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ties to the terrorist group in afghanistan. top officials have indicated this week that there is evidence that pakistans intelligence agency is supporting what is called the haqqani network and now going one step further saying they believe that the support is coming from the agencies highest ranks. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by with the latest. barbara, a lot at stake right now, and what are the officials saying? >> well, wolf, pakistan is supposed to be one ...

The attention of political cartoonists. take a look. here is running with scissors, that version. ouch if youre watching at home and thinking the same thing i am and even more topical than gop medicare debacle meets the hangover part two. look at the tatoo there. all right. so lets turn to msnbc contributor e.j. dionne, also a "the washington post" columnist and senior fellow at the brookings institution. e.j., good to have you on tonight. we want to get straight to it because we mentioned paul ...

>> as to congressman ryans plan overall, i think that in general the direction of it is positive, but i will have my own plan. and so we are going to have some differences. the medicare plan which will have out shortly and not too distant future will have some difference, and we will be speaking about payment reform, and paying providers and not just for volume, but for quality and results as part of the compensation. we will be offering a variety of choices to people who can choose to stay in t...

Have to start, and get this out there and get this thing moving. >> we will talk about it. >> yes, i will give you a call. great. thanks. >> gene, 2that is the eaves dropped sound bite of total defeat, and now he is saying that you know you have to put something out there and do something to get it started. and whenever they start to talk about going wobbly, and this is not the time to go wobbly, you know that everyone is going wobbly. >> yes, and he is saying to hold the line, and meanwhile, ti...

Listen to what president clinton said, dont misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i dont dont believe the new york race was on the ryan proposal. >> well...

And so far they are not doing anything. i should listen to what president clinton said. dont misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i dont dont believe th...

>> medicare is arguably the most important and most beloved federal program we have. tea party rally, you go to the tea party rally, huge percentage of tea party ralliers on medicare, all sorts of things. you have scott brown, politics of medicare, a pretty good example of whats happening this year happened yesterday in buffalo. scott brown announces three weeks ago he sort of likes the ryan proposal, thinks he might be inclined to vote for it. goes home a lot, gets home, changes his mind, hes n...

Republicans dont really trust him because he has flip flopped on abortion and some other questions and he used up all of his flip flop vouchers so he couldnt flip flop on the health care ban faith date in massachusetts. i think these republicans are like that line about vauger ins music, it is better than it sounds. and i think these guys are probably better than they look. but the republicans have set up this sort of commission on orthodox and if you hold any position that violates where the pa...

This sort of commission on orthodox and if you hold any position that violates where the party, where conservatives want the party to be you have to change it. so pawlenty used to believe in doing something about global warming. before he didnt. romney has his change. newt gingrich said on medicare, this ryan proposal was a bad idea. his problem is he took the position prematurely because after tonight and that district 26th district race i think a lot of republicans will say newt was right afte...

What was it? >> well, what it was, is kathy hochul, gifted public ser venlt, incredible person with a passion to go to congress to represent working families. the ryan budget played right into her hands in that they tried to pass a budget in the middle of this campaign that took health care away from senior citizens. kathy hochul jumped on that immediately, attacked it. her opponent embraced the ryan proposal. hochul chastised her, criticized her and said she would never do that and tonight she ...