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Doing the math: The odds in scoring the perfect March Madness bracket

The NCAA started out with 68 teams this March Madness after tonight's games we'll be down to just eight. There's a lot of numbers and math that go into this tournament.

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CNN Republican Debate Des Moines Iowa

america, go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of covid fraud, one out of every $7. if 8% of our budget is interest, quit borrowing. cut out the credit cards. i had to balance a budget as governor. you have to balance a budget everyday. why is congress the only group that refuses to balance a budget. well, stop the spending. we'll stop the borrowing. we'll eliminate the pet projects and earmarks and veto any spending bill that doesn't take us back to pre-covid levels. then we want to make sure we allow the middle class to breathe. we're going to eliminate the federal gas and diesel tax in this country. and cut taxes on the middle class and simplify those brackets. and then we want to make the small business tax cuts permanent. they made corporate tax cuts permanent but they made small business tax cuts temporary. small businesses are the heart beat of america. we need to prove it by making those tax cuts permanent. >> governor desantis, what's your response? how would you make those essentials more affordable for americans? >> well, i disagree with

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The Beat Weekend

and some late breaking criticism of donald trump. >> let's cut taxes on the middle class, and simplify those brackets. >> donald trump is running for his issues, haley is running on the donors issues, i am running on your issues. >> ron doesn't defeat biden, trump's head to head with biden. monday matters. your voice matters. i trust you. >> i think there's two america first candidates in this race, donald trump and myself. >> donald trump was president for four years, he did not make a dent in the administrative state. >> i know why you are excited, no more commercials after four days. >> haley, referring to the multi multi million dollar onslaught of ads that's been greeting islands. >> she made a joke, desantis has become a joke. >> don't believe a thing nikki haley says. >> ron desantis, losing and lying. >> haley even opposed trump's wall. >> haley disparages the

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The Beat With Ari Melber

>> let's cut taxes on the middle class and simplify those brackets. >> donald trump's running for his issues. haley's running on the donors' issues. i am running on your issues. >> ron doesn't defeat biden. trump is head-to-head with biden. monday matters. your voice matters. i trust you. >> i think there are two america first candidates, donald trump and myself. >> donald trump was president for four years. he did not make a dent in the administrative state. >> i know why you're excited. no more commercials for four days. >> haley referring to the multi-million dollar onslaught of ads greeting iowans. >> she made a joke. desantis has become a joke. >> don't believe a thing nikki haley says. >> ron desantis, losing and lying. >> haley even opposed trump's wall. >> haley disparages the caucuses and insults you. >> the intense wrangling

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CNN Republican Debate Des Moines Iowa

every day. why is congress the only group that refuses to balance a budget? we'll stop the spending. we'll stop the borrowing. we'll eliminate the pet projects and the earmarks, and i'll veto any spending bill that doesn't take us back to precovid levels. and then we want to make sure that we allow the middle class to breathe. we're going to eliminate the federal gas and diesel tax in this country and cut taxes on the middle class and simplify those brackets. and then we want to make the small business tax cuts permanent. they made corporate tax cuts permanent, but they made small business tax cuts temporary. small businesses are the heartbeat of america. we need to prove it by making those tax cuts permanent. >> governor desantis, what's your response? how would you make those essentials more affordable for americans? >> well, i disagree with ambassador haley. we don't need an accountant in the white house, we need a leader in the white house. and that's what i would bring. >> i've spoken with iowans, visiting all 99 counties and also folks all across this country. the american dream is slipping

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CNN Republican Debate Des Moines Iowa

governor. you have to balance a budget every day. why is congress the only group that refuses to balance the budget? we will stop the spending. we will stop the borrowing. we will eliminate the pet projects in the earmarks. and i will veto any spending bill that does not take us back to pre-covid levels. and we want to make sure we allow the middle class to breathe. we will eliminate the federal gas and diesel tax in this country and cut taxes on the middle class and simplify those brackets. and then we want to make the small business tax cuts permanent. they made corporate tax cuts permanent, but they made small business tax cuts temporary. small businesses are the heartbeat of america. we need to prove it by making those tax cuts permanent. >> [applause] >> governor desantis, what is your response? how would you make those essentials more affordable for americans? >> well, i disagree with ambassador haley. we don't need an accountant in the white house, we need a leader in the white house. >> [applause] >> and that's what i would bring. i have spoken with iowans, visiting all 99 counties, and also folks all across this country.

