host: josh shapiro, you're from the philadelphia area. bloomberg has a number of key counties to look at, among them chester, a lehigh, and others. why are these so critical to the campaign in november? guest: chair gleason will agree that the swing areas likely in the suburbs. montgomery county, that represent on the board of commissioners, is the largest among them. when you look at how that area has swung in past elections, that determines the winner. if you look at the poll that came out today, president obama has a mass of 25 point lead in the five county areas and he has maintained that lead throughout in all of the various polls. i think ronny's extreme positions on, for example, a woman's right to choose really puts him at odds with moderates and suburban sensibility in pennsylvania. i'm confident that the numbers the president will show in the suburbs will propel him to victory. host: as you know, he famously referred to the state as this. "to make pennsylvania close, mitt romney must win big in alabama." what does he mean by that

we are doing very well in the philadelphia suburbs. this is going to be a surprise for the democrats. the people are not buying into the president's policies and the fact that he has not been able to create jobs and a lot of things that he promised, and he has no plans for the future. the counties that you mentioned, including chester, we are doing very well. in fact, i cannot believe the we are ahead in that county. our polls show that this is a dead even race. i think "be enquirer" has looked at it getting closer and closer. it is going to be a battle. there is no question about it. we think we have the best ground game in the country. it is going to be a wonderful battle on election day. host: we have an average of all the polls giving the president in pennsylvania and ed, 4.8%, based on all the surveys. over barack obama. josh shapiro, the senate race could also affect turnout. senator casey is ahead. would you admit this race is a lot closer? guest: tom smith has spent nearly $20 million of its personal fortune spreading around his

so when the constitution came out of philadelphia in september of 1787, to one was even sure -- no oneas even sure if the thing would get ratified. they had written it, they had talked about it, they had sweated over it, they had poured their hearts out in some cases, but no one was even sure that it would make it out of nine states which is all they require today ratify the document. so then it had to be sold, and that sales job is actually what i talk about more in the book than anything else. i do wring up the philadelphia convention -- bring up the philadelphia convention because sometimes you can't understand the constitution and the language without understanding what they said it meant in philadelphia. but oftentimes you can't understand the constitution and what they said it meant without understanding what they said in the state ratifying conventions all throughout the united states. in fact, james madison agreed. this is what he said. he said: the constitution only was brought to life and only found its meaning because of the state conventions which gave it all the validity a

the philadelphia eagles at the 20 yard line. vick buys time.time for him in the pocket. then the pass intended for jackson hits michael bowl ne the back. second down. >> cris: they got lucky with that one. you can see brandon boykin jump outside, and demeco ryans running underit. they want him to throw the slant so they can pick it off. but demeco ryans doesn't get there. that's exactly what they're trying to do defensively, get eli to throw that pass so ryans will pick it off. he just wasn't picking up. >> al: over the middle. that's celek. and the tight end to the 46 yard line. he always does that emphatic first down signal. 27 yard gain. >> cris: watch blackburn and boley come up here on this play. because of the run fake and the success the eagles have been having against the run, they're able to get the tight end celek in behind them. >> al: from the 47 yard line. second eagles possession of the half. now mccoy will set it back. that's a great tackle. that's jason pierre-paul on the left defensive side hanging right in there. >> cris: over

the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water

on the other side of the coin, that was the bane of philadelphia's existence last year. r leads. >> cris: they played well at the end of the year, but could never catch up after that slow start. the change on the defensive side contributed to it as much as anything. >> al: under seven to play. second and goal. formation to the right. eli stepping up, throws, wide open, over the middle to bear pascoe. one of those in that bunch formation. first time he's targeted tonight. and the giants tie the game and have a chance to take the lead with the extra point. >> cris: i'm not sure i've ever seen the philadelphia eagles play worse defense than they did on that drive. come inside here, completely leave the outside guy in. that's the most basic of all bunch pattern routes. they just crisscross, completely lose the inside tight end. dreadful coverage that entire drive. >> al: tynes to give the giants the lead, which he does. pascoe's first regular season touchdown. had one in the playoffs last year. takes 2:40 to go 83 yards. 17-16 new york. some places like to talk about billions

