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For "the washington post." good morning. >> good to see you. >> the post offices troubles are well-told at this point. is this a plan thats going to fix that? >> they say it will save them $20 billion by 2015 and it needs to happen because virtually nobody is sending first class mail anymore, at least the volume of it is down considerably in the last five years. this would close 223 processing facilities where the mail is sorted before its delivered. most of these places employ hundreds of peopl...

Position like that, as we were discussing earlier. we have never had 99-week unemployment insurance for anywhere as close as this. there is certainly no precedent for having unemployment insurance benefits available for this long of a period. >> we are talking about jobs here. >> we have never had an unemployment. we have never had unemployment numbers at the level that we have them. they mask some long-term unemployment. look at unemployment of black american youth. so if you look for the last ...

good morning, everyone. its wednesday, december 14th. im christine romans along with carol costello on this "american morning." good morning. >> good morning, good morning to all of you. good and bad news this morning for the gop front-runner newt gingrich. with less than thee weeks until the iowa caucuses his political director in the state stepped down after calling mormonism a cult. two gop candidates, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. gingrich is already working with a bare...

here in washington last night, but the real punches were thrown in des moines. >> lets be candid. the only reason you didnt become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. >> the last thing bibbyi netanyu needs to have is not just a person who is an historian but also someone who is running for president of the united states stand up and say things that create extraordinary tumult in his neighborhood. >> if you want a difference, michele bachmann is the difference. >> ...

is "state of the union." there was a boxing match here in washington last night, but the real punches were thrown in des moines. >> lets be candid. the only reason you didnt become a career politician is you lost to tedty kennedy in 1994. >> the last thing he needs to have is not just a person who is an historian but also someone who is running for president of the united states stand up and say things that create extraordinary timult in his neighborhood. >> if you want a difference,...

First-class mail could take two to three days to be delivered. 350 processing centers will be closed and 28,000 jobs will be eliminated. the major cutbacks in service are expected to save $3 billion. congress will be asked for permission to end saturday delivery. >> description of the justices department of fast and furious. governor grassley said you always have somebody covering up for somebody else. they finally admit they provided congress with inaccurate information about gun running. but t...

afghanistan. they wont say whether its the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. >> the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that theres a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor...

They wont receive mail the day after it was sent if i was sent in an overnight standard area, d.c. to northern virginia could take additional day. for people outside d.c., heres a map, it is going to take an extra day to go across the river. congressman chaffetz says if this is a sign of things to come, maybe it is time to privatize the postal service. >> we dont appropriate money to them, they have to sell stamps to generate revenue we want to continue that you dont cut service, limit the days ...

Billion surplus today had that law not been passed. now, isas bill would end saturday delivery and close or consolidate thousands of post offices and processing centers across america. isas bill would eliminate tens of thousands of middle class union jobs, but he doesnt give a damn. >> 80% of their costs are human beings, and if youve got too many human beings, youll build inefficiency, youll use labor poorly, and thats whats been happening, and its why we have to get this right. >> too many hum...

leader mustafa abdel-jalil. he is representing libya at the 65th u.n. general assembly. he has been meeting with president obama the last hour as well as ban ki moon. in a few minutes, president obama will sit down with afghan president happened karzai. this is their first meeting since the u.s. spelled out a plan to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. today, for the first time, gays and lesbians can openly serve in the united states military. the law known as dont ask, dont tell has...