our report tonight from nbc's john yang in ann arbor. >> reporter: john dingle brought in the big guns, former president, bill clinton. >> reporter: dingell doesn't usually need help on the closing days of the campaign, but when the year of incumbent being a dirty word, dingell, the longest-serving house member in history is the ultimate target. >> he's not had to face anything like that. >> i'm not a politician. >> reporter: the republican challenger is a wealthy cardiologist and first-time candidate and he wants to curb out of control federal spending, cut taxes and repeal health care reform and he rarely misses a chance to contrast himself with dingell. >> elected to the congress 55 years ago in 1955. i'm no spring chicken but i wasn't even born yet. >> reporter: and his long congressional career he's helped to craft landmark legislation like medicare and the clean air act and wrote key parts of president obama's health care reform. but his accomplishments and experience have made him a lightning rod for protesters captured on amateur videos posted on youtube. >> there's a wide arra

i'm sure you can talk to your folks in ann arbor. there's plenty of abuse going on all around this state, with people being kicked out of their homes. it needs to stop now. and so yes, i say err on the side of keeping people in their homes, don't err on the side of the banks. they've made plenty of mistakes, they've hurt plenty of people and thrown them out when they didn't deserve it. and you can see there's a clear difference here. my opponent says the rules are working fine. if you think the rules are working fine and the banks are treating people fairly, he's your guy. i don't believe that, i'm going to takes action, i'm going to use my position as governor to protect regular folks who are being put upon by wall street. >> thank you. now for that next question. mr. snyder, you call yourself one tough nerd. the nerd part we get. but are you tough enough to play political hard ball when the situation calls for it? >> absolutely. i'm proud of my track record. as a successful business person you need to learn how to deal with people,

they referred to studies from ann arbor saying that people with his -- specific political opinions, confronted with facts contrary to the opinion, they may be reinforced into the wrong opinion. wrong opinions may be reinforced. you are talking about the amortization of the media, but on a political scale people want to read what they want to read. getting people to read something different is extremely challenging. how do you address that? how much responsibility the media -- responsible to its stockholders, to challenge the leadership to read something different? >> a really good question. i hate to fall back on the british model again, everyone loves british newspapers that because they are very lively and fun to read. they managed to figure out exactly where they are. they know their audiences in very seldom write anything against the conventional wisdom of their audience. american media, criticized rightly in some ways, they have a very large church that they address. "the washington post" is in 60% of washington households, so they had to be very broad. what i tell my students and what i

the key is that, i'm from a small city, ann arbor, michigan, and i was raised to always help those who cannot help themselves. when i first got here in 2006 i started volunteerle -- volunteering at project open hand. once again for nothing. i didn't even have a job. eventually i did get a job but i lost that job because it's in the mortgage industry. currently i'm doing all i can and everything i can for shona. right now i have on these dark glasses. the key is that i have migraine headaches that are so bad i have to go day -- lay down in a dark room. when i leave out of here and head home it's always in a dark place because the light is extremely irritating to my eyes. not only that, i have such a bad back my kisks -- disks are just constantly crumbling. so to not be able to go some place and get the medication i need, and it is true medication. that's the key word here. medication. she is helping us with our medication. she is bending over backwards for all of us and for all those people who don't go out or even go to our club, it's crazy to take something away that's not costing you

i'm sure you can talk to your folks in ann arbor.re's plenty of abuse going on all around this state, with people being kicked out of their homes. it needs to stop now. and so yes, i say err on the side of keeping people in their homes, don't err on the side of the banks. they've made plenty of mistakes, they've hurt plenty of people and thrown them out when they didn't deserve it. clearu can see there's a difference here. my opponent says the rules are working fine. if you think the rules are working fine and the banks are treating people fairly, he's your guy. i don't believe that, i'm going to takes action, i'm going to use my position as governor to protect regular folks who are being put upon by wall street. >> thank you. now for that next question. mr. snyder, you call yourself one tough nerd. the nerd part we get. but are you tough enough to play political hard ball when the situation calls for it? >> absolutely. i'm proud of my track record. as a successful business person you need to learn how to deal with people, both in te

