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Bill: right now more than $12 trillion, martha. martha: my goodness, look at that number. bill: quickly approaching 13. thats a huge number, growing exactly as you say. bernanke says even if the economy is too weak at the moment you cannot add new taxes or spending cuts. he says the administration should at least be talking about a plan, some sort of plan. john fund is with the "wall street journal". good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: i know you dont own a calculator that can add that u...

A very smart guy, bob mcdonnell, what was he thinking? >> and its a great question. you mentioned hes a smart guy. he ran a very incredible, well disciplined campaign to be governor of virginia. many believe he has aspirations after virginias governor. you can only serve one term, so once you get elected, people begin to ask immediately where are you going next? a lot of conservatives say he made a mistake, hes a new governor, give him a slack. i talked to a leader of the state senate who said i...

So far in mudslides caused by days of heavy rain. flooded roadways are making travel nearly impossible. at least 10,000 homes threadened by the continuing downpours. no deaths reported from yesterdays 7.7 earthquake in indonesia. tsunami warnings are lifted. however, there are still widespread power outages and some minor damage. the oil remaining inside a ship thats beached on australias great barrier reef will be pumped out today. the chinese registered vessel hit the reef at full speed sa...

That, i think, premature evacuation to leave the game early. >> all right. thank you, contessa. president obama is changing course from his predecessors, placing unprecedented limits on the united states nuclear arsenal. well take a look at whether the strategy shift will make americans any safer. graphic video released of an american military chopper shooting and killing journalists in iraq. time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to ...

Have time to do in this hour. the headline perhaps answers the questions that itself creates. obama limits when the u.s. would use nuclear arms and to read the first paragraph, easier than summarizing it. president obama said monday he was revamping american nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions underwhich the united states would use nuclear weapons, even in self-defense, carving out exception for outliers, outliers like iran and north korea. this part of his approach to nuclea...

Story that has just broken on its website, that merits further analysis which we may or may not have time to do in this hour. the headline perhaps answers the questions, obama limits when u.s. would use nuclear arms and to read the first paragraph, president obama said monday he was revamping american nuclear strategy to narrow the conditions under which the united states would use nuclear weapons, even in self-defense, carving out exception for outliers, outliers like iran and north korea, quot...

The headline perhaps answers the questions, obama limits when u.s. would use nuclear arms and to read the first paragraph, president obama said monday he was revamping american nuclear strategy to narrow the conditions under which the united states would use nuclear weapons, even in self-defense, carving out exception for outliers, outliers like iran and north korea, quoting the president. part of his approach to nuclear security. the day before releasing a formal new strategy which obviously wo...

>> neil: incredible. the blame game obviously is something politicians of both parties are pretty good at. but this has a special longevity license to it. whats going on? >> well, its been a year and three months. an entire presidential term is only four years. i think in the obama administrations interest its time to drop the word inherited. its theirs, better or worse, the economy is theirs and people hold them and should hold them accountable otherwise presidents could go through the whole te...

Damage in several communities around boston. were hearing from residents who are talking about two to three inches of water in the basements, you have streets shut down. theyre saying no major traffic issues, but a lot of areas closed off. neighborhoods closed off still, and dealing with the water damage. well continue to watch those pictures and well bring you more as they come in. in the meantime earlier today in rome, pope benedict celebrated holy thursday mass. he dedicated the mass to pries...

In washington and he certainly is not. he is, as you said, following in the footsteps of his predecessors who at this point i think george w. bush out of 171 had done 15 at this point in his presidency, these recess appointments. the problem is not the noncontroversial ones. the problem -- the republicans, all republicans in the senate, 41 of them, wrote a letter in recent days before the recess began asking, you know, urging the administration not to do this because theyre particularly concerne...