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a polling place to greet supporters and lower expectations of the big win, poking fun at his eight-vote victory last week in the iowa caucuses. >> i think we can probably double the margin we got in iowa. i hope so. >> reporter: the latest polls show romney holding steady despite a flurry of attacks in recent days from his rivals. house speaker newt gingrich, who led the attacks, has dropped to last place. a top romney advisor said the polls show the recent attacks ba backfired. today,...

♪ ♪ >> bret: home mortgage rates are back at their record low. the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.91 this week. matching the record from two weeks ago. however, analysts say many americans cant afford to take advantage of the raids, or have done so already. applications for unemployment benefit dropped by another 15,000 last week to 372,000. that is 11% lower this time last year. the national unemployment numbers for december come out tomorrow. u.s. s...

♪ ♪ >> bret: home mortgage rates are back at their record low. the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.91 this week. matching the record from two weeks ago. however, analysts say many americans cant afford to take advantage of the raids, or have done so already. applications for unemployment benefit dropped by another 15,000 last week to 372,000. that is 11% lower this time last year. the national unemployment numbers for december come out tomorrow. u.s. s...

corrupt. >> free enterprise works. crony capitalism does not. he is engaged in crony capitalism. people who happen to contribute to his campaign find they get government help starting businesses. >> they are flushing out new combat rhetoric in advance of back-to-back debate this weekend. >> romney ran for governor and called himself a moderate. as governor he raised taxes. as governor, he put planned parenthood in romneycare. as governor, romney has tax paid abortions. >> rick santorum...

he is engaged in crony capitalism. people who happen to contribute to his campaign find they get government help starting businesses. >> they are flushing out new combat rhetoric in advance of back-to-back debate this weekend. >> romney ran for governor and called himself a moderate. as governor he raised taxes. as governor, he put planned parenthood in romneycare. as governor, romney has tax paid abortions. >> rick santorum as a mere foot soldier in the g.o.p. led revolution. >> in hi...

indeed desire to excel and he did indeed xl and he did bring it home, and i want to read you something that he rode. this is years after coming back from paris after completing the sherman statute. writing to his friend who was a very good american painter who had also been in paris and old fellow telling him about coming home. ive had a wonderful experience and its been surprising in many respects, one of which is to find out how much of an american i am. i belong in america, that is ...

we have people like john single sergeant whose innate ability -- he was a prodigy. he was painting some of the greatest pictures ever painted by an american when he was still in his 20s in paris working primarily under a french painter who really was his master and who sent him down to spain to study valaska because he said everything you need to know is in valaska. it went on and on. vincent st. gardens was a boy growing up in the streets of new york, put to work at all of 13 years ol...

historianalls, e-mails, tweets. we will put those numbers up and we will begin right away with a call from manville new jersey. new jersey, you are on with historian david mccullough. >> caller: hello, mr. mccullough. first i want to say that you are a very good author. i read your book john adams and truman. both are very good. and my question is -- my questions are what is the criteria you have for determining what people you are going to write about, and do you see any present histo...

associated with the occupied wall street movement at the two- month anniversary. if you are a democrat, calle -- you can also send us an e-mail. can send us a tweet. again, the occupy protest at two months. we want to get your assessment. the editorials of the papers, particularly those in the tabloids are this way this morning. "the new york post" calling in "loud, but lame." the editorial of "the daily news this morning called it "99% point list." in "the washington post this morning...

Of the u.s. and many say that he was not only wrongly accused, convicted and executed, but that modern justice may clear his name. now a lawyer wants to reopen the case of george stinney jr., a 14-year-old electrocuted back in south carolina in 1944. mark potter has more on this story that you may have first read on thegrio.com. for years george has been haunted by the case of 14-year-old george stinney jr., the youngest person executed in the united states in the 20th century. >> everyone wan...