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im erin burnett, "outfront" tonight. the group of 12 taxed with axing $1.2 trillion from americas deficit. last night, we brought you what was frankly a breakthrough. the architect of the plan told us he would support an increase on tax revenues on some of the wealthiest americans. today the top democrat said toomeys plan didnt go far enough. >> we came to the table to begin with and every day have said that for us its extremely important. this -- whatever we end up with at the end of ...

Overreached a bit. governor kasich came in and the beat a very successful democratic incumbent that would hold him off. there was a lot of excitement about kasich. his approval ratings are pretty dismal having to do with this measure. incidentally, i think theres a good argument that ohio really overreached, went a lot farther than the wisconsin bill. ohio covers cops and firefighters, public safety employees. the wisconsin bill did not do that. the firefighters union in ohio, the bill was were ...

President, former president to write the book in its publication, president obama actually did a few suggestions in the book. >> does it give insights into the relationship they have today, especially after 08? >> fair to say, armchair quarterbacking going up but he tries hard to be basically supportive of president obama, but you can see the former president second guessing the current one and talking at least thinking allowed about what hed be doing differently at this point. >> and ann, great...

Support to repeal this? >> to repeal which? the law? >> yeah. >> absolutely. this whole thing is a grand deception. what huckabee is doing, what the governor here, governor kasich is doing is a grand deception. nair trying to deceive the people of ohio and the people of america to convince us that somehow by stripping middle-class people of their pensions and wages and their health care were going to build a better society. thats nonsense we reject it and are working hard to defeat governor kasi...

States where 147s to-up votes are up for grabs. joining me now is the education director. doug hi is the former communications director of the republican national committee. its nice to see you. brad, ill start with you. in 08 they took traditional republican states like virginia and north carolina. how tough of a fight will those toss-up states be this year? >> thomas, no one suggested from us or the obama campaign or the white house this wont be a very hard-fought election. it will be very clo...

Issues. >> but michael steele is mitt romney? the two people who have spent the least amount of time. the guy that has spept the most is rick santorum. hes at the end of the polls doing it the old way, the way youre supposed to supposedly do iowa. >> mitt is strong in iowa because hes organized, awesome on the ground. hes got some holdover from the last campaign. cain is strong in iowa because of everything we just talked about. >> josh green, you get out there and talk to some of these voters, ...

and john waynes son. why he hold hundreds of his fathers prized possessions. this is "piers morgan tonight." welcome back, dr. rice. we last spoke in january when i first launched the show. its been pretty quiet since then. whats really happened? the arab spring up risings, bin ladens been killed, gadhafis been quill kikilled, mubarak ov. weve got a guy who used to sell pizzas running your partys charge to take on the president. pretty quiet. >> its been a busy several months. thats ...

allow it and thats note a good enough reason. >> and john waynes son. why he sold hundreds of his prized possessions. this is "piers morgan tonight." welcome back, dr. rice. we last spoke in january. that was when i first launched the show. its been pretty quiet since then. whats really happened? the arab spring up risings, bin ladens been killed, gadhafis been killed, mubarak overthrown. weve had the biggest financial crisis we have ever seen and weve got a guy who used to sell pizzas...

why he hold hundreds of his fathers prized possessions. this is "piers morgan tonight." welcome back, dr. rice. we last spoke in january when i first launched the show. its been pretty quiet since then. whats really happened? the arab spring up risings, bin ladens been killed, gadhafis been killed, mubarak overthrown. weve got a guy who used to sell pizzas running your partys charge to take on the president. pretty quiet. >> its been a busy several months. thats absolutely right. >> ...

The new poll shows 8 in 10 americans are dissatisfied with the way that federal government is working. that includes nearly one-third who say they are down right angry about it and that is a record. so what does this mean for next years election? joining me now are two folks who helped run presidential campaigns. from detroit, democratic strategist jill al per, former consultant for the kerry and gore campaigns and the pawlenty campaign. he advised mitt romney in the 08 cycle but is unfill yated...