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deconcession by a democrat who previously thought he had lost in a big important u.s. senate race. thats all ahead. but we have to begin with breaking news out of washington. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that president obama is considering massachusetts senator john kerry as his new secretary of defense. thats right, defense. putting the decorated veteran and former presidential candidate in charge at the pentagon and not at the state department, as had been widely spec...

It has that in it. so where are we? >> well, ill tell you what, ed. if i was speaker boehner, if i were a republican congressman or senator and my phone lines were bouncing off the hooks, because people were saying stop protecting billionaires, i would get a bit nervous. i am already working with a number of senior groups, veterans groups who are very clear on this issue. theres a petition out there. we have one on my website. there are other petitions. millions of people have got to get involve...

Republicans in the electorate. lets bring in michael, special correspond for the dal "the daily beast" and wrote a theory on conservative crapola. i love it. this election is a great example how the republican party thinks one thing and the conservative media re gurgitates it out and pays no attention to the truth. what about it? >> their point, they dont exist to assess the facts, they exist to rebut the facts. they exist to try and challenge the existing reality and try and create a new realit...

He won reelection? what do you think the president should do with this capital? >> i think on this issue, ed, on this issue of whether we do deficit reduction in a way that is fair or whether we give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires as john boehner wants. whether we cut programs that struggling people desperately depend upon, i think we have the overwhelming majority of the people on our side. i think if we cannot reach an great in d.c., which is very likely, because the republic...

0 generation. period. people working the subway system and in the construction industry in the state said they have never seen damage like this, period. its a new reality for us. and i think its one were going to have to deal with. were not going to give up. were going to cam back and we will. this city will rebuild and the state will rebuild and i believe we will be the better for it. >> you can hear in that discussion that there are really three different time frames here. theres the storm hit...

0 the new york metro area has a population of over 22 million. when new york city evacuated just these areas in the five burros for this storm, the people who were subject to just that order, just the people who live in the red area as marked on this map, just those people was larger than half the population of more than a handful of u.s. states. just the population in that evacuation area is the population of the whole new orleans. this is just a fraction. and a lot of people remain in this den...

Seemed to codify. look at me, ed, im white. im not black. colin powell picked me because of the content of my character and competence, as he did every white person, black person, asian, that worked for him. to say that colin powell would endorse president obama because of his skin color is like saying mother theresa worked for profit. >> do you agree with general powells endorsement? do you agree with that? >> i wont speak for him, but i will say that i thought he was rather forthright in the w...

This is a consistent pattern, though, ed. this is the same kind of business these republicans do. they troll around on the intern internet. they find one story thats made up and they use it. whether its todd akin use iing like his science that he has for legitimate rape or the goofy stuff they come up with climate change. now he finds an article about china. god knows where its come from. he pedals it as the truth in ohio. but the reality on the ground is so much different. people are working be...

where the whole country will be watching the exact same thing for the exact same amount of time before we get down to election day. last night was our last collective moment as a nation, watching the same candidates at the same time in a way that was unmediated that brings us together as a country. this past july, mitt romney made the first visit of any candidate to the great totally nonswing state of montana. montana has a close senate state, but for president, montana is not hotly co...

where the whole country will be watching the exact same thing for the exact same amount of time before we get down to election day. last night was our last collective moment as a nation, watching the same candidates at the same time in a way that was unmediated that brings us together as a country. this past july, mitt romney made the first visit of any candidate to the great totally nonswing state of montana. montana has a close senate state, but for president, montana is not hotly co...