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Ross perot made the deficit a national priority. bill clinton comes in. he says, we're going to tackle the deficit, do it by slightly raising taxes on the wealthy and it set off this sort of popular revolt. >> well, 1.2% of the population? they all lived in my district. >> bryn mar. >> but it was fascinating for me. i had said over and over again i'm not going to be a read my lips candidate because i didn't know what was going to happen when i got down there. we went down with him. it was his most important piece of legislation. we didn't know that it was going to create 23 million jobs, that ...

>> i'm under the impression it's supposed to be cracka. >> i'm not sure.w >> i remember watching someone said on tv -- if it ends in a, it's not a racial term. point, charlie rangel is talking like this whe. he really should be focusing ons black unemployment. unemployment numbers came outhol today. black unemployment, young people, the young blacks unemployed at a rate of 41.2%. a record. if they were less focused on playing the race card and more focused on getting jobs and getting jobs specifically to the black community, they'd all bes better off, we'd all be betteray off. >> bob, you know...

Reported their health was less than good. houston, texas, forbes reports they work the longest hours of any city. an average of 41.2 hours per week. they considered jobless rates, long commutes. work house, exercise, that sort of thing. vegas, los angeles, houston. well done. >> in north carolina, a shocking report claims the state's crime lab omitted, overstated and falsified blood evidence in hundreds of cases. the most concerning part of all of this is three of those cases were murder trials and during those three cases, the people who may have had bad information from the lab are now dead....

Benefits in the united states. almost half of them, a record 41.2%, have been out of work for at least six months. most states fund 26 weeks of jobless benefits. in this economic downturn, congress has dramatically extended federal funding. so in some states, you can get up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits. killed in a horrifying spectacle, now laid to rest. the woman pulled under water to her death by that 12,000-pound whale. and if you build it, will they come? businesses in one community say they invested there because the u.s. army told them troops were on the way. those troops hav...

Wealthy and now they want to stick it to the poor. you see tempers are flaring, as i said at the beginning. >> they think they can get it resolved in the coming days? >> reporter: right now there's a standoff. democrats are saying it's up to senator buenning to back down. that's probably what we'll see unless there's a change in dynamics. at the end of the week, there already was in the works a larger bill to deal with the jobs issue that would have included most of these benefits. that probably will, you know, getting moving at the end of the week, but by the time it passes the senate, and th...