the tea party and the house republicans and you heard this all over fox news and glen beck in the leadup to 2010, they were actually going over the progressive era and if you look over the new nationalism, none of that is controversial today. conservatives like the referendum recall process, they used it well to use the size of government. they used the administrative govern chlt to do anything they want. the social and industrial justis agenda, most people would not protections that were set up there. i think obama's quite wisely most popular expert in government and the final assault on the progressive era. so if it's obama, protecting a vision of government post-19 pre-1910, obama will win that fight and i think that's why he set it up this way. as mr. rove outlined in his article today in the wall street journal, republicans aren't going to fall for this. they're not going argue, i would imagine they won't against the wisdom of teddy roosevelt's new nationalism and they're going to go after his agenda whether it's on health care, stimulus or other things like that. the other thing th

more obvious than leadup to 2011 was. so we now have to act. we do not have the luxury of waiting to see and develop, at some point the congress has to assert itself. the federal rn roles, this is not a heavy-handed thing, as senator collins has pointed out. it's not. but th involved b. and so -- i to work with anybody and anybody to get gresis >> thanks very much, senator rockefeller. that was great. chairman feinstein. thank you again, you contributed immensely particularly information sharing section of the bill. you bring all the expertise. muchintelligence of the sen thank you mr. chairman, senator collins, senator landreau. banner day. i look at its as finally the senate is coming together. that we are settling on one is. if it needs improving. we'll up prove it. with a focus we can hopefully move forward. i want to thank you for for the hearings you have held, and for all of the offers for consultation that you have placed out there to a moment on behalf of what i do in the intelligence committee. we have examined cyber threats to our na

the book about the leadup to the civil war has this episode. he has it in a different setting. he has it at a dinner in which clay in his very elaborate manner he was always spoke in ortundity and elaborate manner. he lays a lovely compliment among mrs. polk. he says everywhere i go i hear nothing but good about how you're doing. not so much about this guy. they kind of laugh. ne vins has this at a dinner. but he has a more robust description of what was said. i combined that. my conclusion was this was in polk's diary. it happened that day. it must have happened in the parlor of the white house or he wouldn't have written it. but i took -- i could have taken polk's more clipped rendition of the language of clay or i could have taken alan's. i said i'd better take the better part. so i took the two together and a note many the footnotes that explained how i did that. >> another journalist of note john seigenthaler wrote a book on james polk. he was here about five years ago. i want you to see a little bit of what he had to say about him. >> polk would have been right at home in

usually in the leadup to that there's not much action in the market, certainly investors like to be fairly careful about taking a position ahead of that and ben bernanke is obviously closely watched and listened to these days. this is what the futures are looking like ahead of market opening in 5 1/2 hours from now. as you see there, the dow down a quarter. around 0.25%. but we still have more than five hours to go. charles? >>> coming up on "world business today," 20 years ago, crystal wein was a housewife. now she runs a global business empire. we meet one of the women changing the politics in china. >>> and one year on from japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the nation stops to remember its dead. those stories just ahead. uncover stronger, younger looking skin. [ female announcer ] new aveeno skin strengthening body cream helps transform dry, thinning skin, by strengthening its moisture barrier, for improved texture and elasticity in 2 weeks. reveal healthy, supple skin. aveeno skin strengthening. lead paint poisoning affects one million children today. if you're pregnant or ha

but you would have thought with the leadup, that they could have been better prepared. interesting to me, the argument they used to get the bill passed in the first place, even though it was a party-line vote with the democrats, those are the not the same arguments they are using to defend the bill. i think that's another reason why two recent polls with over two-thirds of the american public saying this bill to me is not constitutional. there are a lot of reasons why people might not like this bill. it is not that they don't think the health care industry could use reform and there should be new policies. but they don't want this bill. >> sean: there is a political component to this. >> sure. >> sean: you said something very important here. the arguments that were being made when they were trying to sell this to the american people were not the arguments they were making before the supreme court. that's deceptive to me. the president says it's going to be $900 billion and it's estimated to be twice that, we are talking about 6 years of benefits and 10 years of payments

