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Signatures were in. enough signatures were in. looked like the state would have to freeze on ice the power to issue those contracts. we have asked pontiac's emergency manager about the timing of those orders whether it has anything to do with the hearing scheduled for today. if he answers we will let you know. this week, we sent a couple producers to michigan to learn more about the law and talking with local mayors about the law we heard a couple things over and over again. a, the emergency manager law is not democratic, small d, not democracy, b, many towns are being facing taken over, too. ...

in this country, for the second time in less than 24 hours, an earthquake shakes central oklahoma. the latest one hit right before midnight eastern time, measuring a record 5.6. it was centered near sparks, about 45 miles from oklahoma city. and legendary performer andy williams says he's suffering from bladder cancer. williams broke the news to concertgoers last night during a christmas concert in branson, missouri. andy williams is 83. he has been seen professionally since childhood. good news. president obama creawe baulhaml completed his annual physical. he's in tip-top shape...

-- libyan? do we have an understanding? >> we have some people who do this for a living and some are contractors to our government and there is no clear definition as tote lee the leadership of t rebel group, and there are professionals, but there is a likelihood, folks who have been captured in other battlefields and released from places like gitmo are back on the battlefield as part of the rebel force and without the ability to get on the ground and go in and work with these people and support them in ways in which you can encourage the leadership of real democrats, small-d democrats the opp...

The worst of all possible worlds. here is what we want, qaddafi out of power but we will not do anything to help remove him from power. and last wednesday the momentum shifted from the side of the rebels, the small d democrats inside libya back to qaddafi and we have seen every day since then movement by qaddafi's mercenaries and air force pushing the democratic rebels back toward the rest in ben gazay. this will be an utter disaster for the united states if left to stand. >> bill: disaster though, libya doesn't really effect us very much. we don't buy a lot of oil from them. >> every ally aro...

Directly for quite a number of years. this leads me to suspect that he may be pulling all the strings anyway in egypt. so are we really in a situation where it's just the same kind of thing and a different face? >> he's certainly not a new face to anybody who's followed things closely behind the scenes in egypt. and put it this way, he's not what i would call change you can believe in. he's certainly not a democrat, small d democrat. and critics say he's been very closely associated with the torture of detainees in kind of terrible situations in dungeons in the intelligence agency that he runs...