the key is that, i'm from a small city, ann arbor, michigan, and i was raised to always help those who cannot help themselves. when i first got here in 2006 i

but their locations are san jose and ann arbor, michigan. that's where the r&d has been done and that's the technology we are putting in use. with respect to the gateway one, those are also untrue. i have gone through this so many times. gateway, i'm proud of my record. i helped create 10,000 jobs. and -- thank you. i helped create 10,000 jobs and very successfully did that. when the company got in trouble they asked me to come back. i came back as interim c.e.o. and i brought jobs back to the u.s. i brought tech sport, manufacturing jobs back -- support, manufacturing jobs back to the u.s. whydy do that? i understand the value of the american worker. >> mr. bernero, rebuttal. >> look, as far as gateway, either he lied to the s.e.c. or lying here tonight. he signed off on 10k forms to the s.e.c. clearly aprotching and certifying the outorganizationing that took place. as far as dicera, it's on two websites that they are expanding in china. their own company that he's on the board of put out a press release saying they are moving r&d overseas

if they can do it from ann arbor, then they can do it from anywhere. and that's the problem. i think that there are ways in which we can work together. >> rokie while i have you here on a related note, can you promise us tonight that we'll have more timely results in the next couple weeks for the next election? >> certainly. you should expect the results much earlier than the last time in september. >> all right. rokie, next time you have kids hack, can you have them play hail to the redskins? >> we'll work on that. >> we appreciate both of your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> get ready for a little n th district. filming for transforms 3 started monday near the capitol and the white house. if you drive or park there, you will definitely notice. karen gray houston has more on how transformers will effect your commute. >> reporter: we're already used to this. construction on roads around town. it slows us down, gives us traffic pains. next week something else will transform our lives. if you like the explosive, fast- paced action movie transforms 1 and transforme

chris armstrong is the name of the university of michigan at ann arbor, their first openly game student not targeted for a suspected crime. instead in a venomous blog the assistant attorney general of the state andrew cherville claims he's pushing and he calls him a racist elitist liar and pervert as well. in memorable appearance with my colleague anderson cooper he didn't back down but defended them and kept up the attack. >> i am doing this as a private citizen off work time as the university of michigan alum. we're quibbling over tactics. we're not quibbling over substance. the substance of the matter is chris armstrong is a radical homosexual activist who got elected partly funded by the gay and lesbian victory fund to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the university of michigan. >> well, the very next night, shirvell's boss michigan attorney general mike cox told ac 360 shirvell is clearly a bully but has a first amendment right to air his opinions. now word comes that shirvell has taken a voluntary leave of absence. duration of that leave of absence is unknown right now. i w

they got inside the system inside of 36 hours and if they can do yet from ann arbor and don't have to be here to do it, they can do it from caracas or karachi and anywhere. that is the problem. >> the issue is that election officials are look at online voting and we're looking to try to do it in a responsible fashion and an open source area and we want to get the community involved to help us make it a better system. >> the university of michigan team was able to reprogram the site to play the michigan fight song and they said they could change ballads at will. "the new york times" said that nearly $3 million voters in 33 states could cast ballots over the internet. >>> health officials spoke out against too many southary drinks like soda and should you be denied the option to buy them if you use food stamps? where this might happen next. >>> and continue to talk about the mortgage mess. the current process s it set up to help those in need of assistance of a broken system? we're talking with a mortgage expert next. fox 5 morning news is back after the break. 11 minutes after 9 now. 

