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I really am not happy. bill: stop calling. martha: it is me again, im serious, on that note despite the negative sentiments in the poll which is an incredible number. former president bill clinton doesnt see republicans handily beating his party in the midterm election. listen to this: >> i dont think they will in either house, if history is a guide they should make gains but i dont expect them to win either house, no. martha: a reasonable assessment? or is he viewing the situation through rose-...

Probably a pretty heated election year. >> you certainly will. i fully expect it. i remember during his midterm election, his first midterm election where everybody was so riled up and were traveling around the country, i ran into some moses. ugliness out there, people in my face. all that anger, its part of the process. >> that was a tough year. joe johns, ed henry, thanks for coming in. everyone is guessing who is going to fill that vacancy in the supreme court. you heard us talking about it. ...

A surge in earnings has prompted companies from google and intel to twitter to sharply ramp up their hiring. miami herald -- we were just talking about this. many say the stage for charlie crist to run as an independent is set. lets bring in chief political correspondent, mike allen, here with this mornings playbook. lets start with the democratic national committee. they didnt play a huge role in the 2006 election, but how are they ramping up for this years midterm? >> theyre going to put g...

Explosion that claimed 29 lives at the upper big branch mine in west virginia. flights in and out of the uk are on hold due to a huge cloud of ash sent up by a volcano in iceland. thousands of flights across a large chunk of europe are canceled. tens of thousands of passengers stranded. republicans are preparing strategies for the crucial midterm election with an important goal in mind, regaining control of the house, of course. one of the plans being considered is to create a contract with ...

Hypothetical horse race for the gop nomination. 24% of republicans say they would support former arkansas governor mike huckabee, 20% show mitt romney. sarah palin was in third. lets talk more raw politics in the interesting midterm election race. were joined again by david gergen and candy crowley. that poll is two years out from a potential race. what do you take away from it, though? theres no single front-runner. >> thats the thing you take away from it. they have no single national leader a...

Sanders, independent from vermont. jeff merkley, freshman from oregon is also up there. theyre all very young in the senate and none have stepped forward to take over that position that kennedy left. >> here is the frustration, i believe, of union membership and leadership in this country. is it the democratic leadership is void of a voice? its like theyre afraid to step up and just get after it the way ted kennedy did. when every election cycle we have seen victories in ohio, in pennsylvania, i...

Get this job done, ending proprietary trading by financial institution, getting rid of too big to fail. you know, a whole series -- getting rid of these exotic instruments traded as if theyre playing blackjack in the bank lobby, credit default swaps, synthetic derivatives. thats gambling. we have to change the rules and make sure this doesnt happen to the country again. >> this is a heavy lift. seems to me as heavy a lift as health care reform. would it take a year to get something done? can you...

Crowd of about 3,500 republicans from southern states. you know, theyre looking toward midterm election first, where theyre hoping not only to gain some seats, but to take back congress. weve been hearing a lot of words like radical, repeal, and phrases like "secular socialist machine" in referring to the obama white house. heres some of the highlights from the speeches. >> it seems to me increasingly clear that there are three prongs to the obama doctrine -- apologize for america, abandon our a...

Not kick the daylights out of a fellow colleague and even if its a moderate liberal, they will go right to the supreme court. it will not be a federal judge and it will be an easy confirmation. >> but that would require of course, coming up with somebody where theres a governor whos a democratic. >> exactly. and secure a state. get somebody frankly, who says, look, ive had enough time in the senate. >> it would have to be somebody young. with justice roberts on the court, that whole young, very ...

New orleans where the talk is which republicans will run for president in 2012 at the southern republican leadership congress. former house leader newt gingrich took a shot at the president. >> if you have spending without any representative of what it is, you dont have representative government, you have a machine, and that was the first signal that this is very different. this is the most radical administration in american history. engine jane -- jane: the 2012 buzz is swirling around sarah pa...