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$6.5 billion, which is what it would cost to extend unemployment insurance benefits for six months, is offset with spending cuts. democrats say thats not necessary, lets pass this short-term extension and hammer out a broader deal. president obama talked about this in his weekly media message. hes also going to hold an event here at the white house tomorrow. heres a little bit more of the debate from the sunday shows. take a listen. >> its the right thing to do. we have long-term unemployment. t...

Be released in eight swing states. lets watch. >> you work hard, stretch every penny, but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him. mitt romney made $20 million in 2010 but paid only 14% in taxes. probably less than you. now he has a plan that would give millionaires another tax break and raise his taxes on middle class families by up to $200,000 a year. mitt romneys middle class tax increase. he pays less, you pay more. >> why this is a technical point. why do they do that product placeme...

courageous move. while an attorney for trayvon martins family says the family is trying to have patience. north korea thumbing its nose at the world. any day now could launch this rocket which would violate a u.n. resolution. much of the world sees this as a possible test for a long-range missile that would be capable of reaching the united states. now south korea is warning that the north is trying to provoke an angry international reaction. it says that the north plans to use that ...

>> authorities say it looks like everyone in the air and on the ground survived the crash of the navy jet into an apartment complex in virginia beach. its the bottom of the hour and doug mckill way has the top stories. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. they said crews have carefully checked all the apartments and believe everybody has been accounted for. seven people, including the pilots, were treated for injuries. one pilot is still in the hospital. about 40 units were damaged in the crash. ...

Appreciate, they treshshare their first in the nation status, judy. is this more of shaping the media message and media field from here on out? >> oh, definitely. it is just so important that the eight minutes or two minutes or 30 seconds that you have as a candidate on a cable news station like fox is so much more important in most places today than at these caucuses are or that the primaries are. the game is so totally different. i think were going to see after iowa and new hampshire a real wi...

i wasnt there. i wasnt present in that crime. >> cnns matthew chance was in the courtroom. matthew, walk us through this mornings hearing, will you? >> reporter: yeah, martin. it was very emotional. amanda knox came in escorted by the guards and looked very stressed indeed, very pale. her head was hung down. she didnt even look at her family, who were gathered in one corner of the courtroom to give her support. her former boyfriend also serving a lengthy prison sentence for the murder ...

To think dump it on the ocean, the ocean can handle it? >> who is saying that? >> and the president would be foolish to say we will have a broad moratorium on offshore drilling. with t. wouldnt work and when you think about the potential economic impact that would have by cutting this out i think you are talking about something dramatic. >> chris: we have to take a break here. when we come back, elena kagan is nominated to the supreme court. to conservatives or liberals have the biggest gripe? a...

>> a journal i could think of courageous enough to regularly photographs of and maps of american with mexico annexed on, free speech. >> the media should be interested in what the real agenda is-- >> i am not turning to michelle for ethnic understanding, im afraid. >> elliss will defend to the death your right to say it. >> jon: is the cleanup hindered or help the oil spill. >> congress looks for the answers to the gulf oil spill and everyone points fingers in the bill spill blame game. is the m...