it s one of many new developments tonight on many different fronts. two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and they continue to lie about it. they are finding new ways of lying about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and their bodies trapped there. they are claiming they are not targeting journalists only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. 72 pages that read like an indictment. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. the report notes the opposition of the african-american that committed abuses and not comparable in scale to those carried out by the state. the assad regime is fighting armed terrorists, not systematically shelling unarmed civilians that we see happening in homs. secretary of state cl
more centerist candidate. if you look at voting groups, and lawrence knows about this, you think about the professional class voter. $100,000 plus highly educated voter who broke strongly for president obama would be incl e inclined to vote for mitt romney. gives him a real advantage. wes moore? i have a quick question for david and one for gene. how much does margin of victory matter for mitt romney in michigan? let s say mitt romney does pull off michigan. if it s by a small margin or large margin, how much will that change the narrative if at all? and gene, back to your china comment. we watched the elevation of xi and the leadership very closely, how much are they watching this primary process? particularly on the heels of a lot of the comments that mitt romney has made about china thus far in this campaign? i think just to answer your question, i think a win is a win
networks. the duelling speeches come after two duelling plans emerged today. a plan from senate majority leader harry reid is everything the house republicans originally asked for, a $2.7 trillion cut in spending with no increase of any kind in tax revenue with the $2.7 trillion spending cut designed to match dollar-for-dollar, the amount of the increase in the debt ceiling. in effect, it is senator reid s way of callingç the house republicans bluff. speaker boehnor s original position was a dollar-for-dollar match of spending cuts to the amount of the debt ceiling increase and no change in tax revenue. senator reid and senator chuck schumer unveiled the president s plan first, and the democrats noted they made a significant concession on tax revenues.
sentence to raise that debt ceiling. elizabeth drew, thank you very much for joining me tonight. thank you, lawrence. coming up, the president addresses the nation about the debt ceiling fight and then the speaker takes his turn, a look at what s at stake with howard fineman and richard wolffe is coming up. handle more than 165 n letters and packages a year. that s about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn t run on your tax dollars. it s funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of the american postal workers union.
percentage of our gross domestic product, but first, let the economy grow, let more people get jobs.ç don t say to kids who need college help or people looking for work or people on food stamps, sorry, you have to wait until the president gets reelected and his new image is out there, and then maybe we ll let you get the rights, the benefits that we ve promised you. elizabeth, what should the president be saying tonight? this is a first for me seeing a president i think for anyone, seeing the president address the nation on the debt ceiling, asking for network time. it seems to me that if he s doing that, he should be saying something we haven t heard before and something very forceful. what would you want to hear him say tonight? well, i d like to hear him say what you optimistically, friday, thought he would say or thought he was thinking, but you re ahead of him, which is forget all this. enough. let me have let s have a