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personally i thought there was much chance of that. america is after all what it is. next on booktv former senator arlen specter of pennsylvania talks about his political career in the split between the old guard members of the former party and members supported by the tea party. senator specter is in conversation of mike castle, former delaware governor and u.s. representative for a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it can be no better place to have this...

happening, but obviously its got to be there. we need to know that these access waves are secure and we are not going to have people wandering through doing whatever they want as well as bringing terrible risk to the passengers of the system itself. >> well, they follow instructions without even getting them; right? thank you for joining us on behalf of myself, jim nussle, and the committee on the responsible federal budget. our co-chair is jim and charlie and the entire biparti...

committee for the hard work and putting together the conference and for their tireless work throughout the year. our representation as a committee in very large measure is because of maya and her strong team. she deserves a lot of credit for this conference. thank you, maya. [applause] [applause] >> as you can see, we have a tremendous group around this table and over flow audience it appears of our nations leading budget experts. we have a terrific moderator with steve leaseman. the a...

[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> senate democrats and republicans each met today to reelect their party leaders. after the meetings, senate leaders spoke to capitol hill reporters. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay, everyone, its been my honor to serve as the democratic leader for the last six years and my team was just did. and i am really grateful for the caucus supporting us. just to remind everyone, senator durbin is the wa...

>> the committee will come to order. let me thank my colleagues and witnesses for their with patience and adults the various meetings that unfortunate not at the same time to try to schedule him the hearing but youve come a long way might have friend tom miller from iowa as well as i wanted to make sure we could have the hearing and yet accommodate the interests of all members of the committee so we moved to this time. bob and i and senator shelby will be here at s...

It seems like the republicans, democrats, polarizing and if anyone is anywhere in the middle they get pushed out. is this an tie incumbent fever sweeping the country? >> thats exactly what it is. this anti-incumbent fever. this was one of the three shades of anger were seeing in the country. conservative rage. bob benet did not meet the standards of conservative activists in utah. they didnt think he was conservative enough. he didnt they he held the line on spending enough. the t.a.r.p. bailout...

hello. faisal shahzad, the man suspected of leaving a failed car bomb in times square might not have act add loan after all. after initial speculation that shahzad was acting solo, the obama administration now believes he got guidance and assistance from the pakistan -- the taliban in pakistan. listen to presidential assistant john brennan earlier today on cnn state of the union. >> it looks like he was working on behalf of the taliban in pakistan, the ttp, the pakistan taliban. this g...

Hill. pro health care demonstrators, anti-health care demonstrators. i was struck to receive in my inbox on saturday or sunday a statement from one of the tea party leaders apologizing for some of the behavior. rahm emanuel on "60 minutes" said this is a fringe movement the republicans cant control and are a little bit afraid of. how do you think this weekend went for that movement? >> i think it was a small subset of people who were here. the tea party movement is still being defined. there are...

we learned so much. lawrence, as always, when it comes to health care, from you. some great accounting. >> the willie tax, $2.7 billion theyre going to collect from tanning salons. >> how do you know thats how much theyre getting? >> they are. as they are with a lot of the stuff -- >> is lawrence seriously the greatest guest? >> i love him. >> honey. >> he reads the bills and he knows the information, which i recommend to others. >> wrap it up. >> willie, if its way too early? >> its "...