it really comes from a deep and interesting partnership with the city planners in philadelphia. >> one the idea of engagement, how to engage with citizens and how to hear what people want. >> at the city planning commission where i work, what we're in the midst of right now is writing a new comprehensive plan for the city. in terms of priorities, it became clear very early on that one of the most important aspects of our work is engaging people in a meaningful way. >> the planning commission had three specific questions, how people interacted with public spaces, so specifically how people use parks and city recreation areas in the city, and also getting data around how people perceive the kid friendliness of the city. >> the way you normally do this in city government is that you sketch some stuff out and you hold some meetings that happen generally in the evenings at city hall and you invite people to come and give feedback. >> but there are also some challenges with that, namely that it's very time and resource intensive. >> the meetings are long, they're hard to schedule, they're ha

we are live here where the washington nationals will take on the philadelphia phillies in less than twoours. if they can win this 1 game, they will clinch the national -- one game, they will clinch the national game east and roll into the playoffs. we heard the gates are now open, so the washington national fans will begin to stream in. i even see a couple of folks here right now. they've been waiting a long time for this day. a lot of old baseball fans can remember all the frustration and sadness of the senators losing and moving away, but there is one fan in montgomery county who has waited a lot longer than most. our own matt jablow brings you his story. >> we always ended up in last place. >> reporter: of all the long suffering fans of professional baseball teams in the washington area, few have suffered as long or deeply as charlie brotman. >> it's difficult to sell a loser. >> reporter: whose takoma park home is a well appointed shrine to the nationals. >> they are my life. i love it. >> reporter: charlie was the public address announcer at griffith stadium from 1956 to 1971 durin

. >> i grew up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey. i went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, hin cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helm

zeroed out the democratic margin in the city of philadelphia. if you look at over the last 20 years, there's been a democratic trend in the affluent suburbs, and so president barack obama carried those four counties in pennsylvania with 57% of the vote if he carried the state. mitt romney grew up in bloomfield hills. >> a suburb of detroit. >> well, i grew up in the same area, went to the same high school so i'm quite familiar with it. he seems to be doing better. i if you look at the battleground poll -- the pew research poll where you have a big sample. so if you have a subsample you have some confidence the numbers are good. you see that romney, post-october 3rd debate, is carrying apparently statistically significant margins. people with incomes over over $75,000. barack obama carried them 15-49 in 2008. romney made bigger gains with the high income people than people in the lower income category. >> the swing over the last 20 years in affluent suburbs has been attributed to culture, gay marriage and the southern tilt of the republican party,

change also paying a visit to the philadelphia eagles headquarters today. eam defensive coordinator was fired, signalling big pressure for reed. a pretty good chance it could be headed for the exit sign in philadelphia. the weather conditions are absolutely spectacular here at owings mills and around the area. coming up, we'll find out how long it will last in the seven- day forecast. as a pastor, my support for question 6 is rooted in my belief that the government should treat everyone equally. i wouldn't want someone denying my rights based upon their religious views, so i shouldn't deny others based upon mine. it's about fairness. i support this law because it doesn't force any church to perform a same sex marriage if it's against their beliefs. and that's what this is about. protecting religious freedom and all marylanders equally under the law. join me in voting for question 6. it's heavy lifting. you start with a democratic senator named ben. by getting bwi-marshall funding for new runways, he's helping us serve 21 million passengers a year, which help

the philadelphia area, from what you've seen and heard. >> we're in pretty good shape. with dodged a bullet. first and foremost, we don't have a coastline, so we didn't get the storm surge. secondly, around 2:30 yesterday, the storm dipped south of philadelphia and south of most of pennsylvania. just hit lancaster county a little bit. the rain abated. we got a little less than three inches of rain. we really dodged a bullet. there won't be any major disruptions in philadelphia or in the philadelphia suburbs. >> thank god for that. the president is at the forefront of leading the effort. is that key for him to look and act presidential following a disaster like this before the eyes of voters just days leading into the election? >> i think there are three advantages to the obama campaign and to the president. one is just what you've identified. the president, by just doing his job and doing it well and by mi making sure that fema performs well and the entire federal bureaucracy responds officially, he gets points. he looks like a leader. he looks like someone in command. t

