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>> hi. >> reporter: but the looks of them, you would never know this mother and son are at the heart of a national debate. they have both lived in mexico their whole lives, but while 26-year-old lupit and her husband are mexican citizens, 3-year-old hector is a u.s. citizen. >> translator: i made a decision to have my child born in the united states. i wanted him to have dual citizenship so one day if he moves to the united states he will not have any problems. >> reporter: lupita, who did not w...

Consider this for a second, a pew study out today, says one in 12 babies born in this country is the child of illegal immigrants. one example from cnns gary tuchman. >> by the looks of them, you would never know this mother and son are at the heart of a national debate. theyve both lived in mexico their whole lives, but while 26 lupita and her husband are mexican citizens, 3-year-old hector is an american citizen. tep terp i made a decision to have my child born in the united states. i wanted hi...

Kids of illegal immigrants. according to new analysis by the pew hispanic center, an estimated 340,000 of the more than 4 million babies born in the united states in 2008 were the offspring of unauthorized immigrants. no accurate figures on how many illegal immigrants come here pregnant or with the intention of giving birth. studies indicate its probably a small percentage, but weve also learned about women who come here legally on tourist visas for the express purpose of giving birth. the famil...

The coast guard is under fire after a congressional subcommittee after they found that bp was allowed to use excessive amount of chemicals? the oil spill. so far, bp has used 1.8 million-gallons to break up oil flowing from the ruptured well. bps new boss says it is time for a scale back in cleaning up the spill. congressional investigators say the companys methods could be doing more harm than good. chris gutierrez is live in louisiana with the latest. hi, chris. >> as you mentioned we were tol...

Our fight force can lose this war. the only way that our effort can be successful is if we have a government in washington, d.c. that is unworthy of that fighting force, and i want to be part of a bipartisan team that gives you the resources and the time to accomplish the mission. now, since the general took a moment to talk about rules of engagement, leppedz: cue comment, compare and contrast the relationship you had in iraq between you as the general and general crocker and the approach that h...

Off to die. they are dying every week. last month was the most deaths from the nato forces since the war began. as frank rich said, the es prosecutes best political ally on afghanistan is apathy. americans dont care their sons and daughters are going off to fight for a war that really has no end game. >> a really interesting word the president used, obsession. senator obama would never be using the word obsession about this time line, about the july 1st date. what young people are doing in this ...

The constitution and defending voters that they went into arizona and california and said, were the better party. >> well, he could have called out his own side, democrats, when they used improper language during the health care debate, and there was some used. >> thats true. >> it doesnt matter. the point is either youre a leader or youre not. and its at moments like this that is it is discovered. and im not seeing a lot of republicans from that. >> im not seeing a lot talking about it either. ...

Targets on it -- >> thats her list. she targets all the republican members. >> target is a word that is used quite regularly in politics about -- >> reload? where is it used? >> i said targets is a used -- >> howard, your thoughts about this gun play talk? >> okay. well in this crowd that didnt mean anything other than organizing vote to kick them out. this is an established crowd here. this is not the tea party here. these are 3,000 of 3,500 people who are the new sort of establishment of the s...

Doesnt take his eye off the ball. thats why he was elected president and thats why he stood by the fight for health care reform when a lot of people thought he couldnt do it. >> andrea, youve covered campaigns certainly as long as ive been watching them. the roughness of the language used here. the n word used, some of the cat callers yesterday, the language about sexual orientation thrown at barney frank. most people are concerned about taxes, cost of government, legitimate concerns about the g...

Count her out. even karl rove said the fear is palpable in the room when shes there. >> well, i think thats true, and i think the president will be very involved. i think youre going to see all the levers of power here in washington trying to put the screws to a lot of these wavering members of the house and the senate and a lot of muscle used to try and get them onboard with this. but, again, the american people have rejected this legislation, theyve rejected the approach thats being used, and ...