host: bob cusack is the managing editor of the hill. is here to talk with you about his and his reporters' view of the party's chances of the 2010 elections coming up. i want to show you in the audience about what the morning headlines look like. the democrats may not be enjoying them this morning. and inside it says it determines pre-sage challenges for democrats in the midterm. here it says they add a burden for obama. this is from "the washington journal." retirement adds twist midterm -- usa today. in "the new york times" -- democrats become wary after two senators decide to retire. there is the headline view of reporters -- what is yours? guest: it is a nuanced situation where you have the retirement of senator chris dodd which had been rumored for weeks. he denied it. it helps democrats. now that they are favored to retain that seat -- now they are favored to retain the seat. the announcement of dorgin was a total surprise. his seat in the red state of north dakota was expected to stay in the democratic camp as long as the governo

you are here with bob cusack. guest: it is exasperated. i used to have a great deal of respect for the senate. i'm on the independent line. by nature i am conservative -- or its -- libertarian type person. i was watching or hatch giving a tour of the building and he went to the president's room with these marble statues and said this is where we come and meet with our lobbyists, and he realized what he said and he said, constituents. there and lies the problems. they did not send all the jobs overseas, a great manufacturing jobs -- they did this hand in glove, democrat and republican together. when they are working bipartisan i know we are in big trouble. we are about to get stomped because they are not acting in our interest. these closed-door meetings with the health care, are you people upset? are you going to flush home and say something about that? i'm sorry. host: you don't have to be sorry. that is why -- why as the meetings to be opened. we had a conversation on a program yesterday morning's so we have in fact it something about th

. >> on tamara's "washington journal", bob cusack looks at this year's elections.the economic policies institute talks about income and equality. i use it -- a look at the health care system, live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. now part of today's "washington journal" where we discussed recent anti-government protests in iran. this is 40 minutes. host: kenneth timmerman is here to discuss what is happening in iran. secretary of state hillary clinton addressed the issue yesterday. here's what she said >>. >> we have avoided using the term deadline. we want to keep the door to dialogue open. we have also made it clear we cannot continue to wait. we cannot continue to stand by when the iranians talk about increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and additional facilities for nuclear power that very likely could be put to dual use. host: here is the headline in "the washington times." what is your reaction? guest: the iranians have been trying to play out the clock on this for many years. every opportunity that they did, they will continue to do tha