postal service about these mailers.ppropriate avenue, the only avenue open for anybody who wants to register a violation of this law? >> they should write the postal department and ask for clarification. that is what i have done, and chairman clay and other democrats to get a determination, officially, from the postal office. it appears definitely not to reach the law that we passed, but there may be other mailers out there that are different, that do have the rnc as the return address. the ones that i have seen that have been sent to me do not have a return address, they do not have a sender. it says census, so it appears to be in clear violation of the law, and it happened five days after it passed unanimously and was signed into law by president obama. >> oh, well what's a law signed by the president and passed unanimously by both houses of congress? these things we swat away. carolyn maloney, thank you very much for your time tonight, ma'am. >> thank you for putting a spotlight on, it rachel. thank you. >>> still ah

>> yeah, this mailer was a census form looking thing to get people to open it.t was a 1-80on 1-800 number inf a 202 area code. the real issue is the money. the late night fodder as far as the bondage club, but if republicans have like tony perkins out there saying don't give money to the committee, that could dry up some of their fund-raising and that imparlz how many seats they could work. >> we have talk to the rnc and we are trying to get michael steel or a spokesperson to address this. tony perkins will be on the 3:00 show with david shuster, so we will see that. they are still raising a lot of money. you can argue about the spending level, they don't have as much cash on hand, though. >> four years ago, it's the best comparison, it's less. and the fact is the two congressional committees that fund house senate campaigns are going to have their handout, and especially the house who is not well funded. the question is will the rnc have the money to help out house candidates this fall? >> thank you. >>> we have the latest poll numbers next. >>> and tim geithne

i was standing right there when norman mailer was arrested. >> really? >> i was in the military and i can remember him being carried off to the van, which shows me how old i am, but yes -- >> what were they -- what was your job there? you were just -- >> i was a public affairs officer in the navy, in the pentagon and they were -- the troops were lined up out there and the -- >> was he being cooperative -- was mailer cooperative? >> he was not being cooperative. >> not being cooperative -- >> and there were -- >> was he sober? >> i think there was some question about that. let's move on. i want to ask you -- this is -- i want to ask you a general question about what's going on today. put this president right now in the context of history, not whether you like him or hate him or whatever, but in the context of history, richard norton smith, where is this president? it's early, i know. >> yes, it is early. well, first of all i would point out that he exists in a unique political culture. four of the last five american presidents have been polarizing figures

saturation mailers are likely as that's in advertisements out to an entire community. by contrast, what we do at the newspaper is we take the same ads, we call them insert, and we put them in the newspaper. for those of people in the community who don't describe, we mail. so that is called high-density mailing. and high density mailing that we do, which is selected by address, it is much, much more expensive than saturation mailing. and continually when the increases come through we see very low increases for saturation, and much higher for high density. so that is a very small thing, but it could benefit newspapers and particularly the advertising revenues stream that is essential to their survival. quite significantly. so there are a lot of, you know, with andy on the panel i'm not going to talk about cross ownership right now. you know let's face it, we are treated like the dominant voice and the d.o.j. applies a market definition that basically considers us monopolist. so again, if we are looking to ways to maybe have consortiums or joint ventures, et cetera and be

specifically this congress passed legislation to stop mailers, fake mailers, lookalike mailers, that made the document look official like a census document to open it up. the r.n.c. and others were mailing fundraising, acting like they were the census. this is wrong. we passed legislation to stop it. it is now under review by the postal department. i have every bit of confidence that they will report that it violated not only the spirit of the law, but violated the law. the ink wasn't even dry from president obama signing the legislation into law, five days later the r.n.c. leadership sent out another partisan mailer designed to look like the census , to mislead people. this is dangerous. because the census is important to our country. it is mandated by the constitution. it must take place every 10 years. and the census numbers are the numbers that we use to decide representation, practically every funding formula is based on census numbers. so we want people to respond to the census. it's important. to the degree that mock fake mailers are out there deceiving people, it will drive d

off in a publishing house to have edited the works of writers including napalm, philip roth, norman mailer, john updike, that up down stint is reduced to a few fleeting illusions here as athill extended falling away in life. and romanticism, physical deterioration and the inevitability of death often large. surely the part of life with it -- which is within our range the fact of life is mysterious and exciting enough in itself and explaining her atheism to particular facing us all perhaps not exactly comforting but acceptable because truth. noting that within its own framework a life is amazingly capacious so that it can contain many opposites. athill treats us to several of her own. if they're buying emerges as a mythbreaking account that runs against the grain of many received notions of romance, death and guilt and the experience of old age and perhaps her most lyrical line in a book that generally avoids lyricism athill rights we are not just dots at the end of thin black lines into nothingness but our parts of the many colored river teeming with beginnings and becames and new beginnin