the immense size of the storm, i don't want to focus just on the jersey and philadelphia. the size of the storm is incredible. this is when it was starting its life cycle down in jamaica when it killed all those poor people in haiti with the flash flooding. they're so prone to that. the immense side continued to grow. the cloud shield over the weekend was all the way up into new england while the storm was still over florida. i guess we'll find out in about 24 hours how much damage it does. let me give you a quick briefing on your forecast for the west. we've had rain on and off throughout the last 24 hours coming from the northwest, especially washington state. it looks like that system is on its way out. idaho and the northern rockies are dealing with most of the wet weather. showery-type weather from portland to seattle to olympia. looks like the cascades and the lick picks will get the most as far as the wet weather is concerned. no problems in california, nice ific maritime air mass which means it's a warmer air. if that air comes from the north this time of year it ge

certainly it's a different obama than we saw in the philadelphia speech. certainly, when he is talking about, well, the people of new orleans, they don't care about us as much. he is saying that, hey, we have to, you know, take all of this. we should be investing that money that is going to the suburb and it is minority-owned businesses and is nathe same barack obama that gave a speech on race? >> you know, i love coming on your show here, sean, because i have been here for all of these conspiracy theories-- >>> wait a minute. does he sound the same as he did in philadelphia? yes or no? >> no! >> sean: why? >> he was speaking at hampton university-- >>> speaking -- he speaks differently. why? >> he was relating to them directly. >> sean: relating to them directly. >> white politicians, black politicians, people do it in front of jewish groups or italian groups-- >>> they change their accent, cadence i. [overlapping dialogue] >> let me tell you something, politicians do this ripeatedly [overlapping dialogue] >> that's a dodge. >> it's not a dodge. you are pl

world but i actually began organizing much much more earlier in my life i was an organizer with the philadelphia student union when i was twelve years old and we organize a two thousand student walkout to demand more money for public schools you know we had realized that the surrounding school districts. i received two thousand dollars more per student in the philadelphia public schools did you know our district was majority low income our district was majority black and so we saw this is you know this is a struggle against racism this is a struggle against class oppression you know it's working class kids who went to the schools rich kids did not go to those schools and we had to fight for our own class interests so that's really when i began this kind of organizing you know fighting for the things that working people need when i began fighting for philadelphia public schools and i want to talk about your party apart from a little bit what solutions you're offering to americans right now your first point is making a job a constitutional right and even raising the minimum wage twenty dollars an

phillies here in this very situation game five on the road against philadelphia. they came through and won the game on their way to the world series. so this group, the cardinals, they know how to get it done in these game five situations. it's a pressure packed night and so as we say, the nats have not been here before. the cards have. will that make a difference? we'll just have to wait and see. what we do know is this. they won't be an easy out, but elimination game a different animal. every mistake is magnified. game 167 will be something never experienced before by these nats. are they ready? they say yes. >> we know nothing is going to be easy, whether we win today, lose today. tomorrow is a new day. now we have a high of, a heartbeat, come out tomorrow -- a life, a heartbeat, come out tomorrow and anything can happen in that game. >> it's right where we want to be, being at home, coming back from a deficit 2-1 against a veteran club that's been in this situation before. we couldn't ask for a better situation. >> this has been more rewarding and more fun to s

the ravens win 31-29. detroit and philadelphia, michael vick throws in he texted the distance. the eagles would go into overtime with the lions. hanson makes it a 45-yarder for the lions and they come out winning 26-23. mark sanchez brochure over the middle to stephen hill for a five-yard score. the jets never looked back. a five-yard touchdown and the jets win 35-9. the biggest comeback win in elimination day. the nationals gave up a seemingly unbreakable 6-0 lead, but enough of the negative. this is the iconic moment we will remember from that series. the nationalists say they will think about winning the nl east while they move forward. >> just the chemistry, just sticking together. everyone cheering for each other. just one of those cinderella stories that you can only wish for. >> everybody enjoyed being around each other. >> we have come along way. we are really excited to ratchet it up in the spring. >> of 55-yard field goal to keep -- i think a [ male announcer ] president obama says he's creating jobs but he's really creating debt. the facts are clear. obama's four def

