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Think we're expecting the ambulance drivers, say, can you show us your form of payment before we take you to the hospital? >> reporter: senate majority leader harry reid was asked yesterday about the idea of amendments, pay-fors in terms of what the senate is working on at this point. he says he is willing to take a look at them if they're serious. it is not clear whether he thinks some of the new ideas are being brought northward today are indeed serious -- forward. jenna. jenna: mike emanuel live at the capitol. thank you. jon: this midterm election year kicks off with the obama administrati...

Joe manchin think they really have a good senator there. i'm not sure that is a bad example. there's a threshold issue here. you don't get elected from the senate by any state saying i'm going to attack your industry. something you really care about. the key, however, for again the allison grimes or anti-mitch mcconnell campaign which is really what we're talking about here is, okay, she's got to be good enough on the existing industry and then what is it mitch mcconnell has done for appalachia and those folks living in central kentucky who are having so much economic trouble? he wants to brag...

E-mails. >> what are the consequence. we are not near the election. >> it is time off the clock. >> it is exactly that. >> time off the clock matters. >> if you get your forces aligned properly, if you light a fire under the members with the kind of communication harry is talking about, you can make things happen. what bothers me is a sense of fatigue about trying, thinking new ways. >> we are going to continue more about one of the bright, shining objects that is sort of making news. when we come back, we will talk about that latest bright, shiny object. joan, jonathan, ari, please stay with ...

>> but they found nothing. there was no improper actions. >> and so i made the point. i can't remember who was who this was. this seems to be what we do when the economy is good in this country. >> we'll talk about sex any time. >> i'm not taking the blame for this story. >> i'm with you. i don't know what this is really about besides sex and frankly, i don't want to talk about it. >> it's the media's new shiny object. there's sex, there's spies, and important people. but there's nothing there beyond sex. >> i'm sure as the investigations continue, this might come up again. we'll have to see. ...

That have been launched on the drudge report. so again, not casting dispurgss, but why do this the night before the debate? >> all of the discussion, all of the speculation in the political media is about how high the stakes are for mitt romney tomorrow night. so it changes the subject a little bit. it's a bright, shiny object. it diverts attention away from the huge expectations that he has. mitt romney's lost control pr an expectations perspective to reality. he's behind in the race. he has to have a good debate performance to begin to close the gap to get back in the race and to get ahead o...