good morning. i'm richard lui in for chris jansing on this thursday. busy morning. we will hear from president obama. he wants congress to end tax breaks for oil kpts. a brand new video showing george zimmerman in handcuffs the night he shot trayvon martin. congresswoman, gwen moore shares an intensely personal story of being raped. violence against women is as american as apple pie. domestic violence has been a thread throughout my personal life up to and including being a child repeatedly sexually assaulted, up and to and including being an adult who has been raped. >> first, it looks like republicans are breaking out the big guns to try and end the nomination battle. former first couple, george and barbara bush, will formally announce their support tonight. senator marco rubio endorsed mitt romney last night. >> i am going to endorse mitt

romney, the reason why is not only because he is going to be the republican nominee. he offers such a stark contrast to the president's record. >> e.j. deon is a columnist and perry bacon an editor for the msnbc contributor. good morning to both of you. e.j., i was watching the entire interview. you heard what he just said, i am behind him because he is going to win and he is better than president obama. is that a ringing endorsement? >> it is not a ringing endorsement. i think what you are seeing here is sort of the last roundup in the republican race. i think wisconsin is the last roundup. rick santorum's original sin was losing control of his message the week before michigan. you really have a race where romney basically has the northeast. the southern states are anti-romney. the western states are split. all the tiebreakers were the big states in the midwest.

romney won every sinlg one of those. if santorum can somehow pull out the victory in wisconsin, he could break that pattern. it would make things interesting. santorum is going to stay in to win pennsylvania. what you are seeing in these endorsements is a lot of people in the party saying romney has really been hurt by this primary process. his favorable ratings are down. let's end this thing as fast as we can. >> a.j., whether those endorsements will help him get through the difficult or.tensionally difficult votes coming forward. perry, i want to play another clip of senator rubio. take a listen. >> i just can't buy into this idea that by their own admission, they are saying the only way they can win this race is by having a floor fight in tampa in august. i think that's a recipe to deliver four more years to barack obama. >> we have heard that before. what do you think? some of the polls are showing that the more damage mitt romney will get. >> yes. rubio, of course, is a good

friend and long-time ally of newt gingrich. that was a direct message, drop out, cut this tampa talk, et cetera, et cetera. they are very worried that romney's negative numbers are going up as this primary continues. they are trying to get gingrich and santorum to tone down their tone, if not to fully drop out. i think that's what you are seeing. i think you will hear president bush and rubio talk about they unify the party, come together. they are trying to not only get santorum to drop out and stop criticizing romney as sharp as he has been. >> we take a look at santorum and gingrich at the moment, he is not going anywhere. he is going in terms of a small and slim campaign going forward to as we look forward to tampa bay. >> newt gingrich wants attention. he wants attention to himself, to his years. as long as he gets some television time, as long as some people show up to his speeches, i don't think there is any interest in gingrich dropping

out. the biggest part of his campaign may not be that he is having some financial trouble. most of the print reporters have dropped. >> i don't think it matters for romney ultimately getting the nomination. at the moment, gingrich under the rules can't even have his name put in nomination, because he hasn't won enough states. newt gingrich is a very clever guy. if he really wants to cause trouble or complications for romney, he probably can. he may be able to negotiate something out of this before it is over. i figure he sees something he can get by staying in the race. >> how long does he go, perry? >> i think he goes for another month at least is my guess. he is not really running, though. he is giving speeches. once fox news stops airing his interviews is really when heel stop airing. i don't know when that's going to happen. >> no tracks, that's when heel drop out.

he will try to get the most out of it along the way. >> he will keep selling books, too, which is not unimportant to him. >> he is not dumb that way, when it comes to the economics of what he is doing right now. a.j., you know, joe biden, the attack dog is out there at the moment. he made some comments. he said when he was in wisconsin and chicago and he really did come out strong in iowa e hit santorum. this is what he said about romney. >> mitt romney has been remarkably consistent as an investor businessman. as the governor of massachusetts and now as a candidate for president, remarkably consistent. i respectfully suggest consistently wrong. ladies and gentlemen. >> quickly, e.j., iowa and going after romney, what do you make of it? is that the candidate they are targeting? >> they have targeted romney from the beginning.

