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From time to time the guard is let down. this is an extraordinary young woman, a 40-year-old congress woman who fought back a challenge in the past year, blue dog democrat, a lot of strong tough positions on securing the border here in the united states. according to one published account, also a gun owner herself. and happens to be the first jewish congress person from the state of arizona. the youngest elected state senator in arizona s history and married to an astronaut who s gone three times into space. so, this is a tragedy of epic national proportions that deserves our prayers. jamie: lit me get your thoughts on this, if i can, peter. this has just come to us from our d.c. bureau, it s a statement from speaker john boehner and i ll quote about the events in tucson today. i m horrified by the ....
Helping you save money now, that s progressive. call or click today. welcome back on this tuesday. it s only been two months since our next guest has been elected to the 112th congress and he s already making quite a bit of noise and name for himself. he is. he s a retired lieutenant colonel from the army who wants to take on earmarks, the obama administration and even house majority leader elect republican eric cantor. joining us from our d.c. bureau is congressman elect allen west. should i call you colonel or congressman coming up? either one is fine. good morning and happy new year to you, gretchen and steve. happy new year to you as ....
Joins us from our d.c. bureau and we do not have the story, but i do want to add and we ll get back to her once we get her, but, i filed an amended return, i have to talk about how backed up the government is, in march of march 22nd, last year and got the check, three weeks ago. gregg: really. julie: they are still paying us back. gregg: an amended return. julie: nevertheless, there was a 6 week delay and turned into many, many months and is something to keep in mind, when you think of filing early. is. gregg: wants to hear what caroline has to say, we ll get it to you in a moment. julie: these days smartphone users can get an app for just about everything, bought the makers of those applications, have yet to figure out the best way to profit off of it, so, will it be the year they put it all together and reap their rewards? the managing partner with chapwood capital investment joins us. ed there was a time when no one thought you could profit off the internet and today t ....
320,000 troops from new york have yet to receive them and even though the department of justice reached a settlement with new york to make sure military ballots are counted, does this mean the move act is not working or intentionally being circumvented? joining us from our d.c. bureau, susan sweana, president and c.e.o. and co-founder of the overseas voter foundation and eric eversol, executive director of the military voter protection project. susan, is this an inauspicious start? actually, if you have some background on what s been going on for the past five or so decades, this is a great start. this act is a federal act. it s implemented by the states but then where the rubber really hits the road is with the jurisdictions. there are over 10,000 jurisdictions in the u.s. all of who needed to be trained and learn new systems. more than 20 states putting new i.t. systems, new york included, to handle this balloting. and if you look at the number of jurisdictions that really didn t ....
Inside information on why the obama justice department decided to drop most of the charges against members of the black panther party, accused of trying to intimidate voters on election day of 2008. a former justice department lawyer, jay christian adams testified before the civil rights commission earlier and said the justice department wanted to drop the case for political reasons and that coates would back up his claim. today we ll hear from coates. the virginia republican congressman has sent a letter to attorney general eric holder saying coates better not face he repercussions for his decision to testify today. live for us in our d.c. bureau, thanks so much for that update. you re going to love this this next little bit of video that has gone viral in the last 24 hours. chris christie, the very popular governor, republican governor in a very democrat state of new jersey was out on the west coast and he was doing a campaign ....