independence. it's in line with the arab spring and awakening and it's unlikely the movement towards independence and freedom happening in the arab world is going to stop in israel. >> jeremy ben-ami, thank you for joining me tonight. you can have the last word online, follow my tweets @chrislhaye >> listen to the words of my mouth? i think just "the words of my mouth," listen might be a non-copy right infringing way to do it. >> all right, i'm going to bring it up. >> i also said the new reverend al sharpen show should be called "revved up." >> looks like you lost that battle based on the press release. >> that's why the naming of my own show was taken out of my hands. thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour.

one of the weirdest visuals from the east coast earthquake was this shot of the united states senate. we showed this on the show last night and i sort of have not been able to get it off my mind. this is technically the united states senate, just doesn't look like a picture you've seen of the senate, this was the united states senate in session at the postal square building, a building four blocks away from the actual senate. the white house, capitol, pentagon, were all evacuated yesterday's afternoon. so when the senate wanted to reconvene, they tried to make this random room look as senatorial as possible hence the flag and senate seal and chris coons. an event was cancelled tonight in washington because of quake damage, but almost all of the other d.c. land marks and memorials and office buildings seem to be reopening now after experiencing only cosmetic damage from the quake, if any.

but chris coons himself, chris coons himself may be a good marker of something else that's going on in washington that's not really getting very much attention even as the big quake is. the senate seat that chris coons holds was an open seat when he ran for it, it was vice president biden's seat in delaware. the election to fill the seat was november 2010. november 2010 was a deep, deep, deep red election day, right? republicans just ran the board last november, they won almost everything in 2010. and even though delaware is a pretty blue state, republicans expected to be able to win that biden seat too, because they thought they had a candidate who could not have been more perfect for the job, long time centrist republican congressman mike cassel, what happened, mike cassel got defeated by a tea

party-backed challenger named christine o'donnell, who is not a witch, and we all know how that worked out. >> without objection, the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. >> senator chris coons, democrat of delaware, thank you, christine o'donnell. the same thing happened in connecticut where rob simmons, who might have had a good job of winning a senate seat got defeated by the tea party-backed linda mcmahon. linda mcmahon lost and we have blumenthal of connecticut. now sharon angle defeated more normal republican candidates in the primary, and, of course, we still have democratic senate majority leader harry reid. like, for example, in utah, arguably the most republican state in the utah. in utah, incumbent senator bob bennet was not renominated by

his republican state party. they picked a tea party guy instead named mike lee. he was retired and mike lee did go on to win that seat. >> you're robert bennet, you are one of the most conservative members of the united states senate. how is it that you get tossed out by this tea party movement or whatever it was in utah, how does that happen? >> they don't really care. you can win an election screaming in anger, but you cannot hold and govern for a significant period of time on screaming and anger. >> even while hurtling through the subway system, bob bennett upset and disappointed when his own party gave him the boot last year. i have to say, don't feel too bad for bob bennett, i'm sure

he's going fine. bob bennett getting kicked out of the senate like that was seen as a shot across the bowel, any republican with a hint of moderation, actually, no, bob bennett had an american conservative rating of 84%, but that wasn't enough for the tea party. bob bennett was their victim. normal republicans, conservative republicans that seem mainstream or moderate, you are going to be replaced. the tea party is taking over. in fact, the next senator in line for that treatment is the other utah republican senator, oren hatch. oren hatch, is, perhaps, a very conservative senator. perhaps not conservative enough. jason chaffetz of utah has been making noise all year long that he was going to go after oren hatch next.

he was going to primary oren hatch from the right, take that deep red republican utah senate seat and make it even deeper red. this week he finally made his big announcement about challenging hatch and he's not doing it. now, jason chaffetz hasn't been hinting, it's been telling everybody he's likely to do this, going to challenge oren hatch, but he's decided not to run against him. after oren hatch, the other senator told to watch out, was olympia snowe of maine. the warning was she's going to be replaced by a hard right tea party challenger. well, there are some activist guys running against her, but frankly nobody who's making a dent, no offense intended, one of her challengers has made news

by continuing demanding olympia snowe resign. another man described as an all-black wearing music columnist and cyber punk. maybe maine is ready for a cyber punk republican senator, but it just doesn't seem like the same phenomenon that drove last year's republican politics is still driving them now. now add to that what we know about the tea party's role not just among republicans but in national politics. the latest new york times poll says the tea party is the most unpopular it has been since they started polling on the tea party's favorability in april last year. the percentage of americans who think the tea party movement has too much influence within the republican party is the highest it has ever been.