they thought he would win the nomination, they turned out to be, it seems, right about that. so i don't think it is at all surprising they are going out there against romney. it shows that despite the advantages they seem to have, they are not overconfident about this election. while i think obama is now the front-runner, they are right not to be overconfident. there is still a big republican base out there. >> we have seven months to go. perry bacon, e.j.dionne, thank you so much. we want to bring in former senator, blanche lincoln. the swing state poll showing president obama in good shape in florida and ohio. some internal polls telling them. that's the question, are there internal polls showing the campaign saying that there are some places like iowa where the president might be vulnerable? >> well, i think it was e.j. that just said, you can't take anything for granted. i think that the president's campaign is not. i think that that's critically important. i didn't hear vice president biden's speech but some of the

commentary afterwards. he is focusing spot on where they need to focus. that's the economy. i think that's what's on people's minds. i think that's what both sides are going to have to start talking about. they are going to have to start talking about it with some solutions in mind in terms of what's the next step and how do we do something about the economy. we have seen the worst economic time since the great depression. we are coming out of it. we are not in the clear and we have to start coming up with good ideas of what we do. >> talking about the economy and money, the a.p. had some analysis. the obama's campaign has spent more than $135 million, senator. that's $3 million more than all of the challengers combined. we have talked about money throughout this campaign so far. as the gop race drags on, how big of an advantage here do you think it is for the obama campaign financially? they are so far ahead? >> is unbelievable. it is unfortunate that money is a big part of it. it is how you get your message out and reach the people you need to reach and gain your

supporters but you have got to have it. there is no doubt. having it is going to be a big asset in the election, because it will allow them to be able to get their message out and to talk to people and make sure that the voters know who they are and what they are about. that's what we have seen. we have seen it in these primaries, in the republican primary, the kind of resources that romney has had has allowed him to be out front and to gain some momentum even when, you know, you see the undercurrent. >> big money. also, big is stakes when we take a look at washington, d.c. right now. one of the signature accomplishments for the president, being debated. talking about health care. if the supreme court overturns this in june or maybe even before, how does that hurt the president's re-election chances? >> well, i think it is, again, back to the economy. the fact is i would not -- i don't think anybody is trying to figure out what the supreme court is going to do.

i think they are going to have great deliberation and there are no predictions out there. i don't think there should be. >> you are not going to make one, i guess. >> not at all. i do think what we have to think about is the steps that have already been taken through the health care reform package that's come through. the things that have already been done. many good things, particularly for children, seniors and a whole host of others. there are good things that have happened. the $450 billion worth of savings. what happens if, in fact, it does get struck down, then, we are going to have to go back and go back to square one. are we prepared for that? are our candidates talking about what are the solutions if that is the case? we don't hear that. >> senator, we will see if they do take up whatever is given back to them from the supreme court. senator blanche lincoln, thank you so much for your time today. >> speaking of which, the president is girding for the worst, the heart of his health care law, the target of sharp questioning heard in the supreme court. if the mandate is gone, what other parts go with it?

will they strike down the entire health care law essentially throwing the baby out with the bath water. >> once you cut the guts out of it, who knows, who knows which were really desired by congress on their own and which ones weren't? >> my approach would say, if you take the heart out of the statute, the statute is gone. >> why shouldn't we say it is a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting or a salvage job? and the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything. >> oh, how it could be this man, msnbc justice correspondent pete williams inside the courtroom all three days watching this for us. pete, before we get into what i just started with, can you talk about something we have been hearing about, a secret vote and how that might happen before the june ruling? >> well, that's the way it always works with the supreme court. when they initially meet in conference to vote on how they

are going to decide this case, the way it usual works, richard, is that they will have met wednesday to vote on the monday case and then tomorrow, this he will vote on the cases argued tuesday and wednesday. so if they do this the usual way, even the supreme court doesn't know how this case is going to come out. they would take an initial vote, based on that, whoever is in the majority, the senior justice, would assign the majority opinion. then, you know, things may change in the weeks during which this opinion is circulated. because whoever is in the majority tries to attract more justices. the people who are in the minority may try to peel somebody off to join them. the majority then switches. the case doesn't always come out. i think it usually does but it doesn't always come out the way it does on the initial vote which we will have to assume will be tomorrow on the big questions. >> it sets those goalposts a little bit early. the baby with the bath water, if

