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>> good evening. it is 10:00 on the east coast. we begin keeping them honest with president obama doing what presidents do in election years with proposals they know will win votes and don't have the votes to pass in congress. they try to pass them anyway even if they expect them to fail. sometimes, especially, if they expect them to fail to make a point. two examples tonight. one in texas and one on gas prices which the president appears to be doing with just a couple weeks ago he mocked. >> this has been going on for years now. every time prices start to go up, especially in an ele...

point. two examples tonight. one in texas and one on gas prices which the president appears to be doing with just a couple weeks ago he mocked. >> this has been going on for years now. every time prices start to go up, especially in an election year, politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. >> president obama, that was march 15th mocking challenger newt gingrich. today he wasn't promising $2 a gallon gas or dusting off a three-point plan. he did unveil a five-point plan to lower prices by cracking down on speculators. >> we can't afford a situation where speculators a...

Smaller government, individual responsibility and the church, i think he gave about the same thing that biden gave. i want to get back to your point. >> bill: he has got seven kids. he has got some bills and a little baby who is in and out of the hospital all the time, come on. >> i agree. but you know what? i have always given and i think you probably have, too. but i just wanted to say let's get back to the public policy, i disagree with mary katharine. i think that unless the tax system is fair, then you can't say to the middle class in this country, remember, you have had 0 plus% of republ...

Outrageous testimony from norway, anders braivik boasting he would do it all again and it was the most spectacular attack since world war ii. one of the judges was kicked off the case for saying that he deserves the death penalty. he was admitted to killing 77 people but pleaded not guilty claiming he was acting in some sort of self-defense. is it a major blow to president obama? the senate rejecting the so-called buffet rule aimed at raising taxes on millionaires but the debate will rage on. >> nobody is even claiming this thing creates jobs. it's all about the president's idea of fairness. >...

Billionaires aren't sharing the pain or the sacrifices, not one bit. >> while republicans called the buffet rule a political gimmick, democrats are planning to use the vote against them leading up to the election. there's more fallout from the alleged secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. 11 agents are on paid administrative leave and have been stripped of their security clearances. we also now know among the 11 men involved, two were supervisors. three were members of the elite counter assault team that protects the presidential motorcade. the pentagon is looking to broadening its ...