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Plus, questions tonight about whether washington is playing politics with the troops and what deep cuts would mean for our military. and a police cruiser there one moment and gone the next after a car slams into it somewhere caught in all of that blur, a little boy. >> i am harris faulkner and it is time for the clean up the day after what looked like an assault from the sky. amateur video caught it all. it is a bright light, a meteor streaking across the sky in rush yampt the space rock hurdled...

Cuts as bill clinton and larry summers have suggested? >> i dont think thats fair to them. i want to revisit that history because i know youve talked about that. our view right now is, i think its right, we need to take advantage of the incentive created by the sector and creative tax cuts to force this town to confront and take on the things that divide us now in those long term fiscal reforms so we can go ahead and govern. this is a place where, you know, people spend a lot of time worrying. i...

Complaints by whistle plower. they are playing games and taking naps all while on the job. peter has the news from washington. >> there are 178 whistleblowers since 2007 and 89 of them were tied to aviation safety and the office of special council referred them for investigation and all but five were substanteated and the faa is taking iniadeate stips. first responder helicopter dont have property night vision and air affic controllers are sleep using personal computers at work . small planes le...

Essentially this -- that the nation is within $100 billion of the debt ceiling limit. in 31 usc 312ab. a bunch of jargon. basically we need another increase and we need it now. the response from thecious speakers office, one statement. washingtons mounting debt is a drag on our economic recovery. this request is another remind theyre the president consistently punted on the tough choices needed to reign rn in the deficit and protect programs for american seniors from going bankrupt." this is the...

And americans are less popula popular. >> the administration laid out the red line. the afghan government and international community must see insurgents break with al-qaeda and support laws and constitution of afghanistan. >> clinton set a practical tone. >> all of us are entering into it with a realistic sense of what is possible. >> there are detainee with direct contact to al-qaeda, the white house continues to publicly insist that nothing was final. >> any decision to transfer detainee from...

Recently documented by the pew charitable trust, whose researcher tracked the economic well-being of the middle class babies born like sam in the early to mid-1960s. the study found one out of three middle class kids fallen out of the class by the time he is an adult. >> a person with some college or college degree is likely to stay in the middle than someone with a high school diploma or less. person who is married is more likely to stay in the middle than someone single or divorced. >> the nat...

Essentially this -- that the nation is within $100 billion of the debt ceiling limit. in 31 usc 312ab. a bunch of jargon. basically we need another increase and we need it now. the response from thecious speakers office, one statement. washingtons mounting debt is a drag on our economic recovery. this request is another remind theyre the president consistently punted on the tough choices needed to reign rn in the deficit and protect programs for american seniors from going bankrupt." this is the...

And americans are less popula popular. >> the administration laid out the red line. the afghan government and international community must see insurgents break with al-qaeda and support laws and constitution of afghanistan. >> clinton set a practical tone. >> all of us are entering into it with a realistic sense of what is possible. >> there are detainee with direct contact to al-qaeda, the white house continues to publicly insist that nothing was final. >> any decision to transfer detainee from...

Gregg w*fpblt there is a major debate now on whether washington should be able to turn off the internet. it happened in egypt, of course, when former president hosni mubarek tried to hold on to power. well, u.s. congress is expected to weigh in on an internet kill switch bill in the senate and critics say it raises serious privacy concerns but supporters say the government must have this capability in case of a cyber terror attack, the bills sponsors reflect a bipartisan effort but thats not eas...

Union busting attempt. specifically this moo move but collective bargaining. so that is why you sigh this activity, invoke ago class warfare around this. unions are such an important part of the democratic constituency. that is why its such a flash point. you have seen this in other states, whether washington or new york and democratic governors doing similar things but you havent seen the outrage because they didnt see it as a real going to the heart of unions. >> brett: i tried to pin one on t...