>> i think everybody knows, nobody puts words into my mouth. the words out of my mouth were that if you want a conservative as the nominee of this party, you must vote for mitt romney. clarence, we'll start with you. you see that video, that takes some shots from santorum from times years back. how will voters react to that video now that romney is using it? will they see him as being hypocritical here? >> well, for santorum's sake, he can hope that the voters have short memories about how romney was the conservative candidate four years ago. this year he's viewed by much of a party much too moderate. it shows how much the party has been moved to the right. that's important in i willinois which traditionally has been a great state for moderates. santorum has a chance of giving romney a big shot there in that

state or romney could continue his momentum. >> the issue of mitt romney, the front-runners being called into question in terms of how soon he will take up that status. the front page of the "new york times" yesterday hitting on that point, talking about how the candidates are preparing for a brokered convention even though here is what john mccain and rnc chairman said earlier. >> i don't think it's going to happen. >> we're not making plans now for a brokered convention. we have rules to handle any possibility and obviously we're going to follow those rules. >> so what are you hearing? is that happening? are they preparing? >> well, the candidates on both sides are preparing for the possibility of a contested convention where neither of the candidates or any of the candidates get enough of those 1,044 delegates to walk into tampa as the nominee.

romney talking to lawyers and really looking at this possibility. this seemed unlikely five, six, seven months ago when it was clear romney had the best organization that he had, the most money, and now he certainly looks like a weak front-runner. so late in this contest battling with santorum. he has a contest on 0 tuesday. looks like he'll be able to win that. came off a 20-point delegate sweep in puerto rico. this thing is going to go on until june. >> clarence, to you, when we look at those numbers, that attle of numbers, is it also a talking about? >> it is a battle of perceptions to the degree that republicans are really stuck in deciding whether or not they want to go with someone who can have the best chance of beating president obama, which is the one unifying

issue in the party right now, versus do i think obama has such a good chance of winning they want to make a statement and, therefore, go with santorum who is much closer to where the heart and soul of the party is right now. and that's the big question insofar as perceptions are concerned. what is really important right now, is it victory or making a point? >> both of those being questioned. nia, romney is ahead in the polls in illinois. this one here you see. rick santorum made a bold guarantee. listen to what he said. >> you do your job and this is a pledge. if we're able to come out of illinois with a huge or surprise win, i guarantee you -- i guarantee you -- that we will win this nomination. >> all right. so is he going to win illinois, santorum? >> well, he certainly pulled

close. i think it's a four-point spread now, certainly within the margin of err or. he has the momentum. the edge has got to go to romney because he is the moderate in a state still relatively moderate. sure, it's certainly moving to the right as is the rest of the party but i think he has something of an advantage, romney, because he has the money, because he has the infrastructure so santorum has to play catch up but i think you've seen in the big states whether it be michigan, ohio, romney is able to ultimately close the deal, come in just by a hair, two or three points in some of these races but certainly santorum has got the momentum. he has the engine and a lot of these grassroots supporters who really like him. >> clarence, is a hair enough? what is the margin of victory that romney needs to have there in illinois? >> one vote. >> one vote. >> he has to win that state because illinois is a moderate

state. they had the governor who was a moderate republican, the latest elected senator in the state. more moderate republican. the problem for the republicans is that so much of the state has gone democrat in recent years. it's become less of a swing state. that means republicans are -- the republicans left are more conservative. that gives santorum a chance. >> clarence, nia, stand by. i want to bring in the chairman of the illinois republican party. pat, you've endorsed mitt romney. he's wracked up a lot of endorsements. the polls we were just talking about, he's only up about four points. does he have the momentum in illinois? >> yeah, he has the momentum. he has the organization. he has the infrastructure. more importantly for a state like i willinois that's on the brink of financial collapse he has the right economic message talking about job creation, the future of america. i think he has the right message more than anything. i think he will do very well and i have to kind of laugh at the previous -- your previous

guest's analysis of illinois. this state has not gone any less or more conservative. we are so fed up with the economy here in illinois that the only issue that really matters is being a fiscal conservative and that's why mark kirk won, he was a fiscal conservative. i think that's why mitt romney will do so well here on tuesday. >> okay. we'll get a response in just a little bit. back to you, pat. one of the republicans who has not endorsed in your state, a former republican governor, said this quote. i haven't deducted down in the ranks that kind of enthusiasm. there just doesn't yet seem to be that interest. do you think mitt romney is the kind of guy who gets people excited? >> i love governor edgar. he lives in arizona in the winter. hasn't walked the precinct in 25 years. he's opining on excitement amongst the ranks in the republican party. >> it's been the issue. does he have it? >> i think he does. this analysis from out of state and people who aren't on the ground in illinois is amusing.

