unusual for the u.s. senate. and a new dwoe ask on that first date. did you have a nanny as a child? the answer may determine whether a man turns out to be a cheater. hello everyone. i'm david shuster reporting live in washington. we'll start with some breaking news out of virginia. state and local authorities investigating a severed gas line at the home of the brother of virginia congressman tom perriello. sources tell the "charlottesville daily progress" the gas line to the home's propane tank was slashed. the incident comes a day after tea party activists posted the address of the home online mistakenly believing it belonged to the democratic congressman who voted in favor of health care reform. for that reason sources say the incident is viewed as an attempted threat to a member of congress. we'll have more information on the story as we get it. just moments ago on capitol hill democratic house leaders talked about recent threats and acts of violence directed at their members. >> how are you dealing with

that? what actions are you taking? >> we have the capitol police just briefed members and if they are in any way suspicious or fearful or see actions occurring to report those immediately and the capitol police will respond and try to determine whether crimes have been committed. >> meanwhile some of this may drift back to sarah palin in part because she has been putting a bulls eye on certain members of congress, literally, as she gears up for political rallies this coming weekend. critics say the former alaska governor is doing more than just rallying crowds but may be inciting violence. on twitter palin wrote common sense conservatives and lovers of america don't retreat. instead, reload. and on facebook, this graphic of her call to action depicts states in the cross hairs of a rifle. it shows the democrats who voted for the health bill who are in states carried by john mccain in the 2008 presidential election. nbc news correspondent norah o'donnell is here with more.

with all the criticism directed sarah palin's way since she put that map up, i know she doesn't have a press secretary, but any more tweets disavowing this? >> no reaction to what steny hoyer has just said that ten members of congress have now asked for extra security from the capitol police because they're concerned about threats. what sarah palin did yesterday on her facebook page was say she is targeting 20 members of congress and using the target and cross hairs to point out where those democratic members of congress are in districts that voted for palin and mccain in the last election that she wants to defeat in the next election. she is using her pac money to try to defeat them. clearly what has steny hoyer the house majority leader very worried is this gun imagery, this hunting rhetoric about members of congress that he said incites violence and says that's just wrong. and so now they're directing the capitol police to not only talk to members of congress on the democratic side but also on the

republican side to perhaps let them know this is out of line. >> the tea partiers are clearly riled up as they have been for several days now and yet john mccain is not necessarily one of their heroes and yet sarah palin is going to be campaigning with john mccain this weekend. >> that's right. sarah palin is heading out to arizona to buck up her old running mate and friend john mccain who is facing a tough re-election in that race, a tough primary race. interestingly the tea party decided not to endorse j.d. hayworth. but john mccain is not a favorite of the right or the tea party crowd there so sarah palin is going to be making two stops in arizona on behalf of john mccain. interestingly enough they probably won't be together on friday because mccain is going to be voting back here in d.c. on this health care stuff but on saturday they'll be together and then sarah palin is heading to nevada to headline a tea party event with ann coulter. >> such an interesting time to watch sarah palin both for good and bad reasons. thanks as always. >> you're welcome. as the tea party continues

to take shape, we are learning more about who they are and how they might impact the next election. >> they're not your extremists. they're not, you know, they're normal people. they're old people in wheelchairs. you got people with families and stuff like that just coming here out of desire, out of a belief in what our forefathers put forward. >> a new quinnipiac poll shows they are angry with the country's direction and most are republican leaning. 88% are white. joining us is the author of "the big black lie, how i learned the truth about the democratic party" and kevin jackson first of all what do you make of the latest information from congress that, i mean, there is increasing concern about this possibly getting out of hand, some of this violent imagery and rhetoric. >> well, i've been to many tea parties around the country and have yet to see any real

violence toward anybody so i think it's a bit over stated. >> were you there on saturday at the capitol when congressman lewis and other members of the congressional black caucus were greeted with derogatory racial slurs, when another member of congress was spat upon? were you there for that? >> wasn't there for that but i saw the video about it and determined that a lot of what they were saying had happened actually hadn't occurred. like i said, i've been to hundreds of tea parties around the country. what i can tell you is i've never seen any blacks lynched at any of them. that's still one of the things that's only for the democrats to hold a distinction about. >> kevin, are you okay when president obama the first african-american president is depicted the way he's depicted on some of these signs, whether the hitler mustache or being depicted as like the joker? is that okay with you? >> it's par for the course. every president ha's been elected has gone through something like that. bush was demonized as a gorilla,