first up the republican national committee is explaining why a recent fund raising mailer had a contactf a sex chat line. here is what part of the callers heard. >> hot and you're talking voice personals for just 99 cents per minute. >> the rnc tells politico, quote, the number in question was a typographical error by a vendor used on this particular mailer using 1-800 instead of 202. whoops. >>> pilots can now fly on prozac. starting monday the faa is lifting a ban on taking antidepressants and other doctor-prescribed drugs in the cockpit. the agency says possible side effects like drowsiness do not pose a safety risk. >>> next, very riske photos drawing a lot of attention to a flight attendants' protest in spain. the group of women from grounded airline air comet are posing for a calendar nude. the company owes them nine months' back pay and the workers are fighting the airline in court for the money. they're using the calendar to bring publicity to their cause and help raise money for their legal bills. good luck to them. >>> police in madrid say they may have solved a series of viag

. >> caller: i was a direct mailer and ran a small business for several years. mainly political. but the best rate i could get with the expensive equipment and packed everything directly at the correct addresses was not nearly close to the word stray a nonprofit could do nothing for preparation. that is item number one. #2, mailing packages i can take a 20-pound package and mail it to lowe's angeles at $37 also samoa, guam, alaska, hawaii, in a place outside of the continental united states for $37. the same thing on the east coast like to move to florida, for a given price and also pr or the caribbean we are subsidizing massively these of continental mailings. 37 vs 160 by ups. >> guest: thank you very much to when you raise a really good point* about the postal service that it provides universal service at a uniform rate across the country. that combines a nation together to insure everybody has access. people live at the bottom of the grand canyon, hawaii, alaska, pr and we all want to be able to access e-bay. that is one of those industries that has grown enormously as a resu

i get two mailers this week. the first was one really deploring what the president has done, and the second was a fund- raising appeal. everybody has got something in this. >> there is a chance that they can shake loose enough republicans like judd gregg, lindsey graham, and some other people. and the liberal democrats, some of them are furious, but i suspect they will get over if they can get an actual crime bill. >> that is the point -- if they can get an actual climate bill. >> that is the point, this is a political move. they could get some conservative or republican support on cap- and-trade -- >> shocking. >> but the logic of the proposal is -- and the president himself made the case -- if we put our own oil, we will not be importing it and sending dollars into the treasury of saudi arabia, venezuela, russia, to be a, other unfriendlies. we will be keeping it at home. it will help our economy, creating jobs, and in terms of the environment, they will consume oil one way or the other. it is safer for the pla

well congresswoman sutton put out a statement saying the mailer devalues the breadth of talents of womennd she's calling for the chairman to step down. i think the republican chairman out there will be hearing from a lot of people about this. >>> finally, sarah palin on the stand, the ex-governor testified today about a 22-year-old accused of hacking into her, the governor's personal email account during the presidential campaign. palin told the jury that the breach caused a huge disruption if her family and friends' lives after personal details and contact information was posted online. palin also had some tough words outside the courtroom. >> anybody who thinks that this isn't disruptive or hurtful to have their mailbox broken into or an office broken into and documents stolen and disclosed for rest of the world should put theirselves in a person's shoes who has gone through this and believe me, it's quite disruptive. it's so extremely unnecessary and resource-consuming, such a sad state of affairs that we're in that we even have to be here trying to teach somebody that it's wrong to d

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i think a lot of your mailers mail out to have weekend sales and staff that would be really cutting off a lot of revenue. if you're going to cut out, cut up monday, tuesday, or wednesday. number two, the other problem is union and retiree problems. at a pre-funded or when you don't pre-funded it doesn't matter. you got the application. the fact that your pre-funded come in the future with a when tricky declare bankruptcy or give us generous to retirement, otherwise you're going to continue to raise money here and coming euro. join a declining industry. but like your comment, please. >> guest: well, the postal service has already pre-funded its retiree benefits good in fact, there's some dispute as to whether they've overfunded their retiree benefits. so those are all set regardless of what the future of mail is. the question is the health care retiree benefits. and you're right, the postal service and the u.s. government because these are government employees are obligated to pay that regardless of whether there is a fund to fight for it. at the moment, the fund is estimated to cover ab

