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Collected more than 30,000 signatures. each on petitions to secede. alabama, florida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as "the washington post" dana milbank put it in a recent column f obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are government takers, they take more in federal money than they p...

but is it true, is hosting the games actually bad business? and deep-fried controversy. chicago the latest city to block chi chick-fil-a from coming to town. >> chick-fil-a's values are not chicago's values. boston, jim henson, and now rahm emanuel joining the list against chick fill a. and now rick santorum is standing by chick-fil-a. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us this morning. i'm carol costello. we begin with new details from the colorado shooting rampage. some are chilling, some reassuring. for the first time, neighbors of accus...

Should get food assistance and we outright been a it in this bill. we outright been a a number of areas where there has been waste, fraud and abuse. >> some supporters argue it's form of economic stimulus. >> it's a good invest in the the economy. for every dollar you put in food stamps you get $1.71 back in the economy. >> if that is so why don't we provide everybody's clothes, shoes? >> sessions dismisses that notion saying the original cost has to come from somewhere. >> when you take money from the economy, or borrow it as we are doing today to provide food stamps for everybody you don't g...

Before. it's not time to take food away from hungry families. >> you know, the average assistance that a person receives from food stamps is incredibly small. i mean, people act like people are getting rich off it. you're talking about $130 monthly benefit. $1.50 a meal. if you cut that little amount, you're talking about crippling people. and senator jeff sessions actually mocked your effort to save cuts from food stamps. listen. >> senator opposes to increase food stamp spending even more than the current growth that we've seen explaining quote, food stamps are an extraordinary investment be...

Economic return of 1.71. it is money that goes directly into the economy. economists have said it is one of the best you can make because it is spend on nutrition, children yb seniors. if you don't feed a child and they go hungry at night and in the morning, they can't learn. they can't reach their god-given potential. it is so important it fight for hungry kids. this bill slash bed $4.5 billion from the food stamps program. i'm working very hard it restore that money. in new york state alone, 300,000 families will be effected. what it translates to is $90 a m. that's the last week of the mont...