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bahamas. already a major hurricane, it's got the eastern united states even as far north as new england in its sights. it's wednesday, august 24th, 2011, and this is "the daily rundown." i'm chris cillizza in for chuck todd. all that, plus the virginia earthquake, so powerful it had eyes in california rolling. let's get right to today's political headlines. there are a few of them amidst a lot of other news. mark murray's nbc news deputy political director. mark, let's start, it's been a quiet week. mitt romney, though, out on the campaign trail. we talked about this. a little bi...

political headlines. there are a few of them amidst a lot of other news. mark murray's nbc news deputy political director. mark, let's start, it's been a quiet week. mitt romney, though, out on the campaign trail. we talked about this. a little bit of an up-and-down summer for mitt romney. there was good debate performances. michele bachmann, tim pawlenty fighting, but there's been some bad, too. let's look back on the summer that was for mitt romney. >> so, in a large part of the summer we had of kind the sense that mitt romney was the nominee in waiting. he has the laser light focu...

economy. lots of bumps in the road and today we are getting a new look at the out of a job picture and it's continuing to be ugly. look at this rollercoaster we have been on in the terms of the number of jobs. bill: break that down. >> reporter: 427,000 new phase on the unemployment line just last week. this confirms the economy is in very deep trouble. it confirms other news items of the past 10 days which show manufacturing is slowing. housing is i'm going to use the word crashing again. confidence is down. retail sales down. confirmation that the economy is in deep if trouble, it'...

Afternoon. he'll put that out. he has an appearance on another cable news network later on. don. >> carol costello is here. wonder which one? >> just saying, shannon? >> the only reason we're not saying is because it's on fox. >> thank you, carol. >> you said it, not me. >> all right. so listen. a major tea party unveiled a surprise. tell bus that? >> that's right. a day full of surprises. tea party express unveiled their first senate endorsement. who gets it? who is the win never his name is john bruning. he's the republican attorney general in nebraska. you know he's the senator, democratic ...

Attorney general here. that could take a long time. before a decision is made if they should get rehabilitation. really begs the question, how are these boys going to be rehabilitated if they're stuck in a center they don't have access to psychological care. don. >> how many kids get pulled into this type of thing? >> don this, is rare. in afghanistan. we know from intelligence officials, that in the past year there's been at least three suicide bombings, carried out by minors, we allege a lot came from pakistan. these accusations. are made that militants are sending these boys over the border...