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Government. >> rand paul's tea party politics resonated with republican.voters. in may, he soundly defeated his gop primary opponent, kind secretary of state trey grayson. the candidate backed by the republican establishment. >> i have a message, a message from the tea party. a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. we've come to take our government back. >> but is paul ready for primetime? his philosophical commitment to keeping the government out of private business proved difficult to defend when faced with rachel maddow's questions about the 1964 civil rights act. >> do y...

. >> i think we both believe in very limited constitutional government, that government should be much smaller. you know if we obeyed the constitution and we only worked under enumerated powers we'd have a much, much smaller government. >> rand paul's tea party politics resonated with republican.voters. in may, he soundly defeated his gop primary opponent, kind secretary of state trey grayson. the candidate backed by the republican establishment. >> i have a message, a message from the tea party. a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. we've come to take our government back....

We're going to have to take this case to the people. we find that there has been some give on republican leadership in the last day or so on regulation of wall street in the face of tremendous public pressure. and i think that's what it's going to take to get a reasonable approach on this one. >> senator specter, your primary opponent last night was on this program, joe sestak. he says that you've been ducking him in debates. are you going to debate him? is that true? do you think it's not necessary? where do you stand on that? >> well, it is not true. we had a debate, a democratic and state c...

From a short time ago. eleven people killed. the crash on interstate 65 both directions, cave city exit. half an hour north of bowling green, 90 miles to the southwest of lexington. coroner from several surrounding counties are headed to the scene. again, 11 killed in this large crash on interstate 65 in kentucky. we will bring you updates as they become available. in arizona today, it will be deja vu all over again. this afternoon sarah palin will reunite with john mccain in arizona to give the senators re-election campaign a political surge against a tough primary opponent. msnbc's chief w...

Do you think this is about the primary fight? >> he doesn't have a major primary opponent. tom is a slam dunk to be the republican nominee. frankly, at this stage, probably the favorite to become the next governor. he's always been a fairly moderate person in his approach to things. again, he is too good a lawyer to file this suit. i will tell you that i think this tactic that the republicans are taking, filing the suits, people promising, former congressmen toome said he vowed to repeal the health care reform act. they would have to pick up 113 seats to have the power to repeal the health car...