einstein for the united states senator. >> all right, republicans get hit, they've gotten hit, frankly, joy-ann, for calling her nutty. >> yeah. >> there's always some little of discomfort i have when your own party is hitting on you. is there a fine line or do you see this case as something as a fine line and you don't have a choice. >> they get the blessing in the curse of the tea party movement. always these whacky callers that would call in and they were out there. we loved them, but now all the whacky callers are calling for congress and the republicans have to deal with them and they can't walk away from them completely and have to give them support, but they didn't want christine o'donnell. let's keep it real, they didn't want her. michael steele is trying to defend her, but there is nothing he can do. she's a "saturday night live" cartoon at this point. >> the polls show she's getting crushed. maybe going in there was an argument to be made that she is

just like us. you other folks who aren't like me, ivy leaguers, nothing against ivy leaguers, but you haven't done so well. so, maybe, maybe i can bring something fresh, i can bring a different perspective, i dealt with these problems, i know what you're dealing with. is there a point, though, of sort of critical mass when you make so many statements? >> chris, i think that is exactly right. there is a sense that the government is not us. that it is a group of elites who think they know more than we do, who tell us how to get our health care and tell us how to lead our lives and we're tired of that. that's what joy-a ann was saying trying to reclaim the government from those that think they're so much smarter and know so much more than we do. but there is a point where you not only have to be angry and unhappy with the government, but have to be able to articulate alternatives to the policies put in place by this administration and that's where sometimes the

cants come up a little bit short. >> does it taint the tea party movement and what does it mean for their political power post-election do you think? >> there fact that there are millions of americans who are angry and dissatisfied with the course of this government is positive because i am, too. the bill of rights said we have the freedom to speak and freedom to choose our own leaders and they're exercising that right. but, ultimately, a majority of the voters have to be convinced not just of angry because majority share that anger but the person expressing that anger will have the ability to contribute in a positive way once they win office. >> i'm not always thrilled with my doctor or the person who fixes my car. i want my government to be smarter than me and i want people to know what we're doing. i don't want joe the butcher to be president of the united states. i love how he does the part of getting me the right cut of steak. i will not have th-- even allen

west has a higher security clearance than the president of the united states. there are real caricatures that the tea party movement got on the ballot but they speak to it as a temper tantrum that runs for republicans but long term this is not the party that the party william f. buckley wants to go forward with. to be associated with so many sort of wild sharron angle and other characters. >> the democrats nominated south carolina person who is, i never registered to vote. >> you don't have the democratic national committee coming out and saying, i can't wait to call al green senator. >> but if they asked him, they would say, yes, he is our candidate. >> the party is putting no resources behind pim. the the parties are supporting the sharron angle. >> viable alternative to harry reid. >> sharron angle wants to

privatize administration -- >> she wants to repeal obama care and undo the trillion dollar deficit. >> and get rid of social security and medicare. she said it. she's on the record. >> she doesn't want to undo social security. >> we're going to leave it at that. this is a debate going on across the country and it will all come to a head in november. thank you, both. you're going to be back. we appreciate that. with recent polls suggesting democrats are actually narrowing the gap with some republicans, party officials say they still have their work cut out for them and that includes working class voters and there's a new poll out from the associated press that shows white voters without four-year college degrees but for republicans over democrats, get that. 58 to 36%. 22-point difference. let's bring in mary kay henry into the conversation. she is president of one of the nation's largest unions the service employees international union. mary kay, this is such a total

shift for unions for working class americans to see those kinds of numbers. what do you make of it? >> well, chris, i think that working class americans are looking at the moment that we're in and confronting the crisis for working people and are going to face a very clear choice on november 2nd and i'm really confident that people will begin to examine who stands on building the middle class and who stands on the side of corporate interest. >> we're getting down to the wire here and you look at those numbers and, frapgly, they're pretty shocking. that is a huge gap, that is a huge gap. these are the folks who aditionally not only went to the polls but you folks in the unions got out to help get out the vote. they were instrumental in a lot of democratic victories all through the years. >> well, i am confident because i think people are very frustrated and angry at a moment where corporations are clearly taking advantage of people's