as a chimpanzee, as a cowboy, cow poke and a host of other things. he was depicted as hitler many times. i did a blog about the fact that bush was more than obama was. that's just par for the course and what happens. one side wins the other side goes after them. i don't see any difference between obama and any other president in this respect. >> well, do you remember any republican members of congress or republican party officers that had bricks thrown through their front windows? it's happened half a dozen times over the past few days. >> yeah. in fact, there's been many incidents where republicans have been attacked, whether at the local level -- >> name one. >> it's not my responsibility to name them. >> well, kevin, you're making a point there is an equivalency here and we have evidence and videos and photographs of incidents in niagara and rochester, new york, arizona, ohio, and kansas where

democratic party offices, congressional offices, were targeted with stones or bricks thrown through the window and you're saying that that's happened with republicans. all i'm asking you is name them. >> who threw them? do you have the actual evidence of the people who threw them? in many cases these are democrat operatives doing a lot of this stuff. when you can bring me evidence -- >> you think these are democratic operatives? you think these are democratic operatives destroying their own property so somehow people would just, i don't know, choose to blame them? >> kind of like when there are riots and black people go and loot their own stores and you wonder why did it happen? it's the same reason. when you can tell me with complete evidence that the people doing this are republicans, i'll be happy to answer your question but until then -- >> i just think it's illogical. >> the same way you have anecdotal evidence around the tea party groups saying everybody is a racist when i am an example of a person who's

been to these events, not one single racial incident and you want to have me here and talk about -- >> i'm not saying most of the tea partiers are racists. i'm saying there is a racist fringe and i wish people like yourselves would condemn that. >> i've yet to see a black man lynched at a tea party but i do know the democrat party has lynched black people. if you want to make that equivalency then let's talk about that for a bit. >> kevin jackson, you know, i disagree with you on a lot of stuff but appreciate you coming on today. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. it is time to go across the usa. in delaware a pediatrician accused of molesting more than a hundred of his young patients has entered a plea of not guilty. dr. earl bradley was charged with raping and sexually assaulting 103 patients some as young as 3 months old. bradley videotaped many of the sexual attacks with some dating back to 1998. he is being held on nearly $3 million bail. in orlando the relatives of dawn brancheau the seaworld trainer killed by a whale last

month are in court today. the family wants the video depicting her death sealed saying they will suffer harm if it's released. an attorney for the relatives says the family right to privacy outweighs the public's right to view the video of the death. in mississippi a federal judge ruled in favor of a lesbian student banned from bringing her girlfriend to the senior prom. the judge said the move violated constance mcmillen's rights. however, he stopped short of forcing the itawamba county school district to hold the dance saying such a ruling would only confuse the community. up next the military faces a fighter jet shortage but there's a big discrepancy between the shortfall the pentagon is expecting and what they are budgeting for. is it a case of more fuzzy math from the pentagon? then the world's largest oil exporter was the target of a widespread terror plot. more than a hundred suspects have been arrested. how many more are still at large? plus, the most talked about story of the day. does your son have a nanny?

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stop it! get away from me. >> oh, sweetheart. don't be afraid. they're only clowns. >> i hate them. >> they're nice french clowns. >> they scared me. >> go to your mommy. >> no. >> go to your mommy. go. >> no. >> in that scene from "the nanny diaries" little grayer chooses nanny over his mom. and according to one british psychiatrist, that child's mom is setting him up to be a cheater. that's right. dr. dennis friedman says if your son has a nanny you're actually

introducing him to the idea of the other woman. based on friedman's theory woman one is the child's natural mother whom he respects and admires and woman two is someone maybe a nanny who does physical things for him like feeding him lunch and comforting him when he's hurt. friedman says when the child is grown he may seek out a woman two to get attention outside of marriage. dr. dennis friedman is the author of "an unsolicited gift" joining us live from london. dr. friedman, there's no scientific research to back up this theory but explain why you subscribe to it. >> well, this is just my view, my observations, how i see things, and there is no scientific support for what i believe, but there's not a great deal of scientific support for anything used in psychiatry other than for the treatment of psychotic illness and so forth. what i really believe is that

