galena espinoza jonathan capehart, msnbc political analyst pat buchanan and from the foundation for a smoke free america, patrick reynolds. good wednesday morning, i'm chris jansing. this is jansing and company and don't you just love politics. she calls him a marxist and she calls him an extremist and that wasn't the most contentious part of the debate. christine o'donnell and chris coons they did talk issues between insalts. coons is up double digits in the latest polls but this played like street fighters at times in a race to the finish. >> i would argue that there are more people who support my catholic faith than his marxist beliefs. and i'm using his own words. >> i am not now nor have i ever been anything but a clean shaven capitalest. >> joining me now, jonathan capehart and pat buchanan.

it's fascinating, actually, reading some of the reviews of this. the "atlanti"atlantic" said o'd did not seem uncomfortable for one second. and then "washington post" jonathan, you always have to put a damper on things said, she thinks she can say things she doesn't really know as long as she does it without a hint of doubt. give me your assessment of this debate last night. >> i agree with "the washington post." the think about christine o'donnell, great, she got the nomination and got people within the republican party to make her the senate nominee but when she has to go toe-to-toe with chris coons she tries to laugh her way out of tough situations. she's just not ready to be senator. she's not ready to represent the people of delaware and i don't know what atlantic and politico saw, but i know what i saw and -- >> what did you see, pat buchanan? >> pat thought she wiped the floor up with him.

>> i'm shocked. i'm shocked that is his response. >> chris, i tell you what, expectations were not high. i was apprehensive watching her and i was astonished at her poise and presence and she's extremely personable and i think her verbiage is excellent. she made his points, but i think she rose above her expectations and those first two folks had said, you know, she didn't miss a beat. i think that's pretty much correct in terms of how you looked that two people there. obviously, i agree with many of her arguments, but overall in terms of appearance. >> i want to stop you there, pat, because that's the point i want to make for jonathan and the argument at the heart of this. let's point out, again, she's way behind in the polls. but if you watch that debate and listen to it last night, there were clear differences. you really saw where they stood on key issues. let me play you a couple little clips here so you get an idea of what i'm talking about. >> you say you're concerned about reducing costs but this

health care bill has caused costs to sky rocket. you say it's partisan bickering but one out of four democrats have gone on record saying they oppose obama care and they realize we made a bad mistake and what this bill does is it gives a massive government control over health care. >> health care, education, taxes, galina, there may be a lot of people listening, frankly, who agree with her positions. >> for a lot of people who only know christine o'donnell as being the whacky comments and know about her comments of formerly being a witch and dabbling in that stuff. she came across as not so whacky during this debate. you know, she did flub a lot of things. she goofed up when they asked her about recent supreme court decisions. she didn't really demonstrate an understanding of marxism at all and, yet, she didn't come across as whacky, which i think a lot of people were expecting her to do. >> you mention the supreme court, which means i have to play that little clip.

it does sort of bring to mind another candidate who a lot of people thought was very personable, questioned some of her grauvitous, sarah palin, remember when this question was asked of her. let's play those little clips. >> so, what opinions of late that have come from our high court do you most object to? i can't because i need you to tell me which ones you object to. >> i'm very sorry right off the top of my head. i know that there are a lot, but i'll put it up on my website. >> well, let's see, there's, of course, in the great history of america there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every american. >> okay, pat, so my question about that is, and it's funny or

uncomfortable, however you want to phrase it to watch, but, honestly, just my opinion as a voter, if somebody gives the gotcha question like who is the vice chancellor of germany, i, honestly, am not going to rule somebody out if they can't name some obscure political office holder but is this a gotcha question or is this something that christine o'donnell has to know? >> well, i think it's a very fair question, quite frankly. and it adds an aspect of the gotcha question to it. i can't recall one immediately some recent decision maybe it's because scalia and his friends have been making the correct decisions and they have five votes. >> that's good, pat. >> nice way to spin it. >> what galena said earlier is the expectations were who was the sort of cookie young lady and she came on and she belonged in that debate and she is personable. that's why i think, overall, she

won it. it's the same thing. you know, jack kennedy, famously, they said he can't handle it, nixon is a great debater and kennedy was equal to nixon. people said, hey, wait a minute, that guy belongs there. >> i need to move on to a couple other quick things because we've got michelle obama is early voting in chicago this morning at the mlk community center on the south side, but as we watch this, she started to get out on campaign trail just a little bit. very clearly targeted races. i want to plifor you how she described alexi yesterday. >> we need you to knock on those doors for this handsome young man. he's, people will vote for him. >> she's good, isn't she? >> sounded almost motherly when she said it. >> motherly, but, okay, look, if

