my apology to michael steele later. >> that will be your headline, lawrence. still doesn't know the minimum wage. >> what is the minimum wage, michael? >> you really like the minimum wage, don't you? >> that is not the most paramount issue that voters are facing. >> the minimum wage takes over the campaign for control of congress. >> so there should not be a federal minimum wage? >> there should not be. >> the tea party senate candidate in alaska is not alone. in west virginia -- >> john raese, wants to eliminate the minimum wage. >> the tea party republican senate pick in nevada. >> we have spoiled our citizenry. >> and the republican candidate in minnesota.$=ykykykm >> if we didn't have a minimum wage law, you could say it was the free market working. >> and then the republican candidate for senate in one of america's richest states. >> i'm lindsay mcmahon. >> saying one thing behind closed doors and telling connecticut voters the opposite. >> i would consider reducing the minimum wage. that's a lie, you know that's a lie. i never said it. >> the party of les

of course, michael steele. the sometimes controversial head of the rnc who is known, himself, for making gaffes but always being lively and interesting. and sarah palin. sarah palin spoke yesterday, don, and took on president obama for his attacks on the chamber of commerce. i wouldn't be surprised if we hear that from her again and a larger message of rallying the troops to go and elect republicans in november, don. >> uh-huh. as we said, democrats -- you said democrats had a big day in california as well. the president is across the country. he's in massachusetts. listen, yesterday as i was speaking to you there was another big name and i'm not talking about the first lady, because she's out there as well. former president bill clinton out speaking and for someone -- really who's sort of his rival, they didn't get along. he was out stomping for him. >> reporter: bygones were bygones last night. jerry brown and bill clinton shared a stage. it's something about a decade ago, two decades ago you would have never

now michael steele. "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, delaware says hi. >> rachel, you have never failed us. thanks, rachel. >> huh? >> as the first congressional election during his party chairmanship approaches, michael steele is dancing as fast as he can trying to charm independent voters and tea partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider, the republican national committee. but how can he attract independents with a senator who says unmarried women should not be allowed to teach in public schools and candidates who want to abolish the minimum wage and masturbation? >> i would consider reducing the minimum wage. that's a lie. you know that's a lie. i never said it. >> except when she said it. join anti-minimum wage special interest group that had just endorsed her. now the tea party forcing republicans to choose sides. they can join the anti-establishment chaos. >> we're working together. we have a common interest, a common goal. >> i don't like being called the establishment. i'm helping raise

, weeks after sarah palin and michael steele got voters excited for election day out west. phil keating has more on this. >> reporter: sarah palin just to took the stage to the delight of the crowd to about 2,000 people here. the let's hear what the former of the governor of alaska is saying. >> i spent my time.... [ inaudible ]

governor dean, i don't know where to begin with the michael steele interview.s the chairman of the party, don't you? >> he won't be on msnbc voluntarily for quite some time after that interview. he's got an impossible job. it's really tough to try to do what he's doing and he has to defend some things that are indefensible. the minimum wage polls up in the 80% in terms of people who are in favor. it's fairness issue. 80% of republicans think that there should be a minimum wage. now some are taking a position by some of their candidates and steele won't defend it, that there should be no minimum wage. >> as soon as you've got a republican senate candidate in alaska who is saying minimum wage is unconstitutional, we should abolish the minimum wage, the chairman of that party, if you don't know the minimum wage, someone working for you has to tell you that minute, minimum wage is 7.25. we ready because it will come up somewhere some time. how can they be running a party where they're sending this guy out there completely ill equipped? >> michael is not running tha

the republican party chairman michael steele is speaking here shortly, as is sarah palin.ng them both to you when they happen, but ed henry's in las vegas. ed, your race in nevada and my race here in florida we're covering, these aren't the only big things happening in the country right now. >> oh, you're absolutely right, jessica, because there are so many senate battles that are essentially dead heats. one of them, connecticut. the polls have been back and forth. they've got dick blumenthal going against linda mcmahon, the wwe fan. the wrestling issue up for sure. one of the not so secret weapons that the white house has right now to deploy, to try and make sure that they keep control of congress an democratic hands is not the president but the first lady, michelle obama, as mark preston noted earlier astutely, approval ratings 20 points higher than her husband. she's been deployed just in the last ten days or so. big races. one was connecticut and here's how she is framing it all. they realize her approval ratings are high, because she's not usually a political figure.

