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Christie, i did a little checking today. you have been governor in new jersey for the last 22 months. youve only had 12 months of private sector job growth. youve got some catching up to do with the guy who you say is not a leader. and of course, the president saved the automobile industry in this country from collapse which would have had a trickle-down effect. a domino effect that would have killed hundreds of thousands of jobs had he have not done it. republicans didnt help him out. he did it...

Not, he was a leader for his views of what this country -- >> are republicans afraid -- are they afraid of his actual accomplishments so the only thing they can do is generically speak about what a failure he is? >> theyre trying to have it both ways. they say hes a socialist and danger to the country because hes trying to turn us into europe and hes a disastrous president because hes taking us off course. and then theyre saying hes not doing anything. hes not a leader. which is it? cant be both...

Is there occasional racism, of course, but this countrys been transformed on the issue of race. you talk to young people, they dont understand how people could have judged people by race. they just dont even, it doesnt even parse. >> hes got a pulse, doesnt he? thats conservative talker bill bennett proclaiming last year that racism in america is essentially dead. its been a familiar right wing talking point ever since the nation elected its first african-american president. yet, heres the lates...

Im called upon to denounce him or renounce that statement. bull i dont see many white americans within the fwgop saying this is wrong, rude. the ability to criticize from within and suggest these kinds of comments will not be tolerated and the sentiments they put forth are not representative of the entire republican party. >> of course, we had the controversy with rick perrys family ranch. and now ron paul is distancing himself from a series of racist newsletters that apparently appeared under h...

The presidents accomplishments happened in spite of a congress with the worst filibuster record in history. and, of course, with the republican leader in the senate saying his number one goal was to defeat barack obama and make him a one-term president. but right wingers still say hes not a leader. if you doubt president obamas leadership, he has an answer for you right here. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al qaeda leaders whove been taken off the field, whether i engage in appe...

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Weeks. theyre horribly unreasonable and out of touch with the economy. senator, when is the last time the senate got 89 votes on anything? its pretty rare, isnt it? >> its pretty rare. the last time we got close to it was a bill i authored last spring to eliminate another provision against small business on 1099 forms. we got 81 votes. i dont remember too many other times this year weve done that. the reality is that weve got to get through into the new year, protect that tax cut and then go bac...

Who simply is a christian? >> right, i dont know. hes such a great role model and in this day and age, as you noted, gretchen, its so refreshing to have somebody where i can have my daughters, you know, theyll stick his poster up and you know exactly what youre getting and you dont have to worry about taking down in a few weeks for whatevers happened. but i guess thats just how we are at times, that as people get more popular, we tend to nit-pick and try to find ways to pull them down off of wha...

>> the petih-hawk, chapman families would like to thank the jury for their very difficult decision on this case. >> cnns deborah feyerick cov offing this case from the beginning. shes in new haven, connecticut. take us inside the courtroom when we get the verdict, death by lethal injection. >> reporter: you know, it was very emotional during the reading of the verdict, death on all six counts, that komisarjevsky was facing. he showed no real emotion. at the enwas led out in handcuffs. ...

good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day youve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad youre with us. >> i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. its already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. >> the stuffing is quite good actually. >> first up this morning, one thing were very thankful for, our brave men and women in the mili...