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So if i had given less than 10%, then i think people would have to look at me and say, hey,ve what's wrong with you? don't you follow through on your promises?el >> chris: finally, sir, i want to tal k about the debates because again, this is just myhi perception. you seem particularly i this lat week, to have shownen a tendency to get irritated when you're g challenged. let me put up some of the clips from the debates. >> answer the question first [ applause ] >> we have plenty of time. i'll get there. i'll do it in the order i want to do. >> governor romney, questions whether you're genuinel...

>> let me take the first question first. explain why npr should get funding. we're talking about the cop ration for public broadcasting. it's bigger than npr. npr is a series of member station but also about public television. and it's about small stations in particular and what was stated by ron schulyer was an opinion and quickly turned into fact that npr could live without public funding. it's not an established fact. one in five member stations receive 25% of their budget from npr. people don't have access to news because a lot of news station and radio have fallen away. take the state of ...

Groups of republican activists last month and they see in mitt romney the ingredients that they are looking for for somebody take on the economy. they think he has the experience to do that. he fits that mold. but they are not sure they trust him. i think it is a hang over from the last campaign and the minute he gets in to this and voters begin to size him up that's the question they will be asking themselves. do i trust this person. >> michele, i want to ask you about another topic at the organization you work at. you signed a letter basically denouncing what some of these executives did at ...

You signed a letter basically denouncing what some of these executives did at npr, the stuff that was caught on tape. explain why or why not npr should get federal funding at this point. and, frankly, are you expecting that you'll be looking at where they will not have it? >> let me take the first question first. explain why npr should get funding. a lot of people want to make this about npr, we are talking about the national corporation for public broadcasting. it's bigger than npr. npr is a series of member stations, but it's also about public television and it's about smaller stations in pa...

Agents would continue working, however non-essential federal employees would not be working. in addition, passport applications would go unprocessed. there's all these moving parts of the government that will have to stand still. will tell you politically, neither democrats nor republicans want to see that happen. >> let's talk about the lead story. we spent most of the first block covering wisconsin and how it is shaping the 2012 race now, mark. will voters respond to the gop hard line against collective bargaining. is president obama doing undercover to back unions, the democrats bread-and-b...