the mother is the only person with whom the child is going to have a one-to-one relationship and that's expected right throughout the animal kingdom. the child is totally dependent on the mother right from the very beginning and that dependency has to be recognized and satisfied and fulfilled and whatever the child needs for weeks, months even, sometimes years, the mother is expected to deal with and deal with in a way that the child will grow up to feel content aend happy. >> well, first of all, in terms of somebody else getting in the way i'm a big subscriber to the idea of so much what happens to us in our families as we grow up has a huge imprint on us the rest of our lives. i totally agree with that. but i wonder if critics would say there are all sorts of other environmental factors other than if you have a nanny that might

indicate whether somebody is prone to cheating. >> yeah, of course there are lots of environmental factors. but most essential environmental factor is the one the child has with his mother. and a conversation begins really from the moment of birth where the mother uses babble talk. the baby listens and responds using body language, and they get on really well with one another. they understand one another. and that's a process that happens everywhere. whatever the creature we're dealing with, whether a whole string of ducklings, one following the mother duck or whatever. it has to be a one to one. >> well, if a nanny has an impact on a baby boy as you suggest what would the impact be on baby girls? >> the baby girl i think is slightly different because mothers get on very, very well with their baby girls.

they understand girls obviously better because they've been through it all themselves. they have a slightly stranger relationship with a baby boy. they have to work on that maybe a bit more. so the nanny for the baby girl really is just an extension almost of the mother. they are the same gender. they get on perfectly well. little girls normally don't have the same sort of problems growing up as little boys do. >> dr. friedman, a very provocative theory and an interesting one. we appreciate you coming on today. thank you. >> thank you. here's a look now at today's entertainment pop shots. oprah winfrey has settled. we don't know how much the former head mistress of winfrey's girls school will get. in a statement harpo says the two met, quote, woman to woman without their lawyers and

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military contractors, the nation of the people, the people want humanitarian services. they want homes. they want education. >> ma'am, you're out of order. would you please leave the room? >> an uncomfortable moment at a house appropriations committee hearing today. a protest of course interrupted the testimony. defense secretary robert gates and the joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen. the woman objected to the money being spent on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. as you can see she was escorted out, yelling all the way. secretary gates is also facing a confrontation from a bipartisan group of house members questioning whether the pentagon is in effect cooking the books when it comes to a looming shortage of fighter planes. two democratic and two republican members of the house armed services committee have

sent a letter to secretary gates questioning what they call his optimistic assumptions about the jet shortfall. they claim the defense secretary isn't counting the billions of dollars it will take to extend the current fleet of f-18 fighter jets until the next generation is ready. secretary gates, though, insists that his estimations are accurate. frustrations have been mounting on capitol hill over what democrats see as stall tactics by republicans when it comes to the health care reform reconciliation bill or the effort to try to make improvements in what the house just passed. the latest maneuver came just a short time ago on the senate floor. republicans again today have invoked a rule to keep hearings from happening after 2:00 in the afternoon and this is part of their protest over the health care reform legislation. that led to this spirited response from missouri democrat senator claire mccaskill. >> i don't get it. i don't get what the purpose of saying no is. i don't get what we accomplish.

we're sent here to work. we're paid by the people of this country to work. and the idea that i had to call these witnesses and say, go home because the republicans won't let us have a hearing? disagree with us. >> the majority's 30 minutes has expired. >> vote no but let us work. i implore you, let us work. >> nbc's luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. i understand that was not the only partisan dustup we saw on the hill today. >> reporter: no, it wasn't, david. senator mary landrieu from louisiana vigorously defended the right of louisiana to get that special amount of money within the health care fix-it bill. her adversary? john mccain, she objected to him calling it a sweetheart deal saying the only time she ever likes to hear the word sweetheart is when she gets a valentine's day bouquet of roses

