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crackdown on dissent. we begin with today's dramatic, intensely partisan confrontations between senate republicans and attorney general of the united states. a feisty appearance before the senate judiciary committee, attorney jenner i can holder refused demands that he apoint special counsel to investigate recent leaks of sensitive national security information. >> two people i pointed to look into matters are first rate prosecutors. >> special counsel, somebody new other than the two people that all of us could buy into? >> senator, i think you're missing something here. >> i thin...

Sector. >> he's not touting his experience in massachusetts. >> people don't want to know what you're against. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> if you don't rvote chris christie, romney will be the nominee, and we'll lose. >> hours after president obama phoned mitt romney to congratulate him on virtually securing the republican presidential nomination, david axelrod released a memo showing the obama campaign will broaden their attacks on mitt romney and expose mitt romney's darkest secret, his record as massachusetts governor. ten years ago, mitt romney told ...

president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >> now that he's crunched the number of delegates to win the gop nomination, it's victory lap time ...

State government saved about 300 million. you have a half a billion on top of that and plenty more in the future. even though we made budget adjustments like nearly every state across america we gave our local governments the tools to offset them. bill: what was your state debt? >> we started out with a $3.6 billion budget deficit per capita was one of the largest in the country. we are projecting a $300 million surplus. bill: wow, already? >> uh-huh. instead of laying off thousands of public employee, instead of raising taxes and using budget gimmicks, and cutting medicaid we added money to m...

I think there's something bizarre about saying let's treat this jobs crisis as if it were an act of god or like an earthquake in turkey, something that has happened to us, rather than saying how are we responsible for what happened, what are the structural things that has got us into the situation? it's the thing to invoke the super committee, and that's something we should do more and the idea that this is a model of how we move forward legislatively, and when i hear mcconnell -- this to me is reminiscent of paul cruz's argument, where we need two or three more times of the stimulus that we g...