kevin landrigan. guest: barbara is right about the fact that early in his presidency he had democratic control of the congress and got his health care reform bill passed, about the stimulus package approved. republicans argued that made the economy worse and made the economy uncertain. she raises an interesting point and that is, what do republicans want in this nominee? there's a fierce fight in new hampshire about that. do they want a moderate who can appeal to mainstream voters and independents in the general election? or a fierce conservative who will take the fight hardest to president obama in the debates? many conservatives in hampshire point to the nomination of more moderate republicans such as john mccain in 2008, bob dole in 1996, leading to battle victories for republicans. denominations of more conservative candidates like ronald reagan in 1980, leading to strong victories for republicans. that fight will go on past new hampshire as was reported yesterday, conservatives are meeting in tex

kevin landrigan? >> guest: barbara is right about the fact that early and obama's presidency he had democratic control and took advantage of that and got his health care reform bill through and got the stimulus package approved. certainly the republicans argue that that made the economy worse and made economy and certain. she raises an interesting point and that is what do republicans want in this nominee? there is that fierce fight in new hampshire about that. do they want a moderate who can appeal to mainstream voters and independents in the general election or do they want a fierce conservative who will take the fight hardest to president obama in these debates? and many of those conservatives in new hampshire point to the nomination of more moderate republicans such as john mccain in 2008, bob dole in 1996 leading to a bad victories for republicans and nominations of more conservative candidates like ronald reagan in 1980 leading to strong victories for republicans. that fight is going to go on pa

kevin landrigan.: barbara is right about the fact that early in his presidency he had democratic control of the congress and got his health care reform bill passed, about the stimulus package approved. republicans argued that made the economy worse and made the economy uncertain. she raises an interesting point and that is, what do republicans want in this nominee? there's a fierce fight in new hampshire about that. do they want a moderate who can appeal to mainstream voters and independents in the general election? or a fierce conservative who will take the fight hardest to president obama in the debates? many conservatives in hampshire point to the nomination of more moderate republicans such as john mccain in 2008, bob dole in 1996, leading to battle victories for republicans. denominations of more conservative candidates like ronald reagan in 1980, leading to strong victories for republicans. that fight will go on past new hampshire as was reported yesterday, conservatives are meeting in texas nex

kevin landrigan. lisa is a democrat in sacramento.ou are first up. >> caller: hello. >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i just want to state that i have been laid off for in little over a year and faint god i do have an interview on tuesday. i just want to say to the republicans they need to allow obama to do his job. if he would do his job, the things that go wrong we can't blame him but we can't blame him if the republicans are in a way. i blame the republicans for everything that is going on. >> host: any comments for her? >> guest: you certainly raises a point that democrats and some independents feel strongly here that they really feel the agenda of the republican party nationally for three years has been -- has not been simply to vote no but to stop obama's movement in its tracks in any way possible. that is one of the reasons why the republican leadership on capitol hill was under severe pressure regarding extension of unemployment benefits and i thought president obama really played that issue extremely well. p

presidential campaign. " tomorrow morning's washington journal," the latest on the race with kevin landrigan young voters with trey grayson. washington journal pecans lead at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> in a visit to go higher today, president obama announced the recess appointment of the head of the consumer protection bureau. he first nominated him in july but both some reprieve granted a confirmation in the senate. here is the appearance at shaker heights high school. [applause] >> hello, ohio. it is good to beat back in ohio. -- be back in ohio. it is good to be back in shaker heights. hall of the red raider. [applause] i love you and i am glad to be back. i am glad to be here. i want to thank your major for hosting us today. [applause] your superintendent mark freeman. the principle here, mike griffiths. [applause] i am pretty sure that we have a couple of congress people, but i do not see them. [applause] outstanding members of congress. they did the right thing every day. we thank you them all for being here. i understand the folks here at this school have a pretty good basketball

kevin landrigan, i know you have a lot of work to do, thank you for joining us from the telegraph. >>hank you very much. jenna: that food fight leads into our next segment, completely unrelated to politics, by the way. a chinese billionaire dies after having his favorite meal. wait until you find out what that is. his family claims he was murdered. >> reporter: it's a local del cassy, cat stew and this billionaire was in the southern province and the very latest on the story is that there is an investigation looking at one of the other men who had dinner with lonley juan, made his money off on forestry company years ago and was in the area having dinner with two other gentlemen to see land. they were going to look at property, have a little meal. now one of the men he was eating with is being looked at by police. more on that in a moment. but first of all, leon rwam died while eating this cat stew and when they looked at this closer look, it had a secret ingredient, something they hadn't suspected, a poisonous plant indigenous to this part of the world, this toxic herb ends up in the

clinical reporter kevin landrigan of the national telegraph joins us.e will also talk to new hampshire congressman charlie bass and trey grayson of the harvard institute of politics. "washington journal" each morning at seven eastern on c-span. now the annual news and documentary film m.a. award ceremony. >> some of the categories include investigative reporting, this interview and documentary. larry king was honored with a the lifetime achievement award. this event was held at lincoln center in new york in september and is about two and a half hours. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the chairman of the national academy of television arts and sciences, maliki winch as. [applause] >> thank you very much. good evening. is like to welcome to the 32nd annual news emmy awards. the people in this room tonight represent the very best in broadcast journalism and at the national academy we wish to congratulate all the nominees for their outstanding contributions in the excellence of television. [applause] thank you. and we are especially pleased to see la