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you saw senator dick durbin who is involved in the very defunct -- although everyone tries to -- three democrats and three republicans who tried to structure a deficit reduction package that included both spending cuts and revenues. you're seeing -- taxes are always a big deal. they're a bigger deal in election years. you're seeing a really interesting debate right now both inside the capital because every agreement they've come to today as been cuts only. on the campaign trail, you look to see what he importance people are putting on mitt romney's personal taxes, interesting to see how that interplays with what people think about the policies. all of these things are coming into focus and today was just one of many examples i think you'll see in the next few months where people will talk not only the necessity for reduction but how we achieve it. >> let me ask you from your colleague humberto sanchez with the lead at this hour, roll call.com, senate republicans not really united on nominations. he points out there remains significant debate within the senate republican leadership how

[applause] one of the finest public servants and one of the finest senators in the land, dick durbin jan stokowski. [applause] i also want to say a special word about a friend of ours, a man who has done an extraordinary work for me and perform extraordinary service for our country over the past year. that is bill daley. [applause] first of all, we got off of the plan and we said, is it really 45 degrees in january? we were a little confused and thought we landed in the wrong place. when bill first told me it was time for him to return to our hometown, i asked him to take a couple of days to reconsider. it is tough to reconsider the greatest city in the world. as much as i will miss him in the white house, he will be an extraordinary asset to our campaign. he will tell us when in 2012. i also want to say how much i appreciate you. i love you. i love you, too. [applause] i love you back, man. you know, i am here not just because i need your help. i am also here because the country need your help. there was a reason why so many people like jessica worked their hearts out in our 2008 ca

senator dick durbin from illinois made an unannounced trip to cuba this week. >>> interesting day to say the least in the race for the gop presidential nomination. the field thinning out, rick perry out throwing his support behind newt gingrich. meantime gingrich is in the spotlight, his ex-wife going public with very private accusations. fox 5's laura evans with the story. >> south carolina is a critical state, so it makes sense the stakes are getting higher and the race is heating up. newt gingrich trying to brush a side his ex-wife's allegations that he wanted an open relationship so he could keep his mistress. he turned it around on the media in tonight's debate. it was announced today rick santorum won in iowa and had a strong performance tonight. meanwhile mitt romney is trying to maintain momentum as frontrunner, but the former massachusetts governor once again came under fire tonight for refusing to release his income tax returns. >> if i'm the nominee, i'll put these out at one time so we have one discussion of all this. i obviously pay all full taxes. i'm honest in my deali

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notice how santorum is a former senator you know what it's like dick durbin is that you know it's like serving the congress why wouldn't he be a good republican nominee as a very liberal to take on radical judges and for your skin's to bush don't let the liberal republican establishment pick over cuba to get rich are you surprised ron paul's is polling so well i think it's horrible i think that he is absolutely the most liberal radical left wing person to run for president of the united states in the west fifty years knows how the republicans love throwing the word a liberal around as an insult but they're very careful about using the word progressive why would that be well if you look at the several pew research poll for example the word progressive most positively viewed is the most positively viewed political label in the united states through a pretty amazing you think about it fifty five percent of republicans like the word progressive it's more favorably viewed than the words conservative or the word capitalism seventy eight percent of americans actually follow progressive perspe

doctors say that the senator was alert and gave them a thumbs-up on command this morning senator dick durbin is meeting with senator mark kirk staff in washington d.c. today to offer his assistance tomorrow senator kirk's best friend in the senate democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia will fly to chicago to visit with him. coming up next in and the governor of arizona calls the president then scanned after a tense [♪...] >> announcer: bank robbery certainly is a frightening crime. after all, bank robbers stole $43 million in one year. but identity thieves? try 37 billion! and guess how identity thieves are getting some of that money. by taking over our bank accounts. they may not even need your social security number anymore. all an identity thief may need are a couple of simple pieces of information, like your mother's maiden name or the city you were born in, and they could add their name onto your bank accounts in order to make your money their money. you need help. [whoosh, clang] you need lifelock-- the only identity protection company that now monitors bank accounts for takeo

