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For the right things. it may not have been political the smartest thing in the world, but i'm going to tell you what, i think our members waged a good fight. >> they lost, the president released a statement congratulating the congress for ending the partisan stalemate as he called it. he said, quote, this is good news, just in time for the holidays. this is the right thing to do to strengthen our families, grow our economy and create news jobs. >> howard, this is certainly a high moment for the president, to be able to have a position where he's for tax cuts for working people, have the republ...

Before speaking to the country late last night, president obama called his predecessor, former president bush to tell him of the news that u.s. forces had killed bin laden. bush released a statement congratulating president obama and calling the news a momentous achievement and a victory for america. former vice president dib cheney, generally a vocal critic, had this to say. >> it's also a good day for the administration. i think president obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in and they deserve a lot of credit, too. >> good for him. we'll be right back....

Before speaking to the country late last night president obama called his predecessor, former president george w. bush to tell him of the news u.s. forces killed bin laden. bush released a statement congratulating president obama and calling the news a mementos achievement and a victory for america. and former vice president dick cheney generally a vocal critic of obama's foreign policy had this to say. >> it's also a good day for the administration. president obama, his national security team, acted on the intelligence when it came in and they deserve a lot of credit, too. >> good for him. â™...

That gives allawi the chance to try to build a ruling coalition and become the prime minister. the results, though, are already being disputed. let's go back to cnn's mohammed jamjoom, he's in baghdad watching this story for us. there's lots at stake here. who the next prime minister of iraq is, mohammed, tell our viewers what's going on. >> reporter: well, wolf, it's significant that ayad allawi has won the parliamentary election, for several reasons. the most important being that he's a shiite and he was afforded not only by shiites but also by sunnis and this is showing that iraqi people by...

>> what will become a challenge is we'll have three or four days of the news media and they'll say why doesn't gingrich quit? and these are the people that said last june i was dead. they recycle this every six weeks. between santorum and myself we'll get over 2/3 of the delegates and the so-called front-runner will get less than a third. i believe after the primaries are over, it'll be obvious that the so-called front-runner, in fact, didn't get there and we'll be in a whole new conversation. >> no, he's staying in too. mitt romney did not speak publicly after the polls closed last night, but...