>> what i say to washington is watch out, here we come. >> this week on "inside washington," primary voters sent a message. >> i did not vote for any incumbent. >> the senate votes to take a broom to wall street. >> the government will be in everybody's pocket. >> the national intelligence director gets the boot >> barack obama is taking everybody a way that does not have papers. >> a second grader puts the immigration debate on the front burner. >> i haven't spoken about my service and i regret that. -- i have misspoken about my service and i regret that. >> and another congressional

sinner it's the best. >> i let -- -- bites the dust. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- what can we conclude from this week's handful of primary elections? how about this -- it will be awhile that night in november. joe sestak beat arlen specter. tea party favorite rand paul frustrated the republican establishment in kentucky. and in pennsylvania, the democrats managed to hold on to jack birther's seat. what does this tell us about the conventional wisdom on the 2010 elections, mark? >> don't se andek -- don't seek the endorsement of the political establishment, and it is better to be younger and work rather than older and more familiar. >> charles? >> if you are republican, be

where the hubris that we experienced on january 19 when the republicans want massachusetts. -- won massachusetts. any republican who thinks it is a slam dunk that table when the house is wrong. >> colby? >> the worst case is to be an incumbent this year in an election. >> nina? >> try to remember that all of these races except the one in pennsylvania were primaries. richard nixon had the support of 25% or 30% when he was nearly impeached. there is always hard core people that will nominate and do god knows what. >> democrat mark critz be republican tim burns in pennsylvania, where 63% of

voters cannot stand nancy pelosi. >> pennsylvania needs the jobs and leadership, but the obama- pelosi agenda only makes things worse. >> i opposed the health care bill and i am pro-life and pro- gun. >> he is running as a democrat but he sounds like a republican. >> yes, but he was jack murtha's top aide. on social issues, he is trying to say i'm with you, but he is a democrat. >> this is a total canard that has been used against mark critz. sean hannity was saying it on election night, and a number of commentators as well, that he ran at pro-life, pro-gun. jack murtha's record, 36 years in the house, he was pro-life and pro-gun and against campaign

finance. he was a blue-collar democrat, and that is what this fellow ran on. on health care, he said he would have voted against the health care plans, but repealing it? tim burns said he was going to repeal it, and mark critz said no. >> when you run a national campaign in this atmosphere, as a republican, you win. that is how you win, even nationalize it. in massachusetts, virginia, new jersey, those were statewide elections. but new york 23, which also ran as a local election, the democrats won if you run a ground game election as a democrat, local issues, you don't nationalize it, you stay away from barack obama and nancy pelosi, you can win. that is what republicans have to understand. >> a tea party candidate came in

there and mess it up for republicans. that is what happened. as far as what happened in pennsylvania, this is a true blue certified democrat. there was nothing republican about him. it was -- his opponent was running against nancy pelosi. but nancy pelosi is not an issue. >> the curious thing to me, though, is that the democrats had a great get out the vote. in arkansas, blanche lincoln carried the urban areas significantly, and her opponent, who was supposed to do that, carried their rural areas. >> there is going to be a runoff. in pennsylvania, voters rejected arlen specter, who used to be a democrat, became a republican, then a democrat again. joe sestak beat him. >> go back to when we first

talked about what arlen specter made his switch at the trouble about whether the democratic party would accept him. president, the governor, the mayor of philadelphia -- nonetheless, the rank-and-file of democrats and pennsylvania never accepted him -- >> specter. >> as a democrat. he had a record as a republican to show for it. >> is there truth to the "new york times" story at the white house offered it chose sestak to drop to keep him out of the race? >> true. joe sestak said it happened. is he a liar? he was offered a job to drop out of the race and he refused. >> the white house denies it, or they have not confirmed it -- >> not confirming and denying -- no, it made joe sestak very

much the man against machine. arlen specter carried a three counties out of 67 -- philadelphia, where the mayor endorsed him, harrisburg, where the governor, ed rendell, is, and the third one was scranton, where his colleagues in or stem. -- or his colleague endorsed him . >> this is the second time he has switched parties. >> he finally after 30 years exceeded the limits of political opportunism, even by the standards he has said, and that is saying a lot. >> now rand paul in kentucky. the republican establishment tried to portray him as a nut case. it did not work. >> no, although he has his own trouble today. he is the bernie sanders of the

