richard blumen that will spent a lot of times with -- time with vets up there.or 30 years he's been going to the funerals and to the homes and they saw him as a fellow marine. they said we never thought he misrepresented us. ok so maybe he said this a few times. the republican saw this as a media attack on a fellow marine in the same way they saw it as an attack on george bush when people questioned his service. >> i think it's a reminder of the ambivalence and guilt that a lot of the people of that generation carried for what happened to them and how they maneuvered around the draft. gwen: i remember watching you talk to bill clinton about this very issue in 1992. >> yes, i had some very lively discussion about then-candidate clinton on -- about it and he was very much the same way. what we saw here was somebody who served honorably in the marine reserves but has been unable to talk about why he actually ended up where he was. the history is that he had a low draft number. he was going to get drafted probably the summer of that year and he was out essentially a

this has to do with dick blumen thall who is in trouble in connecticut. there's democrats talking about possible replace ms. some of the names, rosa demore ra who happens to be married to stan greenberg and the other name, ted kennedy jr. >> wow. chris, europe has greece, united states has california. now i was out there and the situation financially is worse than anybody knows, not with just the budget that could be in the hole but the pension plans are going down and there's no democrat to do a deal with. willie brown, who i spoke to, the famous speaker, because of term limits, there's nobody in the legislature for arnold schwarzenegger to deal with. it'll make it a much bigger problem. >> a month ago i mentioned the name of this young woman that is running for governor of south carolina. guess who swooped in? and sarah palin swooped in and dropped her bubble dust and she went from the bottom to the top. sarah palin can change a race like that. >> i'm going to plug the pak. a lot in this you don't know. >> the secret between the president and pentagon p

blumen h former world wrestling entertainment executive linda mcmahon, who has admitted giving information about blumenthal's military record to the media. >>> and the texas state board of education is changing the content of history and social studies textbooks to include more conservative ideas. some of the new books will downplay the separation of church and state, and will mention conservative groups, like the moral majority, without mentioning similar liberal groups. >>> bono, the lead singer of u2, is recovering after having emergency back surgery at a hospital in injury.le rehearsing for a world tour that's now been postponed. >>> finally, a teenager is getting credit for helping save her family. when two gunmen invaded her house in oklahoma city, threatening to shoot and tying up her mother with duct tape, 16-year-old sandra king jumped from a second-story roof and ran to a neighbor's house to call 911. the police were sent in. and the intruders, the alleged intruders, were arrested. back to you, dan and bianna. >> didn't know what hit them. >> happy ending. ron, thank you. >>> tim

to richard blumen thal for his vietnam war memories. >> hello, again. joining me now, the chairman of the democrat national committee, tim kaine and the chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. >> good morning. ? good morning. >> i want to start with you. the kentucky republican senate candidate, rand paul, has expressed rejection to the federal government being able to tell businesses they cannot discriminate. >> i like the civil rights act that it ended discrimination in all public domains. i abhor racism. it's a bad business decision to excluz anybody. but, at the same time, i believe in private owner ship. there's ten different titles to the civil rights act. one dealing with private institutions. ed that i been around, i would have tried to modify that. >> here is a candidate say thagt he doesn't think the government, philosophically, saying that a buzz had to serve you. >> i think he's clarified his statement and reiterated support for and movement toward pushing civil rigs forward as opposed to going backwards. number two, o

but that's a fight to take on blumen thal. host: good morning. caller: good morning. one of the things i like to say, i can't pronounce your last name so i'll call you alex. one of the things i wanted to say is that politicians have -- what people don't understand and the media and those who are scoring everything that's going on trying to get a pulse on what's happening with people who, with voters who are really just fed up with washington, what theyon't seem to get is that they're tired of the lying in polics. not only are they tired of the lying in politics. they're tired of intelligent people who have determined that moral truth no longer is expected and that everything is complicated like we're little kids out here and they think that they can tell us through their news media and outlets their news media and outlets and things of that nature what we're feeling. host: your response. guest: i do thing there think there is a fatigue with politics, the american political system and the way things work up here in washington. and that is driving some of this anti-incu

a political story, front page of the hartford courant, blumen fall -- blumenthal keeps his lead.e from the news conference as he talked about responsibility, where it lies, and what happens next. >> the thing the american people need to understand is that not a day goes by where the federal government is not constantly thinking about how do we make sure that we minimize the damage, close this thing down, review what happened to make sure it does not happen again. in that sense, there are analogies to what happens -- to what happened in the financial markets and some of the other areas where the crises happens. it forces us to do soul- searching. i think that is important for all of us to do. in the meantime, my job is to get it fixed. in case anyone wonders, in case you're wondering who is is responsible, i take responsibility. it is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down. it's got a couple of comments from the editorial pages. -- host: it couple of comments from editorial pages. a president best suited to ceremony. in essence of what he said yesterday and

but that's a fight to take on blumen thal. host: good morning. caller: good morning.ne of the things i like to say, i can't pronounce your last name so i'll call you alex. one of the things i wanted to say is that politicians have -- what people don't understand and the media and those who are scoring everything that's going on trying to get a pulse on what's happening with people who, with voters who are really just fed up with washington, what they don't seem to get is that they're tired of the lying in politics. not only are they tired of the lying in politics. they're tired of intelligent people who have determined that moral truth no longer is expected and that everything is complicated like we're little kids out here and they think that they can tell us through their news media and outlets their news media and outlets and things of that nature what we're feeling. host: your response. guest: i do thing there think there is a fatigue with politics, the american political system and the way things work up here in washington. and that is driving some of this anti-in

blumen bought of connecticut -- whitey going after rand hall this morning and not mr. blumenthal? why is it what you are on you always attack republicans? are you that much in the back of the obama administration? what is your story? tell our audience, your audience, why you are so anti republican? whenever you host the show you bring the top backs up against republicans and you never bring them up against democrats. why is that? host: manhattan, gregg, a democrat. what do you think about the grand -- rand paul remarks. caller: it goes back to his father who i sort of had an interest in. i'm a person of color, also a native american. but going back to his father who aligns himself with the idea of older goldwater. rand paul stands up and tells the country he has no current -- problem with a private business telling you whether you are jewish, italian, male female, that i am not serving you. it has nothing to do with black people in general. when we talk about civil rights, it is not just a black folks but of every american in this country. so, as c-span and other media stands up a

blumen bought of connecticut -- whitey going after rand hall this morning and not mr. blumenthal? why is it what you are on you always attack republics? are you that much in the back of the obama administration? what is your story? tell our audience, your audience, why you are so anti republican? whenever you host the show you bring the top backs up against republicans and you ner bring them up against democrats. why is that? host: manhattan, gregg, a democrat. what do you think abouthe grand -- rand paul remarks. caller: it goes back to his father who i sort of had an interest in. i'm a person of color, also a native american. but goinback to his fatr who aligns himself with the idea of older goldwater. rand paul stands up and tells the count he has no current -- problem with a private business telling you whether you are jewish, italian, male female, that i am not serving you. it has nothing to do with black people in genel. when we talk about civil rights, it is not just a black folks but of every american in this country. so, as c-span and other media stands up and endorses an