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President bush 43s tenure. theres personal a new standard now, which is to not confirm a supreme court nominee at all. i think thats something the american people will simply not tolerate and well be looking forward to receiving a supreme court nomination and moving forward on it. >> reporter: the insurance question -- >> reporter: senator, on cabinet nominations, do you intend to meet -- >> mitch mcconnell taking questions from reporters after mike pence, you can see over his shoulder, came out...

Legitimate tea party challenger. the battle between longtime congressman mike simpson and his tea party challenger bryan smith attracted an unbelievable amount of outside spending. through millions of the tea party groups that bet big on bryan smith. republicans thought they had the perfect candidate the in a pediatric neurosurgery and believed to have a real shot of revelations that two different men, an ex-husband and ex-boyfriend accused her of stocking and harassment. joining me now the sena...

>> joining me now senator editor for the new republican. can you translate what rick santorum just said? somewhere -- >> my short answer is no, i cant. my longer answer is this is what you would get if you had the single payer system. this idea that the government is in charge of everything and in a conservative view, thats somehow bad. the problem is we have this moderate compromise plan which layers into the health care markets. about a third do get it from some sort of government program. the...

A right wing freak out. >> and theres more coming here. >> if we have a system where the government is going to be the provider, principle provider of health care for the country, were done. >> here we go. rick santorum. >> once you have people getting free health care from the government you cant take it away from them. the reason is that most people dont get sick. its free until you get sick. if you get sick and you dont get health care you die and so you dont vote. its actually a pretty cleve...

Releasing his taxes but mitt romney was doing it out of princip principle. this is an issue of doing one thing and saying another. >> another case of him saying one thing and doing another. doesnt seem to matter how many years go by, romneys still the same secretive candidate he was nearly two decades ago. joining me now is jonathan corn, senator editor of the new republic. and ana marie cox for the guardian. thanks to both of you being here tonight. >> nice to be here. >> jonathan, why is the h...