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0 contributor and chuck todd, msnbc white house correspondent, political director and host of "the daily rundown." were waiting for video of the president at fema, national emergency response center. before wets to that, well bring it to you as soon as we have it from the traveling tv pool. what is the posture of the white house? what about that nonmust official quoted say we dont care how long it goes were winning politically. can they defend the fact there are no negotiations going on? >> they...

Registration from independent to democratic. >> i was always looking for a political home and see the democratic governors work on the important issues of the day, i said what were you doing last week. he said we had a budge of democratic governors working on obama care. thats what i want to be doing part of that team making life better for americans. >> this is the second time chavcha chaffee has done something like this. he was a liberal republican, he inherited a senate sheet from his father,...

flash flooding and extensive damage leaving 90,000 people without power. these latest storms come less than two weeks after the series of deadly tornadoes ravaged moore. killing 23 people. the tornado touched down in st. louis prompting the consolation of the baseball game. for more on the deadly tornadoes in oklahoma, we go to nbcs mark potter who joins us live from oklahoma city. >> reporter: hey, steve, the last thing that central oklahoma needed at this time was another round of to...

coercive behavior and the efforts of senator coburn of the religious c street house to negotiate a settlement. thats the polite word for it, between ensign and the cuckolded husband. the unfolding scandal is the top story tonight. plus, hows this for a presidential pickle? the guy they dont want really wants it. the mitch daniels/mitt romney dilemma. can either of these guys beat president obama? speaking of republican candidates, ron paul made it official today for the third time....

newt using the tactics that make him what he is. our top story tonight. plus he can run but he cant hide. remember the scene in raiders of the lost ark when harrison ford is running from a boulder? well, health care is that boulder and mitt romney is indiana jones. that boulder is his massachusetts health care plan. it will always chase him, because his campaign message essentially has become, dont vote for president obama, he did exactly what i did. also, we all know oil companies...

the fight against the president to the fight against the nazis. to warning against the alleged threat of gay and secular fascism, whatever that means. newt using the tactics that make him what he is. our top story tonight. plus he can run but he cant hide.ç remember the scene in raiders of the lost ark when harrison ford is running from a boulder? well, newt gingrich is that boulder. that boulder is his massachusetts health care plan. it will always chase him, because his campaign ...

And john chaffee proposed in 1993, but the problem is that barack obama came along and stole their idea and did it nationally and then the republicans turned against it and saying it is a constitutional travesty and completely incomprehensivable plan, and we cant support. now mitt romney disowned it, mike huckabee attacks it in his book. the problem is there are other plans but they dont go in the same direction. if you want to cover people, make it work, we have a lot of examples to do that. th...

this is not about unions. got it? this is not a pipe, and this is not at all about stripping unions. governor scott walker of wisconsin got all crazy modern art on everyone today when he gave his biennial budget address at the state capitol in wisconsin. an address for which he had to literally lockdown the capitol building and keep out thousands of protesters. you never would have known it from governor walkers speech. from his this is not a pipe of performance at that speech. for 15 ...

no minority members but the republican members were divided that the minority staff was invited into the room. and what he would say was now, you know, we are going to do the bill this way. they werent allowed to speak, so the minority staff simply sat in and listen to what the chairman planned to do and the next day or a couple of days later he would come to the committee and talk about his bipartisan bill. well, that didnt strike some of us as being the kind of bipartisanship that wa...

delusional. there was a couple of moderate republican political scientist who wrote it look and i think it was 91 called the permanent minority. do you remember that? >> it came out 94 but it had a question mark in a timely way. it was a permanent republican voter. >> along the same lines, two friends of mine actually wrote a book in the mid-decade that we just finished that was about the permanent domination of republicans for years to come, and than that was right before 2006, which ...