>> come on, as the dccc? >> yes. >> here's the question, stick to the merits of what the proposal does. >> i think it's a good effort. i prefer teddy roosevelt to william howard taft. but i think it's still a problem. thank you congressman van holland. coming up, will president obama be forced to take an immigration reform, take it on because of a new law in arizona? this is interesting. we might have a situation where the law is so bad in arizona, that both sides have to do something. >>> but first we have them both on "hardball" this week, senator arlen specter and congressman joe sestak and today vice president joe biden endorsed one of them. coming up, you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. national car rental knows i'm picky. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. >>> vice president joe biden went up to pennsylvania today to campaign for an old friend fighting

it was general petraeus at the dccc us a spillses. -- auspices. and general petraeus made cryptic remarks about security infrastructure. and the impression he seemed to be giving was that the united states and the dccc countries are trying to develop some kind of jointly understood or coordinated response to the iranian program. in fact, is the united states or any other country trying to organize or put together a coordinated set of responses or next steps for the day when the iranians finally test or go public? who was in charge of this? >> i certainly don't know, so you might. [laughter] >> i'm not in the government so i can't talk to you right now what's going on. but my sense is like yours, and as i think george said as well, too -- i mean, the u.s. government is starting to take some of the steps that i described. whether it's working with the gulf cooperation council countries in terms of enhancing air defenses, enhancing ballistic missile defenses. strengthening our security cooperation. i think that's the right thing to do. some of that a

guest: dccc .org. i better get that right. we have the candidates listed there. there are 13 there. for example in seats like california and san diego. we want the strongest candidates it makes sense to at least begin to look at them. many of these candidates we are looking at are about to complete their primaries. dan fields in illinois finished a tough primary race. he's ready for that red to blue program getting together on the fundraising and going forward. we'll help out with communication and grass roots orange. it's good to be identified in this program. not every candidate out there makes the cut. >> is part of your responsibility to be involved in fund raising? >> we have identified can't cats to help the most. we'll help to try to maximize their fundraising. it helps democrats across the country to identify ways in which they can support the congressional campaign committee. in 2008. i think we raised something like $26 million for these red to blue candidates. we had more because we were trying to pick up more seats in congress. healthcare is expected to be one of the iss

you've been asked to have this red to blue program for the dccc. headlines this morning. . . guest: i think it is a really strong program. and i am looking forward to working with our candidates across the country and helping them with their individual campaigns and also to make sure that the democratic national can peek main committee has the kinds of tools that we -- bu-- e democratic national campaign committee has because the tools of we need in order to do the job of we did in the last election. host: as a member of the democratic caucus, what are you expected to contribute? is a portion of it campaign donations? guest: by a relatively new member of congress and my allegations are not as great as my senior members. i try to meet maidu's quarterly. i write a check -- meet right used quarterly. a write a check quarterly. in addition to raising money for and own reelection efforts, and i think what we see here is that these midterm elections are always tough coming off the heels of a very successful general election in 2008. our members are making sure that they have shored

guest: dccc .org. i better get that right. we have the candidates listed there. there are 13 there. for example in seats like california and san diego. we want the strongest candidates it makes sense to at least begin to look at them. many of these candidates we are

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during march alone the dccc had it around $1 million while the rnc down under $10. >>> welcome back to "hardball." president obama's gearing up today to press his case for wall street cleanup. tomorrow he's going up to new york, and today about 1:30 he told cnbc's chief washington correspondent, john harwood that wall street's wild gambles have to come to an end. john harwood joins us now, along with savannah guthrie, who is a white house correspondent for nbc. john, you asked the president if wall street has done enough to police itself in the wake of the crash. let's listen. you give me your sense of it afterwards. here's the president. >> when you spoke in new york a few months ago to a lot of those wall street executives, you urged them -- even in the absence of a law -- to take to heart the need to change the way they do business. >> right. >> have they done that? >> not as much as i would like. i mean, look, i think that you don't want to paint with too broad a brush. each financial institution is different. i do think that there is a sense of now that the crisis is over, let's g

the three democratic campaign committees, d.n.c., d.s.c.c., and the dccc raised $29 million in the monthjor republican committees raised $24 million in this key mid-term election year. >>> one thing is for sure, democrats and republicans both are still putting the party in political party. correspondent james rosen hit the town to show us where a lot of the big donor contributions are going! >> reporter: plush hotel, corporate jet, elaborate floral arrangeles, not the things you associate with winning elections but the forms show the democratic and republican national committees sending lop-sided funds on staff needs and lavish lusry items. dnc spent $60 million or 60% of the total revenue on administrative and fundraising costs and the rnc posted higher totals. >> these are tips, these are gym memberships. we see a variety of things on there that, not a normal person might consider to be a core party expense. >> leprechaun says, "not without a spoon!" [ laughter ] one thing the parties say, if you wine and dine donors you can't throw a burger down your throat. you have to do it in a sty