the people in this state are concerned with the economy. the obama economy. the pat quinn economy. they're concerned about jobs and getting the state going again. so the rest of this is, i think, a bunch of nonsense. we need a candidate who can turn this around. >> let's switch over to money. rick santorum is arguing at the moment he's being outspent by the romney campaign. mitt romney and the superpac have spent $ .5 million. by the numbers it looks like rick santorum is behind. if he had the money could he make it even closer than what we've seen so far? >> no because his message is wrong. we are concerned here in illinois with the economy. he gave a great speech, santorum did, on friday and then got off on child pornography issues. he's just constantly getting off on issues that the people don't care about anymore. right now we're concerned with reviving our economy, job creation, and illinois getting rid of the deficit and the death

and the same thing on the national level. we are going to win at the end of the day because we will talk about the economy and that's what mitt romney is focusing on. >> thank you so much. appreciate your time today. let's bring back clarence and nia. clarence, let me respond first to what pat was saying. hey, it is not becoming more conservative, the state of i will i will. >> well, i'm not going to dispute pat brady's knowledge on the ground. i will say, though, my newspaper, the "chicago tribune," our poll as you mentioned earlier, shows romney only four points ahead. that surprised me. that shocked me. and our editorial board of which i'm a member endorsed romney. but i still question how much of a force the tea party and evangelical voters have. they have often been apathetic in earlier elections in the state. right now they're fired up, energized. turnout is always what decides things he is peespecially in a close election like this one. >> that question will be down state there of cooke county. we'll see how that plays out. nia, i want to play a clip of

something haley barbour said over the weekend. >> i don't think anybody in their right mind thinks the way the primary should play out has been good for the republican chances. what to me is remarkable is it hasn't helped obama much. look at the polling. >> so he says he hasn't helped the president's poll numbers, the situation so far, but how about his fund-raising? i mean, the president's campaign announced he raised $45 million in the month of february. that's a staggering amount. is that where the difference is going to be made there? what do you think, nia? >> that will be a factor. if you look at where that money has come from, it's a lot of small dollar donors, $2 and $3 donations from people who really are going to provide the energy, the folks making phone calls, knocking on doors to get out the vote and to really re-energize the party's base and so that's what i think is really important here. if you look at mitt romney, he's done well among big dollar donors but those aren't the people banging the phones to get

out the vote. democrats obviously feel good about that but, listen, romney, if he is the nominee, he is going to have a real advantage, too, in terms of raising money among wall street donors and he's obvious ly got that very strong super pac that has rolled out lots of they go tiff ads against all of his opponents and been very successful in leveling his opponents from iowa to florida and we see that happening here i think this illinois as well with santorum. >> a big dollar advantage with those major funders. as we know mitt romney is spending a lot of money to try to win this race. he's already scaling back on expenses. trimming field staff because a long fight is expensive. talking about that long fight, is a long fight going to hurt him with fund-raising as he taps all of his tunders out here? >> i think that's certainly a possibility. i don't think the romney campaign bargained for a race that would be so long. i think he probably thought it would be wrapped up by then. he looked across the aisle and

saw weaker opponents in santorum and herman cain and all of these folks who have come and gone. he is doing the right thing in terms of trying to tighten his belt and shed some staff and some infrastructure there but i guess he's going to have to obviously gear up again if he wins this thing from the general because on either side they will be flush with cash. >> not what they planned on for the romney campaign. thank you on this monday. lawyers for staff sergeant robert bales is expected to meet with their client. we'll take you there live next. uhh! [ alyson ] just keep walking... ♪ oh, come on! ♪ ugh, again! [ sniffs ] that's what i'm talkin' about. [ female announcer ] new head & shoulders green apple, with an enticing scent. works on the scalp for up to 100% flake-free hair that's irresistibly fragrant. [ both laugh ] [ female announcer ] new head & shoulders green apple.

