neil: ok, john boehner next. .[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- neil: all right, the mad push to find a replacement for the late ted kennedy, and apparently, the massachusetts legislature has gone ahead and given the governor deval patridge the go- ahead to appoint an interim replacement, -- deval patrick. we are told among ted kennedy's family, they want a former democratic national committee person to get that appointment. others have mentioned michael dukakis. but, again, it looks like there will be a senator in ted kennedy's plays, sitting in his seat, when this crucial health- care but comes up. we just do not know who. >> i continue to insist that health care not be paid for on the backs of families. >> if you make less than 250 thousand dollars, york income taxes will not increase one single dime. the last thing we need to do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle class. neil: oh-oh, crunching the numbers on health care, and

listen to house minority leader john boehner today, what he says the president is second guessing his issue? and all of this waiting and doubting does nothing more than arm the enemy with -- with more information and more time in order to further destabilize the country of afghanistan. >> so the question is, would the president really consider denying a request for more troops, and what it would mean for the mission and the politics here at home? here to face off on the subject, democratic strategist keith boykin, who served in the white house to bill clinton. also republican strategist. thank you both for joining us. let me ask you, general mccrystal making it clear there is not a riff. but if you read between the tea leaves, there's certainly a divide between what some in the white house want and what those generals are requesting. >> well, the president is the commander in chief and it's not john boehner or anybody else. the president is the one who ultimately will make that decision. the president, i don't think, is articulating a position any different generally speaking than fro

tell us why she's leaving washington to go home and run for the texas state house and finally, john boehner takes on president obama over the copenhagen chicago olympic trip. fasten your seat belt. the "kudlow report" begins right now. >> breaking news about b of aceo's ken lewis's unexpected early departure. let us goe right to charlie gasparino, author of "the sellout with the breaking details on ken lewis. ken lewis, seemed real much earlier, charlie. what's your take? >> you know, last week, larry, i reported that they were making prerations for his exit, if he should be charged in one of these probes into his, whether he failed for the bonuses. did he disclose the $4 billion in bonuses that would happen to go to merrill lynch. whether he disclosed that br before or after the shareholder vote. so, you know, we knew that, you know, this was kind of on the drawing board to a certain extent. and that basically what i was hearing from b of a at the time is if he gets charged by the attorney general that he wasn't going to resign. but if he got charged or could get charged by the sec, that h

first of all, in a moment, john boehner will be back with us.megyn: coming up, her pricking details -- heartbreaking details resulting from the john travolta and the formal extortion plot connected to the death of his son. his testimony may have turned this case around. and she said she would come back to "america's newsroom" when she shaved her head. the beauty queen joins us live. bill: now, off with the hair. if you get there, please come back. bill: before we left, john maynard and a discussion about health care. -- john boehner and a discussion about health care. if democrats do not get something done, it is a risk to their party, like 1994. it could also be a risk to the presidency, only nine months into the presidency. so how do you define something? >> this massive health care bill, in my mind, will not get finished, because the american people say no. at the end of the day, we listen to our constituents. if they want to survive the next election, they cannot ignore their constituents. that is why i think this massive government takeover

john boehner and mch mcconnell. he was answered, i'm not sure everybody stayed on to watch them. >> there was a wall street poll, a poll to say that 54% of americans, exact language. 54% think they're seeing the right amount of president. those of us who have three sets in our office and watch mr. obama all day long, we may be sick of them. the pem aren't. >> he's losing on afghanistan and not able to sell the health care reform as quickly as he wanted and frankly, just doesn't look very presidential. going on letterman doesn't look presidential, it looks a little schlocky. the distinction that the right can make and the opposition can make is that the right is trying to lead and he's trying to sell and to your point, it's not working. >> of course, no one went on letterman more than john mccain. >> true, and canceled. >> true, it didn't work. >> and made a good point in the journal. if you're going to go on the shows, having to to say or have george stephanopoulos pulling out the dictionary and saying define tax. >

