DAVID GREGORY: But first, here with us exclusively this morning, David Axelrod, senior adviser to the president.Welcome back to MEET THE PRESS.MR. DAVID AXELROD: Thanks, David. Good to be here.MR. GREGORY: I want to begin with some news this morning. First, the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, has the administration reversed its stance and decided not to transfer him to New York for trial?MR. AXELROD: We’ve made no decisions on that, David. I’ve seen the reports. We’ve made no decisions on that yet. Look, here’s the situation:…
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BARBARA WALTERS: So you have a fascinating resume. Let — let me — and just in case some people don’t know it. At 12 you were arrested for shop lifting?BROWN: Right down the street.WALTERS: You remember the place? OK.BROWN: I do.WALTERS: At 22 you posed nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine. For the past 30 years you’ve been in the National Guard, and you have the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The past six years you’ve been a state senator, and now as the newly elected Republican senator from Massachusetts. You are the new star. I just saw that when I traveled a little bit with…
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JOHN KING: The president has a huge agenda before him. And in the State of the Union, he said first, second, and third should be jobs, jobs, and jobs. How much will a new jobs bill cost? And how many jobs will it create?GIBBS: Well, what the president outlined Friday in Baltimore at a small business was a tax credit that will encourage small businesses to hire by providing them money to pay payroll taxes next year — or, I am sorry, this year.We want to add infrastructure spending, which we know will create jobs. And another part of the president’s plan is to take money that the banks…
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