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Democrats have been and still are more against the afghanistan war than republicans are, but republicans are really rapidly catching up. look at that, this is just the republicans. 27 point drop in support for the afghanistan war among republicans since president obama took office in 2009. the american people are against the war in afghanistan. the numbers on the afghanistan war right now look roughly the same as the numbers on iraq. the only difference is that the afghanistan war is a war that ...

Arkansas. mr. huckabee, governor huckabee, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: jon, lets turn now to gas prices. it is a big issue on the campaign trail and for all of us. the price of gas is topping $3.08 a gallon. in some areas that price is well over $4 as you well know. the new numbers show that the pain at the pump could hurt the president. his polls of his approval rating at an all-time low in one particular survey. wendell goler is live at the white house with more on this. >> reporter: ...

Line. this is not one of those things there is a big partisan splip. democrats have been and still are more against the afghanistan war than republicans are, but republicans are really rapidly catching up. look at that, this is just the republicans. 27 point drop in support for the afghanistan war among republicans since president obama took office in 2009. the american people are against the war in afghanistan. the numbers on the afghanistan war right now look roughly the same as the numbers on...

That got ron paul booed at the debate. plus overt your eyes if you dont want to see a celebrity chef feeding jon stewart mouth to mouth. come on. believe it or not, theyre making a point about super pacs here. that clip im afraid to say coming your way later in the show. first lets get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. with jon huntsman officially dropping out of the race on monday, the republican presidential field is down to five in a race that may come down to wh...

Saying you need to go big and bold maybe criticize that over the next 24 hours and then have the president step out tomorrow and say, no actually its 400 billion, or 500 billion. there is a little bit of mystery here. there is also a lot of pressure on this president. the last time he used a setting like this. a joint session of congress to push one single plan it was healthcare on 9-9-09. he won in the end on that battle. at that point he had a much different political standing. in fox news pol...

Magnified. all of the major stock indices fell more than 4%. the dow lost 500 points. the nasdaq 100. the s&p off 50. the red arrows wiped out all of yesterdays gains. eamericaing today, concerns over what may be a developing global bank crisis as investors continue to worry about the debt problems in europe and whether they will send americas weak economy into a second recession. the concern today, french debt. the president there nicholas sarkozy cut short his vangz on the french revolver i --...

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Texas, will get into this race. >> you call us to repent, lord. >> god bless each of you. >> for thy is the kingdom. hes a wise, wise god. cry out for your forgiveness. >> rejoice in the lord. >> jesus! i love men. >> so pretty darn [ bleep ]. >> oh. >> you know, i got 98% of what i wanted. >> good evening from washington, john boehner got 98% of what he wanted again today. the dow jones industrial average dropped 634 points today, it is the worst one-day point drop since december 2008. 98% of t...

Lowering the cost for the federal government to borrow money. still, some analyst say the downgrade created more uncertainty in already volatile market. because of their heavy reliance on the u.s. government financing, the s&p has also downgraded the ratings of mortgage backers fannie mae and freddie mac. s&p is only one of the big three rating agencies to downgrade the u.s. moodys and phish confirmed the rating but moodys has the u.s. on the negative outlook, warning there is potential for down...

The worst one-day point drop since december 2008. 98% of that drop would be 621 points which according to boehners claim are assignable to him and house republicans who say they got 98% of what they wanted in the deficit reduction deal, which preceded the sharp decline in the stock market they wanted last week. skiddish investors, fleeing stocks, rushed to safer investments, and, as is customary during a stock market collapse, they rushed to the safest investment in the world, united states trea...