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Caucus in Your Face

VC2 producer Michael Gleason will school us on what we need to know about caucuses for every election to come, and what's... more

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do i vote?

i voted in the last election and i saw how big of an affect that had; not to say that it is not important to vote, but it just... more

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Tim Russert in Iowa

Jacob Soboroff catches up with Tim Russert, moderator of NBC's Meet The Press, at the Polk County Convention Complex at the... more

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Sam Donaldson in Iowa

Jacob Soboroff catches up with veteran ABC Newsman Sam Donaldson at the Polk County Convention Center. Donaldson gives his take on... more

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Iowa Un-Caucus; NH is Next

Jacob Soboroff reports for Why Tuesday? about why the Iowa caucus - despite record voter turnout in 2008 - has such low voter... more

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Iowa Has Spoken

The first stage of the U.S. presidential nomination election is complete. Results from the caucus were broadcast live online and... more

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Thinking about voting for Giuliani? Think again.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani believes that the United States needs a president who is a "proven leader and a problem solver." How does Giuliani hold up to his own standards? Let's take a look.

Giuliani's failures as a leader date back to the original attack on the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 2003, when FDNY firefighters inside the WTC discovered that their radios were defective. Giuliani's administration replaced the defective radios with more defective radios on a NO BID contract. These new radios were proven to be ineffective but were never replaced. On 9/11 an evacuation order was given over the radio to firefighters and police, but none of the firefighters in the buildings got the call, resulting in completely unnecessary loss of life. All NYPD officers in the building had working radios. They all got the call and they all escaped alive.

In addition to providing firefighters with faulty radios after the first attack in '93, Giuliani decided to place the emergency communications command center, where else, but at the World Trade Center. Placing the emergency response center at that location left it completely useless on 9/11 - it had to be evacuated before the building collapsed on itself. Police detectives were seen yelling in the streets, saying, "We told him not to put it here!"

After the attack in 2001, Giuliani wandered the streets talking to reporters. rather than isolating himself in a secure location with fire and police officials to orchestrate the rescue and recovery operation. Uniformed officials were left to deal with the chaos themselves.

Giuliani even called off the search for human remains within hours of recovering all of the gold belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia that had been stored at the WTC. Rudy Giuliani claimed that the firefighters needed to stop for their own safety, leaving hundreds of human remains unaccounted for (these people's remains ended up in the Staten Island dump, instead of being turned over to their families). When firefighters protested Giuliani's decision, he had them ARRESTED. The search for remains continued, but only after Giuliani received bad press about the injustice.

Just watch the video and see for yourself.Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani believes that the United States needs a president who is a "proven leader and a... more