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Simpson-bowles as the default position if instead of the sequester and then deal with post-election. you know, pretty smart idea. but nobody else is talking, nobody running for office is talking about anything specific. neither side. i think people are smart enough, the american public is smart enough to know that this is all a distraction. >> mika, what -- what do these numbers tied to for the most part? >> probably the handling of the economy. we have new numbers here, the presidents drop in f...

Is that a sign that cain can move on and put this behind him if he plays his cars right or will this continue to dog the campaign especially if these women team up for a joint press conference as they alluded theyre going to do. >> i dont think this issue is going away any time soon for the cain campaign. theyll have to deal with it. theyve been dealing with it aggressively. the candidate addressed it aggressively. obviously with these types of stories other shoes tend to fall it remains to be s...

Been different. in the white house. and i thought there was interesting, not really since tucson and the state of the union speech... bill: post-election. martha: absolutely and you wonder if that, where it takes us from here and well get into that a little bit tomorrow as well. bill: martha, nicely done. now to egypt and we are following the latest breaking developments, amazing images continue to pour into our newsroom. why today could be the most volatile day so far. it is night fall, just be...

Institution, in this country. >> the president, the president has been clear hes willing to -- willing to have a very, very broad discussion on all of these issues, and, in fact, as i said, has shown more of a willingness to take on these things than anyone has in my memory but it has to be a bipartisan exercise. martha: that was part one of my interview with david axelrod and youll catch part two tomorrow and well look at the campaign, because he confirmed to me hell be senior advisor, the same...

The other returns fire later. we have wondered hour by hour, which side the military takes. this is a country largely ruled by the military. if they support mubarek, hes safe and hes good and there will be a crackdown, good in terms of power and holding on to it until september. if not, what happens then? and thats the wild card the world waits to see play out. martha: well keep an eye on it. in the meantime, social security, as we have reported here, is expected to run dry by 2037, and republ...

Digital age and they dont like to have to search for what they want to read. the reason they still are clinging to that newspaper is because it packages it for them. so this theoretically brings that all together. but its a big question mark. it is exciting. theres no doubting the success of this device. there is some doubt about the success of the publication, but this is the first of its kind. while youre watching closely, let me tell you, i was oeupb the -- on the train, looking around and a ...

The -- invalidate as little as possible to let the other branch that wrote the law decide what to do with it so if the supreme court throws out parter it, the ball is in congress camp as to what to do with the rest. if the supreme court throws out all of it, its as if the law never existed. congress would have to start from scratch. bill: there is a chance that congress vote to repeal may not be necessary. >> precisely, bill, but we wont know that because theyre going to vote to repeal today and...

Thats not what senator grahams point is. he says i want to see social security last for years to come so we need to save this thing over time. hes not talking about anyone who is currently in or near retirement. its in the future. bill: right. what he says is raise it from 67 to 69, for anyone under the age of 55, to be phased in over time. kind of like what they did in the mid 80s with tip oneill, speaker of the house and ronald reagan, they went from 65 to 67. but what would that do for us? $1...

Very hard hit in addition to chicago, new york city area, new york city area alone, hundreds and hundreds of cancellations, also hard hit, the atlanta area, today 99 cancellation there. anecdotally the port authority of new york and new jersey, bill says that this has been one of the worst years in recent memory when it comes to cancelling flights. bill: and the economic impact, also. david lee miller, thank you. martha: and, indiana, taking few chance with the storm. the snow mixed with ice and...

Concerned about attacks on the media as well and were watching the situation as well and keep you up to speed on all the developments, ongoing. volatile situation. bill: almost 5:30 there, a new chapter in digital journalism called the daily, the first newspaper launched on-line exclusively on-line and latest venture by our parent company, news corp. ed shibani joshi is live, have you seen it? what does it looks like? >> reporter: i havent seen it yet. bill, but were a couple hours away from act...