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and more than half a million bottles of instant tylenol are recalled because of complaints that the new bottle makes it hard to get the dosage right. authorities say a man arrested blocks from the u.s. capitol today represents one of the most urgent growing threats. the man picked up is a would-be suicide bomber and he was arrested as he accepted what he thought was a gun and a vest packed with explosives. our brian todd is live at the u.s. courthouse where the suspect just appeared in court. fascinating new details coming out in the court papers. fill us in. >> reporter: certainly...

And they're susceptible to infiltration and perhaps even being dominated to some extent by some pretty hard-left activists who are not going to have sympathy from the, the sort of the independent centrists voters that the president needs to win his election. i think what he is trying to do though, martha if i can divine this, he is looking for energy in his base. i think they are looking at the 2004 election which was basically a base election in which the bush people managed to turn out all of their base and expand their base and win the election even though they narrowly lost, bush team narr...

So-called kennedy seat in january of 2010 it went -- the independents went 3 to 1 against republicans, against democrats. in obama cannot rise from the 31% approval he has among independents he is going to suffer a landslide. >> bret: there is no indication, a.b., that the white house is currently making a move toward galvanizing independents by what the president is doing on the stump. >> no. they hope in january they would be seen as reasonable, reasonable compromiseer. someone cooperating across the aisle. didn't work. it didn't move independents in the poll. now he is running to the left. ...

Public to make himself look good. he was never going to do it. to the extent that the democrats bought it, it didn't hurt him. the obama campaign, the political advisors have belief for a long time this was going to be a base election. they did not want to see it happen to president obama in 2012 what happened to republicanrepublicans in the 20y have a candidate that the base is not enthusiastic about. as the republicans had with john mccain. they made that decision a long time ago. we have seen it in the president speeches and we saw it in the state of the union when he talked at further expa...

It's hard to argue that this as he does in the lawsuit that arizona is weakening the federal government ability to enforce immigration law. if anything it is adding the state institution as auxiliary of federal government enforcement. it's a weak case. he knows if he did it on a civil rights basis it would go nowhere. the law explicitly excludes the use of race as a criteria in stopping people. he knows he has a weak hand. he did this, as mara indicates to strengthen the base in a base election. but overall i think it will hurt them. majority of the americans are against the lawsuit. >> bret: ...