but mitch mcconnell seems to think that's a possibility. as the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell is most concerned with senate seats and that's what he's backstopping here when pitching to donors. but the pitch he's making to republican donors is amazing. he's pitching that republicans need to work hard and collect your hard-earned money to hold on to seats in the senate because the republicans will lose the house and incidentally saying that mitt romney will lose the race for the white house. it's like it goes without saying for these guys now. this is the guy more in charge of the republican message than anybody else in the country. and his pitch is mitt romney is going to lose. you need us so democrats don't control everything. everybody has been waiting to find out if mitt romney looks like such a losing prospect that republicans will be cut lose to essentially campaign on their own to campaign against them. but campaigning on the assumption that it mitt romney is going to lose? that's something new. and it's even weirde

senator mcconnell has been able to hear both sides. he has a caucus that ranges from folks like myself and demint and lee on one side to some in new england who are not as conservative. he has to keep 47 strong-willed people on the same pace. he has done a good job at that. >> when mitch mcconnell works with senator reid and try to come up with a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, is there anything in that package that would cause you too strenuously object and delayed the consideration in senate? >> even though i did not voted for the sequester, the idea of reducing spending is primary and we need to, even military spending. the only way i would vote to get rid of that is if there is the- are significant real cuts elsewhere. -- if there are significant real cuts elsewhere. a lot of these people would like to get rid of the military sequester and say, we will cut things over a 10 or 20 your period somewhere else. if that happens, i will be able to support that. you have to and knowledge military spending has doubled over the last 10 years

he has to go with mitch mcconnell. i found that fascinating. court justice answer, scalia known to be a favorite amongst republicans, prime probably not going to do well with independent in the state of massachusetts. the most important number here is that amount of folks undecided in the state, 18%, and why is it that high this close to the election? elizabeth warren has seen a surge in the poll, a lot of democrats have warmed up to her, fired to get behind her. went to college in massachusetts, spent a ton of time there, i was making phone calls today to folks i know are independents and what is it about elizabeth warren are you still hung up that you will not support her even if you support the president and the answer comes down to personality. just this idea we don't necessarily like her. a likability gap between her and brown. it's up to democra these next few weeks to go at scott brown's temperame temperament. you will hear a lot in the next few days about his comment i'm not some sort of student in your class, was that coming across as

. >> speaking to that a little bit, i noticed you're on message there with senator mcconnell on staying it's a 50-50 chance, because that's the same thing he says all the time. how will you work with your -- >> maybe that's -- >> how will you work with your senior senator, if he's the majority leader and there are issues on which the two of you disagree? >> i was going to say, maybe the reason that i hear the 50-50 comments, because i'll on the road with him quite a bit and do quite a bit of town halls with him but i do agree with him on this issue. we don't agree on every issue, but i think he's been really good at keeping the republicans together on the biggest issue of the last few years, which has been obama care,, filing the lawsuit, getting the lawsuit started, so he's done a good job of keeping republicans together and you know, if we have differences, we try to keep it together, you know, we try to keep that private. >> so you would support him for his reelection? >> yes. >> susan? >> that's -- it's a big change, because remember that he was supporting your opponent during the r

turns out mitch mcconnell doesn't have a dog, in order to get something done to avoid that fiscal cliff everyone is predicting economic catastrophe. meanwhile, an nbc affiliate out of denver talked about some of the themes that he's working on and hitting mitt romney with. >> i fought for middle-class families in colorado and all across the country. that's the kind of president i think you want. and i'm looking forward to having the privilege of serving another four years. a lot of it is going to depend on colorado so i hope everybody takes advantage of early vote in colorado. you guys are always ahead of the curve when it comes to voting. >> nine interviews yesterday, the president did. he was in washington, but he headed down to dnc. radio interviews with our friend michael smerconish and others around the country. >> mike viqueira, get your track shoes on. joining me now, white house correspondent for the hill amie parnes, and steve selma. good morning. >> hi, good morning. >> amie i'm going to begin with you because we have some interesting poll numbers from ohio to go over. first o