that mandate does go, what else could go with it? >> for certain, we know from the argument that two things will go with it, the things most closely related to the individual insurance purchase requirement. that is the ban on insurance companies denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and then a second set of rules that limited when insurance companies could change is there rates based only on geographic area, whether someone smoked and age. other than that, the insurance companies would be very limited in how they adjust their rates for people with similar conditions. the further away you get from that, it seemed like from the arguments, the further away you get to the very peripheral edges, the justices seem to think things that were tacked on that govern things like black lung benefits, indian health care, those things might survive. as you come closer in, the hard thing is, who gets to decide what comes and what goes, what stays and what goes? the justices themselves said that might be a very difficult decision. the obama administration takes

some hart eart in that. they have to decide what to keep and what to throw out. maybe they will throw up their hands and say, let's let the whole thing stand. i wouldn't hang my hat on that but i guess it certainly is a point. >> thank you for distilling what has been happening for us, pete williams this morning. an update on the chaos aboard the jetblue flight. the pilot blamed for a frightening in-air meltdown. now facing federal charges. captain clayton osbon arrived an hour late for work tuesday. court papers say his strange behavior began as the flight took off from new york headed for las vegas. he allegedly screamed about bombs and al qaeda and talked about sins in las vegas. he was sub dued by passengers as the plane made an emergency landing in texas. that feels li. copd includes chronict feels li. bronchitis and emphysema.

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new reaction this morning from the lawyer representing george zimmerman, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin. also knew this video that we have here obtained by abc news from sanford police. in it, it shows zimmerman arriving at the police station four hours after the shooting. does it show evidence of what zimmerman claims? a violent altercation taken place with the teen and being punched in the head and repeatedly slammed to the ground. zimmerman's lawyer was asked about this new video. >> the video is very grainy. i am not sure that is able to see the injuries sustained and cleaned up. the report shows he was cleaned up before he was taken in the squad car. >> nbc's ron allen is live in sanford florida. what can you tell us about this

new video? >> reporter: as you reported, the video was taken in the hours after he was taken into police custody. the martin family is reacting to it very strongly. as you said, zimmerman has claimed he was beaten and bloodied in what they have described as a life and death struggle with trayvon martin. the martin family says they don't see any evidence of that on the videotape. >> the sanford police video obtained by abc news shows officers bringing george zimmerman in for questioning shortly after the neighborhood watch volunteer admitted he shot and killed trayvon martin. zimmerman's attorney has said his nose was broken, his head smashed against the sidewalk by the unarmed teenager. the martin family's attorney says the video does not show any evidence of blood or injuries to zimmerman. >> all the other evidence clearly contradicts everything george zimmerman has said. they have listened to the 911

tapes with their ears and they see this video tonight with their eyes. it is clear that what was in that police report was a fabrication. >> the official police report says at the scene zimmerman's back appeared to be pet and was covered in grass and if he had been laying on his back from the ground. he was bleeding from the nose and the back of his head. he was given first aid in the back seat of a police car. in an interview on local fox television wednesday night, zimmerman's father said the teen verbally threatened his son who acted in self-defense. >> trayvon martin said something to the effect of, you are going to die now or you are going to die tonight. >> the mr. is video was released amidst published reports that early on police did request a warrant to arrest zimmerman from the state attorney. the report described the incident at homicide, negligent, manslaughter, unnecessary killing to prevent unlawful ac. police have said the prosecutor

wanted more evidence before zimmerman could be arrested because of florida's stand your ground law. in a radio interview, the new prosecutor, angela corey, recently appointed by the governor says, she has a lot of experience with the law. >> we fight these stand your ground motions really ouchb. we have won some really tough trims where those defenses were asserted. >> corey has said she may make the decision herself about whether to press charges against zimmerman rather than giving the evidence to a grand jury. martin's family, which has released new pictures of the teen at a birthday party for his mother nine days before he died has expressioned concern about decision being made behind closed doors. meanwhile, the case continues to reverb ber rate. >> just because someone wears a hoodie. >> reporter: on capitol hill, illinois democrat, bobby rush was reprimanded for wearing a

hoodie on the house floor in support of trayvon martin. so far, police have not yet commented on those videotapes. richard. >> when we take a look at this video, i was looking at some of it earlier. in it, it shows police at some point touching zimmerman and looking at the back of his head. the police haven't made any comment right now. what is made of whether there is or is not evidence as you did cover in your report. >> well, i think at this point, it is for people to look at that time and judge for themselves. the police have not commented on it. you heard what zimmerman's attorney said about it. he said it is inconclusive. you heard what the martin family said about it. they think it is very damning. it is significant it is another aspect of this case that the public has a chance to see something for themselves. just like the 911 tapes gave the public a chance to hear some of what happened. that really ignited passions when people were able to judge for themselves. i suspect this tape now that is out there may do the same thing