from her husband. let me update you as to where we are right now. in about two hours or so, the vote-a-rama will start. that is when a whole barrage of amendments will be offered by republicans until essentially they stop that will force democrats to take a tough vote and if one of these amendments is adopted the process goes back to the house of representatives and the house would have to pass anything, the changes rather, for this health care reform bill to become law. some of the amendments we've seen just like those senator mccain mentioned, sweetheart deals getting rid of special money for louisiana, asbestos victims in montana. others like senator coburn which might be the most difficult one which is to prohibit any federal subsidies for sex offenders who want to try to obtain viagra within the health exchanges. there are sure to be a ton more interesting ones. chuck grassley, does the president and his cabinet have to get the same insurance as offered through these health care exchanges? there will be a lot of these going on. one democratic member told me it's going to be very strange

because democrats will not know what they're voting on with only one minute in between a lot of these votes. the republicans could really make a few headaches for democrats come november if they by some chance vote no on something that could be very popular in their own district, david. >> luke, as we look at all the tensions this is causing and you mentioned senator mccain and senator landrieu. we'll try to cue up that tape and play it for our viewers. in fact, here it is. let's just watch. >> this amendment removes some of the remaining egregious sweetheart deals. >> this isn't a sweetheart deal. it's a stunt. >> i want to say a word about the louisiana purchase. the senator from louisiana comes down and forcefully and very convincingly argues this is very needed for the state of louisiana and louisiana was hit by hurricane katrina. i would point out the state of mississippi was also hit buy and devastated by hurricane katrina.

but we don't have anything in here for the state of mississippi. >> the reason i say it's a stunt is because it's actually written for television or the internet. it's not written for any serious debate here. and in my view it's beneath the senator from arizona who at one time was a candidate for president of this country. the reason i say it's a stunt is the words "sweetheart" are actually written in this amendment. >> whenever these deals are cut then the residents of other states are the ones who foot the bill. so i hope my colleagues will consider this amendment, remove all of these remaining provisions. >> luke, this is some of the most tension i've seen erupt on the floor of the senate. it's not uncommon for this kind of rhetoric in the house but on the senate side it seems remarkable. >> yes. the senate is often referred to by house members as the house of lords shall we say where folks expect the conduct to be more of a statesman. i find it quite interesting,

david, how john mccain is really taking the lead on these issues for the republicans and how democrats say, at one point you ran for president. why aren't you more a statesman? harry reid said that in the past. mary landrieu said that now. this is most likely the first of many of these occurrences that will happen on the senate floor today possibly going all through the night. like i said before, get your popcorn ready. it's going to be exciting. >> it is certainly entertaining for sure. nbc's luke russert on capitol hill, thanks as always. we appreciate it. >> take care. coming up shall the reverend al sharpton weighs in on a new report on the state of black america. that is ahead. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm.

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i'm mike huckman with your cnbc market wrap. and here is a look at how the markets are doing with about a half an hour left in the trading day. we've got the dow down 41 points. the s&p 500 is off five. and the nasdaq is down about 14.

so it looks like the two-day win streak is going to come to an end. meantime more than 1 million baby slings made by infantino are being recalled today. this after they were linked to three infant deaths. the consumer products safety commission says babies could suffocate in the soft fabric. the agency is urging parents to stop using these slings for babies less than 4 months old. and the economic downturn is turning out to be big business for high end repo men. one company saying it is doing six times the business it did in 2007. they say they're taking back everything from gulf stream jets to luxury yachts and say they'll do whatever is necessary to get them back for the creditors. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. david, back to you. it is now time for the fastest three minutes in news. we are going "down to the wire" today with arnold palmer's advice for tiger woods. king tut and elephant polo?