fear about 25 million working people not being able to find a job in this country. and as the debate sharpens and the contrasts become clearer, i'm confident that working people are going to want candidates elected officials that help get america back to work. >> there's another big group of voters that are going to potentially be key and there's a new poll from the pew hispanic center that finds they're soledly with the democrats but, again, this big enthusiasm gap and only 51% of registered latino voters said they're certain to vote next month and your group is going over meg whitman appealing to hispanic voters. how criticate is it and what can you do, again, in less than four weeks to get that vote out for the democrats? >> we have thousands of members all across this country reaching out in latino communities and helping our members and their neighbors and families understand that there is a key

choice that that community faces november 2nd. we need to fix our broken immigration system. we need to get elected officials that are willing to stand up and make sure 11 million workers have equal rights with the rest of us in getting america's economy going again. >> that is your message, but how do you get it across and how do you translate that into getting people to the polls? >> we have thousands of members who have taken time off the job, they're recruiting and thousands more volunteers. we are on the phones and we are door knocking in neighborhoods and speaking at our churches and doing everything we can to make it crystal clear that we face an incredible choice november 2nd because middle class america is being hurt and we want to stand up and speak out and get our elected officials to stand with us and call corporate america back to the table to share our responsibility. >> i want to get this in real quickly because i think the enthusiasm gap, we hear a lot about it and we see a lot of

polls and i want to get your take on it, i do you think we're going to be come election day? or, we have to understand the fact that now a pretty significant number of americans vote early, too. they may not have until the first week of november. >> chris, i think we just heard respaektfully one of the reasons why so many working class americans are going to vote republican. we didn't hear anything about how we're going to create jobs or the fact that it's the entrepreneur or small business person did that. it's anti-corporate rhetoric when we have the highest number of americans on food stamps ever. they know when you demonize, those who create jobs you're going to have fewer jobs and when you raise their taxes and put fines and penalties on top of them, the penalties will stop being created. i think the american people are looking two years later and saying, my goodness. this is not the change we wanted and we have to do, put in place

people who are going to help create jobs and opportunities. >> i think, governor, leading in new york you brought together hospitals and workers to help expand coverage for adults and children and i think in this moment we have an experience where corporate america is taking advantage of middle class fears. i just met with -- >> how are they doing that? tell me -- >> express scrips is a corporation that has gone after us and said that they're going to move their company, 900 people will lose their jobs unless they give wage cuts, pays for insurance and give up their pensions and they're making money. there is a highest exec comp bonus as ever and we think there is something wrong with an economy where those kind of corporate decisions can be made in the midst of the biggest kriss for working people. >> we know something's wrong with our economy, but i don't think it's the failure of companies if they want to hire

more workers. they will hire more workers if it's in their interest. when they're getting hit with higher taxes and obama care that will impose massive new costs on employers for each employee when they have uncertainty to where what is going to happen when you have a $1.5 trillion deficit coming out of washington, they're reluctant to hire and i understand that. we need to get our economy going, but we're not going to do it with the policies of the last two years. >> how can you explain in the moment of this recession and income and equality is growing and wages are stagnant and corporate profits are up? i'm not trying to dispute -- >> because the employers are frightened of the economic climates. small businesseserant hiring people. i have a little small business that i run with one of my partners. we just got hit with a 20% increase in our health care costs largely because of what's coming out of washington. >> no, that's largely because of insurance companies taking advantage of being able to do

rate increases before the law goes into effect. >> dropping programs because of the policies that are taking effect. but we could debate this, but i honestly, i honestly think the economy as you point out -- >> i do debate it. >> then you should run for office. >> no, no, no, i'm going to represent workers and we're going to hold workers accountable. >> the policies of this administration fail and we will have more workers, more members of your union, if we have a change in the makeup of congress come this november. i honestly believe that. >> you have been so patient, i'll let you have the last word. >> i think it's amazing here, i think i have to hand it to corporate america. they found a way to sort of demand their tax cuts for themselves, cuts in regulation, they want to be unfedered and they found a way to get working class people to stand on the side, really, of the top two%. it's like a hostage situation. give us our tax cuts for the top 2% and get rid of regulation and