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no one is going to vote for a budget. they only know the number, not how the money is spend. that's why it went down 4-14-0. it will make a dandy commercial. then betalkwe talked about the simpson/bowl plan. they put that plan on the house floor last night. it only got 38 votes. listen to steve osterat, republican of ohio about this plan. >> when you know you have a good deal is when the left and the right are pounding the is not out of you. americans are screaming for us to take off our red jurscys and the blue jerseys on that side and put on the red, white, and blue jerseys of the united states of america. >> reporter: richard, you often here throughout the halls of capitol hill, we need to do something big, something serious, something to cut down the deficit.

that is a plan that inflicts pain on both sides. higher taxes for republicans and entitlement cuts for democrats. everyone thinks they want to do something grand. president obama and john boehner were working on it all summer. when it gets to the floor, you see how difficult it is to move that. only 38 votes. there is a lot of talk about washington, d.c. when it came time for literal action, 38 people stood up and said, let's feel some pain on both sides. let's jump into the deep end. the rest of the house, representatives, no thank you. we would rather stay where we are right now. the status quo is more beneficial for our changes in november and we get reelected and collect the salary once again. >> it raised the ire of a lot of folks. you are saying i want bipartisan work. what happened with that? we have some votes today. talk about what you are watching today. >> there were a few votes. today, we are going to see the voe on the republican budget, the paul ryan budget we have heard so much about. that will pass with only republican votes. the democrats have their budget up there done by chris van

hollen. the counter chair. that will get only democratic votes. there was some consternation among republicans about whether or not it would have the meeting. they are very confident they are going to get that number. it might not be as overwhelming as they had in 2011. it is interesting, because it shows the strength of a lot of the tea party freshmen on capitol hill that don't like the top line of paul ryan's budget. overall, you are going to see this budget come out here, richard and it has big implications for 2012, because democrats are already calling it the romney, ryan budget. there are a lot of things in there that are going to prove consequential. a reformation of medicare. there is a welfare reform, 2.0 as paul ryan said. a lot of things for the policy to dive in on. >> a good thursday on the hill. luke russert, thank you. colorado search teams will head back into the fire zone this morning to look for a missing woman whose home was destroyed. the colorado state forest

service apologized for setting the bern that triggered the wild fire near denver. a frightened family hoping the father can find a way out of that wild fire in their car. they were ordered to evacuate their home and within 15 minutes, the roads were engulfed and they made it out okay. >> president obama returns to the subject of high gas prices. in 15 minutes, the president will speak to the white house rose garden. he will be urging congress to end up to $4 billion in subsidies to oil companies. the senate is expected to vote on the matter in just about 45 minutes. we will have the president live right here for you as soon as he gets started. >> 1 in 88 children in the united states have autism spectrum disorder. that according to new numbers from cdc. the study also shows boys are almost five times more likely to have autism than girls. the cdc is hoping this new data will help communities better serve the children with special needs. cancer rates in the u.s. are

falling. according to a new report, the u.s. cancer death rate decreased steadily between 2004 to 2000le. that ra that rate has been dropping about .5% every year. efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer are paying off. you could call it the search for the grinch who stole the lorax. a two feet, 300 pound bronze statue of the lorax disappearing from the late dr. seuss's own backyard in la jolla california. theodore geisel's widow reported it missing. where is that statue? critics say a slew of voter i.d. rules included in some key swing states are going way too far. take the state where george w. bush won by 537 votes in 2000. "the new york times" reporting florida has a significant drop in new registered voters following new election law.