you heard michael steele talk about it, saying npr's money should be cut. did npr get it wrong here? >> there are two issues here. npr is quite simply one of the best news organizations in the world. and anybody who thinks that they are liberal biased, i challenge them to take a week of transcripts, a month of transcripts and examine it for political bias. you won't find it. fox news, on the other hand, is a republican propaganda network that put into circulation the false idea that president obama went to a madrosa and stoked the tea party -- not the tea party movement but the death panels. npr handled this wrongly. they should have sat juan williams down, he has done a lot of good work for them and said you have a choice here. look at the context you were on. you could barely get your points out in the middle of propaganda. you want to work for fox, that's okay, you want to work for us, that's okay, but you've got to decide, to use fox's slogan. >> rick, does this belong in the campaign? >> i think a company can make any choice from a management/employee

chairman michael steele rallying the voters in orlando. of a nationwide republican push, just ten days before the midterm election. american born al qaeda spokesman adam gadahn calling on muslims in the u.s. and europe to carry out jihad. new warnings for anybody caring for young children, three american companies recalling more than 40,000 drop-side kids, the recall affects ethan al lla angel line and heritage cribs. >> julie: backlash over wikileaks publish classified documents and hundreds of thousands on the war in iraq and disclosure sparking anger at the pentagon and military planners saying the move could jeopardize u.s. forces and those helping them and how will posting documents on-line affect our troops on the ground? here now retired brigadier general anthony peta, author of "rogue threat." thanks for talking to us. can you hear me? i believe he may not be able to hear me. so, we will work on this technical glitch and we'll try to get the general back on with us. we corrected that? or move on? we're going to move on and we'll go

with us exclusively this morning, the chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. welcome back to "meet the press." >> it's great to be back with you, david. >> let's get right to it. it's final argument time. the president is on the campaign trail. he has been out west, was in the midwest and friday he leveled probably his most potent charge against republican leaders in washington, saying that they made a cold, political calculation when he came into office, basically not to work with the obama white house. that they could have cooperated, decided to obstruct. this is part of what he said. >> the republican leaders in washington, they made a different calculation. they looked around at the mess that they had made, at the mess that they had left me and they said, boy, this is a really big mess. and they said it's going to take a long time to fix. so, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everything and then point our fingers at obama and say he's to blame, they figure that maybe you all would forget that they caused the mess in the first place, and they

chairman of the party, michael steele is here at "america's newsroom" to answer that.nly 10 minutes from now. bill: more than 58 million seniors in this country get social security benefits, and, many of them depend on it to live. on them to live and now, very bad news for those people, no increase at all in payments this year. chew on that, good morning, brand new hour, i'm bill hemmer, columbus day in america and... how are you doing, arthel, great to have you here. arthel: good to be here. last year was the first time the cost of living increase was scrapped. now, for the second year in a row, recipients will not get an annual boost to compensate for rising costs. bill: the analysts say it is tied to inflation and rising energy costs and there is no change there and, hence, no change in your check. dagen mcdowell, fox business network, does it happen often, last year and now. >> two years in a row, the first time that that ever happened and these cost of living adjustments were put into place, in the mid '70s, by congress and, based on the bureau of labor statistics

she's going to be out with rnc chairman michael steele. be out there together in anaheim, california. it's supposed to happen tonight. yesterday, the former governor, palin all but endorsed the gop candidate meg whitman. she did it on the sly. didn't have to say her name. >> your next governor will have to make tough choices. certainly, she will be working in a bipartisan manner. >> yeah. she, it's easy to figure out who she is. we are hitting the road once again here with the election express. we are coming to your town. there's a good chance we are. i'm hitting the road monday. columbia, south carolina. macon, georgia, wednesday. thursday, we'll see you folks in jacksonville, florida. then we're hitting tampa on friday. what i want you to do, right now, before i get to your town. let me know what it is you want me to talk about. maybe who i need to go see. what restaurant i need to eat at. what local brewery i need to hang out in. whatever it may be. okay. skip the brewerry part. we might be able to stop by and tell the stories you want