this new york times poll squares with other polling out there. a cnn poll declares the unfavorability rating the highest it's been since last year. the tea party is not just unpopular as a political group, they are among the least popular groups of any kind of americans in politics and culture right now. according to data compiled recently by a pair of professors, one from notre dame, one from harvard, the tea party ranks lowest in the 24 separate groups of americans or individuals who they polled on. all of these groups you see here are more popular than the tea party with americans broadly speaking. the tea party is more unpopular than muslims, nothing against muslims, of course. the tea party is more unpopular than atheists as a group, again, nothing against atheists, of all the groups in politics you could ask about, republicans, democrats, gay people,

conservatives, muslims, atheists, all of them, the tea party is the single least respected and least liked group in the entire country. i do not mean this as an insult. i'm reading you the data. if you asked america would you want a muslim president or a tea party president, the data shows that america would pick a muslim president, not a fake muslim president, but an actual muslim president. we'll have a researcher on tomorrow to talk about this. but it does bring us to this question, and it's an open question because i don't know the answer to it. if you were the republican party and were going to give one of these groups veto power over who was going to be the nominee. which of these groups would you -- i mean, really? you would give that power to the one at the very, very bottom underneath the a's -- atheists, really? the big joke today was george pataki is about to announce he's running for president. [ laughter ] that's the whole joke.

the idea of george pataki getting into the race so hilarious that it alone elicits laughter from anybody paying attention to this year's republican politics. a new gallup poll put the guy willing to say things against the tea party, jon huntsman, put him at 1%. i guess george pataki, get in there to split up the 1% maybe, try to get a piece of that? you cannot go anywhere in national republican politics, certainly not in republican presidential politics as anything remotely centrists. who are they again, they are these guys at the bottom of that list. why is that? mathematically why is that? the tea party is such a new phenomenon and so unprecedent, nobody has dealt with anything

like this. maybe there's a fear factor among politics, even though they may be small and unpopular, they are getting more disrespected by most of the american people, politics are scared of the tea party because the tea party is such a new thing, but if you care to look at the data about it, the only other thing that is as clear about the tea party right now, the only thing as clear as that is how not new they are. from the people who have been studying these folks over time, early on tea partiers were often described as non-partisan political. they were partisans long before the tea party was born. in fact, past republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of tea party support today. next to being a republican, a desire to see religion play a prominent role in politics. social conservatives in 2006. in other words, the tea party is

the same old same old republican base it has always been, the social conservative movement, nothing new here. republicans have been handling the issue of their base and dealing with this problem effectively for years. why are they so flummoxed by it this year? joining me now, nicolle wallace. senior advisor to the mccain-palin campaign, also author of the novel "eighteen acres," which is out in paperback. >> you managed to tie my brain in a knot and make me wish there were something stronger than water here all at the same time. >> that can be arranged at the drop of a hat. why is jon huntsman at 1%, why is george pataki joining the race a laugh line, why is centrism seen as impossible? >> i think our party is

experiencing something david axelrod described in twice. i think the reaction on the right to obama's presidency is this almost correction, i think, this purification of the conservative movement, and i found that fascinating for a lot of reasons, but i think the reason they are relevant and the white house yielded to them on the debt ceiling debate isn't because of the attributes to the self-described car-carrying bumper sticker on the back of the suv or whatever they drive. it's not just them, the reason that the white house yielded to them, the reason all the

republicans in congress are listening to them is that there are a whole lot of voters acting like tea party members. and that's the graver threat, i think, to the democrats. it's not that this, you know, 24 26% of what you just described as wildly unpopular people are going to hijack the country, impossible. impossible. >> but don't republicans look at the christine o'donnell, sharon angle, linda mcmahon, joe miller phenomena of those tea party candidacies taking over the republican party in 2010 and say wow, we lost all those seats we might have otherwise won. the country is not utah where it worked with mike lee. the country is much more delaware or somewhere in between those two. >> not just a country, but a national election, the big enchilada is someone who needs to win more than utah. so i think you're starting to see some of the most-respected voices speak to this.

