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This question while i ask stephen first. stephen moore who letter grade do you give the economy right now? >> you know, hed gied id give minus but im optimistic about the future. you take into account corporate balance sheets still look beautiful, american companies are lean, mean fighting machines, you have the low interest rates, youve got the housing recovery. im pretty optimistic we may see that b minus turn into a b plus. >> jeff, your turn. >> im right there, too. i think a b minus, this e...

Hard on this to try to get as many people ready for enrollment in october when open enrollment begins. the success or failure depends on that. republicans, 37 votes, ready to repeal it, im sure youll see more. more than that, youll see them trying to hold up the implementation process wherever they can, funding issues, what not. the real problem here is that congress cant do anything on obama care. nothing is going to pass. usually with major legislation like this, you see modifications. you see...

Rolled out, social security, medicare, you saw this. nothing is going to get tweaked with obama care because congress cannot pass anything on this right now. republicans and democrats just cant seem to get together, so theres no possibility of it getting any better at all, whether youre for it or not. >> john berman, excellent perspective. quickly to both of you, just a letter grade on the economy as it is right now. you both have made your fortunes in this economy, don peebles letter grade? >> ...

Ribbon cuttings than the kinds of repair projects like this. >> the american society of civil engineers gave a c plus to the 600,000 bridges in the u.s., 11% of them considered structurally deficient. ho worried should americans be when they drive across bridges? >> well, the worry is not so much that theyll collapse like this with a lot of frequency but the problem is the system is aging and its aging pretty rapidly. the typical bridge out there was designed to last 50 years and the average age...

Weve got to get the money together to fix things and make it a priority to fix them because this cant happen in america. >> all right. thank you so much. coming up on "the lead" he is best known for playing lieutenant dan on forrest gump but its his real life work with veterans thats making a much bigger difference than anything he does as an actor. ill talk to gary sinise about his way of giving back to the troops. plus, the bluths are back but will arrested development live up to the hype?

>> what does that tell us? >> well. >> again, president obama, american recovery and reinvestment act. this has been made a priority. >> what it tells us is those areas where we did get better grades we have made some investments in infrastructure. and thats the point of the report card. not just to get a better grade but actually make these investments and improve our economy. there is a direct link between investments and infrastructure and improvements in the economy. >> now, governor rendell...

Roads d. this is humbling. tell me what you make of it. im interested in your take as a former politician, a recovering politician maybe. every politician says they want to invest in infrastructure. i feel like its in every state of the union address ever and yet look at the grades gregs organization is giving us for it. >> well, the truth is every politician says it but they dont act upon it. interestingly, stimulus because of the tiger grants gave a lot of money to rail freight and rail went f...

Season. how is this country doing right now? >> its very divided. >> were doing all right. >> were definitely still reaping the fruit of what our forefathers have sewn into us. >> i think were starting to slip away from that. >> come on, jesse. seriously? >> what about the president? hes doing all right? >> hes doing good. hes all right. >> doing great. >> hes doing great? >> keep doing what hes doing. >> how would you grade him right now? doing a good or bad job? >> b plus. >> d minus. >> how a...

Stacy stauffer has the story. >> her father at the university she is suing. >> she is suing lehigh university for a whopping 1.3 million saying it robbed her of her dream job after giving her a c plus in one of her classes. according to the lawsuit while attending the university for free in 2009 her teacher says the family raved after complaining she had to take an extra internship and being an advocate for gay rights. >> she is very outspoken in her desire to work with those who dont have a voi...

Make sure theyre straight. i get the tail thing to make sure there is no crink in the tail but what else are they checking for? >>brian: i dont know. straight ahead, shes the army sergeant credited with stopping the shooting rampage at fort hood but she says president obama betrayed her and the other victims. >>steve: she got a c-plus in her grad course but she sued her college because the bad grade ruined her dreams. does she have a case? well talk about that straight ahead. [ emale announcer ]...