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. >> we want to warn people identity theft is prevalent. 67 hundred mailers in 2009 o lone.ty theft plaguing us is e-mails. bogus web-sites and phone solicitations and we're hearing a lot about that right now. >> and those scams for people that aren't quite sure what the fishing scams are. that means that your - there's some kind of e-mail that gets sent to you. >> right. it can be a website, phone call or e-mail, but their casting out there fishing trying to persuade you to give personal identifying information and they'll use that to open up accounts and get a job, government force. you can run up your accounts and drain your bank account and you can be in a world of trouble. >> let's go to some other tips you guys have in terms of checking your credit report. that's very important. >> it is. the number one way to identify if you're a victim of identity theft is by your credit report. if there's things you don't know about people opening up accounts so ebb check your credit report at annual credit report.com. every four months you can get a free one. remember that one. >>

forward if you would stop referring to me as "dollar bill." [ laughter ] if you would cease negative mailers. >> reporter: the third candidate on the stage is d.c. morrison who could play a spoiler role here if no candidate approves 50% of the primary vote on may 18. the top two vote-getters would be forced in a runoff on june 8. >> all right. funny stuff there. a new challenge for one candidate hoping to fill president obama's old senate seat. federal regulators shut down a bank owned by the family of illinois treasurer alexi giannoulias. the federal deposit insurance corporation saying broadway bank was one of seven illinois banks that failed. and giannoulias worked at the bank as a senior loan officer until he was elected state treasurer four years ago. hours after they shuttered the family bank, giannoulias says the campaign goes forward with a renewed determination. iraq experiences its deadliest attack this year. while south korea raises a sunken naval ship out of the sea, just two stops as we go around the world in 80 seconds. iraq, a scene all too familiar. as baghdad mourns 69 peopl

here's an rnc fundraising mailer, that was sent out last month in minnesota.he thing is, when you dial the number that's listed at the end of the form it doesn't lead to the rnc. check out where that 1-800 actually directs you to, almost two ironic to be true. let's listen. >> hey there, sexy guy, welcome to an exciting new way to go live. one-on-one with hot, horny girls waiting right now to talk to you. lie back, baby, relax. >> that's right. a phone sex line. no keding. a spokesman for the rnc told politicalco that the number was a typographical error. now the problem is that you have to tell us it's a typographical error at this point. >>> next, priceless video of georgia congressman hank wilson at a house armed services hearing last week. questioning about about plans to stage 8,000 marines and fair that manicallies on the western pacific island of guam. now here's the congressman's concern. the influx could cause island of guam to capsize. listen to this member of congress talk now. >> well, this is a, an island that at its widest level, is what, 12 mile

well congresswoman sutton put out a statement saying the mailer devalues the breadth of talent of women and i think the republican chairman out there will be hearing from a lot of people about this. >>> finally, sarah palin on the stand, the ex-governor testified today about a 22-year-old accused of hacking into her, the governor's personal email account during the presidential campaign. palin told the jury that the breach caused a huge disruption if her family and friends' lives after personal details and contact information was posted online. palin also had some tough words outside the courtroom. >> anybody who thinks that this isn't disruptive or hurtful to have their mailbox broken into or an office broke noon and documents stolen and disclosed for rest of the world should put theirselves in a person's shoes who has gone through this and believe me, it's quite disruptive. it's so extremely unnecessary and resource-consuming, such a sad state of affairs that we're in that we even have to be here trying to teach somebody that it's wrong to do such a thing. >> sounds right except for t

a lot of the mailers are targeted for the weekend, so that would cut down on business. the other problem is union contracts, retirees. whether they are pre funded or not, it does not matter. you are obligated. you are going to have to declare bankruptcy and give less generous benefits. otherwise, you are going to continue to lose money. you are in a declining industry. guest: well, the postal service has already pre funded its retirement benefits. the question is whether or not they have over-funded the benefits. the question is the health care returning benefit. you are right, the postal service, because these are government employees, the government is obligated to pay for that. at the moment, the fund is estimated to cover about 35% of the cost of health care retiree benefits. that is as much as most private companies carry, the few that do carry return the benefits. so is not as if the postal service is being irresponsible about the future of its health care regarding benefits, but it does need some relief, provisions when the economy has really gone down, for it to

