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Payroll? press one for yes and two for no. ill bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is the director of the democratic governors association. nathan, it appears that fox news is your opposition. what are you going to do about that? >> you hit the nail on the head. what is arguably the most important election in generation, this is a growth violation of the whole notion of an independent media. i mean, this would be similar to the super bowl referee betting on the outcome. ...

Go miles and miles for fresh fruit and vegetables. lets focus on that instead of beating up on the president or his wife. >> its not beating up on anybody. when you inject yourself into one of the most contentious debates of the last 15 years, which is frankly, what this whole fitness/health initiative ends up doing for michelle obama. thats fine if thats what you want to do. but when you do that you better be prepared, mark to have your ideas and your view points tested in the public arena. its...

Complacency from being in office that long. megyn: maybe we are wrong. maybe senator kerry is doing everything on the up and up and you just have to have a $7 million yacht to understand the system. >> yeah. i wish i knew. megyn: i gotta run. i wish i knew too. educate me, john! all right, thanks, nancy. what do you think? i mean, what do you think about it? do you think its a double standard? they are investigating charlie rangel, so theres that. and john kerry did get outed by the media if, in...

This is one of those issues where both sides feel very passionately their view points will play better politically in november. lets look at this brawl and what is going on here. the bush tax cuts in their present form expire the first day of the year in 2011. that means there needs to be a complete overhauling. democrats want to pass roughly about 80% of those tax cuts. th they went directly to the middle class. they want the ones for families over $250,000 spifrmt republicans say you cant let ...

The white house. it didnt go too well. what changed yesterday? >> i think theres an underlying relationship there that people dont appreciate. we have our ups and downs. people focus on the downs and the downs are exaggerated and sometimes distorted. but there is ups and theres a basic bedrock of identification, common values between israel and the united states. the president gives it expression. i give it expression. and yesterdays meeting gave it expression. i think there is a solidity of tie...

About the popularity of this war. and, truly, it is obamas war even though it was started during the last administration. obama said, this is the good war and hes expanding the war and the american people arent with him. >> reporter: so two republicans, two different view points on what mr. steele said. we did ask the white house this morning if they had any opinion. theyre not saying anything yet. and thats almost predictable because, after all, its not a bad position to be in to look at republ...

States actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. >> open steele trap, insert foot. steele has been getting lambasted left and right since the comments came out. lets talk it over with our cnn foreign affairs correspondent. >> that video is interesting with that little camera and what he said. he backtracked but he has been catching a lot of flack. initially it was coming from commentators, bill kristol, influential conservative commentator, liz cheney, people like that. but now its moved into ...

Sara is quietly pro pot. everyone knows that when you make a bond you have to have a carb hole and the only way to do that is drill by drill. and then -- >> you know way too much about this. >> i am with you. >> thank god this thing runs at 2:00 in the morning. >> it is at 2:00? >> this is a rumor about you, that you were once a living, breathing deadhead following the grateful dead, is that true? is that true of you? >> listen, governor, you are a base player. i want to know where i can score s...

Plus, in todays "crossing the line" tase mania. two sports fans tased in less than a week. first during a baseball game and now on the golf course. a "crossing the line" live debate. are some going a little tase crazy here? we begin with the nomination of solicitor general elena kagan to the supreme court making the announcement this morning. president obama praised kagans legal mind and her history of being fair to all parties. >> elena is respected and admired not just for her intellect and ...

Truck was rented. they emerge with a description of the renter, robert cling, a tall, white male with a military buzz cut. down the street at the dreamland motel, the manager tells agents that the kling description resembles a man who had just stayed there the day before, a guest registered under the name tim mcveigh. the question remains, why would he use his real name? its turning out mcveigh has left clues everywhere. >> you have to realize that inside that marquee was a big thick, brown enve...