republican party. bernie sanders is a socialist who votes with democrats. if rand paul ends up in the senate, he will be way out there, but go with republicans on most issues. >> he told msnbc that the government should get its woodhill offer of bp, that to criticize bp -- in this bp get iits boot heall offer of bp, that to criticize them is an american. >> when you say the day after the election that you would not vote for the civil rights act, that is a problem. libertarians think that the government cannot do anything but protect the country with the military and police, and maybe some food safety. >> the problem that rand paul is going to face is that fateful,

practicing libertarians basically believe that the food and drug administration ought to get out of business, and whether or not toys come in from china with a lead paint on them is a matter that the market can best addressed rather than some intrusive government. that will be a problem for him and republicans. >> ron paul is another problem for the tea party and the republican party. they have to decide about his views on a number of issues, including the civil rights act. >> the senate votes to clean up including the civil rights act. >> the senate votes to clean up wall

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everybody's pockets, and i'm not talking about businesses. i'm talking about individuals. >> the senate on thursday night passed the most sweeping reform of regulation governing wall street since the great depression. the bill would regulate hedge funds, derivatives, byzantine financial products, overseeing mortgages and credit cards. federal regulators could liquidate troubled financial institutions. what do you think of it, colby? >> it is better than what we had at the time of the near-crash. frankly, i would have glass- steagall reinstated, separating commercial banks from investment banks completely. but this is still a lot better than what we had before, and may help with these problems. >> "the wall street journal" quotes analysts say that it would cut profits to financial institutions by as much as 20% pre.

>> no. i am revamping might position. [laughter] i will consult with my financial advisers. where i put my money now is under the mattress. this is a significant legislation, probably the most significant financial legislation since the great depression. the test of it politically is that the republicans did not filibuster. there was no will to filibuster. the republicans were put squarely on the defensive and we will see a new barack obama very shortly. this will be barack obama playing hharry truman and andrew jackson. he has never been at the populist before, but he will make this a populist issue. >> the rhetoric of the tea party fits right in with the rhetoric of this bill. i note that the rhetoric of the tea party is anti-government, but it is also anti-financial

institutions. i don't see them crying about making a little less money when there is a few less millions to give in bonuses. >> but this bill, as you say, is very sweeping, but it is a roll the dice. the president made a statement which was quite a tea party statement when he announced the vote, where he said that this will guarantee that we will never have a bailout again or meltdown like we had. that is extremely unclear. this is 1500 pages of regulation of an unbelievably complicated system. the experts i have spoken with think that is going to increased the chances of a bailout. it is hard to determine in advance, but the confidence with which he speaks about how he is going to solve our problems and obviate any meltdown is troubling. nobody knows, and it could do a lot of damage, unintended. >> dennis blair, director of

national intelligence -- why did the president lose faith in him, nina? >> by the time we appoint another one, there will let if you are directors of national intelligence over five years. -- there will have been four directors of national intelligence over five years. within i/11 commission recommended this, they envisioned a small, lean and mean operation. a few hundred people, not 1500 or something like that. the commission does not have but the purse strings. you cannot run at this in the intelligence committee if you do not have power of the purse. >> it is a perfect example of why in financial regulations you are dealing with on known -- unknowns. everybody thought at the time that he would have this great theoretical structure, and the

dots would connect in the real world, that is not how it worked out. it is an extra layer of bureaucracy that did not have authority. the cia was in the struggle with dni and in the end with a wind. it created unbelievable publications. in the same way that homeland security was going to solve our problems and it has been a disaster. it is a theoretical reorganizing of huge structures in society, and it always ends a screwed up as a result. >> i don't think: security has been proven to be a disaster. -- don't think homeland security has been proven to be a disaster. i think they need a technocrat with this operation. >> it has not worked, let's be blunt about it, the dni office when you have had four in five years, it is not a good situation. when you interview somebody's

replacement before he is told he is leaving, it is not the greatest personnel operation.