saturation mailers are like the ads that send advertisements out to an entire community. by contrast would we do at the newspapers we take the same ads, we called them inserts, and we put them in the newspaper. for those people in the community who don't subscribe, we mail. that is called high-density mailing and high density mailing that we do, which is select if i address, is much much more expensive than saturation mailing and continually when the increases come through we see very low increases for saturation and much higher for high density. that is a very small thing but it could benefit newspapers and particularly the advertising revenue stream that is essential to their survival quite significantly. so, they are-- with andy on the panel i'm not going to talk about crossownership right now, but let's face it, we are treated like the dominant voice and the doj applies the market definition that basically considers us monopolists. again if we are looking to ways to maybe have consortiums or joint ventures etc. and be able to have them approved through the department

show. >> can i tell you the e-mailers on happy hour, the other show i do, 71% said no tie.ss so, when you're in a bar. >> you don't need one there. >> gretchen: ponder there. toyota testing all of its suv to make sure that they are safe now. this after consumer reports issued a rare do not buy rating. that's the kind you don't want to get. they were warning the lexus suv could roll over. toyota temporarily suspended the sales and production of that suv. a recall being considered. engineers are testing the suv, working to correct the stability problem. toyota took a lot of heat for not responding quickly enough to those complaints of sudden acceleration and sticky gas pedals. analysts say they're trying to avoid the criticism this time. >>> president obama reaffirming his plan to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan next year, 2011. he spoke on an australian tv station and he said the u.s. and its allies can't be there forever. he also said the taliban's momentum in afghanistan has been blunted, but he did admit winning the nine-year-old war will be a difficult task. >>

saturation mailers are like the -- they sent advertisements out to an entire community.hat we do at the newspaper is that we take the same inserts and we put them in the newspapers. for those people in the community that do not subscribe, we mail. that is called high-density mailing. @ @ @ s),@ @ @ @ @ @ u@ @ @ @ Án r@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ u) for a handout from the u) government. >> i saw susan making a note when you were talking about the postal rates. i want to return to you and ask, what kinds of policies -- policy changes are you thinking that be -- that the ftc might be considering? >> we just had the chairman of the postal rate commission, and speak at our workshop -- come and speak at our workshop in march. unfortunately, the postal rate commission and the postal service is not doing well financially. they are really not that enthused about any ideas that would include lowering rates for anybody. >> making them even might be a star. >> yes. more power to you. >> just a thought. >> is a valid thought. i think that the general notion is that the postal rate subsidies

-- for exposing the false mailers.guest: when we see some of these, we work with the government agencies to try to deal with them. we have had success sometimes and not other times trying to keep these companies from preying on people. that is what it is. host: our last call comes from a level, ky -- louisville ky. democrats. guest: i didn't want to say that i am and admirer of your -- caller: i does want to say that in an admirer of yours. i have and some blue cross -- anthem blue cross but the premiums went up so high i had to give it up. it is practically like saying you do not have insurance. will people get any kind of help? there is another question i want to ask you. a comment. you had a gentleman on the line talking about why didn't they pay off the houses instead of bailing out the banks. i do not agree with everything he said. i am mad at the banks. i am very angry. but a lot of these people got themselves into this mess, and i do not think people like that should be helped. guest: i see that. everybody is re

[laughter] if you would seize the mailers. let's present a positive that we want for our futures and kids. >> that concludes the question portion of tonight's debate. we will now move in to closing statements. each candidate will have to statements predicted minute. -- two statements. >> thank you for everyone being here. two nights ago i was at a pizza joint in arkansas where i met three generations of an arkansas family. the grandparents are on social security. the mother is bravely raising two daughters alone because her husband and their father died in service to our country. the 16 year-old daughter told me proudly that she had a 3.4 grade point average and that she was going to college. her 11 year-old sister spoke proudly of her dad. she said she was going to college, too, because she was going to earn a scholarship. they are not asking for special treatment. they certainly earned it. they have not given up. neither will i.. this family deserves a senator who is on their side. together we can stand up to special interes