jeb bush did a national interview yesterday and was talking about how it's noble to be proud of your conservative, you know, attributes and believes and ideology, but, you know, i don't want to paraphrase here. >> you have to have something to offer. >> exactly, exactly. not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's how you win elections. >> that's why i wanted to talk to you about this. we've got mitt romney now for the first national poll not leading. he's not only not leading but rick perry is ahead of him by 12 points in the gallup poll that came out today and we got the poll nominating process to make jon huntsman a 1 percenter. to have ron paul at 13%, to have the republican dynamics working

in that direction makes it hard for me to believe that the adults in the republican party are not thinking that you guys are about to do a christine o'donnell. >> makes a lot of people nervous, you see stories in the "the wall street journal" and conservative press of paul ryan, who's shut down the rumors and governor christie of new jersey and others stepping in, so it does make people nervous, but the reason that perry has surged ahead is there was a feeling that was field wasn't complete. i don't know if his lead over romney is one he can sustain, but he certainly has generated a lot of excitement, and it's not just from tea party-like voters. >> what way was the field complete then complete with rick perry. somebody who didn't believe in evolution or global warming, the only thing you get with him is he's not a woman.

you've already got michele bachmann taking on this position. >> howard dean was very exciting to democratic primary voters in 2004. >> yeah. >> and he ended his own candidacy with the dean scream in iowa. rick perry is pretty exciting to republican primary voters. he's a straight talker, which was enough to really endear john mccain and help him win the nomination. he's plain spoken at a time when distrust for every elected -- not just republicans -- every level, there are no more truth. if we are to default on our debt, that's horrible for america. people didn't believe him, a lot of americans felt duped. there is a historic level of distrust in this country, and i think rick perry kind of is a

fresh breath of air. >> the parallel with howard dean, the extent was he was against the iraq war. >> but it's more than this ideology. >> not i want to lynch the f.e.d. chairman. he wants to treat them ugly down in texas, wink, wink. >> you saw texan carl rove really come down hard on him. >> rick perry wouldn't want to treat carl rove ugly in texas too. >> that's another story. >> we have time for no more stories. nicolle wallace, thank you so much. white house communications director under george w. bush, and no matter what you think about that campaign or presidency, nicolle is a nice person to talk to, get off my back. a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service,

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okay, graph theater, we have not done this in awhile. this edition is called if you think you're sick of this lousy economy now, just wait until 2017. the chart on your careen is new today from the congressional budget office, the yellow brown line, who picks these, anyway? yellow brown line shows the prosperity america could be enjoying if the economy would be working, the blue line shows where we are and where we are going. six years from now. unless we do something about this economy, we are going to stay stuck for a long time. yet the common wisdom in washington, d.c. is nothing can be done to get us unstuck, republicans will never agree to

help the economy or to another economic stimulus, even if a stimulus was possible, the common wisdom says you can't really get real projects off the ground. want to build a bridge, the "the wall street journal" said today? it requires at least five years assuming no complications. house speaker john boehner's office flat turned down the idea to have the super committee look at deficit reduction and jobs creation and getting the economy going at the same time. my concern would be this one a window dressing for the same tired, hold discredited washington spending proposals. john boehner is not into the government trying to help the economy, which according to washington these days means it's just not going to happen. do you want to see who believes a stimulus might happen, might happen and can happen anyway? wall street. wall street believes, ladies and

gentlemen, the dow jones jumped more than 300 points yesterday, and call them crazy, but these guys believe there's a real reason for optimism, the economy is so bad, what investors are reading is the f.e.d. has got to do something. by the f.e.d., they mean the federal reserve, ben bernanke set to give a speech on friday. even though the f.e.d. shows little sign of actually being ready to do that and even though i am the most committed, pessimistic person on earth, even i am starting to believe we might do some kind of stimulus. the kind of stimulus specifically where you build things. exhibit a, florida senator marco rubio who has been auditioning as the republican party's favorite vice presidential possibility in 2012. last night marco rubio made the case the government needs to spend money on this stuff. >> and it is the proper role of

