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Charging the calculation for inflation -- changing the calculation for inflation to cut the growth of monthly social security payments in the future. so instead of tying the increases to the consumer price index, the presidents budget would change it to a different calculation called chained cpi. while his budget exempts the oldest and the poorest of social security recipients, it would cause 65-year-old rye tier ees to lose more than a thousand dollars a year by the time they reach 85. which fa...

President obama has certainly made big moves this week when it comes to guns, immigration, and revealing his own new budget. why is he painting with pretty bold strokes right now? lets discuss what is going on? our chief political analyst gloria borger is here. and joe klein is joining us, the political columnist for our corporate sibling "time" magazine. gloria, how much of what the president is doing right now is sort of looking ahead to his legacy? >> everything. >> now that he is in his seco...

>> it wasnt his intent to interview with the investigation, what he was trying to do at that point in time that he was approached at the courthouse was just tell these folks, you have the right to remain silent and dont talk to police unless you have an attorney present and i think that was the crux of what caused the problem. two teens are charged with the murder in last weeks death of 13-month-old antonio santiago. the accused shooters mother, sister, and aunt also face charges they have hin...

Dynamics between black and white. one of the challenges we have in america is we like to pretend black and white are opposite sides of the same coin and theyre not. one has the power to name, one has the power to control, one has institutional authority, one has wide representation. the other one does not. so its just different dynamics to compare black and white. im not ready to pull out a picket sign on this guy. i think its just a bad joke, he should say i shouldnt tell jokes anymore, leave i...

Earlier today. we cant learn any more because of privacy laws the hospital wont tell us anything. that leaves us with no information as to why this guy walked off the edge of that platform it looks like he is trying to board a plane that wasnt there he stepped into thin air. not far from that electrified third rail and almost immediately that good samaritan runs over and jumps down to help. short while later firefighters were on scene and they lefted the man to safety. >> there are beds and area...

Screen. as if it board a train that isnt there and into thin air and tumbles down. and not far from the third rail who is charged with enough juice to electricfy somebody touching. this man jumps down and help even though train runs every seven minutes. he tells people to call separate at that which runs the subway and stop the southbound line. 15 minutes later firefighters show up, stablize the victim and lift him off the tracks and take him to a nearby hospital. >> there are bad scenarios that...

Michael bloomberg released tv commercials featuring families from newtown. canadian zookeeper expected to survive after being attacked by a tiger, a siberian tiger involved in the incident. the zoo deciding what they should do next. the zookeeper, a 51-year-old man, entered the tiger enclosure. he thought the animal was locked in its sleeping quarters. an eventful week in the philadelphia subway system, a baby forgotten by care givers and a good samaritan risking his life to save someone els...

Not get electrocuted, but that third rail does carry a potentially deadly electric charge. how is the victim doing? >> all we know at this point, hes been released from the hospital. they wont give us any more information because of privacy laws, and the guy apparently doesnt want any more attention. we still dont know why he went walking off the edge of that subway platform. it almost looks like hes trying to board train that isnt there. he steps into thin air and just tumbles down. he landed o...

>> a man in north philadelphia risked his life when he jumped on to the subway tracks to save a passenger had had just fallen on to the platform it turns out that rescuer is a recovering addict. look at this surveillance video from yesterday afternoon. watch the guy walking here, he will just drop right off. seconds after that a rescuer runs towards the guy. here he comes. and he goes eventually, he will go right down on to the tracks himself. >> i just wanted to stabilize his back and neck he w...

Did what he did, walking off the platform. we dont know. >> shepard: what else do we know? >> he is 32-year-old chris kanoflic. hes a recovering heroin addict. he started on oxycontin in middle school. in high school he was on heroin which he tried to kick unsuccessfully for more than ten years. the birth of his daughter helped him kick the habit. hes been two years clean. yesterday his instincts kicked in. >> i already had a plan if the train came. i was going to like roll him underneath, you k...