and mcallister we're on capitol hill. >> motorola mobility has a display on capitol hill. what are you showing? >> our latest and hottest devices our hottest device it fits right in your hand but the best thing is the battery life. not a single smart device that can compete for value can talk on the phone 20 hours a illustrate without having to recharge. it is fantastic for business) use i cannot say enough good things about it. >> host: why do shows us to the policy makers? >> we continue to evolve with technology. [inaudible] >> host: you also have of their equipment here on the side. >> is one of the hottest products about the same time we launched our razr from world's first gps and fitness tracker that can track all of your fitness performance. how many calories you burned you can only imagine. what i love about the product is the mp3 music player. the workout better to some songs they and others. this product tracks which songs to work out better to with a custom playlist. >> host: what else do you have? >> guest: we have been talking as an industry now we make it si

qualcomm on display here on capitol hill. consumer electronics show on the hill. well, you might have seen the new commercial, dish tv's new commercial about the hopper. and joining us is the vice president of dish network. what is the hopper? what does it do? >> guest: it's, actually, the most advanced home dvr box in the market today. it was available to customers starting march 15th. it's a dvr that can record more shows than any other on the market and can store more show than any other dvr on the market. with the hopper you can do up to six recordings at the same time, and you can store 2,000 hours of video, and you can actually watch in hd throughout the entire home with this little baby, the joey. so one p hopper, multiple joeys, and you get tvs in every room of your house. >> host: who developed this? >> guest: this was developed by a sister company, echostar. they built all of our boxes traditionally, and in conjunction with our requirements, they built the hopper and the joey. >> host: now, what is the prime time feature on this? >> guest: so, you know,

what are you demonstrating year on capitol hill? >> i am showing the google tv, which is an operating system for connected tv's, just like android is an operating system for mobile phones. this is an operating system for smart tvs. in fact, we are built off of the android operating system. >> can anybody get google tv? >> any consumer can get google tv. our initial launch partners are sunny and a lot attack -- sony and logitech. sony has a television with two tv built into the system itself. logitech has a peripheral device, a string player. we have a new hardware coming out with four partners in the next several months. >> so what are the advantages of google tv? why would somebody get googled tv instead of cable, instead a satellite tv, instead of broadcast tv? >> we do not view google tv as an alternative to cable tv. we see it as an enhancement to your live tv experience, the same way that mobile phones did not eliminate land line phone and cable did not a limit broadcast. we think smart tv ads and enhances cable subscription vi

kennedy, that capitol hill is dealing with in the tech world is privacy. and what about the information that you collect from people who use pandora? what do you do with that mftion? >> guest: we take a very, very conservative posture in terms of privacy. we only have your e-mail address, age, gender and zip code. nothing beyond that in terms of your information. of and we don't sell it or share it with other entities. we do use the information about your age and your zip code and your gender to target advertisers, make it more relevant to you. but we don't, you know, we don't use geolocation, for example, even though we're used extensively on smartphones. we don't enable the gps tracking capability. we'll use the zip code that the user provided with us at the time of registration to provide broad geotargetting. we know you're in the washington, d.c. area. but we're not tracking you in terms of where you are this minute versus the next minute. so i think there's a lot that has to be sorted out from a privacy standpoint, and we're going to take a very conse

heather has 13 years' experience in federal politics as public interest, lobbyist and on capitol hill. prior to taking on a roll of director for the nrdc action fun she had her own consulting business and was that the legislative director at the natural resources defense council. prior to your position that nrdc she worked on capitol hill first as an aide to congressman and former ohio governor ted strickland and worked as senior staff member for current labor secretary. during her time on capitol hill had their health co-founded democratic caucus environmental message team which continues to help democratic members communicate more effectively with their constituents about environment and energy issues. heather is married with 32 beautiful children and presides in silicon valley in california. a [applause] >> good evening. thank you for joining us to celebrate nrdc action fund's first book release of "reckless: the political assault on the american environment" written by staffer bob deans. please join me in giving him a round of applause. [applause] >> bob is always a joy to work wi