government to invest in infrastructure, yes, government should build roads and bridges, but it should do so as part of economic development, as part of infrastructure, not as a job's program. >> i'll take it. we should build roads and bridges. marco rubio, darling vp pick of 2012. imagine a few jobs get moderately created on the side, would he mind if that happened, if we didn't say it was the point? if another economic stimulus can, should, and might actually happen, if it might suddenly be possible instead of impossible, then you are going to need a good pitch for it, because if you think what you're trying to do is not going to happen, you don't care how good your idea is, but if you believe you have a chance and believe it might succeed, you really have to get the pitch right. maybe this pitch for fix americas schools today.

conveniently acronymed as "fast." we could end the tax subsidies for oil companies and use those savings to, instead, fix the school buildings themselves. our schools are on average hoe years old. they need plumbing, heating, need new paint so they don't look like prisons. public schools can run on leaner budgets in the future and create a few jobs by accident, marco rubio. i'm joined by jerad bernstein, former member of president obama's economic team and one of the thinkers behind this fast proposal. jared bernstein is a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities. jerad bernstein, thank you for being here. did i fairly characterize the idea behind the fast infrastructure investment proposal?

>> absolutely, and you heard mr. rubio talking about roads and bridges, one of the things that recommends fast, and i was there during the recovery act. i traveled around the country with the vice president and went going to work sites, and we saw lots of great roads and bridge projects, but one of the things we saw there is that work has become considerably more capital intensive. we want to make sure we're creating jobs for people, not for machines. fast, fix america's schools today, which would repair the country's schools, that work is labor intensive, insulation, boilers, windows, maybe even greening up these schools with solar panels. that kind of work puts a lot of folks back on the job. don't tell mark rubio about that part, but it does work. >> the idea this is a scalable problem that you can do this on a small level as one school or a big level as all the schools in the country, depending on what political resources were freed up for it.

is that how you arrived at the idea of paying for this with the oil company's price subsidies? >> very much so, that and one of the goals of fast, this repair and modernization of our schools was to generate savings, so if you look at the ten-year price tag of the subsidies, about $50 billion. that's a relatively small share of the maybe $300 billion back log in repairs, but take this as a program that could last a year or two at $50 billion, probably create about half a million jobs, we think that's a marriage of a big problem the back log and the repairs and the construction folks that have been put out of work when the housing bubble went bust. >> are there parallels of these sorts of initiatives that you're recommending the president pursue here? >> not only are there parallels, you used a word earlier in the

show, normalsville, back in normalsville times, infrastructure programs like this, and rubio's quote is relative in this regard, infrastructure programs were supported in a bipartisan manner. republicans generally feel good about this american institution called public schools, but if you look at the state of disrepair, and this is something -- i drop my kids off at public schools, and even in my area you see the condition of the schools and i really, frankly, worry about the message we're sending to our kids. one level we talk about education being really important, and in the other sense we send kids to schools that are falling apart and are unhealthy and unsafe. i think that's a bipartisan sentiment. >> jerad bernstein, good to see you, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure.

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when tea party candidates like rick scott were commonly described as favoring smaller government since that's the brand that has been ascribed to the tea party. despite that awesome branding, turns out smaller government is not what these guys favor, at least it's not the way they have governed. the election of tea party republicans has resulted in, for example, an expanded role in deciding what happens to your pregnancy. an unprecedented rollback of of abortion. in rick scott's florida, his brand of tea party republican big intrusive government has included mass examination of floridians body fluids. florida republicans this year instituted mandatory drug tests

for florida residents receiving public assistance, not public assistance and suspected of drug abuse for any reason, just anyone who's getting assistance. if you're getting public assistance, you have to submit urine, blood, or hair samples to rick scott. here's rick scott explaining why this is such a priority for florida republicans. >> studies show that people on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. but the bottom line is this. >> to that point, that would stop people in their tracks, you're saying people out there who need this assistance, lost jobs, on welfare, have a higher tendency to use drugs? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. florida governor rick scott in june defending his drug test poor people plan on the grounds that poor people do more drugs than rich people. rick scott's forced drug testing

