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The question of whether this form of outreach works is still up for question. joining us now, karen finney, a former communications director for the dnc and jared bernstein, former economic adviser to the vice president. karen, jay carney has just said the president has engaged consistently with congress in numerous ways from telephone conversations to meetings in the oval office. so why this? because john boehner reiterated today no more talk of taxes. ja let's be honest. i'm a big supporter of president obama but one of the criticisms i think is fair is that over certainly the course of the ...

To be democrats. you see it in california. we have two senators who are women in washington state and new york, of course, you have a woman senator now and in the northeast. in fact, i think you've got 17 democratic women now, right? >> well, we do. we have -- we're going to have 20 women senators, which is incredible. the american public in this election, chris, sent us a binder full of women, and so we're excited to have this many women in the senate, and the women, as you know, are a cordial bunch across party lines. we have dinner every other month in the strom thur mon monday room which i...

Congressional hearing yesterday where another official said anwar al awlaki, an american born islam ache cleric now tops osama bin laden as the biggest threat to the united states. fans of the iphone 4 are expected to line up in droves today as verizon begins selling the device to new customers. they found that it drops fewer calls than the at&t version, but the antenna problems with the phone that first surfaced last june is worse with the verizon phone. they say they can sell as many as 9 million iphones this year ja let's take a look at the markets. cnbc steve sedgwick live in london. b...