will tim kaine be carried in with the president to the extent the president will be riding on the kaine vote, and kaine riding on the president's vote? how strong will romney be in virginia? will the anti-obama sentiment that many of the students have spoken to, is it big in virginia? i can tell you this, it's real. and it's something that has to be overcome. and i don't know that it's all based on race. nor is it all raced on party. it might be just there is something that has not come through that has to be addressed, and i think the obama candidates -- the campaign people know that their candidate has to address it. i don't think there would be any question if jim webb was running again if he'd be re-elected. but as you know, he's got a new child and a new wife enjoying a good life, son returned from the military, so i wish him well. >> let me pick up on that point, governor wilder. and i'll ask this question both ways so i want to get your perspective, both positively and negatively. so let's first take the aspect of the president winning re-election in 2012. if he wins, why does he

tim kaine versus george allen in your case. larry? don't know if i mentioned the word coat tail. but this is a pure coat tail race. chris, think about it. how many voters who vote for president obama are going to turn around and vote for george allen? seriously. you can count on both hands and a lot of mistakes. tim kaine is not just known here as former governor. he is known as former obama dnc chair. so people who vote for mitt romney are very unlikely to turn around and vote for tim kaine. i think the winner of the presidential contest in virginia gets a bonus senate seat. >> wow. that powerful. >> yeah, i think it is definitely a nationalized race and i think the kaine campaign it looking at the obama campaign movement. how much do they plan virginia. does that help or hurt come november. if you watch kaine's campaign, he has been very careful to distant himself from president. >> i don't think he needs coat tails. let's go to missouri. what do you think, a very familiar face here on our show. we like her. she has been a great ope

kaine a democrat, is vying for the seat currently held by jim webb. several stops in the shenandoah valley and charlottesville. >>> meanwhile jormg allen is blaming president obama for the high gas prices. he far gets the president and others say abouting soaring gas prices have touched every part of our economy. just about all goods become more expensive because manufacturing and delivery depend on oil. the economists have warned that continues high gasoline and diesel prices could threaten job growth in our fragile economy. >>> former presidential candidate jonch mcgovern is in the hospital this morning. the 89-year-old best known for his huge loss to richard nixon in 1972 was admitted to flagler's hospital in st. augustine, florida. his daughter says testing are being run to feg out why he passes out and loses his ability to speak. he was hospitalized several times for exhaustion and once for falling and hitting his head before an interview with c-span. >>> it is 5:50. the long and difficult recovery is under way in northern texas. more than a doze

you have tim kaine and george allen.nd right now george allen has a 8-point lead and how does that play out and how does it effect the race at the end of the day. >> they're both friends of yours. they were both popular goshes. goshes--governors. i think virginia will swing back to the republican column and as a consequence they'll have a new republican governor. >> obama carried virginia four years ago and i don't think that will be the case. i saw that four key states were virginia, ohio, colorado, were targeted states, and both ohio and virginia at this point are looking as though they're going to go-- >> you think virginia goes republican in the senate and gubernatorial presidential race. and how do you see the massachusetts rate with scott brown and elizabeth warren. >> in virginia barack obama will spend a lot of time and tim kaine will have to embrace that. none of the presidential legacy also spent much time. in massachusetts it's very close. it's a race that democrats really want their seed back in their column.

what i'm looking for on the night of november 6th is if a guy like tim kaine can win, it probably meansis doing well and has a really good shot. if his key messenger in a state like virginia that rejected democrats over the past couple of years then comes around to governor kaine. >> is it wrong to stereotype nevada as latino turnout obama wins, mormons turn out, romney wins. >> i think mormons turn out no matter what. that's part of the deal. yeah. they're going to be there. but i think latino and younger voters, absolutely. and that's where, again, where the president's so overperformed lat nose, younger voters, and not unexpectedly african-american voters that turn out means everything for him. >> iowa. why is it trending gop this time around? >> well, i just think that iowa voters have been unhappy with the administration, even among a lot of democrats you've had disappointment with what washington has been doing under democratic leadership and it is a strange state. you have a very conservative chuck grassley serving as senator, very liberal tom harkin serving as the other senator

if obama's stock goes up it could bring kaine up.in the election. >> it's interesting, reverse coattails operating here. neither candidate can count on their person, their presidential-type of person helping him this time. >> in virginia, romney should and he was running up unopposed in the primary, but how popular is he in virginia? >> well, president obama is going to virginia. and he will be speaking in virginia. >> the virginia common wealth, another college -- >> yeah, and something he is looking at as a swing state campaign wise. this could change the whole picture because mr. obama is going to speak there. but i still think of virginia as on the fence. i don't know why. this is always sticking in my head when we talk about virginia politics because it's such a divided state. northern virginia and southern part of the virginia, it's a big story. >> but if the economy perks up it could help obama, and if it doesn't that could help romney. we are still not sure how this is going to go. it's going to be very close. >>> let's talk