for how the major cities are working is philadelphia mayor michael nutter. e president of the u.s. conference of mayors. mr. mayor, welcome back inside "the war room." >> thank you governor. and first let me start by saying that our hearts, our concern but also our expression of support at many levels go out to mayor mike bloomberg in new york and other mayors in new jersey and other cities. we've already sent some personnel from philadelphia up to new york and to new jersey to try to be as helpful and supportive as possible. these are devastating circumstances. our deepest sympathies to those who have either been injured or certainly family members of those who have died. this is the toughest time to be in public service as you certainly well know. and i just want to state that from the start. >> jennifer: yeah, i appreciate that. it is a great statement of how mayors and governors often put aside their partisan politics when human life is at risk. there is real damage and pain. thanks for stating that and for being a great example of it. how is it going in

do things such as play basketball or do other types of activities. >> this year's big draw at the philadelphiawas the program's partnership with charlie mack's party for peace weekend bringing in lots of stars in sports and music. >> they meet with them, they talk with them. it was a perfect match. >> a program like this, and a woman like maria battle and a man like charlie mack has the ability to unify the community. >> coming here, trying to raise awareness educate kids about asthma, about getting better health information. about living a healthy life. and this allows us to do that. >> now in its ninth year, the program is still growing. they're having a clear impact on health care costs. >> i want to continue doing what we're doing in a bigger way, because we can do more. >> with asthma affecting some 9 million children in the u.s., maria knows there's a bit fight ahead. >> she's wouldn't super bowl with healthy hoops. this is a miracle. >> i am blessed to be able to have a job that i can go into the community and bring these type of programs to the community. it's a joy that i can help sav

i am a product of the philadelphia school system. i care so much about it and want to do it but i have never been so stressed out and unhappy in my own private time. i love the classroom but i cry every weekend. i don't have a life. >> imagine if you get married. >> i don't think that is going to happen. >> what the you do then? >> i think i might be one of those people who has to walk away just to be happy. [talking over each other] >> we hate to lose you. >> i recognize -- >> here is the thing, i don't mean to cut you off. i get a letter from a guy once after the show was on for a couple weeks, from a teacher who said that he used to think he was the only one who cried and he told me every day after school i closed the door of my class airmass sit at my desk and saab. i don't know -- you got to read the book because the only thing i can tell you is you are not alone. you are really not alone. [applause] >> it is a battle. the hope is it gets better. i don't know how it is going to get better. the other hope and here is the one thing

right, like the blunt amendment and say he was for it that romney is going to get swamped in the philadelphiauburbs and the cleveland suburbs. >> governor rendell, thank you so much for having you on. >> thank you. thank you. >>> up next, we will dig deeper into the nbc news poll and why it says tonight's debate is so crucial for governor romney. and the answer may not be what you're thinking right now. >>> but first, there's a lot going on today. here are some things we just thought you should know. education secretary arne duncan is calling for printed textbooks to become obsolete within the next few years. wow. duncan says the u.s. is fall willing behind other nations that are already traps sigging from print to digital school books. >>> and who's going tonight next big cheese? chee-tos hired an artist to make portraits of president obama, governor romney made entirely of cheat toes. each one is made of 2,000 of the snack food. >>> and jimmy fallon had some fun last night with a report that mitt romney's team stays is loading the candidate up with some zingers aimed at the president. >> fo

as we go across the country, i still think the airports from washington, d.c. to philadelphia will be able to open up as we go throughout the day today, especially washington, d.c. but to the new york city airports, not only do they have to deal with the windy conditions today, but there was water on the runways at laguardia and jfk, and they're right on the ocean water, the barriers got destroyed that are supposed to protect it from the water. they may have to replace and fix those barriers, too, because we have more high tide cycleÑ to go. i wouldn't count on the new york city airports opening up today. hopefully they can as we go throughout wednesday. if you're flying in the east today, especially the northeast, you'll be lucky to get there. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. >>> we're going to continue to watch the weak system moving through the northwest with a chance of showers out there. flagstaff, arizona, will have a nice day. southern california looks good, too. san diego right around 75. >>> we'll take ano

