our friend, derwood fincher, mr. double talk. >> president obama praised nancy pelosi on his trip. >> i think speaker pelosi has been outstanding and harry reid has been a terrific partner in moving difficult legislation forward and i'm looking forward to working with the entire leadership team to continue to make progress on issues important to the american people. >> well, a growing number of house democrats say they wouldn't support pelosi's bid. ohio's marci captor sent a letter to her colleagues asking them to hold off on the elections. the letter. we can thot ignore the him results of these elections works he should rush to elect leadership slate next week. we need to understand where we erred to avoid repeating pass mistakes. i appreciate your beinger hoo. thank you, governor. >> there's a great deal of controversy over speaker pelosi whether she should remain in the leadership position. you've been pretty bold on took extraordinary level of courage, but you come from the heart of america and ohio, you've sugg

and finally, representative-elect steven fincher in tennessee, he got $3.2 million over ten years. man. >> those are some big numbers. let's look at overall numbers. how much do people get in farm subsid chills are look at that, from '95 to 2009, $245.2 billion. if that ain't welfare, i don't know what is. it goes to the top 10% or farms, the cooperatives, get 74% of the subsidies for just five different crops that's it. a a lot of these farmers are actually in new york city, okay? edgar brafman senior or junior is the guy who is a billionaire and he lives in new york city but he got farm subsidies. >> can we get those? >> you know what, you can do it, because i'm not sure you -- >> you need to have a farm or -- >> senior, by the way. but not just farm subsidies, handouts of different persuasions, you have the rickets family, joe rickets formed the group taxpayers against earmarks, the dad, says, okay, i don't like earmarks york like this pork barrel money going out. in fact, very animated about it. let's watch a clip. >> think is a crime for our elected officials to borrow money t

polish port of the amal europe pipeline belongs to the joint venture a europe whole gas ensuring fincher of gasper on the polish national gas company put it when you're putting to the new requirements of the european commission. guess transporting system is to be operated by an independent company and at the moment gas system which is a hundred percent polish state on company use a point two billion dependent operator we as europol gas shareholders are interested that the company receives enough revenue to be able to pay for credits. and we wanted to provide us with reasonable tariffs for gas transit through polish territory and we think that the agreements which we have signed but i want to. enable us to do so it wasn't illegal but with the intergovernmental agreement you're proving the entire package the cream and so we hope that it will be signed soon and poland itself is interested more than anybody in it just want to come and as a community face gas deficit if it's your in the winter which is here unpleasant. it's a list system of agreements with poland to do it is just going to tak

and incoming congressman steven fincher's family has received $3.2 million.e these the the new welfare queens. there isn't a welfare recipient that has gotten anywhere near this money from the federal government. republicans took an important step forward today. so it was really surprising when one of the biggest advocates of pork or earmarks depending on your perspective, minority leader mitch mcconnell said this on the floor monday. >> i know the good that has come from the projects i've helped support throughout my state. i don't apologize for them, but there is simply no doubt that the abuse of this practice has caused americans to view it as a symbol of the waste and out of control spending that every republican in washington is determined to fight. >> all right. hey, that's change we can believe in. of course, this is just the first step, we'll believe it when we see the programs get cut from the budget. our next guest is not sure this is a positive development. christopher beam is a political reporter for slate. before we get to the mitch mcconnell and

it's republican stephen fincher. he was 9 years old when he joined the gospel group led by his own grandmother. if you run into him, he will probably sing on camera for you. >> reporter: i'll say hey for you. >> thank you very much. if that was my ride beeping for me, tell them, i'll be there later. >> reporter: you could hear that. there's a lot of rain here. >> coming up at 10:00 eastern on msnbc. stay tuned. coming up, body scans and pat downs are the new reality facing all of us. do they go too far or are they justified? we tap into the out rage sparking at the airport. first, the white house soup of the day, miso. yeah. you're watching the daily run down on msnbc. etfs? exchange traded funds? don't just give me ten or twenty to choose from. come on. td ameritrade introduces commission-free etfs with a difference-- more choice. over a hundred etfs.... ...chosen by the unbiased experts at morningstar associates. let me pick what works for me. for me. for me. the etf market center at td ameritrade. before investing

kevin, i'm steven fincher from frog jump, tennessee. i don't kn where frog jump is. and i don't tell anyone ever to run, ask them why they want to run. steven gave me the same answer that about 400 other people gave me. i said why do you want to run for congress. he said well, you know what, i watched the country change before my eyes and i don't know how to tell my children i did nothing. i said steven, that's a great reason. he goes but you know, i don't know if i'm the best person to run, i've never been elected to any offi before. i said well, that's good. he goes but i got to be honest th you, i've never even been to washington, d.c on vacation. i said as of right now you're the top recruit in the nation. and you know at, he got into the race, never running before from frog jump, tennessee. he ended up raising after like a six-month time, $600,000. you know what happened to tanner, who had never been challenged the last two years? he ended up retiring. we went to the road to al gore's old seat, gordon had it, won with 74% of the vote. once he got challenged, he