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So yet another reason to pay off the home equity loan first. >> gretchen: here is alicia from new york. i'm $78,000 in debt and beginning to put together a plan. the problem is, i don't have any savings. shouldn't i start saving money first? >> well, we teach you what we call baby step one, which is put $1,000 aside as a little miniature starter emergency fund. that's really all. then you need to completely stop saving money. one of the things that causes the debt snowball in our get out of debt plan to be so successful is this increased unbelievable focused intensity. so you completely focus ...

General of the state of florida. i have a lot more work to do and as you know, i'm a floridian like you. i love my state, and i'm very happy being attorney general of state of florida. >> all right. florida attorney general pam bondi. good to see you. thanks for your time. >> thank you. when you're getting ready for work tomorrow, hundreds of lawmakers won't be. they've headed home for recess, a particularly long one because this is an election year. no jobs bill, no debt plan, no resolution on taxes. all of that left unfinished, so we want to know. are you disappointed that congress left wi...

Ashlee, that demands our respect. but that doesn't demand our vote. ashlee, this wasn't a slip-up. so like i don't know about you ashlee. right now ashlee, i can tell you. i'm not going to back down. no, that's not what i said ashlee. ashlee, no. >> ashlee? >> everybody -- >> ashlee. ashlee -- >> because i am telling you -- >> ashleigh. >> ashleigh. >> by the way, ashleigh. >> that's not for you to say. >> ashleigh. >> in an attempt -- >> ashleigh. ashleigh. ashleigh. >> tammy duck worth. >> ashleigh i'll say it again. ashleigh, look. this is what happens when you've got a congressman that's a...

That's very challenging. >> so you talk about $650 billion spent in short-term stimulus spending. a lot of people out there would say that's reckless, irresponsible. it could never happen. but, explain how if that stimulus spending is coupled with a long-term debt plan, to take down the debt over a generation, how the markets not only would free up those $650 billion, but they couldn't write the check quickly enough for it? >> exactly. >> they would rejoice. >> the austerity folks are getting it wrong in the sense that they're imposing immediate deficit reduction and that's disastrous for econ...

few moments, but first joe johns takes a look at how edwards went from rising politician to a guy who could face decades behind bars. >> reporter: john edwards, the politician, remember him? >> we have much work to do because the truth is we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: but as it turned out, mr. two americas here had two very different faces himself, and one of them wasn't very pretty. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal, betrayal of the people closest to him, his late wife elizabeth, his supporters, staffers, contribut...