helping out chicago should be part of the president's job along with helping out john boehner in histrict. >> jim, those who say the president owed it to chicago a lot of those big names, mayor dailey and others helped his career and it was time to pay back chicago. what is that argument? >> well, i think it is a complicated argument. i don't think barack obama owes mayor daley a whole lot. he got elected united states senator almost in spite of the mayor's support. the mayor didn't get on the obama bandwagon until after the upset victory. he is doing it because he loves chicago and thinks in the whole it is a benefit. this is not a matter of payback. i think one has to realize the complicated daley/obama relationship before you come to that conclusion. >> jim warren, thanks for giving no way a shout out. appreciate that, jim. >> tamron, something on friday at 12:30 is going to eat crow. if chicago gets the olympics, the republicans are going to eat crow. if chicago doesn't maybe the white house will eat crow. >> to jim's point of the southside of chicago, there are many beautiful pa

john boehner said he smells a rebellion underway. seems kind of hair-trigger to me, john. >> it is. and fortunately we're after dinner so we can be a little more cannedity. some of this is exaggerated in the sense that, you know, nancy pelosi was talking about the 1960's and 1970's. there you had i think a much broader, more broady distributed level of course emotion -- gwen: talking about assassination, to be clear. >> yes, certainly than happened but i think she was talking about an era where feelings were so powerful. i think this is a case where there are a small number of people on either side who feel exceptionally passionate and they're louder. we can hear them more. most ordinary people are not passionate about politics. it's sort of the weirdoes at either end of the spectrum -- >> i resemble that remark! >> well, look, a couple things behind this. one is growing pards difference -- partisan difference -- differences in the country reinforced by the fact we no longer with -- have a buffer. conservatives are all in the republican party, liberals are all in the democrats. they

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we're joined here in washington by congressman john boehner and senator lindsey graham.ack to "meet the press." maybe we'll get to baseball if there's time but there's a lot of substantive issues in that interview that i want to go through with both of you. leader boehner, it sounds like the president was trying to cool off this debate over government, over health care. he pointedly disagreed, the former president jimmy carter saying the opposition against him is not about race, but he also issued a challenge to republicans who he said are totally mischaracterizing the naturef our efforts. your response? >> well, he said basically the same thing when he came to capitol hill and gave a speech, took on the right for our descriptions of what they are trying to do, but if you step back and look at the bill that we have in the house, i'll let lindsey talk about the senate, it represents a giant takeover of our health care system. now there is no debate in washington or around the country about the need for us to fix our health care system. it doesn't work well for everyone, a

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but republan house leader john boehner says the's no chance thathe house or senate would pass health care legistion. during today's speech, the president acknowledged that is type of major form is never ea. >> change is har it's always been hard. civil rits was hard. getting women thright to vote, th was hard. ( applause making sure th social security s there for our seniors, tha was hard. ( plause ) tting medicare in place, tha was hard. ( applause ) >> sus: joining me now with the latest on health carreform is washingn bureau chief daen gersh. for noickering, that was the plea of the preside just a week ago. what is going to be the tone of date among lawmakers to get this reform bilpassed if a all? >>ell we'll e some acon and we'll see a lot bickering which he doesn't necessarily want t seement but look, it makes sense. we're going to he a really hard fight ovethis now we're gettindown to the very difficult issue. whopays, how much, whose's going toet covered d what kind of covage. and ose are very difficult issues to work o. >> well, let talk a little bit about w benefits and who

this morning, we heard from john boehner. he is the top republican in the house of representatives, and he was talking about a lot of those issues and talking about next year and hopefully in his mind grabbing back control of congress. take a listen. >> i'm not running for president. all right? i'm leading an effort amongst republicans to earn back our majority so we can take the gavel away from nancy pelosi. >> now, organizers here, t.j., say that the crowds this year are a lot larger and enthusiastic than last year during the presidential election. >> presidential election. funny you should mention that, paul. how much presidential politics is playing into what's happening there? >> well, you know, it's 2009. we're three years away. you'd be surprised. there is a lot, actually. a couple minutes from now, mitt romney, the former governor of massachusetts, who ran for president, he'll speak here. a couple people who may want to run in 2010. tim pawlenty of minnesota, governor there, mike pence, congressman from indiana, and m