. >> the crumbling bricks were part of the once-magnificent territory of a kaine. more is buried underground. they are worried undiscovered treasures are at risk. according to the antiquities department, behind me there is the wall of the ancient city of babylon. it goes down this way, where the oil pipeline goes into the city. the newly-constructed pipeline will carry oil products from the self to baghdad. -- from the south to baghdad. >> that have nothing in that area. when they lay the oil pipe, they find nothing. than find nothing. >> the antiquities officials consider the pipelines a threat to what they say are fragile ruins underneath. they want them diverted. >> there is another problem. the board of antiquities worked hard on that side. the pipelines could prevent that from happening. >> the lion of babylon has survived almost intact. is symbolizes the babylonian warriors protecting their city. today, it is the floor of oil that could prove impossible -- the lure of oil that could prove impossible to resist. bbc, babylon. >> today, it became official that d

and right now i don't see how romney will do that. >> what about tim kaine?ic party at a certain point. does tim kaine -- does the quality of his campaign impact the president's re-election likelihood? >> as the former chair of the dnc, i think he has some name recognition and good history in the state. but think more important than his legacy in the state is actually the state's unemployment rate. which is 5.8%. very different from the rest of the country and battleground states like michigan and ohio. it's economic indicators will play a huge deal along with the gender gap. as opposed to cane's legacy and in some ways, obama might be a hindrance to him getting ele elected. i think he will distance himself a little bit. >> and tom mentioned a fairness issue that's a very good issue, but you have to remember that republicans' core belief is that economic growth is sufficient. if the economy is growing, the market will take care of everybody fairly. democrats believe that economic growth is necessary, but not sufficient. you have to step in and make sure that

. >> the crumbling bricks were part of the once-magnificent territory of a kaine. more is buried underground. they are worried undiscovered treasures are at risk. according to the antiquities department, behind me there is the wall of the ancient city of babylon. it goes down this way, where the oil pipeline goes into the city. the newly-constructed pipeline will carry oil products from the self to baghdad. -- from the south to baghdad. >> that have nothing in that area. when they lay the oil pipe, they find nothing. than find nothing. >> the antiquities officials consider the pipelines a threat to what they say are fragile ruins underneath. they want them diverted. >> there is another problem. the board of antiquities worked hard on that side. the pipelines could prevent that from happening. >> the lion of babylon has survived almost intact. is symbolizes the babylonian warriors protecting their city. today, it is the floor of oil that could prove impossible -- the lure of oil that could prove impossible to resist. bbc, babylon. >> today, it became official that d

obama does well you're going to see tim kaine probably do well but it will be very close. >> suarez: if you want to continue to talk about money, massachusetts is next. outside money is pouring into that state, isn't it? >> yes, there's another one with national impcation senator scott brown won the surprise special election after senator ted kennedy passed away and he was really the vote against health care reform and looked at as this republican savior, the new face of the party. but he's also voted along the lines of massachusetts. he's been a little bit more independent, he voted for the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." so he's remained pretty popular there but democrats very much like their chances with elizabeth warren, harvard law school professor who worked with president obama, they think she can raise a lot of money. she's got more than $7 million in the bank. this is a big deal there. anditis state where democrats have an advantage. so president obama does well there, you've got probably a good night for her which means the democrats are taking over a seat in that case.

according to rasmussen, republican george allen leads democrat tim kaine by one percentage point. that's 46-45, a huge drop from two months ago when the polls showed allen had an eight-point lead. both still have to win their party's nomination in the june primary. the two former governors will face off in the first of four debates saturday. >>> get ready to break out the umbrellas. topper will tell us if it will clear up in time for the weekend, his forecast coming up. >> but first one day before draft time robert griffin, iii putting away some of the glitz and glamour of broadway for a little football fun in the big apple. we'll show you what happens. >>> excuse me, folks, i'm all choked up because this time tomorrow the redskins will be on the verge of picking robert griffin, iii with the no. 2 pick in the 2012 nfl draft, but today was a little bit of fun. the heisman trophy winning quarterback joined other top prospects to give back to the game. the college stars were teaching football and fitness skills to 600 kids at the nfl's play 60 draft celebration and rg3 says while tom

