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$250,000? i like being able to talk about that. i like about the facts. jon: republicans say the president has already gutted medicare with the health care budget. >> thats right. jon: which have to leave it there. >> thats right, jon, matt, debbie, thank you both. >> thank you. jenna: next some incredible new images from you from mars. well show you a panoramic look at a martian crater you have never seen before. why is a group of nobel peace prize winners taking on a new reality tv show? we ...

Question, matt, you said youre very active on these congressional races, and some suggest that some of these primaries are putting out candidates that wont win in the general election. number one, what do you think about that and, number two, will you now jump more into this general election for the president and become more active for the presidency as well as some of these local races? >> most of the fights for whos going to be the republican candidate are over as of today. so we immediately s...

Warrants. in the meantime, were going to talk a little bit about the tea party. if the romney/ryan ticket wins in november, itll put a tea party member just a heartbeat away from the oval office. we saw what happened in 2010. matt kibbe is the author of "hostile take over," hes also the president and ceo of freedomworks. so, matt, you know paul ryan relatively well. you met about 20 years ago on capitol hill? >> yeah. we worked together as associates on the house budget committee when john kasic...

People can understand. we all have to reduce the budget. we know the budget has to be reduced but sometimes you have to invest to get the economy going again, to create jobs so that the middle class has jobs. i think that is what president obama is fighting for and you can see that paul ryan has been pragmatic when he has to but is not preachchy what he had to vote. jon: matt, shows difficulty from jumping to a congressional race or a congressional district where youre trying to represent folks ...

Social policy. thats "the new york times." now paul ryan, matt, has been known to compromise, to talk to folks across the aisle. he voted for the bank bailout, hes been in washington for a long time, so some could call him an insider being that hes been there for so long. so why does the tea party movement, again, identify with someone like paul ryan? >> well, weve definitely had our differences, and certainly freedomworks fought with paul on a number of these votes that youve already mentioned....

To him. jenna: lets talk a little bit more about that. we understand the tea partys not like the republican party, its more like a grassroots movement, and youre one of the voices, matt. but how is the romney/ryan ticket resonating now? from one week to a another, how has this changed some that are part of this movement view the republican ticket this time around? >> yeah, i was underestimating the impact that choosing the right vice presidential candidate would have for the romney ticket, but t...

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how will that play at the polls? a fair and balanced debate ahead. the attorney general held in contempt of congress for not turning over documents connected to the "fast and furious" botched gun-walking case. congress is now suing eric holder. judge napolitano weighs in. the worst outbreak of west nile virus in years. hundreds sickened. more than a dozen deaths in just one state. authorities planning something they havent done in half a century. well tell you what and where. those...