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Moment of Zen - Rick Perry's Voting Age Gaffe

Season 17 • 11/30/2011

Rick Perry gets the voting age and the 2012 general election date wrong.

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Aasif Mandvi heads to Cairo to evaluate Egyptian Muslims' ability to uphold freedom and democracy.
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Moment of Zen - Rick Perry's Voting Age Gaffe
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Rick Perry confuses the U.S. legal drinking age with the voting age while soliciting support from college students.
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Mitt Romney gets defensive when Fox News' Bret Baier asks him about his previous, more liberal political positions.
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Bob Costas weighs in on Penn State's sexual assault scandal and discusses the handling of Syracuse University's child molestation case.
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A Bloomberg report reveals that the U.S. government loaned banks $7.7 trillion in secret bailout funds at no interest and then borrowed the money back at interest.
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