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Alert. the mexican drug cartel is here in the united states. accused of hiring assassins to kill. three people now arrested in california. each is accused of being hired to carry out assassinations in the united states. special agents say the accused assassins' employer is a tijuana drug cartel. hours ago dozens of agents descended upon a house in palmdale, colorado. -- palmdale, california. they ceased assault weapons, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and $20,000 in cash. the suspects reportedly hired to kill those in the united states who the mexican cartel claim owes them large sums of money. as ...

Economy and financial market would have melted down. of course, we'll never know. the same on the stimulus. we'll never know. >> greta: is there any legitimate economic model for prediction so we can tell? we keep getting told it could be a lot worse. are there any legitimate ways to measure that or is that simply political argument? >> there is no way to know the path that didn't happen. we did not know and will never know what the last two years would have looked like without the stimulus that's the problem in tracking it. >> greta: there was 814 billion was the stimulus. according to the nu...

For last month, is for 45 billion of that to be taken away, to be cut out and used to pay down the deficit. that's what republicans are calling for. i want to show you what the cbo says the stimulus has cost us. we thought it would cost $787 billion. now they are telling us so far it is $814 billion. more than was expected by billions of dollars. we'll see how the fight plays out and whether republicans win or not in getting a cutback on that stimulus. >> thank you, poppy. david letterman apologizes to lindsay lohan. he says he was duped. that's in your showbiz update. dh over 190 times. each ...

That would help put our economy on a stronger road to recovery. >> so it is not stimulus. >> are you prepared to deficit spend? >> there are certainly proposals in here that would do that. >> my next guest supports what the president is doing. democratic congressman from massachusetts joins us now. congressman, in 2007 president bush, then president bush agreed with nancy pelosi on a $168 billion stimulus plan. in march of 2009, president obama passed the $814 billion stimulus program. and now, after all this spending we have 1.percent growth. why do you think another stimulus program would wo...

>> look, he is stuck. this is what he has plunged everything into. the stimulus is working and it is going to work. what they did before they left town they congress to pass a stimulus 2. admittedly the first was 814 billion dollars, the second one 26 billion dollars. the same theory. we can spend our way to prosperity. no country in the history of the world has been able to achieve that. the economic numbers are baked into the cake for this fall election. they are stuck with unemployment at 9.5%. under employment at 18.4%. those are people who are not able to fan a job. those are people -- to...