they wanted it to go viral and it did. >> i served with john kerry. >> i served with john kerry. >> john kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. >> he is lying about his record. chris: that is a tough ad put out there by kerry's enemies. it got out almost like a news item. >> this is something mentioned before, the emfa says is on responding quickly. got to respond quickly. the kerry campaign and the candidate himself, for whatever reason, decided to ignore this for too long a time. among other things, they said we have a whole campaign to run. and running a campaign is like trying to change a fan belt on a moving mercedes. but they waited too long to respond to this and allowed it to play out just as the perpetrators intended it to. >> that was in 2004, the world was changing in terms of youtube and the web. i don't think political campaigns were aware of the fact that people weren't getting news by watching the nightly news broadcast. they saw it. but because they got their news the old-fashioned way, they didn't believe it. people now are getting news from youtube an

let's bring in the chairman, the former democratic presidential nominee, john kerry. plan is coming over. speaker boehner says, here is a plan. pass it, send it to the president and we're done. >> well, the speaker knows that is not the way it's going to work. the house knows it's not the way it's going to work. because his plan is fundamentally flawed. he was put on notice yesterday with a letter with 53 senators signing it saying, we are not signing it. but they took a whole day, to make a political posturing position. now, the reason it's noft going to pass is because it's not in the interest of the country. it has a short term debt ceiling. and that could result in a downgrading of our credit and it doesn't provide the serenity to the marketplace that republicans have been saying we need to give the marketplace. for that and other reasons, it requires the passage of a constitutional amendment. it's not going to pass. and we will be in a forced grid lock. >> let me stop on that. reid's plan would raise the debt ceiling through the presidential election mvb and jeff

let's get more now with democratic senate leader john kerry. >> good afternoon, martin. >> you are clearreid's plan is the only way out, and yet the gop keeps twisting arms and going through the convulsions to get the bill through the house, and so what is next in this dysfunctional debac debacle? >> well, when you say dysfunctional debacle, i hope you are clear that there are people here who are functioning at full gear, and bipartisan capacity to be able to deal with this. this is not a failure of congress as a whole. it is a civil war within the republican party. and you have the house of representatives and not the senate who are insisting on not e negotiating and i heard the prior segment about the president, and no person could have changed the minds of the people who decided not to have their minds changed and not to negotiate and that is what is going on here, martin. and let me finish one point. and -- >> sure. >> and speaker boehner is negotiating not with the democrats, but within his own party to basically hold on to the leadership and satisfy that fringe. that is not going t

other alternatives joining me from our studio in less than los angeles is frank you're i think john kerry again thank you so much for joining us we're happy that you've chosen us to be one of the places where you can come and talk about this story so you know you've already you put an entire statement out there on the young turks you held a phone conference yesterday and you describe the story of them sitting you down saying that they didn't like your tone or not they somebody in washington like your tone and that they are the establishment i'm just curious what were the first emotions the first thoughts that came to mind was the reaction when they said we are the establishment my first reaction was wow this is the speech this is a speech that people tell you about what you thought you never really going to get because usually it's a lot more subtle than that you know you get things like oh you really want to do that story or are you sure about that but this was not subtle this was kind of a you'd see in a movie and my immediate reaction other than surprise was well i'm definitely not goi

tavis: you talked about how they got away with demonizing john kerry when he served and george bush did not. recordhat case, kerry's was an exemplary. there is just enough wanting in the obama record so far that he gave romney a slight opening for his exaggerations' and characters. tavis: you have a lot of words in the new peace. what is it that obama has not done that has led to the failure of righting the wrongs, specifically about the crash? >> the two biggest things is that nobody who created the circumstances for this crash has been punished. low level con people have, bernie madoff has, the people who made the housing bubble have not. they took their fortunes and left while america was holding the bag. that is a failure in law enforcement. obama pledged to do that. he started a task force within the justice department called operation broken trust. it has never had any significant prosecutions or any significant investigation of what went down. the second is a failure to reform wall street. the dodd-frank bill was not great to begin with. poorly staffed agencies have to implement