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the u.s. soldier accused of going door-to-door killing 16 afghan, is set to meet in kansas. meanwhile, family and friends of staff sergeant robert bales say they are stunned but are

standing by a devoted father and husband. live to john yang. the what's expected to happen today during the scheduled meeting between bales and had his lawyer? >> reporter: the lawyer says this will be the first time the defense team is able to hear the full story from the staff sergeant. and also to get a face-to-face assessment of the guy. all their previous conversations have been on the phone. they've been relatively brief. when the attorneys, the civilian defense team arrived, they were hoping to go straight to the detention center and interview the staff sergeant, their client, but they are unable to. that meeting is taking place today, richard. >> john, family and friends of sergeant bales now talking, all of them are stunned. but what else are they saying about bales? >> reporter: well, it really is the reaction of shock both this the seattle neighborhood where he lives now, where neighbors describe him as a good guy, a good father, a good neighbor.

he was sophomore class president. they say in that neighborhood where they grew up, no one referred to him as bobby or bobby wails, it was our bobby. our bobby bales. they were so proud of him in the neighborhood that i think there's just a great deal of shock trying to reconcile the young man that they grew up with and the accusations, the man who stands accused of this horrible a act, as one of the neighbors said in cincinnati, we keep thinking it's a mistake, they've got the wrong name. that when we see his face it's going to be somebody else. richard? >> so difficult for that xhubt. thank you, john yang. let's bring in retired general wesley clark. thanks for being with us. in just looking at sergeant bales' background, let's go through a couple of things. a ten-year war vet, nearly 1,200 days of combat deployment, combined four tours in iraq and afghanistan, passed over for some promotions. he was a stockbroker who joined

after 9/11 to serve the kcountr. when you see this sort of background, general, how many baleses are there out there? how many times have we seen the story before? >> when the army looks at it, they're going to ask what happened to the chain of command? if he had these problems, why aren't they identified? why wasn't he worked with? why wasn't he counselled? no matter what chain you are, someone above you is supposed to be following you, bringing you, helping you along, dealing with these situations. truth is the volunteer army has done incredible work in these two wars. no one expected when we created this army in the late 1970s that it would sustain itself through ten years of combat. it has. it's taken a very heavy toll on people like sergeant bales and his family. >> on that point, general -- >> are there other soldiers like this? yes, there are. >> it seems like a very common background, the way he was

described, what we understand of who he is now. in fact, there's been some accounts as you heard john yang's report there, bales being very calm, a person who pressed new recruits to be respectful of afgh afghans and their patrols there were no reports of alcohol or other issues while on duty. so are we missing the symptoms, ptsd or others, or are we ignoring them? >> well, i think that the army has a mission to do, and the mission comes first, and that's what every soldier is taught and that's what the lead remembers taught. mission, take care of your troops. but the mission comes first. and so the army has had the mission. it has a limited number of troops. it's still on a volunteer basis. and so the same troops have gone back again and again and again. and on the one handy this gives you a really experienced, capable group of leaders at the tactical level who know how to respond exactly as did sergeant bales when he saw someone about to launch an rpg at his vehicle. >> you bring up an interesting

point. >> on the other hand, terrible stress. >> at what point are there too many tours? there are cases of seven to eight tours, that's not unheard of. three to four is certainly a common situation. and when you see the issues of at least one in seven afghan soldiers deserting the military in their first six months in afghanistan, at what point do you have diminishing returns, that force, getting that experience you're talking about, versus the decrease in efficiency because of perhaps mental issues. >> he lost the sound. >> we had some technical difficulties. if we can get whack to him, we will that for you later in the show, discussing some of the challenges with the professional military and what we're seeing could be indication with sergeant bales. a threat at the same home barracks as staff sergeant bales in washington state received a threat from a soldier who said he would blow up the barracks.

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deadly violence in southern france this morning where a gunman opened fire outside of a jewish school in toulouse. at least four killed. police say the gunman was on a motorcycle similar to two other deadly shootings last week. but they're not yet sure the shootings are related. the fbi is keeping a close eye on the shooting of 17-year-old martin in florida. martin was killed february 26 as he walked through a gated neighborhood where he was visiting a family. martin was allegedly shot by neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman who claimed self-defense. here is the 911 call. >> this guy likes like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. he's got his happened in his waistband and he's a black male. >> so you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> all right, what is your -- number? >> there's gunshots. >> on today martin's mother says

the shooting was racially motivated. >> he was reacting to the color of his skin. he committed no crime. my son wasn't doing anything but walking on the sidewalk, and i just don't understand why this situation got out of control. >> police have not charged zimmerman in connection with the case. at least two suspected tornadoes touched down in central nebraska overnight causing major damage and derailing 15 train cars. at least one person was hurt. the national weather service says the system is moving east and could affect eastern nebras nebraska, western iowa, and texas today. then in colorado firefighters are battling a wildfire that has destroyed at least two homes and forced a total evacuation of a town. smoke and blowing dirt are making conditions tough for firefighters. you get a sense by looking at this video. duchess kate takes a big step as a member of the royal family while her husband, prince william, is on military duty. more when we go down to the wire in about 20 for you.

