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Their eyes, ears and hearts who turned away from tale-yax and kitty genovese. >> welcome to "the ed show" from the nations capital. great to have you with us. these stories have gotten my hot button going. president obama says there may not be an appetite in congress to tackle immigration reform? what? the democrats should be gunning to take this issue on and i mean head on. more on that in a moment. the oil spill off the gulf coast is much worse than originally feared. the busted rig is leaking...

The company said this morning that it plans to proceed with this case in court, but it left the door open for a possible settlement with the government. jane? jane: peter barnes in d.c. peter, thanks. jon: with hot button issues like financial reform looming over washington, president obama says hes looking for bipartisan support. but the president still cant resist a dig at the gop every now and then. listen to what he said to some democratic donors last night in los angeles. >> you would have ...

Under the constitution for the state to consider concocting a militia. after all, many states do and they do good things in terms of helping handle disasters and so on. the reality is they are apparently talking about forming this militia in order to block certain moves from the federal government. so while it may be legal, this really, at the end of the day this is a question that was decided already. at gettysburg -- >> why are we seeing -- why are we seeing an escalation of the groups? what i...

Over to reagan. meanwhile, the french president heads to the white house today. he will hold a press conference with president obama and have dinner. the two are expected to talk about a number of hot button issues including french involvement in afghanistan and the world economy. michelle obama and the french presidents wife will join them for supper tonight. they appeared all smiles in new york city yesterday despite recent reports of trouble in gay paris. >> al-qaida leader osama bin laden is...

It seems to be breaking in president obamas favor. if, thats a very big if, the undecided and democrats vote the same way as in november then the measure would squeak by at 217-214. the outcome is still uncertain. other news organizations put the numbers higher or lower and the president certainly knows that and going to capitol hill for one final pep rally with house democrats. >> health care isnt the only hot button issue this week. tens of thousands of people are headed to washington for an i...

Nearly killed her and her doctor told her not to have another child. so the 27-year-old florida woman took the abortion bill ru-486, pulling this private information out there for everyone to see. and its gotten a lot of reaction. positive, negative, even threatening. so why tweet about it? angie joins me now live from tampa. so, angie, did it take a while to come to a comfort zone that you wanted to do this? tell me how you eventually decided this is how im going to do it and im going to let ev...

>> in the book, you write that you got a phone call with candidate for vice president sarah palin and you said, these are your words, that she rubbed you the wrong way. what happened? >> well, again, this was early on. it was the first conversation and it was with candidate john mccain and sarah palin. and as i think back on it now, she was really right on the all of hot button issues. so she immediately focused on -- because we were talking about the need to come in and stabilize, put fanny fan...

You got a phone call with candidate for vice president sarah palin and you said, these are your words, that she rubbed you the wrong way. what happened? >> well, again, this was early on. it was the first conversation and it was with candidate john mccain and sarah palin. and as i think back on it now, she was really right on the all of hot button issues. so she immediately focused on -- because we were talking about the need to come in and stabilize, put fanny fannie mae and freddie mac into co...

Transformation of american politics into entertainment. and i think, you know, if you come up with a phrase about how do you like that hopi changy stuff, thats a pretty good phrase, to be honest with you. but its more on the hot button, push button sid of politics than it is on the real answers side of where are we going to go. i have a feeling that as we go through the next year, larry, i think american politics is going to change a little bit. its never static. and no election is where you thi...

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