. >>> a at that john kerry incidents in texas has stunned baseball fans and players around the nation. looks like the bay area is in for a major change in the weather. rosemary has the breakdown for your neighborhood. >>> we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give people the security and opportunity that they deserve. >> the president and wall street react to another disappointing jobless report out today. . >>> the construction of the new kaiser personality day in san leandro hit a big milestone. officials held a topping off ceremony to place the final steel beam at the top of the new hospital. it's on merced street on the west side of highway 880. >> it's a great location, great location for the community. a great location for kaiser permanente. we just think it's going to serve our members and community beautifully. >> people attending the ceremony had an opportunity to write their names and best wishes on the beam before it was put in place. the six-story state-of-the-art hospital will have 264 acute care beds in private rooms, ten top rating rooms, 40 emergenc

like 2004, in that mitt romney is going to be their john kerry.nd of the day nobody's particularly enthusiastic about one person or some are dogmatic about one or the other but they'll come together in the end mostly to beat president obama, that's the focus. >> mark murray, she did the transition to mitt romney. i want to play to you a sound bite, mitt romney's attacks on the president and the economy have gotten a little extra scrutiny particularly against the dnc, here's what he said yesterday in los angeles, campaigning was what he was doing, but fund-raising was what he was doing. >> obviously the challenges are not the result of the current administration, a lot of the economic woes around you and the country are a result of errors made over a long period of time. >> that's a different answer than he's given about president obama. the romney campaign will say, hey, wait a minute, he's given a version of that answer all the time. >> they reached out to us and said, when he was criticizing obama in pennsylvania and in allentown, that had to do

. >> when they were running, and after and also same thing with john kerry and the boston globe in 2005btained transcripts and put them out, confidential transcripts. my point with that is you cannot continue to say this is a one-off and one only. >> no, but the request for transcripts, requests not simply for transcripts, he said that he assumed that he was an inferior studen studen student,notwithstanding the fact he went to harvard law. there's no question he was -- >> when you have someone a self-proclaimed billionaire. >> donald trump. >> well-known businessperson, someone that had a degree of respect, has a top television show lending his name to a campaign and leveraging the media like a p.t. barnum, we don't need side shows, we don't need political entertainment, it's nice to laugh at for a minute or two but when it dominates the air waves, it takes away from what i believe most people in this nation expect of in public discourse. mark moreal, dr. amani perry thank you for being here. if you have a particular topic e-mail us at ourworld@blackenterprise.com. stay with us. we'll b

. ♪ around the world they're coming to america every time that flag unfurled ♪ >> and john kerry's didn'tm either. ♪ it's a beautiful day don't let it get away ♪ but the grandaddy of all bad theme songs, when ross perot was combating his image as a loose cannon he chose this theme -- >> here we go. ♪ crazy i'm crazy for feeling so lonely i'm crazy ♪ chris: the great patsy clivene. when we come back, we'll talk about optimism. barack obama ran as the optimist last time. but tough times. should it be more in sync with the story lines? chris: welcome back. even in the midst of the country's economic collapse from the fall of 2008, barack obama ran as the optimist. >> there's a moment in the life of every generation when that spirit of hope has to come through. when we -- we shed the fear and the doubt and we don't settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept but we reach for what we know is possible. chris: winners are the optimists, the ones with the sun in their face and usually the ones who are outside, wind blown, not desk bound. both roosevelts, teddy, f.d.r., and even j.f.k. an

proving his own mark by a tenth of a second phelps right behind in the second with another big name john kerry laszlo chat. logs getting the first world record incidentally since high take forty c. band last year. while the upcoming world today championships in paris is also an important event for a limpet hopefuls ahead of the london games russia's very kovel is hoping to accumulate enough points in order to travel next year on course that have caught up with her and her hometown was. when i called it was just a child her mother wanted her to go to a dancing school or take up knitting and then broidery but by her own admission she's always been a sort of its own boy and lots of flight it was already all the is though that she would become a professional athlete mom though wanted her daughter to have nothing to do with combat sports and sent her to track and field instead. of a chunk of business when i was sixteen i met a girl who was a wrestler and she took me to a wrestling club for the first time i went there secretly for a month and my parents had no idea my mom was shocked when she found

