i'll ask james carville and rick lazo when we come back. >>> they call it the third rail of americanics. i'm referring of course to health care. it's an issue that can bring a campaign or a presidency to the brink of disaster. obama care as republicans like to call it has divided washington and indeed the whole country. in the last few days republican mitt romney and others have come out with health care plans that sound suspiciously like president obama's. huh? a short time ago i sat down and tried to untangle the whole mess with cnn political contributor james carville and former gop congressman rick lazio. gentlemen, welcome. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thanks, eliot. great to be on. >> rick, i got to start with you. i listened to governor mitt romney's speech in which he tried to run as far away as he could from obama care and what you guys call obama care and all i heard was him make the best defense of the individual mandate i ever heard. the piece of the health care plan you republicans pretend to hate. he made a perfect defense of everyone in the plan. did you

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james carville says he can't believe he froorn office. the child was born before he ran for office. >> that was a risk can i thing getting into politics. >> he says he has apologized to maria shriver and the couple's four children. there is no excuse for the hurt he has caused the other woman worked for them in their home for 20 years. the child was born about ten years ago. the woman at first says the child belonged to her husband at the time. but the l.a. times said that schwarzenegger admitted to the affair she declined to comment. >> you have children 13 through 21 and they are getting blind sided by thing. >> maria shriver released a statement. this a painful and heart breaking time. my concern is for the children. i ask for passion and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. >> the taking a look outside the rain has been falling all day and it's not over yet. >> it's caused delays all morning at san francisco international airport. airport officials arriving flights are delayed an average of more than two hou

james carville says he can't believe he froorn office. the child was born before he ran for office. >> that was a risk can i thing getting into politics. >> he says he has apologized to maria shriver and the couple's four children. there is no excuse for the hurt he has caused the other woman worked for them in their home for 20 years. the child was born about ten years ago. the woman at first says the child belonged to her husband at the time. but the l.a. times said that schwarzenegger admitted to the affair she declined to comment. >> you have children 13 through 21 and they are getting blind sided by thing. >> maria shriver released a statement. this a painful and heart breaking time. my concern is for the children. i ask for passion and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. >> the taking a look outside the rain has been falling all day and it's not over yet. >> it's caused delays all morning at san francisco international airport. airport officials arriving flights are delayed an average of more than two hou

james carville, thanks very much. >> thank you, george. >> robin? >>> george, all right. now, for the latest on the international sex scandal making headlines all around the world. imf head, dominique strauss-kahn. denied bail on monday. and abc news has learned that he's being held in rikers island prison. "20/20" anchor chris cuomo is here. >> this is going to be a tough ride, robin. we have been told that he is cooperative. he's gentle. but he is spooked by his circumstances. this is just the beginning. this morning, dominique strauss-kahn is waking up in an 11 by 13-foot jail cell on rikers island, after a judge denied him bail for now. buying the prosecution's argument that he is a flight risk. >> certainly his ability to leave the country was demonstrated by the manner in which he left the hotel after the incident. >> reporter: authorities say before they pulled him off a plane at jfk, strauss-kahn attacked a 32-year-old maid in his luxury hotel suite. dragging her into a bedroom and forcing her to perform sex acts. but the defense says he is innocent. and that he w

. >> as james carville said in 1992 it's the economy, stupid. there is growth in the private sector and the nation's unemployment rate is still 9% and when that occurs -- >> it wents up a bit this week. >> right. correct. when you have that type of unemployment there are a lot of folks out there that still need jobs and that is voter anger and that can always reflect poorly on the incumbent in the polls. >> busy week. >> great to see you here. >> come back again. >> absolutely. you guys already gauged craig and lindsay. >> we haven't announced our engagement. >> it's under wraps. >> marriage comes out of the anchor relationships. >> on twitter you might find out. >> we feel like we've been married for ten years. thanks, luke. >> great to see you. >> all right. well, i was going surprise you with a proposal. luke just blew it wide open. >> just buy me dinner later and we'll call it evening. >>> new developments in the sony hack attack. two weeks after security breaches were discovered in sony playstation and sony online enter thainment, cnet is r