pat buchanan can say is an attractive woman then it's fine for the first lady of the united states to say the man she's campaigning for is a handsome man. >> sarah palin road the attractive label pretty far. >> still. >> even though we've been talking politics, one of the things that we discussed yesterday with all the bad stuff going on in the world with the economy and on and on and on, it was so compelling to see these mine miners, the 33rd came out last night just about 9:00 eastern time. i have to show you, of course, the new york tabloids never to rain on an otherwise positive moment. they're talking about the one miner whose wife didn't show up but his mistress did. holy snit. as they're about to embrace one another he's all mine, get it? anyway, that aside, i have to tell you about the funniest

thing i thought was on late night tv last night. imagine a reality show based on the miners through the eyes of jimmy kimmel. take a look. >> 33 rescued miners. 67 angry women in one house. they'll make it out. mineer pad, miner love major drama. only on oxygen. >> that is going to be buno. >> you heard it here first, pat buchanan, they want you to host that show. >> i used to host a show like that called "crossfire." >> the light of the morning with patrick buchanan. >> let me just say, this was such an authentic thing and i'm afraid now we'll get into the

book contract and there was a 24-hour period there that was genuine drama and authenticity and it was real. >> it was, indeed. if you didn't feel something when you saw those guys embracing their wives, embracing their young children, i mean, you don't have a heart, right? >> you couldn't help but be moved by that. truly, truly a miracle and great news for a conthat so often the news about it is negative. >> we really do want to hear about what's going on with those miners, the serious stuff. back with our company. we have a lot more politics to talk about, but let's go to camp hope in chile where nbc's nattily morales has been throughout. what is the latest from there, natalie? we're all just mesmerized by this story. >> i know, i know. i got to tell you, i was in downtown copiapo last night which is the hometown of the miners and the plaza had a huge jumbotron and everyone was watching as the number 33 miner

was brought out. we were just transfixed on the coverage. it took less than 22 hours to get all of these guys out. truly, a miracle operation. the rescuers are heroes themselves today. but, you know, the real story here is what happens now and also the background on these guys. like, how did they survive those 70 days underground. what they were they doing in all that time? slowly, we're starting to hear more details trickling out about that. they are in the hospital right now. they'll spend the next 24 to 48 hours being evaluated and making sure that everything is okay before they are released and then they will be able to return home, back to somewhat their ordinary lives, although far from ordinary these days. of course, they are international celebrities. there is so much media interest. you talked about the book deals and all that, there are a lot of film crews here documenting this whole process, as well. there is a book, a deal i

believe in the works, as well. this is one of those stories that you can be guaranteed that we will be reading and hearing about for years to come. >> without a doubt. thank you so much, natalie. thank you for your reporting throughout. >> sure. a lot of other news today, including if you've ever owned a home, ever hoped to. important new numbers are out this morning that show this past summer was the worst three months for home foreclosures since the housing bubble burst in 2006. more than 200,000, that's up from the year before. now, if the bank is freezing money on those foreclosures, if that drags on for months or more, it could have a severe effect on home sales and prices. we're going to talk about that impact a little later on. meantime, more than 70 people are under arrest after setting up dozens of phony medical clinics from coast to coast in the biggest medicare fraud case ever. prosecutors claim that the crime ring tried to cheat taxpayers out of $163 million and actually

collected on more than $35 million by using stolen doctor and patient identities. and to get even bigger, the world's largest retailer is getting smaller. walmart says it's going to open dozens of small stores in the nation's biggest cities. plans places where it has run into fierce opposition over its attempts to build those superstars but where local retailers and dollar chains have been raking in a lot of money. the power of young voters was huge in electing barack obama to the white house, but what a difference two years makes. richard lui is working on that story. hey, richard. >> the youth vote. so crucial to president obama in 2008 and certainly crucial in 2010. or, maybe not shows some data. how the man who made history is now fighting to change it again. chris? also this hour, residents from maryland to maine are getting ready for a nasty nor'easter heading their way. heavy rain, strong winds, we have the latest on that. and are these graphic ads

