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So-called takers in his own backyard. his opponent joins me tonight. joining me now is rob zerband, the democratic candidate challenging paul ryan for that congressional seat. rob, good to have you with us tonight. im curious, every candidate is confident. every candidate hears good things. but what is your instinct on how the comment of 47% and the entitlement, and all of the things that have surrounded this tape, how is this going to play in ryans district? >> ed, what im hearing on the ground...

Joining me now is rob zerband, the democratic candidate challenging paul ryan for that congressional seat. rob, good to have you with us tonight. im curious, every candidate is confident. every candidate hears good things. but what is your instinct on how the comment of 47% and the entitlement, and all of the things that have surrounded this tape, how is this going to play in ryans district? >> ed, what im hearing on the ground in the first congressional district is people are quite resentful of...

Back to wisconsin to debate you, but he probably this is he has better things to do. >> weve had over 700,000 sign the petition to ask paul ryan to come back to the district and to debate me. so the grassroots organizers are logging on to my website at robzerban.com and theyre signing the petition and anyone can go on there and say, please come back to the district and debate rob zerban. people understand this is an important part of their democracy and want to have their questions answered abou...

Petition to get ryan to come back to wisconsin to debate you, but he probably this is he has better things to do. >> weve had over 700,000 sign the petition to ask paul ryan to come back to the district and to debate me. so the grassroots organizers are logging on to my website at robz robzerban.com and theyre signing the petition and anyone can go on there and say, please come back to the district and debate rob zerban. people understand this is an important part of their democracy and want to ...

Dangerous and difficult foreign crisis and attempted to make people believe that president obama was a terrorist sympathizer. lets turn to john soels, chairman of votevets.org, and sam stein, political reporter for the "huffington post." gentleman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> john, why do you think this is worse for mitt romney than his comments about the 47%? >> well, i think the 47% is pretty bad, especially when we have a lot of national guard and reserve soldiers who...

0 opportunities. >> this photo shows mitt romney watching the video of his mother. it was taken by mitt romneys personal assistant. you have to wonder if his story, her story, has really sank in at all with mitt romney? its a story that a lot of americans have. you never know who among us has been affected by government assistance at some time in their lives. >> personal note here. a lot of americans, of all incomes with stripes have struggled the last few years and the risk for governor romney ...

0 the 47% comments, what are they? well, they are so toxic, politically vulnerable republicans, basically, theyre running scared. take a look at these two headlines from two separate websites. from fox news, there was this headline. governor susanna martinez distanced herself from romneys 47% comment. and then there was this headline from "the washington post." nevada senator dean heller distances himself from mitt romney. embattled senator scott brown would not answer two direct questions from ...

the country are completely freaking out. tonight, dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz on the republican chaos. the romney camp wants to talk redistribution? >> the president saying he likes redistribution. i disagree. >> tonight, a lesson on upwards redistribution with dean baker. plus, ohio senator sherrod brown, on the 47% fallout in ohio. and could paul ryan actually lose two elections, in one night? ill ask ryans congressional opponent if the candidate stands a chance in janesv...

mischaracterized. meanwhile, karl rove, scott brown, and republicans around the country are completely freaking out. tonight, dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz on the republican chaos. the romney camp wants to talk redistribution? >> the president saying he likes redistribution. i disagree. >> tonight, a lesson on upwards redistribution with dean baker. plus, ohio senator sherrod brown, on the 47% fallout in ohio. and could paul ryan actually lose two elections, in one night? ill...

Terms of blackmail are immense. that is why he hasnt taken it off the table. it will take a commander in chief, a president, to explain why it may well be in our interest a year, a year and a half from now in order to do a strike as surgical as possible. keep in mind that even the united states with the breadth of its assets and the depth that we would have to strike after strike -- deeply buried targets that we could probably put their nuclear capability -- their nuclear program out of whack fo...