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a new breakthrough can reveal the entire genetic blueprint of a baby still in its mother s womb, detecting thousands of diseases, but at what cost? i m wolf blitzer in chicago. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com bill clinton can certainly work wondzers out there on the campaign trail, but he can also work himself into trouble from time to time. first, he praised what he called the so-called sterling that s a quote, sterling business record of mitt romney right here on cnn. then he contradicted president obama seemingly by suggesting that the bush tax cuts should be extended even for the wealthiest americans. i just sat down with the former president here in chicago at the clinton global initiative, and i asked him about that. what i was saying yesterday, which is apparently not accurate, is that if this fiscal cliff comes to the president and the congress and the country before the election, he can t afford to give up his position ....
children off for a supervised visit. powell had lost custody of the boys, and he was a suspect in his wife s disappearance. he sent an e-mail saying only i m sorry, good-bye. a neighbor describes what he saw. i just knew that if there was anyone in there, they didn t survive. you could tell that instantly from what we saw. i can t imagine anyone killing their children. i just that s beyond anything i can imagine someone doing. the state department shut down the embassy in syria hours ago. they are urging americans now to get out. syrian activists describe a weekend bloodbath that left hundreds dead in the city of homs. another 46 syrians are said to have been killed. activists accuse the syrian government of intensifying the brutal crackdown. russia and china gave president bashar al-assad a life line, vetoing a resolution that would have condemned him. they are asking for help. we re asking for your help. the rockets for four hours now, they re going to kill ....
Year. we have problems facing us. head winds. uncertainty is the biggest one. the economy didn t help by almost shutting down the government and almost defaulting on the debt. it s like they are trying to scare the economy. a contributor and policy adviser to vice president biden and also a senior fellow at the center of budget priorities. happy new year, my friend. how are you doing? me, you were listening to this, you are a smarter line on this. when you look back, what are the other factors that you consider that i didn t mention? just a couple. i think you covered a lot of important ground there and very solidly with about two or three data points completely debunked the nonsense from the clips. you have to think how middle class incomes are doing and we focus on jobs and unemployment and they come out every month. if you look at real wages ....
Bad it was? that s the fair answer? . no and they took steps. the steps were really important so the economy didn t fall off of a cliff. okay. the second one is the iraq war. you know i m a supporter or i was a supporter. i actually didn t know that. it s true. i m on the record of supporting the enhanced interrogations. the patriot act, guantanamo bay, i mean, it was consistently across the line. but, there is a historical record. and the historical record is that americans were not aware of the big threat that al qaeda was posing. the threat was on al qaeda that before 9/11 we treated it like a e problem. bill: yes. and clinton did and bush did. that s the key difference that the president and the vice president, bush and cheney understood after 9/11 this is war. and we re at war and we have got to do whatever it takes to keep the nation safe. bill: all right. three days before the iraq war was launched here is what vice president cheney said on meet the press. i thi ....
they just didn t know how bad it was? that s the fair answer? . no and they took steps. the steps were really important so the economy didn t fall off of a cliff. okay. the second one is the iraq war. you know i m a supporter or i was a supporter. i actually didn t know that. it s true. i m on the record of supporting the enhanced interrogations. the patriot act, guantanamo bay, i mean, it was consistently across the line. but, there is a historical record. and the historical record is that americans were not aware of the big threat that al qaeda was posing. the threat was on al qaeda that before 9/11 we treated it like a e problem. bill: yes. and clinton did and bush did. that s the key difference that the president and the vice president, bush and cheney understood after 9/11 this is war. and we re at war and we have got to do whatever it takes to keep the nation safe. bill: all right. three days before the iraq war was launched here is what vice president cheney sai ....