martin luther king day event others attending a senator dick durbin and governor pat quinn. mayor rahm emmanuel pointed to the lack of hope for many chicago disadvantaged young people promising examples of hope in city magnet schools like north lawndale community where dr. martin luther king based his movement. >> magnets schools in north lawndale with a 90 percent of students school based lunch program and a 90 percent are minorities more than 90 percent students meet or exceed the state standards. >> mayor rahm emmanuel also pointed cultural diversity and the city today as something dr. martin luther king dreamed up diversity he said is the best chicago has to offer. still ahead potentially life- threatening illness could delay the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards and man suspected in disappearance of natalie holloway learns his fate after pleading guilty of murdering a woman. i fall in demand leads to a riot outside an apple store in china. iphone demand. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... could mean living with joint dam

stroke, we will get the latest on his condition and new words from the other illinois senator, dick durbins were voting for gingrich after he went on a tear in days just before the primary. will his attack strategy on food stamps and minorities work this time or is it getting old. >>> thousands of anti-abortion activists are hold ago rally to protest the roe v. wade decision. >> with your help this bipartisan majority is standing up for life and working to restore the damage yard to roe. >> cecil rich arouards the pres of planned parenthood and joins us now. all of the republicans have put out statements, all of those running for office, they are very much on the other side of the issue, all those there are questions about mitt romney's past positions pro and con, but they are now firmly against legalized abortions, abortions being available in various forms. what are the challenges now facing the movement for the right to abortions. >> roe v. wade is settled law and this country continues to support safe and legal abortion. we see the race to the bottom on who can be the most against wome

democratic senators dick durbin of illinois and florida's bill nelson certainly did imply that citingnnan center study for justice suggesting a million dollars voters could be impacted adversely nationwide. specifically young, minority, elderly and handicapped voters. >> any time you get a law that is reversed to reduce the number of persons in this case who can vote, of course, that's jim crow at its best. jim crow, the wife, the children, all of them. the whole jim crow family. >> florida's republic dominated legislature and republic governor also imposed new restrictions on third party voter registration efforts and in protest the league of women voters has stopped doing it for the first time in 72 years, shep. >> shepard: phil, these changes in effect for the primary could be thrown out by the november election? >> >> they could. they are being challenged on the state and federal level. the lawsuit filed by the league of women voters naacp and aclu is still in the recovery phase. however, that could actually partly explain why governor rick scott declined to come here and answer q

i want to play two sound bites back-to-back from gingrich and dick durbin. >> i think you have to live in a world of swiss bank accounts and kayman island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fan fantasy this far from reality. this is an obama-level fan it is a i is. >> if we have reached a point in america where it is considered normal and expected that american business leader opens a swiss banking account or invest in notorious tax havens like the cayman islands in bermuda, if that has become normal, i think we need to have a new normal. >> tomorrow perriello, center of american progress, big democratic think tank, going to be using that line on swiss bank accounts on mitt romney all the way to november? >> i think what you are seeing here is a huge shift from what the beltway loves as a right/left conversation from a main street conversation about what's normal and what's fair. >> you think gingrich is on the right track here? main street conversation then mitt romney is? >> sure, but not guilty's problem is under th

. >>> dick durbin, eric cantor, dr. brzezinski. >> she's quoting lincoln in this. >> she took notes. >> and bob woodward. also, a developing story involving navy s.e.a.l.s and a hostage rescue for an american kidnapped in somalia. but first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. >>> good morning, mika. beautiful day in areas of the country, we're dealing with almost spring-time weather conditions. tornadoes possible in texas, and a tremendous amount of rain from san antonio all the way up to dallas. the worst of it right now on i-35 right around austin. some historic flooding ongoing. about 4 inches of rain in the last 2 hours. and that will head toward houston later on today. not quite as beautiful today in areas of the east, but still very nice. can't complain with temperatures in the 40s this time of year. southeast looks nice today, but that rain will move in for you tomorrow. minneapolis, little chilly, same for you in chicago, still damp weather in the northwest and beautiful around l.a. overall, still

