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>> bob: i have been a critic of christie for a lot of things but he showed, his force job is to be governor of a state. he has a lot of work to do. your point is well taken after the first week, there will be animosity and anger. >> dana: some people, some people on the right grumbling right before the election governor christie seemed to give so much praise to president obama. one thing about governor christie, he does not have the gift of understatement. one of the things we love about him. he...

>> bob: i have been a critic of christie for a lot of things but he showed, his force job is to be governor of a state. he has a lot of work to do. your point is well taken after the first week, there will be animosity and anger. >> dana: some people, some people on the right grumbling right before the election governor christie seemed to give so much praise to president obama. one thing about governor christie, he does not have the gift of understatement. one of the things we love about him. he...

Houses. you see the parking meters here that are a couple feet deep in sand? some of these houses on the beach lost the walls that faced the ocean. there is beach inside these beach front homes. looking north now, the large trucks down there doing some rescues and assistance with some of the heavy vehicles up and down the atlantic coast here in new jersey. you see dumpster in the middle of the street. a loft debris. its a virtual waste land. no power. certainly no hard line phone service. cells ...

>> well, despite what you just heard there, a lot of what the results -- on the presidential contest, the conventional wisdom is that romney needs to win ohio for mandell to pull out a victory. from my experience talking to people on the road here i think thats the case. but going back to the debate, to say these two men dislike each other is a gross understatement. you could really feel the palpable hate between them. and thats why on the trail yesterday josh mandell was talk about the debate. ...

That was an unforced error that will come back to haunt him. i would like to know is bob schieffer going to step up and say monday night in foreign policy debate. this is foreign policy. is schieffer going to say, mr. president did you nien say that? if you didnt mean to they, what did you mean? >> kimberly: greg, i know bob is not thrilled about this. were going to get to him. saving it up. you can see by the facial expression. you have a different opinion about this. >> i like it when you said...

But the last line the president gave spoken with great understatement, i sure wish i could use my middle name. >> that was really funny on many levels. well show more of that. >> wheres the memo on the white tie on the smith dinner? >> its just an old, old tradition. and you know, ed, i remember the first time seeing this in 1980, and i was in high school. but it was the first time i really, really got into politics, and i was jarred to see jimmy carter and ronald reagan get up and be nice and j...

Just extradited from great britain. the cleric is accused of setting up a terrorist training camp in oregon and kidnapping two american tourists in yemen in 1998. al masri did not enter a plea. a vatican tribunal convicted popes former butler and sentenced him to 18 months in jail. he was found guilty of stealing pope benedicts private papers and leaking them to a reporter. the cdc says the outbreak of meningitis rises to seven now. more than 50 people have been infected. and some of the jur...

Response would be, well, he inherited two wars, and a deep recession. >> uh-huh. >> greta: now the debt has gotten much larger. i mean, theres no question about it. >> theres the understatement of the year. >> greta: how do you respond to, like, you know, what should he have done differently, or how would you have -- i realize theres some value to 20/20 hindsight, but i know you also have your own thoughts even if this was back 3 1/2 years ago. >> i mean, just to give you one example, when you d...

Battled a monster and lived to tell the tale. the hunters captured a 40 foot long alligator. bill says its huge. thats an understatement. it weighs 697 pounds. well, once they hooked the animal, it took them two hours just to get close enough for the fatal shot. the catch is the largest in state history. and finally, fried feuds usually get all the press at the texas state fair, but not on monday. we have a new star, everyone. you can see why. chefs used 635 bags of fritos corn chips, 635 cans...

Spawn home repair scores to have that sort of ripple effect. >> what about home improvement stores? theyre seeing a boom. >> boom is an understatement. so home repair for example online back in september had more traffic in sales than back to school retailers. and the mom and pop as well as the big box retailers are seeing the effect of this. for example, home depot. when they reported out earnings last month, they came in at $1.5 billion. >> huge. >> thats the best its been in five years. >> ye...