. >> will kaine, this is a tough discussion.real discussion, and van makes the point that people can get loans, if they can, for no money at all, and students are about to pay, double what you pay for a mortgage, you know, in some cases. >> 6.8%. >> to get an education. how do we fix this? and to van's point, this isn't really about somebody else's kid, right? it's about our society. >> i'm not going to concede to the premise here? i'm going to tell you, i think this is a completely overhyped, overstated issue that's being used for political purposes. the average student loan debt is somewhere between $18,000 or $25,000. van or somebody else could tell horror stories about someone with $200,000 in debt, but the bottom line is, that's just not the norm. the norm is that students have a very manageable level of debt. i would ask you this. why does the current generation, why are they exempted from the obligations and contracts that every previous generation has made and paid off their student loans, and presumably all future gener

three of them, joseph rainy, wall is of florida and richard kain of south carolina all lost contested elections. five other african-american members of congress spent valuable time and resources to defend their contested seats. missing opportunities to introduce legislation or to speak on the house floor. in one example, defeated for re-election in 187 1894 in, gorge murray of south carolina, spent the entire third session of the 53rd congress in late 1894 and early 1895, preparing evidence to overturn the results of that election and regain his seat in the next kopg. compiling tt foot-thick stack of paperwork to give to the committee left him no time to legislate. and so overwhelmed was that committee on elections during this era, at one point the house had three committees on elections, so overwhelmed was that committee that the, with the staggering workload, that it often would deliberate cases until late into a congress leaving contestants in limbo. murray eventually won his seat in the following congress, but he wasn't reseated until june of 1896, a year and a half into a two-yea

whoever wins the gop primary will run against tim kaine in november. president obama getting pushed back from the romney campaign. it says romney never would have given the order to kill osama bin laden in pakistan. peter shows us the reason for the dust up. >> a year ago this week, president obama gave the go ahead for the raid that took out osama bin laden, but his campaign is suggesting that if a president romney had been given the same intell, he wouldn't have gone for the kill. and they are making that point in a new ad with former president, bill clinton. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> after asking which path mitt romney would have taken, the ad highlights the 2007 headline that says mitt romney criticized barack obama for vowing to strike al-qaeda targets inside pakistan if necessary and this isn't the first time this week the campaign has hit romney on this issue. >> if you're looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how president obama handled what we inherited, it'

tim kaine is a barack obama wanabe. so i guess i'm hoping for jamie to pull out some kind of miracle and we have somebody with an independent brain and you're going to washington. host: and what matters most to you issues-wise, john? caller: issues-wise, i'm a paul ryan guy. i love paul ryan. i've written him letters and i would take a couple of years off and work for him for free. i think we had a lot of problems facing the country. ain't nobody facing the problems. that's my biggest issue. host: ok. thanks for your call. next up is bradenton, florida, and this is charles who's a democrat there. good morning, charles, you're on the air. caller: i want to say a couple of quick things. first of all, i'm a democrat but i'm also a christian. instead of everybody being a democrat or a republican, we should be an american first. we need to put people that work together instead of all this arguing and all this fuss that's going on right now because after all, they are working for us. they're not working for big money. and if

with details we are joined by kaine.e students at brigham young university took a friend's air freshener from his truck and the revenge prank came back hard. let's give a listen first and then get your reaction on the other side. ♪ >> this is it, boys. go for it. >> pay back. what do you make of this? >> this started over a nelson mandela air freshener. >> they make nelson mandela air fresheners? >> this is out of brigham young. look at these would as they walk into their apartment. this is their revenge. what happened to toilet papering house snst when did things get so -- look at that. trees, sod. lye bunnies and chickens and, of course, one of the guys dressed up as a bunny to reveal the easter prank which has become the most viral thing on the web. >> did i read right, over 60,000 views? >> yeah, yeah. first couple of day ace loan, more than that now. >> that took a lot of time. >> it did. how do you top that, though? because now those two have a lot of planning to do. >> so they just made an ecosystem out of their a

economy will be devastated. [ applause ] >> whoever wins the gop primary will run against governor tim kaine the senate seat in november. >>> well, severe weather in the midwest. winds turned deadly at a baseball celebration in st. louis. we'll have more on that, coming up after the break. >>> plus, democracy protests that swept the middle east last year are now hitting a country on the other side of the world. people calling for free elections, coming up next. q every day, an average of 5,000 people switch from cascade to finish dishwasher detergent. that's about 150,000 a month - over 2 million people so far. with finish quantum you get incredibly clean, sparkling dishes without having to rinse them first. now see for yourself why millions have switched to finish. join the finish revolution. and for two years in a row, finish quantum was rated #1 by a leading consumer publication. . >>> making headlines this morning, one man is dead and up to a hundred were hurt when strong winds lifted a beer tent at a baseball celebration after the cardinals game in st. lou

