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Governor scott reverses course and will accept the medicaid expansion under president obama's health care law. despite the state spending millions to fight it. are we seeing a pattern running for re-election in blue and purple states? but tlifirst, here's things thought you should know. former first lady bush asking a marriage equality group to remove a clip of her from a national tv ad launching this week. here's part of that ad. >> that's why growing majority of americans believe it's time to allow marriage for gay and lesbian couples. >> when couples are committed, they ought to have the ...

Credit discount rate for pension, liabilities. i will say, first states have cut spending but they have to cut way more according to to gao, they have to cut at least 13% every year. their reason is, one of the things we should not forget is one of the things we should do when times are good is actually save money. >> yes. >> it's not what states have done. when time was good, they were spending, spending, spending and spending. in fact, states, when private gdps grew by 5%, the state spending is double. states get their revenue from people. they better well make sure as people are able to pay...

Publicly was the big tale and paul ryan i haven't heard much from yet. >> and the other people trying to get in are the governors especially the delaware governor jack markell on a conference call with joe biden and a dozen mayors went to washington, d.c. to lobby lawmakers. are states more scared of going off the fiscal cliff? >> sure. state budgets would be impacted dramatically and very bad for them. governors are very concerned about cuts to education funding. we'll be hearing a lot more from the governors i am sure in the next week or so. >> how influential can they be on capitol hill som...

candidates. the response, huge. and komen bombshell. a huge shakeup at the breast cancer foundation, the president stepping down. the founder moving out of management. did planned parenthood funding change komen's focus from pink to green? and history on the track. an american breaking a record 44 years old. leo manzano bringing it in the 1,500 meters. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield in for carol costole this morning we begin with a political competition this morning called the veep stakes. and any day, we are expecting the answer ...

it's 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. a doctor, father, and authority on near death experiences in children stands accused of water boarding his own daughter. that story is it ahead. also, a hot dry summer translates to pain in farmer's fields and supermarkets. check out supermarket lanes all over the world. and curiosity is out of this world, way out of this world, but it is keeping in touch via tweets. much of that coming up. first, a very tough story. accusations of water boarding not against a prisoner of war but against an 11-year-old american girl. the man arrested, th...