i add things that the dnc did not tell us to. i looked up my representatives and senators stands and i tell them and they are shocked. for all of this going back and forth about who is on and who is off, they just don't know. guest: that is a very good point. apart from obama or the dnc, we have to be mobilizing our self. i don't think the american people -- our passivity is frightening. we have to be out there fighting about their representatives are saying and doing and holding their feet to the fire. host: next call from ohio. good morning. caller: i have appreciated everything you have stated. there is one thing i want you to speak a little bit more about. we said about the ama saying, we are fine with what we have and we are not going to make a move. i think this is something that the obama administration will have to take on, the big people like that, the health care providers. can you touch on more than that? guest: the ama is somewhat overrated in the media. it only represents about 20% of all doctors. it is very high pro

i found it interesting, year in and year out, it was difficult when we got the spokespeople for the dnc and the rnc. we thought they were young and could relate to the kids the they were not given the freedom by their bosses to go off-script current. >> it was all talking points. >> without commercial interruption. >> if you want to find a with the party are doing, you have to go to the source for a close-up has been doing television programs from the floor of the democratic and republican conventions since the rnc in texas and the dnc in 1984. tell us about this next clip. >> we do the show in the morning from the floor. when you're at a convention, there are many things they are planning for that evening. you have to expect the unexpected. >> hello, i am diana. what are the major differences -- major leadership deborah as between senator obama and senator mccain? >> humane -- >> what a difference between them? >> 1 areas policy and the other area is what kind of leader do you think they would date. they would be as president. senator obama has a plan to have universal health coverage.

when it is the dnc or rnc on inauguration, but we want to show what is going on on the other side of the world what our global list american dollars are interfering with politics in ways of life. we should just focus on what we have here, getting rid of this fear that everybody is out to get us. host: do you agree or disagree with the president's approach so far? caller: i do not agree, but i think that it is best that he sticks to what he can do and what he is able to do. we have got a president with very little experience, very well spoken. look at our economy. it is going from bad to worse. he has brought in his cronies. that is evident in itself. his experience is showing that he was not the right person at the american public needed for this country to move forward. host: traveling to europe and africa this summer, talking about foreign policy issues in a couple of minutes. one more twitter from a viewer, "let this be a lesson to all the governments around the world the plan to be in power by resorting to fraud." tony blankley and jon- christopher bua, both will be here for a ro

terry mcauliffe, the former chair of the dnc, is being challenged by virginia state senator and a former assemblyman in the primary, and turnout is expected to be key with 200,000 democrats expected to go to the polls today in virginia. and a piece by robert c. smith, a former two-term senator from new hampshire. he now lives in sarasota, florida, and is running for the senate seat in florida next year, the seat vacated by martinez. one of the other themes this morning in the newspapers, at a photograph of senator edward kennedy and senator robert byrd. senator kennedy is in massachusetts recovering from brain surgery, battling brain cancer, and robert byrd, who continues to battle a staph infection at an undisclosed hospital. also inside "the washinton post," "on the cusp of historic majority, senate democrats miss the pillars." and from inside "the new york times," "senate feels an absence of health bill." chris dodd is the number 2 democrat on the health committee and has taken on the role of health care with senator kennedy. he is supported by leaders of three working groups that mr.

i would never have become president without you and the dnc. when i was fortunate enough to win, i never one day had to wake up wondering where i was going to be, because you've helped me to realize the importance of ideas and policies and answering the simple question, how are you going to turn your good intentions into real changes in people's lives? most people in politics debate what they are going to do and how much they are going to spend on. we spent almost no time debating how we propose to do it, whatever it is. how much -- our much money we have been not have. it is a business you got me into. that is what i try to do in my foundation. i owe you more than i can ever say. and i love you more than i have words to express. those of you are here who know what the last 25 years were like will have to say they are much better than the would have been if owl from andydlc had not been there. -- if al from and the dlc had not been there. thank you. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> mr. president, thank you. sit down, and don't worry, i am no

two of the three candidates are running -- one of them, former dnc chairman terry mcauliffe, is bringing in some big guns in the final days, big guns from outside virginia, to make his case. bill clinton is returning to virginia this weekend to campaign for mcauliffe. he will attend a fund-raiser at mcauliffe's house in mclean, virginia. it is at least the third visit that clinton has made on behalf of mcauliffe in this race. also yesterday, and this is interesting, mcauliffe announced the support of montana governor bryan schweitzer, who also -- announcing the support, schweitzer made clear he is supporting mcauliffe because they are friends. he is doing it on a personal level, not as chairman of the rg&e a. regardless, it is not entirely clear how many -- of the rga. republicans did not seem too concerned. the republican governors association responded yesterday with a simple one line statement that said, "who is brian schweitzer?" to a lot of virginia voters, they hope that is the questionnaire asking. brian moran, one of terry mcauliffe's opponents, did not seem to concern. he said t