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Rhodes -- campaign manager for mitt romney -- said rubio graciously offered his spot to ann romney to speak in prime time on thursday. but they wanted to keep rubio where he was. because he is such an important figure in the future of the republican party. >> bret: two assets for romney, obviously. ann romney, big asset. humanizes him, right? >> yeah. they are trying to emphasize the biography, the family, the personal side such that it is for romney to rebrand them a little bit when the voters are starting to focus. it does show what an asset they believe ann romney to be to shuffle things ar...

Doug, thank you. let's look closer at the debt and the deficit and spending. senior national correspondent john roberts has tonight's report on one of the big issues in the fall election. >> a prairie fire of debt is sweeping across iowa. and across the nation. >> that speech was more like a distortion. >> regardless of whose political spin you believe, america's debt is spinning out of control. now nearly $16 trillion projected to top $22 trillion in the next ten years. >> everybody in this country is aware that the deficit and debt are unsustainable. we are about to elect the leader who will...

>> bret: chuck, go ahead. >> i don't think he stepped on anything. it wasn't unforced error, wasn't a forced error. it wasn't a error. it was a joke. this outrage response from obama campaign i think the most absurd example of fake umbrage in the history of fake umbrage. give me a break. romney dismissed birther issue from the beginning. no indication he is believing in this stuff. obama himself joked about the birth certificate. >> bret: recently. >> when he was with the prime minister of ireland and he gave him some kind of a certificate of irish ancestry. he joked about it in the birth cert...

You bet your life it was stupid. >> bret: obama has twitter followers but mashable report the social media site has a new web tool that finds whopping 70% or 13 million of president obama's followers are supposedly fake. it says just 15% of governor romney's followers are fake. finally a warm and fuzzy ending for a connecticut family. friday story. north haven officials settled the zoning dispute that will allow 7-year-old caden pet bunny to stay. a 50-year-old ordinance been as rabbits and livestock on properties smaller than two acres. a city official there says the ordinance will be changed...

Michigan. the g.o.p. rallied michigan where he opened with a birthplace singer at the president. >> nobody asked to see my birth certificate. they know this is the place we were born and raised. >> governor's decision to enlist in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter in america. romney long accepted the birth certificate as real. aides say the remark was a humorous joke much in the vain of bam become's jokes about romney and the dog on top of the car there will be tough jabs as the race enters the final ten-week sprint. michigan has not voted republican since '88 but is...