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Only around the united states but around the world. so he really is almost like a one man stimulus program for these cash-strapped local governments who dont have the money to spend on new innovations, new programs. hes taking his personal fortune and spending it and building an international coalition or at least, thats the plan. >> well, the fact that he spent $125 million just to improve road safety globally? only mayor mike could be doing that. >> yes. very wonky kind of down in the weeds wo...

Re-doing of the stimulus program, to hire public employees. i didnt think romney did great going after teachers he should have gone after union bosses but the the presidents context makes it look so bad. >>gregg: doug, some believe that romney now can win. do democrats believe that president obama can lose? >> democrats believe that romney is in increasingly strong position and obama could lose in a way they did not a couple of months ago. there are a couple of "buts." democrats believe romney w...

and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the presidents own party are voicing grave concerns about the amou...

Place. the stimulus program you referred to has been studied by bipartisan economists and they agree without that we would have had unemployment substantially higher than what we had the last two years. the tax cut and payroll tax cut were bipartisan. everybody wanted to extend the bush tax cuts for another two years and everybody agreed. >> chris: you said the president wanted to or was forced to as part of a deal. >> it was a bipartisan agreement as part of a package this was the right thing t...

Barack obama has exploded the debt in this country, and he has passed a stimulus program that grew government and not the economy. he socialized health care, and he armed mexican drug cartels. admit it, america, 2008 was our national oops moment. >> no word yet if rick perry has tried to trademark oops, but while the gop tries to define president obamas re-election as a radical detour of the country, how different would a leader is mitt romney? we are looking into the possibility that they repre...

Place. the stimulus program you referred to has been studied by bipartisan economists and they agree without that we would have had unemployment substantially higher than what we had the last two years. the tax cut and payroll tax cut were bipartisan. everybody wanted to extend the bush tax cuts for another two years and everybody agreed. >> chris: you said the president wanted to or was forced to as part of a deal. >> it was a bipartisan agreement as part of a package this was the right thing t...

Job creation today. but, i believe that without the policies that the president put in place, we would not have this level of job creation. >>chris: well the president and his team said, friday, that it is "critical," that the country continue the obama policies for economic recovery but we will take a look at those policies. since the president took office, congress has passed the $831 billion stimulus, the $193 billion 2010 tax act and the extension of the payroll tax cuts and unemployment com...

heres what john edwards had to say after the trial. >> i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was ever doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. >> the federal government still has the option of a retrial, that doesnt seem very likely at this point. joining me to talk about all of that, senior legal analyst jeff toobin and david peril managing ed tord of radaronline.c...

and weve got a lot of breaking news today. the jury in the john edwards federal corruption trial reaches a verdict on just one of the six counts against the one-time presidential hopeful. the defense asks for a mistrial, but the judge tells the jury theyve got to keep at it. lets go straight to cnns senior correspondent, joe johns. hes in greensboro, north carolina. joe, what is going on down there? >> reporter: well, you know, it gets stranger and stranger every minute. quite frankly,...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...