appointed by mark warner who was governor at the time and now senator and i was reappointed by tim kaine republican side and democratic side. i was on steering committee for dnc. >> you would run as a republican this time? >> yes. >> the application that your spokesman sent to cnn list november 6th, 2013 of the election day but the election day is november 5th. are you aware of that attorney? >> there may be a date error. it doesn't get submitted until after january 1st. these type of materials including signatures can't be submitted until january. all we're doing now is exploratory work and a lot of meetings with attorneys and our committees. >> the statement we got from virginia state board of elections regarding your application is nothing has been filed yet. the candidate -- >> it can't be filed until january. >> so you also have to have 10,000 voters from virginia and a minimum of 400 from each of the 11 congressional districts. will you get all that support? >> no question. we've had several thousand new fans come on our facebook page over the last 12 hours. clearly there's a huge

kaine talks about his own legal problems and alcohol addiction since then as well as the equal of ford, the officers in the case which led to the riots in l.a.. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> wonderful, wonderful. you've become an instant celebrity, so i know that you move in-betweens pieces very fluently. so, we are very honored to have you here at the center, and you've had a very patient and exciting and interesting audience so we are pleased to have you here. we open this conversation about you and your work and experiences by talking a little bit about you as a kid, and i shared with them some opening passages about your love of fishing so i want to give you a chance in my prepared comments i wanted to ask you contrary to almost people know you either as an object victim of police violence or a controversy altogether in the midst of the rebellion, or as someone that has been part of a longer conversation about whether police think it is racist or not in all of those versions of rodney king there is no understanding of you as a kid that loves fishing or loves

obama does well you're going to see tim kaine probably do well but it will be very close. >> suarez:you want to continue to talk about money, massachusetts is next. outside money is pouring into that state, isn't it? >> yes, there's another one with national implications. senator scott brown won the surprise special election after senator ted kennedy passed away and he was really the vote against health care reform and looked at as this republican savior, the new face of the party. but he's also voted along the lines of massachusetts. he's been a little bit more independent, he voted for the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." so he's remained pretty popular there but democrats very much like their chances with elizabeth warren, harvard law school professor who worked with president obama, they think she can raise a lot of money. she's got more than $7 million in the bank. this is a big deal there. anditis state where democrats have an advantage. so president obama does well there, you've got probably a good night for her which means the democrats are taking over a seat in that case.

allen faces three other contenders for the nomination -- former governor tim kaine is the lone democratrun. he's raised $2.2 million in the first three months of the year. >>> an anti-smoking bill aimed at protecting young children from same-sex -- from secondhan may be in limbo. delegates in the house say the subcommittee that is currently considering the bill is not looking at it favorably. five other states have similar laws. >>> a maryland family that lost their pet will get $620,000 from the frederick county sheriff's office. a deputy trying to serve a civil warrant in 2010 shot the labrador retriever. he said the dog was too aggressive. a jury decided the deputy violated the couple's rights by going in the home without permission. >>> this morning, there's proof that coyotes are living in northern virginia. a camera captured this video of a coyote last week in potomac overlook regional park. the animals are not native to virginia or the region. experts say they are here to stay. coyotes tend to be scared of people. but pets are a different story. coyotes feed on animals the size o

kaine talks about his own legal problems and alcohol addiction since then as well as the equivalent of four of the police officers of the case which led to the rise and los angeles. onl >>> welcomein to los angeles and the campus of usc, the home off the "los angeles times" festival of books. started in 1996, this is the th 17th annual l.a. times festival of the books over the next twos days 140,000 people are expected atay the campus to hear over 500 authors as they present more than as they present 100 panels on stage is an exhibit is from the publishing industry, authors and leaders all across the campus over the next few days. booktv will be here for rowdy saturday and sunday time frame to bring live coverage of panel sessions and in between our phone lines will be open to introduce you to a number of the top nonfiction authors with new books out and to take your calls for them. let's take a look at the rundown for this afternoon. next avia and lot history flee the war and remembrance and among the authors will be andrea course he whose hitler book is elected. the first call in of

you have got tim kaine in virginia. so it is not just president obama who's being -- by this support it is key democratic standers in tough races and i see this continuing. i don't see anything they can do at this point, that they want to do, to try to turn this around and say, we were wrong about this. this was settled in the '60s. we apologize. i think it is too late. >> how spornt it for president obama? he did something unples dented. he came out with a video message talking about planned parenthood. he is going at republicans. it is about as an aggressive a statement as you can make what does it mean? he knows he benefits. clearly this is a settled issue. this is not a issue that is up in the air. should women have basic access to birth control or should their boss or a pharmacist be able to prevent it? the war on women, the republicans like to a say it is hyperbole. it is not it is an aggressive frightening force that is trying to drag us back. >> how would you think things would change between now and the electio

