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it tells you exactly whose money david plouffe thinks the mon is.re-- republicans aren't making a good enough argument this isn't the government's money. they should keep it and spend it the way they want to spend it not the way that someone in washington accelerated depreciation or what have you. this isn't there money an argument the republicans aren't making the argument strong enough. >> bret: you say that democrats are energized by the talking point. is the electorate engaged in the issue? >> you know what, i don't think it will be material in the face of enthusiasm gap and who is going to turn out. older voters, whiter voters, angry voters, republicans in the primaries in numbers we haven't seen in decades. i don't think this is going to stop. you know what we're going to see here, i'm saying that the leadership is going to use this data to try to urge their members just to hang tough on this. as charles said, and steve said, there's just too many democrats splintering off. it can't go to a vote in the senate. we are not going to see a vote on

you want to hear david plouffe talk with keith. the families of supreme court justices like the families of politicians are generally off limits for discussion in the news unless they insert themselves into the nation's politics and, boy, howdy. has the wife of clarence thomas qualified on those grounds. how justice thomas' spouse spends her weekends, why it is important and what she wears on her head. >>> still ahead, just about the most interesting thing that's happened in delaware politics since delaware got its nickname. and delaware's nickname is the first state. totally unexpected republican political civil war has broken out. ?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?) >>> we rarely do this but i want you to see some tape tonight just because i want you to know that it exists. we have been researching the story of this tape all day today and as far as we can tell, we don't think there is any precedent for it in american history. we don't think there is any precedent for the spouse of a sitting supreme court justice being engaged in politic

chicago crew, valerie jarrett, david axlerod will leave to run the presidential reelect effort and david plouff comes from the campaign and what about the internal mixing of people. >> i think that pete rouse is the most beloved of the three candidates you just showed he is kind of, the best light inside and considered the best kind of stabilizing force of the insiders. the chief of staff for the vice-president is not in the inner, inner, inner circle of the obamaites and donlan is fairly new, too. i think of those people pete rouse is clearly the top candidate for insiders. >> bret: is there any advance valerie jarrett would be. >> i don't think so, she doesn't seem to have expressed any interest in it. and you know, i think that the big question is does he think he needs to look outside for any reason? and right now, we're not seeing any indication that the president thinks that way, but after november, things might look different. >> bret: did you want to give your cell phone number. >> there's one democrat in this country that knows a lot how to save an administration after you lose congres

i think what democrats are trying to do now and david plouffe, president obama's top campaign strategist during the campaign and helping now said in iowa... all but said this. what they're basically trying to do is energize their own base which is incredibly dispirited. after the election as we go to governing and then the presidential, i think the tea party is a very dangerous dynamic for the republican party. but in the short term, very positive. >> the people that are getting elected, particularly on the republican side this time, are going to be aware of the tea party phenomenon. they're going to be aware of primaries that were run against establishment and in many cases incumbent republicans largely on the issues of spending. and there's going to be a lot of votes if the republicans take the majority particularly in the house which i think that they will that are going to be heart for them to cast that a governing party must cast at some point a governing party must fund the government. and the spending has become so taboo in the course of these campaigns that it's going to be very

and the man behind barack obama's successful bid for the white house in 2008, david plouffe and our roundiew some of the big races of the fall. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> we'll see you then. >> scott williams, craig melvin, thank you for being here. >> i'll see you tonight on [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg whitman delivered. named one of america's best ceo's by harvard business review, she grew ebay 15,000 strong and made small business dreams come true. now meg has a plan to create jobs.

david plouffe will come back in before axelrod moves to chicago next spring. >> a lot of turnover at white house. >> i sure hope they get somebody like tom daschle. i was against the rahm choice from the beginning for a lot of reasons. also, he's a house guy. you need a senate guy running that white house. you really do. the house is run like a -- it's a totalitarian regime. whether republicans or democrats in charge, make rules, you can ram anything through the house. it always breaks down in the senate and daschle understands that. he's also not from chicago. he's a red state guy, a democrat progressive. >> a wonderful man. >> in a red state. >> regardless of who they call chief of staff, they need somebody like tom daschle in there. >> they need a grown-up. >> coming up next, colin and alma powell join us on what they say needs to be done to stop the dropout crisis. >>> next, a monday matchup on two unbeaten rivals, the monsters of the midway an devon heather able to hold off the packers and stay undefeated. j ae to hold off the packers and stay undefeated. [ female announcer ] st