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That? that they are improving? are they stubborn? are they right? >> well, i think you could argue that there has been some progress. i dont see how you can pour that kind of money into the economy without seeing some result. but the fact is, one, it is far, far short of their predictions. and two, now it seems the economy seems to have slowed down again, after a fairly at least some improvements in the spring and early summer. now it seeps to have fallen off again. and the unemployment -- now i...

The truck came to a stop upside down. the driver was apparently unhurt but chased from the scene by an angry crowd who started pelting him with rocks. the victims were a few feet away from the track. >> we heard everybody start screaming and a truck starts flipping. we looked over, everybody scrambles away, people run down from the rocks up there and, you know, started flipping the truck over. people laying there, knocked out. >> the car was competing in the california 200 race in the lucerene v...

A while, right? okay. no signs of remorse today from new york congressman charlie rangel. he was giving a speech today and he talked about why hes fighting accusations of corruption made against himhous. >> if you want to give me a deal, lets give me a deal based on the facts. but dont give me a deal based on what makes you feel comfortable. so you can threaten, but when you know that you have the facts and your people and your community behind you, it means that i dont expect to have another ba...

>> shannon: here are some of the top stories were following now on americas news headquarters. at the end of a critical 48-hour testing period over the capped oil well draws near, b.p. says testing could extend beyond the original deadline, adding pressure is slowly building in the well. but for now, no signs of new leaks since the cap was installed on thursday. secretary of state hillary clinton is headed to afghanistan right now. her mission is to redefine goals of the 9-year-old war as casual...

With his money troubles mounting, his father dead, and his life spiraling downward, this spring, joran van der sloot allegedly made a bold attempt to cash in on the natalee holloway disappearance. >> i got the first e-mail from van der sloot, march 30th. >> attorney john q. kelly represents the holloway family in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against van der sloot. he spoke exclusively to nbc news about the alleged extortion plot that he says began with the e-mail from van der sloot. what went ...

Mounting frustration. >> i think david cameron will acknowledge concern where its legitimate and the same time hell say where anger has perhaps gotten out of hand or given the impression being zenophobic in the way its expressed can only be counterproductive. >> reporter: the newest estimate of government that gushed in the oil before this took hold is up to 25,000 to 30,000 barrels per day, six times the original 5,000 barrel estimate. enough billowing oil to equal exxon valdez spill in the gul...

Okay, because canada has this, this is what we need. you know, we are a different type of country. >> bill: it all comes back to the central question that we havent heard in a few weeks but was roaring is president obama hard core socialist and does he want to impose so many programs to redistribute wealth that america does not really not a capitalistic nation anymore because the government controls how much you can have? and i think. >> i think, yeah. >> bill: the secretary of defense mounting....

Okay, because canada has this, this is what we need. you know, we are a different type of country. >> bill: it all comes back to the central question that we havent heard in a few weeks but was roaring is president obama hard core socialist and does he want to impose so many programs to redistribute wealth that america does not really not a capitalistic nation anymore because the government controls how much you can have? and i think. >> i think, yeah. >> bill: the secretary of defense mounting....

Okay, because canada has this, this is what we need. you know, we are a different type of country. >> bill: it all comes back to the central question that we havent heard in a few weeks but was roaring is president obama hard core socialist and does he want to impose so many programs to redistribute wealth that america does not really not a capitalistic nation anymore because the government controls how much you can have? and i think. >> i think, yeah. >> bill: the secretary of defense mounting....

Action regardless just another example of the utter lack of integrity and actual capitalism in our theoretically titans of capitalism. next up, mortgage giants fannie and freddie asking for taxpayer money after their dismal first quarter. fannie and freddie the place where so much housing risk resides even though a lot of the housing profits are not. genius. the fannie mae continues to lose billions of your dollars as foreclosures and defaults keep mounting. freddie mac hemorrhaging money. both ...