the obama campaign's soft launch for the 2012 election ramps up a notch with the president setting off on a four state energy tour. president obama kicks off the two-day trip wednesday making stops in nevada, new mexico, oklahoma and ohio. he'll deliver remarks in all four states. and joining us right now to talk about that is senior political he h editor mark murray. always good to see you, mark. and does this show when we look at what he plans on doing that they are believing the polls and have some concern about how gas and gas prices will weigh on the election here? >> richard, they certainly are being defensive here and sometimes actions speak louder than words. we saw a slew of polls last week that were inconclusive whether or not the higher gas prices have hurt president obama's standing. in fact, some of the polls show his approval rating at or near 50% but all the travel of the president is done and, in fact, our own nbc's thomas has noted since late peb the president has held most of his official out of washington events, had some type

of energy related theme tied to higher gasoline prices so they certainly see this as a potential vulnerability and trying to do everything they can to counteract. >> as you heard and saw over the weekend mitt romney called for the firing of what he was calling the gas hike trio. take a listen to what he said. >> this gas hike trio has to resign or get fired. we have to get them out, get people in who will bring down the cost of gasoline. >> the question out there, does he think -- does romney think they are solely responsible for gas prices? we take a look at the entire market. >> richard, this is a political campaign and anytime someone sees a weakness they will try to capital o capitalize it. he said president obama wanted higher gasoline prices. he never did that. that was incorrect. he later modified his comments saying president obama talked about higher energy costs, which he did -- which he said would perhaps come if the cap and

trade legislation and plan had been passed. >> on the flip side we saw with newt gingrich and his $2.50 slogan that didn't quite work out well outside of georgia so one has to question whether gas in the end will work at the voting booths. >> well, and that's right. at some point the law of supply and demand that as we've seen these gas prices go up, sometimes they also go down, too, and so if you have spent all of your political capital over two or three months 0 railing at higher gasoline prices yet come general election time in july and august, september, those prices go down, what are you left with it if you're the 0 opposition? >> yeah, that is a risk that you do bring up there. now the president going to ohio, that seems obvious. but why the other states? what are you seeing there on this trip schedule? >> two of the other states, nevada and new mexico also are presidential battleground contests but what is very striking is oklahoma -- president obama is going there to talk about the keystone pipeline. the obama administration has approved a portion of that pipeline that goes from oklahoma

down to the texas gulf coast. what has been a controversy in what the administration and the state department has essentially nixed is canada through nebraska. there are environmental concerns there but the obama administration says, look, everything is ready to go and can actually help from oklahoma down to the gulf coast. >> is there a bit of danger there? that's a hot poe tato, that keystone pipeline, them bringing it up again. >> right. but republicans are already bringing it up. i think that you are seeing the white house trying to do this to counteract the narrative that somehow the obama administration is against everything type of pipeline, against more energy production. >> all right. great conversation today with mark murray. thanks as always. >> thanks, richard. >> senator john mccain saying republicans need to back away from the recent birth control issues. this is what he said. >> do you think that there is something of a war on women among republicans? >> i think we have to fix that. i think that there is a perception out there because of

the way that this whole contraception issue played out. we need to get off of that issue, in my view. we ought to respect the rights of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear. and get back on to what the american people really care about -- jobs and the economy. >> gloria felt is the former president of planned parenthood and the author of "no excuses: nine ways women can change how we think about power." gloria, thank you for being with us today. now you have been toe to toe right here with the senator on this issue going back to the days when he was in congress. not a senator. and this is a change. >> oh, well, i want to say welcome back, john. this is pretty much what he said when i first met him. i was at the time in arizona myself, and i met him just after he was elected. he had -- his instincts were to say women should have the right to make their own childbearing decisions. but i have to tell you that he has a 100% anti-choice, ant

anti-family planning voting record, and that is the problem. wait, wait, wait. >> but he didn't mince words here. >> he didn't mince words but that's the problem for most of the republicans is what his contraceptive coverage issue has smoked out is just how anti-women their voting records have been over the years, and i think women are beginning to take notice in a way they really haven't in the past. >> so when you see senator mccain here in no -- in very simple terms, just saying, no, we need to change the narrative here, does this mean you think there will be other republicans also following that line regardless of what their reputation is or what their record is? >> i certainly hope so but, you know, this is march. november is a long way off. and i think just the discussion you had about gasoline prices, the same will hold true for contraceptive coverage. it's up to women. it's up to women who know that access to contraception is what gives us the power and the ability to determine the rest of our lives. we have to tell republicans, democrats, independents, everybody, that in no uncertain terms and that we will only vote

