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All of the candidates from last night's debate agree with the essential principles of grover norquist's american anti-american tax pledge and i will explain why that pledge is un-american and why some republicans are now trying to get out of it. that is in the re-write. later on, the week in campaign comedy. evices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't jus...

To 2008, he later tried to clarify saying that he shared the concern that he didn't think there was a benefit in seeing taxes being raised on american families, but the comment struck a lot of folks, not just in the press corps, but capitol hill. not to mention that yesterday a letter was circulated by jim demint trying to get 31 signature, securing the norquist pledge. >> just a random person. luke russert, thanks very much indeed. that is a live picture. we are waiting on a statement any minute from the attorney of one of herman cain's accusers. stay with us. we will bring it to you live. [ ...

Norquist's influence on the party. >> grover norquist was on the hill this morning, is he a positive influence on your conference? >> our focus here is on jobs. we're doing everything we can to get our economy moving and get people back to work. it's not often i'm asked about some random person in america and what i think. >> is he a random person, though? to your conference, is grover norquist a random person? >> our focus is on creating jobs, not talking about somebody's personality. >> all republicans sitting on the supercommittee have signed the norquist pledge. but boehner said his party ...

On various tax pledge that's have been put out there that are probably going to have to revisit those. look, in my view, tax reform, as long as we do it in a way that doesn't raise taxes on people in this country, that perhaps generates more revenue, i think it would if in fact you were lowering tax rates and broadening the tax base in this country, you create more economic activity that, is a good thing for the country and the economy. i think there are a lot of members of congress up here notwithstanding anything that they've signed in the past that would say if we can generate more governme...