i need to know, what is your response to john boehner, the minority leader in the house, saying it's dead, it's not going to pass? what do you say? >> he says it's not going to win. very frankly, if it doesn't win the losers are not going to be the democratic members of congress. it's going to be a american people, families priced out of the market, individuals who can't get insurance because they have pre-existing conditions. it's going to be the american public who's going to see prices spiral for government, for families and for individuals, small businesses. they're all going to lose. this is not an option. prices are driving people out of health care coverage. out of the confidence of being covered so they can get health care that they absolutely need. so when john boehner and mitch mcconnell and others say they are winning this battle, as mitch mcconnell said, very frankly if winning means we do not make sure that americans have health care coverage, that's not a win that i think the american people want. >> was the president direct enough yesterday in your opinion? did he get

john boehner came out yesterday, a minority leader and said there's no place in this debate for racial insensitivity and bigotry. he said it on film yesterday. i don't know what more you want him to do. if you're going to look at this, the gentleman's name was kenneth gladny, beaten, look it up in "the st. louis post dispatch." if you're going to have an honest decision, look into this specific case where a black conservative was beaten due to political thoughts at a town hall meeting. >> i will do that and it's unconditional. i'll do that. it's one i did not see. you've got my honor on that. i would like you to do me a favor. i would like you to get mr. boehner on this program, "the ed show," and let's have a civil discussion about the leadership of the republican party and how they have not distanced themselves from the rhetoric that's out there with what's going after the president of the united states. ron, good to have you with us tonight. appreciate the discussion. >>> coming up, liberals do not link that you can't support the baucus plan. it is a nonstarter. it is a nonstarter.

and you mentioned minority leader john boehner, and that's the problem with this strategy, if you will, by the republican party. they're going to keep losing seats. they're down to 40 in the senate, 60/40, and although the money is pulling in to mr. wilson, congressman wilson, around the country in states such as rhode island, minnesota, oregon, people are embarrassed and appalled by this behavior. and that causes any republicans that are left to have a harder time winning. so, it's the ever-shrinking republican party. >> when we look ahead to a republican party's future that obviously right now the republican party is not in good electoral shape. but when we try to forecast the future of the party, what do you think is more likely? do you think it's more likely that the fringe continues to be courted and welcome within the mainstream, or do you think other forces within the republican party decides there needs to be a more moderating influence? >> well, i think the former. and that is, after losing all the seats in 2006 and me being the victim of that, having high approval ratings in

do they think it's smart politics for john boehner to criticize this? to be anit getting the olympic games? >> i do think they think it's smart politics as a matter of fact. i think they think they're tapping into a sentiment around the country that perhaps this is a parochial concern by the president and laying the prestige of the presidency on the line by going there. obviously democrats argued the other side of that. >> mike viqueira, thanks. we appreciate it. check out "first read" every morning, updated throughout the day. log on to firstread.msnbc.com. >> i'm tamron hall. >> i'm david shuster. up next, "hardball" with chris matthews. a big show in story. "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. >>> council of war. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews. in boston. leading off tonight, in the war room. president obama's top commander in afghanistan has said if we don't send more troops there we risk failure. today the president held his first big strategy session to weigh that request. what the ultimate goal of our afgh

john boehner, the republican leader in the house, has been trying to persuade joe wilson to go to the well and apologize. they've been getting so much backlash nationally that the party doesn't need right now, but wilson is more concerned about back home, where he's getting some benefit from this controversy from his base. but as you mentioned, miller, his democratic opponent, has made, what, $1 million in the last two days. it's like a telethon going on. i keep getting more and more of these reports of money going up and up. there was actually -- miller did very well against wilson last year. they were about three or four points apart in november. miller benefitted from a big surge of black voters with barack obama on the ballot. i think that i would still give the edge to wilson right now, but this is a fight that he doesn't want. most politicians wouldn't want a fight like the going into re-election. >> now, the democrats considering admonishing congressman wilson. do they risk turning him into a martyr? >> well, you know, i think if anything helps wilson right now with his base, i