you ready? hit the clock. first off the advice from one golfing great to another. golf legend arnold palmer says tiger woods should invite the media into his life and let the press shoot at him more. woods has only given one public statement and two interviews since his sex scandal broke. police in florida just released video today of the moments after a 50-mile police pursuit ended. the front seat passenger who was booked for resisting arrest says the officer used excessive force during the arrest in june, 2009. the allegations and the video prompted the naacp to get involved in the investigation. after five stints of rehab former major league baseball pitcher dwight gooden has been arrested again, officers in new jersey saying he was driving under the influence with a child in the car. the police report does not identify the child but gooden has a 5-year-old son. here's a charge that is a sign of the times. failure to tweet. hollywood manager scott brown now faces reckless endangerment charges following a riot at a

new york mall last year. the manager for singer justin bieber turned himself in this afternoon. back in november when a mall appearance got rowdy police told him to send out a tweet that the show was canceled. officers say that because brown waited too long to text, the riot got worse. have you ever wanted to tell your boss, to hell with you. i quit. well, you may dream of doing that but new data indicates more american workers are just dreaming instead of acting on those desires. still, just because more workers are staying put these days that does not mean they are happy. >> ever since i started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. so that means that every single day that you see me that's the worst day of my life. >> u.s. job satisfaction is at the lowest in 20 years. nonetheless labor department figures show the number of people quitting their jobs is also near the lowest in a

decade. 13 million to 1, the odds of predicting every winner in the first two rounds of the ncaa basketball tournament and a teenager in chicago who has autism has pulled it off. how does he do it? >> because of the player and how good they are on defense and how good they are this year. >> his ultimate pick may be more sentimental than statistics. he selected his older brother's alma mater purdue, the boilermakers, to win the whole thing. king tut has arrived in new york. the 25-foot statue of the egyptian jackel headed god arrived in style yesterday and is part of the egyptian boy king's exhibit that will be on display at the discovery times square exhibition. the last time king tut was in new york is 31 years ago and it attracted nearly 2 million visitors. and last up, polo with a very big twist. this is an elephant polo tournament under way this week in northern thailand. proceeds from the event will help fund elephant sanctuaries.

elephant polo. that brings us "down to the wire." this morning the national urban league released its annual state of black america report. for the first time it also addressed inequality for hispanics. the nation's fastest growing demographic group. it shows african-americans are making gains in overall equality but still twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. more blacks than hispanics lack health insurance compared to white americans. earlier today the reverend al sharpton of the national action network told me these figures prove a point he and other activists have been trying to make for a while now. >> we're not asking the president or congress to have race-based kinds of legislation. we're asking that we make fair and even out and in equity that that -- an inequity that is inherent. i think these figures show the inequities still exist. >> the role you've been playing with president obama is so interesting. we were just talking about it. in a way, by the president

deferring to you and letting you and others make the case for some of these issues, it may enable him a little bit to create a little bit of distance which might help in terms of people who are worried about, okay, the first african-american president, is he going to put those issues first? >> i don't think it's a matter of deferring. i think he understands that we have a role as advocates of civil rights groups and he respects us and meets with us on that as he does labor leaders, as he does leaders of women's groups. he's the president. he's not an advocate. he's not the head of an advocacy group. i think it is almost insulting to try and make the president the head of an advocacy group and i think that if we have competent advocates in civil rights as you do in labor and in women's groups we understand our role and we must pressure whoever is in the white house based on the needs of that constituency. but to expect him to be the leader of an advocacy group against himself is to really say we don't really think he's the president. we just think this is some symbolic gesture.

any more than if he's a union member that he'd become the labor advocate to himself. >> and yet there are, it seems like, a significant number of people out there, particularly on the right, who are very confused or very afraid of president obama. there have been incidents of racism as we saw over the weekend. what do you make of what's going on? >> well, i think that a lot of that is very ugly and frightening. when you see people spitting, spitting on a member of congress, let's step back a minute. spitting on a member of congress. calling people the "n" word. calling people the "f" word in a homophobic way at congressman barney frank, that's way over the line of protest. i've spent most of my life, all of my life as a leader of protest movements but there's a line you draw and you are trying to bring this to some conclusion where one gets something done. but what is gained by this? >> what's fueling this? >> i think a lot of this is the hate rhetoric that has come from people on the right, from talk

shows, from respect for the other channels, that have incited this, that have not in any way stepped back from this. it's dangerous. leaders and advocates have responsibility not to try to incite this kind of violent and vile behavior. >> reverend al sharpton, thanks for coming in this morning. >> thank you. that was part of my interview earlier today with reverend al sharpton. we have this just in. we were talking earlier about the democratic leaders in the house complaining and noting capitol police have received complaints from almost a dozen members of congress who want extra police protection because of some of the incidents over the past couple days. we now have a response from the republican leadership on safety issues. again, raised by the democrats in the wake of the violence targeting members who voted for health care reform. an nbc producer caught up with house minority whip eric cantor who said, quote, no one condones that kind of behavior where you threaten people, where you hurl racial epithets, or spit on