not it's not really has to do so you put spit on who's not what i'm shooting twenty eight so for john kerry the muslim brotherhood were there on the perspective very strong. to be honest they are very well revised they've been working on the ground on the ground but on the ground for a long long time period not the most on the kids or at least when i will start to know what's muslim brotherhoods about. and we have to give them some credit for them but i think that inflated does not ask we want the power for their vote is that inflated that we hadn't thought would think. they are not as ready as we think to the election and stuff like that. but they're organized and i think some of the people of the blaming them for a lot of things what i mean if you don't really. i mean if you don't have to just decide to come to much good if you want on the other hand because he works for a long time underground sometimes they say a lot of silly stuff and you can say it is stuff we'll underdog but then when you see some two sinks in something city of the people puts you tube on the facebook and twitter on

it's not it's not really hurts to see you speak on who's not but i'm sure the twenty eight so for john kerry the muslim brotherhood were there on the perspective very strong . notice they are very want to revise they've been working on the ground on the ground but on the ground for a long long time period not the most on the kids or a swindle. thank you what's most of all the results and we have to give them some credit for them i think though inflated them not us clear and the power for their own has been inflated their hope that's real and i do think. they are not as ready as we think of a russian stock like that. though denies. i think some of the people it's a living them for a lot of plays well i mean if you go through here. i mean if you don't have to just decide to come to match them if you want on the other hand because he works for a long time underground sometimes you see a lot of silly stuff and you consider stuff in the underground the inner city something sits in something city of the people puts you tube on the facebook and twitter on the go to national t.v. is this is where pe

. >> that is exactly what happened in 2004 when john kerry versus george w.ush did a very nasty and dirty campaign with swift votes and questions of duties on the international guard. it increased voter turnout. you have to say the negative activity is wrong. it's actually about information and bits people arguing over something that is very important. >> john: thank you, nick. it makes you wonder, what would it be like if my critics made attack ads about this program and me. >> don't watch stossel? he is nothing but a shill. >> this ad has been approved by the mainstream media. gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. [ female announcer ] sweet honey taste. 80 calories per serving. 40% daily value of fiber. i'm here in the downtown area where the crowd is growing. [ female announcer ] watching calories at breakfast never tasted this sweet... i'll go get my bowl. [ female announcer ] ...or this huge. new fiber one 80 calories. yes, you can actually l

senator john kerry and the foreign relations committee have an excellent report that they did a er a year ago called yemen, the ticking time bomb, which catalogs the number ofnumb americans who have traveled to yemen and the number of prison converts that have traveled toav yemen as well as. >> host: let's go to seattle, washington where it is calling in the dark deadline for. >> caller: good morning. you know, i live in south seattle. ttleve very close to where the slammic center is. iic have probably seen these guy but i wanted to say was just a r general comment to the american people. has nothing to do the terrorists or anything like that but has to do with our foreign policy. we support monarchs and despot's of the middle east, support for s of the if you listen to what they were saying, they have a point. h it has nothing to do with islamm but their policies. so without a change in thesen ts policies what is going to to happen, this will continue.ne add just want everyone to charts are read and understand rverything they can about the middle east and one of four policies doing.

you know whether it's senator harry reid the majority leader you know congresswoman nancy pelosi john kerry senator sanders was on yesterday i mean you name it we've got it right for our part and i think probably for the daily show as well they appreciate a real conversation a lot of them do and plus some point you get so large that they go well i would like to reach that audience and you got that large because you or your audience trusts you because you tell the truth. well i want to thank you very much for joining us and telling us more about your story and i'm with you there i think the audiences are sick of being spoken to like they're idiots and having every little bit of news dumbed down they want some truth and they want an honest smart conversation that's definitely something young turks provides to thanks so much. thank you really appreciate. well still to come tonight we have an update on the aaron swartz case he's a frequent guest on this program who is now accused of hacking into mit its network and downloading documents offered a story and then president obama just announced th