. >> let's go to will kaine, he's a cnn contributor, and he has a number of jobs, and he's also a lawyer. will, put on your legal hat. last week you laid out the case as to why the individual mandate is unconstitutional. it's clearly in jeopardy, but what might it mean for the rest of the law? take a listen to justices scalia and ginsburg and see if you can figure out what the court might ultimately decide. >> my approach would say, if you take the heart out of this statute, the statute's gone. >> why should we say it's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job. and the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything. >> so, will, can the rest of the law survive if the individual mandate, which is, i guess, essentially the glue to the whole thing, is struck down? >> that's a very, very tough question to answer. let me explain it this way, christine. this shows you a breakdown of the justices. over here you have what is commonly described as the liberal justices. that's just breyer, justice ginsburg, justice k

kaine earlier today the senator susan collins came to the senate board to talk about changes to the u.s. postal service. she says she believes there's no transfer of tax payer dollars authorized under the proposed u.s. postal service reform bill. senator collins currently serves as the ranking member of the ction, s it's 40 minutes. islamic mr. president, let meof start by responding to thettee ranking member of the budget with him more that it is absolutely unacceptable that we have not had a budget pass in the senate for more than 1,000 days. that is totally unacceptable. it's one of the reasons that we are in such a financial crisis in this country. so, i completely agree with senator sessions that we should be doing a budget resolution on the senate floor. and i wholeheartedly agree with his comments that it is absolutely irresponsible for us to be proceeding without a budget resolution. and as a member of the appropriations committee, i would say to my colleagues that it makes it very difficult for us to carry out our work due to the cooperation of the chairman and ranking member o

tim kaine from virginia said the buffett rule doesn't go far enough, we need a larger tax reform.ut this "us versus them" argument. but it's not perfect because it doesn't get to the larger leadership issue of tackling tax reform which is going to be a much bigger deal. >> we've had a good week in terms of news. when it comes to politics, we heard that rick santorum is dropping out this past week. we've had about a week to let it bake in. let's talk potential vp picks. who do you think? >> i think there's a short list of about four candidates here. i think ohio senator rob portman, florida senator marco rubio bob mcdonald and paul ryan are getting all the buzz. there are three real factor that is any presidential campaign thinks about when they're thinking about who to pick as a vice presidential nominee. they think about, who does this candidate excite? what part of the base that romney doesn't excite or what part of independent voters that romney doesn't attract, can a vice presidential candidate get them? all four of these candidates are from states that romney would really lik

rot nei kaine recounts his life in the days and years following the video recording of his beating bythe los angeles police on march 3rd, 1991. he recalls the rights of los angeles, following the acquittal of four of the officers in the case and he reports on his own legal problems and alcohol addiction. for >>> more now from the tucson festival of books with a discussion about mexico's drug war. panelists include peter laufer professor and author of true lies of the border land. sylvia longmire offer mccardle the coming invasion of mexico's drug war and philip caputo author of crossers. >> good afternoon. at you are here at the lion in the sand panel, so if you are r looking for wither poetry and wrong the modern age you are in the g wrong room. we are going tout this afternoo, so -- >> sometimes marijuana. >> so in tucson anything is civil discourse. it's a pretty volatile issue and i hope we can all follow that principle today. just to introduce myself, my name is margaret regan and i'm a journalist or a tucson. i've written a nonfiction book about the border called the death of jo

. >> my name is bertoni kaine i'm a graduate student from houston texas. [applause] >> from houston texas. >> yeah speed and also a mother and survivor of domestic abuse, brittled domestic abuse. and i know that when you came on earlier you said that we in this room are overachievers, but because of my past haven't always been that way. my first semester of college, i felt completely flunked with everything i was facing. last night a gentleman said that talent is universal but opportunity is not. so my question to you is how we optimize the talent of those who don't always have the same opportunity, someone like me, who's had to fight very hard just to be standing today with everything that i've had to face? so how do we make that something that's real? this is an excellent opportunity that i sought so how we make that something that's real? [applause] >> how did you get through it and become a good student, how did you get over it? did somebody help you back in your home, was it somebody on your college campus or high school, how did you get to where you