. >> michael steele appeared with sarah palin in gop fund-raising in florida.on't take momentum for granted. >> the last ten days, we would be thinking we got it in the bag. >> reporter: rhode island will host president obama and also michael steele and mass mass senator scott brown, a sign of this crowded campaign trail one week before the midterm. >>> san jose police and firefighters are offering a $10,000 reward to catch people who are illegally taking no on measure v campaign signs. it came after there was a video posted which shows a city councilman from handing no on v signs to police. he says they were illegally placed on public property and he can remove them. >> councilman member was found in possession of four signs yesterday, hundreds of signs have gone missing in the last few weeks. >> it needs to be pointed out how many illegal signs are up by this campaign committee all over the city. i saw 27 illegal signs just in one small area. i saw three while i went over here. >> they are campaigning against measure v. if passed it would limit raises police

michael steele will be there, as well as massachusetts republican senator scott brown, a sign of this competitive and now very crowded campaign trail. vinita and rob? >> emily, the latest numbers now put the senate, of course, in the grasp of the gop takeover. the president campaigned for senators last week but he's not the only obama on the campaign trail. >> rob, that's right. we know michelle obama is going to begin a three-day campaign swing out west. campaigning for patty murray, also senator barbara boxer. these are the same candidates that her husband was campaigning for last week. really showing that the democrats are pulling out all the stops. >> a closer will be busy as well. our political team is crunching the numbers and we'll have the latest election estimates later on "good morning america." >>> in other news now, opening statements are expected today in the chandra leavy murder trial. a jury was chosen last week to hear the case against ingmar guandique. gary condit did admit to having a relationship with levy but nothing to do with her murder. >> antinette keller, the

. >> palin joined by marco rubio, and rnc chair michael steele. we're live in orlando tonight. >> reporter: sarah palin and many of the republicans candidates did what you might expect them to do here at the mariott in orlando just down the street from disney world, they thoroughly bashed obama, pelosi and reid. 2,000 republicans as well as tea partiers and independent conservatives turned out to see palin in person. despite being criticized for nat raising as many millions of dollars as the democratic committee has, michael steele was enthusiastic received by the crowd as he revved them up for the head lynner, that being sarah palin, who emphasized the-under genesis of the last ten days. >> it ain't over until it's over. we can't be thinking we have it in the bag. we can't get cocky about this. we have to leave the dancing to the stars. [laughter] >> that, of course, reference to her young daughter on the show "dancing with the stars." florida's governor race practices the tight -- perhaps the tightest. statistically tied with rock scott spending

. >> reporter: over the weekend, michael steele appeared with sarah palin at a gop rally in florida, where palin cautioned republicans don't take momentum for granted. >> it ain't over 'til it's over, these last ten days. we can't be thinking that we got it in the bag. >> rhode island will host president obama today. michael steele will be there, as well as massachusetts republican senator scott brown, a sign of this competitive and now very crowded campaign trail. vinita and rob? >> emily, the latest numbers now put the senate, of course, in the grasp of the gop takeover. the president campaigned for senators last week but he's not the only obama on the campaign trail. >> rob, that's right. we know michelle obama is going to begin a three-day campaign swing out west. today, she's going to be campaigning for patty murray. also senator barbara boxer. these are the same candidates that her husband was campaigning for last week. really showing that the democrats are pulling out all the stops. trying to hold on to those senate seats and control of the senate at large. rob and vinita. >>

