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Time to be attacking him. it may come at a later point if he decides to run for president or he's on the ticket for vice president in 2012. >> stuart: were you as surprised as i was to esee the treasury secretary of the united states of america responding directly to a very new senator and junior senator at that from massachusetts? >> yes. in a word, yes. you don't respond to a lightweight. you respond to someone you think is a threat. >> stuart: larry sabato, uva center for politics. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. try this. $200, a dog and a $600,000 prize. meet the guy who made ...

>> and the president's remarks come two days after he told a dnc fund-raiser that health reform efforts in congress might die. new today, toyota's preparing to fix the brakes on thousands of its hybrid prius cars. now, this is unrelated to the current recalls that spurred on by the gas pedal problems. some prius owners are reporting a delay between the time that they hit the brakes and the time the car actually stops. the "associated press" says toyota sent an e-mail to its dealers giving them a heads-up that it will make the announcement next week, but here we are going public with it. and ...

>> they are. the big three have announced programs in terms of cash back and apr financing incentives for toyota owners who want to bring in their vehicles. so, they're being pretty aggressive, and local dealers have actually started some veiled, thinly veiled, i should say, safety advertisements going directly after toyota. >> okay. from edmunds.com, john giamalvo. john, thanks. >> thank you. >> we will continue our coverage of the mid-atlantic storm with a look at a city that's taken a big hit. stay with us. you're watching "msnbc saturday." having a heart attack. i remember being at the hos...

In and having them upgraded. >> okay. a braking program can be fixed how? they're saying just a software program change, is that what it is? >> it is. these hybrid vehicles tend to have the braking system is based on software that actually tells the brakes to engage, and what consumers are feeling is that there's a little bit of a delay from when they're actually pressing on the brake to when they're engaging. so, it needs to be done with the software. >> okay. there is an article on "the washington post" right now today, this morning, on how the government and how independent companies rate v...

The pruxz issues are affecting prices, and they're affecting prices on foreign cars, on the domestic cars, just about every make and model, unfortunately. it's also a reduction in the incentive that is you see this time of year, and, unfortunately, edmonds.com says prices could continue to escalate over the course of the summer. >> if you want to buy a new car, what do you do, wait? >> wait. wait until the production issues are back at full capacity, and the experts are telling me that that will happen perhaps in the fall, maybe late summer. if you are in the market for a new car, normally thi...