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welcome back. a lot of republicans aren't happy about this, but president obama is going to go before an mtv audience in washington later today. mtv says, look, he's the president. he's not on the ballot, so, it's not political. but, of course, young voters stormed on to the political scene in 2008, giving obama a big edge and democrats have made no secret, they need those voters in november. so, what's all the fighting about? richard lui got inside of all the numbers to take a look at the younger generation's impact on the polls. interesting story, richard. >> we look at it again today in 2010. unfortunately here if you look at some of the numbers history is working against the president and pushed to mobilize a youth vote to support democrats. this is why.

youth voters go to the polls during mid-term years about half as often.ç now, add to that a poll showing how youth approve of the president's job, you can see in may 2009, 60% approved, 15% do not. that goes down to september 2010, we can see the two different numbers and, chris, when you look at these numbers. what i'm noticing is how this is narrowing. this gap from 45 points down to about 17. be different if they're both trending down, but they're coming together. that has to be one of the considerations when we look at this data. however, president obama is not like previous presidents. 2008 was a standout certainly when it comes to the presidential candidate mobilizing the youth vote and it might be because candidate obama got them to think, as simple as that. this trend line we have right here from gallup shows how much thought, basically think time that youth gave in elections over the past 16 years and in

2008, boy, he got a lot. look at this, think time 75% of the youth vote. now, the challenge is to get them to do that very same thing today and what we did is we want to get a sense of whether they were thinking. i asked some voters, young voters what they thought. >> i want to hear a plan of action. i want to hear, i don't want to hear that everything is wrong. this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. i want to hear this is wrong and this is how we're going to fix it. >> i'm concerned when i get out of college will i have a job in the future. >> i don't think my friends are voting. i say the things you want to do. i wish i xu more and i wish i was more knowledgeable and educated in it, but i'm not. >> they were going to vote, but this is an indicator, perhaps, of how inspired or not this category of young voters are. seen often as people underneath the age of 30. the president here trying to tap into the inspiration of 2008 into 2010. here, chris, that desire to get

help him to get people to say, hey, what you want me to get done in 2008, i still need your help today. he needs to get that message across. >> we'll see what happens this afternoon. in the meantime, we wanted to know what's on the minds of young voters. we brought in some politically active college students. we got them here from some long distances. emma galan is the president of penn democrats john is the president of the fordm university college republicans  is the president of the college democrats of boston college. so, john, you're outnumbered. >> that's okay. >> i'll start with you. what is it going to take this election season? i can tell you since i was your age and i was in the college and i was in the middle of it, we're energized and the numbers were really poor until barack obama. what is it going to take to get people involved? >> probably just raising awareness. this year is an election year, mid-term election year, so it's more localized rather than a

presidential election where it's more movement. >> so college students aren't tuned in to who their local congressman is going to be. >> hard to get people involved into that. this year particularly with the tea party and people are becoming at least more aware of their local politicians. >> emma, do you find what's hapwing older voters, there is this enthusiasm gap. people so excited about barack obama in 2008, frankly, the way the economy has been going and the way they see their future going. they're just not that interested. they don't want to vote for the republicans, but they're not going to go out there and vote at all. >> i don't think this is any different than any normal difference between a mid-term election and a presidential year. we always see a lower voter turnout in a mid-term year. i don't see the enthusiasm gap the same way that it has been publicized. >> you think students on your campus are excited, politically active? >> yeah. >> what kinds of things are going on at penn that make you say that? >> we do phone banking every

week and we've brought in a lot of candidates to come speak to students and talk about elections and our numbers have been going up every single week. we started out getting maybe five or six people and now we're up to about 20. a really big difference. >> chris, what's going on at bc? >> as far as i'm concerned there is not an enthusiasm gap at bc. last night we had 30 people phone banking in connecticut and this weekend we'll spend the entire weekend in plymouth canvassing for the congressional candidate there. >> but you see the numbers and, i mean, polls can be off. but generally for stuff like this, there are not very far off. if you think that it is hard in places maybe where you're not or maybe outside of your circle because you, obviously, operate within very politicalç circles. so, it could be a little bit skewed. what will it take? if you're just sitting around having a beer, what is it that folks your age, john, are talking about? >> i think that a lot of the worry, among the upper classmen

at my school are the job market. >> where am i going to get a job. >> also the debt seems to be something that we're talking about. we had a debate last week and the debt came up and it was an issue that a lot of people raised questions about. these issues that will be sort of generational are starting to be ones that people our age are starting to wake up to, especially like entitlement programs or things like that. >> so, mtv is already asking people to twitter questions and he'll take questions from the audience, invitation only, obviously. they'll put up twitter questions. if you were going to speak for the penn democrats, what questions would you ask? >> ask barack obama? >> ask barack obama. >> i think he's doing a great job. honestly, his biggest problem is that he has not communicated well all the achievements. when we look at financial regulation, the stimulus, health care reform, student loan reform, credit card reform, small business lending. there are so many things that he's accomplished and i would basically say, what i need is