. >> the john kerry scenario in '04 and the john mccain scenario in '08 proves if you hang in there thingsappen. >> i've got to go to a shameless plug. pete, i'll let you go first. >> indiana republican party out with a new website, demdictionary.com. exposes some of these rhetorical phrases democrats like to use to confuse voters. >> chris cillizza. >> i am in search of the best state-based political blogs in every state -- >> i want them twitter -- twitter handles. >> washingtonpost.com/thefix, post all of them and i will put twitter handles. >> my colleague alex burns, haberman new blog on politico.com. >> it is a good one. but i can tell you the one guy i'm reading all weeks, david rogers, baby. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." have a great weekend. it's a working weekend for a lot of peopling watching. we'll see you right here on monday to see what happens. coming up next on msnbc, "jansing & co." then at 1:00 don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." good night, chet. >>> look k at your weekend forecast, i'm meteorologist bill care ronz. on saturday nice weather moves i

same with john kerry. more guys like this, and you would win. >> he is a perfect example of a super old guy, right? >> absolutely. i commend him for his bravery and i know he was trying to protect his family. but i took self-defense. the guy walked in and it was a bb gun. it did look real. they didn't know it at the time. >> how were they supposed to know? >> i am not. it is because i have the three names. >> you people all stick together. go ahead and continue your tirade. >> the guy came in and held a gun to me and he demanded money. what i was taught was you give the money, but the first thing you do is you try the easiest way out. if that doesn't work you go to other measures. he may have made the situation worse and may have escalated it. the fbi now says it doesn't look like there is any other motive. he just wanted the cash. >> you don't know that. i said this before on "the five" and you can't depend on the kindness of strange you ares or in this case intruders. you don't know if this guy is going

over the years, this time he happens to be using it against the republican, instead of against john kerry bob schrum, i think michele bachmann is a force to be reckoned with. the democrats are scared of her, again, you want to -- >> i'm not scared of her, bring her on. >> i'm so ready to bring her against barack obama because we're going to beat him like a drum in the next election. >> she is is the weakest conceivable republican. >> no, she's not. i think she's the strongest conservative in the race. >> why do you think she can beat president obama? >> she's a strong fiscal conservative, and i think she speaks in a clear and concise voice, and i think she's a force to be reckoned with. >> 80% of the american people don't want to touch the big three, she's all over it. >> i still think we have 16, 17 months to go, there's several other candidates, i'm a personality friend and a favorite of governor romny's. whoever the favorite will be, romny or president obama they're going to have a tight election. >> i want to ask you about tim pawlenty, he's had to restate his position. it was in the

met in person or spoken with patty murray, david axle rod, senator charles schumer and senator john kerry and massachusetts democratic representatives barney frank, and steven lynch and john tear nee, but if she, but she want ts to go for a run she can't spend the next year angry at the filibuster republicans, but spend part of it for her candidacy. meanwhile, cordray doesn't have anything to run for until the ohio governorship opens up in options. so at some point, the republicans have to make a choice and do they want someone to run the agency that exists and is in law now, or do they want to freeing potential democratic candidates to spend their time running against, well, republicans. and we have delon from the "washington post." good to see you. >> hi, ezra. >> by this time next year, will this agency have a permanent director? >> well, as you mentioned before, it is unclear if anyone can be confirmed for the position. the reason that it is so important for this agency in particular is because without a director, the agency can't make full use of the powers, and it does not have the

. >> that's exactly what happened in 2004, when john kerry versus george w. bush in his reelection bid, a nasty and dirty campaign with swift boats and questions of shirking duties op bush's part on the air national guard, it actually increased voter turnout from 2000 which was a hotly contested election. and to call it negativity is wrong it's about information and people arguing over something very important. >> john: thank you, nick gillespie. the reason foundation. it makes me wonder, what would it be like if my critics made attack ads about this program and me? >> don't watch stossel. he's nothing, but a hack, a shill. he wants to do requests. this ad has been approved by the mainstream media. staying active can actually ease arthritis sympms. but if you have arthris, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve da

