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People who stay with their parents. a term for italy who does this and they do this. >> neil: youre out of money. >> unemployed, underemployed and get paid your welfare payments and party every night and its kind of where were going and i think this is a direct correlation, and i think-- >> and you could have cited any other country on earth, but you had to go-- >> you know what. >> and you could have gone after france, but no, no, mother italy. charles, charles. >> firsthand experience. >> a lo...

Election day. >> and when eric cantor first learned about this, and he, from all reports, the majority leader, and this is just before the election, he, by october 31st, had learned about this, from this fbi agent, lets talk more about that. this is the agent that has initially contacted by jill kelly in tampa about e-mails that were of concern to her. and she happened to know this fbi agent socially. >> thats right. >> they were friends. >> so he helped her launch this investigation. >> he was ...

City yet again. 30 more people are dead. leland vittert is in our northeast bureau. how sophisticated were these bombs? >> reporter: very sophisticated. these were coordinated attacks. the bombs went off within minutes of each other. the bombers were able to get into a secured area in aleppo near a military compound. the results are incredibly devastating. the bombs themselves were very large, killed dozen of people, then also injured hundreds more. the scenes we are seeing off syrian state tv l...

Growth. joining us now is senior editor of the new republic timothy noah, author of the great divergence" a book everybody should read. i wanted to jump off of some numbers in the "new york times" on the editorial page today talking about debt held by the top 1% or top 5 versus it the bottom 95%. in 1983, the top 5% in this country, 80 cents of debt was held for every dollar of income. in 19 3 in it erms of the bottom, 60 cents. those numbers have greatly changed. in 2007, the top 5% held 65 cen...

Hispanics put their money in their homes and nothing else. >> if you lose your home, youre out of it. >> so its so real. >> but, i think it -- it points to something dame im sorry. i think it does point to something profound about how we c conceptualize who we blame for this mess we find ourselves in. >> blame the victim. theres something about this article that tied into newt gingrichs incredible sensitivity for what its like to grow up poor and i just -- its -- >> the funny thing about that ar...

Just financial asem trees. i need we need a new schoolhouse rock about how a bill becomes a law. >> yeah, maybe with rick rosss "every day i am hustling." >> and theres a sense that the congress is a more complicated place. government has grown and its bigger and its more complicated. theres a lot going on. and it points to the fact that being a professional politician, and we might want to call it an expert elected official has value because you learn over time how to run -- >> i want to talk m...

Suggests theyre not happy with the front runner theyve had so far, with mitt romney. and there is this tendency in the republican party. remember fred thompson. a year out he was the great white hope that was going to rescue the gop. and there is always this tendency for them to look for somebody they think is the ideal candidate. and it points at the moment to this discrepancy. i mean, governor dean says that jon huntsman is in the wrong party. actually it just points to the fact that the repub...

Executives, and accounting gym its and the company withheld information and then a failure by its auditor. the auditor, young, basically performed professional malpractice in terms of moving -- in terms of how they hid their big leverage, and they used something called the repo 105. and they have been doing this for years, actually. the $50 billion in 2008 made it looks like the books were better than they thought. they found accounting tricks to make things look better than they were. and it po...

The trump administration but in this case hes skeptical about the report. listen to what he said this morning on "state of the union". >> i dont know who leaked this suppose conversation but think about this. you have the ambassador of russia reporting back to moscow on an open channel. hey, jared kushner is going to move into the embassy. i dont trust this story as far as i can throw it. i think it makes no sense that the russian ambassador would report back to moscow on a channel that he most ...

The last couple of weeks that weve been here in hawaii, covering the presidents working vacation, all of it points -- drives home the point that president obama has been making for a while which is he wanted to run through the tape on his administration, he wants to work up until the very end to get as much done as he can. as much of his agenda done as we can. also take some steps to try to protect his legacy. so you are seeing him employee these sanctions, he is going to be heading up to capito...