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their jobs. that's what happened at the kansas city steel mill that's the focus of the new obama campaign ad. featuring workers who say that mitt romney and his company ruined their lives. take a look. >> having a good paying job that you can support and raise a family on is hugely important. >> that stopped with the sale of the bane capital. >> i know how business works. i know why businesses come and go. >> bain capital was the majority owner. they were responsible. mitt romney was deeply involved in the influence that he exercised over these companies. >> they made as much money o...

Ineligible to vote voted in large numbers in the 2008 election. >> how did he reach that conclusion? they compared two data bases from computer. first people who voted the second people charged with felonies. that search turned up hundreds of names. the minnesota majority suspected were felons who voted illegally. by then the state supreme court already declared frank enthe winner by a razor thin margin of 312 votes. >> the story wasn't over for ana mcgrath with his long list of people suspected of voting illegally. >> who did you go to? >> brought it to county attorneys. under minnesota law t...

Happiness. how did you measure it? >> we worked with three huge data bases to find the happiest region or country on the four continents. when you look at the data points and do the correlations, what sorts of characteristics travel around with the happiest nations, you find that number one, gdp is a pretty weak predictor of happiness. at least for poor countries. what correlates most strongly to happiness is trust, tolerance, short ladder between the richest and poorest, and how well a nation is set up to nudge people into socializing. >> you meaning like in rome where they have those places ...

Programs. we will get into examples in a program. how are they able to monitor kids' information? >> what happened is a texas two-step. the federal law prohibits the federal government from collecting housing data bases on student information. we are talking about highly personal information. but where there's a will, there's a way around the constitution, and around statutory prohibitions i suppose is the thinking. so in the 2009 stimulus bill, what congress said was that if a state wants stimulus money, it has to obligate itself, promise to create these massive data bases. >> so let's be cle...

program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. >> i'd like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i'm just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. >> the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of al...