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BBC News Now

and that they were sorry for causing us problems and sorry for misleading us problems and sorry for misleading us at previous audits... in brackets, there were tears. you remember them being in tears when you were there? this. remember them being in tears when you were there?— you were there? no, i don't recall them being _ you were there? no, i don't recall them being in _ you were there? no, i don't recall them being in tears _ you were there? no, i don't recall them being in tears at _ you were there? no, i don't recall them being in tears at all. - you were there? no, i don't recall them being in tears at all. do - you were there? no, i don't recall them being in tears at all. do you| them being in tears at all. do you remember _ them being in tears at all. do you remember them _ them being in tears at all. do you remember them being _ them being in tears at all. do you remember them being upset? - remember them being upset? i would say that they didn't seem particularly upset. they had contacted me... even on the day of the audit, miss sefton phoned me to inform me the auditors were there and i said i was coming down to the branch shortly. did and i said i was coming down to the branch shortly-— branch shortly. did you have any reason to doubt _ branch shortly. did you have any reason to doubt what _ branch shortly. did you have any reason to doubt what the - branch shortly. did you have any. reason to doubt what the auditors said yeah and no, i had no reason. at 11am, steve bradshaw asked us to check around the branch as the staff had said they had concealed some paperwork in the cupboards. we spent about ten minutes looking, but could not find anything. one staff member was led through the secure area and immediately located in the paperwork, which she handed to steve bradshaw. staff agreed to leave with the security team, and before they

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Special Report Democracy 2024 Iowa Town Hall with Amb. Nikki Haley

spending, stop the borrowing, eliminate the earmarksd ve, andi will veto any spending program othat doesn't bring us back to pre-covid levels. we will take as many federalm programs as we can and send them down to the state level. that will reduce the size of the federal government and empower n the ground.ri then wghe will focus on the mide class.ic right now the middle class, wee poare watching the rich get ricr and the poor get poorerrer.e we will go and gadi eseliminate the gas and diesel x in his country, and make sure that we cut taxes on the middle-class and simple find those brackets. finally we will make the smallad business tax cuts permanent. they may havempoe been temporar, they made the corporate tax cuts permanent. i grew up in are a small busine. small businesses are thecan' heartbeat of our economy. but we can't just say it, weth have to prove it. when we start to focus on the spending that's happening, and every one of our agencies, we'll make sure to take them bac theks at their core mission is.al get all these old programs down

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Special Report Democracy 2024 Iowa Town Hall with Amb. Nikki Haley

and veto any spending bill that doesn't take us back to pre-covid levels. we will go and take as many federal programs as we can and send them down to the state level that will reduce the size of the federal government but it will empower people on the ground. and then we will focus on the middle class. right now the middle class we are watching the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. we are going to go and eliminate the gas and diesel tax in this country. we will make sure we cut taxes on the middle class and simplify those brackets. finally we will make the small business tax cuts permanent. they made them temporary. they made the corporate tax cuts permanent. i grew up in a small business. small businesses are the heart beat of our economy. but, we can't just say it. we have to prove it. so, when we start to focus on the spending that's happening, and i will do an every one in our agencies is make sure we take them back to what their core mission is get all these old programs down. get all this federal regulation down. get all this extra bureaucracy

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CNN Newsroom Live

inspections will be completed within the next few days. problems have plagued previous models of that plane. cnn safety analyst david sucy spoke eaearlier with our michae holmes. >> because this is a maintenance door, i'd d be looking to see i that maintenancece door had bee removed for maintenance prior to this flight and if it had been reinstalled. in the pictures you can see the mounting brackets for that door and i don't see any evidence of those being torn off which would indicate to me that it's possible that the fastening structure wasn't done -- wasn't installed properly. so that's something that i'd be looking at first thing. >> yeah, and, in fact, looking at that now, we've got it up full on the screen there, it's a much bigger area. this isn't like a passenger window, this is a big area here. >> yeah, it is, and there are windows in that door, at least in some models, i'd have to look at this one specifically. but that -- so it would look like it's a window, but when it came off you can see -- and the structure isn't torn, either, on the top part of it, you can see

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