81,000 fewer voters. the law requires groups that register voters to turn in completed forms within 48 hours or face fines and other penalties. as a result, the league of women voters and rock the vote from mtv, those groups are halting efforts to register new voters in florida. joining me now from washington, d.c. is judith brown, codirector of the advancement project, a next generation civil rights organization focused on issues of democracy and race. thanks for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >> republicans passed nearly all of nut voting laos i was talking about. they say these restrictions were needed to prevent fraud. moving it from ten days to 48 hours to get in these forms for these largely underfunded, understaffed groups can be difficult. what do you say to this? >> they are not preventing fraud. they are preventing voting by making it harder for these

registration groups to engage in their work. they know that many of these groups are going to fold up their efforts. they are not going to engage in it. groups like the league of women voters have been registering for almost 75 years. they have said this year, they can't do it. their volunteers don't want to be subjected to fines just because they didn't hand it in within 48 hours. this is to the moment. what's really important is that we have to put this in the larger content of what has happened with gop controlled legislators that have passed these laws that are going to suppress the laws. this is one of the laws. along with in florida, the cutbacks to early voting. they are making it harder to vote. there is a reason. that reason is because they want to make sure their voters turn out and get to vote and that african-americans, latinos, and young voters who turned out in record numbers in 2008, find it harder to engage in the process. >> is that really it? is it about those groups or is it really about the issue of

reducing fraud as i mentioned earlier, which they are claiming here? >> well, i mean, you know, when we look at this issue around fraud, what they are doing is they are putting forth solutions without a problem. they don't have a record of voter fraud in florida that they are fixing. there are owe laws in place that already deal with fraud. >> last one. that's early voting. those rye quirequirements take in the fall. they are going to move early voting days from 14 to 8. what's behind that? >> well, i think really important to this is, in fact, they also cut out that last sunday before election day. when you look at what the gop has done -- >> why is that important? >> because african-american churches engaged in a program called take your souls to the polls where they would caravan to the polls after church on that last sunday. it is important to understand what is at stake.

when we look at these laws, they were passed in states that account for about 70% of the electoral votes that are needed to win the presidency. we have to put it in a context. they are making it harder for people to vote, condensing early voting days when it should be that it makes it easier to vote, that more people get into the process, that there are more days available and more hours available to cast your vote but, instead, they want to make it harder for people. >> judith brown, thank you so much. it is being debated all across the country in court. now, to wisconsin congresswoman who shared a deeply personal story in front of all of her house colleagues yesterday. she tried to lobby them to take up the violence against women act. take a listen. >> it really brought up some terrible memories for me of having, you know, boys sit in a locker room and sort of bet that i, the kid, couldn't be had and then the appointed boy, when he saw that i wasn't going to be so

willing, completed a date rape and then took my underwear to display it to the rest of the boys. this is what american women are facing. >> joining me now, congresswoman, gwen moore. congresswoman, i watched your entire statement there. so composed yet so clear. one has to ask, why did you feel it was necessary to talk about something so personal here in one of the most public ways? >> i can tell you that unfortunate for me, this is just one incident in a lifetime of violence that i have experienced. not only have i experienced a lot of violence in my life but practically every woman that i know has experienced violence. i also said on the floor that violence was as american as apple pie. i just wanted to get away from the standard talking points and

the orwellian speak to bring it home how important it is to keep the violence against women act bipartisan, as it has been and to bring it up and not let this law expire. unfortunate for me, i'm 60 years old. i experienced all of the violence in my life before this act as enacted. this law, has in effect saved women's lives. it has resulted in better training, better education, better prosecution. it is supported by advocates, people who keep the shelter doors open. the fraternal order of police, the national association of district attorneys sheriffs. it is a win/win/win situation. we have seen violence against men and women drop as a result

of this law being in place. >> congresswoman, did you feel that you needed to be so personal, break what was a normalle messaging behind this very act that should be reauthorized? did you feel you needed to go there because the acrimony in washington, d.c. has put the main issue you of this act in front of them again? did they need to be reminded of all the women that are affected by this? >> it is. we are seeing this become partisan when it had never been partisan. there are three provisions that have become acrimonious. we need to protect women, whether they are in hetero relationships or homosexual relationships. we need to protect immigrant women, who are particularly vulnerable and women. >> some republicans are saying they do not support this because of those additions.

