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Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They a...

As an earner was, was literal. i mean, it was housing and food, was what you spent all your money on. so it literally has less value. >> sure. >> in a very real sense, its like, if i throw out that zucchini, thats 6 cents -- >> culturally, we dont value it anymore. its not like our grandparents. and it all changed after the second world war, when, you know, everything became about convenience. you remember those ads back in the 50s, all these appliances, make things convenient. madmen, thats wha...

New hampshire where this afternoon mitt romney is set to officially endorse scott brown in his bid to unseat first term incumbent senator jeanne shaheen. this comes just a day after the brown campaign announced they had raised roughly $2 million over the past three months. numbers a bit smaller than the $5 million brown raised in the second quarter of the 2012 race when he was running for re-election in massachusetts against democrat elizabeth warren. the rally will be in stratham, new hampshire...

People are talking about this week with the new biography by walter isaacson, in that biography talks about a meeting with the president in which he warns him youre going to be a one-term president because youre too anti-business. does the president feel at some point that he could live with being a one-term president if he said, look, i made some tough decisions during tough times, but there were costs to doing that? >> well, i -- i think mr. jobs observation may have been more about the polls ...

Walter isaacson, in that biography talks about a meeting with the president in which he warns him youre going to be a one-term president because youre too anti-business. does the president feel at some point that he could live with being a one-term president if he said, look, i made some tough decisions during tough times, but there were costs to doing that? >> well, i -- i think mr. jobs observation may have been more about the polls at the moment, and so, i think that -- because the -- mr. job...

Not just a string of accomplishments but the change, taking on tough issues, being willing to do tough things, and the election is going to be about the future too. we have, i think, a great case to make to our supporters about what theyve done, why they need to get energized, and were going to have a great debate about the kind of country were going to have in the next decade. >> steve jobs, who a lot of people are talking about this week with the new biography by walter isaacson, in that biogr...

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