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For every coal mining job you lose, you lose throw more. a depression created by this administration and epa. they are issuing a regulation governor, will guarantee there will not be a coal fired plant built in america. that is 40 percent of our electricity. coal keeps the lights on. what we are doing, is implementing what is called the congressional review process to try to overturn that regulation. i am not optimistic that the president would sign it if we put it on his desk but well try. the ...

For every coal mining job you lose, you lose throw more. a depression created by this administration and epa. they are issuing a regulation governor, will guarantee there will not be a coal fired plant built in america. that is 40 percent of our electricity. coal keeps the lights on. what we are doing, is implementing what is called the congressional review process to try to overturn that regulation. i am not optimistic that the president would sign it if we put it on his desk but well try. the ...

Retirement in february. those are two seats they thought in the republican column, so now not so sure. that fight to net four seats is tougher. >> this is the fifth debate between the two. lets start off with kaine here. allen targeted him when it comes to coal, which was brought up in the presidential debate. energy. the president on the campaign trail going at mitt romney again on energy policy and the issue of coal and fracking in this country. nevertheless where is kaines week spot at this p...

Ohio. for instance, the southeast ohio theyre really hammering the coal issue. also cultural issues because there are a lot of democrats in southeastern ohio but not many liberal democrats. >> you also say that because of regionality of ohio, 96 field offices, three times the number that romney has, does that mean he can be more segmented in his messaging? >> it does. in some ways thats a little misleading because the romney people are using republican hea headquarters. they have these little of...

Dont want to run it in ohio. i think the issue is they need another state. we figured out that if you give obama all of john kerrys states, give him knew mexico where hes favored and give him ohio, guess where that gets him, 269. that means were at a tie, 269, 269. none of us welcomes that scenario. that means that the presidents going to need one of these other states. iowa is a close one because its another industrial midwestern state. nevada, you know, another possibility. virginia, obama nee...

Lets not talk about it. >> shawn -- >> i think theres a -- a lot has to do with the handling. >> in all deference though to ambassador stevens father, how will the governor honor his request? >> again, there is one thing to talk about an individual and bring that individual into a campaign. in this case what were not talking about necessarily is a.mbassador stevens as much as the events that unfolded around him prior to his death and after his death in terms of the white house response. so i thi...

Its almost laughable. talk about jack conway down in kentucky whos running for senate. the democrat running against rand paul. to call him anti-coal, this guy has said blatantly that he will never vote for a cap and trade bill, he opposed the house bill, and he even as attorney general tried to oppose the bill finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to human kind. the idea that hes out to beat up coal is silly. >> and when it comes to any coal issue, what you end up is less partisan divides a...

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That werent necessarily considered in play or on the top of the list. i think wisconsin is very, very close. thats another one where youve seen both of the candidates in there and i think the presidents presence in wisconsin goes to show that theyre very concerned about losing that as well. >> shawn, governor romney used the benghazi attack against the president. heres what he said. >> its an issue because this is the first time in 33 years that a united states ambassador has been assassinated. ...

Campaign issue. it has to be objectively examined. it does not belong in the campaign arena. is the romney campaign wrong to politicize this while an investigation is ongoing? >> well, i think that when it comes to ambassador stevens death all of us honor him for his service and his contribution to both our country and to what he did to help further the peace in libya. but what i think is an issue is this question of leadership and then how the events unfolded, what the white house did know, whe...