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atching a greek tragedy. it's been negative gaining and increasing negative attacks should is been stopped long now.
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now it's just exchanging cheap shots and personal shots from super pac attacks. when john mccain is calling another republican nomination of another year a greek tragedy that's a problem. our store conventional story suggests that super story will be decisive. after a second place finish in arizona and then tie in michigan, rick santorum continued had he's campaign in tennessee where he viewed last night's results as an indication of success that he thinks will come next week. >> we have a lot of wins in our back hitting here in tennessee. we'll take it across the super tuesday states. >> on tuesday, 26 delegates will be dolled doled out. due to santorum and gingrich's inability to get on the ballot
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virginia will be between romney and ron paul only. the two largest states up for grabs are georgia and ohio at 76 and 66 delegates respectively. in both states romney faces serious hurdles. he ban began the push in rick santorum's back afford of ohio backyard of santorum. but the polls show this may be few actual. a 7-point lead of likely voter. after skipping arizona and michigan gingrich resumed campaigning in georgia hoping that a home state victory could reinvigorate his sagging campaign. indeed georgia seems to be gingrich's do to lose. let's bring in david canese. to do evening. >> good evening.
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mccain's greek tragedy quote. isn't this what we were saying about the obama/clinton campaign to this second? >> yes the '80 race between clinton and obama mainly about experience versus judgment. this race is getting personal. rick santorum said that mitt romney is a fraud. i don't think you heard that strong of language between clinton and obama but that being said he this is only february. we tend to live in the moment, and we'll be talking a completely different narrative in july if this is wrapped up. that's the chance for the republicans to come together. i think there is still an opportunity for them to do that despite everything that is going on in the primary right now. >> how does that happen particularly in the context that super tuesday if not suicide
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everything, and leads towards a decision where gets us closer to a decision which would seem to be from this perspective false. >> there are 400 delegates at stake super tuesday. it is the biggest date on the calendar to date. mitt romney will not be able to clinch the 1,144 delegates by then that he needs to get the nomination. so there will be a fight that is continued. but i think this is all about ohio. there are ten states. put aside georgia because it's newt gringrich's home turf. put aside massachusetts. that's romney's home turf. rick santorum has said in his campaign i can win the midwest. mitt romney can't. i can win states like ohio. that's why i'm the better general election candidate. if he can't win in ohio, and that's an emphatic statement
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before the wins in arizona and michigan. >> is there an indication what has worked for romney and worked to having people forget he did pull himself back into this tie even though he's calling it a win he was significantly behind 10, 12 days ago. can he do what he in ohio and georgia what did he in michigan and buy those states with another negative ad flood. >> yes, i think he can in ohio. it's a less likely in georgia because he has two hurdles to overbomb santorum and gingrich are ahead of him according to polls and romney will write that off and say that's gingrich's home turf. ohio, i think he can. watch the polls over the weekend. watch the media campaign that is about to hit that state over the next few days. remember we saw him do it in florida where he was down. came back with a huge ad campaign. we saw him do it in michigan where originally he was down 10, 15 points. he closed it day by day just
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because of the preponderance of the ads on the air and his super pac. can santorum compete over all these ten states or will he put all his eggs in one basket in ohio. i think that's what he needs to do because that's the fire wall on super tuesday. >> what point do we see the end games beginning for paul or gingrich or both? >> you know, that's fascinating for gingrich. i think paul probably stays in this for the long run. he's not winning many states. he's picking up delegates and the it's more about the movement for him. he wants to be on that stage. that's why he's playing nice with mitt romney. gingrich is a more interesting question mark. a stubborn as he might be, he is a smart political operative, and he can do the math. does he ever get out? if he doesn't win his home state? if santorum is able to pick off georgia, tough for newt
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gringrich to wake up and make a forceful case as he has that he can go on, but i'm not going to predict what the newt says. >> especially when sheldon adelson will call you up. thank you for your time tonight,. >> thanks, keith. >> occupy returns to the streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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be supplied. that's why, you have to keep a separation from church and state. time marchs on. we begin with record-breaking. it's a board, it's a plane. joe trying to break the record for furthest distance traveled by a paper airplane. and oh, he stuck it! 226 feet 10 inches. breaking the old record by nearly 20 feet. for those paper airplane enthusiasts at home, yes that is a john collins design plain as if they couldn't tell. and england why liverpool won it's england cup title and shea gets a bit too excited and oh, right in the eye. ouch. but like a true fan he goes on cheering. yay, ouch, yay ouch, yay ouch,
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yay, ouch. finally jack plaque knew it would happen, the bears have learned kung fu. a rare white clawed bear living in a zoo in russia is pretty handy with the bow staff. the reason for the white claws is to add to his kung fu mystique. zoo officials say he likes to play with cans, boards, baseball bats and a jet of cold water from a hose. but really, who doesn't. time marchs on. with jennifer granholm. >>i am jenniffer granholm and you are in the war room. it's a beautiful thing. >>jennifer granholm on current tv. >>i'm a political junkie. this show is my fix. >>in politics, she was a gutsy leader. in cable news, she's a game changer. >>be afraid, be very afraid. now, the two term governor from michigan is reshaping the
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and the department of homeland security has been closely monitoring the protests and has been investigating since occupy spread across the country last fall. the five-page proper analyzing occupy's disruptive influence examineed occupy social media and they have closely monitored occupy twitter feeds. on the ground, activists speaking on the council occupy links where four were arrested for disorderly disconduct. overnight the police arrested nine people. and the mall group met by what journalists on the say was an arbitrary and unnecessarily strong show of force.