how can we communicate this to voters more? >> chris, one question for barack obama? >> i would ask him to draw a sharper contrast. what do students have to lose if the republicans take over congress? >> he's been listening to you, apparently that's whaktly what they're going to do. they're putting out a new tv ad and it will appear all the things that were lost if the republicans take over congress. chris, john, emma, we do thank you for getting up and we'll talk to them more a little bit later on. new questions whether a u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s grenade killed in afghanistan. the case is so touchy that that general david petraeus is addressing this head on in engla england.

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unlondon. >> the mystery has been why the explanation changed from being a bomb set off by one of her captors to potentially a grenade thrown by a navy s.e.a.l. this has sparked an investigation and even a phone call from president obama to the british prime minister. at 36, linda norgrove was ready and willing to take on the world. she'd studied in scotland, oregon, mexico, had a ph.d. going for an mba and she worked in peru, uganda, laos and afghanistan. they were kidnapped from their cars by insurgents thought to be linked to al qaeda. all were released except linda. >> she was going to be passed up the terrorist chain. >> linda's life was in grave danger. >> reporter: so friday night in

this region known as the valley of death, u.s. special forces launched a daring raid to save linda, something went wrong. the initial explanation was specific. >> the hostage who was killed in the end by her captors. >> reporter: an insurgent right next to linda detonated a bomb vest just before troops could reach her. then monday morning the u.s. military said further review of video from the operation revealed that friendly fire, possibly a grenade from american troops may have caused linda's severe injuries. she died soon after. >> the british aide worker killed. >> reporter: confusing news here. >> the accounts of what took place had completely changed in the matter of 24 hours and is highly embarrassing. >> the suspiciousç of a cover . >> she, obviously, was killed by an explosion and they would have assumed that it was one of her captors. it's curious to me why any hand grenades were used during the assault. normally they break in in the

dark and shoot people at point blank range using night vision equipment. they don't use lethal fragmentation grenades. >> now, from the mountains of afghanistan to the outer hebrities of scotland in westminster and washington, there are questions. a brave young woman working for the best of human intentions died being saved from the worst. obviously, chris, a lot of questions here and the u.s. military isn't giving away many details at this point. we do know that the u.s. and britain are working together on the investigation and today here in london there is a meeting between general petraeus who is the commander of all forces in afghanistan and david cameron. there was a meeting already scheduled, but we're waiting to see if any more details come out of that publicly. >> thanks, michelle. as we get closer to the election, we have been trying to get inside the key voting groups inside this election.

latino voters helped elect president obama two years ago, but those same voters sitting on the sidelines now. check out the numbers. exit polling show 67% of hispanic voters cast ballots for obama in 2008. democrats road that wave nationwide. today, latinos do support the democrats by 3-1 margin, but with 2 1/2 weeks before election day, they're not leerily as excited about going to the polls. 51%, according to pew, say they think they'll definitely vote on november 2nd. let's bring in matt who is associate professor of political science at the university of washington. the "washington post" jonathan capehart stays along with us along with galena espunoe nosa. all right, matt, let me start with you. do you sense there is an enthusiasm gap and, if so, why? matt, can you hear me? >> yes, i'm sorry, i didn't know you were starting with me, chris. >> i'm sorry, go ahead.

talk to me about the enthusiasm gap and if you think it is a serious problem for barack obama and the democrats. i think if you look at the pew poll, they estimate it at 51% of latinos were certain to vote. our poll, the latino decision's tracking poll estimates that number to be a little bit higher, but most people do agree that there is lower enthusiasm this year for latinos as a result of perhaps lack of action on some key issues, especially comprehensive immigration reform. that's a top issue of concern to latinos alongside the economy and we've seen very, very little action. >> we were looking at that poll and it showed that immigration issues rate a distant fifth behind education, jobs, health care and the deficit. >> well, if you look at the way they ask the questions a very different than a traditional way to allow the despondent to say anything off the top of their head. they also had a slightly different sampling approach where they asked people to self

report whether they were registered or not as opposed to using a registered vote. we've been finding consistently that immigration is either the number one or the number two issue. we are finding the economy to be the top issue, but immigration continues to rapg venk very, ve important to latino voters. >> there was a sense when that arizona law passed that that might drive a lot of democrats to the ballot box. so, why does that not seem to be working? is it, as matt says, do you think they're just disappointed that more hasn't been done? >> i do think education ranks very highly with this audience because latinos have the highest dropout rate of any group out there. 9%. only 13% of latinos of college age have college degrees. this is a key issue for latinos that is not being addressed, quite frankly, by either party. that's where the apathy comes in. democrats are not speaking directly to latinos and neither are republicans.

