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Office is considered mathematically dyslexic by many economists, has it surprised you some republicans have actually condemned boehner's office and would much prefer to keep taxes as they are and take an axe to social programs, medicare, in order to reduce the deficit? >> what's to surprising about that? for so many republicans, they said in the 1990s they wanted medicare to wither on the vine. you know, they now think they have the opportunity to do it in 2012. speaker boehner's proposal is based on the mathematical equation, two plus two equals whatever you want it to be. that's not how you...

Stock dropped 27%. biggest decline in about ten careers. series saying it doesn't want to keep margely stores open but the company is blaming on k-mart's lagging sales. as they those are the look at the latest headlines, now back to the record. >> shannon: personal baggage, can weigh on any presidential campaign, just how much did the personal backgrounds to college age voters? tonight part two of the series, road to 2012, george washington and it will be. here what they are saying for 2012. >> speaker gingrich has a history of personal history. does a personal history make a difference in you...

Three were killed. the mother managed to escape the flames. it's not clear whether they had working smoking detectors. mayor is calling it a tragic accident. i'm casey stegall. now back to "on the record." >> shannon: personal baggage, can weigh on any presidential campaign, just how much did the personal backgrounds to college age voters? tonight part two of the series, road to 2012, george washington and it will be. here what they are saying for 2012. >> speaker gingrich has a history of personal history. does a personal history make a difference in your vote at all or your thinking? >> inte...

Maybe felt people to donate. >> i don't want to flip but i wouldn't find sexual harassment allegations as a campaign fundraiser. >> of course not. >> i'm being sarcastic. >> the last two days has he been talking much about 9-9-9, the plan that got him so much favor? no, he's talking about whether or not he sexually harassed anybody. that doesn't help. >> he was here with us for a long time. i can't tell you how i felt -- viewers were telling me i was waterboarding him and they were furious. he has a strong base of support. >> you asked the questions that had to be asked and he was clearly here...

cnn congressional correspondent kate bolduan joins us now from capitol hill, what is the latest? >> reporter: you know the cbo numbers, the congressional budget office, jessica, this office that scores, gives a cost estimate, for legislation, it's very critical, and this evening it came out the cbo brought out -- gave out its estimate, and it says that the speaker boehner's bill falls short of what its target was. it says that it would only reduce the deficit by $850 billion, rather than the more than a trillion dollars than the legislation said it was going to -- said it was going t...