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marge says what part of made in america does the committee not get? shame on them. share your thoughts with us on facebook or twitter or e-mail us. >> the play of the day comes from golf. steve is on a par-4 hole. >> it goes right in the cup >> that is a great shot earning him today's play of the day. giants hosting the astros today. >> taking part to the oakland airport will soon get a lot easier. >> feeling a little superstitious, we will go live to the bay area's mos,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> today, watch out for black cats and broken mirrors >> head down to san jose for a spooky tribute. joining us is lindsey huffman at the winchester mystery house. i guess it is a pretty big day there >> yes, the house is, this is it's for every day, friday the 13th. mrs. winchester loved the no. 13 and you see it all over the mansion >> you call it, tell us about ghost sighting is that people have talked about. >> the story goes that sarah winchester went to a medium after her husband and daughter died and the medium said that the spirits of those killed by the winchester rifl

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and it involves mitt romney. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> mitt romney has managed to win his party's nomination without appearing in public with two major figures in the party. george bush and dick cheney. that's about to change though. the former vice president is hosting a fund raiser for willard in wyoming tonight. it begins at a swanky country club with a golf course designed by arnold palmer. i bet it has a lot of quiet rooms. then supporters can pay $30,000 to hang out at cheney's house. it'll be romney's first appearance with dick cheney on the campaign trail. he still hasn't appeared with bush. remember the endorsement president bush gave romney? he said i'm for mitt romney as the elevator doors closed on him. no speeches. romney doesn't want any public connection with bush except he wants to extend the

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for more watch "your business" every sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst.onstipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> ever since george mcgovern was dovish about vietnam there's a stereotype about all democrats being foreign policy doves. republicans likes nixon and both bushes were elected because dems portrayed them soft on the gulf war. to supporters obama has destroyed that image. despite thanks to a steadfast disapproval of the iraq war, obama has shown himself to be a hawk, killing bin laden, aggressively hunting terrorists around the war. this is the first election in decades where the republicans cannot easily use foreign policy against the democrat. the challenge for bottom on foreign policy it's different. bill clinton's generation had come to take it for granted the u.s. was and would remain the world's dominant power. the obama generation saw itsel

this is "andrea mitchell reports." [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated?hillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> and developing now, you're looking at live pictures from jacksonville, florida, where a speech aimed at older voters, president obama is about to accuse mitt romney of proposals that would gut medicare. >>> nbc's kristin welker is live in jacksonville with a preview. this is a familiar campaign speech for democrats. year in, year out. when it comes to trying to win florida, kristin. >> reporter: it certainly is, andrea. president obama will be using it once again today when he takes the stage here in jacksonville. which we expect to happen shortly. as you know, florida is one of the most coveted battleground states for its 29 electoral votes. so president obama today unveiling that line of attack against mitt romney. he's going to argue mitt romney supports

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we've got details ahead. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> this year, the democrats are holding their convention charlotte, north carolina. which is a drag for lots of democrats since democrats tend to support union rights and there is not a single union hotel in all of charlotte. who thought that one up? republicans this year are holding their convention in tampa, florida, which is drag for lots of republicans because tampa is the strip club capital of america, and republicans and strip -- actually, i don't know, maybe that's a plus for them. tampa i should note is the also the death metal capital of america. they gave the world bans like morbid angel and obituary. that's got to be a plus for some republicans going to the convention. but probably not all of them. the last time around in 2008, it ended up being really important wh

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>> it took three years, because for the first two years they didn't have the most important infor margs cockpit rerecorder and the data recorder which was in the bottom of the southern atlantic ocean, and the early reports make it clear that without the information they probably would never have fully understood. once they got the data recorders, the rest became putting the pieces of the jigsaw in place. big questions unanswered, why did the pilot behave as he did, and the report does fundamentally make some assessments and suggests, s suzanne, and basically says that the pilot was overwhelmed. he made inappropriate moves, and what we get from now having a full picture is that in certain surprise circumstances, suzanne, it becomes very difficult for the crew to keep perspective of what they are doing. >> do we know as the victims' families, are they satisfied with the full picture? >> i don't know is the short answer. we needed this investigation so that it does not happen again. and the 50-odd recommendations talk about education and flight information give nn in the flig, and all of t

"starting point" is back in a moment. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated?' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> welcome back to "starting point." a recent report from the state department shows that more than 27 million people around the world are victims of human trafficking. it's a $32 billion industry, and in many cases, girls, sometimes boys, as young as 11 are bought and sold into prostitution. the senate foreign relations committee will hold a hearing in just about an hour. that brings us back to actress jada pinkett smith and her daughter, willow. they'll be putting their celebrity power behind the cause. they join us from washington, d.c., this morning with three survivors of you had mang trafficking. it's nice to see all of you. jada, what's the focus of today's hearing if what's your role going to be? >> today is just basically testifying about what i have experie

has a peak curiosity is supposed to climb coming years to search for inhabbability climate in the margemartian past. the fact we don't have a backup for it. we haven't been able to afford a twin rover for curiosity in terms of opportunity in terms of spirit which landed there in 2004. so this is all in one shot. there is no forward mars program beyond curiosity. nasa has been told to scale back the mars effort because of budget constraints and there is no follow-up if this one goes wrong. jon: walter, we mentioned you were part of the apollo program back in the '60s and '70s. when you were flying actively back then, did you think we would be on mars, i mean with human astronauts by now? >> i will have to say that back in those days, which was, late '60s, early '70s, there wasn't a one of us in the office that didn't think we would have a man on mars by probably 2,000 or 2010. and of course we're now farther away from that than we were in those days which is really a reflection of the change in attitude of the american public. it is very difficult to stand up and argue for manned landing

the marge e equality is when you want the states., but was do care about folks at the local level. >> the marriage equality had a heck of a pr machine behind it with a bunch of dough. i don't think back in the day in terms of the slaves returning home, i think of their descendants with no protection. >> when i listen to the governors, i think of the governors who stood in the schooluse door on the steps in the '60s. it was massive resistance and it ended. first of all, in the affordable care act. if the state refuses to set up an exchange, the governor does it for them. bobby jindal can't get away with that. on the medicaid money, it is free money for two years and then it is 90%. the hospitals in his state do not want to provide free care to people and not get paid for it, so he'll get pressure inside the state. >> the question is to belief in the power of the lobby. go powerful lobbyists on the health care machine because you guys want your money. i hear you, but the very fact he says clearly, look, this is your point about keyston

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