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Welcome back to "news nation." giving up his post, why lamar alexander is stepping down as leader of the confronts. new set back, two americans jailed in iran. they hit another snag in the bid for freedom. a new study shows how facebook created hundreds of thousands of jobs and added billions to the u.s. economy. plus crowning achievement. miss universe joins us live a week after her big win. lovely lady. and a surprise from republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee. the third-ranking republican in the senate. he stood on the floor and resigned as republican conference chairman in januar...

pacific. now my take. the european crisis you have been reading about in the newspapers is worth watching carefully. it has now morphed into something much bigger than a european crisis. it could batter the entire global economy which is pretty fragile anyway. you read a lot about greece. the real problem is italy. you see, greece is a nano state and makes up 2% of the european union's gross domestic problem. italy is one of the seven or eight largest economies in the world. its debts are greater than those of spain, portugal, ireland, and greece combined. it has long been governed...

Mistakes but learning from the mistakes is the key to the great image that a president seeks. right now, we have yet another stalemate over creating jobs. not god for the folks. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. very interesting back and forth between laura ingraham and nbc news white house correspondent chuck todd on the radio. it all began with mr. todd explaining an nbc poll on the president. >> one important number that our pollsters say is in there is this idea long-term set back or short-term. 54 percent said long term. our pollsters are concerned. that's the kind of nu...

inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they aren't statistics, they are people in pain. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. >> that's right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, you're right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn that the texas governor will be announcing he's running for president on saturday. he will be do...

Just give those to the republicans, the republicans have dropped 20 points in that district. they won that seat in the last election in 2010 by about -- >> 74%. >> this is by any measure a huge set back in that district on this issue. and it seems to me it's one of those districts that speaks to a lot of america. it's western new york. it seems like that is a translatable campaign to at least 25 to 50 districts out there that you could succeed in. >> lawrence, this is the 426th worst district for democrats in the country. there's only nine districts out of 435 that are worse than this one. thi...