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If it passes, it could have a ripple effect all across our country. john roberts is live in jackson, mississippi, on this very important story. john? >> reporter: hey, good afternoon to you, jenna. supporters of this constitutional amendment are calling it the biggest news in the pro-life movement in the past 20 years. what it would do is it would give a fertilized egg, a single cell, all the protections of a person under mississippi's constitution. so, if passed, this could literally end abortion in this state overnight. but many people who are pro-life, including governor haley barbour, are ...

Washington, or so it would seem. jenna: fighting words there, you're too nice. well, the obama administration losing another battle on capitol hill, the senate blocking part of the president's jobs plan to help rebuild roads and bridges. joining us now, republican senator john mccain from arizona. what a treat to have you on a friday. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, jenna. and it used to be biob, blame it on bush, now it's bioc, blame it on congress. what have we been doing the last three years with the stimulus package, obamacare? for two years they had overwhelming majorities in both...

Grover? >> well, let's remember that senator simpson voted in the 1982 for a budget deal that was supposed to cut spending $3 and raise taxes a dollar. the tax increases were real and spending didn't go down, it went up. then eight years later he learned nothing from 1982, and he voted for the new budget deal under president bush for an imaginary $2 in spending cuts for every dollar of real tax increase. spending didn't go down, it went up. so twice he's walked into a room with the democrats saying let's cut spending and raise taxes, and taxes went up, and spending went up. he learned nothing ...

accusations against cain hit the news. his campaign denying reports that he made unwanted advances toward a couple of employees when he was the head of the national restaurant association back in the 1990s. mike emanuel live for us in washington. cain's campaign, mike, has to be encouraged by the latest poll numbers but so far the story is not going away. >> reporter: no campaign likes to be off message not talking about what herman cain wants to do for the company. he could introduce himself to many americans starting to focus on the 2012 candidates. those close to the candidate hop...