he just votes the party line. >>> and josh mandel got ohio's credit rating upgraded at the same time sherrod brown's congress got america's credit rating downgraded. josh mandel, protecting tax payers. >>> but the so-called government integrity fund, according to propublica, that's an investigative journalist organization, is shrouded in mystery. it isn't required to reveal donors. the only contact information is a p.o. box. but no one answers their questions and they don't have to do so, do they? >> you know, these groups have great names. >> yeah. >> they all come up with the -- and it sounds like mom and apple pie, but more importantly, it's designed to tell you nothing. if it was a group that at least said, "the coal company's organization," you would know where they were coming from. we don't know anything about this. and you're right, they don't have to tell us. one of the things that i discovered in doing my research for the colbert show, is these groups don't actually have to even tell the i.r.s. they exist at the time they're taking in this money and running these ads. that

i need josh mandell of the senate to make that happen. rob portman will be there.er boehner and all of the good republicans, we need to have them as well. those five things, number one, get north america energy independent, use our oil, coal, gas, renewables. number two -- number two -- make trade work for us. we'll open up new markets where we can sell goods and services and will crack down china and any other cheaters. number three -- we're going make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and that our kids have the skills they need to succeed in the coming century. because right now our schools and far too many places in america aren't doing the job they need to do. and i want to make sure we put our kids and the teachers first and the teachers' union behind. number four -- to get entrepreneurs to nth in our lives and in america and put their life savings to work here unless they know they're not headed to the place that greece is in or spain or italy or those places that have had such trauma overseas. to make sure that's the case, we're going to

by the way, i need josh mandel in the senate to make that happen.portman will be there. those five things, number 1, get -- and speaker boehner and all these good republicans. we need them as well. those five things, number one, get america energy independence. he is our oil, our coal, our gas, how our renewables. -- nuclear and renewals -- renewals. number 2, late trade work for us. we will open markets and we will -- make markets work for us. we will crackdown on cheaters. number 3, we will make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need in the 21st century. a lot of schools are not doing the job they need to do. i want to make sure we put our key its first and the teachers first and the teachers' union behind -- our kids first and our teachers first and the teacher'' union behind. number 4, you are not going to get entrepreneurs and businesses to invest in ohio and invest in other states in america and put their life savings to work here unless they know we are not headed to be placed greece or sp

sherrod brown is fighting off tea party republican josh mandell. he's ahead by seven points. new poll out today shows senator brown maintains an 8-point lead over mandel. this is why he's still a threat. dark money campaign ads. one super pac spent more than $1 million on pro-republican ads in ohio so far. republicans have spent $15 million against senator brown just this year. mandel tried to distance himself from those ads, but he repeats their attacks on the campaign trail. here's what he tells fellow tea partiers about brown. >> never met a tax he didn't hike. never met a regulation he didn't like. thinks the constitution is a living, breathing document. tramples on our freedoms, says the government is the engine of job creation. >> mandel says he's against tarp and he's against the automobile loan rescue. but when the editorial board of the cleveland dealer pressed him for specifics on job creation and health care reform he said, i think there's some issues that i'd like to wait until i'm a senator and deal with them in a bipartisan way. so voters are just going to have

. >> i should mention, senator brown's opponent is named josh mandel. since he gave you the address, i also have to tell you mr. mandel's. >>> massachusetts senator scott brown is stuck on a subject about his opponent in a way that has been making me crazy. i'm going to try to figure it out tonight because all i've been doing in covering it for the last few weeks now has been screaming at the wall. tonight i will try to put words to my feelings. that's ahead. >>> during a presidential campaign, it is hard to know when it happens. when words captured on video in front of an audience are going to stick. when footage is going to be a turning point in the election. it's going to be a defining thing that everybody remembers about that candidate. it's not always easy to tell when it happens, but something always sticks. today we got this bit of mitt romney talking about the emergency landing last week of a plane that at the time was carrying his wife, ann romney. >> i appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. i don't think she knows how w

we now know this fund is run out of a republican lobbying firm that employs one of josh mandel's formeruse of a rule change at the fcc. it used to be if you wanted to know who was spending how much on what ads at your local tv station you would have to in the car and get on the bus or ride your bike all the way physically to the tv station. you would have to ask them to hand over to you the papers from the thing they maintain that's called the public file. you would have to do that for all the local stations in your area in order to understand who was spending what in your media market in this election. so while this information is technically available, it was so cumbersome to get that mvgs, it as well not have been available at all. it was not available in a way it could be utilized to figure out who was funding the elections. now the fcc has changed that rule. the local stations public their public file online. the nbc affiliate in cincinnati for example did just that. last week they posted online this political advertising form filled out by the government integrity fund. remember t

