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middle class tax cut that has been given to us for -- by name, to reduce the amount that we're paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it's going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren't doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that's where the jobs are going to come from. >> that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. >> i think, soledad, in an election ...

Iraq and afghanistan have been predominantly ground campaigns. the army and the marine corps have taken the lion's share of the budget. the air force and navy about been running behind on that. as we look to the future that is going to be a national decision based on a national military strategy an on where we want to go. budgets are coming down, everybody is talking about this. we are going to be laying up some ships. part of that is kind of self-induced, if you look at cost overruns and things that occur in ship building. so we are going to have to take a real hard turn on this. and the defe...

Than anywhere else in the country. >> louisiana is number three in the united states behind california and new york. >> at the epicenter of all this entrepreneurial activity is the ip building. entrepreneurs row and the ice house. inspired by silicone valley in new york. >> we are in the ip building in new orleans. you have a community of entrepreneurs that moved into this building in the last year from the fastest growing companies in the country, iseatz to feel goods. this represents the entrepreneur community within new orleans. it's one of the few innovative hubs spreading. >> kyle burner ...

Trillion dollar budget cut, they've already decided that they're going to cut $450 billion to $500 billion bringing it to a total of $1 trillion. pentagon officials are confident they can get that down to somewhere around $600 billion. but if they don't, secretary panetta has warned that it would have a devastating effect. it would bring the overall military force down to the smallest since 1940, the fewest number of ships since 1915, the smallest air force ever. then there is the industrial military complex because there's a huge trickle-down effect. it would affect major defense projects lik...

the world. >> we cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence development at all levels of society. >> it is worth noting that the yemeni recipient is the first arab woman to receive the nobel peace prize. well, no formal ceremony by u.s. troops in afghanistan today to mark the tenth anniversary of the war. the conflict is the longest in u.s. history. more than 2,700 coalition forces have been killed over the decade. 1,780 of them, americans. pakistan may charge a doctor with high treason because he helped ...