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Has time to -- >> this is very, very early, but his strategy has not worked. ted cruz, obviously, at the bottom. everybody talking about ted cruz. who wouldnt love to have ted cruzs mailing list right now. >> right. >> dont win general elections. >> and michele bachmann did this. >> right. >> before and herman cain did this. they all had their sort of explosions in the springs and then they collapsed. >> heres something for you, joe, and michael steele. chris mathews his prediction for the gop n...

"wall street journal." so grover, rome had high tax rates. >> not always. at first for about 400 years they had no real direct internal taxes because they looted their neighbors. >> were not advocating that, right? >> we have talked to canadians. even that wasnt enough. so they started having dramatically higher taxes. the amount of money spent on armies. it cost more perhaps than they were able to extract. >> they started with tariffs. >> they had tariffs, augustus brought us the first death ta...

Know im doing just fine. i may have been through hell and back, but i am strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face and with my head held high and my feet firmly on the ground. jon: mike tobin joins us now live from chicago. any indication, mike, why they decided to release this video now? >> reporter: well, you know, a representative, jon, says a big reason this video was released now is that people around cleveland have been recognizing these women and offering their support. s...

Time for sports. the wimbledon trophy is back in the hands of a brit. the front page of the daily telegraph, andy murray the first british man to win the title in 77 years. not since fred perry won in 1936. defeating a german. remember that one. a hell of a a march. murray beated top seeded novak djokovic, one year after he came close losing a final to roger federer. hes making his mark among the elite players reached the finals in the four major tournaments he entered. two-time slam champion. d...

>> later this morning, well find out if this is a controversial nominee, when the hearing gets under way for commerce secretary. a corporate executive and key obama supporter, pritzker is worth $1.85 billion. much of her wealth comes from her family, which founded the hyatt hotel. charles grassley raised questions about her finances and whether she moved the money offshore to reduce the amount she owed in taxes. the obama campaign hammered mitt romney for doing the same thing and grassley said i...

You get the first fire apparatus in there, the first, second, third alarm, then its a long time before you get your extra resources because theyre coming from a long distance and theres a big gap there in what you can do, until everybodys assembled. sometimes that takes hours. >> how far can, you know, a lot of the embers that get picked up by the wind, how far can an ember be carried by the wind and then lay down and start another fire? >> depending on the conditions of the brush, it will go a ...

How are things going from your vantage point? >> yesterday, there was a lot of fire everywhere. very, very fastly driven by the winds and uncontainable, and a lot of people dont realize when you get the first fire apparatus in there, the first, second, third alarm, then its a long time before you get your extra resources because theyre coming from a long distance and theres a big gap there in what you can do, until everybodys assembled. sometimes that takes hours. >> how far can, you know, a lot...

Lot of people dont realize when you get the first fire apparatus in there, the first, second, third alarm, then its a long time before you get your extra resources because theyre coming from a long distance and theres a big gap there in what you can do, until everybodys assembled. sometimes that takes hours. >> how far can, you know, a lot of the embers that get picked up by the wind, how far can an ember be carried by the wind and then lay down and start another fire? >> depending on the condit...

Where i understand the president is planning to sell this. who is coming to dinner? republicans only? >> yes. republicans only. this is part two of that date with the republicans. he first -- first one he held a few weeks ago. we have a partial list of the senators, republican senators, cnn has independently confirmed we have been calling around to offices that do plan to attend the dinner tonight. it is going to be here at the white house, in the old family dining room, at 6:30 this evening. no...

We didnt dealt with that. we kill him, walk away, no discussion about it. >> what im hearing is theres this strain of the supremacy of violence and vigilanteism that runs through hollywood -- >> all the way through. thats been the money-making thing. the films i do are the counter. theyre in the minority by far. the "platoon" movie which came out against the m.i.a. movie and recognized, but a brief period. i did "born on the fourth of july" the same way. but by the mid-90s, the pendulum was goin...