you mentioned michael steele.he apparently doesn't have a solid grasp on the working lives of many, many americans. here's michael steele getting the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> what is the minimum wage, michael? >> you really like the minimum wage, don't you? i'd rather talk about more. whether it's $7, $10, whatever it happens to be in whatever part of the country you live in, the fact if you don't have a job, that number is irrelevant until you get one. >> the minimum wage is not $7 or $10, but let's move on. >> all right. that will be your headline. that will be your headline, lawrence. still doesn't know the minimum wage. >> he doesn't know, joe miller, the tea party-backed candidate doesn't believe it's constitutional and then you've got this democrat talking point going into the midterm. is that a problem? >> reporter: when they can't speak coherently or consistently about what the issues are facing the country, that's a problem. the member mum wage question is the equivalent of what is a price of

. >> reporter: over the weekend, michael steele appeared with sarah palin at a gop fund raising rally in florida. palin cautioned republicans don't take momentum for granted. >> it ain't over until the it's over. last ten days we can't think we have got it in the bag. >> reporter: rhode island will host president obama and michael steele and massachusetts senator scott brown. a sign of this crowded and competitive campaign trail now just one week before the midterms. emily schmidt, abc news washington. >>> 6:32. he took gamble on stealing campaign signs and a man who is against slots at arundels mills mall was caught on tape and by police. linda so joins us now with more on this video and the investigation. linda. >> reporter: well, when voters in anne arundel connedy head to the polls, they will have to decide on question a, whether to bring slots to arundel mills mall. voters are evenly split and police have man in custody for doing more than voicing his opinion. 50-year-old david corrigan was caught on tape destroying a sign around 4 saturday morning. it is a sign asking voteers to

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michael steele will be there too. but you can see who's doing the headlining.s in big blue cursive letters, the honorable sarah palin. did i say that cursively enough? for a meter $30,000 a couple you can get a private meeting with sarah palin. any average folks with $30,000 burning a hole in their pocket can meet the woman from wasilla. that's how michael steele with return to politics, through the grace and fund-raising of sarah palin. the split seams are sewn. the lion lays down with the lamb. instead of the brave new republican world, it goes back to being 2010 again. how are you getting to a happier place? running there? dancing there? how about eating soup to get there? campbell's soups fill you with good nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. even if you think your mattress is just fine... ask me what it's like to get your best night's sleep every night. why not talk to someone who's sleeping on the most highly recommended bed in america... it's not a sealy... or a simmons...

michael steele predicts an unprecedented wave of gop victories but you heard what nate just said. i mean there are only probably 20 seats that definitely, it looks like the democrats are going to lose. what are you looking for in the closing week to give us an indication of whether there's a shift here? >> i mean, one of the most interesting things to look at is early vote numbers on mail-in ballots because that's concrete. we get into turnout. and there are states like washington, where i grew up, where a significant chunk and sometimes the majority of votes come in there. we've seen washington and nevada, higher turnout in early voting states. that's just one indicator in some states that did go for obama last time. i think overall you can have high democratic mail-in and still have the republican surge people are expecting on election day. >> the other thing that i've been interesting in, j.c., undecideds a new a.p. poll suggests a third of people, even those who have made up their mind, they are undecided or feel like they can change, compares in 2008 it was something like 15%

michael steele will be there too. but you can see who's doing the headlining. 1 whose name is in big blue cursive letters, the honorable sarah palin. did i say that cursively enough? for a meter $30,000 a couple you can get a private meeting with sarah palin. any average folks with $30,000 burning a hole in their pocket can meet the woman from wasilla. that's how michael steele with return to politics, through the grace and fund-raising of sarah palin. the split seams are sewn. the lion lays down with the lamb. instead of the brave new republican world, it goes back to being 2010 again. [ male announcer ] if you have type 2 diabetes, you struggle to control your blood sugar. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding onglyza to your current oral medicine may help reduce after meal blood sugar spikes and may help reduce high morning blood sugar. [ male announcer ] ong

