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Bobo. they're offering $80,000 for any information leading to an arrest. authorities believe she was abducted and taken to the woods by her own home. they're searching lakes and rivers. brian? >> ok, gretchen, thanks. 23 minutes after the hour. forget world peace or the three wars we seem to be fighting. today, the united nations will spend the entire day debating if mother earth deserves human rights status. should that be the top priority i ask quizzically? cliff is here and mark crowley is here, co-director of the energy coalition and they both join us for a fair and balanced debate. mora, ...

Mark crowley. the washington bureau chief. thank you for joining me. let me start off with you, the "time" magazine interview that mr. romney made this claim that he could get opportunity employment rate to 6% or lower. as noted in the "boston globe," it is not a similar time he made a similar claim while in las vegas but this is obviously getting a lot of attention today. >> sure. in large measure this election is all about the unemployment rate. this one number, it is more than that but it is the one we're most focused on. i have to say 6% is kind of a modest ambition for romney. it's not th...

Happens. i know you both recall when the administration said it would hope that the unemployment would be around 8%. every day it seemed there was a republican critic of there administration reminding people of that claim and that it had not come true, mark. >> right. it's important to put that particular claim into can you be text. that came out in an economic projection of the president-elect economic advisers about what the stimulus could do. what ended up happening was that no one realized in that fourth quarter of 2008, how bad the economy had plummeted. so those projections were way off....

Said that he was not game for that kind of strategy, with donald trump. >> that's precisely my point. the romney campaign wants this election to be about the economy. they want to make this a referendum on president obama. they don't want to get into those personal details. at least that's what they tell us. by being on the same stage with donald trump, and this won't be the first time. he's already appeared with donald trump previously during the nevada caucuses earlier this year. and then of course, they've appeared at fund-raisers together. that all of a sudden, it does open up the potentia...