for people who will support women's right to make their own childbearing decisions. >> it appears that message is getting through at least when it comes to fund-raising. emily's list, they say fund-raising in the first quarter was one of the best ever according to emily's list. do you think this will translate to votes since you were alluding to that just now? >> it translates to activism and activism is what gets the voters out to vote. there's no question that the majority of americans support women's right to get contraception and the latest bloomberg poll was very clear that 70 some odd percent of voters -- >> 77% is the number that we have from the bloomberg poll. >> thank you. >> say this should not be a topic. >> exactly, exactly. and so what we need to do is we need to have women out there actively voting. i have to tell you, there have been moments i wanted to go hug rush limbaugh's neck for laying bare what this issue is really all about. and it really is about whether women are going to have an equal

place in this world and whether women are going to be able to be equal citizens and that too often gets obscured in the rhetoric about birth control. >> i'll get to rush in a second. you're saying you agree with that poll that 77% say it should not be a political topic. but hasn't it aided that movement? hasn't it brought attention to a major point that is being discussed for social conservatives and the rest of the electorate? >> it has brought attention to it. the republicans want to dance away from it as fast as they can. the democrats will want to keep it an issue because they're on the winning side of that one and they know it. so i think we will see this continue -- >> are you glad this debate is here now front and center? >> i believe one of the power tools i talk to women this my book "no excuses" is we need to learn not to run away from controversy, to ride into the wave of it because it's a teacher. it gives people an opportunity to think about the issues and clarify what they really believe about it. >> makes you talk about it. >> it makes you talk about it. when it comes to contraception used by 99% of the american

public, male and female, it gets people to really recognize, hey, i don't want somebody telling me i can't get access to birth control, to plan and space my family responsibly. >> so we got the money coming out. you're glad that this issue is now front and center. you have written about it. there's a piece today coming out in "the nation." >> yes. >> you talk about rush in that. tell me what it's about. >> the debate at "the nation" is whether it's appropriate or not to ask the federal communications commission to investigate rush limbaugh and ascertain whether he crossed the line when he called sandra a slut and said he wanted to see her sex tapes in exchange for contraceptive coverage. we think, i think, it was way over the line. and having had to deal with that kind of attack, that personal attack, i know that while i am a total believer in freedom of speech, there are limits. >> yeah, nobody has come out to defend him on his comments but you are putting in question here the freedom of speech. >> well, i think --

>> and i know in your writings you said that was one of the issues. you thought back to the day you had to think of women's issues and freedom of speech. >> absolutely. i've been on the frontline protecting women's freedom of speech and freedom to access birth control and information about birth control. >> so why is it okay here then? >> because what i was doing, i was trying to expand women's freedoms and their ability to have opportunities to make their own choices in life. what rush limbaugh is doing is creating a culture of hatred, where women are denigrated. since i have borne the brunt, also, of that kind of attack and i know it's not long after that you begin -- i began personally to get death threats. when you create a culture of that kind of hatred, that is the fine line. it's just like you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. there are limits on freedom of speech. >> do you think that the movement, the energy that's hyped this right now is great enough to actual ly remove rush?

>> rush may be removed faster by the economic boycotts that are going on right now and the fact that his advertisers are getting bombarded with requests from people who say he should rush away. we may never get to that. >> outside of that, though? >> there's a good chance if the fcc looks at the pattern of hate speech that rush limbaugh has used year after year after year and after a while it really begins to take the toll and when you look at the data, the fact that two women are raped every minute in the united states and the fact that there is a culture of acceptance of commodifying women's bodies, there is a connection between the words we say and the actions that we take. >> if he corrects this sort of action in the future, if he doesn't make such statements in the future, okay to stay then? >> absolutely. i think he should absolutely mend his ways. redemption is always possible. >> gloria feldt, appreciate your

time today. >> thank you, rich afterward. >> what would you do with $98 million? that's the question apple has been grasping with and now a decision. what's moving your money. mandy, they're not going to use that huge boatload of cash to buy up or gobble up one of their competitors. what are they going to do with it? >> reporter: they are going to pay a regular dividend of $265 a share in july and buy back up to $10 billion of its stock beginning in the next fiscal year. now the share buyback pam should run over three years. the pray mare objective is to offset the impact of stock options and equity grants. now apple's annual dividend yield is going to come in around 1.8% which is, nonetheless, slightly lower than the average of 2% for the companies in the s&p 500. but, of course, some difficuvids better than no dividend. the they are still going to have a sizable war chest for strategic opportunities as they come up.

