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erin burnett. and the market looking for the slightest bit of good news, and got a little bit today and surged. the dow is up 213 point, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we havent been able to clear that hurdle s...

erin burnett. and the market looking for the slightest bit of good news, and got a little bit today and surged. the dow is up 213 point, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we havent been able to clear that hurdle s...

Ballots, they can absolutely have an effect and i think they will and i think theyll help republicans. >> turner & hooch be damned. one persistent fear you hear from liberals is citizens united altered the balance between the parties in a permanent way, corporate money will give republicans a structural advantage that will never be overcome. more likely, the boom in outside money will prove to be cyclical with the momentum swinging toward whoever feels shut out and persecuted at the moment. what...

boot camp for suri? overnight reports that katie holmes didnt want her 6-year-old daughter in an intense religious training program. so was scientology to blame for her split with tom cruise? "newsroom" begins right now. and good morning to you. im carol costello. thank you so much for being with us today. we begin this hour with the western wildfires, growing in size and claiming more lives. so far, 1.9 million acres have burned. thats equivalent to an incredible 3,000 square miles....

health care plan. >> what governor romneys former presidential rival called obamany care for its similarities to the governors law. governor romney has been running away from his critics as fast as he can, saying it should no longer be held up as a model. its another little known piece of his law thats giving him the biggest headache today, one that says any residents of massachusetts is entitled if they need it, to state subsidized health care, regardless of their immigration status. ...

senator edward kennedy. senator? >> the one he touted at the time, and remember, it was only five years ago, as a model for the rest of the country. >> i think there are a number of features in the massachusetts plan that could inform washington on ways to improve health care for all americans. >> the one crafted with the help of m.i.t.s jonathan gruber and one that helped president obama craft what some call obama-care. and what they now coin obomney care. hes now running away from it...

>> the one he touted at the time was a model for the national health care plan. >> what governor romneys former presidential rival called obamany care for its similarities to the governors law. governor romney has been running away from his critics as fast as he can, saying it should no longer be held up as a model. its another little known piece of his law thats giving him the biggest headache today, one that says any residents of massachusetts is entitled if they need it, to state su...

care reform. thats their jobs plan. >> its a taxpayer funded trip. the job debate with congress after all is official business. the presidents rival from 2008 these as much more about 2012. >> the president made these remarks on a tax payer paid for riding in a canadian bus visit for the next three days. >> plus, rush limbaugh often has unkind things to say about me and this network. so what are we to make of this over the top praise of our fast and furious scandal? >> john king is cal...

Flow because of them, which is just not true. bill: walkers point is that hes got to end it now, ice, its going to creep back into the system a year from now or two years from now or five years from now. bob, simple question: should anyone get a pension if they dont pay for it or dont contribute to it? >> i dont think they should and youll never see another employee that will. im not arguing that some of these contracts were not very, very generous but in the future now youre not going to see ad...

Isnt that what they are aiming to do. >> democrats to have run their own campaigns on a local basis and state by state basis, bill white in texas, lee fisher in ohio are both facing political circumstances that are extremely competitive and where president obama is not popular. they are making smart political decisions, similar to what republicans made in 2006 and 2008 with george w. bush. he didnt campaign for any of them and i suspect that brad blakeman would tell them these were making the ri...