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The press has become a story, and if you look at the polls, it pite be hurting them locally. >> well, i read this in one of my favorite ones so far is sharron angle went on lou dobbs radio show and actually reversed the polls around saying she was leading. and she will hasnt been leading, i mean, theres no s g integrity to this at all. theyre just reversing it and dont get challenged on it. eric, thanks so much. some final pages in my playbook tonight. former congressman pat toomey is running ...

>> they are trying to figure out if anything should be paid to him from the treasury pain and suffering. >> we only need to get to one of the jurors. >> you always taught me that, pat, actually. norah, we have a little more serious news here. lets get into it. >> the house has rejected a bill that would have provided more than $7 billion in aid for grounds zero responders who fell ill after the 9/11 attacks. the measure would have granted free health care and compensation payments to rescue work...

On national debt. >> where does that come from? the president of the united states was george bush when they passed a huge t.a.r.p. which is to bail out the banks. thats what ran up a lot of debt as well. youre saying republicans, youre ig -- >> youre ignoring the stimulus that was failed according to the presidents own strn-ds. he said it was supposed to keep unemployment to 8%. a 2.6 trillion health care bill, which i agree with pete will bankrupt not only the private sector but the states and...

Founders of this organization would agree that our work is not yet done. when stubborn insult still inequality exist in income and wealth, i think those founders would encourage us to increase our intensity and to increase our discipline and our focus and keep fighting for better future for our children and our grandchildren. [ applause ] >> bill: now, mrs. obama is not wrong there are still many minority young people attending bad schools and having trouble with the law. how to solve that probl...

Candidates to say to the financial industry as they seek money for their election? what are they supposed to say to angry wall streeters from whom they would like to get contributions for this cycle? >> well, look. i think first and foremost, the reality is the american people believe in a free market but dont believe in a free for all market. was we had was that a free for all market. its not good for stockholders and not for investors or good for the economy. we tried to rein in the successes ...

Into the red territory and then clinton, well, you can argue hes here, or you could argue hes here because as we know from that clip that you just saw, welfare reform was ended as we know it. republicans helped craft and endorse the bill. the result, welfare was no longer an entitlement program. it became welfare to work. the result, a huge decline in welfare benefits, down 46% from its high in the mid-70s and the spectrum shifted even more to the right after george w. bush took the ost office. ...

Liability with social security, medicaid and medicare, 100 trillion dollars thats not the worst entitlement program. the worst is a political class that think they have a credit card that just continue to run up these deficits. federal spending, the size of the deficit and the debt. >> thats what barack obama has done, i think is really become the poster child for the debt. thats what hes done in my opinion, to energize the tea party movement and the conservative movement within this country. an...

Liability with social security, medicaid and medicare, 100 trillion dollars thats not the worst entitlement program. the worst is a political class that think they have a credit card that just continue to run up these deficits. federal spending, the size of the deficit and the debt. >> thats what barack obama has done, i think is really become the poster child for the debt. thats what hes done in my opinion, to energize the tea party movement and the conservative movement within this country. an...

>> can i ask you one thing because democrats do say this, and i understand it. but you have voted and most democrats have voted to continue paying for the war and funding for the war. as far as i know i have not found a lot of democrats saying lets repeal those tax cuts in the middle of, you know, what still is a shaky economy. >> well, first of all, i think you have to understand where we came from to understand where were going. and part of it is, is that my republican colleagues like to start...

For democrats. >> well, candy, you know, we inherited an committee driven into the ditch by republicans, two wars unpaid for, a tax cut to a trillion -- >> let me ask you one thing. democrats do say this, and i understand it, but you have voted and most democrats voted to continue paying for the war and funding for the war. as far as i know, i have not found a lot of democrats saying lets repeal the tax cuts in the middle of what is still a shaky economy. >> first of all, i think that you have t...