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To support the iraqis and peshmerga as they move forward. >> highway close are iraqi forces now from actually entering mosul, and what's your assessment? how much longer is it going to take to liberate that city? >> well, they're in the outlying villages. again, we're ahead of schedule on most of the axis of advance. a good frort arwa. a revamped iraqi security force. some units we trained now fighting two years with some of the most forgetive forces in the region. they're battle hardened and have our support. they're in the outlying area, made good advances today, particularly from the access...

>> children's hour. >> i don't believe he particularly cares. >> a lot of grandstanding on both sides. >> governor perry says when the president arrives in texas, he won't will there to treat him. >> saying he would not allow for his words, thoughtful discussion. >> politics sometimes is about pictures and pictures matter. >> the president, when he was walking with chris christie, made good pictures. >> the president extended an invitation for governor perry. >> governor rick perry accepted the president's invitation. >> there's a lot of political tension. >> they think that he snap chapped wi...

Campaign commercial for thad cochran. obviously, i think he has helped thad cochran. 92% of the vote is in and cochran is ahead 51% to 49%. dana, quickly. i think that brett favre endorsement helped. >> it certainly could have. not only was brett favre sort of a native son, somebody who made good, he came back. he has actually been teaching high school here in mississippi in hattiesburg. and school and school funding has been one of the issues in this race, the idea that chris mcdaniel apparently said that there is no place for federal funding of schools here in mississippi where a quarter of ...

After running the table in '72? well, for one, president nexton was jowls deep in the watergate scandal. but then there was no tradition of always inviting winning teams to the white house. legend has it that nixon, a redskins plan, even called a key play for the red skins in '71. there's a tape of nixon and allen talking football. >> you were 13 points behind, you know, and when your offense just wouldn't do a thing, you know, i -- i thought you were dead. >> but today the present white house made good, settling a 40-year-old grudge, giving the perfect team a chance to finally be america's te...

you're exposed to sniper positions that are just around the corner on the other side of those buildings. final preparations are under way for a farewell, not to just a pop superstar but a daughter, a mother, a friend. whitney houston's funeral is tomorrow in the church where she sang as a child u the pastor says the service will be personal and dignified. it will also be a gathering of celebrities including houston's god mother, aretha franklin. on the "today" show, she talked about the difficulty of singing at that service tomorrow. >> it is not gonna be easy, i can tell you that....