start with the michael steele clip of him speaking last night with lawrence o'donnell. >> do you agree with christine o'donnell? do you wish she wasn't privy to classified information i mean, america would be safer if she was not privy to classified information, wouldn't it? >> christine o'donnell is a fantastic candidate for us and i can't wait to call her senator. >> she is lying about the classified information, right? reassure the country -- >> i don't -- do you know that, lawrence? >> she doesn't have any classified information. don't worry. >> do you know that? do you know that? is it legal for her to have classified information? >> do you know that for to sure? >> to an absolute certainty. >> deduce your evidence and invite me back on the program to talkn't it. >> she is absolutely lying. >> do you think o'donnell has classified information? >> i don't know what information christine o'donnell has. i think there's a very legitimate concern about the extent to which china controls our debt and the impact that's going to have on our economy. >> that's -- >> and the fact that china

michael -- >> all right. that will be your headline. that will be your headline lawrence. steele doesn't know the minimum wage. >> he got that part right. it is the headline. joining me now, a man who knows the minimum wage, michael sm smurconich. your thoughts? >> i was -- i was the maintenance man at mcdonald's, and i loved that job. i would be easy to say that michael steele is a knucklehead, but i said to my producer, is it $7 or $7.25? it's embarrassing. it will hang it us. i don't know. i'm not ready to hang him out to dry on this. >> i get that because a lot of people may have said, $7, $7.25, i get your point. but when you're on a national program slamming your opposition for being insensitive to american workers and not focusing on jobs and getting people to work, one must realize there are a lot of people out there, at least the people i know, that make darn near minium wage or minimum wage in taking care of their families. >> it's bad prep work. it's going to hang with him for a while. i have to give him credit for -- he's really not a policy guy. he's a political guy.

. >>> the president not the only political player campaigning today in rhode island, michael steel and senator scott brown from massachusetts will also be there to help a gop candidate in a congressional race. meanwhile, michelle obama will spend the day out west, helping democrats in washington state and in california. and, senate candidates are set for debates today both in kentucky and indiana. >>> some medical news now. obesity plan to release details about a pill rejected by the government. marginally effective in patients supposed to control appetite and metabolism, the fda is concerned about tumors in lab animals given the drug. >>> a look at your monday forecast. stormy in the upper midwest. large hail. 70 moil ile an hour winds the ce of showers. des moines, and st. louis. rain, heavy mountain snow, pacific northwest. rockies. and severe storms in the southeast. showers later on in philly, new york and boston. >>> 73 in baltimore. 86, miami. 85, new orleans. 66 twin cities. 70s in chicago, detroit. phoen phoenix, 83. salt lake city, 53. >>> an eerie glow. not the northern ligh

. >> reporter: kainese counterpart michael steele had this to say. >> i suspect those organizations out there, 527s and othe know the law and are displaying with the law. if you have evidence to the contrary, produce it. otherwise, put up or shout shute up. >> reporter: in one key battle, democratic jerry brown is widening his lead in the race for california govern. a new poll shows brown 13 points ahead of his republican rival, meg whitman. florida's u.s. senator hopefuls met in a sunday morning debate in turnaround. republican marco rubio was in the crosshairs of charlie crist and kend rick meek. >>> republican committee chairman michael steele says his party has gained major momentum. he said today that republicans will retake control of the house. >> i have been on my fire- pelosi bus and we get off the bus on october 30th and in that time what i have seen is a consistent ground swell of excitement and energy towards this election. >> steele says he is less sure about gaining control of the senate. the head of the democratic national committee, tim kaine predicted his party will kee

michael steele, a republican, insists that his party will take control. sarah palin says it is not over until it's over. rhode island is going to be a crowded place today. it will have president obama and michael steele and massachusetts republican senator scott brown, a sign of the competitive and crowded campaign trail, eight days to go. >> president obama begin's likud campaign and will have a last- minute swing through a number of states. he's not the only obama on the trail. >> not at all. michelle obama begins a three- day trip out west today. siebel campaign with patty murray, barbara boxer as well. it is almost the exact same trip that president obama's zook. democrats are pulling out all the stops trying to hold on to the critical senate seats. if they say that if they do so, they will hold onto senate control. >> thank you. .>> it's monday, 6 >> the fight against a cholera epidemic sweeping through the country of haiti. >>> three men had to court today, including two georgetown students. >>> it's fall. so you know what to do, right? break the ra