i mean, regardless of the leadup and the selling of it, you know it's a complicated issue.nd what it's doing, the multi-phase rollout and some people think it's gone already. >> what happens interesting is the supreme court is going to bring into very sharp focus the individual mandate which is a big talking point. it is a difficult one, though, of course for mitt romney given his record in massachusetts and his record on the individual mandate. let's -- we did a little sleuthing around. november 2004, the boston glob wrote after romney proposed the health care plan romney believes individuals not to obtain insurance in 2005. june 2005 he said it's the ultimate conservative idea. july he said we can't have 40 million people saying i don't have insurance. and if i get sick i want someone else to pay. and october of 2005 he said i don't see how it works without an individual mandate. phil, how complicating is this for your man, mitt romney? >> i think, look, governor romney's been clear about this. we've had 20-plus debates in the republican party talking about our platform.

. >>> in the leadup today each candidate tried to set expect aces and signal a path forward.sten. >> i hope that i get the support of people here in ohio tomorrow, and in other states across the country. i believe if i do i can get the nomination. >> we're competing in every state and we're going to do well. we're going to do well in every state. first or second, every state. right? >> do well in tennessee and oklahoma. we have activities under way in idaho and alaska and a few other places, but i said all along that georgia was the key, because if we didn't do well in georgia, i thought we could not go on. >> there you have it. looking pretty good expectations for themselves. former democratic dong ma from virginia, now the head of the center nor american action causes and nicolle wallace is back. new mom. and joy ann reid, managing editor, welcome all. communications professional here. start with you, nicolle wallace. what did you think of the expectation setting? honest about what they actually had to do. >> rick santorum uses the word winning in a way that is confusing to

they run 25 miles in the leadup and then last night they ran their final mile. and so officially they are marathoners and they are precious. it's of all ages. you saw kindergartners through sixth, seventh grade. they come flying across the finish line. they come across the finish line and get medals and t-shirts. >> and i believe there's about 600 runners out there. a huge showing. >> nearly a thousand. particularly because this is the first time we've done the event. we didn't know what to expect. we were really trying to push registration. and i have to thank dan because he encouraged the folks at channel 4 to come out and help push registration. we had a wonderful turnout. >> he needs an autographed card from you as well. don't forget to leave that for him of course. going back to the whole issue of obesity. we've seen the first lady really push her let's move initiative. do we think these programs that they are helping curb this epidemic? >> i can't speak for every single program because there were so many out there. just getting the message out about being

there's a lot of innocent people being victimized in the same way we saw over the leadup to darfur. >ments, you hope, before they happen. you can capture evidence for the trials. >> those are the reasons we do it. one is deterrence. if we have the evidence of the massing of attack helicopters, the troops, artillery, moving into position. we can show a spotlight on a place, maybe lit have a deter rent. if not, we'll have evidence of what this army and air force from the sudan government is doing and we can pass it on to the international criminal court. >> there's so much more attention. we hope helpful attention. thanks to that remarkable video that took off all around the world on kony 2012. he's been a war lord abducting children for 0 years. 76 million views, at least, george, on youtube last week. you were in the video. you said you want him to be as famous as you or any other celebrity. >> well, that was taken from my comments when we started the satellite sentinel project about bashir, the head of the government in khartoum said how would mr. clooney like it if cameras were cons

and folks are hearkening back to the leadup to the iraq war saying say the administration told us thereapons of mass destruction. none were found. are we heading down that same road now without cold, hard proof? >> well, there's a huge difference between the iranian situation and what happened before the iraq war. because in the iranian case we have proof from the international atomic energy agency. and that's a u.n. body. and it's not its last report, the report before that it says where do we get our intelligence from? from ten different countries. these aren't cookbooks, this isn't one country trying to push an agenda. this is an international consensus by a u.n. agency that they're moving for it. now, i also hear people say, well, we don't know they want to make an atomic bomb. you know something? if you walked into a kitchen and you saw somebody take out a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly and two slices of bread, would you have doubts that they want to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? we have all the elements of a nuclear weapons program present today from enriched u