was that something that was considered realistic in any quarter of capitol hill? >> it is groundhog day. we're relitigating all these issues on the hill. and what's interesting is unlike 2010, when you had all of these town hall meetings, people screaming about the health care law, democrats kind of nervous about where they were on taxes, this time, the republicans who are a little uneasy. they voted unanimously, yes, in the house, to repeal health care. gwen: with five democrats. >> with five democrats. but you heard a lot more about, well, we really are going to replace it. and you had dan hayworth stand up with leadership, i agree with the goals the democrats had here. gwen: and she is -- >> a republican member. house. and then meanwhile over in the senate, you're starting to see some republicans say look, we are really scared of these defense cuts coming in in january. and we're starting to talk to democrats about how we can maybe raise -- not raise taxes, but maybe raise revenues, close some loopholes. gwen: how do these arguments, how do they work into the n

and so what's happening on capitol hill, a bit of some background music. i wouldn't say a lot but some. and he plays on that -- as i said, with greater intensity in the last week than we have seen before. gwen: you watched mitt romney go to the end of the convention and didn't talk about foreign policy. he didn't really talk about taxes even that much. he talked about health care. knowing he was probably going to get booed by calling it obamacare and a very democratic crowd. who was he speaking to, sam? >> i think he was speaking to -- gwen: no one in that room. >> nobody in that room, no. he was speaking to swing voters in the philly suburbs and outside of cleveland. he was speaking to moderate voters who need to see that he's making the effort, going through -- at least going through the motions of reaching out to a extentcy that would not support him. -- constituency that would not support him. the goal of going was to get applauded for going. and i think that's what he got for it. gwen: is that the same thing he gets for the incredible pushback today i

>> [unintelligible] >> why are you up here on capitol hill? >> if the cost goes down and the technology proliferates more from all of these things are digital models. you can pretend you did not own any of that music. you can take a file and give it to hundreds of thousands of people. it does not matter if they have something to make the file with. that ends up being a principal issue. how do you make an adequate solution for content protection and content management that takes into account people's ability to create so they do not hinder the technology, but will take into consideration the owners considerations as well. >> how long did it take you to make it? >> the plastic body, 21 hours. >> is this making something now? >> it is printing a three chamber to whistle. >> and we have been talking with the president of desktop fab about 3d building. -- 3d printing. >> congressman beryl icet is here at the consumer ought electronics -- deryl issa is here at the consumer electronics show. what are you looking at? >> this event gives members of con

the capitol hill kardashian. won't say her name because it's hard to pronounce. >> it's hard to pronounce, but she was an easy choice. yeah. this is a girl with an uranian father and a mother from pennsylvania. she is teased by her parents about being a kardashian look-a- like. she came in number two. >> many of these folks are young people. they are gorgeous, you also have representative, bobby scott, democrat of virginia at 65. he's on the beautiful people list. >> he is. he's a good looking guy. we took a great photograph of him. i think there's a lot that goes into the photography, as any fashion photography would say. great in the pictures and you know, obviously it's not an absolute correlation. he came through. >> which gives hope for aging journalists like myself. >> absolutely. >> hugo from the hill newspaper. thank you so much for chatting with us tonight. we appreciate it. >> great to be with you, thank you. >>> we were wearing different clothes today. we recorded it last night, but didn't have time to

also today on capitol hill, you may know in the house, a vote on that bill to repeal the health care law. we're expecting that vote about 3:00 this afternoon, debate in front of the vote. our coverage, of course, on c-span. you can always catch up on the latest on our website at c-span.org and again here on c-span 3, we'll have coverage all day of this farm bill markup.

on capitol hill, -- >> can you each confirm that layoffs are reasonably foreseeable? >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> the nation's top defense contractors and aerospace companies congressional committee that would have to slash jobs. >> the question is which employees would be terminated? we don't really know. >> if a trillion dollars in automatic cuts goes into effect at the beginning of next year, the process called sequestration. >> this is cosmetic surgery with a chainsaw. >> in a report claims up to 2 million jobs could be lost as a result of the budget cuts with states like california have hardest followed by maryland, florida, pennsylvania and massachusetts. >> it would be bad for the economy and bad for defense. >> lawmakers seem to agree on the impact but disagree over how to stop it from happening. >> if we are going to remove the sequester, we need to take a balanced approach. >> what that means is you give us your checkbook. >> the white house says congress needs to figure out. >> congress needs to act to avert enforcement of the sequ

congress returns to capitol hill. more on what lawmakers have in store for the summer. >> a handful of accidents. we will upda >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. >> thank you for joining us on >> thank you for joining us on

