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plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands o...

Described barack obama effectively. hes been sober and some people complained about that in terms of -- >> lets get -- before we go to joan. joan, listen up here. im trying to get michael steele, our brilliant republican analyst, to really get this clear. >> yes. >> here are the two guys, nard owed to them. ron paul out there as a third option, of course, but really these two front-runners, an heres one calling the other front-runner, hes saying hes zany which is a cartoon characters reference p...

British prime ministers failure with his umbrella and failing to head off hitler back in 1938. also, can romney get incredibly aggressive with his chief republican rival now newt gingrich? he says hes only begun to fight. sally bradshaw is a republican strategist down in florida, a key state and served as a senior adviser to mitt romney back in 2008, and david corn san msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for "mother jones." sally, thanks for coming on the show. youve worked with ...

in libya. the national criminal court wants him on charges of humanity. police arrested him on sunday while he was allegedly making a pipe bomb. authorities say he got bomb-making instructions from a website linked to al qaeda. those are the top stories. "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london. >> and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. im andrew stevens. the top stories this monday, november 21st. >> its a landslide victory for their political party. >...

>> well, i could say that i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have shourd after workouts. >> youre going to hear more from jerry sandusky throughout the hour. the heart of the occupy movement now wiped clean. these are shots of new yorks zuccotti park being cleared of protesters in a police sweep early this morning. over 100 people were arrested. tents were pulled up at the stakes, and now mayor michael bloomberg says the campout is over. theres not go...

Express or something. didnt get there for a while. just about president obama, i think you have -- his place in the history books is secure and was secure on election night really. the first black president and so thats kind of already there. its going to take, i think, much longer for us to figure out what his ultimate legacy is. >> but it is hard to look at this particular event without considering the struggles going on right now. the record unemployment, the housing crisis. does the broader ...

Because you did a different approach to the way in which you got what an average voter would feel about cain, obama, perry, romney, etc. what did you do differently? >> thats right. we did conduct a national general population survey but randomly assigned our respondents into four different treatment groups and exposed them to video clips of president obama speaking about the economy and one of the three g.o.p. frontrunners also talking about the economy. we also included short bios that we requ...

Of these protestors and bring them into the democratic campaign fold as the tea party has certainly energized republicans. interesting analogy. >> well, you look back at the start of modern tea party movement, a lot of different groups have called themselves -- have used the tea party as a sort of analogous reference point. ron paul type protesters were using it long before 2009. but when rick santelli got on the floor of the stock exchange ranting about the bailout, he wasnt talking about t.a.r...

Radiation which could affect possibly -- how much of an area do you think? well, you know, at this stage were moving past the levels of the accident and toward the worst case accident for which the reference point so far has been chernobyl. i mean, we dont know the exact inventories of radioactivity in these reactors but together these four reactors have much more electrical generating capacity than chernobyl plus weve got the spent fuel pools with the highly radioactive waste so the inventories...

Told us earlier that there could be a massive release of radiation which could affect possibly -- how much of an area do you think? well, you know, at this stage were moving past the levels of the accident and toward the worst case accident for which the reference point so far has been chernobyl. i mean, we dont know the exact inventories of radioactivity in these reactors but together these four reactors have much more electrical generating capacity than chernobyl plus weve got the spent fuel p...