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Club for growth, the tea party. the major policy difference between cochrane and the challenger, their views on what to to with federal fund iing. cochrane has a track record of funneling federal dollars from 2008 to 2010 alone he secured . 2.6 billion in earmarks for projects in mississippi. that was before the earmark ban, a tea party concoction which he opposed. he used to be really good at this. and assuredly that contributed to the fact that mississippi gets nearly half of its general revenue from federal dollars, the most of any state in the country. mcdaniel's supporters attacked cochra...

Is talking about republicans as though they work well with democrats right now in the first place. i mean, that's ridiculous on its face. but, you know, i would have personally liked to have seen the tea party break off. i think what they've done for the republican party has been really detrimental. i think the big thing here that no one is really latching on to is earmarks and the effect of earmarks. they've been a part of own country's history since its beginning. where you have a case like eric cantor, who's the first majority leader we have seen since the earmark ban, had a very hard time ...

Objection. >> you find the violation of the senate earmark ban. the american people really expect you to live up to it. others argue the request be directly from the executive branch which is bound by the self-imposed earmark ban. because it never went through the pros tess cess it doesn't m earmark. the back door move by the administration and is pledging full opposition by the appropriations committee. supporters of the deal say there have been bipartisan support and several republicans including john manzulo. senator dirk durbin says senator deserves credit for getting a deal done. >> he re...

>> they could right after the election by executive order, they could do this. what they're doing here violates the law. you have never had a reprogramming of $165 million earmark, never been done. and yet they've done it. alisyn: how do you know this'll be used for gitmo prisoners? >> well, you could then put the people into supermax in colorado in thomson and then move the people from guantanamo there. the president's goal was to shut down guantanamo bay and move the prisoners here. this gives him a good opportunity to do it, particularly right after the election. alisyn: you're a congressma...

Longest serving members in the united states senate. after six terms, indiana republican richard luger is in the fight for his life. with two weeks to go. polls show him running neck and neck with his opponent. richard mordock that has the support of tea party groups and the national rifle association. now assistant editor of the opinion journal and has been covering the race for us. alicia, what is the case that mordock and the tea party groups are making against senator luger? >> he says he is part of the establishment and it's time to get him out. >> paul: what are issues that they are citi...