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Shouldve known better were saying that it would not matter if we failed to meet our obligations. I think that changed the discussion, as you see today, being able to fairly easily extend the debt limit. But i remain frustrated a lot of days that things that should be easy, that everybody can agree on are hard to do because of the super power of minorities here. Some already have said that you may have higher aspirations. Forget it. This is as high as it goes. 58 years old. When i decided to do t...

Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a democrat from north dakota. I want to begin with one of your campaign ads. You describe your mom as a janitor, your dad as someone who never finished high school and you are one of seven. What was that like . We did not think it was all that rare. Back then, a lot of people in the world war ii generation did not finish high school, who had to help out on the farm. An eighth grade education was considered the most you could ascribe to. For us, it was not odd. Our dad was...

The push for privatization of social security. That is the blueprint. That is not an agenda i can support. Nor the code7 Many Americans have ever been to. How would you describe yourself . It is stunningly beautiful. People who believe there is not anything they cannot accomplish. I say that is the biggest difference that i see. Here, if you tell somebody an idea and you think you can work, they will say, that is a good idea but that cannot happen. I do not think that will happen. In north dakot...

Something that i think is an issue for journalists and citizens for the next 20 years, which is theres been a distinction in law and more generally between metadata and content, so some people have a thought that if government has access to your phone calls, thats really troubling. If they have access to metadata, meaning what numbers are calling what numbers, thats a completely different problem. We in the review group are uneasy with that distinction. That if the government has access to knowl...

Host do you think that argument is going over well with voters out there . Guest i dont really think it is. We have the highest place of unemployment in the country and the highest foreclosure rate in the country. President obama has not been good for nevada. All these statistics show that we are worse off now than we were four years ago. It is time to put somebody else in there. That is why you see the polls narrowing the closer we get to the election. Host we are taking your calls in this segm...

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>> im hoping to hear from the speaker what his relationship was with freddie mac. i think he needs to come clean. the voters deserve to know what his relationship was and what he was suggesting to freddie mac to do. >> so mack did that stocking and this was payback. congressman mack has also recently picked up support from tea party favorites, senator rand paul and congresswoman michele bachmann. hope far it hasnt helped mack pull away from his main rival, former senator george lemieux. he has b...

Watching. closing arguments are under way in the john edwards criminal trial one day after convention attorneys decided putting edwards, his daughter or rielle hunter on the witness stand. the jury could begin deliberations as early as tomorrow. sad news for the kennedy family. mary richardson kennedy, the estranged second wife to robert f. kennedy jr. was found dead in her new york home wednesday. an autopsy was scheduled today. mary kennedy had a history of drug and alcohol problems. robert ...

Show how many days i was in florida. >> do you think this would be a big issue in florida? theres a lot of republican primary voters who are residents for six months and one day. >> well, lets not be that critical of them. theres a lot of folks in florida who are there the whole time. mack likes to say i was only in california for 11 days. if you can count how many days he was in california, tell us how many days you were in florida. i talked to the people in his congressional district and they ...

charlie crists right hand guy. take a dive on how he thinks he can get his job back. good morning from washington. its thursday, may 17th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." im chuck todd. in a political bombshell this morning, "the new york times" reports that a republican super pac is considering tv ads relitigating president obamas ties to controversial reverend jeremiah wright. the "times" got a leaked copy of a proposal called, quote, the defeat of barack hussein obama. the rick...