. >> i want to bring in congressman charlie rangle.d morning. >> good morning. >> several democrats in critical house and senator races, bill nelson and senate candidates diverge from the president and prefer raising taxes on only those making more than a million. where do you fall? >> i don't think they are diverging from the president. they say they support the president, but if they had their druthers they would increase to those making $1 million. everyone agrees on one thing. at least those making less than 250,000 deserve the tax cut. the president said it well. if everyone republican and democrats, liberal and conservatives agree that these people deserve a continuation of the tax cut, why don't we just do that and as it relates to whether it's a million or a billion, put that aside and let the politics prevail then. >> part of the problem is that $250,000 is different depending on where you live. for someone like chuck schumer who had to be pushed by the white house to agree to this, and nancy pe loelosi in san francisco. that'

. >>> new york city's board of elections reports that congressman charlie rangle's lead in his congressionalary is now down to only 800 votes. the outcome of that tight race z decided thursday when they count those absentee ballots. >>> "politico" reporting that congressman allen west called house democratic leader nancy pelosi delusional for refusing to call the individual health care mandate a tax. >>> speaking of health care, buzzfeed listed some tweets related to the health care decision, including, get this one, "i'm moving to canada. the u.s. is entirely too socialist." well, apparently, someone forgot that canada also has an individual mandate for its government-run healthç care program. and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,880 after spiking 277 points friday. the s&p surged 33. the nasdaq skyrocketed 85. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, the nikkei was down three. in hong kong, the hang seng jumped 416. >>> well, wall street kicks off a new quarter

charlie rangle might be declared the riner of the democratic primary two weeks after the polls close.hey are expected to concede for a second time today after the board of elections count on the paper ballots that gave rangle a 1,000 vote edge. passing the threshold that would have triggered an automatic recount. the first openly gay member of congress is the first to enter into a same-sex marriage. he married his long time partner over the weekend in boston, massachusetts. patrick officiated and frank is retiring at the end of this term. up next, powerful political partners or conservative complications. how tea party activists and evangelical christians can swing for or against mitt romney or be a painful thorn in his side. president obama will welcome congress back to washington with tough talk on taxes. he has done it before. does the word veto enter his vocabulary? you are watching "the daily rundown." on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful,

. >> joined by democratic congressman, charlie rangle.less by the end of the 112th congress. let's start with what she started, and that has to do with a debate on the hill today, on a bill that would allow the audit of the fed. do you support the bill? >> of course i do. and there's so many other things that i and other americans support. but it's unrealistic to think that in a week, these things are going to happen. and this is especially so when the republican leadership has decided that they're not going to do anything until after the election. they've made it abundantly clear, the question of the farm bill, the taxes, the question of food stamps, the uncertainty that we have in our country and the world, that congress has taken off for five weeks. and the only thing that's going to stop that will not be democrats screaming that the republicans are irresponsible, it will take the american people to come forward and demand that the congress stay here and work and get these things done. >> congressman, house republicans don't want to ha