let us operate the way we did under the bush era and the way we did in the '20s and that's really the situation that working class people find themselves in. i think a lot of people are susceptible to the corpora corporate-funded appeals. white class america has been trending that way for a while. >> i want a yes and no vote because then we have to go. given this anger that's out there, are people going to stay home because they're so mad they don't want to vote for anybody? yes or no vote or are we going to see a high turn out for this? >> i think we're going to see probably average turn out for midterm. >> i think we'll see a high turn out of those who believe we need to change this administration. >> mary kay? >> we are getting out of our chairs and getting out of our homes and going to vote. >> mary kay henry, thank you so much. governor, joy-ann, great prov provocative discussion. thank you. faisal shahzad says the defeat of the u.s. is imminent.

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france is now warning travelers that there is "a very likely risk of a terror attack in britain." this fresh warning comes as a convoy carrying britain's number two diplomat in yemen was hit by rocket fire in the capital. he was not hurt. but in pakistan another deadly insurgent attack blowing up more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel to u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan. one driver there was killed. we're joined by two top terrorism experts managing

director for counterterrorism and a former fbi special agent brad thor a former homeland security consultant and best selling author. and governor pataki continues to stay with us. ookay, let me start with you, i know you're just back from speaking at this terrorism summit in israel, tell me about the concerns you heard there about the threat to europe. >> well, chris, the most interesting thing is that i was able to moderate two panels of international experts. the first on aviation and security. the question always is why is aviation remaining in the forefront of terrorism organization attack path. >> i asked myself a few times myself as i walked through security recently. did you get some good answers on that? >> i did. interestingly enough, it's an economic impact. the direct cost of the aviation domain are astronomical.

a $500,000 investment in the 9/11 attacks and the direct impact from that was about $7 billion. we've done studies on the short and long-term direct costs and we can see why they continue to target. >> it works. okay, that's the first thing. what is the other panel you heard? >> the other panel i heard was americans and al qaeda. and who would have ever thought i would moderate a manu apanel middle east about al qaeda. everyone is concerned about these radicalization effort of persons in the west. the number two in al qaeda said years ago he wanted to recruit people with western passports and it would appear that they're there. >> we are going to talk more about this tomorrow, brad, but i was talking to another one of our terrorism analysts because i was very curious about the fact that this latest terror threat you have algerians and germans and i was curious about the

languages and the number of languages that al qaeda uses to recruit in is astonishing. they have such breath in terms of their videos and the number of countries they go out to in their native languages. tell me about this radicalization network that is going on. >> al qaeda in general is a philosophy. you have this think globally but act locally. what is scary in the united states, what we're seeing now we talked earlier about the somali muslims that are going over, erroll mentioned that over to somalia to get training and fight and come potentially bring that home. what we're finding now is a schism happening in al qaeda because arabs and they're very racist and they place a low premium on black muslim life. so, they are recruiting in africa and also heavily

recruiting in america's prisons. we talk about the broad international scope, the umbrella that al qaeda covers but in the united states we have a real serious problem with al qaeda trying to go after young black men in prisons hoping they can turn them against their own country. >> we were looking earlier and we saw "the new york post" cover faisal shahzad, why i want to kill you. he went on this rant yesterday. you were governor during 9/11. did you think we'd be at this point now and what about this ongoing threat to new york? >> no, i didn't. shahzad is frightening not just because he wants to kill as many americans as possible, but because he is a citizen and he gut here legally. i think what we have to do is understand the nature of the threat. as brad was saying, this is something where they are now recruiting in the west, taking people who have our passports or our citizenships and training them. so, we have to be very proactive about our intelligence and also,

globally, have to do everything we can to prevent them from having safe havens and training camps. i mean, he trains overseas after becoming an american citizen and there should be some way our intelligence is able to monitor people who are going off for training of that tape. >> chris, i would argue, erroll, brought up a great point of the cost of the aviation industry after 9/11. they want it to be bigger and we talked earlier about attacking women and children, that would have an impact on this country that would dwarf 9/11. parents would pull their children out of school. one parent would stay home and not work. >> governor, brad, ñrerroll, thanks to all of you for this important discussion. well, i mean, you couldn't turn much more, make a bigger turn than this one, but, you know this fashion trend among teens. governor and i were talking about it.