by the way, i need josh mandel in the senate to make that happen. of course, rob portman will be there. those five things, number 1, get america energy independence. he is our oil, our coal, our gas, how our renewables. number 2, late trade work for us. we will open markets and we will -- make markets work for us. we will crackdown on cheaters. number 3, we will make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need in the 21st century. a lot of schools are not doing the job they need to do. i want to make sure we put our key its first and the teachers first and the teachers' union behind -- our kids first and our teachers first and the teachers' union behind. number 4, you are not going to get entrepreneurs and businesses to invest in ohio and invest in other states in america and put their life savings to work here unless they know we are not headed to be placed greece or spain or italy or those places that have had such trauma overseas. to make sure that is not the case, we will finally do something repu

next to ohio where a new ppp poll shows democrat incumbent brown over eight-point lead over josh mandelocrat martin heinrich leading republican heather wilson by seven, 49% to 42%. that's amazing. we'll be right back. >>> we're back. 11 years after the horrific attacks of september 11th, there are still questions about how seriously president george w. bush took the threats from the intelligence community in the run-up to the attacks. last year he reflected on the intelligence failures. >> at some point in time in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, i thought about why didn't we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didn't want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didn't you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the lead-ups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take significant action on multiple warnings by the int

. >> i should mention, senator brown's opponent is named josh mandel. since he gave you the address, i also have to tell you mr. mandel's. joshman joshmandel.com. >>> massachusetts senator scott brown is stuck on a subject about his opponent in a way that has been making me crazy. i'm going to try to figure it out tonight because all i've been doing in covering it for the last few weeks now has been screaming at the wall. tonight i will try to put words to my feelings. that's ahead. how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to good decisions. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. [ male announcer ] introducing a reason to look twice. the entirely new lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable n

was shocked when we did our list and said, yes, linda mcmahon has a better shot right now than josh mandell in ohio or connie mack iv in florida. if they change hands, they would need three more pickups if obama would win re-election. that would mean sweeping wisconsin, virginia, and connecticut next on our lit and holding nevada and indiana. as you can see, the battle to control the u.s. senate in november for republicans is quite steep. >>> today the u.n. general assembly will hear from iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. it's his last time addressing the body before hitting his term limits. they're urging delegates to protest the speech and boycotts are outside. maria is live. every time we hear him rant, are we giving this guy attention. >> reporter: forgive me if i don't answer your question. we're having a few construction problems. ahmadinejad is expected to be 16 of 17 speakers. of course, as is often the case when he's here in new york, there will be large protests taking place outside the u.n. those are scheduled to take place at 11:00 a.m. and we skpeerkted to hear from high-p

the same thing with josh mandel in ohio. >> shelly berkeley in nevada. >> i think that's the case, toome of it has do with the margin. look, president obama won massachusetts four years ago by 695,000 votes. i don't know how many votes -- how many obama votes scott brown can get but i know it is a lot easier for him if the president wins massachusetts by only a half a mall. >> let's stick with massachusetts. four polls in a row have now showed warren ahead. >> it appears to be some short-term movement to her. we've had movement back and forth in the state. i think it depends on who has what ad up and what the narrative is. these states are going to continue to move back and forth. i wouldn't assume that where we are today is where we're going to be in november for all these states. >> senate control. where is it at right now? >> a year ago i would have told you the republicans are more likely than not to win the senate. i think that's now no longer the case. we have it as a jump ball, although the republicans still have enough opportunities. they would need to win nebraska, north dakot

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win, win the senate as well, whether it's connie mack in florida or george allen in virginia or josh mandell in ohio where senate seats in missouri, nebraska, north dakota, montana, new mexico, wisconsin, michigan, we have a lot of great seats, defend scott brown, save him and massachusetts, and there's other places we could be in trouble. maine, we'll probably lose that. i'm a realist. we'll win the senate and house. here's the real challenge. republicans get one more chance. they don't get to do again what they did in 2004, which is not take their mandate and reform. they don't get two years. i hope speaker boehner and soon to be majority leader mcconnell sit down with mitt romney that they have 100 days to reform medicare, reform social security, got to get spending under control, and it can't be like business as usual. they will be tempted to do that. republicans hold meetings and think about it a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform, they have to rebuild the military, get the 313 chips, restore the terrible cuts the put in plac

