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analytics chief economist mark zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. cain just 5%. now in a cbs news poll of republican primary voters, she sits between ron paul and rick...

Wrote his defense from the bench, and today, he wrote, the court affirms what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history, requiring california to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals. scalia's figures were based on older population data. he adoo he added the vast majority of inmates most generously rewarded by this will not be prisoners are medical conditions or veer mental illness and many will be fine physical specimens who have developed muscles pumping iron in the gym. in 2006 then california governor arnold shars weg invoked eme...

U.s.-built airplanes and killed 12 security officers. next, it's about 8:00 p.m. in iraq where a car bomb killed seven people. according to reports, the target was a police captain who was injured. finally, almost 5:00 p.m. now local time in iceland, where a volcano is still spew ago cloud of ash into the heavens, that's impacting british air space. right now scottish airlines are already canceling dozens of flights. you'll recall the eruption of another volcano in iceland led to the grounding of thousands of flights worldwide. jenna: a fox news alert, a major decision out of a very divide...

Foot under. a year ago -- well one thing that is the concern here is that some of these are senior taliban inmates. what do we know about this? what does this tell you, i guess, about security in the fight we're having with the taliban in the region? >> well, i think this is quite a big deal. there are two major prisons in afghanistan, one is in kandahar and one near kabul. the one near kandahar the heart of the taliban insurgency, you know, houses some of the most dangerous taliban prisoners, 500 approximately have escaped, similar to a large escape that happened from the same prison in 2008....

Place. it was a stunning, shocking thing. it was harmful to the american military. it was helpful to the enemy because they could go out and use it to recruit. i just felt terrible about it. and now, kw guantanamo bay quit different thing. it is an exceedingly well run prison. folks down there have done and are doing an excellent job. the heartbreaking thing with respect to guantanamo is not that there is anything wrong with that. it is one of the finest prison systems in the world. what is awkward is the fact that for whatever reason the administration was incapable of persuading people that ...