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north carolina and west virginia primaries. now, this was widely expected. more on that in a moment, but also indiana, richard lugar loses his job. after serving in the senate unchallenged for 35 years, he lost in todays primary. the tea party backed richard mourdock. the key to mourdocks success, linking lugar to moderates and the president. >> i have worked with republican senator dick lugar to pass a law. >> what i did was reach out to senator dick lugar. >> if im interested in figu...

every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt theres good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investi...

a threat anymore. u.s. counterterrorism official says the explosive device is similar to the one that was used by the so-called underwear bomber back on christmas day of 2009. only this time, more sophisticated and harder to detect. barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. what do we know about the bomb itself and about how this all unfolded? >> well, very little detail being made public at this point, ashleigh because officials say operations intelligence operations are sti...

a track worker found dead in a barn at the world famous track. new clues and new questions as we are expecting to hear from police this morning. and middle class talkback. today we kick off a series built around you. your concerns. your issues. your questions to the candidates. today, we connect you to them and get answers. newsroom starts right now. this morning, we begin with a mans desperate plea for president obama to save his life on a videotaped just replease by al qaeda we h...

But tim brings up a valid question, which is lets say an amendment passes. now you have some control mechanism. you still, by the way, have massively distorted power for me and everybody else who hosts a tv show to shoot their mouths off. or whoever else it might be. there are other distorting aspects. money is not the panacea. or the amendment isnt. for all of us to think about, its interesting to think what is the appropriate mechanism for political communication if, in fact, youre going to ge...

Bicameral system, if you will. if you want to run for congress and youre from the commonwealth of virginia, you have to go through the machinations that the commonwealth of virginia has set out to actually qualify for office. >> i get that, but theres a bigger question here, which is, how are you going to finance elections, if this amendment passes? and whos going to decide that? >> let me be clear. this amendment does not touch how you finance federal elections going forward. all it does is say...

Nobody should have that kind of power. he did it before. hell do it again. thats not how things should work in any republic in any democracy. >> congressman paul started this conversation some time ago. how do you view the momentum? >> i think momentum is against us. i need to make a correction. our bill actually did pass in the senate. its in the house version. mel watt tried to undermine it but we beat him in the committee with the help of alan. the big question comes up very soon possibly tom...

They couldnt get... bill: we are watching this today and lawmakers wrestling with the reconciliation bill, what they argued about, fixes and changes in law and a package of changes that were passed late on sunday night and republicans consider it their last chance to derail the massive overhaul and cannot filibuster under senate rules but can introduce as many amendments as they want, if any one of those amendment passes, they could send the whole big health care law back to the floor, of the ho...

For these important programs with democratic ideas. >> majority whip durbin responded that in addition to blaming democrats, everything senator bunning did tonight he was given the chance to do last week. if bunnings amendment passes, durbin says the bill could still be delayed for weeks. >> he knows and i know that if we dont pass this bill as it passed the house of representatives -- if we make a change in it, were destined to send it over to the house, to at a minimum wait several days or eve...

Information collected by accident. >> i think its unconstitutiona unconstitutional, hugely problematic and we are here to defend the rights of the american people. >> the bill exposed hup rift. >> if this amendment passes, kills the program, we go dark. 702 goes down. we dont know what the terrorists are up to. >> 702 was written to go after terrorists but its being used to go after americans. thats why this bill violates the fourth amendment. >> chairman of the hostile adjustment he set a compr...