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The rate for middle income homes, he wants to increase it for high earners. the increase would particularly hurt retirees. a vote on tax breaks is unlikely before congress adjourns this week to campaign ahead of midterm elections. intelligence officials in europe have uncovered a plot for whats being called mumbai-style attacks of france and germany. just yesterday, the eiffel tower was evacuated following a bomb threat. according to one counterterrorism official, some recent missile strikes b...

In new hampshire, kelly ayotte has been certified as the winner of the senate republican primary in the granite state. we just learned that over the last couple of hours. lets go to nbc news deputy political director mark murray who joins us live from washington. lets break down what these results mean beginning in delaware. it was a huge tea party win, obviously. the question is, obviously, what will happen in the midterm? >> you know, richard, we just dont know right now. certainly the tea par...

Republicans won congress in president clintons first midterm and 2006 when democrats and president bushs second midterm surged back and got control. well, when you look at the direction of the country where voters feel like where the country is headed, right direction, wrong track. the number today is higher at 61% than it was at this point in time in 2006 and this point in time in 1994. and when you look at that, just that number alone, that tells you were in a big change election environment, ...

Frustra frustrated. now theyre sending the national guard down there. hello, why cant we get credit? >> theres attention between the midterm politicians on the issue and the presidential election on the issue. its good for obama to seize on immigration and fight back against the republican position. youve seen him doing that this summer. its bad for people like joe don donnelly who is fighting tooth and nail right now. so theres a tension between what people in the white house and the capitol hi...

Out of bounds by republicans during the smash mouth presidential campaign are now back in bounds, that stuffs now okay, then i want to know is there any new line? is there anything anymore that is too much of a low blow? joining us now is jonathan alter, "newsweek" senior editor and columnist and msnbc contributor, his latest book is "the promise: president obama year one." >> hi, rachel. >> hi. is there less of a downside in a midterm than there is in a presidential election to a latching the p...

Office on election day. we asked john boehners office to confirm his claims about this invitation. mr. boehners office replied to us tonight saying in part, "leader boehner has made no plans for election night." so maybe it will happen, maybe it wont? but if the anti-obama attacks that were deemed out of line and out of bounds by republicans during the smash mouth presidential campaign are now back in bounds, that stuffs now okay, then i want to know is there any new line? is there anything anym...

What were also very cognizant of is the main stream wants to solve big problems like health care, doing what the president said last night which is get out of these -- disentangle ourselves from the wars overseas, get folks back to work, make sure that every school is a great school, keep solving issues in our justice system and moving towards that place that all of us want our country to be at, which is a place where things get better. >> how active is the naacp going to be in this midterm? >> ...

The midterm. >> we are 10 weeks away. i think he will pay the price in november. if i was giving advice to the obama white house. watch episode of sein feld where i will do everything opposite. nothing he has done is working. he quad rupled the deficit and health care is a job killing bi. a huge tax increase on the horizon . you dont tax your way in prosperity . we are seeing the only yobs in the obama administration created is public and government jobs and thats not the way to make grounds to ...

They can go to stimulate the economy and they could buy treasuries as mark zandi pointed out. >> right. but that is helping things economically at the margin and with interest rates very low, but credit tight and the sense of psychological nervousness across the country, those things become a toxic mix, economically. and, you talk to a lot of economists, and structural, fundamental problems, among the biggest problem, right now is americans are simply not confident about their immediate or midte...

Remember what this summer was supposed to be designated by the administration, "recovery summer." thats what d members of the house and senate were counting on, they told each other, our polls are going to improve because the economy is going to be better by november 2nd. you foe that is not going to happen. its too late there are only two months left. >>neil: so they should have kept expectations low. guess -- >>guest. they raised expectations. they have overpromised. and underdelivered. and th...