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February 2, 2012
soledad. you look gorgeous. >> you like the hair. you satisfy. its all about the hair at the end of the day. >> see you guys. it could be the end of the fen year war. leon panetta says there is a new goal, end come bad and switch the role of u.s. and nato troops from fighting and training. presidential candidates already weighing in. mitt romneys trashing the plan. the chairman of the house armed services committee calls it premature. were going to talk about that? just a second. fir...
February 2, 2012
investigating whether or not the riot was caused by sports rivalry or political tensions. >> new scenes of the violence raging in syria. this video posted online is said to show rebel fighters who have captured a tank. the u.n. security council is again talking about how to end the bloodshed. arab and western nations want president bashar assad out, but russia and china will not accept any suggestion of economic sanctions or military intervention. u.s. troops will stop fighting in af...
February 2, 2012
bigger and facebooking is going public. its time 0 play reporting roulette. first up, well begin with suzanne kelly in washington. shes following these hearings over cyberattacks. officials are warning they could be the number one security threat to the nation. so suzanne, what would the worst scenario be? >> well, the worst case scenario is going to be an instant loss of life, something like an attack on a nuclear facility or an attack on the air traffic control system. things like th...
February 1, 2012
Arent welcome in the republican party. you are absolutely 100% right. and they just say anything. like for example, jan brewer. last time we talked about the finger pointing thing. do you know she told an arizona reporter that after she was criticized, someone said she was nazi-like because of her immigration policy, that her father -- she was insulted because her father died fighting in world war ii and we found out that he died ten years after world war ii in 1955 of cancer. look. >> wow. >> a...
February 1, 2012
Were veterans, 25% the working poor, those driven off of their jobs and the home foreclosures and evictions. they need a helping hand and need intervention. they do not need to be abused. so immoral and unfair to do it and dangerous, i might add. >> indeed. the reverend jesse jackson, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, sir. next, congressman keith ellison joins us. first sue herrera has the market wrap. >> thank you very much. its a strong day on wall street. the dow jones industrial aver...
January 25, 2012
is filling out, some members arriving as early as possible to get seats at the aisle to get on camera with the president. tonight, expect to hear both his governoring agenda and many of the themes hes going to be hitting on the stump in months ahead, largely focusing on taxes and the economy. ron paul took today off, the other three were campaigning in florida, about tonights speech and taking issue on the man giving it. appears to be from a different planet. and flowery rhetoric. >> h...
January 22, 2012
, investment in energy alternatives and innovation, the investment so that we can compete effectively in a global race on innovation and clean energy to compete with nations like china and germany and india and spain, we need the investment. it is investments, fairness and tax policy, the working poor and the middle class will engage benefits for every strata in the income ladder including those on the top who has seen their income grow 250% over the last few decades, all while the middle class ...
January 22, 2012
The long-term conversation about what payroll taxes go toward in washington. it is social security and medicare. and one thing that -- instead of the president talking about just the middle class, lets empower all-americans. i grew up in a poor family on a family farm in indiana, and i had an opportunity growing up in a poor family. i think we need to empower every american and give every american the opportunity to pick themselves up and make themselves something. thats what -- as he talks abou...
January 21, 2012
>> i like that. >> all of those things. all of those things have been really affected by governor walkers presence, policies, radicalness, and willingness to put corporations over people. and one thing that i can say is across the board against the ploil cronyism and all of those things that can happen in different places, in wisconsin, we have always put our kids and our education system first. thats not happened this time and our governor has also been dishonest with the people. you know, i sa...
January 19, 2012
He seems to speak a language of incredibly wealthy people who really think in terms of the fact that $350,000 a year is chicken feed when in fact it is seven times the national average. i know compared to the 250 million he owns it may be small. >> right. >> but its huge. when youre talking the public where people are struggling, the working poor in this country for xrchl hear that and go, what is he talking about? >> the working poor, the middle class. my favorite part of that clip is when he k...