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tonight, a town meeting at rutgers university to remember tyler clementi. last week he committed suicide after another student broadcast a video on the internet showing him engaged in a sexual encounter. a lot of officials are expected to attend this meeting, including both of new jersey's senators and several members of congress. prosecutors have charged molly wei and fellow rutgers freshman with invasion of privacy. wei's lawyer issued a statement saying she's innocent. you know this trend among young men allegedly drove one man to pull out a gun. we're talking about, if you can believe it, saggy pants. police in memphis say a 45-year-old man got into an

argument with a couple of teenagers over their fashion choice and shot one of them in the rear end. kenneth bonds is accused of firing several shots at the teens. the injured teen's wound is not critical, we're happy to say. jeff gar dear is a psychologist and former prosecutor susan filan joins, us as well. i hate this look, i wish they'd stop it. i don't want to see anyone's underwear, but, jeff, what's going on? it bothers him so much that he apparently pulled out a gun. >> chris, you're not old, you're mature and getting better. >> this is why we keep having you on. >> this there is something seriously wrong with this man who shot at those kids and actually hit one of them with a bullet. first of l what is he doing with a gun, secondly, one thing this whole issue of it takes a village to raise a child. s we see this in many inner cities

and attended conferences where african-americans look out for one another to help elevate our kids to a better standard as far as education and life. it's a whole other thing when you shoot somebody in the behind because they're not doing what you asked. >> we're looking at a big gap there. two towns in louisiana actually made sagging pants illegal. fines include fines and jailtime. >> unless it's indecent exposure, it's really a free speech issue. unless it infringes on somebody else's right not to see nudity or indecent exposure. there may be limitations that a school can put on your attire, but a town cannot. and i think that there may be a town ordinance of some sort if it's something that is ooooffenoo offensive, but, no. >> a school can set a dress

code, which is a totally different thing. >> the whole thing of the stereotype. we see young, black men wearing the saggy pants -- >> not only. >> not only. we see white youth, of course. >> bad fashion knows no -- >> we automatically think that they're thugs and i can tell you that i know many young people i work with who wear the saggy pants and i don't, i don't allow my kids to do that, but what other parents allow their kids to do is something else. but i know them and they're very smart kids. >> and you get to hoodies and then you get to skirt length and heel height and where do you draw the line? i don't think law can get into clothing, again, unless you're talking about indecent exposure. >> once you start talking heel height, i'm cutting off the conversation. pirates along the u.s./mexico border. an american couple is attacked and the husband is missing. how common is this? overweight kids face

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call or click now for an agent or quote. today divers will join helicopter pilots and boaters in a big search for david hartley. tiffany hartley standing by her story that mexican pirates shot her husband on fellcon lake along the texas/mexican border. the sheriff believes her. they knew there was trouble out there. richard lui went to take a closer look at this region and what did we find out? >> chris, situations like this according to what we're finding at the moment are not quite so uncommon. when we look at reports in the last couple months, "the washington post" listed many attacks on falcon lake. they describe buccaneers dressed in black and using automatic weapons and they have radio cell phones and boarding these

fishing boats which are defenseless and when they don't find weapons or guns they grab all the cash that they can, that's typical. this lake, falcon lake is the turf of what is called a famouses drug cartel in the area and like some of the other cartels and gangs, it is feuding with its other cartels and gangs in the area. now, as the feuding increases, which has been the case in the last year, we were reporting that. that leaves less time to smuggle dope. so, they get hungry because they're not getting that income and then the pirating, the buccaneering, it increases. now, i want to blow that out a little bit not just this one area we're talking about. an unclassified map from the national drug intelligence center. i want you to look at this border area right here. the darker colors mean higher activities in terms of drug seizure and the lighter colors mean less. this is where lorado is and if you can see my finger right here

