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Squarely in the eye of the U.S. political hurricane, Minnesota’s junior senator calmly, steadily, and resolutely persists.

There are no more ear marks and right wing blogospheres to monitor everything. >> robert, it strikes me that boehner does understand how to defensively deal with these guys. >> right. >> but he has not yet figured out how to corral them. is that right? >> i think that's fair. he is temperamentally suited for this better than anybody else. i think anybody else would wake up screaming trying to figure out how to herd the cats. and he comes up to ralph hall and says, now we can't herd the cats anymore. and you do feel like from time to time when the freshmen and for that matter a lot of the senio...

>> i did. >> welcome to "american morning." >> first, let's get started. could be a tipping point in the wall street movement. patience with the protests wearing thin and more and more cities grown tired of the headaches associated with the protests. in portland, oregon, a standoff on the city streets overnight. more than a dozen arrested as police cleared the city parks of makeshift camps. the mayor of portland telling cnn the every campments are now public health hazards. and two policemen arrested when police tried to remove furniture and tents set up in a park. and in philadelphi...

On the republican candidate. >> there is, though, a cultural disconnect between wall street and people like sarah palin. >> absolutely. >> people like george w. bush. wall street and other. because the republican party over the past quarter century has been a southern-based party. guys on wall street just -- and women don't relate to the tom delays and the newt gingriches and the people who have run the republican party. so i think that also explains why they don't give -- >> are you focusing your angle here on wall street and their behavior? >> no, no, no -- >> because -- because -- come on. ...