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Actually. >> he said unemployment wasnt going over 8%. >> sean: we lost three million, 6 1/2 million jobs in the hole. by their own they say only 95,000 jobs a month. >> some of these jobs were temporary. they are gonna expire in a couple of years. >> you know what they are gonna do, they are going to say we are going to keep the -- the rate is going back to probably around 8 it is going to whoever at 8 and they are going to call that a success. >> sean: will be this the defining issue in the mi...

Going to be, because hes not running for re-election? >> wow. tom forman, let me bring you in here. this is where it gets confusing. its sort of hard given how fast its happening to keep track of all the incumbents stepping down. where do we stand now going into the midterm? give us the lay of the land, if you can. >> its control of the senate. thats what matters here. all the blue are the seats controlled by the democrats and a couple of independents. you can see the democratic advantage. but t...

Thats not why obama ran. he cannot wait this year fighting with republicans to position for the midterm. >> chuck todd, whats the white house reaction as we go to break to evan bayh leaving? >> i go back and use this all the time. im sorry, they act like kevin bake on in "animal house." no. no. no, nothing to see here. its not that bad. we kind of saw this coming. ill say this, i dont think they realized how bad the rest of the democratic party believes the environment is. again, i understand wh...

If its so broken, figure out how to fix it. >> yeah. stay in the fight. >> by the way, from what youre saying, it sounds like james carville is right. washington always wins. but -- >> yeah. >> but you know, mark, what does the white house do? what does the white house do? you know what? they have been sort of saying, you know, you all, you 24/7 cable people. >> so much to learn. >> you dont understand. >> oh, joe. >> i can tell you that the torches are being fired at mt. olympus and the brush u...

There seems to be a lack of trust i guess between the white house and congressional democrats. >> running for re-election is the most personal decision. anybody naks. if you look back at the the last time we had this many retirements. of course, we have retirements in both parties. i mean, we keep seeing these republicans retire out of nowhere as well but then the house. but its a personal decision. you have to separate out the personal decision each of these people have made and then you have t...

The weapons there. so some big developments in afghanistan and definitely a lot at stake here for the u.s. and the afghan people. want to talk now with matthew hough. he saw combat duty in iraq as a marine corps captain and later as a civilian, working for the state department in afghanistan. he resigned last july to protest u.s. policy which he argued was fueling the insurgency. matthew joins us from washington. thank you, sir. listen, is this offensive that we have been talking about, this for...

Its going to be a lot of turnover in november, is it? >> yeah. patrick kennedy, his announcement the other day, hes the fourth member of the house to say im not running next year. thats four just in the last couple days. all together, t.j., as of right now, as of last count, it keeps changing. i think there are about 31 members of congress that are either not going to run -- or members of the house who are not going to run for their seats or higher office. thats a lot of vacancies. a lot of this...

Number within employee from fulfilling its appointments. president obama an°ing -- addressing the democratic national committee. telling dnc members it was good to be among friends. the president highlighting some of his administrations accomplish s. he also did acknowledge what he thought lied behind his sagging poll numbers. he even managed to get in a shot at republicans in the process. >> the president: when unemployment is 9.7%, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary r...

Fulfilling its appointments. president obama an°ing -- addressing the democratic national committee. telling dnc members it was good to be among friends. the president highlighting some of his administrations accomplish s. he also did acknowledge what he thought lied behind his sagging poll numbers. he even managed to get in a shot at republicans in the process. >> the president: when unemployment is 9.7%, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary recession, people are gonna b...

Monolithically -- >> do you think it is possible, ron, susan, you dont remember this except you learn it had in school, i will ask you the first question, sometimes a party is on a roll to victory and they just signal something too whacky and scary, like spiro agnew in 70, headed to huge victories in the 70 midterm, the nixon party, agnew sounded crazy and they lost a lot of the race these could have won otherwise. cot republicans suffer from overkill with the tea party crowd? >> i mean, i think...