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When you say that, thats what i mean. overall, so you view him as sort of he is the leader of the republican party, the face of the party? >> yes, i heard in the earlier segment talking about michael steele. im sure hes a factor as chairman of the republican national convention. -- committee. but im just looking at my race and not worrying about what the republicans are doing. we have tremendous challenges here in rhode island. high unemployment and a big budget deficit. so thats where im buttin...

Welcome back to "hardball." in honor of independence day, we wanted to look at the political independent. the time could be right. in the may nbc/"wall street journal" poll, nearly a third said the two-party system was seriously broken and even said that the country needs a third party. in our most recent poll, nearly half said if theyre enthusiastic or comfortable running as an independent candidate. they both join us now. happy independence day. senator chaffee, im going to start with you. wha...

So we save those cities and towns from having to raise their property taxes or make drastic cuts such as cutting sports in schools. that just happened in one of our communities here in rhode island, all sports were cut. in one of our communities as a result of passing down the state problems to the cities and towns. so im not opposed to that. >> senator chaffee is, former republican turned independent, treasurer kay had i, former democrat turned independent. well be following your races very clo...

>> everywhere. we have to tackle our health care problem. weve got to pare down our transportation expenditures. we probably got to put more money back to cities and towns right now. until we grow our economy. so much of our revenue is dependent on employment. and until we put people back to work, were not going to be able to spend as much as we have in the past or even meet our obligations. >> senator chaffee, same question to you. are you prepared to lay people off from the state if you cant -...