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32 minutes past the hour now here is what's happening right now, a secret memo reveals now what the white house knew about scotland's plans to release the lockerbie bomber. the london times says the administration preferred abdel basaet al-megrahi not be moved to libya. there is word that bp's ceo tony hayward will be nominated for a board position at bp's russian venture. new information about the intelligence community after a "washington post" report suggesting the size of the operation is becoming an obstacle. some are saying the white house is also a present. james rosen is live in washin...

Interesting "the new york times" of all places yesterday ran a story about oakland, california, which you just mentioned, they took a lot of their municipal services, took it out of the hands of the public employees unions and actually privatized some of it, and the headline was they did all this and the sky didn't fall. what meg whitman is saying, look, i give her a lot of credit for doing this before the election. it takes a lot of guts to say i'm going to cut 40,000 public jobs in california, i'm going to renegotiate these lavish pension benefits and other benefits i'm going to do all of th...

The police, or is it something where you've got to be in the union and then the union goes out and speaks for you and you don't necessarily agree with what your union is saying. >> reporter: these a great point, that's why meg whitman says i am not opposed to nurses, i love police officers, and they serve such a vital service for our state and country. the problem i have is with the union bosses who don't necessarily represent the bulk of the nurses. exactly. they are about politica phreut , abdel basaet al-megrahi they are not about serving the people that they claim to represent. that is wha...

Fed's argument? jim engle knows. a bit of a conflict for the administration here. >> reporter: well, yeah, in order to fend off the lawsuits from some 20 states and any number of individuals, abdel basaet al-megrahi the justice department is flatly disputing the president's earlier remarks you mentioned, those in which you insisted the individual mandate to buy insurance is absolutely not a tax. the justice department was apparently having some difficulty identifying a constitutional reason, a constitutional power to force people to buy insures shaourpbs -- insurance so the administration is n...