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The bottom of the hour. president obama called congressman stupak this week urging him not to retire. you may know this, congressman stupak is the prolife democrat who switched his vote at the 11th hour after getting abortion agreement from president obama. he brought along a whole block of votes and it pushed health care reform over the finish line. steve, when did stupak make this decision? >> we dont know everything about the tile line on this. we do know theres a regular deliberation process...

Went out and said the pod ul and banners around it were covered with sponsors. the congressional report says rangel will have to pay back the money and so will the five members who went with him on that junket but the report found other lawmakers and staff didnt know about the funding so ethically theyre in the clear, bill. bill: this involves a trip to the carribean with a private company which is against the rules in the house but this is a small part of what the ethics committee is looking in...

We remember hearing admiral mike mullen released by the families of the military, a large scale survey that was done that said they dont believe that repealing this would have any significant effect on the efficiency of our military in action in afghanistan and iraq and elsewhere. were going to come back when president obama steps to the pod ul and begins that sign that. also marine staff sergeant eric alba, wounded in the iraq war, hes a huge proponent of that appeal. well watch when that happe...

Closed doors sharply criticized robert gibbs for saying that republicans could win control of the house of representatives in november, which of course would put nancy pelosi out of a speaker position. yesterday, gibbs clarified those comments. listen to this: >> i think i stated the obvious, april. i think that the democratic party will be invigorated by the choice and the discussion that will be had over the course of the next several months. i dont think we have anything to be disspiritted ab...