some businesses, as we know, have been paraded in front of capitol hill, on capitol hill, or they haveeen criticized from afar for accepting too many tax breaks and maybe they just don't want to be in the crosshairs of folks on capitol hill. >> there are a lot of mall businesses that -- have never been to capitol hill and never will be. i think that the -- tim's point about the cost in those instances probably is greater. there is, of course, also the question of do you get crosswise with the internal revenue service if you interpret something wrong. if you want to get it right you might have to hire professional help and spend a lot of your own time, both of those can be too much for the whole thing to be cost-effective. >> joe, forgive me for one moment. we have a heavy earnings day here after the bell. texas instruments has just reported that -- let's go to jon fortt with the earnings report. john? >> yes. i have got texas instruments numbers here. revenue of $3.4 billion comes in a hair light of expectations. also a hair below the mid point of texas instruments guidance. eps items

the bottom line is, it is so poisonous right now on capitol hill. i hate to say this, this is not going to get fixed inform after the election. and if we think things are bad now politically wait until after election day when they have to deal with all these major issues. >> that's my concern. if you are so adamant as steven moore was this isn't going to get done beforehand but after the election there will be more impetus the only thing after the election are more deadlines. in addition to all the issues i mentioned you're predicting one of those possible government shutdowns over spending bills in october because house republicans are going to try and keep every dime for defense, they're going to double down on domestic discretionary cuts. my head will explode if we can't even deal with the problems we've got and might face a shutdown. >> steven moore said it's always darkest before the dawn. i'll remind you of what john mccain often says, it's always darkest before it turns completely black. but the fact is that the deal that was worked out to av

and now like to capitol hill. how did the speaker make that case? >> speaker boehner says in law is making the economy worse and, actually driving up the cost of health care and making it marredder for america's small businesses to hire new workers and the speaker issued an invitation to democrats here on capitol hill. >> for those who still support repealing this harmful health care law, we are giving our colleagues in the senate another chance to heed the will of the american people. and for those who did not support repeal the last time, it is a chance for our colleagues to reconsider. >> house republicans recognize there is no chance of repealing the law until romney is president and there are more republicans in the senate but bottom line they think two weeks of at supreme court ruling this is a relevant time to bring this issue up again and they recognize it may have consequences in the november election. trace? >>trace: interesting because while some democrats will vote with the republicans, a lot of them say that lawmakers should be focusing

. >>> and ben ber nandy heads back up to capitol hill. >>> welcome to today's show. part two of mr. bernanke today. >> i'm riled up, but i'm riled up about the interest rate on excess reserves. >> only one option out of four. >> i can't believe he mentioned it again. i would like to understand the basis for cutting that rate further. it comes after the european central bank deposit rate. we've seen the impact of that on money market funds and distortions there. >> i'm slightly more excited that they might go down the lending route, achlgtla bank of england. >> let's hope congress on listening in. >>> india's latest cpi figures show inflation slowed slightly in june. we'll be in mumbai to find out reaction. >>> we'll get the latest bank of england minutes. any hint on the future of monetary policy in this country? instant analyses from a senior broker. >>> guest host for the second hour has just spoken to someone to become mitt romney's running mate. we'll get the latest from u.s. campaign trail. >>> buy whatever the fed buys, whatever that might be as we chief to fixed income strate

>> look, let me say, i spent six years on capitol hill as a newspaper reporter.nt a lot of time with the likes of olympia snowe, tom daschle, trent lott, and it's amazing trent lott would be considered a centrist. they wouldn't think he's conservative enough. what's happened in congress, things have gotten so polarized at this point seeing the likes of olympia snowe say i'm leaving. we saw that from a democrat from indiana that left congress. what's going on on capitol hill bipartisan is not a bad word, it's a good word. what's a bad word is punting and that's what you see from the leaders on capitol hill. keep punting the ball down. we'll deal with it later. and that's where we stand right now, ali. >> mark, norm, will, great to have a great conversation with all three of you. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> coming up next, intense partisanship and the my way or highway ideology in congress has left one of its strongest serving senators so frustrated she decided not to seek another term as promised, olympia snowe when we return. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] its lightwei