but should a 20-year decorated cop of the philadelphia p.d. ired immediately with the mayor issuing an apology to the person before the facts are in? we don't know. what did this woman say, if anything to him, was it a threat that needs to be investigated? i see suspending him with pay, but not firing him. megyn: the unions say okay, internal affairs stepped in. it was conduct an investigation. but then the police commissioner stepped in and said he was taking quote commissioners direct action and firing the guy. they say that not fair. you have to let the investigation play out. >> we have a videotape that shows this guy cold coxing a woman no bigger than me. what kind of investigation do you need? megyn: he's 6'3", 250 pounds. >> she'll say i didn't do anything. he will say i thought she did something. when you are a cop, you can't have a bad day. when you have a bad day bullets fly and somebody gets hurt. this cop had a bad day. he's clearly angry when he hits her in the face. he's dead wrong. >> i'll grant you, megyn, when i first looked at

supposed to be the capital of our country, too, and something about philadelphia where they fights arephia eagles fans are amongst the worst in the country. >> eric: and the flyers. >> greg: phillies. >> bob: something in the water or the blood or something. >> greg: or in philly. >> bob: i know you haven't been to a scene like this before, i hope. >> dana: that was a press briefing. >> greg: you got in a fistfight this morning. >> eric: going to be in a fistfight with you one of these days. >> bob: you have been through two weddings, and did you have fights break out in either one? >> kimberly: no. never fights. >> bob: they were quick. >> kimberly: so helpful this type of discussion. bob loves it. pay back. >> bob: at the end of the show, this is when i get to stories like this. i don't know where to carry this from here except i remember being at a wedding reception, my sister's actually, where her maid of honor father dropped dead of a heart attack. that got everybody to stop doing what they were doing. and looking at him. kept dancing after that. okay. all i can say, you see the w

as of now it's not into the philadelphia new york city area but eventually that rain will move in towards the peak of the rush hour. coming off the ocean we're watching some areas of rain covering all of long island, connecticut, and soon to be heading up into massachusetts. it will be a rainy, wet day today in all of new england. that's probably where the worst of the travel weather is. it's not great in the great lakes. this is a huge storm just sitting here right over the top of lake michigan. it will slowly be on the move today and tomorrow and get out of our way most of the weekend. chilly light rain and showers in wisconsin through indiana. high pressure over texas. low over lake michigan. it will be a breezy day from kansas to missouri right into areas of kentucky and tennessee today. at least it will be dry and sunny but it will be on the breezy side. the forecast today, travel delays are expected from new york city upwards, boston, hartford, providence. much of the rest of the country should be looking at a dry friday. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at

dry this morning but late this afternoon into the evening, philadelphia, new york, baltimore. improve for the east coast as we go throughout the week. washington, d.c., will have enjoyable weather wednesday, thursday, friday. it's in the middle of the country where it's very cold this morning, veronica. it will be a nice columbus day from chicago all the way through the hard land. >>> but just not where it's raining. >> just a few spots. >> all right. good. >>> liam neeson takes a cool $50 million and ben affleck does the right thing. plus who is the sexiest woman in the world. last year it was rihanna. but this year it's someone new. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ i use tide vivid detergent and boost. they keep my whites looking like new, wash after wash. tell me... yes. ...do you sell a matching jegging? that's my tide, and that's how i break the rules of white. [ female announcer ] tide plus bleach is now tide vivid! new look. same powerful clean. >>> big bird, how did you find out your name had been mentioned in the debate? >> i got a million tweets. >> so you're

. >>> a string of robberies has the philadelphia police department completely puzzled. these are the fast and the furious worthy robberies except they're not stealing fancy cars. they're stealers -- vespas? >> like vespas. >> those are cool, though. >> in the video we see a robber go up and take the cover's one of these scooters and after working tonwork ing on it a while you see white van show up. the man who seems to be the first one to get to the scooter goes over to the driver's side. the other to the passenger side and load up t like it was theirs. this is becoming such a problem. 's in the last month, one division, 39 scooters, 14 motorcycles. in another division, they've stolen 19 scooters. >> "they" meaning, do the police think it's the same guy, the same van? >> they're not sure if it's the same group of people, but they have recovered 13 scooters. 10 of those have come from camden, new jersey. they're thinking that these are being stolen from philadelphia and taken to the streets of new jersey. another video. this one from arizona. pay close attention to this m

