>> on friday night, martha cokely was on a talk show on wbz here.it's the all news commercial radio station. she was asked if the... the fact that president obama was going to come to visit massachusetts to support her was a sign that the election was tight. she replied that the fact that former new york mayor rudy giuliani had come in to the state to campaign for scott brown was a sign that the election is tight. and then she said but then again giuliani is a yankees' fan to which the host said, yes, but scott brown has curt schilling, a red sox' star pitcher curt schilling. he threw the 2004 victory of the red sox in the world series. former red sox' pitcher. martha cokely said, yes, but he's a yankees' fan too. her campaign says this was a joke. so we don't really know. >> brown: but being from there i know that means a lot there. >> it does. curt schilling is making robo calls to independent voters saying this shows that martha cokely is out of touch with massachusetts. >> brown: it seems that both sides are appealing to that kennedy mantel but

you have challenged your 0 -- opponent martha cokely to a one-on-one debate.is she willing to debate you? >> i did a small debate today we have one monday she will meet with president ahmadinejad one-on-one but won't meet with me one-on-one. the people are fed up with the way things are going they can go to brown for the senate.com and stop the business as usual not only in massachusetts but more importantly nationally and give me a chance to bring common sense back to washington solve problems be an independent voice and vote for the things not only affecting our state but the country. >> sean: there's a huge controversy surrounding her and i wanted to know if you were going to get involved. boston globe criticized cokely for her lacked treatment the 2005 case involving a police officer and a 23-month-old niece of his, who had been raped with a hot object, most likely of all things a curling iron and her handling of that case. are you critical of her for that? >> this race is about differences between us. we are both public figures we both have records i've s

46 years until his death last year has been won by a republican, scott brown, defeated democrat martha cokely in a special election which changed a lot of things including the balance of power and president obama's agenda, which could well be in jeopardy. with us in this first segment of this special hour, wolf blitzer the anchor of "situation room" and john king the anchor of "state of the union," jessica yellen is at the coakley headquarters at the scherr ton hotel in boston and dana bash, cnn's senior congressional correspondent. how did brown win, wolf? >> he got out the independents. he was impressive in doing that, convincing a lot of independents and probably a lot of democrats at the same time that he would be a better united states senator. it was an uphill struggle. it was only a few weeks ago, larry, that everybody assumed that ted kennedy's seat would be -- remain in democratic hands, martha coakley was a pretty popular attorney general. she had a good brand name. no doubt about that. things did not go in her way, and within the past two or three weeks it began to collapse pretty

i agree he's good looking and charismatic and i think martha cokely was not a good candidate.w how, you know, if this is the end of civilization as we know it as a lot of the republicans like to cast this. >> larry: mark, do you think there will be a health bill coming forth? >> well, i think there will be a health bill but i think that it's really going to be changed over time here. i think this election says that there's a lot of opposition to this bill, a lot of concern about it. you know, i think that, you know, you may take a step-by-step approach, might be a wiser approach. i think people are looking for progress first on the economy before health care and so i think this is going to be a process that now gets considerably slowed down. >> larry: ben, what's the effect on the president who apparently retains his personal popularity? >> i think the effect on the president is to say, go back to square one and say, look, the country has got a really bad recession. it's not getting better as fast as we thought it would. foreclosure crisis is still a crisis. let's concentrate

is that scott brown got - i think 50,000 more votes in massachusetts than john mccain got and martha cokelygot 800 thousand than barack obama got. what happened is a tremendous number of people that came out and voted for obama in 2008 stayed at home and didn't vote for martha. guest: and a significant number of people that voted for obama voted for brown. guest: there's 800,000 people and so some are sitting at home. the issue is there's tremendous frustration and discontent in the country. it's generalized and focused on the economy as it should be and there's a tremendous distrust of the country's elite. this i think is actually the core issue. we've witnessed in the last decade almost epidemic of elite failure. everyone running anything that is screwed up and it eroded the public's trust that the people who are a top the commanding heights of the order to make the good decisions, are going to make decisions in their interest and that deep distrust is what we're seeing broadly across the country. guest: there's an effort now to explain the election in massachusetts as a vote on the econo

is that scott brown got - i think 50,000 more votes in massachusetts than john mccain got and martha cokelyot 800 thousand than barack obama got. what happened is a tremendous number of people that came out and voted for obama in 2008 stayed at home and didn't vote for martha. guest: and a significant number of people that voted for obama voted for brown. guest: there's 800,000 people and so some are sitting at home. the issue is there's tremendous frustration and discontent in the country. it's generalized and focused on the economy as it should be and there's a tremendous distrust of the country's elite. this i think is actually the core issue. we've witnessed in the last decade almost epidemic of elite failure. everyone running anything that is screwed up and it eroded the public's trust that the people who are a top the commanding heights of the order to make the good decisions, are going to make decisions in their interest and that deep distrust is what we're seeing broadly across the country. guest: there's an effort now to explain the election in massachusetts as a vote on the econom

raise between scott brown republican in massachusetts and the state attorney martha cokely.assachusetts has not elected a republican for many years. mitt romney is the most recent example. guest: voters in the state are willing to vote for the minority party for governor and statewide offices but usually not for senate seats which are regarded as more ideological and to some extent more partisan. if you look at republicans elected governors in massachusetts. rhode island. hawaii and vermont. very democratic states and they have governors in places like wyoming and a number of conservative and for senate seats we don't see it often and increasingly we don't see that at all when we live in the polarized washington politics i think we're all watching because we remember there was a house special election in massachusetts not long ago where now congressman won but it was a surprising raise. we're all looking here to see is there going to be some message of dissatisfaction even in a democratic state but it's difficult to imagine republicans winning. if they do that will send chil

raise between scott brown republican in massachusetts and the state attorney martha cokely.massachusetts has not elected a republican for many years. mitt romney is the most recent example. guest: voters in the state are willing to vote for the minority party for governor and statewide offices but usually not for senate seats which are regarded as more ideological and to some extent more partisan. if you look at republicans elected governors in massachusetts. rhode island. hawaii and vermont. very democratic states and they have governors in places like wyoming and a number of conservative and for senate seats we don't see it often and increasingly we don't see that at all when we live in the polarized washington politics i think we're all watching because we remember there was a house special election in massachusetts not long ago where now congressman won but it was a surprising raise. we're all looking here to see is there going to be some message of dissatisfaction even in a democratic state but it's difficult to imagine republicans winning. if they do that will send chi

just came back from massachusetts a few hours agoer and a few minutes ago they've announced that martha cokely has conceded to scott brown. mr. speaker, i want to tell you, there was a shot heard around the world up there in lexington. 200-plus years ago, another shot heard around the world tonight. in fact, the scott heard around the world tonight and the american people rejecting socialized medicine. it's the american people rejecting overspending and fiscal irresponsibility and living for the now and passing out the government dole and making sure that nobody has to worry about anything except how their children and grandchildren are going to pay this massive debt that's been created in the trillions of dollars. and it's voting here on the floor to increase the national debt by smaller increments, $300 billion, the next time it will be a big ol chunk and there's no restraint whatsoever in spending, the blue dogs are more ground haugs. they've gone underground, mr. speaker. they used to come down here and what range republicans about spending too much money because we've have a deficit at th