plan did go into effect last month, tampa tribune reporting 2% of welfare applicants are failing the drug tests so far, and look, a study by the office of national drug control policy showing just over 8% of floridians use illegal drugs. so why was it again rick scott thought it was so important to drug test everybody on welfare? >> people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. >> not according to figures being gathered as a result of your forced drug tests. we're not testing the population at large that receives government money, we're not testing people on scholarships or state contractors, so why these people? it's obvious, because they are poor. this is just punishing people for being poor. really, really, really big intrusive government tea party style.

republican presidential hopeful rick santorum has a google problem, he can't be googled. if you put "santorum" into the search engine, you get

information but do not get what you were looking for about rick santorum, but you know who else has a google problem? moammar gadhafi, but not for the same reason, the reason it's hard to google moammar gadhafi, at least in english, is because no, two american news organizations spell his name the same way. here's gadhafi's name in arabic, only one way to spell his name in arabic, but in english, it's a different story. associated press spells it with a "g" as does reuters, if you surf around the cable news channels, each network has a different spelling, msnbc and nbc have decided to spell it with a "k" and a "y" at the end, fox spells it with a "q," a different "q" spelling with two

"ds" in it. abc news counted and found 112 variant spellings, which makes him hard to google. but now copy editors and news rest, how do you spell gadhafi? max fisher of the atlantic wrote a blog today that showed the diplomatic passport of one of gadhafi's sons. the passport is partly written in arabic, but there are also some pages in english, and one of them, very difficult to make out, but if you squint hard you can see his name is spelled out officially on that passport gathafi. i thought ours was the weirdest one. if this is authentic, we have

the solution. another more important question of where is mr. gathafi remains unanswered as does whether or not everybody knows where his weapons of mass destruction are now. stay tuned for that.

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behold, we have found moammar gadhafi's nuclear program. we have found it. it's here. this is it. this is moammar gadhafi's entire nuclear program, the whole kit and caboodle. if you are saying that doesn't look like libya, that looks like tennessee, that is tennessee, that's where gadhafi's nuclear program is. in 2003, ten weapons facilities were inspected. the deal included libya coming off the state sponsors of terrorism list and gadhafi becoming less of a pariah, but the cost to him was his weapons facilities were not only inspected, the initials who did the inspecting left libya with 55,000 pounds of documents and nuclear components with the blueprints of a nuclear plant with centrifuges, scud missiles, and uranium. gadhafi's entire nuclear program was moved to the oak ridge

national laboratory in tennessee where we still have it. one thing gadhafi did not give up, however, was a bunch of raw uranium and chemical weapons, at least not all of them. he did sign on to an agreement that forbids making or using chemical weapons, but what about his existing stockpile? who controls them now, who's guarding them? according to the associated press today, there are still some 500 to 900 metric tons stored in drums and the scheduled destruction of some 23 tons of mustard gas didn't start until last year and was only halfway finished when the system used in the destruction broke. the remaining mustard agent is stored inside a domed concrete bunker a few hundred miles south of tripoli. one official quoted saying that facility contains also more than 13,000 tons of precursor

chemicals that could be combined to make toxic agents. after what the bush administration sold us in the lead up to the iraq war, americans are inherently skeptical about this stuff. >> the british government has learned saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> from africa. risk of uranium in africa, the american public is understandably skeptical, little scarred by that experience, but in this case, really, w.m.d.s may be falling into the wrong hands. joining us now, joe cirincione, a member of secretary state hillary clinton's international security advisory board and council of foreign relations, thank you for joining us tonight. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> do we know what's still in libya, what didn't get removed as part of the deal we cut with gadhafi in '03.

