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Political Checklist: Tax Cut Talk, and Who's the Underdog

Clip: 7/9/2012 | 4m 8s

Correspondents chat through the top issue in Washington this week: tax cuts.

Newshour's Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill and Christina Bellantoni chat through the presidential candidates' and Congress' top issue this week: tax cuts. President Obama focuses on it with a Rose Garden speech, and it's his aim to define his opponent Mitt Romney to voters as elitist.But Romney's campaign is fighting back in another arena. The campaign broke the $100 million fundraising bar in June.

07/09/2012

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