in about an hour senator dick durbin as well as florida senator bill nelson will be on hand listening try to figure out why florida changed it voting laws since and what the impact that would be. a lot of democrats and critics, they say it's outright voter suppression of likely democratic voters. take early voting for one example. currently, it's underway right now for the republican primary in florida, but this year instead of 14 days of early voting, it's only eight days, and not allowed this upcoming november is early voting on the sunday before election day. and, of course, in the 2008 president obama and democrats benefited greatly by the souls to the polls campaign, african-american churches taking congress regants from service on that sunday to early vote immediately helping president obama get elected. and critics here today, the naacp saying, clearly, this is all about 2008. >> now, let's get right down to it. the real truth of the matter is when we had thousands and thousands of voters go to the polls of color and other minority going to the polls in 2008, it turned this cou

subcommittee on the judiciary constitution, human rights, voting rights, subcommittee headed by dick durbinson a florida senator will also be there. they have a lot of testimony coming in. they think a change in florida's voting laws and around the country are only meant by republicans to suppress democratic votes in november. take a look at this graphic. 15 states changed election laws since 2008 which would impact 5 million voters in november. they require showing a photo id or proof of citizenship to vote. they make it harder to restore voting rights and reduce early voting, 11 of the 15 states, republicans control the government. the republican governor's office as well as the senate and the house in the state legislature, and the democrats contend this is all court of a master plan. republicans say, no this is simply to curtail voter fraud. >> the idea of one person, one vote is the bedrock of the republican of this democracy. if citizens don't have faith in one person, one vote, then elections mean nothing, they have no value. >> reporter: key point by the democrats. early voting is u

democrat dick durbin defended the president saying the economy's improving but didn't rule out supportinging in the executive branch. >> i don't think it's wrong for the president to challenge us, and i don't think it's wrong for the republican leader to challenge the executive branch at the same level. that's fair. you know, i'm friendly to the president, a member of his party and a personal friend to him before he was elected and still today. he should accept the challenge from the senator from kentucky to take a look at the standards within the executive branch. >> reporter: now, the senate bill could see final passage this week depending on what happens with those amendments today. the house, meantime, considering it own version of the bill that includes real estate transactions and be all federal employees, not just congress. jon? jon: do i smell bipartisan agreement on capitol hill, steve? is that possible? >> reporter: a tiny little bit. yes, we'll see what happens with that. jon: steve centanni, thank you. jenna: cell phone cameras come in handy, especially when you see someone br

i generally have written positively about that, of supporting a format like what senator dick durbin has introduced, something that would provide a voluntary public funding to reduce the role of private, corporate donations in our politics, while keeping it voluntary, which is important. it is modeled after what did work for many decades at the presidential level, though it does not been in disarray did. there are a lot of other interesting ideas out there. there is an organization called change congress that looks at something called democracy vouchers. people at home, in either party or no party, who are worried about what does become the most expensive election in our history, and that distorting the people's vote, should look to any or all of those proposals. the campaign finance reform is a fundamental issue. it is one of those issues that is not 50/50, like so many debates we have, or debates over social issues, for example, when we know people feel strongly on both sides. i think campaign finance reform is like a 95/5 issue. you can be on the side that benefits from the massiv

[applause] one of the finest public servants and one of the finest senators in the land, dick durbins here. thank you. two of the finest members of congress in the land and great friends. [applause] , and we have cook county board president who is here as well. [applause] now, i also want to say a special word about a friend of ours, a man who has done an extraordinary work for me and performed an extraordinary service for our country over the past year, and that is bill gates. first of all, we got on a plane and said, is it really 45 degrees in january? we were confused. thought we had landed in the wrong place. but when he first told me it was time for him to return to our hometown, i asked him to take a couple of days to reconsider. it is tough to resist the greatest city in the world. and as much as i will miss him in the white house, he will be an extraordinary asset to our campaign. i just want to publicly say how much i appreciate him. now, i also want to say how much i appreciate you. i love you. [cheering] i love you, to. [cheering] now, i love you back, man. [cheering] you