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robin wright. i'm joe johns in for candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." the white house has led a very public campaign for the payroll tax cut extension which would save average and working americans $1,000 in higher taxes next year. after weeks of negotiations, a break-through. the senate yesterday voted to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits for just two months. the house still has to act. president obama seems satisfied but he let congress know he is not backing off a full-year extension. >> it would be inexcusable for congress not to further extend this m...

thank you for joining us. we'll start with the brutal meetimee beating of protesters in cairo fueling the fury in egypt. the violence means all bets are off for egypt's political future. we spoke yesterday, mohammed. this video and the fact that people are -- it's being caught on tape, it's really fueling what's going on there? >> well, since we spoke, don, the clashes have still been on going between the protesters and the police and the army. today the video we acquired -- the video of the woman that was beaten severely and stripped of a substantial amount of her clothes, i spoke t...

Short distance away from where we are here at camp liberty. what was symbolic was not just a quiet u.s. withdrawal but a chance for the iraqis to seize more of their sovereignty. that is something the u.s. military wants to impress and something the iraqis are very eager to say. this is the third in line of the last events that we will see the u.s. military make, in terms of finally coming -- finally reaching that end of the withdrawal process. you'll see what is called the closing of the colors in a couple of week's times, these when the military literally folds up its flag and heads out. and...

>> this moment was just too soon for most of the other final 400 or so men who crossed the line. it's quarter past 3:00 on the morning of august 19. after 7 1/2 years at war, america combat troops are finally leaving the country. here we are just the other side of the kuwaiti border, it's taken four days to move some 2,600 of the men of 4th stryker brigade combat team down here all the way from baghdad. the convoy of 300 vehicles departed under the cover of darkness, amid the highest security. the military has been concerned that the insurgents would target the last of the troop to leave but w...

>> this moment was just too soon for most of the other final 400 or so men who crossed the line. it's quarter past 3:00 on the morning of august 19. after 7 1/2 years at war, america combat troops are finally leaving the country. here we are just the other side of the kuwaiti border, it's taken four days to move some 2,600 of the men of 4th stryker brigade combat team down here all the way from baghdad. the convoy of 300 vehicles departed under the cover of darkness, amid the highest security. the military has been concerned that the insurgents would target the last of the troop to leave but w...