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He likes to refer to himself as a scientist. he has far more science training than most members of congress and than i do. he got his bachelor of science degree majoring in chemistry and he was a practicing physician before becoming a practicing politician. but if congressman brown is a scientist, he is a mad scientist. a very, very mad scientist. >> ive come to understand all that stuff i was taught about evolution and big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. its just li...

i met her last year, she had an aggressive form of ovarian cancer and couldnt get the chemotherapy medication she desperately needed. >> you know, you feel like youre in a fight with one hand tied behind your back. we just at the time said lets go with what we have and see what happens. and the cancer pretty rapidly recurred. >> that was just this past november. and renee, unfortunately, did pass away. she never was able to get another dose of doxil. her can specialist and renees twoda...

Not ambulances, police cars. and they started pulling bodies out of the police cars. >> so they took the victims -- >> the people that were most gravely wounded were shoved into police cars and taken to the hospital. >> this almost sounds like an episode of "e.r." >> i said that, too. she said to me it felt like a dream. shes 33 years old. shes been a practicing physician for a number of years, but she had never seen a trauma like this. she had never seen so many patients with so many gunshot wo...

regimes promised cease fire. but were now learning the syrian government has new demands. and its easter sunday. "new york times" nick christoff joins us to talk about his new column. youre watching cnn sunday morning, where news doesnt take the weekend off. good morning, everybody. im randi kaye. glad youre with us. it is a story you heard here first. two men in custody by authoriti. this is one of them. i asked jonathan brooks will the arrest and how they found the suspects. >> we ...

some say the current thresholds under estimate the problem. four in ten adults whose d bmi that are considered overwheat would be considered obese if their body fat percentage was taken in account. we cant ignore this, because all that extra weight is cutting decades off of peoples lives. if that sounds over the top or extreme, trust me, its not. especially for our children. quite simply, many of our kids could be eating themselves to death. today, well talk about solutions to get your...

Come see why more investors are saying... im with scottrade. welcome back to "hardball." when dr. carolyn mcclanahan took her seat aboard a flight from atlanta to boston, she found herself seated next to mitt romney. she asked romney if he would pose for a picture and he agreed. then carolyn tweeted it to her followers. but when she tried to engage the candidate about health care reform, he wasnt in the mood to talk. that led to this headline, an aloof romney in a plane encounter. dr. carolyn ...

spending cuts in ten years. reid would hike the debt by $2.7 trillion now and mandate an equal amount of cuts. but the congressional budget office says the boehner plan would trim spending by $850 billion, and the reid plan by $2.2 trillion. boehner went back to the board and postponed the vote that was supposed to happen today. reids plan cant pass the house, and not only is boehners plan doomed in the senate, a great many house republicans dont like it either. so what happens now? we...

Bottles and towels? bill: here is one for you. $80,000 on a study on why the same teams always dominate march madness. >> is this a national priority? thats why taxpayers are frustrated and confused. you have members of congress talking about the debt ceiling and spending cuts. all these deficit commissions. look at one agency. $1.2 billion. and $1.7 billion has gone unspent. this is low hanging fruit. bill: you are saying its ridiculous even if we did not have the deficit. >> absolutely. bill: ...

Of the u.s. and could be a finger figure head of the radical muslim brotherhood. be careful what you ask for and it could be trouble for us and a democracy you say you are fighting for. is there. >> let me bring in a practicing physician and president of the american forum for democracy. robert spencer of jihad watch and former c.i.a. analyst and author of a new book, osama bin laden. let me go to you first. you saw dominic, they are fighting in the streets. its midnight and the flames and the f...

That between 50-129 million people will have their insurance coverage canceled ignores the fact that on thursday republicans plan to start their own efforts on replacement legislation to cut costs. this is phil gingrey who is a former ob/gyn of a quarter century. >> were going to right away given designing replacement aspects of health care. it costs too much, and we all reck these that. things like medical liability reform. cbo says well save $54 billion over ten years. >> reporter: he dose on ...