just very quick ly to put some context to this $98 billion in cash and securities, that is equal to $104 a share. and it's also got a whole boatload of cash overseas but no plans to repatriate it at this time because of obviously the tax implications. >> when i hear that right now and we look at that price per share at the bottom of the screen $600, what's going to happen, this is going to get even more expensive. we might see $1,000. >> there's no plans to split the stock either. obviously this is something they will review over time. at this stage there's no plan to split the stock. >> i remember back in the day when i got for $3. they have the juice but now so does 0 starbucks. >> they're moving into the fruit juice business, opening their first store of its new evolution fresh juice bar chain. this is the first move outside of coffee, trying to get a foothold in the health food sector. it is already very competitive and a lot of people are saying that the evolution fresh ops could have lower margins than

their coffee shops. we don't know how many juice bars they're planning to open, richard. it's going to depend on how popular its first shop is. it's going to be in bellevue, washington. as for the stock, it was trading at just under $10 back in february, 2009. and it closed over $53 a share on friday. >> going after the juice market. mandy, thank you. >> thank you. general motors is halting production of the volt electric car for five weeks hoping to reduce inventory to meet lower than expected demand. 1,300 detroit-based workers will be idle. chevy sold about 7,600 cars last year below its original goal of 10,000. cuty... security. that's what matters to me... ...me? i've been paying in... all these years... ...years washington's been talking at... us, but they never really listen... ...listen... it's not just some line... item on a budget; it's what i'll have to live on... ... i live on branson street...

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moved to a completely new district. not a single square foot of his old district is in the new d district where he's running in. if that isn't a big enough challenge, it's a 58% obama district. that is not good news if you are a republican seeking re-election. >> next joe walsh of illinois. he said you lie to the president as you might remember. he pulled upsets before. he's facing a new district made for a democrat. >> absolutely. and i have three words for you, child support lawsuit. if redistricting wasn't bad enough -- >> he has that. >> he is running in a democratic district. he has had terrible headlines in the chicago press, an expensive media market, by the way. this is the press people are seeing about and it's all about this lawsuit for $100,000 in child support back palt. that's not good news for joe walsh. >> let's move to some democrats. in this case there are some new district lines that aren't helping them. we have larry kissell of north

carolina. >> yeah, absolutely. the big wave of 2010 basically skipped over the big gop wave, rather, skipped over north carolina. a lot of democrats held on there when their colleagues lost and one of those is larry kissell. now to give you an idea how bad the line drawing was for democrats in north carolina, two democrats have decided not to seek re-election. they would rather bow out than run again. larry kissell is not one of them. he's going to stick by and try to win in a much more difficult district. and the convention is coming to charlotte next year. i don't know how popular the president will be there in north carolina but we'll see. we'll see how close kissell gets to the president next september. >> and how that will work out. >> exactly. >> this list has been around for some while. you don't want to be on it in terms of the most vulnerable for a decade. this person has been able to survive for a good ten years on your lit and that's jim matheson of utah. >> he has been on our list before and has survived. he has made it through each

cycle. he's a democrat in utah. that's a very difficult venture. he has stuck by. he's a blue dog. he's done well. they redrew the lines, made his d district a lot more difficult than it was two years ago and, plus, if mitt romney is the nominee and is on the national ticket, a huge mormon population, utah would be excite body a mitt romney nominee that would boost republican turnout in that state and make things even more difficult for matheson. >> he outlined ten. we discussed four here. all said, who is more vulnerable this election, democrats or republicans? >> you know, it's kind of a draw in many ways. i think you'll see on our list it's pretty even. our big list of ten between democrats and republicans. a lot of members were thrown into new, unique circumstances because of redistricting but you do have some cases like joe w walsh who had other problems that made him vulnerable this cycle. i think in the end my opinion on this is i think democrats will pick up a couple seats. i don't think they're going to take back the house majority but

will pick up a couple seats. still on the whole a lot of republicans will lose seats and some democrats will lose seats. >> just a couple of seats going to the democrats. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> you can check out the list posted on her facebook page. today's tweet of the day comes from garrett covering mitt romney on the trail tweeting this photo saying illinois pancake report, huge. just absurdly huge. looks more like a pizza. dad, you are not meeting him looking like that.

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