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>> generations right down to the asked you what it was. this was opening day? >> occupy has been going on all throughout the winter, but the weather has kept it mostly off the streets and this is i think the beginning of a series of actions that are going to go been throughout the spring and today was a good day even though the weather was a little bit harsh. we had things going on last night as well. so i think you'll start to see more and more occupy activity starting about now and especially next month. >> what would an occupy spring, everybody has used that phrase a thousand times. what would an occupy spring look like? >> i know the campaign i'm involved with has a lot of things going on next month. we're campaigning against bank of america. we have something teamed up
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against internal women's day. there will be actions around the country. on march 15th a series of actions teeming up with occupy homes demonstrating at foreclosed homes and at branches of bank of america. we have things going on april april 15th may 15th, and a series of things going on all over the country. there are so many groups involved. it's so much bigger than it was back in the fall. >> i gather also just listening to you give the schedule for the months ahead if you were to look for something that was significantly different between occupy 2011 and occupy 2012 this is much more mobile and much less about standing one place and hoping people come and listen to your message. >> oh, it's so much bigger, so much more organized and targeted than the fall. in the fall it was an impromptu thing where people would show up and congregating. now we have occupy the fcc which submitted a 325-page comment letter. that's never been done before like people like us, getting
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involved in the regulatory process. there are all these different groups, all these different kinds of people lawyers journalists, activists involved that weren't involved in the fall and that's why it's bigger. >> is this a change in strategy or evolutionary. >> it is evolutionary. there are more people physically involved. they reached out to people who were involved in a lot of these realms of the economy and they needed more expertise what could they do to bring more pressure to bear and be more effective. they're targeting their resources more effectively. i think you'll see them have even more of an effect in the coming year. >> is that why you use the term "we" to define occupy. >> i guess i'm doing this. i'm peripheral to all this. >> there you are we are. is that a royal we, an unofficial we. we all know what happened to
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trotsky, not wishing you bad luck in mexico city, but almost to that point. the story that homeland has been following occupy, i guess that wouldn't be a surprise if you don't know what an organization is to begin with, but following the twitter feeds. what now? i'm in homeland security's files for hash tag occupy? >> yes probably. >> for other things, too but particularly for that? >> yeah, i mean, it's crazy. this is from michael hastings, my colleague at "rolling stone"." they say they're looking at publicly sources. they're monitoring this, but are they doing this with the tea party or other organizations. the fact that they're monitoring specifically occupy wall street is interesting and important and scary actually. you know, to date we haven't seen that there's been more involved surveillance. they haven't caught them involved in the movement, but we
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could expect that there is that kind of surveillance out there. everybody who is involved with occupy expects that has happened. >> just because that has happened to every left of center protest group. >> it guess back to the red squads. >> and the red squads. it probably goes back to english infiltrators of the revolutionary war and the salem witchcraft trials i earlier brought up. >> the ergot poisoning. >> matt tabbi of "rolling stone" thanks for coming in. trotsy, do you want to go with lenin. >> i would have to grow a beard. >> and the first free president of russia lived most of his life in brooklyn. news international under the capable leadership of rupert and
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>> james murdoch out of here. that's next. first, these people are not yet out of here. "countdown's" worst person of the world. brion mcclanahan, that's brion with an "o." writing on the right wing agif top state the daily caller financed by foster friess, the guy who recommended the aspirin as birth control mcclanahan has suggested denying the vote to anybody who receives food stamps and carry only generic brands. all food stamp recipients would be rider to spend their government dollars at these stories because competition is not an issue of taste and quality and baby food would not
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