and his favorite team, of course, is the philadelphia eagles. [ cheers and applause ] for this first thing's better than a james bond theme. so, could you do this in like a james bondy-type of theme? >> you want us to dance? >> jimmy: it's tricky. no. you can just be a spy. you can pretend you're a spy. >> okay. ♪ he's in the audience his name is steven schaeffer he's wearing a necklace made by his son ♪ ♪ in case you didn't know philly's where he's from and of course he thinks the eagles are number one ♪ ♪ and the necklace that he's wearing's by his son steven schaeffer jr. ♪ ♪ for five dollars you can get your own one and we can fly, eagles fly ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, buddy. thank you for doing that. "flyfall." >> "flyfall." that's what i'm talking about. >> jimmy: that's great. let's get another person. yeah, sure, come on up. stand up. here ya go. >> hey. >> jimmy: how ya doin', pal? >> can i just say that i love you with all my heart? >> jimmy: oh, i love you too. thank you. [ audience aws ] thank you so much. what is your name? >> julie. >> jimmy: julie? >

the. philadelphia police are looking for this man. reported to be about 5'9", 30 to 40 years old wearing a goatee, gray sweater and a baseball cap. >> that's so crazy. the fact that he drives up this really old car and goes over and takes someone else's car. you wonder did he plan this? >> what's funny about that old car is that was stolen too. >> big surprise. >> surprise there. this is a lesson for all of us to take your keys out. take your keys out when you're at the pump and that way something like this can't happen. >>> gentlemen, start the car chase. because -- >> what we have is the greatest rc car chase ever. >> fast cars versus the cops. see how the chase ends. >>> and she's the ceo who says it's all been a lie. >> what other truth is [ harry umlaut ] that's one creamy muller. [ sally umlaut ] it's greek-style yogurt. thick, scrumptious, and more protein than those regular yogurts. are those almonds i see in the corner thingy? caramelized almonds i think you'll find. well, who wants ordinary run-of-the-mill almonds when you co

the nats beat the philadelphia phillies 5-1. >> it was fitting. >> especially, they own the division. >> best record in baseball. that's good stuff. >> it is good stuff. long time coming. >> humid, almost like summertime, almost like september, but some big changes on the way. we'll take you through it. first things first, a live look outside. 82 is the high. we are still pretty toasty downtown. winds calm, pressure up just a little bit at 30.08 inches of mercury. okay, talk about the fall color. a couple e-mails on this. yesterday we told you why the leaves change in the first place. it is not all about the cold weather, it's about the shortness of the days. you jump the divide, you are near peek. you want to go out to garrett county, go this weekend. some good color showing up west. some color, northern and western suburbs, and little or no change down to the south and east. if you want to plan a trip, the skyline drive, you have to wait another couple of weeks. satellite picture, radar combined, we can't stop the southerly tropical flow. clouds will linger again tonight. there's a

the philadelphia eagles fight a defense accord later today. he former safety for the washington redskins. >> thank you. man: to some people, social serity is just a number. but to me, it's money that i earn. i count on social security. and i don't want washington politicians like george allen... privatizing it. if george allen wants to risk his own money on wall street... that's fine. but i don't want m risking mine. george allen just isn't watching out for us. anncr: the democratic senatorial campaign committee is... responsible for the content of this advertising. [ mitt romney ] look at the evidence of the last four years we've got 23 million people out of work or stopped looking for wor they're suffering in this country. the president would prefer raising taxes. the problem with raisintaxes is that it slows down thrate of growth. i'm not going to raise taxes on anyone bebecause when the economy's growing slow liike this, when we're in recessionyo you shouldn't raise taxes on anyone. my plan is to bring down rates to get more people working.

e came from the eastern part of the state of philadelphia. d was strongly identified as the widow of the senator who just died in the plane crash. that made him win that re-election as well. after he was so tough. anita hill lost him support among liberals and women voters. he reached out to me in recent weeks through a former staff member and wanted to do one final interview but wasn't strong enough. he wanted to speak about the legacy of the mih and how they saved his life several times. and he wanted to speak out against budget cuts. >> andrea mitchell, you have done him a great service by mentioning what he did want to talk about and get that out there. thank you for calling in with your insights. appreciate it. so we mourn the passing of senator arlen specter today. 82 years old, dying at home in his home in philadelphia. as a result of complications from nonhodjkins. the funeral will be open to the public followed by a burial in huntington valley in pennsylvania. we'll have more on this on our websites. >>> now to a new article that sugg