john boehner said that's good but not good enough. you know, john baner is not going to be onboard -- >> by the way, heinz has done a work on this. tort reform, lawsuits and settlement, very tiny fraction of our overhaul -- overall health care spending. one more thing. we are looking ahead to the moderate democrats getting together and they are going to have this big meeting. herb kohl, wisconsin senator, is listed as a moderate democrat. i mean, is moderate the new cool? >> reporter: well, you know what? this legislation brings out the moderate in a lot of people. as one aide heavily involved in the formulation of the bill told me that this is a vote that can mean people don't come back here to congress. i mean, this is a very tough vote. and boehner himself was saying and nobody would disagree there is a lot of emotion involved in this debate. people are motivated. people around the country, town halls, waving versions of the bill around. i have been conditioned to think working for a living here number of years at television nobody

. >> but hold on, everybody, house minority leader john boehner says not so fast. >> talking about this issue for weeks and weeks and weeks and maybe months to come, because i don't think there is any chance that there -- these big government health care proposals are going to pass either the house or the senate. >> chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent. let's talk first about the president. wow, it felt like the campaign today, he was on fire, huh? >> it s we have seen this the last week. look what he did monday, when he barnstormed the rust belt, youngs town, pittsburgh, philadelphia. everything out there has been very campaigny. part of this is about, frankly, trying to keep democrats united because there was another part of the rally that i found fascinating. he brought up the baucus bill. said baucus by name, a group of activists this is college park, maryland, play is been maryland, but inside the beltway, they pay attention. he said the baucus bill and you hear a smattering of boos. probably echoing what we have seen coming from the left. i tell you, as soon as you

i looked at john boehner, and he looked about as glum and as dour as -- as possibly he could be.n because the president was nailing it. we have to be clear, wilson lied when he said the president lied. he talked about illegal immigrants. it's clearly excluded from the bill. i think what he did was a mark of frustration. barack obama is a big boy. i think, i must say, the republicans particularly like joe wilson who want to get into a debate with barack obama is tugging on superman's cape and pulling the lone ranger's mask. but if that's what he wants to do, free country. >> were republicans tonight in a mo more sober response are asking for everything to start over again. they are saying let's go back to square one. they say that's what americans are demanding. everything that happened so far has been wrong foot and they want a restart. >> what they ought to do is go back to square one and judge the reacti reaction. let's be very clear, this assistance on bipartisanship really goes against the notion of democracy. we had an election in 2008, and the democrats won the presidency.

we're joined here in washington by congressman john boehner and senator lindsey graham. welcome, both of you, back to "meet the press." maybe we'll get to baseball if there's timeut there's a lot of substantivessues in that interview that i want to go through with both of you. leader boehner, it sounds like the president was trying to cool off this debat over government, over health care. he pointedly disagreed, the former president jimmy carter saying the opposition against him is not about race, but he also issued a challenge to republicans who he said are totally mischaracterizing the nature of our efforts. your response? >> well, he said basically the same thing when he came to capitol hill and gave a speech, took on the right for our descriptions of what they are trying to do, but if you step back and look at the bill that we have in the house, i'll let lindsey talk about the senate, it represents a giant takeover of our health care system. now there is no debate in washington or around the country about the need for us to fix our health care system. it doesn't work