do you think you'll support mitch mcconnell? >> i've already let him know that i'mdy gusted by everything that's going on and he's going to have to earn my vote. >> reporter: disgusted by what? >> the grid lock. total grid lock down there. >> reporter: but as warren reminds voters, this race is about more than scott brown. >> people all around the country understand that this race may be for control of the united states senate. >> reporter: in fact, democrats believe if they can defeat scott brown, they are virtually guaranteed to keep control of the senate. and, diane, they're probably right. >> and from capitol hill tonight, jonathan karl, thank you, jon. >>> and, there was news today about something american families trust to keep their children safe. school buses. a new investigation by our affiliate, wmar in baltimore. it shows school buses caught on tape, gunning it through red lights. abc's senior national correspondent jim avila has more. >> hug and kiss. >> reporter: parents trust them with precious lives. >> our bus dr

i'll watch mitch mcconnell's dog.d to get this done. >> mike, in your considered opinion how is that goss to go down with messrs. boehner and mcconnell. >> reporter: this just in, mitch mb konl doesn't have a dog. they'll have to work out something different in that personal services contract the president is ready to offer the speaker and the senate majority leader. people are actually starting to get very nervous about that. you may have seen a press conference with ceos and everybody on down saying this could have catastrophic effects. the president says i'll walk mcconnell's dog, wash john boehner's car. both of those individuals are driven around by the u.s. capitol police's finest wherever they are. so they're going to have to get something done. another interesting point here, there was another interview, i heard you just talking about this interview with "rolling stone" and what the president said about mitt romney being a quote, unquote bser, we use the term advisedly. he was asked about that, he said it was

mitch mcconnell's comment cuts to the heart of it here.cans, do they want to legislate their personal beliefs on the american people, no matter where the majority of people stand? susan, you're somewhat of a moderate on this issue. will this make a difference, if they push this issue? >> it absolutely will. there has to be room for different opinions within the republican party on this issue. there's no doubt about it. you have to allow for that. look at scott brown. he happens to be pro-choice. we heard from christie todd whitman saying the life of the republican party is on the line if we don't start expanding it to include. and we did see leadership like kelly ayotte take a stand and decide not to campaign. but it is also -- listening to your introduction, it is also worth noting that the person running against mourdock is also pro-life, who signed on to the forcible rape amendment as well. so while it's, yes, mostly a problem for the republicans -- >> but that's not the position of the party. >> no, i understand. >> and that's a big di

. >> mitch mcconnell criticizing style.from mitt romney and former president bill clinton. >> the president watched the debate and thought the vice president did an excellent job presenting this administration's case. >> there was one person on stage last night who was thoughtful and respectful, steady, and poised. the other candidate, of course, just attacked. >> i kind felt for congressman ryan. he had to defend romney position that $716 billion in medicare savings in the president's budget that the congressmen voted for is some how a ripoff even though it was in his budget too. >> man he is good. for more on this debate and the struggle of the future of social security and medicare. let's go to errol lewis and thomas frank. gentlemen, thank you for being with us on "viewpoint" tonight. i came away from that debate thinking that the vice president really did the job he needed to do. he stopped the bleeding from last week. some people say he started the bleeding of paul ryan and mitt romney but i think his job in the debat

eric cantor, mitch mcconnell, and the congressional republicans for what they have been doing? and it seems almost cyclical, as richard was saying, at the beginning of this presidency, they say they're going to oppose him. at the end, he finds one republican in the form of chris christie, who's willing to work with him. >> it is amazing, one. one in there. in fact, there's more than one. and there would have been, frankly, a lot more, had there not been this organized effort to deny president obama any republican votes on anything. which was sort of brutally enforced. i mean, there are republican senators whom i know of, who i voted in health care, for example, against ideas that they hads espoused on the floor of the senate. but they vote against them. and at one point, the president asked one senator in particular, you know, what can i do? what can i put into this bill that will get your vote? and the answer was, you know, frankly, mr. president, there is nothing, because i simply cannot expose myself politically and vote for even things that i support. i mean, that's the lun

mitch mcconnell thank you very much in his beautiful state. we'll talk with javier becerra about 50 minutes away. it could reinforce an impression that mitt romney made for republicans last week or change the ball game, usually vice presidential debates do that, but they pun punctuate, more frm danville, kentucky, right after this. hahahaha! hooohooo, hahaha! this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh ah!! well that was uncalled for. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagher at a farmers' market. get happy. get geico. [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. neil: i swore it was a suzuki vacuum cleaner,

