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roulette. straight to washington we go to lizzie o'leary. we're talking gas prices. they jumped 3 cents a gallon from yesterday to a national average of 6 cents a gallon. why have they gone up? >> i wish i could give you the political sound bite the politicians want, but it's just not that simple. the world is big. there are three things driving this, and that is essentially the price of oil that's influenced by iran and the middle east, supply and demand, you have a lot of people, certainly in india and china, who are getting richer than they've ever been before using more, and th...

>>clayton: and congressman dix says the house republicans have put together a budget for the reminder of the fiscal year representing serious cut back to economic recovery. >>governor huckabee: we spent $862 billion on the magnificent stimulus and since they passed the bill, we have had an unemployment level that has gone between 9.5 percent and 10 percent and stayed around 9.8 percent so it has not worked. maybe budget cutting would be a better idea than government spending. and for most americans, watching the government continue to reach deep into their pockets and paychecks and spend money...