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So if i had given less than 10%, then i think people would have to look at me and say, hey,ve whats wrong with you? dont you follow through on your promises?el >> chris: finally, sir, i want to tal k about the debates because again, this is just myhi perception. you seem particularly i this lat week, to have shownen a tendency to get irritated when youre g challenged. let me put up some of the clips from the debates. >> answer the question first [ applause ] >> we have plenty of time. ill get th...

>> let me take the first question first. explain why npr should get funding. were talking about the cop ration for public broadcasting. its bigger than npr. npr is a series of member station but also about public television. and its about small stations in particular and what was stated by ron schulyer was an opinion and quickly turned into fact that npr could live without public funding. its not an established fact. one in five member stations receive 25% of their budget from npr. people dont h...

Groups of republican activists last month and they see in mitt romney the ingredients that they are looking for for somebody take on the economy. they think he has the experience to do that. he fits that mold. but they are not sure they trust him. i think it is a hang over from the last campaign and the minute he gets in to this and voters begin to size him up thats the question they will be asking themselves. do i trust this person. >> michele, i want to ask you about another topic at the organ...

You signed a letter basically denouncing what some of these executives did at npr, the stuff that was caught on tape. explain why or why not npr should get federal funding at this point. and, frankly, are you expecting that youll be looking at where they will not have it? >> let me take the first question first. explain why npr should get funding. a lot of people want to make this about npr, we are talking about the national corporation for public broadcasting. its bigger than npr. npr is a seri...

Agents would continue working, however non-essential federal employees would not be working. in addition, passport applications would go unprocessed. theres all these moving parts of the government that will have to stand still. will tell you politically, neither democrats nor republicans want to see that happen. >> lets talk about the lead story. we spent most of the first block covering wisconsin and how it is shaping the 2012 race now, mark. will voters respond to the gop hard line against co...

Happen. >> lets talk about the lead story. we spent most of the first block in this broadcast covering the wisconsin and how it is shaping the 2012 race now, mark. thats what i want to talk to you about. will voters respond to the gop hard line against collective bargaining and is president obama doing enough to back unions, the democrats bread and butter? 2007 he said if the union was ever out on -- had issues, id be the first one out there on the picket lines with them. he hasnt been out there...