she's talking to capitol hill to fight human trafficking. she's hoping to help thousands of vulnerable women and children. >> from the big screen to capitol hill, baltimore school for the arts grad spoke in front of several members of congress, including maryland senator, been carden, raising awareness about human trafficking and proposition 35, a law that will protect sexual exploitation of victims in california. >> this is something actually occurring in our own country, and being that california, we have three of the major hot spots in regards to trafficking. >> reporter: a wjz investigation found there are at least 20,000 human trafficking cases a year in the u.s. human trafficking is illegal in maryland, but prosecutors say loopholes can sometimes make it hard to prosecute. lydia and her children were brought to maryland from asia as household slaves. >> i was coming home each day with feelings that i might not see my kids. >> reporter: she says she hopes congress will delegate more money to programs that prevent trafficking and help th

the weather not the only thing heating up capitol hill today.resident obama planning to ask congress to extend bush era tax cuts, just not for everybody. brian mooar is on washington hill with the latest. >> reporter: as congress returns today from its july 4th recess, president obama already has work planned for lawmakers. later today he's reportedly going to ask congress to extend the bush era tax cuts to americans making less than a quarter million dollars a year. the obama campaign needs to quickly pivot away from last week's feeble jobs report and it's aiming its guns not only on capitol hill but on republican mitt romney's personal finances. >> he offshores most of his own personal investments, presumably to shield them from taxes. >> i have never known after swiss bank account to build an american bridge, a swiss bank account to create american jobs. >> reporter: romney supporters call it a cheap shot and distraction. >> in terms of governor romney's financial success, i'm happy he is successful. we have a president who has never run a bu

now retired san francisco firefighter is taking his fight to capitol hill. the very personal reason he is against flame retardant furniture. >> mobile 5 live at memorial,,,,

. >>> loud demands on capitol hill in the name of saving thousands of jobs right here in our area. >> i call upon our leadership to cancel the august five-week recess and solve this problem. >> up next, warning about looming military cuts that could hit the region the hardest. stay with us. we'll be right back. release me, momigus!

martha: trying to picture a game of chicken on capitol hill. bill: chicken on the hill. martha: chicken on a stick. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. you have democrats warning about looming defense cuts and expiring bush-era tax rates. they say they won't bush if the republicans won't bend. watch this. >> i will absolutely continue this debate into 2013 rather than lock in a long term deal this year that throws middle class families under the bus. >> what the democrats are proposing today is an entirely avoidable, high-stakes game of chicken. bill: so in the depths of july you have this, america. if congress can not come up with a compromise, we can all pay a price, significant too. bob cusacking managing editor of "the hill." what is on the line now? >> welling, everything. we have so much politics at play. everybody's tax rates were on the line. we were in this position in 2010. congress extended them for two years. come december 31st, all the tax rates will expire unless congress acts. bill: it i was an election year. >> right. bill: you argue both parti

during testimony on capitol hill, napolitano revealed they'd just been trained to deal with this kind of attack. >> one of the scenarios we have been training across the country for is something along the lines of a mumbai-style attack where you have multiple shooters organized. and we had actually coincidentally just done that training -- >> i have another question. >> -- and the aurora police were there. and their response last week is to be commended. >> aurora police were on the scene of the theater shooting within minutes, only a few minutes, of when the gunman opened fire. let's talk a little bit about what's going on. we're here in aspen, colorado. in our strategy session joining us former democratic congresswoman jayne harmon now president of the woodrow wilson center in washington. also joining us former homeland security secretary michael chertoff. they're both here and i'm here as well for the aspen institute

delia goncalves is live on capitol hill this morning with a closer look at the debate. >> reporter: good morning mike. another potential total job

kelly o'donnell from capitol hill, great to see you this morning. thanks so much for joining us. >>> up next, promises, promises, promises. republicans pledge to repeal and replace the president's health care law. now after the 33 votes to repeal it, what is the plan? we'll ask the deputy republican whip next. and the china syndrome. fiery rhetoric is all the rage on the campaign trail, but is mitt romney making promises he can't keep. first ahead, a look at the president's schedule and mitt romney's schedule. you're watching "the daily rundown," only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role throughout our entire lives. ♪ one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day men's 50+ healthy advantage. so what i'm saying is,. people like options. when you take geico, you can call them anytime you feel like saving money. it don't matter, day or night. use your computer, your smartphone, y