>> barack obama is taking everybody away who does not have papers. >> well, that is something that we have to work on, right, to make sure that people can be here and get the right kind of papers, right? >> she does not have papers. >> my mom does not have papers. that is the human side of the immigration debate. she is scared that the government is going to take her mother away. >> kids say the darnedest things sometimes. this is unrehearsed, obviously, and immigration would not dare

touch her mother, but it does highlight our real problem. kids are sitting around wha wondering what is going to happen to mom and dad. >> the president of mexico was standing with our president and he attacks the arizona law, saying that it would s subject "our people" to discrimination. if they are his people, why are they in the united states, and why do they voluntarily leave his country and come into our country? it is absolutely audacious for a guest of our country to attack our laws on an issue on which mexico is not lifted a finger to assist us in stemming illegal immigration. >> i cannot get upset about a foreign leader doing a little lecturing on the borders, when he has done a lot to beat and back the drug cartels, and our appetite for drugs, our long

border, together, is what facilitates illegal immigration on our side and terrible violence in his country. wheat lector countries all the time. i cannot get upset about it. >> calderon's condemnation of 84 secon -- ak-47s certain that everywhere -- he has blown the chance of any nra endorsement. >> the drug war down there has killed more than 20,000 mexicans. >> not to mention that it is our appetite for drugs that facilitates -- >> of course, it is always our fault, isn't it? >> 50% of the world's cocaine -- >> these are mexicans who are be heading each other in their streets, and it is our fault? >> they are also telling americans. > -- killing americans.

>> exactly, and that is also their fault. >> the reality is that the appetite for drugs in this country -- >> everybody off loads all their killed on the united states -- guilt [ beeping ] ♪ my country ♪ 'tis of thee

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>> we have learned something very important since the days i served in vietnam. i will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to the country. >> for the record, connecticut attorney general richard blumenthal did not serve in vietnam. could this cost him his senate seat?

>> yes, it could pick it is our real problem but there is a difference -- yes, it could. it is a real problem. there is a difference in people's minds about serving in vietnam and not in vietnam. nobody will ever forget not being in combat or people were having their lives and limbs blown off on an hourly basis. when any individual says "i miss spoke," all it does is echo "i did not have sexual relations with that and." >> i think that word was invented by ron ziegler. it was the way of the sun as saying the -- somehow saying that eight light is just contortion of the thom. i think is really in a sting that in this election, we would assume that this man would be safe with the democratic seat,

and kentucky would be safe as the republican seat. as a result of this week, with the rand paul, who is slightly out there as the republican candidate, kentucky could be a switch, and connecticut can also be eight switch. >> i want to make an observation and ask a question. the observation is in this debate, he made the point -- "i did not serve in vietnam." i am asking you, charles, a former practicing psychiatrist, why does somebody do this? how did this happen? >> i am a psychiatrist in our mission. i have no idea. -- in remission. i have no idea. >> he did not misspeak. he lied. he lied, he lied. that is the issue. >> congressman mark souder, republican of indiana, was man enough to say that he sinned in

our relationship with a part- time staffer. >> he had a video of this staffer saying how great conon sexual abstinence he was. >> he was about to be confronted with this. he accepted what was going to happen, so he had to do something. >> is there something in the water up there? >> henry kissinger said that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. mark souder is the ultimate test of that, because of george clooney look-alike he is not. [laughter] >> i will not take the guy when he is this it down. i would just say that he resign immediately and did not drag this out, and i give them credit because when you think of all the politicians to drag out the lie, at which ought to be a criminal offense, i give him credit at least on that. >> any personal failing in

washington, d.c. -- >> i would think after the clinton years, this country -- in this country would not be a major issue, but apparently it is not over with clinton. >> it is a problem for him -- >> the hypocrisy -- it killed eliot spitzer as well. >> the hypocrisy -- it killed eliot spitzer as well. announcer: the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line, so why does the journey from where you are to where you want to be have to go through a classroom? it doesn't. from correspondence courses to online platforms, like the graduate school's gs connect, distance education has always helped people on the go, go further. the courses you need, available on your schedule, anytime, anywhere. great moments begin at the graduate school. learn more. visit...