someone. he continued saying, quote, i have made public statements on tv. i have made public statements to reporters. and i continue to speak out against these kinds of activities. we are a free country but no one should be engaging in that kind of uncivil behavior. asked about whether the republicans and the democrats were considering holding some type of joint event to condemn the threats that members have been receiving he said, i have not, that has not even come up. but again, the capitol hill police have apparently had the requests from almost a dozen members of congress for extra protection because of the threats that continue to bombard several members of congress who supported health care reform. one of the hottest new videos on youtube today is a play on president obama's famous "yes we can" campaign chant featuring some of his most famous hollywood supporters and a now infamous refrain from house republican leader john boehner. take a look. >> hell no you can't! >> yes we can.

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april 19th is like christmas day for the militia movement. it's also the anniversary of the branch davidian siege in waco, texas in 1993, which these groups see as a great call it arms against the american government. it is not a coincidence that april 19th is also the day that timothy mcveigh deliberately chose for his bombing of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city. april 19th. that's when the guest speaker is the throw bricks through political office windows guy at the bring your guns to washington rally. >> time now for the shuster showdown. last night msnbc's rachel maddow broke down the threats that face some democratic lawmakers following the signing of the health care bill. she was talking specifically about an upcoming show of force.

on april 19th the western rifle association is sponsoring an open carry rally at virginia's fort hunt national park not too far from washington, d.c. activists are gathering as close to the capitol as possible without violating gun laws. the rules? pistol loaded, openly carried. rifle unloaded, slung to the rear. is this helpful? let's bring in nationally syndicated talk show host and columnist dennis frager of town hall.com and nationally syndicated talk show host bill press. dennis, this member of the alabama constitutional militia who put out a call for the modern sons of liberty to break the windows of democratic party offices, he's apparently one of the speakers at this rally. do you support that? >> what do you think? do you think there is a responsible human right or left that supports violence in this country? look, let me just say, there are two things going on here. one, there is a handful of people on my side who are despicable, who do more good for

you than nancy pelosi does. these people should be paid by you. of course i'm not implying you do this. but that's how harmful they are to the cause of repealing this terrible legislation. number two, you folks on the left will focus on this, rather than on the great issue of the insupportable debt that america will carry and become like greece. that's the big issue. there is a cancer afflicting the country and you will concentrate on athlete's foot. >> actually i wanted to talk about debt in terms of when we weren't paying for the afghan war, iraq war, passing medicare part "d" but a lot of people on the right didn't want that conversation. bill press, your view in terms of what the republican right is up to with these protests and gun rally? >> first of all, i have to say i've known dennis prager a long time since he and i a hundred years ago were on radio together in los angeles and dennis has never used that kind of rhetoric. neither do i and neither would anybody responsible in this

political life of ours. what disappoints me is it took until today that eric cantor, the first republican leader i've heard, stand up and condemn this. over the weekend instead of condemning that kind of language and the insults we saw, they were egging it on. the republicans were out on the balconies of the capitol building, first time ever seen by any capitol reporters egging on the tea partiers on the front lawn. it's just gotten out of hand and i think this -- i mean, david, what i thought of when you showed that location, that open carry gun rally, is the poor security guard who got killed and shot and killed at the entrance of the holocaust museum who just last year here in washington, d.c. i think this is a dangerous, dangerous event. look, i'm all for the second amendment but i don't think this is helpful at all. >> dennis, there's a way all of us on the right and left who are common sense, rational people can say to the fringes on both sides, you're hurting this country. >> that's correct.