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y one of kentucky favorites, senator mitch mcconnell. did al gore prepare biden for this debate?you and i were talking about gore got into bush's face back in 2000. joe obviously was clearly you know interested in firing up debates and being animated and all the rest. >> sean: i think it's deeper than that. almost uncontroblable laughter. almost unhinged rude, and condescending. mean at times, interruptive. like he was trying to overcompensate for the horrific debate president obama had. i'm not sure how this play was the american people. to be that rude and to be vice president at times so uncontrolable i was beginning to worry about him. >> we just saw frank luntz's focus group. it didn't move any of them. >> sean: good point. there are other things people didn't pick up on. there are issues in this debate. we know intelligence community in bengazy knew within 24 hours this was a terrorist attack. we know that there were multiple requests for security that wasn't granted. when i look at the vice president tonight he just denied what is now on the record and contradicted our own

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mitch mcconnell?but the president forgot that the speech which he has misquoted did not even take place until may 2010. he had two years of controlling the house in the senate, and he failed to do anything. contrast that with mitt romney coming in with 87 percent democrats in the massachusetts house and senate and getting them to support a package that turned massachusetts from a deficit budget to a surplus.3 this president does not know that bipartisanship starts at the top and ends at the top. it is the top that has to produce bipartisanship. and he wants congress to come walking in a bipartisan lee, if that is such a word, without having to do any hard work and self. the president must lead. put a package together for the president that requires progress and support. gerri: i think this is an important issue in this campaign just the deterioration in the way these to kendis talk to each other, particularly the president. i can't even say what he called on romney. it was basically saying if he told

you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnel construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. to nigerian navy patrol boat stand guard twenty four hours a day under the orders of antonio djoko. he moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags as patrols and supervises all movements around the base . and. so here we have the. marine operations center where we are the whole of the arc. with this. i mean doing it which allows us to take all the boats arriving. can but who are you to know what boat of the right thing to do and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field to thicken all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here you see and inside the . city looking to move to secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil isn't it. so on this on this is where the measures required to nigeri

>> very little integrity, no honesty, mitch mcconnell and all of those resistant obstructionists, that'sthe country is supposed to work. >> do you think mitch mcconnell should not have set his achievement for the next four years, four years ago, was to get rid of president obama? >> absolutely he should not have said it. if we said it, it would have been treason and it is. >> hi. i'm here to support obama/biden. my name is madison and i'm here to support them because i do not want this next generation of women to go through what our previous generations have. >> okay. thank you. >> next person? >> for medicare. >> what do vouchers mean to you? >> vouchers mean to me that you're cutting the legs from under the medicare program. if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for a 55-year-old. no cuts for social security. >> i vote for obama. >> thank you very much. >> thank you so much. we're right back with more "hardball" and the vice presidential debate is coming up. buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometimes a good deal turns out to be not

but you can't reason with somebody who is convinced like mitch mcconnell in destroying you and makingyou're you're a o one-term president. >> and the seminal moment is when his father was essentially chased out of the republican race after he ended his support for the vietnam war saying this -- >> i had the greatest brainwashing anybody can get. >> that quote was terroristed unfairly and george romney became, sadly, something of a punchline. it was scathing for his son. >> one of the lessons he learned was never to risk being humiliated and never say what you actually think. >> reporter: chk, dr. frank, let's be frank. looking at mitt romney and bara barack obama in terms of mental health is there one you would give the edge to? >> to be president you have to a certain amount of unhealth as long as you're reality tested. you have to be strong and do things that people don't like. you're not always going to be considerate and always be thoughtful. i think that is a different kind of leadership. >> reporter: the view from the couch of dr. justin frank. for "nightline" i'm jake tapper in