mercer walked into the 7-eleven on capitol hill thursday night. the democratic fund-raiser is talking on the phone while he sets down his iphone on the counter. a man then takes the iphone and puts it in his pocket. mercer realizes his iphone is missing and then appears to ask the man if he's seen it. mercer follows that man outside and then there's an argument and mercer is beaten up. they identified the man in the video and they are in the process of interviewing them. >>> seven minutes after the hour right now. a popular suv under the microscope this morning. the potential problem that could cause you to lose control. >>> also ahead, trying to ease concerns about a security or about security in london just days before the start of the olympic games. >>> plus, standing strong during severe weather. why there may be a cheap solution to avoiding a building collapse. >>> another day, another heat advisory as mercury claims towards triple digits. what you can expect next with [ scott ] i grew up playingth with little toy trains and now i build them.

why capitol hill is buzzing about the uniforms the americans will be wearing. >>> welcome back.pmorgan chase says a trading blunder cost the bank $4.4 billion since the beginning of april, that's up from the original estimate of $2 billion. the bank says all managers at the london office responsible for the trade had been fired. jpmorgan has said none of that loss affected clients and despite the news, jpmorgan stock is actually up right now along with other banks and right now dow is up more than 150 points. >>> president obama just kicked off a two-day campaign blitz through the battleground state of virginia. he just took off from virginia for two stops this afternoon. he will hold events at a high school in virginia beach and then he'll travel to roanoke where he has a campaign event scheduled at a fire station tomorrow. the president will be in richmond and then make his way to northern virginia and speak at centervville high school. >>> the president needs to do a better job of inspiring the public if he wants to win a second term. the mistake of his first term was thinkin

. >>> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke will make an appearance on capitol hill at the top of thee if the fed is ready to take any additional steps to boost the economy. >> this is a game -- see if there's any -- quantitative easing any stimulus. certainly job reports, signs that consumers are more skiddish request retail sales down for the third straight month. that certainly gives the fed room. but while traders will be listening for that, expect to get an ear full from the fed chairman as well toward congress about the fiscal cliff. if they don't do something soon to try to address the tax cuts that will expire at the end of the year, this is something that wall street is very intent on seeing them take some action on sooner rather than later. >> bertha, thank you so much we appreciate it. >> up next, the obama's missed kiss. that's just one of the stories on our radar this morning. >>> and democrats say they won't be the ones to blink in the latest game of chicken over the debt. >>> and it's the story that got's washington all atwitter this morning, how soon is too soon for an

right now the arithmetic is missing not only from the two candidates but from the leadership on capitol hillpublican and democrat. >> one final thing. i know you need to go to get to your news conference. do you think that the concern that many conservatives, especially republicans on the hill have about the defense cuts that would be automatic, one thing that dick cheney is doing back on the hill today is trying to bolster support to fight those defense cuts, could that break the logjam on revenue, on the revenue side? >> well, i think everything has -- everybody has to participate. everybody has to walk away a little bit unhappy. i'm sure simpson and bowles would tell you and pete and alice would tell you they don't like everything in the proposal but everybody, including defense, has to play a role. we are facing this cliff. the economy is fragile. the market's going to be disrupted long before january 1st, in my view. why not substitute in the lame duck session the simpson-bowles framework, legislative framework, for the cliff, buying three, six months' time and let that be the default p

>> shepard: mike emanuel live on capitol hill. mike, thanks very much.regime, quote: will not hesitate to use chemical weapons if it feels cornered. and it's working with al qaeda on mass bombings of its own citizens to discredit the rebels. those two accusations from the most senior politician to defect from syria thus far. its ambassador to iraq speaking to the bbc. of course, human rights upgroups say more than 17,000 people killed in syria since the uprising began in march of last year. this is amateur video said to be of government attack helicopters firing on the rebel strong hold of homs. we can't confirm the authenticity. we're told similar gunships have been battling opposition forces in damascus. the sign that the fighting there could be intensifying. that has the white house and leaders in the region very nervous they tell us. syrian is believed to have a large stockpile of chemical weapons though we don't know how big, and that defecting ambassador claims their uncorn firmed reports regime may have already used some of them. this is serious c

the three buildings on capitol hill are overflowing. books are double and triple shelved, thousands of volumes on the floor. >> extremely crowded with close to 1 million books on the floor and on overflow book trucks on capitol hill. >> the facility is full at fort meade and there is a waiting list for storage of special format collections. >> it is a challenging problem. >> the inspector general found some rare and valuable collections stored in less than optimal conditions. lacking ideal security control. >> we have been looking -- working with security people and the library has taken appropriate action but -- to build cages that can be locked. >> it does not have the same controlled climate as the fort meade security. >> this is the answer to what we need. >> with 250,000 items added to the collections each year, the collections chief says he needs three additional storage models like this one to handle the load. that is going to take money. extra money is hard to come by in these tight budget times. the library says each additional