. >> for those of us who had the great, good fortune and misfortune to covered john kerry campaign, thisashback territory. spin it anyway you like, context may be reasonable, but the take is really hard to overcome and here's the problem, which is does he believe the sound bite or does he actually believe his economic judgment? and i suspect, really, he knows the recession ended, and that the president was there for a couple of months when the economy was -- but really, we have the sound bite. >> susan page, remember the comment about afghanistan during the debate. it feels like it's almost as if we're going to find out, well, he misspoke. well, that's -- you know, right now, this is not hurting him too much but over time, this could accumulate. >> going right to a core vulnerability for mitt romney. all the flip-flops we saw last time around on social issue. he cannot afford to be someone as changing positions. if michele bachmann said something -- >> susan page, eugene robinson, richard wolff. we're coming back. you get to say something right after the break. i promise. >>> this is "ha

he's also one of the few house republicans who represents a congressional district that both john kerry and barack obama carried these days which means you're in a swing district of the likes and representing from the opposite party. we're not seeing much these days. congressman, let me ask you. you see all these plans out there -- gang of six, these compromises that you hear. what do you like, what do you dislike? >> well, first let me say this. default and downgrade are not an option. that's very clear. i think at the end of the day we all understand that we have an affirmative obligation to govern. we're going to have to come to an agreement. i think the gang of six has presented a proposal that's worthy of very serious consideration. i mean i like the general outline. i need more details but again, that's not a debt ceiling plan. that is frankly dealing with fiscal reform and the long-term debt and defenicits of this country. i think at the end of the day though you'll probably see something like an intermediate deal. what i mean is perhaps something closer to that biden framework.

number three, john kerry. number two, hillary clinton. and the number one recipient of news corp. political donations. there you go, that's right. president barack obama. so it turns out for all of rupert murdoch's efforts to influence america, even his own employees are like many in our political system. split right down the middle. thank you for joining us "in the arena." i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. piers morgan starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight, the world's biggest media mogul under attack, literally and figuratively, rupert murdoch in the hot seat. >> people i trusted let me down and i think they behaved disgracefully and betrayed me and the company and it's for them to pay. >> and the lie one member of brit tissue parliament told about me. >> if all you know about tom arnold is his marriage to roseanne barr, then you don't know the half of it. >> jenny craig offered me and my wife $20 million to lose 20 pounds. who could not do that? i can think of two people. >> he'll talk about his friendship with arnold schwarzenegger. that's

. >> for political junkies, her endorsement of john kerry at the eve of the iowa caucuses was criticalof pull with activists in that state. >> which is that almost like sarah huckabee's endorsement of tim pawlenty, although mike huckabee hasn't come along. let's talk about iowa and all the different pieces of iowa. what are you looking at now in iowa in terms of what's happening with romney and bachmann? want to play a little bit of bachmann's first ad which went up today. >> as a descendent of generations of iowans, i was born and raised in waterloo. as a mom of five, foster parent and former tax lawyer, now a small business job creator, i know that we can't keep spending money that we don't have. that's why i fought against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. i'm michele bachmann and i approved this message. >> so that's a pretty potent ad and especially as a signal of where she stands on the debt ceiling talks. where we've just had what the president called constructive negotiations today. you can see how the speaker of the house

senator john kerry on the floor last night basically said our rivals are laughing all of the way to the bank. >> he's the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. christiane, thanks very much. i'm looking forward to joining you in just a bit on "this week." of course, your top guest, david plouffe and senator lindsey graham from south carolina. we take it back up to dan in new york. >> george, before we let you go, you know so much about washington. i want to hear your thoughts this morning.. assuming that this tentative framework that we're talking about this morning eventually passes, i know that's a big assumption. let's play this experiment for a moment. if it passes, will it be seen as a huge victory for republicans? >> it does depend on the details. look at the framework we look at right now. if this automatic cut, that would take place if congress can't come to some agreement on overall spending cuts and ways to reduce the deficit does not include any revenue increases, and is all spending cuts, i think you'd have to consider it a big win for the republican party, a bi

we saw what happened when john kerry pulled out of missouri -- sfw >> and she needs, mccaskill needsg base turnout in order to have a shot. >> absolutely. but then you look at nebraska and west virginia, where the president's probably not going to play that much, so they've got a lot more wiggle room. they're standing on their own two feet. they've got to make this work for themselves. for them, they've got a different voting calculus for them. >> what does that mean? walk me through bill nelson? >> i think you want a strong president. you've got to find a way to keep the president strong and also play to your moderate voters, looking out for yourself. so ultimately, i think he ends up voting for it, because he needs -- he's going to live tor die in some ways with barack obama. >> you know, jennifer, i've had democratic leaders swear to me. you know what, stop saying the senate's gone. stop saying it's gone. how is it not gone? walk me through the scenario where democrats and harry reid hold on to the majority. >> well, i think to play off what jamal says, it rests in those states wh