roughly 60 miles due south that is where falcon lake is. that's the border area. this area not used to seeing this type of activity. another map. we're looking at the border here, but these are the drug flows. you can count five colors here coming from the border going north all the way if you follow three of them to the border with canada. so, these areas, this action that's happening on the corner here, chris, as you can see why this incident is still taking a look at, it is common and it is spreading throughout the entire nation. >> richard, great reporting. i want to bring in former fbi profiler and he is joining us via skype and brad thor has stayed with us. brad, what else can you tell us about these so-called pirates along the border there? >> well, part of what they represent, chris, is a $25 billion, that's b like in boy, a $25 billion drug industry between mexico and the united

states, in essence, flowing up to mexico. chris, know the two largest drug cartels. one called the federation and the other called the golf cartel, just those two cartels in mexico alone can count 100,000 soldiers. chris, the entire mexican soldier only has 130,000 soldiers. so, if those two cartels ever stop fighting each other and combine to take on the mexican army, i mean, this number of 6,000 murders in mexico, 500 kidnappings a month near the u.s. border could even get greater. so, i think what we're seeing here, as richard pointed out, is this is just the small epicenter that reflects the drug trafficking and how much it's worth to the mexican drug cartels to keep those traffic lanes open. >> the other thing about this, brad, maybe i'm just reading about the most horrific incidents, but since this happened i have been doing

background work of my own, they're absolutely fearless. >> i don't refer to them as the cartels any more. i call them the mexican ahmadinejad. these guys are doing car bombings and assassinations and chopping people's heads off. richard nailed it the zatas were originally mexican special forces and now you have young people who have all the special forces training from the prior special forces guys and they're following the drug deals. they are crossing our borders and coming up. what was talked about on another network was tiffany and david hartley were taking pictures at the time they were engaged by these people. a half sunken church, did they photograph something they should not have been photographing? was this wrong place, at the wrong time? did they jump the wake of a boat as jake skiers will normally do and see something they should not have seen. a lot of unanswered questions here. what we need to be concerned about is i think mexico will be

similar to chetnia for us as far as the amount of violence that spills into our cities and what we see here. >> brad, to the pictures you're alluding to, there have been reports of the bandits going to these cameras and taking out the memory chips. they're not dumb. they realize they're getting so close to these other boats, they're going to take out the memory chips, no proof. if there are pictures that could be an instigator here. >> they're looking for the body here and they're diving and it happened almost a week ago. now, after some questions were raised by mexican officials, did her story add up? obviously, at least the local sheriff there is taking it seriously. what are you looking at to try to figure out what exactly went down? >> well, i think there is a lot of questions here. i think some were answered this morning on "today" show when meredith vieira asked the sheriff if there were any witnesses and he said, yes, one witness to the wife allegedly of

running her jet ski back to the american side and perhaps being pursued by a boat with four or five people. and that appears to be different than one story she told. but let's take her story. she's a grieving widow right now. we take that story at face value, but, chris, part of what i think is when the sheriff said, when the sheriff was asked if he can participate in the search, he said the mexicans have offered but it's too dangerous for me to send deputies over they might get in a gun battle and cause an international incident. chris f the mexican authorities, the coast guard, whatever it is is going to be involved in that search and the sheriff is still so concerned about getting into a shootout that he can't send his people over, what does that say about everyday activities in that part of the world? >> who can do it? the mom, the missing man's mom has asked the president for help. >> hillary clinton. >> who, on the record or off the record, who could go help figure