if you brought me on to say that i'm happy to say that even though you and i differ on so many matters. on this we have to be in agreement. i couldn't agree more. remember, it really does afflict both sides. the amount of hatred and closing of businesses and smearing of names and protesting at homes after proposition 8 in california, i don't know if you guys covered that. there was a spectacular amount of threats given to people who voted or even gave a hundred dollars just to pass proposition 8 to keep marriage male/female. so this stuff does really transcend political borders. >> i have to say, dennis, in all fairness, the last couple of weeks in washington it has all been coming from the far right. it's all been coming from the extreme parts of the republican party who have been egged on by the leadership. you haven't seen that kind of language on the left at all. in fact, you -- >> i promise we'll do it all side by side one of these days and do a comprehensive comparison. thank you both for coming on today. appreciate it. >> all right. in the past 24 hours there's been almost as much buzz about

what vice president joe biden said at the start of yesterday's health care signing ceremony as what is in the bill, itself. >> [ bleep ]. >> the president did not look amused but the public seems to be. the people who run zazzle.com said they started getting orders minutes after putting this t-shirt up on the web. we've covered the offending word but the t-shirt has the full phrase in its glory for 23 bucks a shirt. and that takes us to our top three today. here's our list of the biggest political open mike moments. we start with former president george bush and dick cheney on the campaign trail in 2000. they were talking about a feisty "new york times" reporter covering their campaign. >> there's adam clymer major league [ bleep ] from the "new york times." >> oh, yeah big time. >> and michael duval caught on open mike on a televised hearing talking about extracurricular activities with not one but two lobbyists.

>> so i've been getting into spanking her. yeah. i like. >> the number one comes from the great communicator himself. in 1984 while running for re-election ronald reagan was preparing for his weekly radio address when he was caught saying this over an open mike. >> i'm pleased to tell you today that i've signed legislation that i've signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever, we begin bombing in five minutes. >> ronald reagan survived that moment and we're pretty sure that vice president biden will survive his gaffe after all, in a special honorable mention in this list today remember biden's boss last year talking about kanye west? >> he's a jackass. >> coming up, blalloon boy's father is out. all the top stories are next and plus a special "schuster's notebook" on the fear mongering rhetoric that some lawmakers are using that health care is reform.

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here's a look at your top stories this wednesday. the man who told authorities his son floated off in a hot air balloon is home from jail to complete the rest of his sentence. richard heaney started to serve his 90-day sentnence january. heaney's story that his son drifted away turned out to be a hoax. saudi arabia, officials arrested a 13 suspected al qaeda militant over five months. many the suspects came on visas to visit holy sites while sneaking across its bordes. wanted to join organized attacks with al qaeda. obama administration wants more information about a new israeli plan. a new plan for 20 apartments is much smaller than the original plan that the united states opposed. finally, we've been talking a lot lately about the highly charged environment here in washington. over the weekend, tea party members protesting health care reform, shouted racial slurs at members of the congressional black caucus as the lawmakers walked into the capitol building. congressman emanuel clever from

missouri was spat upon as he walked into the capitol. yes, somebody spit on him. republican leaders in congress condemn these vial acts today and also said that the incidents were isolated and that none of it was fueled by the ongoing rhetoric in the congressional debate. i'm not so sure. here's republican senator john colburn talking about health care reform just today. >> as i contemplate what's happening, at 62 years of age and looking back through my life, this is undoubtedly the greatest assault on liberty this country's ever had. >> the grainest assault on liberty this country's ever had. >> health care reform is a greater assault on liberty than slavery? good grief, slavery and racism actually denied liberty to millions in the united states. senator coburn is a medical doctor. he's not just some right-wing radio host or paid political provocateur. he's a member of one of the most elite and well-respected bodies in the world.

america's greatest freedoms include the right to free speech, a right we're all blessed to enjoy. however, incendiary rhetoric from members of congress while intended to energize the base can also have an unintended reaction. and that reaction could endanger members of our society including the president of the united states. senator coburn, nobody loves a rough political battle more than i do. and in this great country of ours, i will always fight for your freedom of speech. but our freedoms include the right to label your statement as the kind of rhetoric that inspires lunatics. i'm begging you and every member of congress for the safety of everybody in this capitol, please, please do better. that's our show for this wednesday. i'm david shuster. live in washington. up next the "dylan ratigan show" joining dylan today, tea party leader dale robertson. with 100% of the daily value of 11 essential vitamins and minerals, juicy raisins and crunchy whole grain flakes. guess it's all about what kind of crunch you like.

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