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Have similar to her to come out and bring together the base. >> republicans have a lot of faces and the female side, whether its sharon angle or michelle bachman, but thats more of the conservative. as far as female candidate that could appeal to female voters. it could be carly fiorina, meg whitman. those are the two i think youll see a lot of in the fall and republicans deferring to them. they think they can win both those cases, and those would be major wins for the gop. jenna: thank you for ...

Can we finish this one first? >> will you run for a second -- >> im sorry. >> so are you thinking of running for a second term? >> you know what im thinking about right now? lunch. >> there you go, don. at that time he was thinking about trying to get a sandwich. it had been a long day for him on friday. hes also trying to steer the conversation towards the 2010 midterm elections, don. but you know he also got a very big boost. michael steele under a lot of criticism from many in the gop. sarah ...

Because every time democrats talk taxes and they raise taxes on someone, the public says, democrats raised taxes and we dont like it. >> its not the conversation they would choose to be in. when democrats get -- because what youre describing is a nuanced conversation. but when it comes to campaign signs and rallies, the nuance is lost? >> right. but they think rich versus middle class is not so new. and what theyre saying is, if we do this, mr. president, you need to be out there leading the cha...

Retirement age? >> david, there are a lot of options about how you solve these, but i dont want to get the cart before the horse. i think its important to have this conversation. its going to be a difficult conversation, but its time to have it and come up with solutions done in a bipartisan way to address the problems. >> let me talk about the midterm race. several months ago in march you thought it would be a steep climb for republicans to retake the house. what do you say today? >> i continue...

Retirement age? >> david, there are a lot of options about how you solve these, but i dont want to get the cart before the horse. i think its important to have this conversation. its going to be a difficult conversation, but its time to have it and come up with solutions done in a bipartisan way to address the problems. >> let me talk about the midterm race. several months ago in march you thought it would be a steep climb for republicans to retake the house. what do you say today? >> i continue...

>> david, i think its time for the american people to have an adult conversation about the problems that we face. these entitlement programs serve tens of millions of americans and theyre critically important, but we also know that these programs are unsustainable in their current form and i really do think its time that we sit down and we talk to the american people together about how we solve them. and i think we need to bring democrats and republicans together in order to solve this problem. ...

>> reporter: good morning, kate, t.j. with less than three months to go until the midterm selections the unemployment rate may be most important number in politics. that two figure has two responses from the republicans and the democrats. >> the department of lay were released the monthly jobs report show that july marked the seventh straight month of job creation in the private sector. so jobs have been growing in the private setter for seven straight months. >> we received more bad news for am...

Becoming a regional party, that if they could win in massachusetts, they would win anywhere. >> exactly. thats what they are counting on. they are looking at all of these numbers and they are looking for a good year and michael steele feels that he can get some credit for that. >> is this because of the leadership at the rnc or they are saying despite that? >> that will all be sorted out. i think its mostly because of the economy. if you had to look at why, first of all werks know historically t...

>> its very interesting. the ruling came out. its obviously an historic ruling, no court has ever struck down a gay marriage ban. this has been voted on 31 states, 31 out of 31 voters voted against gay marriage. a federal court comes out and says no, actually, were going in the other direction. he does so in a ruling that has incredibly evocative language. >> broad language. >> the prohibition on gay marriage rights is because of gender roles that no longer exist in society. very provocative to ...

Times", the guardian" for the news organizations that did the vetting and did real editing. thats what they are supposed to do. >> makes it much harder. because of incredible restrictions, put on the u.s. military, not allowed to look at those documents. like under pain of having consequence in their own military careers. its so strange. what wikileaks has done is put people who handle this in a more responsible way in a vulnerable position. there as lot of anger even among the left, among the t...