out what happened here? >> well, we've just sent 1,200 troops down to the border. i think we're reluctant or not, we need to do something down there and, also, keep in mind, there are concrete pillars that mark the kind of, the dividing line between mexico and the united states in these waters. these folks crossed over, apparently, they were on the mexican side. this is a serious issue. we have to take this seriously all across our border. we have americans being killed and i don't know if it's president obama, secretary of state hillary clinton. something needs to be done and i tell you the one group that we should be looking at stepping things up are the mexicans themselves. this is their problem, their backyard and they need to be doing more than they are doing. >> then on our side, very simple. stay on this side of those beacons. those 14 beacons. >> one thing i think they said is there hasn't been a real problem in the last month or two so they felt it was safe. probably not the best decision when you know what's going on down there. >> very unfortunate. >> brad, thank you, richard, of course. clint, as always, we appreciate it. >> thanks, chris.

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two gop titans have done everything possible to take back the house in 20 days. karl rove and ed gillespie plan to spend more than $4 million on ads in tight races. ed gillespie joins me now. it has been a while. how are you? do we have, do we have his mike? ed? okay, i'm sorry, for a minute i couldn't hear you. $4.2 million announced tuesday by american cross roads and cross roads gps raising any doubts about there being too much concern about where money's coming from, but where exactly is it coming from? who's giving you $4.2 million?

>> well, just be clear, there seems to be some confusion, they're not giving it to me. i'm not on the board of american crossroads or gps or american crossroads or cross roads gps. >> it 'cauwas not conceived by and karl rove? >> after the last election we talked to a number of republicans and conservatives and said that things have gotten oout of control in terms of the left and their use of these institutions on the outside. you know, chris, in 2008 supporters of president obama and folks who agree with his agenda spent $1.1 billion in the election year versus only $634 million for those who supported senator mccain and his agenda. that's a $500 million gap. so, you know, karl and i encourage people to form organizations to encounter the left and the infusion of money that was coming from outside groups on the left. c4s and 527s and organizations like that. a number of them have come

together. so, to the extent that, you know, that carl and i helped to encourage folks to participate in this process and to counter the left with similar organizations, that's accurate. >> well, extremely influential, i would say. 4.2 brings crossroads and crossroads gps to $18 million. certainly not anything to sneeze at. but of this 4.2 million, 75% of donors are anonymous and you know that's what has gotten some democrats up in arms asking the irs to look into this. why can't we know who's giving money to this? legitimately, should the irs be looking into it? >> first of all, good to address your questions to mike duncan who is the chairman of the board at american crossroads or joann davidson -- >> let me tell you what steven law said because he was asked about this and he basically acknowledged that privacy,

frankly, probably is the reason that it's getting so much money. he said, i wouldn't want to discount the value of confidentiality to some donors. >> well, sure, i think on the left and on the right and, again, organizations on the left have spent millions of dollars in undisclosed from undisclosed donors. that's the law and they're perfectly free to do that and conservative groups are perfectly free to do it, as well. what you're seeing now, chris, an orchestrated effort by the organized left to try to intimidate these groups from participating in the democratic process, even though they have been doing it themselves for, you know, for two cycles while conservatives and republicans, largely have not. so i'm glad american crossroads is out there and the american action network is out there and i'm glad a number of other outfits, the chamber of commerce and i'm not surprised that people in positions of power, democrats in particular, chairman of influential committees like the senate finance committee or the house

judiciary committee are trying to bring the full weight of the federal government to bear against these organizations even though they're the ones that passed these laws. i oppose mccain/feingold and warned that outside groups were going to flourish and parties would diminish as a result of that. that's exactly what happened and now the folks who passed these bills say we'll try to stop the activity that we passed in legislation. >> let me ask you a question then whether the group is right leaning or left leaning, should the irs look at some of these groups that giving substantial amounts of money to campaigns to make sure that all laws are being complied with if 75% of the people, we don't know who they are. >> again, gps and the other force, look y know they are very scrupulous adhering to the law and they have said as much publicly. i have no reason to doubt that and i don't, i don't see where the democrats have any reason to doubt it either, by the way.