had a swift boat veterans for truth and they were set up in their minds as a way of destroying john kerry. not only destroying him as a presidential candidate but just destroying him. and i got fascinated... >> rose: motivated by politics? >> motivated by a belief that he was phony, that he was treasonous, that the kind of criticism that he made of the vietnam war was something that only a person sympathetic to north vietnawod ever do. and and i began and then with debbie's help began to interview the people who ran the swift boat veterans and admiral hoffman who was the leader and i think a rather interesting man. and then we got more deeply into vietnam and i was thinking about doing a book on the swift boat veterans. and then it turned out that very few people have an interest in the swift boat veterans or even vietnam. >> rose: right. >> the following year when debbie gets into the act in a serious way we began to think about her ideas and mine and collaborate d put it into a book which ended up as "haunting legacy." >> rose: have you collaborated before, ever? >> no... >> ever since

i want to play a clip of john kerry. let's listen to this. >> the chinese are looking at us right now, and they are just gleeful and incredulous at the way one of its great competitors is imploding on itself. it's happening because a small group of absolutists, ebbing streamists that don't understand the implications of even of what they're doing are prepared to hold the entire nation's economy hostage. >> now, while he did not address them by name, you know he was referring to the tea party members of the house. ho howe do you respond to those like the senators and others that say the tea party members are holding the economy hostage until they get everything they want? >> well, we cannot let perfect be the enemy of good, and what we do want to do is we have to have some structural spending reform. there's no question about that. we need to put people before politics, and we need to put progress before partisanship, but we need to move this ball down the field. we're spending $1.5 trillion, alex, of money we don't have

. >> it's an interesting issue that you pick up john kerry because the demands on job training providersot going to have to connect to low skill, low-wage jobseekers, which tend to be concentrated in central city areas, but also increasing in suburban areas. they have to have access to stakeholders and thunders. they also have have access to employers and jobs. so that by not one location that's going to meet all those needs. if you're close to stakeholders you might not be in close to employers, if you're close to clients you might not be close to where the jobs are located. those providers face of the difficult challenge for and ultimately and make some of the programs work well they have to be located at the outward jobs were jobs are located where employment opportunities currently is concentrated. that means it's difficult to get to those programs for populations that live in the inner city that are isolated from public transportation, may not have access to an automobile. but the mismatches i described describe in the book occur across a number of different services categories spen

trouble for a guy that once ran for president in 2008, and he was vice presidential candidate with john kerryjohn edwards now is under indictment, under federal indictment in north carolina linea on allegations that he misused campaign funds given to him and actually used it to cover up an affair. but now the federal election commission saying that he has to repay something like $2.3 million, which it was federal matching funds went into his campaign in 2008. fec is saying today he has to repay that money essentially because they sort of over stated the amount of money they brought in, and understated the amount of money they put out. we have not been able to speak yet to attorneys for john edwards. they have obviously been heavily involved in all the trouble he has had for so many months now. however, we do know that he said previously that he has not done anything wrong in relation to the indictment in north carolina. we suspect -- and there is some other reporting out there suggesting that his attorneys are saying he doesn't owe this money. so it looks like an accounting function by the fe

senators john f. kerry, barbara mikulski, and others demanded that lew explain what the president was doing. the american people were with them on tax increases for the rich. the nogse negotiation of shared sacrifice. why give up now. for 35 minutes the cross-examination went on with few details offered. when lew walked, mikulski turned to her colleagues and said, "i haven't seen a meeting like this in my 35 years in congress." we'd like to hear where you stand on this topic right now. we begin with a call from louisiana. terry, you are on the air. go ahead, please. you are on the air. caller: what i can't understand, they want to cut out medicare and medicaid and disability. as it stands now, i have been disabled since 2001. if they cut my disability we're going to be on the street. i mean, we don't have no choice. host: terry, i don't think anyone is talking about cutting it out. if they reduced it, would you be in the same situation? caller: yes, ma'am. host: what's your message to washington? caller: to

