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Amazingly unknown prospect of a very popular sitting vice president jumping late in the race himself this year. and this year in the race, my moms daughter today just got word, i just got word that i will moderate the democratic presidential candidates this year in a presidential candidate forum that will take place in south carolina on friday november 6th. very exciting. this has been in the works for a while but it is now confirmed today that former secretary of state hillary clinton, vermont ...

And it was days after he said that that republicans had created the benghazi committee to bring down hillary clintons poll numbers. which obviously is something republicans did, but theyre not supposed to admit it. after defending that for a few days, today mr. mccarthy finally admitted that he messed that up. you know, but even when he was still defending it he still really truly even when help is not trying to read from notes he is still truly having a hard time talking in a way that makes sen...

Through with making him speaker. despite his verbal trouble, house republicans do seem set to go ahead tomorrow with nominating kevin mccarthy to be the new speaker of the house which will put him third in line to the presidency after vice president joe biden. and even today, on the precipice of that achievement as he is more and more frequently being asked about the big issues of the day and americas role in the world, still today the man cannot speak in a way that consistently makes sense. hon...

Morelike naked gun. here are todays top lines. will you stay or will you go now. >> a ten-state gop primary orgy. like most, it involves a bunch of middle age guys who are not appealing to women. >> best chance to nominate a conservative is to get in the a one oen one match with governor romney. >> were staying in this race with all respect to my friend from pennsylvania. theres a big difference between being a good team member and changing the game. >> this race will change again. >> when we wi...

Democratic majorities in the leadership of the democratic party and the state to support some very tough measures. what was that process like? how did you persuade them? >> you know, we kept the process focused on the facts. and we kept down the emotion, we kept down the politics and the rhetoric, and we kind of forced everybody to confront the fiscal reality, which is, as i said, pension costs will be doubling and tripling, and quite frankly, a pension that was going to run out of money. so eve...

All been talking about placed forward and actually go into legislation next year. >> just about 30 seconds left. i want to push you on how you guys are going to build public awareness of this. because maybe youre just not ready to talk about it yet, but it seems to me its a very tall order to get from where we are now around january 1 to have the kind of national sensation that it would take to get all the folks involved, flooding the website, to have millions of americans being involved in this...

Picking someone of another party to run with them and standing on the stage in the debates in the fall and also the advertising in the campaign that they can run actually gives someone an opportunity and the american people the opportunity for more choice in 2012. >> now, the white house is obviously watching what youre doing. i want to put a quote up that david axelrod offered to "the new york times" the other day. he said -- axelrod, obviously, is obamas chief campaign strategist, saying, "its...

Teachers, social workers, members of every wroin and talking to them on one on one or one on a couple hundred. and over time, we kind of realized that together we had to find a solution. and i think that process and involving the unions and involving the union membership was critical. because they realized themselves that something had to change. as far as how we -- go ahead. >> i think jimmy makes a wrong comparison. its not that the republican governments were trying to bust unions, its that t...

Institute. even a democratic policy guru like will marshall, who people may remember ran the progressive policy institute that was part of the clinton surge in 1992. the policy infrastructure. what do you attribute -- are they getting a lot of flak from their traditional colleagues for stepping out in this way and supporting this process? >> add to your list, republican christine todd whitman, who ran new jersey as governor and dennis blair, who was the national intelligence adviser to the presi...

30 states. well be done with all 50 by summer. in january, the process opens up for candidates to begin to step forward. the american people who are coming to americanselect.org, at half a million people a month, are ready for an alternative. you pointed it out. iowa and new hampshire and a 100-year-old primary system are antiquated. what people are looking for is an alternative. we think its a bipartisan ticket, running in 2012, talking about the issues that the american people care about, not,...