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For the board of trustees of the Vermont State Colleges to triage its financial woes by cutting off such essential limbs will only hasten the university’s demise.

73-year-old kendall meyer was sentenced in u.s. district court in washington today. his 72-year-old wife, gwendolyn was also sentenced to 6 1/2 years. the couple must also pay $1.7 million the repay the government, and the estimated salary that kendall earned while stealing its secrets. dramatic new video of the moment a car bomb exploded in juarez, mexico, last night. two police officers, a paramedic and a security officer were killed. it is the first time a car bomb has been used to attack p...

Stronger than any earthquake to hit this region from the past 35 years. thousands of people in d.c., maryland, virginia and west virginia and delaware say they felt it. wolf, did you feel it? you are in bethesda, right? >> yes, i felt it. i jumped out of bed and i didnt know what was going on. it lasted for 15 or 20 seconds and might not have lasted that long, but it shook me. you dont live far from me, and did you feel it? >> yeah, we both live in bethesda, maryland, and i did feel it and i kne...

Interesting question if a sovereign government is holed up in any shape or form or required to explain its decision to a foreign body. i suspect some compromise will be reached. perhaps the ambassador, perhaps some other compromise that allows both sides to say they got something from it without losing face. >> well see how that works. richard, thanks very much. here in washington meanwhile the partisan sparring over jobs and the economy getting more intense by the day as we get closer to the ...

Which are tomorrow and the day after. there will be no fun. im going to leave now and ill see you on monday. >> go home. >> im going to leave. >> thank you, jack. he waves the ongoing war with the naacp with charges of racism. mark williams talks about it at the top of the hour on john king, usa. up next, the apple iphone is taking a lot of heat. steve jobs announces a fix, a so-called fix for dropped calls. well tell you what he said here. hen somethings safe? you talk to these guys. they g...

Blasted him this morning when i interviewed him on the morning show saying he should not be speaking at their rallies and should not represent any of the tea party people because that letter that he wrote was simply childish. >> what about all this, mary? how is this affecting republicans at large? >> it isnt. i dont know, theres nothing to say. i dont know this man. i dont know any republican who does or any republican who thinks like he does. he is a crackpot. i mean, there are racists in this...

And you are perfectly right, the president has promised not the raise taxes on anyone making under $150,000 for a single person or $250,000 for a couple. there is no good way to go on that, because everybody knows, and the truth of what alan greenspan said is that you cannot get a hold of the deficit unless you raise taxes and cut spending, and that is just something as you know has been really, really hard to do in washington, and harder still to talk about in an election day. >> and candy will...

A representative from the naacp calls the posting and im quoting now, a feeble attempt at sattire and offensive. lets talk a little more about this in our strategy session. joining us now are two cnn political contributors, roland martin and mary matlin. thanks very much for coming in. let me get your reaction. later in the day williams removed that parody, roland, from his blog post. he said he is actually trying to get into a serious conversation with ben jealous to work out these matters in a...

Things which are not true. >> so just to clarify, do you deny that you spoke to bp about any form of connection? >> i will tell you something. i was leading the negotiation with bp. i was the person who was negotiating the technical and the whole agreement. i never spoke to nor did i accept any political interference. i was discussing this agreement for almost two years. >> lets speak to richard right now, joining us from london. sometimes in these kinds of deals, shall we say, richard, some thi...