electric at john kerry. he was trailing. he wound up being my party's nominee. ng i was one of them. dead man walking. he triumphed and became his nominee. paw lendy, i think there is still live n there >> there is life, but he suffers from two problems. he has no charisma and michelle bachman is killing him. he doesn't raise any money and he was famous and tim pawlenty is not famous and without money, it's hard to get famous >> we talk about jim huntsman. he got in a good deal later with his own money he can sell fund at this point. the fact is that lightning does strike in these campaigns. if you were going to give him free advice -- >> lightning strikes, but sometimes it burns. howard dean was the first to speak out strongly. he roared out and couldn't even win in iowa. there was a flight to quality and not to des parnlg governor dean he buttons made that said dated dean, married kerry maybe they will say dated bachman, married pawlenty. >> he has to be a champion for the middle class. hez has to be that fighter and he is showing no passion. he has to have a m

as soon as john kerry became the frontrunner he polled the best.f anybody bests mitt romney i would expect their numbers to improve. mitt romney is getting 78% of the republican vote for rick perry it's only 69%. a lot of those republicans would come home if he won the nomination. jon: as you were saying before basically anybody who has a big r in front of their name polls pretty well against the sitting president right now. >> yeah, again, the president's numbers are consistency in the 40s no matter what republican is there. if you get to some of the lesser known people like herman cain or jon huntsman thei their numberse lower. this is likely to be a referendum on the citying president. a lot will depend on how the competent does between now and 2012. jon: you asked voters how closely they are spending attention to the tax, spending and debt sealing debate. you have 48% that are paying very close attention. when you ask them if the coverage and the president agreed to a plan that would raise taxes on the wealthy and cut spending will middle class

balanced debate, ford o'connell and democratic strategist mary ann marsh, former adviser to senator john kerrylcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> good morning, jamie. jamie: mary ann, the highest wage earners in our country, that's who the president pointed out last night. yet the reid plan doesn't call for new taxes, higher taxes. did he undercut his own party's plan? >> i think everyone's undercut everybody, and as a result undercut this country. the fact is, without revenues we're not going to hit $4 trillion in cuts, and that's what it's going to require for goldman sachs and standard and & poor's not to downgrade our credit. so we're now in the unbelievable position of perhaps avoiding a default only to have our credit downgraded, and that just shows you this entire debate is politics at its worst because people are putting their own political interests before the best interests of the country, and that is just wrong. jamie: what do you think? >> well, i definitely think the president was playing class warfare last night, but the bottom line is taxing the rich is not a long-term soluti

i talked to john mccain and john kerry both today. >> a lot of your colleagues [inaudible] are you forcing republicans to vote on those? >> that is something that we are considering. as you know, the senate rules -- it is not so easy to get things on the floor. one of the considerations, we might pick our favorite and go after that. that all takes time. everyone should accept this, why have we done this? why have we pointed out these individual tax breaks, standing alone, to have been together, they are worth tens of billions of dollars. i also appreciate my colleagues going down to the floor and laying out to the american public that we are talking about. somebody you has an atm account with $100 million should be paying their fair share. >> how much it needs to be in revenues? >> there are all kinds of [inaudible] senator durban has feelings differently than others. it would be very unfair for the people who are struggling to bear the burden when the fat cats [inaudible] thank you, everybody. >> now available, the congressional directory, a complete guide to the first session of the cong

you see him speaking right now with john kerry from massachusetts.te, the floor of the senate, harry reid expected to speak. once he does, outlines of what happens next to the senate once the house has acted. we will bring it to you. is president obama tough net so get the debt ceiling raced? he does have the bully pulpit but does he need to be more of a bully. jim acosta what are you finding out? >> reporter: other presidents have been bigger bullies. plr obama's credibility can be on the line. this could be one of those defining moments that make or break a presidency. >> so please to all the american people, keep it up. >> reporter: president obama started his day with another call to america to crash the phones in congress. >> let yoush members of congress now. tweet, keep the pressure on washington. and we can get past this. >> reporter: it's a sign that as the clock ticks on the debt ceiling deadline, the president is staying on the deadlines, leaving the fight to members of congress. jim kouz essays they need to step it up. >> he needs to say

