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Without any real -- >> we're talking about the appearance with meg whitman who is the head of the ceo of hewlett-packard, they're laying off 25,000 employees. that gets his narrative going of the layoffs. >> likes to fire people. how hard would it have been to do a quick stop in texas, thanks the voters for putting him over the top and then head right along. >> why didn't he? they just didn't think of it? >> y'all -- >> i'll say again, they think -- they are sitting looking at this conversation and saying this is absurd. none of it matters. none of it matters. that's what they think. do i thin...

Win arizona. is arizona legitimately in play? or is this a faint -- >> the nbc art department has a lot of colors will. >> we don't mess around. >> got to make sure we get all the colors. arizona is in play for sure. until governor romney proves some strength with the hispanic vote, it's in play. what's significant to me, though, and this is where governor romney on the electoral college map does have that is the only state, and the drop-off after arizona probably to georgia is huge. if you go to the next cluster the states where the president might be able to compete, if he starts competing i...

The nation's postal service is facing what officials call quote the equivalent of chapter 11 bankruptcy. they warn that unless congress intervenes the agency could shut down entirely this winter. high labor costs, the loss of advertising revenue and a decline in mail due to the internet are leading the postal service to its second straight year of losses totaling $8 billion or more. in an effort to stop the bleeding, the postal service has proposed some changes that include eliminating saturday delivery, closing up 3700 post offices, and laying off 120,000 workers. that constitutes about a f...

Season. this is -- this is not the time to be laying off 70,000 people. i have been meeting with and talking to members of congress from both sides of the aisle, asking them to pass another clean extension of the faa bill, which they have done on 20 occasions. so, they need to come back to the negotiating table. congress needs to pass a clean bill so our 4,000 faa employees, who were without a paycheck since last saturday, can come back to work. these construction projects can start again. our friends and neighbors can go back to work. i think if some of you have been paying attention, you kno...

Be laying off 70,000 people. i have been meeting with and talking to member of congress from both sides of the aisle asking them to pass another kleenex tension of the faa bill which they have done on 20 occasions. so they need to come back to the negotiating table, congress needs to pass a clean bill so our 4,000 faa employees who were without a paycheck since last saturday can come back to work. these construction projects can start again, our friends and neighbors can go back the work. i think if some of you have been paying attention, you know that i've said we have the safest and the best...