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Right and democratic left making all the noise these days, what is the political middle have to say? could there be a movement there as well? midpoint between the tea party and the most activists progressives? we'll ask two center leaning republicans who were elbowed aside. and finally, some guy at yale has come up with the top five political quotes of the year. they're all pretty bad. we start with the tax bill. senator michael bennet is a democratic from colorado. you've just been voted in. tell me about this vote today. it looks like you've got to 60 votes to be filibustered to get clotur...

Businesses there? >> reporter: we've been watching it hour by hour for the last few hours and people are streaming in here getting their spot. we're about four hours from the start of the angels show overall. about six hours from when the blue angels will fly over pensacola. it is one of biggest weekends of the year for pensacola and the blue angels, there is their home turf, they go around and tour the nation. all throughout the year, about 68 shows a year. this is their midpoint and certainly a home coming as well. a very different year for them. i had a chance to fly with some of the crew o...

After comments made to rolling stone magazine regarding the president and his team. and the president says he has full confidence in the man he placed to replace him. >> we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year. we'll do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy because he helped shape it and my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it and we will not miss a beat. >> joining me now is a man who knows general petraeus well. the director of the middle east studies program at the johns hopkins univer...

Review and we'll make an assessment. is the strategy working? is it working in part or are there other aspects of it that aren't working? how's the coordination between civilian and military? are we doing enough to build afghan security capacity? how are we working effectively with our allies? so we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year. we'll do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy, because he helped shape it. and my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it, and we will not miss a beat becau...

Isn't working? are we doing enough to build afghan security capacity, how are we working effectively with our allies? so we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year, we'll do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy because he helped shape it and my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it and we will not miss a beat because of the change in command in the afghan theater. keep in mind that during this entire time, general petreaus has been the cent com commander which means he's had responsibility i...