[laughter] if you would seize the mailers. let's present a positive that we want for our futures and kids. >> that concludes the question portion of tonight's debate. we will now move in to closing statements. each candidate will have to statements predicted minute. -- two statements. >> thank you for everyone being here. two nights ago i was at a pizza joint in arkansas where i met three generations of an arkansas family. the grandparents are on social security. the mother is bravely raising two daughters alone because her husband and their father died in service to our country. the 16 year-old daughter told me proudly that she had a 3.4 grade point average and that she was going to college. her 11 year-old sister spoke proudly of her dad. she said she was going to college, too, because she was going to earn a scholarship. they are not asking for special treatment. they certainly earned it. they have not given up. neither will i.. this family deserves a senator who is on their side. together we can stand up to special interes

in the course of a year -- it would be interesting to take out the mailer's you get from private for-profitompanies that try to make it look like it is a government -- as if it is from medicare or social security or some other government agency. when we see some of these, we work with the cms or work with the government agency and try to deal with them and we have success sometimes and not other times in trying to keep these companies from preying on people. that is really what it is. host: our last call for senator brown comes from louisville, ky. democrat. caller: hello? hi, senator brown. i just want to know. first i would like to say i'm an admirer of yours. i used to watch you on msnbc. unfortunately i can't afford those stations anymore because everything went up -- like my health insurance. i had to retire. i worked for the government, ok? but my insurance went up so much. i had in some blue cross of federal -- federal blue cross- blue shield but the premiums went up so high and even the premiums -- what i pay for, really, it is bad. it is like saying, you don't have insurance. you k

. >> i don't need the hundreds of e-mailers to tell me i might have joe overreacted a tiny bit with joan republicans, as the least bob corker thinks he's against this bill but for all the reasons i didn't think. so i'm very confused. >> by the way, we are one with andrew ross sorkin. >> i'm not pushing this. >> we're number one. okay, "the new york times" owes andrew ross sorkin apology. >> what are you trying to do to me? >> apologize to in this young man right now. i've had a lot of prep students that have written best sellers. >> i've got to go. >> bye, andrew. see you later. >> after this, i will be. >> say hello to your teacher. >> killie, if it's way too early, what time is it. >> it's time for "morning joe." but right now it's time for the daily run down." >> you would have expect that had republican leaders would have been willing to help out cleaning up after this mess since they had more than a little to do with creating it. >> some red meat for the party faithful last night in california. the president bringing his wall street reform pitch out west. >> and for the first time,

that we heard from the last malar about how important postal service is to the country -- the last mailerbout arm for t >> president obama, out of washington this afternoon. he is in portland, maine, where in about 10 minutes or so he is set to speak about the health care law and focusing on the plan's short and long-term impact on small businesses. we will have live coverage of his remarks when they get underway. they are scheduled for 3:25 this afternoon. he has a couple of fundraisers later in boston. the associated press reports the white house says the president will address the severe flooding in the northeast. his spokesman said the president would make comments at some point during the day but not clear when. earlier, the massachusetts governor said the president was trying to work out details for a stop in the flooded areas of southern new england. that from the associated press. the president in about 10 minutes or so. we will have that live. until then, reaction to the news that the president is expanding off shore drilling in the united states. thost: we arey interested in hea

[laughter] if you would seize the mailers.let's present a positive that we want for our futures and kids. >> that concludes the question portion of tonight's debate. we will now move in to closing statements. each candidate will have to statements predicted minute. -- two statements. >> thank you for everyone being here. two nights ago i was at a pizza joint in arkansas where i met three generations of an arkansas family. the grandparents are on social security. the mother is bravely raising two daughters alone because her husband and their father died in service to our country. the 16 year-old daughter told me proudly that she had a 3.4 grade point average and that she was going to college. her 11 year-old sister spoke proudly of her dad. she said she was going to college, too, because she was going to earn a scholarship. they are not asking for special treatment. they certainly earned it. they have not given up. neither will i.. this family deserves a senator who is on their side. together we can stand up to special interest

[laughter] if you would seize the mailers.et's present a positive that we want for our futures and kids. >> that concludes the question portion of tonight's debate. we will now move in to closing statements. each candidate will have to statements predicted minute. -- two statements. >> thank you for everyone being here. two nights ago i was at a pizza joint in arkansas where i met three generations of an arkansas family. the grandparents are on social security. the mother is bravely raising two daughters alone because her husband and their father died in service to our country. the 16 year-old daughter told me proudly that she had a 3.4 grade point average and that she was going to college. her 11 year-old sister spoke proudly of her dad. she said she was going to college, too, because she was going to earn a scholarship. they are not asking for special treatment. they certainly earned it. they have not given up. neither will i.. this family deserves a senator who is on their side. together we can stand up to special interests