elizabeth lowell came here to speak, was not well break by her staff. first of all, she didn't realize was a conference where civilian students are whole speech was aimed who were there appeared to shoot an of talked over the heads of the people who are asking the questions from the floor. and then she misinterpreted the question. she'd been very good, by the way, when she spoke at the republican convention. she was seen as a person who could wander around the audience and had the media in her hand. she's a very stiff kind of beach. someone asked her a question about whether she would send her son to bosnia. she was going to bosnia a few weeks later to look a what was going on in their foreign policy position. but she took it as a personal question. you can almost see interface the regrets that she and bob dole have never had a child. she said we've never had children. i really can't answer that. it was really an abstract question. the next day the media said she's not ready for the campaign trail because she's not talking like a candidate. she's talkin

republican incumbent senator scott brown met his democratic challenger, elizabeth warren, at the university of massachusetts in lowell. it was the second of four scheduled debates as a new poll from "the boston globe" shows 18% of massachusetts voters still undecided and with warren holding a lead. right out of the gate, moderator david gregory asked about the controversy around elizabeth warren's claim to native american heritage. >> i never used the information about our native american heritage to get any advantage, not to apply to college, not to apply to law school, and not to get hired for any job. i was listed in a directory as -- i listed myself as native american. i was listed there. it's part of who i am. >> do you consider yourself a minority? >> i consider myself as having a native american background. that's what i said. that's what i am. >> no one is questioning what her parents told her when she was younger or all the way through that time frame. but when she was asked by "the boston herald" why is harvard touting her as a woman of color, a minority, a woman of color, she said she didn't know. and then

lowell. >> we have at elizabeth warren and scott brown. we're talking about the economy and how to create jobs with concerned students here about job creation and this tough economy that you both are dealing with. i want to introduce mary hazel who has a question. please ask your question. >> good evening. i am a senior here at umass. in may i will graduate in this arena. i am not scared of growing up or going out in the world. what are the policies will you propose or support help students like me find jobs? >> a great question, and the answer has but the short-term part and a long-term part. in the short term, we have an economy that is struggling to recover, and that shows up and lots of different ways. it is why i support the jobs bill. the president has proposed it as part of his proposal to get the economy jump-started, because it will put paychecks in people's hands and get work done that we need to get done. once we have got those paychecks in people's hands, they spend them in the local economy, with businesses, that creates more

lowell mass and there for all the action last night. this was quite a it tough debate. sharp contrast, kelly, two moments that stood out to me and first was that elizabethen when asked by david gregory whom would she work with she didn't realize dick lugar lost his senate primary race. let's watch. >> can you name some republicans in the senate today that you are able to work with on big issue, substantive issues that the country faces. >> probably richard lugar would be one that would come to mind. >> he's not going to be there. >> let me -- >> who else could you name, senator? >> that is a problem. >> and then scott brown, i guess he couldn't figure out whether he wanted to go right or left when asked about the supreme court. >> who's your model supreme court justice? >> let me see. here that's a great question. i think justice scalia is a very good judge, justice kennedy. justice kennedy is, obviously, very good and justice roberts. justice sew mow meyer. >> what was your impression being there, kelly, as to his strange response there? >> it was really unexpected and i think it was influenced if you will, by the murmurs in the audience. david had urg

massachusetts senator scott brown met democratic challenger elizabeth warren at the university of massachusetts in lowellled debates. a new poll from "the boston globe" shows 18% of massachusetts voters still undecided. david gregory asked about the controversy around the claim of native american heritage. >> i have never used the information about our native american heritage to get advantage. not for college, not for law school, and not to get hired for a job. i was listed in a directory as -- i listed myself as native american. i was listed there. it's part of who i am. >> do you consider yourself a minority? >> i consider myself as having a native american background. that's what i am. >> no one is questioning what her parents told her when she was younger. but when she was asked by the boston harold why is harvard touting her as a woman of color, she said she didn't know. then after five weeks of misleading the papers and the reporters, she said i self-reported. she's never answered why she did that. >> one notable line came when senator brown was interrupted when trying to explain why he voted agai

. >>> elizabeth warren and scott brown squared off in the second of four debates last night in lowellhusetts. this hosted by umass lowell and the boston herald and moderated by our own david gregory. the two candidates clashed on topics ranging from the economy and taxes to warren's native american heritage and whether or not brown would be a stooge for a future president mitt romney. >> you support president romney -- excuse me governor romney for president, i assume? >> when it comes to dealing with the economic issues yes, absolutely. we're two different people. i'm from -- >> you would be a reliable alley when it came to his economic plan. >> on his economic plan, you said there's nobody better or i would trust more than governor romney. >> i would like to read the bills as i do. a lot of people don't read the bills down there. see how they affect massachusetts, our country and debt and deficit and vote. i am a reliable vote for the bill. >> theme of the evening, independence good, partisanship bad. >> vote about 50% with my party and 50% with the democratic party and that's a lot

elizabeth warren's extreme dislikability. her affect, her professional nature. he's doing that for every audience outside of harvard square and outside of cambridge. the massachusetts that i know from growing up, i knew five sullys in lowellmassachusetts who would use the word professor to insult someone. this is the mentality outside of a very small, privileged community in massachusetts that scott brown is trying to appeal to. i think you saw a minute of that at his opening -- closing statement. let's play that. >> listen, i'm from here. i grew up here. i married a girl and went to school here. aside from my marriage to gail in 26 years and the birth of my two kids, being your united states senator has been the greatest honor i've had in my life. >> i'm from here. that's the message of the scott brown campaign. he's trying to make the nativist argument, which which is i know massachusetts in a wau don't. >> i grew up a few miles from lowell. i know those people, too. >> where is your accent? maybe when you run for senate -- >> the dirty secret is my parents are from connecticut, but i grew up there. i know those people and i know what scott brown is going after with that. he's spent a lot of advertising money on sports