from ann arbor, michigan, congressman eric cantor. the second ranking republican in the house. and from portland maine, debbie wassermanschultz. welcome back to "fox news sunday." good morning. >> physical. >> good morning. >> you are both campaigning for candidates around the country. a straightforward to both of you. why should american voters send your party to washington? first, congressman cantor, why should voters give republicans another chance? >> clearly, bret, over the last 20 months the country has seen what the other party has had to offer. unfortunately, there hasn't been a lot of coming together in terms of trying to come up with solutions to get people back to work. and now, we have got a sense across the country with unemployment hovering around 10%, 86% of the country knowing someone who is out of a job, people want things to get better. as you know, the democratic candidates across the country are running as fast as they can from the agenda that president obama and speaker pelosi put forward. whether it is the stimulus bill or cap and trade energy bill or the

he also says shirvell protested against him outside a nightclub in ann arbor. the hearing on the case is reportedly scheduled for monday. we also learned the university of michigan has actually barred andrew shirvell from setting foot on campus. a campus police spokeswoman telling the local newspaper they're basing it on an investigation involving, and i quote, potential harassment or stalking or intimidation. this no trespassing orderser was read to andrew shirvell september 14th. so the no trespassing orderser involves action, not speech. either the attorney general was unaware of the orders or mr. armstrong's application for protection order last night when we spoke, or he just didn't mention them. we put in calls to his office tonight, we have yet to hear back. jennifer granholm weighed in today on facebook sh she's a former attorney general and said, quote, if i was still attorney general and andrew shirvell worked for me he would have already been fired. by the way, we discovered today mr. shirvell's blog is still online but no longer open to the public a

about an hour ago he was in anne arbor, michigan, campaigning for john dingell, long-time congressman, democratic congressman in michigan who often wins his elections by huge numbers. if dingle is needing the help of former president, that's sign of the times. a little later tonight, former bill clinton heads up to minnesota, going to mix football and politics to help out a state lawmaker who is challenging the michele bachmann, a congressman who is a big favorite of the tea party movement. >> a lot of people know what's happening nationwide because we've been covering it. a lot of people don't know, paul, a lot about their local election. we're going to help them out. thank you for that. for the latest news, go to cnnpolitics.com. more political news at the top of the hour with our folks at the political desk. this is cnn.com/politics. you can go here to find out about the races not making national headlines or what's going on in are 82 area. once you get to that home page, what you do is go here to "more from election center," click on the "election center" button and here is what i

from ann arbor, michigan, congressman eric cantor, second ranking republican in house. from portland, maine, congresswoman debbie wasserman schutlz who serves as the democrat chief deputy whip. welcome back to "fox news sunday" to both of you. good morning. >> good morning. >> you are both campaigning for candidates around the country. start out with a straight-forward question to both of you. why should american voters send your party to washington? congressman cantor, why should voters give republicans another chance? >> clearly, bret, in the last 20 months the country has seen what the other party has to offer. there hasn't been a lot of coming together in terms of trying to come up with solutions to get people back to work. now we have a sense with unemployment around 10%, 80% of the country knowing someone out of a job. people want things to get better. you know the democratic candidates are running as fast as they can from the agenda that president obama and nancy pelosi put forward. whether it's the energy bill or cap-and-trade bill, all of those things have not

i had been asked to be on the board of bank here in ann arbor and i was challenged in that position, or the president of the bank was challenged because he appointed me to the board because i was pro-choice. >> so shirvell contacted the president of the bank? >> yes. contacted the president of the bank, challenged him for putting me on the board because the president of the bank was a catholic and he said, she's pro-choice and you really shouldn't be having anyone on your board who is pro-choice. to his credit, the bank president said that's none of your business and i have her on the board because she is a smart head and i'm going to keep her. >> jeffrey, let me ask you, what does -- so he's on leave now, he's going to face a disciplinary hearing when he comes back. why do you think now this has happened? what's going on? >> because mike cox is feeling the heat. this has now become a national story. you had arne duncan, the secretary of education today talking about how dangerous it is when people are intimidated because of their sexuality. this is something that is just so obviousl