>> the senate foreign relations committee one week ago past 14-5 irresolution from senators john kerrynd john mccain that would have authorized, in essence, the libyan operations. that was to see a vote this week, but harry reid poll did from the floor at the last minute. it seems to have become a victim on the debate of the overall federal spending situation. >> back to the defense bill in the house, is this likely to pass other areas of contention or dollar figures that would prove to be sticking points in the house today? >> yes. there does not seem to be any really major funding on the bill this year. it will certainly pass. it funds the basic operations of the defense department as well as the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it does not contain any money, by the way, for libya, but they could be redirected towards libya later if the defense department wanted. but there are not that many major issues. there will probably be a vote or two about afghanistan and summary directing of money. for example, we have already seen debate that would switch money from weapons or maintenance progr

john kerry knows diplomacy fails but someone has to go to islam a bad. and just want to point out that the very end he writes about secretary of state john kerryaing are you interested in what the job was meaning and he wouldn't say but the real point is he didn't need to i feel he's as much energy in that sort of quiet and that's a good word. calm and confidence about what i'm doing and how to approach things, as i ever have. i like where i am. number one priority is admitting peace. does not want to serve in a second obama administration indicating he might be interested the job of secretary of state. from tampa as we show you this line from "politico". over d.c. disfunction. ron? caller: i think i have a way to addresst national debt. we have the democrats who or that they don't want to cut any of the entitlement programs. well, let's suspend the income tax refund that's due to the poor, in terms but not cutting medicaid and social security or any of those programs and let's also look at race and revenue by taxing the more fluent information and i thin

john kerry buys a seven million- dollar yacht, and puts it in new york to save on income taxes. jay rockefeller chastise the oil companies. the saudi got his money. he never of work today -- that is how he got as money. he never worked a day in his life. the clintons -- did throw a wedding estimated from one to $3 million for a child. i would like to hear the congressman's reply. guest: you raised an important point about subsidies. there are costing our budget a tremendous amount. there's fuel ways to look at revenue, and when this tax creases, and one is cutting of subsidies. i think we should cut out the subsidies for jots -- jets, yachts, and all of these toys, and that would be an important savings, and you mention the oil companies. i would support your feeling that the subsidies to big oil should be cut. that is something the democrats have supported and are pushing very hard. we hope the speaker john boehner will agree, and that will be part of the package. i agree with colin after the subsidies. host: there is a topic that keeps coming up of of whether the mortgage inte

they voted for john kerry, for barak obama, so we've got 16 months as republicans to make in roads beforents or democrats for the rest of their lives. >> alisyn: what is the republican party doing wrong that they are not getting these millenials? >> i think what we could do is we're pursuing the right answers. there are 37% unemployed and under employed. they're suffering more from this recession than any other demographic group. i think what we need to do is connect the dots to this generation. every dollar barak obama spends in this administration is a dollar millenial also have to pay back. this is generational staff. this affects them and their fiscal future. >> brian: we watched rudy guiliani make a statement sunday saying republicans got to do is stay out of the bedroom. he's against same sex marriage, but the decision has been made, leave it to the states. you looked at a similar situation in your book. correct? >> yes. here is what i say. conservatives, i'm with ronald reagan 100% of the way. he, by the way, won the youth vote the first time around brought an entire generation int

but first, here's massachusetts senator john kerry on the floor and why he opposes the house republican bill. >> madame president obviously th well everybody in america is more than well aware that the date of august 2nd has passed coming at us. and also unfortunately well aware that the united states senate and the congress appear y to be stuck yet again that this moment in effect during the set we are debating a constitutional to amendment to balance the budget instead of balancing the budget mes i've heard from of sidesteps around here but this is what they call the message amendment.pretty mix and it's sending a pretty mixed message to america. here but, what we ought to be doing pie here is not trying to pass ao piece of paper that tells us to do what we know we ought to do. we ought to be doing it. what we ought to be doing is stopping the country fromt defaulting on debt that has already been obligated. in what people are refusing to do in the house and on the other u side of the ogle is live up to our o obligations. this is not suggesting that we giving are giving permission to