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The bottom of the hour. president obama called congressman stupak this week urging him not to retire. you may know this, congressman stupak is the prolife democrat who switched his vote at the 11th hour after getting abortion agreement from president obama. he brought along a whole block of votes and it pushed health care reform over the finish line. steve, when did stupak make this decision? >> we don't know everything about the tile line on this. we do know there's a regular deliberation process, we spoke yesterday with his wife, laurie stupak who said bi-annually they take a look at whether...

Went out and said the pod ul and banners around it were covered with sponsors. the congressional report says rangel will have to pay back the money and so will the five members who went with him on that junket but the report found other lawmakers and staff didn't know about the funding so ethically they're in the clear, bill. bill: this involves a trip to the carribean with a private company which is against the rules in the house but this is a small part of what the ethics committee is looking into, is it not? >> you're right, big ones are under review and hanging over the head of this man wh...

We remember hearing admiral mike mullen released by the families of the military, a large scale survey that was done that said they don't believe that repealing this would have any significant effect on the efficiency of our military in action in afghanistan and iraq and elsewhere. we're going to come back when president obama steps to the pod ul and begins that sign that. also marine staff sergeant eric alba, wounded in the iraq war, he's a huge proponent of that appeal. we'll watch when that happens. in tough economic times are americans moving to states that have lower taxes? wait until y...

Closed doors sharply criticized robert gibbs for saying that republicans could win control of the house of representatives in november, which of course would put nancy pelosi out of a speaker position. yesterday, gibbs clarified those comments. listen to this: >> i think i stated the obvious, april. i think that the democratic party will be invigorated by the choice and the discussion that will be had over the course of the next several months. i don't think we have anything to be disspiritted about. martha: dana perino stood in robert gibbs' spot as she served as george w. bush's press secret...