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Tea party candidate is added to the mix. the democratic candidate would win with 36% of the vote, the republican would get 25% and 15% would go to the tea party candidate. in other words, the tea party could be spoilers for republicans. a baboon is making a monkey out of officials in florida. the monkey has been running wild in the woods between tampa and st. petersburg. he's outsmarting his captors. an update on the chase. >> reporter: the guy behind me was captured, a baboon in the slammer, as it were. he apparently didn't get word from the expert, a monkey roaming the area and causing hav...

Required under reconciliation rules. after that comes the rapid-fire votes. that's when republicans will try to wreak havoc with the process throwing in dozens of amendments designed to slow things down and embarrass democrats. nbc's luke russert is live on capitol hill with the latest. luke. >> reporter: well, david, about nine out of those 20 hours have gone through and been debated. harry reid is now taken back the democrat seven hours, essentially eight republican hours for the debate. republicans offering all sorts of interesting amendments. john mccain offered one yesterday to give away ...

Buy viagra or other performance enhancing drugs off of the health exchange programs, david. >> the idea here being, look, by making these so attractive to democrats they can pick-off enough they can essentially changed the language that passed the house and gum up the process. >> essentially what they want is for one of these amendments to pass. why? that changes the fix it bill. that means it would have to go back to the house for another vote. a small change but would have to go back and pro longs the process. steny hoyer said he's prepared to keep the house in session. they will be around h...

Pollster doing this. you use some highly charged words, racist, hitler, dictatorial powers. >> we wanted to find how many believed these things. the reason we did this poll, a new book came out called "wingnuts" where he talked to a lot of people who hold these beliefs. i was flabbergasted when i saw the book and said let's find how many people agree with the positions. that's why we did the poll. i'm glad to say we did it before anybody else thought to do it. >> interesting numbers and a controversial poll. in any case, we appreciate you coming on this morning. thank you. >> my pleasure. than...

Methodology but found something like 38% of republicans think that president obama is doing some of the things that hitler did. do you believe that the numbers are that high? what do you make of some of the views on the republican right? >> i think it's sad and disappointing. in a democracy we need to disagree. we can do that civilly. the leadership who have been responsible for sowing those kinds of information and confusion among people and spreading hate and bigotry really need to take some responsibility for changing that. a democracy can only survive if we can discuss issues and appreciat...