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Good morning. welcome back to "early start." minding your business, a nice come back on wall street. they jumped 1%. a big rally. investors started to feel that ben bernanke will serve investors. stocks are flat. shares of smith andson are jumping. earnings were phenomenal. a record. those sales, $590 million, almost. the industry as a whole saw a spike in consumers who fear washington will limit them purchasing firearms. it sped up after the newtown shootings. in the last six months, the demand...

Like mccain is challenged in the republican party weve got to question where the republican partys moving. >> lets spend a minute on the white house strategy. the presidents on the road next week, hes going to sign the health care bill in northern virginia, hes going to maine for a health care event, out traveling. theyre trying to say, and they say the polls show at least a small bit of evidence theyre right, people think finally washington did something. they get an uptick here and theyre goin...

Arizona as he seeks another term in washington. he called in sarah palin to shore up his support among conservatives. >> if you want real leadership, and not just rhetoric, not just talk, blah, blah, blah, if you want somebody to fight for what it is that this state and this country needs, im asking you to vote for john mccain. lets send the maverick back to the senate. >> remember, in iowa yesterday, president obama said if republicans want to run on repealing health care, they should go for it...

He told the government that transparency in the legislative process should be more -- >> stop that. >> he is practicing his spontaneity. its what you do in politics. you got to have genuine rehearsed spontaneity. it happens all the time. everybody check theirs notes. its one thing candidates need to learn today is youre always on. >> maybe he would benefit from a teleprompter which they keep attacking barack obama for. but youre always on. >> the good news is the mccain-palin team is back. were ...

Movement. >> the tea party happened in my hometown. ill have to go through the history books. >> nice jacket, by the way. >> you like the jacket? >> republicans wearing leather, we are moving forward. that works. i think this is a real test of -- what unites republicans and tea party voters greater than what divides them. what unites them is fear washingtons out of control, they can say anything, do anything, spend anything, no matter what americans think. and we saw that today in arizona. now, ...

Create jobs, as the white house says, or kill jobs. thats a republican critique. so far, you might call the health care debate a mini stimulus program. on k. street, washingtons lobby corrid corridor, making a killing off the debate. more than 4500 lobbyists hired in 2009 for work related to health reform. do the math. 4500 lobbyists, 535 member of congress. thats more than 8 lobbyists for each member of congress. eight lobbyists for each member of congress. as you digest that, lets turn to our ...

For doing something that no president has ever done. hats off to nancy pelosi who was a real big winner out of this thing. >> lets go back to the team. you mentioned the other night you were for howard dean. the white house, washington, secretary clinton. >> she is just scrubbing the date on that. but there is an opportunity for her. obama has united the democratic party on the left there is a hole in the center that hole could be filled by republicans, but it could also be filled by the last pr...