dante chinni of the patchwork nation project says the population centers in the suburbs of lansing, ann arbor, and battle creek could make the difference. >> by square miles, this is a somewhat rural district, and it's not a very wealthy district. but again, miles don't vote, people vote. >> reporter: which is why the national democratic party sent bill clinton to a community college in battle creek to whip up the party faithful, and particularly the youth vote. >> facebook, youtube, twitter, all that stuff. you can email all your friends. you can put up signs at the student union. you can do all that. we can take this viral. this one place could change america. we could change 2,000 to 10,000 votes in every congressional district in america if you would put it out. would you do that for your future? ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> reporter: a couple of days after mr. clinton's visit, at a much smaller gathering of the sweet adelines, a chorus of women who sing barbershop-style, women 18 to 80 spoke to us about how they have downsized their lives and their expectations of what politicians can do

as we speak he's in ann arbor, michigan, with john dingell, longtime democratic congressman facing a very tough re-election right there and there's the president with him rate there. there's more. going on to minnesota later today. he'll be tailgating, well, it is football season, and there's a big game up there. a big guy, packers/green bay game. he'll be campaigning with a opponent of michelle bachmann, very popular up there. >> very busy week. very busy week for the president of the united states, first lady, going to be out on the campaign trail this week and at the same time the republicans have given them a little criticism saying, you know, the president needs to be spending more time in the white house particularly as it pertains to the jobless numbers and this ongoing economic problem. >> and you'll see the president right back here after being back on the campaign trail, more here in washington, d.c. before heading out one more time and a lot of top republicans in the campaign trail. nine days to go. countdown is on. paul steinhauser, thank you very much for that. both part

>> yes, heading to anne arbor for the michigan-michigan state game.g up how tricks trick you to buy more stuff. what's the store in our neighborhood? >> gracious home. >> a fragrance. >> like a pottery barn. >> designed to get you to spend as soon as you walk through the door. stick around for that. we'll guarantee to make you a smarter shopper. >> do you ever write a letter to a celebrity and wonder, do they actually get the letter or read it? johnny depp not only got a letter from a little girl who wrote to captain jack sparrow, his character, he not only received it but he showed up at her school in character and surprised her. it's such a great story, all the rage on youtube and we'll talk exclusively to her about the surprise in a bit. >> how cute is that. that's great. first, the latest on the search for david heartily, believed murdered on his jet ski along the u.s.-mexico border. his wife now says she might take a lie detector test if people continue to refuse to believe her story of his disappearance. our correspondent don teague is on the bo

heading to ann arbor for the michigan-michigan state game. >>> coming up how stores trick you into buyingking about this. when's the store in the neighborhood? >> gracious home. >> a fragrance. sucks you right in. >> smells like heaven. >> designed to get you spending walking in the door. we'll guarantee i don't help make you a smarter shop. >>> also ahead this morning, do you write a letter to a celebrity and wonder do they get letter and read the letter? well, johnny depp not only got a letter from a little girl that wrote to captain jack sparrow, his character, he not only received it but showed up at the school in character and surprised her. this is such a great story. it's all the rage on youtube and we are going to talk exclusively to her about the surprise in just a bit. >> how cute. that's great. >>> first, though the latest on the search of david hartley, the texas man believed to have been murdered on his jet ski. his wife says she might take a lie detector test if people continue to refuse to believe her story of his disappearance. cbs news reporter don teague is on the border

former president campaigning for gubernatorial hopeful virg bernero in detroit and john dingell in ann arboro minnesota and hurricane richard traveling up the central american coastline and gaining steam. the category 1 storm barrelling towards belize and southeastern mexico. the death toll from a choleraout break in haiti rising to more than 250. aid workers fear the disease could spread through homeless camps in the capital where hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims now live, more than 3,000 people are effe affected. >> gregg: iran's religious leaders have restriction on western schools of thought and the latest in response to recent concerns by iran's premium ruler ayatollah ali khomeni and, including law, philosophy, psychology, women's studies and human rights and the fundamentalist subjects are based on western ideals and therefore incompatible with islamic teachings. >> julie: an anti-government rally in moscow, activists gathered in pushtin square, calling for the resignation of putin, they blame him and his government for economic problems and lack of political freedom in rus