiting v...

here its agony of waiting. a father who is trying to find out whether his two sons are still alive in the rubble. before we talked to him he found out that they had found one of his sons dead and trying to bring him out now. you get a real sense from all the people standing here waiting to find out news about loved ones in these numerous buildings that have collapsed as they see pieces of their lives, furniture, bits and pieces and all they want to know is that their loved ones are saf...

To characterize itself, this was something left for the israelis to decide. and there are so many other issues to resolve that we have to resolve before we get to that issue. both of the issue of refugees and the issue of rights of the arab minority in israel, which is 1.3 million, by the way, not 1 million like the prime minister said. >> how do you respond to the prime minister when he says tear up your pact with hamas? >> well, you know, we dont interfere in israeli politics. there are certai...

to gather in n great anticipation of -- in great anticipation of this important speech. obviously youre looking at the leadership, democratic as well as republican leadership, beginning to gather. a lot of handshakes as they enter the chamber. and this is really a critical time for both president obama and the israeli prime minister because when we look at this, there are critical ties between the two countries. we are talking about political ties, religious ties, as well as real conce...