you know, they're just upset that what the geese have been doing for two cycles the gander is now doing and they don't like it. the same set of rules that they all play by and if folks are looked into, look into the left and the right because they play by the same set of rules. >> let me get your assessment of this because we do have this interesting dynamic in the republican party. on one hand, you have $18 million going just into cro crossroads. on the other hand, you have all of this anger and enthusiasm fueling the tea party, this grassroots movement that really seems not to want to have one leader, doesn't want to be one cohesive party. is this a problem for the republicans? i mean, i know what he did in some of the races. it took what might have been stronger republican candidates out of the running in some of the primaries, but where do you assess the state of the gop to be right now? >> well, let me just two parts of your comments here, chris. first, in terms of the outside

spending. i'm willing to bet you right here, right now that those groups on the left, like the afl-cio, moveon.org, moving america forward, the natural resources defense council, center for american progress, down the line they will spend more in the political cycle than groups on the right and the conservative cycle. >> just using it as a contrast to the tea party and what is this sort of grassroots movement versus -- >> right, i understand, my point is the contrast really should be with those liberal groups. but as for the tea party folks, look, we have had 19 million americans vote in republican primaries in this election year and that's 4 million more voters who voted in republican primaries than the democratic primaries. that's the first time i believe since world war ii that more republicans have voted in primaries than democrats have voted for primaries. that enthusiasm out there, that excitement, that new energy, those new voters coming into the

political process are a huge asset to republican candidates. now, there's been some enthusi are a huge asset to republican candidates. now, there's been some disruption. some of the folks who have been around for a long time were upended and were defeated in primaries, but the energy that comes with those new candidates -- and i think this is a great year, by the way, if you're going to have unconventional unestablished candidates running for office, this is a great year to have them on the running ticket and the voters they bring with them will be a huge asset across the board, and that's why i think you're going to see the house go republican, the senate may go republican. we'll have over 30 republican governors in this country and about ten legislative chambers around the country which will have a huge impact on redistricting. tea party voters are fueled by too much debt, taxation, too much intervention by the

government in our economy.ñr much the same as shared by the republicans. i hope they come out and vote in droves on november 2nd. >> i have to go because the current rcn chairman was a guest on lawrence o'donnell. i'm going to steal a line from him. as a former rcn chair i'm going ask you the same question about christine o'donnell. she said the china has a carefully thought out and ext strategic plan to take over america. she said i wish i wasn't privy to some of the classified information i'm privy to. do you think christine o'donnell has classified information. >> i don't know what information christine o'donnell has. i think's a allegedly mat concern or to which china controls our debt and the impact it has on our economy. >> you know that's not the question. the question is her making a statement that she has this -- she has classified inform snoogs well, chris, you're asking me a question i can't answer.

i don't know what information christine o'donnell has or doesn't have. >> do you think it's likely? >> i think if she says she has information that indicates that china has a plan to increase its influence over the economy, i'm not sure how many people can argue with that. whether it's classified or not, i don't know. >> all right. ed gillespie, it's good to see you. thanks so much for coming on. high school cheerleaders take a stand. they're fed up with the skimpy uniforms and they're fighting back. [ william ] three years ago, i started my first real job

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so a group of connecticut high school cheerleaders actually wants to cover up. don't want to wear skimpy skirts that show their stomachs while they're cheering, and they went to the board of education while they were complaining. >> i felt overexposed. my whole stomach was out. it's on yahoo, connecticut post, everything. it was really bad. really bad. i don't like that. there's grown men at the games. you know, there's a whole bunch

of people out there. i don't want my stomach showing. >> they said they've already reordered new uniforms. they're trying to make the girls happy, but they can wear black body suits underneath it to hide their skin. that's going to do it for me. see you back here tomorrow. contessa brewer picks it up from here. >> i think you meant 10:00 a.m. chris, thank you very much. hillary clinton's responding to questions about whether she will replace joe biden. we're watching for facebook's major announcement. hundreds of millions of friends using facebook. and the hottest thing on the web right now, why everyone is searching for cigar guy. i'm done with airline credit cards

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