>> is that why you think potentially, jonathan, hispanic republicans who think they have some pretty good chances this year. mark arubio and martinez in new mexico. why they have a pretty good chance. >> sure, sure. latino voters as you showed in that poll overwhelmingly support democrats and, sure, that accrues well to those republican candidates but something else we have to keep in mind. the apathy that we're talking about among latino voters,ç i' hearing the same thing, not about african-american voters but other key constituents who help put president obama in office. young people you just had some here talking to them and also the gay and lesbian community. folks that are as, if not even more frustrate would the obama administration and the lack of progress on their issues who are talking about well, maybe we'll sit home. but let's also remember another thing. this is a mid-term election. everyone is apathetic when the president, whoever the president is is not on the ballot.

so, it will be interesting to see on november 2nd if the latino vote is higher in this midterm election than it was in '06. then we know whether latino voters were really apathetic. >> jonathan, galena, matt, thank you. and we're going to take a look now at what's going on with the weather forecast. and i understand there might be a nor'easter, bill, that is coming in. >> depends on how you look at it. some people will see a nor'easter and others will see a wind storm. new england tomorrow. so, travel plans or maybe even just for the flooding issues with all the leaves. here's what you're looking at. first things first. we are watching the rain now starting to form and move through d.c., baltimore and into philadelphia. it will arrive in new york city during the afternoon. the evening ride home will be slow. that's not really the meat of the story. this is just the beginning of it. the windy side the big deal. let me show you the timing on this. as we go throughout this evening the heaviest rain in the green

and thunderstorm possible and the downpour showed in the yellow and the red over central jersey. by the time tomorrow morning rolls around, the heavy rain over all of eastern new england from the coast of maine all the way down to boston. as this time the storm located in the gulf of maine and then it will exit and behind it a blustery mess on saturday. here's the worst of it. as we go through friday morning, the winds really begin to crank from philly all the way to new york and into areas of southern new england. not really a nor'easter wind because the wind out of the northwest. the nor'easter winds along the coast of maine. what does the forecast look like? forecast wind anywhere from 35 to 45-mile-per-hour winds and all the big cities north of philadelphia. the worst of the damaging winds will probably occur on the maine coast where we could get gusts up to 60 miles per hour. all the leaves are still on the trees and that's the concern, chris. leaves on the trees and some of even some whole trees will come down with wet soil. that will be our concern tomorrow into saturday. >> all right, bill, thanks.

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i'd like you to take a look at these signs that new york city put up. frankly, they're driving some people crazy not just because of what they show and they could be hard to look at. they're graphic ads of diseased lungs, brains, teeth. they've been put up wherever cigarettes are sold, but they're also controversial because of what some people argue they represent. government, over the top getting involved in ways that they think they really shouldn't. now, you won't be surprised to hear that tobacco companies are fighting that ad campaign in court. they claim that the ads violate the rights of store owners and the first amendment. let's bring in patrick reynolds, his grandfather founded the rj reynolds tobacco company and he's working with tobaccofree.org and jacob sullen who is an editor at reason magazine and reason.com. patrick, let me start with you. you do have to be 18 to buy

cigarettes. adults making up their own minds and it's not as if people don't understand now that smoking is bad for you. is this an example of government just really putting its nose some place where it doesn't need to be? >> really not at all. and this whole argument between the prag notist that does what works and i'm more in the favor of the pragmatist in this particular case. the tobacco industry had its gleaming package of cigarettes behind counters, previously on the count top at child eye level next to the candy. kids didn't know it was paid advertising and it was right in their face where they could easily steal the cigarettes and get addicted. the tobacco industry would just replace any stolen cigarettes. now, they're behind the counter in most states, but still paid advertising space or giving steep discounts to get the store

