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This issue for this years mid-terms for a couple of weeks now. although it is not getting a lot of coverage, i think we can say in a kind of quiet, sleepy way the republican party is without actually talking about it this year nominating a group of candidates for top of the ticket races that are more extreme on the issue of abortion than any other slate of top of the ticket candidates in any year. now, that assertion is the product of our review of these candidates positions. it is open to debat...

Next. senior editor for slate.com, you really helped clarify this. thanks a lot. >> thank you, rachel. >> there is much more to say about todays historic repudiation, refeudation, of proposition 8 and where the issue goes next. well get with david boies and ted olson, the attorneys who pushed this case in the california federal court system coming up next. later on, think you dont have to vote in the mid-terms, dont make me come to your house. please stay with us. ing if i could say hi to the do...

They are counting on that yall forgot. they think that they can run the okey-doke on you. bamboozle you. >> the democratic game plan heading into the mid-terms is to keep the connection between the republicans and the former president alive. joining me now is democratic congressman john conyers of michigan, michigan a state thats been hit by unemployment and michigan, a state thats having a democratic and republican primary today. congressman, great to have you with us tonight. do you like this ...

Obama and all that stuff, but by the way, they have hundreds of invitations to come and campaign around the country, there are certain places they dont come from. they dont come from mississippi, from louisiana, from georgia, and frankly, it does raise the issue about whether the civil war -- never mind, i wont get into that, ill get into trouble. martha: maybe a good idea. andrea, go ahead. i mean, hes touting what basically is big accomplishments in the auto industry, and in other places as we...

Much he can do much the president has to reach out to the business community and try to do his best to loosen up credit and try to convince leaders to loosen up their cash and begin investing and hiring new jobs. thats not happening. other than that, its a wait and see and its sort of a message game for him. he has to talk up what he has done and why its worked. >> what about his own job approval numbers. we look at the daily tracking poll shows the country divided pretty much evenly. 46% approv...

That its the ethics committee itself thats working without my lawyers involvement. >> so now what you may read into st is that if his lawyers come to a settlement with the lawyers of the ethics committee, it would still be up to the ethics committee to approve some sort of settlement. we understand theyre meeting again today and were waiting to see if he can reach this deal and still avoid that protracted trial that could come so uncomfortably close to the mid-term election for democrats. >> cer...

Say we had the bailout to thank for all of that. joining us now from the north lawn of the white house is the press secretary -- inside the briefing room -- sorry -- press secretary robert gibbs. robert, thanks for joining us. >> good morning, how are you? >> let me push michigan back a little bit. i want to ask you first all about congressman rangel. 13 ethics charges against him yesterday. some democrats are calling for him to step down and avoid the party potential embarrassment as you had he...

It may be consistent with the federal. it is not in the public interest for arizona to enforce the laws, the basic point you have been making. they mind preserving the state is through a preliminary judgment and less harmful in allowing state laws preempted to be enforced. i will bring in martin katie from the chief congressional correspondent from politico. there would be a lot of political fallout. >> it would be bad running the mid-terms. this puts the issue more on the front burner and fires...

Those rich farmers. they are up tight about the taxes going up. hey, the republicans made the law. now they want to change it, and now they are using it as a tax issue as we go to the mid-terms. now, dont you find it somewhat interesting that were going to have this story later on in the show. big battle on the house floor today about afghanistan and war funding. $33 billion. republicans didnt want to pay for it. they dont want to pay for it, but they want their tax cuts, and they will blame the...

>> but they have had over 3 1/2 years now to fix this problem of the tax cuts expiring. i think, you know, i think the big problem is that even the higher income tax rates chrk tim geithner said he wants to raise. over half of that income is income of small business owners and operators and ambassadors. you cant create jobs if you tax those people more. >> greta: there are two considerations -- one is whether its wise to let them expire or not. thats the first consideration. the second considera...