carter: i thank the gentlelady for giving a good explanation and leader boehner, leader john boehner, the minority leader of the house, has asked nancy pelosi for a stand-alone bill that will clearly define no funds go to acorn from any source. and that's going to be difficult because -- ms. foxx: would the gentleman yield? it's my understanding there is a stand-alone bill. it's up to the speaker now to call that bill up through committee and up for a vote. is that correct? mr. carter: that's correct. there is a stand-alone bill. he's calling on the speaker to call it up. if the speaker doesn't call it up, he'll ask for a discharge petition to call it up for a vote. we maintain the vote we got before, we'll have evidence that this congress overwhelmingly says, acorn is through. i think you've given an adequate description of the politics that may be involved in this issue. let's go back to right and wrong, unfortunately, you can vote to make things sound like they look right, when in reality the results come out wrong. i think that's a perfect point. ms. foxx: would the gentleman expl

then, from the other side of the aisle, republican leader of the house, john boehner and senator lindseyalso have our political round table with eugene robinson and robert simon. that's all ahead this morning. >> see you then. >> real quick a shout-out to your son at ft. bragg. i told you i would do it. john. there you go. that's going to do it for us on this sunday morning. tamron hall, thank you so much. mike bettes, appreciate you being here. coming up next week, what do yo got? >> we'll go back to school to the places that made us for better or worse. i'm off to my junior high. >> i'm off to college. maybe i'll learn something. >> they'll make me pay the library fees. we'll be bac here for nightly news. until then, so long. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> fire up the grills, it's game day. many fans finding out there are new tailgating rules. and then a qumurder. and then the flood damage from a water main break. >>> good morning. welcto

lien to what house inority leader john boehner had to say on the neshour last nig. >> i don'tbelieve that any of these alth plans that we've se thus far from the democrats inongress ca pass any way, shape, or form. and i do believe thathe prident at some point going o have to hi the reet button the gwen: but lak of epublican support is no the oly problem. manyemocrats are missing in action to. ceci,what did the baucs plan include after all this buildup and wh didn't it in? well, somehing called an indivial mandate, a requirent that everyamerican carry insurance, withsome tax credits for sma buinesses that might have trouble rrying it. all th items the president has been talking about f a long time are in there. we know it would cover about 30 milln more americas, out of about 4 million uinsured so that's a big incease in coverage and there wouldbe real canges in theways docto and hospitals behave. not in thbill is hat public option we'veheard about. that's not too surprising. maybe more surprising is that senator baucus dd not pt in y kind of requiremenon employs in this country. tha

you're looking at house minority leader, john boehner, speaking now.ve a listen. >> -- according to cbo and others, millions of americans could be forced out of their plan, so it may not require you to change your plan, but if you look at the employer mandate and what it means on employers, it's clear that some number of employers are going to drop their plan, pay their 8% tax, and their employees will be forced into the government option. secondly, if you look at the language in the plan, all employer-provided plans would have to have their plan approved by the department of labor and the new health choices czar within the first five years. the result of that is that a lot of plans offered by employers are going to end up being dropped as a result of that requirement. and so there are organizations that have estimated tens of millions of americans could, in fact, be forced out of their employer-provided coverage into the government plan. thirdly he said, illegal immigrants wouldn't get government benefits. but the nonpartisan congressional research se

we'll also be speaking with a top republican in the house of representatives, john boehner. he has some strong words on a lot of this. stay tuned because today could be a day full of a lot of political surprises. the vice president, joe biden, pulls off one. he's made a secret trip to iraq. he visited baghdad to meet with u.s. troops and iraqi leaders, but the headline of the surprise visit marred by violence, at least right now. we have an exclusive report from our cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. he's in baghdad. chris, talk a little bit about this surprise. what happened? you're the only television correspondent traveling with the vice president right now. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, wolf. you know, when we got on the plane, left out of andrews air force base, we didn't even know where exactly we were going or when we would get there. this is one of those secret trips, not like going to london or paris or visiting allies like that, so it was all kept very hush-hush. once we got in the air, we found out, yes, we are going to iraq. vice president biden did ta

