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approval numbers in months, and republican infighting over whether, when, and how to extend the payroll tax cut seems to be moving the numbers. it's possible the gop is finally paying the price for its full-body embrace of the tea party. plus, up in the air. three polls have mitt romney and newt gingrich in a dead heat nationally. and now ron paul is learning what it's like to join the front-runners in iowa. he's facing renewed questions about bigoted comments printed in his political newsletters of two decades ago. also, why iowa? republicans there have proven as good at picking los...

whether, when, and how to extend the payroll tax cut seems to be moving the numbers. it's possible the gop is finally paying the price for its full-body embrace of the tea party. plus, up in the air. three polls have mitt romney and newt gingrich in a dead heat nationally. and now ron paul is learning what it's like to join the front-runners in iowa. he's facing renewed questions about bigoted comments printed in his political newsletters of two decades ago. also, why iowa? republicans there have proven as good at picking losers as winners. so why do we care so much what they think? ...

all in, child laws which are truly stupid. >> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton, tonight's lead. the president is tired of house republicans playing games, especially when the lives of 160 million americans are at stake. today at a surprise appearance in the briefing room he called out speaker boehner by name to do the right thing. >> democrats and republicans in the senate said we're going to put our fights on other issues aside and go ahead and do what's right. i need the speaker and house republicans to do the same. put politics aside, put aside issues where there are ...

i'm al sharpton, tonight's lead. the president is tired of house republicans playing games, especially when the lives of 160 million americans are at stake. today at a surprise appearance in the briefing room he called out speaker boehner by name to do the right thing. >> democrats and republicans in the senate said we're going to put our fights on other issues aside and go ahead and do what's right. i need the speaker and house republicans to do the same. put politics aside, put aside issues where there are fundamental dis'agreements and come together on something we agree on, and l...

harder to answer questions like this. there were rumors going around about the potential insolvency of one or more french banks who own a lot of debt of europe's periphery, greece, spain, italy ireland or portugal. there's that concern. a lot of these frnch banks bought a lot of our toxic assets earlier in the decade. i suspect they haven't marked those down fully either. all the rumors are denied. it led to this sell off this morning that should have been greeted with some follow through after the big rally yesterday on word that the fed is going to hold rates low for at least two m...