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>> ezra klein, david axelrod. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> calling up, the sea party is against the tea party. later, the good night polling news for house and senate democrats and very bad news for the republicans in the election. and in the rewrite, 50 years ago today, here in washington, president kennedy gave a speech. it was about a topic that was not then controversial in the least. but is now. so toxic from republicans. that they dont even want to talk abou...

This is the poster child for that. >> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isnt driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and its similar in illinois. if it is the case that citizens arent calling up, there are probably a few. but i agree. theres not a mass movement for this. yet its taken over state houses. i remember a...

>> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isnt driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and its similar in illinois. if it is the case that citizens arent calling up, there are probably a few. but i agree. theres not a mass movement for this. yet its taken over state houses. i remember as a kid. whenever you drive across ...

With government. we cant open up our own casino. we talk about the solution between government and powerful corporate interests against the common good. this is the poster child for that. >> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isnt driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and its similar in illinois. if it is the case ...

One of two agencies he only gets to appoint the top two people in the entire agency and a reason for that. you dont want the president calling up, you know, the i.g. in that office and saying what is going on with your investigation? how is it going? what you want him to say here is what is happening and be told what is happening and perhaps be ready for it but its not meant to be a political agency and it shouldnt be a political agency. >> right. >> we have so many agencies involved. youre talk...

longer the head football coach, effective immediately. >> what do you make of these scenes were looking at? >> over the last few days, there was so much passion on both sides of the issue. so many of the students that were there supported joe paterno, really felt like this was a man they had looked up to for so many years, thats why its so hard for them to take some of this news. even so, in terms of what joe paterno was like, and some of the things he was saying in front of his home. ...

saturdays nebraska game. that is part of the controversy. he said hes stepping down but not immediately, not until the end of the season. in a statement today he said -- paterno, who is the nearest thing to a secular saint in pennsylvania and hero to his players drew their praise today for his decision. >> i think as long as hes been here, he hasnt really ever made a wrong decision. he knows what hes doing. hes been doing it for so long. if he thinks its best for the program, chances a...

victimize children for many, many years. >> in total, he forces 40 charges tied to sexual assault. curley and schultz are charged with failing to report abuse and graham spanier is under pressure to retire and joe paterno announced that he will retire at the end of the season saying in a statement, this is a tragedy. its one of the great sorrows of my life with the benefit of hindsight i wish i had done more. jason carroll, cnn, state college, pennsylvania. >> if youre just joining us,...

really goes against what in many ways joe paterno stood for for some 46 years while he was there coaching there at penn state. >> mike, weve established contact with you now. galanos, what are you seeing now? where are these students going? >> reporter: they are headed to beaver avenue and they are flocking to that place. i was just talking to a student minutes ago and thats what happens. everyone is flocking to beaver avenue because they were behind the pictures that youre looking@the...

Being affected, eco-tourism. today tourism leaders and bp officials will meet in bill ox toe talk about the oil spills effect on the industry and some business owners are saying that while the oil hasnt surfaced in mississippi impact is already there. people are canceling their trips, calling up, saying are you still doing these excursions, et cetera. even throughout mothers day weekend some of the business owners said they saw that. >> absolutely. you know, weve got numbers on our team curious ...