. >> do you think you'll support mitch mcconnell?arn my vote. >> reporter: disgusted by what? >> by the gridlock -- total gridlock. plenty of blame on both sides. >> reporter: but as warren constantly reminds voters, this race is about more than scott brown. >> people all around the country understand that this race may be for control of the united states senate. >> reporter: in fact, democrats believe defeating scott brown will virtually guarantee they keep control of the senate. and they're probably right. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. >> that is a hot, hot race. she's raised more money than any other candidate other than obama and romney. that's how crazy that race is getting in massachusetts. >>> speaking of crazy, coming up in "the skinny," barbara walters gives donald truch a piece of her mind. >>> first, lives at risk. how some school bus drivers are speeding their way through the school day. we have the pictures to prove it. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by co

these secret meetings where eric cantor and mitch mcconnell plan their paths to power. before i open this up to what you want to talk about i want to talk about the stimulus because it is a new new deal and a bit about obama because there's more and less to him than meets the eye. i spent nine years as a reporter at the washington post before i escaped the belt way with my florida girl. government is not a new topic for me. i did not think i could have written this book if i still lived in washington. the group think is too strong and it is almost impossible to overstate the power of the conventional wisdom that the stimulus was a ludicrous failure and totally uncool to talk about it without ruling rise and making ironic comments. you totally stimulated the economy when you gave that panhandler at a dollar. even obama joked after his annual thanksgiving pardon that he saved or created four turkeys. my friends here know that i have a contrarian streak. i don't do groupthink. the guy who visited gulf after the bp spill and rode the environmental damage was being overstate

they got a guy like you and they have mitch mcconnell? thank you.overnorer steve beshear, and stephanie cutter from the obama campaign. up next, more from danville, kentucky, and our coverage of the vice presidential debate. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >> i'm up in the senate most tuesdays when they're in session. first time i ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? bp has paid overthe people of bp twenty-threeitment to the gulf. billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more h

john boehner, the speaker, harry reid, the democratic leader, mitch mcconnell, the republican leadernate all were saying publicly and privately, oh, this will be worked out. they will come up with a deficit reduction plan of some kind. they totally failed and so they came up with this sequestration which is essentially, let's decide what all of us hate the most and put that in the deal so we force some sort of rational agreement. well, the irrational mutual assured destruction is what we now have in law where we are cutting defense, we are cutting things like biomedical research with an ax. it makes absolutely no sense, no person who thought about these things would agree with it but that's where we are. >> one thing i think the president has been unable to do is lead these two groups together. because you can't constantly sit there and watch everybody fighting. what about all the people hanging in the balance? >> i asked the president about this. he says he blames the republicans and so forth. >> they blame him. >> there's blame to go around. there's no question. but, this is so imp

you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnell construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. good morning. to nigerian navy patrol boat stunt gone twenty four hours a day. under the orders of antonio djoko. he moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags organizes patrols and supervises all movements around the base. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so their operations center where we monitor the whole of the outpost real cool with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving so i can but who are you to know what boat of the right thing to do and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field. all these cameras monitor all the accesses here . and inside the earth. with this. research it will come to me to secure but that's a lot of security measures

do not forget, mitch mcconnell in washington two years ago with the congressional correspondent at the time and he said, they made a decision early on that they were not going to give the president anything, any legislative victory at all. the argument he made to republicans was, we cannot give him a vote. if you give him a victory, you lead to reelection. he talked about it openly. obviously, if the president loses, democrats in the senate will be remembering that. that is my guest. it will be more difficult for romney. the one thing he will have for the first 100 days, he will have the momentum, the honeymoon and all of that. i think that will be a short- lived honeymoon. tavis: let me ask you a question i seem to be talked it -- talking about with guests every night, whether or not the president, does he become more progressive, does he try to touch issues that he did not touch in the first term? everybody is hoping and believing that he is going to go left when he gets elected. among the black community, even people who care about progressive causes. do you believe something will c