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Children social security numbers because that's, quote, how they track you. this is a guy that says things that offend voters. terry mcauliffe, it looks like he's going to walk into this thing because of cuchinelli. and i speak from knowledge because newt gingrich and the republican establishment worked against me because they thought i was too conservative to win my district. how do you sort through it? >> who's the poster child for this? it's congressman akin, todd akin, who lost the seat in missouri. the day akin won the primary, every republican i know in the house said, this guy will neve...

Thank you. michael o'hanlon and jonathan landay. elections have consequences, i say it all the time. and the democrats are feeling emboldened. they want to see taxes go up on the rich. they want to protect programs like medicare and medicaid. will they give president obama room to negotiate some kind of deal that gets through this hell coming january 1st. they say they won, the other side lost, they're going to fight. plus democrats are moving to end the so-called silent filibuster which republicans have used to quietly say if you don't have 60 votes, you ain't going nowhere. this is the b...

Worried -- >> what's their problem? it seems good politics to vote for that. why would they vote against their interests? why are republicans so hard-nosed about this? what is it? >> i think it's the same problem they had, frankly, with a extreme position congressman akin expressed is that rape victims should not be entitled to get the morning-after pill. there's a core of the republican party that wants to drag this country to the edge of the world. and meanwhile, like the violence against women act -- >> i'm just glad you got one to run against you. senator, i'm glad you found one to run aga...

>> you know, when the nazis shut down the american films in occupied france in world war ii, they said no more american and british movies, that was the movie that the theater managers ran again and again as the last free movie, the last movie about freedom. anyway, thank you, senator jeff merkley and jonathan weisman of the new york times. up next, senator claire mccaskill won re-election this year by beating the odds. of course, we all followed that race. she also had the luck of running against todd akin, but she'll be back with us, as she should be, in just a moment. and this is "hardbal...

Like medicare and medicaid. will they give president obama room to negotiate some kind of deal that gets through this hell coming january 1st. they say they won, the other side lost, they're going to fight. plus democrats are moving to end the so-called silent filibuster which republicans have used to quietly say if you don't have 60 votes, you ain't going nowhere. this is the big question, if they're successful, it's possible, it's possible the democrats will be able to get some things done. we'll talk about that in a minute. they're going to be just like jimmy stewart finally. they're goin...