>> and women on tribal lands. it is open season on women on tribal lands, because of the laws that cannot be enforced on tribal lands if the crimes are committed on tribal lands by nontribal people. once those nontribal members are outside of the tribe, there is no prosecution there either. so this -- everybody knows that tribal councils need the jurisdiction. they need the authority to enforce violence against women on their lands. all women need to be protected, not just a few. >> congresswoman gwen moore, thank you so much for sharing your story again with us today. >> thank you. >> we are waiting for the president, president obama who will be speaking from the rose garden at the white house. subsidies to five oil companies worth about $20 billion. we expect him to come to the microphone in about two or three minutes. we will have that for you. our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies

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live pictures for you. looking inside the president's office, the oval office, a moment ago. with he sa y we saw some shots of him getting last-minute briefings before he is about to come out into the white house rose garden and talk about oil subsidies worth about $20 billion and that they should be scrapped. let's go to mike vaiquiera righ there watching this. >> reporter: what is happening down the street coinciding with what the president is doing, capitol hill and the white house acting in concert with heavy political overtones. $3.92, the price of a gallon of gas gone up about a penny a day a problem for the economy, a drag on the economy. a reminder to folks every time they pass the gas station of the rising price of gas and a political problem for the president. we have seen him trying to get out on offense on this issue time and time again, including that two-day trip for four states last week. today, he will call for

repealing $4 billion in annual subsidies to the oil industry. he has said, you have heard this before, at a time of record profits, there is no reason for them to do that. meanwhile, in the senate, they are voting to repeal half of that in subsidies. >> stand by, vic, when he does start, we will be watching that together. appreciate it. he is back. it has been nearly ten years since the chief justice of the alabama supreme court was removed in a battle over the ten commandments. roy moore lost his job for refusing a federal order to remove this, a 5,000 pound gran anytime stan u of the ten commandments from his montgomery courthouse. he wants his job back. joining me now former supreme court justice of alabama, roy moore. thank you so much for being with us here today. >> before we get into your recent nomination win, which is good news for you, as chief justice and let's go back a little bit, why was the ten

commandments so important to your court even to defy a federal order? >> it helps our morality, everything this country is based upon and it represents the first amendment, which is all about the acknowledgment of god. that was the issue before the court. >> is that a good match as a chief justice that you should be making such an association? >> well, when your constitution says you establish justice by acknowledging god, yes, i think so. i think it is the job of every justice to uphold the law. that is part of the law of every state, to acknowledge god. that was the issue in my case. >> some critics have said, church and state here, that's getting muddled by some of the actions and some of the things you have said. you have said that the united states is a christian nation in the past. how do you answer those critics? >> well, the united states supreme court said we are a christian nation in 1892. in church of the holy trinity. acknowledging god is simply not a violation of separation of church and state.

acknowledging god is the basis of separating the church from the state so that the state can't interfere with the worship. >> roy, you keep a copy of that order that was given to you that forced you to be removed from the bench. why do you keep that? as you look forward into what looks like you will be winning, again, being chief justice, why do you keep that copy? do you hope to make some changes? do you hope to return to some of the objectives you had before? would you bring back the ten commandments, that statue. >> i wouldn't bring back the ten commandments. the issue is and always has been about the acknowledgment of god. i do have a copy of the order. i do have a copy, because there are people that don't understand what the issue was, need to see what the judge said in his order. he said it was about acknowledging the sovereignty of the ju day yo-christian god. i will continue to do that no matter what any court or any person tells me.

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to "anchorman." >> it is official. there will be a sequel to "anchorman" there will be a sequel. gentlemen. >> finally, we can update that manual. farrell did not reveal anything about the film but he did play a mean flute solo. justin beaver is in hot water over a twitter prank. he tweeted, call me right now with a dallas phone number and a question mark for the last digit. 21 days later, fans are still calling, trying all those different numbers. one man may sue and another woman wants an apology and concert tickets to boot. get ready to say ah. this tiny puppy weighs over 4 hounss. she was just four ounces when born at a california shelter on march 8th. officials believe she is the world's smallest puppy. president obama getting ready to speak live on oil subsidies.

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the white house calls the billions in dollars handed out to oil companies. let's listen in. today, members of congress have a simal choice to make. they can stand with the big oil companies or they can stand with the american people. right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits, profits that go up every time folks pull up into a gas station. on top of these regular profits, oil companies are also getting billions a year, billions a year in taxpayer subsidies. a subsidy they have enjoyed year after year for the last century. think about that. it's like hitting the american people twice. you are already paying a premium at the pump right now. on top of that, congress up until this point has thought it was a good idea to send billions of