house republican leader john boehner and republican senator saxby chambliss of georgia.ent a luxurious weekend at the greenbriar, the kind of cozy gathering new ethics reforms laws were supposed to curb. >> you're seeing the quint essential washington insider pay to play game. >> reporter: all paid for by money boehner and chambliss raised to support other politicians' campaigns. but a loophole in the law allows the money, in what are known as leadership political action commit teems to be spent for any purpose, including golf. in the 2008 cycle, chambliss spent more money on golf outings, $225,000, than he gave to political campaigns, $204,000. senator, brian ross, abc news. the senator did not want to talk to us. in a statement, chambliss says he holds the golf outings only as a way to raise money. but ethics watchdog groups question that. >> i call it a political slush fund. it gives the recipient the chance to life a life style he or she would not be able to afford. >> reporter: in a joint investigation, abc news found members of congress use leadership pacs to pay f

representative john boehner and others that came out today and they're pointing to a recent report by the congressional research service and to put that into context. this is an independent bipartisan research office that's used by all of the members of congress and it concluded hr-3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens whether legally or illegally present or in the united states temporarily or permanently from participating in the exchange. now, to take you back, we need to go back to july. representative dean heller introduced an amendment in the house, ways and means committee that would have specified and required that people who are applying for the health care subsidies make sure they are screened through a program called a systematic alien verification for entitlements program. that's a system that is currently being used. it's used to verify eligibility for other social services programs to make sure that illegal aliens are not receiving this benefit. steve is with the center for immigration studies and he's among those who is concerned because there is no provi

but the house leader, john boehner, had this to say. >> what the american people want us to do most right now is to do everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen. >> it doesn't happen. the republicans in opposition? >> reporter: right now, just about, charlie. pretty monolithic in the house. right now, it looks as if the republican senator from maine, olympia snowe is most likely going to join the democrats, though the talks haven't officially broken down with other republicans, and leaders in congress from both parties are expecting this process, going forward, to be an attempt to unify the democrats, without much republican support for this bill, unless it gets momentum and scrambles the dynamic down the road. >> and then, george, there's insurance, the so-called public option. david axelrod said to me, the president today will say he still favors it. he won't say he has to have it, buhe still wants it. but a key senator, max baucus of montana today said this. >> i think, frankly, with increasing conviction, that a public option cannot pass the senate. >> he says it can't pass t

shepard: john boehner sent a letter saying that it is evident that acorn is incapable of using federall manner. steps must be taken to ensure that no further tax dollars are given to them. we have more on our website, foxnews.com. you may not have the colors memorized, but most folks know what they mean. that color-coded terror alert system. why it might be changing . that is next become that big. gecko vo: 'course, geckos don't literally sweat... it's just not our thing... gecko vo: ...but i do work hard, mind you. gecko vo: first rule of "hard work equals success." gecko vo: that's why geico is consistently rated excellent or better in terms of financial strength. gecko vo: second rule: "don't steal a coworker's egg salad, 'specially if it's marked "the gecko." come on people. shepard: there is a debate tonight about what to do with the color-coded chart showing the nation's terror level. defense came up with that after 9/11 in an attempt to signal level of -- the fed's came up with that after 9/11 to signal the level of threat we were facing. now they have made a decision, sort of.

this is what john boehner had to say.mors have circulated in the past few days that's general mcchrystal might be considering stepping down. in captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- -- he made it clear in "the new york times" article. joining me now is major general bob skcales. good to have you here today. we have seen a little bit of back and forth on this issue in the media. just yesterday there was a question about whether or not to general mcchrystal might be in not able to follow through on what he believes should happen on the ground, adding troops. he has expressed that he thinks that needs to happen fairly quickly. how do you reconcile what he is a year now with what happened over the course of this week? >> stanley mcchrystal is a good soldier, and he will be loyal to the commander-in-chief. all the give-and-take in the media about him considering resigning or retiring. the other thing is, it has come down to making a decision by the administration. they can either listen to the gener

