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Into nice environments at the same time. thank you to sam wang and partha mitra and jonathan will be staying. the latest on the atlanta testing scandal. the mums we found in the gun control debate that have us wondering why theres any debate at all. acceler-rental. at a hertz expressrent kiosk, you can rent a car without a reservation... and without a line. now thats a fast car. its just another way youll be traveling at the speed of hertz.

0 great american project. take that, china and e.u. actually, your scientists are already at their labs with $1.5 billion in funding for their human brain projects backed by the european commission and 80 international research institutions. after chinas brain tomb initiative has been pumping out research since 2004, it seems like were getting sputniked all over again. nih funding is flat lining for the first time since anyone can remember. >> theyve fallen behind great britain and germany. if t...

Eight seats in congress to the democrats three, despite votes for republican candidates being only 70,000 more. swing state, ohio, 12 seats for republicans and 4 for democrats. democrats do this, too. in illinois, 54% of the popular vote went to democrats, but they won 66% of the house seats. maryland, democrats with 62% of the popular vote, but 88% of the seats. all said, in 2012, republicans are outdid democrats by a net seven seats, according to princeton researcher sam wang. now, this disenf...

rachel tonight. not django. good evening, ezra. >> good evening, michael. thank you very much. and thank you to you at home for sticking around for the next hour. rachel has a well-deserved night off. but today on the senate there was a rare sighting on the senate floor. especially around this time of year. right now the senate is usually a bit of a desolate place, but today at exactly 2:34 p.m. eastern standard time there was something big afoot. at 2:34 this afternoon in from the win...

it has a monday night deadline for avoiding the fiscal cliff. so when are they going to start working on that? sunday night. >> stalemate gridlock joorks this is what the holidays look like. >> there is so much manure around here. >> this isnt school house rock. >> the fiscal cliff. whatever. >> there is barely 00 hours. >> the last minute was before christmas. >> what is going on here? is. >> how come there is no sense of urgency. >> the entire house coming back sunday night. >> how i...

so when are they going to start working on that? sunday night. >> stalemate gridlock joorks this is what the holidays look like. >> there is so much manure around here. >> this isnt school house rock. >> the fiscal cliff. whatever. >> there is barely 00 hours. >> the last minute was before christmas. >> what is going on here? is. >> how come there is no sense of urgency. >> the entire house coming back sunday night. >> how is john boehner going to get the votes. he couldnt get the vote...

♪ try to rain, try to rain on the thunder ♪ @tell the storm im new. >> when hillary clinton leaves that stage tonight in cleveland, she will have just three campaign days left before tuesdays presidential election. and all of you out there who are outraged that we just cut away from beyonce, please understand that they have given us instructions about exactly how many seconds of these songs we are allowed to show you on tv. we do not have the legal right to show you any more than what we jus...

Confident as sam is. >> thats because you cant do calculations with -- what was it? 72 quadrillion possibilities. >> i think he can. >> when you look at the -- there are about six of these models, nate silver has one, "the new york times" has one, huffington post, and when you build these models, you put all those inputs in the poll -- from the polls but then there are two sort of knobs that you can turn that affect how high your confidence is. one is how accurate do you think the polling is, an...

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