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Tested on humans has not yet been approved by regulators. but 300,000 doses have already been stockpiled. the outbreak of ebola killed roughly 11,000 people in west africa. business and news of two billion dollar settlements involving two major banks and the u.s. government. nancy hungerford joins us live. what can you tell us about these settlements? >> the u.s. department of justice has been moving swiftly to close some pending deals with european banks before the administration turnover. the big one, deutsche bank settling for $7.2 million with the doj. that was less than the $14 billion ...

Why is it being delayed, what's going on? >> it would be best to talk to the railroads about that. i don't want to apologize for their not implementing. they have literally spent billions of dollars trying to get ptc ready. there have been some technological issues. they're in a situation of not having the time to do it. >> let's be clear here. this mandate applies both to amtrak, which is a public/private partnership, and private freight carriers across the country, right? >> that's correct. >> they have been pushing back a bit. there's been some lobbying about the nature of that mandate, the...

An. thanks for being here. congressman, thanks for being here. you want to see the two billion to be pulled back. >> i am introducing legislation to freeze the two billion. over the 30 years 60 billion and look at what is happening in egypt. they are supporting hamas and pull would their ambassador out of israel. why do we have to buy our friends especially we have concerns here. it is 52 billion in foreign aid. i am going to introduce legislation to freeze the two billion in egypt. >> brian: senator lindsay graham said we are watching you to see what is going on. i am just wondering in the bi...

[applause] >> now our next question, if you will, state your name and your question, please. >> hi, governor romney. my name is ann ford. can you convince me, as a true conservative, why we should vote for you, a moderate republican, against any of the other candidates? will you flip-flop if you're elected and break campaign promises like obama has. >> ann, let me tell you you have an opportunity to get to know me best looking at my record as governor. i served as governor for four years, not my whole life, obviously, but in that, in that responsibility, i had a number of issues that came to m...

Dollar surplus. >> arthel: where did you cut spending? >> we had to do some things on education, transportation. we had to do a lot of things but we tightened our belt -- >> arthel: let me jump in. you said you had to do some things in education. what in particular are you talking about? >> we had to cap some of the spending. the governor -- outgoing governor was proposing a two billion dollar tax increase. we had to say we are going to tighten our belt a little. hold the line. we are not going to have big increases for some of things we want to do. and it works. >> arthel: were you able to re...