do we know how dangerous what's left is? >> we have a good idea. we have this yellow tape, one of the components you use to make enriched uranium. that is probably the least of our worries because it requires a complex manufacturing process to turn it into anything close to a weapon. we also have this mustard gas, ten tons of it. fortunately under the program gadhafi negotiated, we destroyed all his weapons delivery capability of that mustard gas, about 3,000 rockets and shells, so it's deteriorating, it has a certain shelf life, but it's still dangerous. the thing most people are worried about are the radioactive isotopes, the byproducts of the fission process, grand quantities of these isotopes could be mixed up with dynamite or a plastic explosive and used as a dirty bomb, a high terror value in that and very easy to make, and the thing we're most worried

about is somewhere around 20,000 to 30,000 shoulder fired anti-aircraft weapons called man pads or sa-7s, most are russian-made sa-7s, very portable and dangerous. >> in terms of the nonconventional weapons there, the radioactive isotopes, which could be used to make a dirty bomb. are we monitoring them a high terror value in that. the thing we're most worried about, is that somewhere around 20,000 to 30,000 shoulder fired anti-aircraft weapons called man pads or sa-7s. we don't know exactly where they are, very portable, very dangerous. >> in terms of the nonconventional weapons there, radioactive isotopes which are

not weapons but could be used to make a dirty bomb. the mustard gas in the form it is in. in terms of where those are in the country are we monitoring those right now? is nato monitoring them? is there any plans to secure that material? >> we're monitoring all this from a distance. we've had international inspectors there since the 2003 deal as you noted, looking at this, cataloging it, and now since the hostilities have broken out over the last few months we've been using british, french other assets to monitor the chemical weapons which are stored in the concrete facility some 200 miles south of tripoli. we have a good idea where the radioactive material,and we've been assured by state department and department defense officials that were carefully watching -- it's the shoulder fired weapons we don't have a good handle on. we have allied forces in the area destroying those that they found in rebel controlled territory, they haven't gotten into the hot combat zones yet. >> the type of weapons -- shoulder fired surface to air missile you're describing, that's the kind of weapon that took down the chinook helicopter, tremendous loss of life in afghanistan not that long ago? >> that's right. anyone who's seen "syriana" knows these are large weapons, they move them in sort of guitar-sized cases.

extremely dangerous. you're worried about a large supply. you're talking about thousands of these by a variety of groups around the world about. >> does the united states have a strategy to overall reduce the number and availability of weapons like that which as you say are not going to be covered by any weapons of mass destruction treaty or protocol of any sort, do have the potential to cause real damage in a low tech way. >> no international agreements for these kinds of shoulder fired weapons. in this case in libya, we have been working closely with the rebel forces to search any areas that the rebels have controlled to destroy these weapons about 30 so far have been destroyed. the problem is much larger than we've been able to deal with so far. >> 30 out of 30,000 is not a good percentage. you always know these things and deliver them in a way i can understand even when they're terrifying, for that i thank you. >> thank you, rachel. kim and james are what you might call overly protective.

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washington, d.c., should help. it offers spectacular detail about what the animals did before, during and after the earthquake. like the fact that the red roughed lemur sounded an alarm call about 15 minutes before the quake and then again just after it occurred. the black giant elephant is riou hit in his habitat and refused to come out for afternoon feeding. and murphy, the zoo's komodo dragon hid in his shelter. they were not recording any of the streaming footage when the earthquake hit, so we have no video but we do have these descriptions. and we have people who work here in august. we also have a green screen and very little pride. we cannot promise this has any degree of accuracy, but we think

this is what happened. the earthquake hit the great ape house and think tank exhibit during afternoon feeding time, about five to ten seconds before the quake, many of the apes including kyle the orangutan and kojo abandoned their food and climbed to the top of the tree like structure in the exhibit. about three seconds before the quake, a gorilla let out a shriek and collected her baby and moved to the top of the tree structure as well. as you can see here. iris, an orangutan began belch vocalizing an unhappy upset noise normally observed for extreme irritation before the quake continues -- the howlin' monkeys sounded an alarm call

just after the earthquake. all the snakes began writhing during the quake. normally they remain inactive during the day. one of the volunteers at the invertebrate exhibit was feeding the cuddle fish. it was not responsive. the water is normally very calm, the earthquake began to shake the tank creating waves. a female tiger jumped at the start of the earthquake in a startled fashion. her behavior returned to normal after the quake. the zoo has a flock of flamingos.