owners to keep those displays highly visible making tobacco look like a regular american product to our kids. i don't feel that this, you know, the tobacco industry has used the first amendment to protect their right to continue to advertise and one day when we have more forward thinking and more liberal justices in the court, i hope we're going to have a court who sees that there is a difference between a guy that gets up on a box and says the sky is purple and corporate advertising, corporate speech. in this case, and the case of the tobacco industry, a $12.8 billion ad campaign last year. >> i'll interrupt you, you brought up first amendment and, jacob, do you think there are first amendment issues at play? >> a couple serious first amendment objections. first of all, the city is forcing retailers to carry a message that these retailers don't necessarily agree with. don't buy the products we're selling. secondly, they'reç taking up

valuable advertising space as mr. reynolds conceded in a tiny newspaper stand there's very little space for point of sale advertising and by making them put up these posters, they're taking away from their right to free speech. in addition to making them engage in speech they don't agree with. >> up to 20% -- >> federal law preempts precisely this kind of requirement. allow additional requirements on the packages and the ads that the federal government requires. >> don't you think most of the people that go to buy cigarettes, patrick, already know what's going on and the warnings couldn't be clearer on the packages. >> let's remember, too, that it's kids, young teenagers, 60% of smokers start before the age of 14 and when they go to the point of sale and they've been seeing colleging, positive images of tobacco products behind the counter, it's time. this is an advocacy, this is education. and for new yorkers who may be a

little disgusted by some of the imagery, the diseased lungs and so on o, i think they're willing to tolerate it in order to have some counteradvertising there at the point of sale. it's not advocacy, it's education. >> it does, jacob, seem kind of sexy. in a lot of movies and when we see the tabloids a lot of celebrities and movie stars who smoke. i understand what you're saying about the first amendment. do you understand the reasoning, though, behind having these there, if, indeed, that statistic is correct. th 60% of smokers start before the legal age. >> sure. i understand the reasoning. the reasoning is that we have a good cause and it doesn't matter what the constitution requires or what the proper role of government is. if you're in favor of censorship, as long as it's in a good cause and i don't agree this is education, this is persuasion. everybody knows that smoking is bad for them and they know there are health risks attached to it and with these posters, the city is trying to reach that audience

that does not share the values and tastes and priorities of public health bureaucrats and are harder to reach. i understand the reasoning behind it. this is what your lung is going to look like and your teeth are going to rot and so forth. it may work in some cases. but the fact that it might be effective doesn'tç justify violating the constitution or violating the federal statute. >> new york city has certainly reopened the debate and thanks for taking part in it. >> thank you. well, we all heard the saying that nice guys finish last, but an inest trg new study showing that might not always be the case. ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes [ dogs barking ] ♪ i'm on my way

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scientists believe love can ease the pain. in a new studyç a stanford university scientist said falling in love stimulates the brain's reward pathways similar to the rush of an addictive drug. love is the drug, remember that song? let's bring in our guests, political analyst pat buchanan and jonathan capehart and galena espinoza. you were laughing. you don'think love is the drug? >> oh, please, i am the biggest romantic on the planet. you look at the story and find love in order to heal things like chronic pain. good luck with that. >> so, you go to the doctor and you get a prescription for match.com. >> get out there and find a boyfriend. the nice thing i think about the study is that it found that long-time committed couples could tap into this experience by pursuing new passions together. just reigniting the spark.

>> pat, how many years have you been married? >> me? >> me? >> 1971. >> so much trouble. it doesn't matfer you can remember how long you've been married. you know, i have seen pat and his lovely wife together. how do you keep the spark alive, matt? what is the trick? >> you know, let me just say this, though. >> poor pat. >> well, we're good friends, too, and every other thing. and we have common interests and everything and we work together and everything. but let me say this. you mepged a narcotic. when you're talking about young people. there is no doubt that it has this narcotic effect. but narcotic can also bring about violent reactions. jealousy and anger and rage. look at your great plays and your great movies often they are about this enormous passion and

attraction and it is a powerful narcotic. no doubt about it. >> he had to be a downer. just had to be a downer. >> this, personally, is what i love about pat. he always has a different perspective on things. >> love's dangerous. >> dangerous? >> that's what pat just said, love is dangerous. >> let's stay away and forget it. >> you never found that to be true? >> yeah, yeah. >> see, once again, pat, this is getting too çpersonal. >> this caused a lot of fights when i was a kid. >> oh, thanks to our company and we'll talk a little more in the next hour. the 2010 midterm, something they speak about. on pace to be the most expensive on record. where is that money going and does it really buy votes? debate in the desert. this is the only debate harry reid and sharron angle are holding and for the majority leader, it may mean his job. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?

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