kentucky. gretch? gretchen: thank you, brian. president obama capitalizing on fear over mitt romney and paul ryan s plan for medicare. medicare upon to turn medicare in a voucher system congressman ryan wants a vouch are system. i havened medicare . we made reforps that extended the life of the program and saved millions of seniors with medicare and happens of dollars on the prescription drugs gretchen: is this paving the president s road to the white house. here to debate it white house senior advisor eddy mills and editor of black chick crystal right. good morning. good morning. gretchen: the president said he strengthened medicare and yet in october under obama care 716 billion will be
out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i
head of the financial agency to be fired. it is proven time and time again that fran yefreddie mac are mismanagement waste, and right corruption and fraud and the federal regulator has the audasity to approve bonuses to people who make 900,000 per year. this body should be ashamed if we let this happen especially in these economic times. mccain is prepping the legislation to prevent future bonuses and jack abramoff is weighing in on reforms that came aboutsomes about. he called the reform toothless. and makes the comment in his new book. he suggested more reforps like
152. so obviously there s a large gap there and we have to be able to lean ourselves down until the economy turns around. otherwise so it s about the money. it s actually about the money. nobody is coming to work for free so we need to be able to do whatever is necessary so that our city survives. i m not against collective bargaining. what i am, though, is pro reform. if we don t have appropriate reforps in place, then our city won t survive. but reforms are about cuts. let s face it. you ve just said it s about the money. yes, it is. once again, these are middle class workers who are going to have to serve it up when the top 2% are getting all the breaks. where s the fairness in that? here s the issue for me and my it city. it it s actually a double storm. one is that we attempt to do the concessions and be able to work through that. or the second portion of that storm is that those people that don t want to do that, then the only other thing for a mayor to do in a majo
malone s is the country s only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act will ever be turned into law and how fast. as you may have seen live right here on cnn, president today showed off the job creating blueprint he plans to send to congress just hours from now. it is $447 billion worth of tax breaks and new federal spending which the white house says will be more than offset elsewhere in the budget. it would deepen and extent the existing payroll tax cut for employees and employers, it would pump $60 billion into infrastructure projects and $25 billion into schoo