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Past tomorrow night's shutdown deadline. joining me now is democratic senator tim conrad of north dakota. he's chairman of the senate budget committee. good to have you with me. both senators reid and mcconnell said earlier that they were optimistic they could come to a deal in the next few hours. explain to us what's changed and are you hopeful that those two men are right? >> yeah, i am hopeful things are moving in the right direction. sometimes when you stare into the abyss, it has a way of sobering everybody up. it's been a curious 24 hours with republicans in the senate not wanting to vot...

>> joining me now, democratic strategist and msnbc contributor, crystal ball and robert trainham. crystal, robert, what is your reaction to giuliani's opinion that romney is more of an elitist than gingrich? >> mayor giuliani has interesting points. as someone that ran for president in 2008, he does have some perspective. however, at the end of the day, when you look at the tendency of overall republican voters, they want president obama defeated no matter who the republican nominee is going to be. if in fact mitt romney is going to be the nominee which i think he's very much in the ...

>> joining me now, democratic strategist and msnbc contributor, crystal ball and robert trainham. crystal, robert, what is your reaction to giuliani's opinion that romney is more of an elitist than gingrich? >> mayor giuliani has interesting points. as someone that ran for president in 2008, he does have some perspective. however, at the end of the day, when you look at the tendency of overall republican voters, they want president obama defeated no matter who the republican nominee is going to be. if in fact mitt romney is going to be the nominee which i think he's very much in the ...

plus a day camp turns into a night mare. a freak accident sends several kids to the hospital. we begin with the story everyone is talking about, this extreme heat. thanks for joining us at 10:00 i'm laura evans. >> and i'm shawn yancy live outside the fox 5 studios where you can guess it is hot out here. even though the sun has gone down at 10:00 at night, it is still a sticky 83 degrees outside, and guess what, it's just going to get worse as the week goes on. we're not even into the thick of it. sue palka joins me outside. sue when i came outside from the air conditioner inside, ...

nuclear complex. scary stuff. it's tuesday, june 28, 2011. i'm chuck todd. let's start with iowa iowa wau. $48 hour we're in the middle of it. put the question to rest. it's crowded in the hawkeye state. president makes his first visit to the quad cities since he took office and his first visit to iowa in a year. he'll speak in a davenport plant. as republicans were quit kwik to point out monday, iowa has lost 9700 manufacturing jobs since the president took office but quad cities is doing well, though unemployment in the area is still above the 6% state wide average. guess who els...