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That time. bill: speaking of health care, by my count he spent about four minutes on it. and the first mention of the affordable care act, came 39 minutes in. did you pick up on that? >> well, he knows it is not going well. he was trying to keep the democrats together on that, but i think even put them in a worse position. the democrats all stood up and applauded. if you're some of those senators up for tough reelections and you voted for that, you don't want to talk about obamacare and you definitely don't want that president in your state campaigning about it. it is going to remind the publi...

Tea party rally, city hall. the next election is 20 months away. the last thing we need is washington d.c. vetting our candidates. >> i would not be in the u.s. senate today if it were not for governor sarah palin. >> so governor sarah palin tea party, a force with political punch in 2014? >> u, yeah. my hope is that she deploys that influence effectively. it's one thing to endorse ted cruz, my senator from texas, in a republican primary in a safe state. it's another thing to go in and state campaigning actively for people in general elections. i hope she brings her influence to bear in campai...

Pennsylvania hasn't voted republican since george h.w. bush. polls show him trailing president obama by as much as 11 points. the latest poll puts the score at 54 to 43. is pennsylvania in play? let's bring in former pennsylvania governor ed rendell who knows pennsylvania like no other. welcome. >> hi, alex. >> we want to talk about the fund-raiser. it's been on the governor's schedule for a while. he's not been in your state campaigning since mid-summer, so why now? >> i don't think they intended to have this rally, but i think the pennsylvania state republican party pressured them into havin...

this morning, authorities stop a pilot they say was just about to pilot they say was just about to fly his airliner drunk. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we start this evening with the so-called underwear bomber. he'll spend life in prison for trying to blow up a plane on christmas day 2009. we all remember it so well. but this is what the blast could have looked like if he had succeeded. >> 2, 1. >> wow. that's a re-enactment from federal officials. but thankfully the bomb fizzled in real life. our deb fehrik was in the courtroom today. deb, how did he react when that very ...

gaby gifford. that tragedy is being remembered in many different ways. giffords made her first appearance at her tucson office honoring her aide gabe zimmerman who was killed. and part of a hiking trail was renamed for him, as well. today in memory of the victims, trees will be planted for peace. tomorrow an interfaith church service. also a candle light vigil at the university of arizona which giffords is scheduled to attend. and a disturbing story out of connecticut. police there say a paramedic raped a woman as she lay on a stretcher in an ambulance. police say the unconscious...