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Wants desperately to be majority leader, criticized the act calling it, what an odd thing. like theyre saying somebody swift-boating. calling it nixonian. lets listen. >> the purpose of this legislation is totally clear. after citizens united, democrats realized they couldnt shut up their critic, so they decided to go after the microphone instead. by trying to scare off the funders. the creation of a modern day nixonian enemys list is currently in full swing and frankly, the american people shou...

cnn cannot confirm its authenticity, but the damage to buildings bear the scars of some heavy fighting. over the weekend russia and china vetoed a u.n. security resolution aiming to stop violence. evacuation crews are focusing on areas in queensland town in sunday. theyre hopeful emergency leaf have is will hold back a rising river in the town. the new york giants are the champions of americas nfl. they defeated the new england patriots to win sunday nights super bowl by a score ...

alarming study showing that so many people dont know how to treat or protect themselves. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." and good morning to you. this is your "am wake-up call" for thursday, december 1st from the time warner center in new york. im carol costello. here are your top stories. stocks around the world surging after the federal reserve and other central banks make a move to stop a global financial meltdown. the dow had its biggest one-day point jump of the year. talkin...

sales of existing homes dropped. and manufacturers had been expecting a modest increase. and inflation on consumer goods was up. add in collapsing consumer confidence and you get sober advice like this -- >> 2012 could be a very difficult year. im on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than avoiding it. so, they should be conservative right now. their confidence should be down because theres every reason out there that they shouldnt feel confident. >> getting us sta...

The holidays they got an earful from their constituents about the paul ryan plan to get rid of medicare and turn it into a voucher program. they dont like that. nobody likes it. i think that boehner is backing away from that. >> big surprise, medicare is popular. i dont know why their polls didnt tell them that already. >> the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. the...

I think that boehner is backing away from that. >> big surprise, medicare is popular. i dont know why their polls didnt tell them that already. >> the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short attention span. how can they possibly believe that the attention span is that sho...

Probably took no more than, well, at least the initial part, took just not very many minutes at all. and i had gone through the same experience of coming up against that full body scan. >> yeah. >> about three months ago. >> so let me backtrack here. you have had the full scan before. what made it different this time around? why didnt you want to subject yourself to the pat-down that we know is mandatory if youre flagged and its designed obviously to keep our airports and airlines safe? >> well,...

I dont know whom he would appoint. if its a reshuffling of the deck, i dont know whether it would work. the odd thing, of course, is many of the people in his government, the prime minister, the trade minister, the finance minister, these are young reformers who have reasonably clean records. the problem the egyptian public has is with mubarak, not with his government. >> fareed, dont go away. hold on one second. fred pleitgen is on the scene. tell us whats going on. i understand some protesters...

Wherever they were. in this were small breakout groups through cairo. hundreds of pro efforters. the tv building was surrounded by riot police. the biggest demonstrations took front in front of the lawyer and journalist unions where police freely beat them with truncheons. protesters burned tires and threw rocks and fought off police. two civilians had been killed yesterday. they were communicating on twitter but access to that has been blocked and now theyre forced to distribute instructions by...

Create new jobs. but it takes time for those jobs to work themselves through the economy. >> youre talking about other shocks to the system here, which really are undermining peoples confidence in the economy. talk about some of those. >> well, you know, the odd thing is that if you look back a month, two months ago, the economy was really braced for a recovery that was more robust than most people had predicted. then all of a sudden at the beginning of may we seem to have run into a brick wall....