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Seat belts on this bus. carol? >> all right. law makers tangling with the pentagon over trying to recover improperly paid enlistment bonuses. according to the "los angeles times" nearly 10,000 soldiers are being asked to return at least $13,000 each. the pentagon says the bonuses were mistakenly paid to thousands of california national guard soldiers a decade ago. iraq war veteran christopher van meter says he had to refinance his home to pay that money back. >> its gut-wrnching. you have to f...

Whether they are here in the united states or anywhere around the world, and that we have a very clear view of what will help crack and break those ceilings, whether in economic, political, social or cultural spheres, regardless of where someone is standing in the world. so one man who knows chelsea clinton well is writer jonathan van meter, contributing editor at "vogue" magazine. jonathan, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> chelsea clinton is often a fixture alongside mom or dad on stag...

Writen jonathan van meter spoke to both of them the first lady and the president. >> them as a couple. their marriage, their children, how they live in the white house, how they deal with the bubble. >> reporter: what struck him? >> theyre just so sweet with each other. there is a lot of affection and if there is anything married couple to whom the phrase "they finish each others sentences" applies its them. >> reporter: of their marriage the president says i think it would be a mistake to think...

Over time. thats the obama plan for the biggest single thing on which we spend discretionary money. mr. obamas opponents, on the other hand, the math ticket, the hard-nosed practical numbers guys, their plan for defense spending looks like this. ta da! thats what mitt romney is proposing for military spending. an otherwise enormous amount of money. this is what they are planning on doing. the highest level of military spending since the korean war. because, you know, forget your hope and change....

Proposing for military spending. an otherwise enormous amount of money. this is what they are planning on doing. the highest level of military spending since the korean war. because, you know, forget your hope and change. what the country needs is math, math, math. how does the ticket plan to balance this giant plus sign contained in their plan? this massive increase in government spending. where does the minus come from if they want to increase spending by that much? this was the scene today in...

Place called van meter, iowa. this is what greeted mitt romney today as he campaigned. fight big banks, not big bird. 99% of cookies are e eaten by 1% of monsters. make wall street pay, not sesame striet. members of an iowa citizens group dressed in sesame street costumes. they were there to laugh at his suggestion that his plan to cut the deficit is to cut off funding for pbs. this has become a full-fledged thing in the campaign now. the obama campaign today releasing this 30-second ad specific...