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Comments after benghazi? do you think that that is sufficient to prevent her from being nominated and confirmed? >> andrea, that will be a mat that we have to take up in the senate and see. i think the president, who has not nominated a candidate to be the next secretary of state is entitled to his own nominee, if they are qualified. susan rice is certainly more than qualified. shes led admirably, represented us at the united nations during a difficult period when she has worked tirelessly and e...

street. and facing dozens of counts of child abuse, coach jerry sandusky speaks out in an interview and denies hes a interview and denies hes a pedophile. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com in a predawn raid, occupy wall street protesters were driven out two months after they started camping out. a court is deciding whether they should be allowed in. lets go to poppy harlow. what happened in zuccotti park and what happens next? >> well, wolf, at about 1:00 a.m. this morning, hun...

Well. when you have the secretary of state in your pocket, it makes it seieasier to game the system. >> chris, this has been playing for some time. there were three bills in ohio that dealt with voter suppression. one in the house, one in the senate, which were very damaging to the process. and how much of an effect do you think this is going to have on turnout? what kind of turnout do you think youre going to have on tuesday? >> real quick, we have a referendum process in ohio, and as you know,...

Disastrous, but any reason to believe youre going to win on the referendum? >> theres been polling that indicates when voters here in ohio are asked whether or not police and firefighters should able to gather together and ask for contracts before the city council, 55% of ohioans agree that ohioans should have that right to do so. i guess the legislature controlled by republicans and this governor dont understand it. but were going to give them a chance to understand this november. but that refe...

On it against their party orders. im hopeful the same thing happens in the house. i dont know. well see. >> do you support the recall efforts in wisconsin? would you do that in ohio if need be? >> well, my understanding is theres no recall provision of legislators or governors or state officials in ohio. there is, though, a referendum process. so if this becomes law, theres a large group of citizens i think will likely go to the ballot. they need to circulate petitions, go to the ballot to repea...

I think a large part of it is that in the past several years. the population within the state of california and elsewhere have kind of taken control away from the legislature through the referendum process and called for stricter sentencing guidelines because of frustrations historically about people getting out early. not being held to answer to the extent required by statute. so i think we have enjoyed a little bit of a change in behavior because so many people who had the propensity to violat...

>> your ideal outcome that gaddafi goes and form a new government in tripoli, obviously, with our help, but from their own purposes? >> yes, but what id like to see and what an opportunity were missing is to get that opposition movement committed to some kind of democratic referendum process, not just a new regime installed with guns and the more we keep a hands off attitude, the less we deal with them, the less the chance of locking in, i think, some agreement on the principles that could defin...