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it kind of reminds people of what we heard the president of the united states say a couple of days ago where he said, you know, don't call my bluff. i'll take it directly to the people. the people of wisconsin have spoken today and the -- the answer is this is a gigantic win for the republican party. apparently what they needed, the democrats needed to win three seats, they won two. the g.o.p. wins four. there's another recall in a couple of days but those are both democrats so it's impossible for the republicans to lose the control of the senate which means they've got a monopoly. t...

of our public debt outstanding or roughly 7% of this year's projected deficit. ste deficit. stu varney joins us. >> reporter: i think there is perspective required here bearing in mind the numbers you put out there. clearly progress has been made in the sense that we are having a serious discuss about genuinely cutting back public spending, got it. that is progress, new, different, wholeheartedly good. what exactly have we got here? i put it to you shannon, what it comes down to is we have promised only to slow the rate of growth of the debt. we have actually guaranteed that very soo...

right-wing jamboree. where ron paul wins the straw poll. dick cheney and dick rumsfeld gets booed. talk about switcheroos. we miss ad lot of the fun last week because of the revolution in egypt. tonight what you need to know about how the right plans to run against president obama. if this is the starting lineup i can only imagine what characters they've got sitting on the bench. about the revolution in egypt, it's spreading. today the unrest erupted in yemen and bahrain and iran. there's no footage, of course, because they won't allow it but our nbc news producer reports thousands h...

poll. dick cheney and dick rumsfeld gets booed. talk about switcheroos. we missed lot of the fun last week because of the revolution in egypt. tonight what you need to know about how the right plans to run against president obama. if this is the starting lineup i can only imagine what characters they've got sitting on the bench. about the revolution in egypt, it's spreading. today the unrest erupted in yemen and bahrain and iran. there's no footage, of course, because they won't allow it but our nbc news producer reports thousands have gathered and fought with security forces in tehr...

military aircraft and taken to high level meetings with u.s. and afghan officials, not just that but that he was paid an undisclosed sum of money. the white house now says he was not paid any u.s. money, but others are disputing that. the president of afghanistan is denying reports that he personally sat down with this imposter. but sources say the man actually did meet with hamid karzai until they found out he was a prod. press reports out there on progress being made with respect to discussions and negotiations with the taliban in afghanistan may have been based in part on these bo...