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choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people pa...

u.s. oil companies, are raking in near record profits, so why are they still getting huge taxpayer subsidies? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." he skipped the last presidential debate and sidelined himself in iowa saying he wants to focus on the first of the nation's primary state. jon huntsman is betting almost everything on new hampshire, but is trail ng the state while romney is enjoying a substantial lead and now, huntsman is joining some of romney's sharpest critics in questioning romney's conservative credentials. jon huntsman is joining us now from salt lake ...

Back in december that during the bush years, "it was standard practice not to pay for things. it certainly added to the deficit, no question." in 2005, the congressional budget office looked a to the impact of the bush tax cuts and estimated that they added $539 billion to the deficit that one year alone. if it wasn't for the bush tax cuts, the u.s. in that year would have had a budget surplus, not a deficit. do you remember how george bush sold the tax cuts in the first place? he essentially said, don't worry about it. don't worry about it. we can afford to tax cuts. we got a surplus. it will...

Bush years, "it was standard practice not to pay for things. it certainly added to the deficit, no question." in 2005, the congressional budget office looked a to the impact of the bush tax cuts and estimated that they added $539 billion to the deficit that one year alone. if it wasn't for the bush tax cuts, the u.s. in that year would have had a budget surplus, not a deficit. do you remember how george bush sold the tax cuts in the first place? he essentially said, don't worry about it. don't worry about it. we can afford to tax cuts. we got a surplus. it will be fine. >> the growing surplus ...

Deepwater horizon. minority leader mcconnell pushing more tax breaks for the rich and mighty. "there's no evidence whatsoever that the bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue, they actually increased revenue." no evidence, except the congressional budget report estimate that by 2005 the cuts had increased the deflit by 539 billion. ezra klein meets the new math, same as the old math. racism in the tea party. sarah palin uses the word "appalling," not about the racism, but about the naacp calling out the tea party for the racism. our guest, naacp president benjamin jealous. >> they need to ...