. >> now to capitol hill, republicans are sending a message about president obama's health-care law. the house voted to repeal the legislation. scott thuman is following it from the satellite center. >> it was a big vote, although in many eyes clearly symbolic. some critics call it a complete waste of time and money. then again most are about money. since the supreme court said the penalty for not buying health insurance would be a tax republicans say repealing it could save 20 million people from the tax. >> the fight that spills from the streets all the way into the supreme court was back on capitol hill today. >> welcome to groundhog day in the house of representatives. >> the debate -- should be affordable care act be repealed. what's the american people do not wanted. >> americans want us to stop jerking them around. >> the final vote -- to 44-185 dominated by republicans to call it a job killing law. >> we came to do a job. >> next it tends to a democratic dominated senate almost certain to die. republicans insist the door will not be shut. >> here is the good news, the voters

. >>> ben nar can is back on criminal two -- capitol hill 2. this is a live picture of the -- a live look. >>> today, the white house is announcing a new home to create master teachers in science, technology, engineering and math. under the plan teachers selected for the core, they will receive a stipend of to am -- up to $to,000 a year. >>> there is a new bill to expand yosemite park. a fresno law make now proposes to increase yosemite's western boundary by about 1600 acres. the park's service would buy or receive this as a doeny. >>> well, this interest ised -- this is interested, redwood police let you have a chat if a police officer. >> it will will the you talk if anything except a life- threatening injuries. the guy is available from one too if on thursday. they say this program is the first of its kind in the? if if if. >>> let's check in with sal -- first of its kind. >>> let's check in with sal. >> traffic continues to move along pretty well until you get to the maze. it's not due to an accident i guess the bride side of all of this. t

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that's the reason there's a lot of expectation here on capitol hill that folks are going to try and puntxt year, maybe get some temporary extension or say we'll do it in the lame duck, but if you do it in the lame duck, you can still have pink slips before election day and that makes a lot of folks nervous. >> they might punt it, but we'll see who's op the return team. >> nice class at the the game. >> trying to be like you when i grow up. stay with us, the day's top lines are coming up. >>> doesn't take three years to change the top of the letterhead. doesn't take three years to pick a new chairman of the board and they didn't do that. [ kate ] many women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social s

and mike emanuel has the news like on capitol hill.et the democrats are having a nice response to vice president cheney's return to our fine city. >>reporter: nothing too feisty because he has been out of office a few years but democrats continue saying there is another half to the automatic cuts that kicks in. and that is domestic spending. here is senator harry reid, the majority leader. i am sure that the vice president is up here to spur them on to focus on how the defense industry is being hurt with this sequester. republicans voted for it. but the sequester also deals with people who need help, also. >>reporter: the democrats argue the domestic cuts really hurt some of the middle class here in the united states, so, that is what a lot of them are worried about when he says republicans voted for it he is mentioning the deal you mentioned to raise the debt ceiling, setting up the super committee, and, then, obviously, having the cuts as the penalty. >>shepard: what are republicans saying they want to do for the cuts, reference to d

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obama campaign needs to quickly turn away from the feeble jobs report and it's aiming guns on capitol hill and mitt romney's personal finances. >> he offhoeshores most of his personal investments. >> i've never known of a swiss bank accounted to build an american bridge. >> reporter: romney supporters call it a cheap shot and a distraction. >> in terms of governor romney's financial success, i'm happy. >> reporter: back on capitol hill, a fight over bush-era tax cuts, on wednesday they will try to overturn obama care, going nowhere, because democrats still control the senate. still it promises to keep the heat up in a town that's already seen too much of it. the president's tax cut proposal is designed to make anyone who stands against it look like they're standing against the middle class. ver on ra it. >> brian mooar in washington, thank you. >>> for thousands of americans whose morning routine includes sitting down at the computer and logging onto the internet, you could be into a rude awaking. fr we have a quick test to make sure you stay connected. >> reporter: logging onto the intern