five thingings that will get the economy growing again and i need josh mandell in the senate to makeob portman and speaker boehner and all of the good republicans, we need to have them as well. those five things, number one. get north america energy independence and use our oil and our coal and our gas and nuclear and renewables. number two. make trade work for us. selling good and services and crack down on china and any other cheaterings. number 3. make sure our workers have the skims they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need to succeed in the coming century. right now our schools in far too many places in america are not doing the job they need to do. i want to make sure we put our kid and teachers first, and the teachers union behind. [applause] number four, number four. entrepreneurs and businesses of all kinds invest in ohio and other states. put their life savings to work here unless they know we are not headed to the place greece is in or spain or italy. those places that had such trauma overseas and to make sure that is the case, we'll finally have to do so

they really stepped on it josh mandel's but and not really letting him go far. 34 years old.e did two tours of duty. he is been an amazing fund-raiser. i think democrats have done a very good job of defining him and talking about his record. republicans have spent millions on the air there. brown has compelled his ground there. a florida i think is an interesting situation where nelson has not had a race in a while. florida has become much more polarized. he just won a primary couple of weeks ago. it was not much of one. he is a guy whose name is well-known. his father was a senator. his grandfather of baseball fame. it is very shallow. i think that the race needs a couple of weeks to bake. >> let's talk a little bit of california. this seems like the most interesting state where redistricting is thrown open. in number of seats in the last decade, there is one seat that lived. >> we have 265 elections over the past 10 years. 53 districts. in just one did a seat change partisan hands. that is amazing considering the waves we have had in 2008, 2010. you hear a lot of people say

compare that to the new information that is provided in ohio race, voters are learning about josh mandel. he ran against his opponent. he got into office. he hired a 26 year-old to be the head of of is a management and had to send him to basic finance class is because he had no background. it is important to us that we provide voters with compelling information -- with new and compelling information. >> let's play off something that he was talking about. the house races sometimes have a harder time differentiating themselves. how do you advise your candidates to actually try to build a brand? >> we have a lot of these orphans states where candidates do have the ability to cut three more. we have been really -- cut through more. our expenditure release and had this morning. -- an advertisement this morning. a woman is talking about her experience with cancer. it is important to have real people talking about the impact on their lives. i would say something he was mentioning. the republicans are using their 2010 playbook. it is not working. if you look at the special election in arizona wh

the new integration that is provided to voters in the ohio race where voters are learning about josh mandell. he got into office, hired a 26- year-old and had to send the same staffers to basic finance classes because he had no background in finance or debt management. it is important to us that we provide voters with a compelling information about our candidates. something tells me we have more to say. not only about the democrats but sharing with voters the truth about our republican opponents. >> let's plan of something, the house races sometimes have a harder time differentiating from the presidential contest. how do you advise your campaigns to build a brand? >> we have a lot of these orphans states where canada is have the ability to cut her more. we have been pushing yarkand it's you cut through. our independent expenditure released and that this morning. there is a woman talking about her experience with cancer and how the policy would have made it hard for urge to get the treatmt she needed. it is important to have real people talking about the impact of these votes on their lives.

by the way, i need josh mandel in the senate to make that happen.course, rob portman will be there. those five things, number 1, get america energy independence. he is our oil, our coal, our gas, how our renewables. number 2, late trade work for us. we will open markets and we will -- make markets work for us. we will crackdown on cheaters. number 3, we will make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need in the 21st century. a lot of schools are not doing the job they need to do. i want to make sure we put our key its first and the teachers first and the teachers' union behind -- our kids first and our teachers first and the teacher'' union behind. number 4, you are not going to get entrepreneurs and businesses to invest in ohio and invest in other states in america and put their life savings to work here unless they know we are not headed to be placed greece or spain or italy or those places that have had such trauma overseas. to make sure that is not the case, we will finally do something republic

am going to get a lot of credits to democrats in ohio, especially the senator, for stepping on josh mandel's the democrats have done a good job of defining him, talking about his record. republicans have spent millions on the air there. brown has held his ground there. florida is an interesting situation where sarah has not had a race in a while. laura has become much more polarized. i think it is probably the senate race where medicare and social security may define it. he just won a primary a couple of weeks ago. it was not much of one. he is a guy who has a well-known name. his father was a senator, his grandfather of baseball fan. but it is also very shallow. that race needs a couple of weeks to bake. >> david, let's talk about california. this seems like the most interesting state where independent redistricting has opened up a number of seats. >> we had to adjust 65 elections for a house in california over the last 10 years. 53 districts times 5 cycles. in just one out of those did act change partisan hands. that is amazing considering 2006, 2008, and 2010. from a government perspectiv