. >> reporter: minority leader john boehner also pointed to a study. >> facts are -- crs says there's nothing in this bill that will prevent these people from getting this type of insurance. >> reporter: that study found illegal immigrants may be able to purchase either private insurance or a new government-run insurance plan if there is one under the house democrats' health care overhaul plan. but unlike american citizens or legal u.s. residents, the study found that illegal immigrants would not be able to get government assistance to help pay for that insurance, wolf. >> brianna keilar is up on capitol hill. >>> meanwhile, president obama is saying what he thinks of the congressman's apology. let's go right to our white house correspondent, suzanne malveaux. he was asked and he answered, suzanne. >> reporter: wolf, he was meeting with his cabinet. there was a group of reporters there. they were being ushered out of the room when our own elaine key han nose stood back and asked the president whether or not he accepted the apology of the congressman. he obviously, wolf, wanted to addr

shooting back today from the other side, and house minority leader john boehner said that democrats have been wrong from day one. >> they made a critical mistake going home for august. they would come to sell their plans. instead of listening to the american people. and at the end of the day, when americans get engaged in their government, their government listens. they have never been more engaged then they are right now. shepard: getting closer to get something passed that we were a few months ago? joining us now is major garrett and carl cameron. let's start with you. >> the white house is in a position it has not been in since debate began, which is where the white house can now confirm what congressional democrats are doing or not going to confirm health care. last night, the presidents at 30 million american citizens lacked coverage. that is lower than the number most democrats use. that is because the president leaves out illegal immigrants and resident aliens. today, robert gibbs went into great detail on the question of, would illegal immigrants be covered more broadly than they

house republican leader john boehner amplifyed the complaint that without proof of citizenship, undocumented aliens could be insured. >> there were two opportunities in committee for house democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants would not be covered by putting in the requirements to show citizenship. both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected. >> over in the senate, democrats on the gang of six began moving quickly to close the loophole wilson helped bring to light. >> how do we absolutely assure that those here illegally would not get the benefit of any of these initiatives? >> house democrats have left open the option to sanction wilson for violating a house rule that prohibits members of congress to accuse the president of lying but signaled to move ahead without further distraction. >> let's not spend time with that. yes, there is a procedure that could have been implemented. i think that the president did the right thing just to continue on from interest and didn't give it any more attention than it deserved. >> and this afternoon -- excuse me, this morning, the president

. >> and interesting, john boehner introduced a bill to depfund them totally and i think to everyone's surprised that was accepted and voted on and passed by a big margin. so both in the house and senate now they have voted to depfund acorn. it's an interesting example that sometimes things tilt and people start reacting to the new information the greta: up next, is congress lazy? you'll find out. more with speaker gingrich next. plus the iranian president who arrives in new york in a few days just did it again. he said the holocaust just didn't happen. why is he doing this? [ female announcer ] the deeper you clean, the cleaner you feel. olay deep cleansers go beyond what the eye can see. they remove 2 times more dirt and make-up than basic cleansing. for a deep clean feeling, deep cleansers from olay. introducing a breakthrough from tums that can control your heartburn for hours all day or all night. it's called tums dual action, and it's the longest lasting tums ever. tums dual action works two ways to relieve heartburn: like all tums, it goes to work in seconds. plus, tums dual act

. >> john boehner said yesterday, we're in a moment of political rebellion in this country. what does the president think of the level of the protest, the tone of the protest? where have all of his grass roots supporters gone? >> that's a good question. i think they're frustrated with this right-wing sound machine. that's what they call it. it's a little bit harder when you have to compromise on a big issue on health care that ends up disappointing some of the supporters of the public option. which the president has signaled he may be willing to give up. there's another phenomenon out there, congressman boehner is right about this, we have also seen a huge rise in number of independents. highest level in 28 years. you might be seeing the return of those angry perot voters. from the early 1990s. >> you have so much more on the interview. but you can quickly touched on afghanistan? i believe he said we lost focus. >> he wants to get the focus back on al qaeda. putting off any decision right now of adding new troops. and i think they're trying to put that off as long as they ca

