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Virginia, in the battlegrounds, movement in wisconsin. wisconsins gone from high single digits to low single digits for the president. theres real movement in the battlegroundses. were seeing more movement in the non-battleground states and we have evidence, we did some analysis here, you know, romney has improved a full eight points already in the so-called red states in comparison to where mccain was in the red states four years ago. our pollsters did some analysis and yet theres been no real ...

Source of the infection. bill: our top story this morning. was there a big winner or big loser. steve hayes, good morning to you. this may be known as the split screen debate. the rnc was talking about there is early on last night. on the screen now, this is an image a lot of folks saw. mitt romney staring at the president and the president looking down at the podium and perhaps some notes in front of him. what do you make of that? >> it was really strike. it suggests the president was disengage...

Romney to hammer him over and over taking that chin down. its almost like being lectured at and bad, bad. almost like a father to a son kind of thing. >> chris, obama also, you know, we saw him nodding in agreement a lot. he seemed to concede points preemptively. romney would interrupt him, and obama seemed relieved to, you know, sort of say make it stop. we have a clip of that happening as well. >> youve been president four years. you said youd cut the deficit in half. its four years later and ...

Education system in the long run and make it sounder and better able to produce a good, quality education for the kids. look, people have to do hard things in politics. people have to do tough things in politics. thats one thing fred and why agree on. leaders have to make difficult choices and sometimes thats going to involve short-term pain but if its short-term pain for long-term gain its worth it. >> well, i should note that fred malik has been nodding in agreement so we end on that note of a...

We need to address that. at the same point in time this countrys finances are in terrible shape. we face large and growing structural deficits due to known demographic trends, rising health care costs. we must address both. we must address both in a comprehensive and integrative fashion and the candidates when they debate, need to be very specific and very substantive about how they propose to do that so that whoever wins will have a mandate for action, because weve got to make progress on both ...

Dealing with high gasoline prices. >> shep: ed henry live at the white house tonight. thanks very much. i mentioned were reporting from slidell, louisiana. in some areas, you heard the cop earlier say this area is prone to flooding. but not in this area. not in this spot. in fact, its only flooded once in his 28 years. that was around hurricane katrina. other than that, what theyre worried about mostly is the nodding. theyre using these tracks to try to move rocks and bolders into areas to set u...

>> the house republicans come in and one thing they try to do is defund planned parenthood. the thing about todd aiken is the tragedy for todd akin is it has given lip service and this bad on abortion since 1992. very few people realize it because the party had the strategy of winking and nodding at their base and putting forward a more moderate public face around this and only talking about we wouldnt allow abortion in cases of rape and invest. todd akin has brought that hypocrisy right out in ...

He-- first of all, i thinks overrated i would never go as far as to question his mental acuity. hes been overrated, hes been presented an an important policy genius since hes been in the senate since hes 30. i think part of the reason that biden gets such a pass and its one of the problems in washington is that he has been schmoozing with these reporters and editors for the last 30 years. he has, now, everyone loves to go to his parties and i think that people cut him slack because of that. >> j...

Risottos testimony out. >> not only did he say the conversation took place at many different places on many different dates but on a prior occasion he was allowed by the prosecutors to testify under oath falsely and they didnt correct the false testimony. >> here is is the problem. if there were different dates do you think the prosecutor should be telling his witness what what to say? shouldnt he be subject to cross-examination but you. >> if they have records. >> he is nodding. >> well, if the...

Politic, i mean, lets be clear. race is the kicker. its been that way for a century and certainly going through presidential politics and presidential elections, particularly going back to richard nixon or even before thats, barry goldwater, states rights, small government. all of these are cold words, cold terms winking and nodding to the white south saying if you elect a gop president, be clear on one thing, be assured of one thing, that president is going to protect and safeguard your interes...