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Last night much of the country celebrated independence day by heading to a fireworks display. for crowd lookers in san diego, the grand finale came a tad early. a computer malfunction caused all the fireworks to go off at once making the whole shebang about 15 seconds long. according to a coast guard employee, it took about 25 minutes to spread the word the show was, in fact, over. thats even longer than the spectacle was supposed to last. up next, were learning new details about mitt romneys ...

i hear the numbers are about pretty high. about 70,000 americans globally -- >> i think 300,000. >> in the u.s.? >> world wide. >> about 70,000 across the u.s. who have no idea that they have been, for lack of a better description, riding on the coat tails of the protection of the fbi and the fbi has said weve tried to find you. weve tried to let you know. weve tried to send you messages. if you dont help yourself, im not going to be there after monday. is that how this worked? >> yeah...

panel to talk about aids. and we are talking about jobs, j j jobs, jobs, and the employers are not hiring enough to bring down the latest figures. you see that 80,000 new jobs were added last month but the labor unemployment rate remai remairemains 8.2%, and that is because of the jobs added in may. it is a different picture from the jobsarlier in the year. now president obama and mitt romney are talking about it. >> our mission is not to get back to where we were before the crisis, an...

And a break from politics thats too explosive to pass up. last night, many celebrated independence day by heading to a fireworks display. the grand finale came a tad early.ç a computer malfunction caused all the fireworks to go off at once making the whole shebang about 15 seconds long. according to a coast guard employee, it took about 25 minutes to spread the word the show was over. thats even longer than the spectacle was supposed to last. up next, were learning new details about mitt rom...

Worry about his ree$ection campaign. he failed to qualify for the primary ballot. and a break from politics thats too explosive to pass up. last night much of the country celebrated independence day by heading to a fireworks display. for crowd lookers in san diego, the grand finale came a tad early. a computer malfunction caused all the fireworks to go off at once making the whole shebang about 15 seconds long. according to a coast guard employee, it took about 25 minutes to spread the word th...

Say yes and to everything that wasnt illegal and to some things that were -- >> read the book. >> i loved the social experiment aspect of it. this book is obviously campy and over the top, but i write books and do things for the people that hate politics, young people that feel disenchanted by the process and disillusioned and feel its this elitist thing they cant relate to so working with a comedian had obvious appeal. >> governor, you are on a book tour of your own. i wonder, especially folks ...

>> well, chris, the 23rd amendment doesnt look too good right now, does it? >> well be you -- >> the number of terms after president, he looks like hes been in there since 1992. up until now he looks like he would be pretty good. >> first of all, anyone who covered clinton knows that he would love to serve another term as president. but i think he made an important point. there are definitely things that a high profile surrogate like bill clinton can and should say that president of the united s...

Youre talking big democratic donors in these clips. hes good at that, but hes maybe even better at going to places that i know, chris, you and i talk about a lot. scranton, rural ohio, these are place where clinton can go and really sell that, okay, you may not love barack obama, but the alternative is worse, and in those places he probably sells that message better than barack obama. i think hes critically important to be on board and on message to help barack obama win over some of those on th...

Scranton, pennsylvania. >> topeka, kansas. >> where dida, you start maccallum. >> right here in new york city. >> bill: tough climb for you. >> bill: thats mccallum where else would i start? here is question number four. >> little market. >> bill: bill clinton played theke saxophone on arsonnial hall. what song did the former president play on arsenio hall? cards up, please. roll the tape on it. ♪ ♪ ♪ heart break hotel. ♪ heart break hotel. >> appeal to younger audience.

Especially in rough spots like ohio, pennsylvania and michigan because he can identify with the working class with his roots from scranton, pennsylvania. they want to bridge the gap with some of those white working class voters. >> gregg: erin mcpike, good to see you, thanks so much. >> 419,000 plumbers, why cant i find one? >> i was amazed there was that many plumers in america. and those folks in america, to say a plumber is not qualified. joe the plumberer might disagree. we move on -- i do...