we are looking now at congressman john boehner, as the house minority leader is speaking on this. let's listen. >> i commend them on all of the work they have done on behalf of house republicans to hold acorn accountable. they have abused taxpayer dollars and the public trust, and we need to stop giving more money to acorn, and we need to do it immediately. let me turn it over to patridge. >> thank you, a leader. -- let me turn it over to patrick. >> thank you, leader. what we have seen is a tipping point for acorn. this leads to greater questions across the federal government and all governments to analyze their relationship with this corrupt organization. i think it also gives politicians opportunity to review their relationship with acorn, as well, so, clearly, the actions of the census bureau is a tipping point, and i think you. >> -- thank you. >> i want to thank the leader for his efforts in this. he asked me to be a chairman for the task force for the senses. myself and patrick -- for the census. myself and patrick, we have expressed our concerns. shepard: of course, we hav

. >> and interesting, john boehner introduced a bill to depfund them totally and i think to everyone's surprised that was accepted and voted on and passed by a big margin. so both in the house and senate now they have voted to depfund acorn. it's an interesting example that sometimes things tilt and people start reacting to the new information the greta: up next, is congress lazy? you'll find out. more with speaker gingrich next. plus the iranian president who arrives in new york in a few days just did it again. he said the holocaust just didn't happen. why is he doing this? greta: we spoke to former speaker of the house newt gingrich rich about your money being waisted -- wasted ontd the funding acorn received before the undercover video scandal. i think about the medicare fraud and the health care reform and i think, you know, at what point -- is no one monitoring it? >> of course you had last night jim from our center for health transformation who just wrote "stop paying the crooks," and we have tried to get the committees to hold hearings on fraud and they don't want to do it. gret

i do not know if john boehner is here. i am sure the house has some good work to do tododay, better than they did yesterday. bob dole had indicated that he was going to be here. again, thank you to my colleagues for being here. elizabeth, tell bob thanks for the flowers. my colleague from mississippi, i did not know that you had to have white hair to be a senator from mississippi. [laughter] thad always accuse me of putting something on my hair anyway. after 9/11, we went to new york and said we are all new yorkers now, and we are going to do our part to help new york city recover. chuck schumer had one request that was way over the top, but i said it sounded like a good idea to meet, and we got it done. chubb will know what i am talking about. -- chuck will know what i am talking about. sometimes it is better you do not know the details on these things. [laughter] after katrina, in many ways our hearts were broken. it was such a devastating experience. it was tough to go down there and see what had happened. thad was work

it was her response from the republican party john boehner. >> a little while ago speaker pelosi grew pretty emotional describing how our political climate is growing increasingly hostile, especially the rhetoric. do you believe our political climate has grown hostile? what's your opinion on that? >> as you heard me describe before, i do believe we're in the middle of a modern day political rebellion. the american people are saying enough is enough. they're scared to death that the country they grew up in is not going to be the country that their kids and grand kids get to grow up in. >> modern day political rebellion. americans are rightly scared for their country. i guess that means that congressman boehner doesn't agree that political leaders should try to not escalate the situation toward those sorts of things. it wasn't just congressman boehner, the top republican in the house today. it was also the chairman of the national republican congressional committee, pete sessions of texas, who responded to speaker pelosi's plea of de-escalation by saying, quote, speaker pelosi is right

perry, bill o'reilly from the fox news channel, bill bennett, the top republican in the house, john boehner, the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, eric cantor, an event where elected republicans like congressman chris smith of new jersey, for example, can feel confident using their most conservative base-pleasing rhetoric. >> never in all of those years have i been more concerned, i know you share that and our panelists share that, about the abortion promotion coming out of the white house. the culture of death promoted by barack obama, by his secretary of state, by his cabinet, by sebelius, by the subcabinet and by appointees, bizarres. is outrageous and unconsciousable. >> those were the best hoodie out of all of the campaign swag. with the little reefer on them, culture of death. >>> along with the culture of death, podium pounding today, mike pence also went off on the czar issue. >> you know, i do think members of congress should be required to read bills, but i've got to tell you, i'd be just about as happy if more of them read this a little more often. the constitution.