michael steele right in line with many of the predictions you are seeing. they are calling it a wave election, 39 is what republicans need to take over the house a net gain of 39 seats. most people, neutral robbers looking at that democrats telling me, some i talked to on the campaign trail over the last several days it would be total shock if republicans didn't win the house at this point. so the president's got his work cut out for him. he is not giving up. he is trying to hold back that wave, going back out on the campaign trail this week, but the prospects do not look good, the landscape pretty bleak for democrats at this point, alex. >> mike viqueira at the white house. thanks. >> okay. >> a bit later this hour, we will take out the crystal ball, make election predictions with the daily beast for. >>> you new information secret iraq war documents is raising questions about how much the u.s. military knew about the slaughter of iraqi civilians by iraqi forces. the nearly 400,000 files were made public more than a day ago by the wikileaks website and the

. >> michael steele spoke with sarah palin at a gop rally in florida.ah palin says don't take republicans for granted. >> we cannot be thinking that we have it in the bag. it is not over until it's over. >> rhode island will be popular today. if president obama will be there as well as michael steele and republican senator scott brown. all of this adding up to a crowded and competitive campaign trail. emily schmidt reporting. back to you. >> thank you. >>> it is 6:17. more repercussions after the latest leak of documents by "wikileaks" website. allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in iraq must be investigated, it says. it was published by "wikileaks ." >> the first casualty of war is the truth. >> up to a half-million classified documents could reveal how our forces operate in the field. >> the web site announced on saturday it will soon publish 15,000 additional sigri -- secret afghan war documents. this could impact soldiers on the ground. >>> a new reports could impact something for commuters. local agencies will spend two thirds of th

dnc chairman tim cane and michael steel played the role of political forecaster. each leader predicted two very different outcomes. we have the latest on the key races coming up. geraldo rivera with the troops of the 101st airborne. geraldo? >> hi kimberly. welcome to bagr back ram airfie. it was a rundown facility left over by the russians it changed a lot since then. it is the home the heart of the surge in this country and it is being head by the men and women of the legendary 101st airborne. they are taking the fight to the enemy. we are here celebrating not only their fully deployed surge but they are doing great work in afghanistan and they want very much for their folks back home to know that. we have really important questions to ask these soldiers and are going to do it right now. >> first of all can you give me a ho ah. >> can you tell me whether or not you want to go home? are we going to win this damn war? it is amazing how they have turned the momentum around here ladies and gentlemen. before we were hunkered denver in our bases when the taliban had m

it's what democrats did at the peak in 2006. >> michael steel came with more than just a bus.he national republican party gave a $2 million boost to karly fiorina's senate campaign. it comes at a critical time. she's been trailing in the polls and into the money race. >> there is a sprint now. >> and to state politics now. a bit of gainsmanship now between republican maldonado who held a news conference on city hall, newsom's home turf to announce endorsement of several democrats and independents. and former san francisco supervisor tony hall pledged support and touted his ability. >> in the end of the day, they're californians. they're family people first, californians second, third, let's talk about politics. but right now, people don't want to talk about republicans and democrats. they want to talk about jobs. >> newsom says it attempts to appear moderate, something newsom claims he's not. >> i don't know any moderates that got zero rating from planned parenthood that opposed our landmark air quality bill. and that oop yosed not only same-sex marriage but opposed two resolu

by the way, it is exactly what the democrats did at the peak in 2006. >>> rnc chairman michael steeleme to california with more than just the big bus you saw. he bought a $2 million boost to carly fiorina's campaign. she has been trailing boxer both in the polls and in the money race. mark matthews, abc 7 news. >>> the california dmv today showed off a new high tech driver's license designed to protect against fraud, tampering and counterfeiting. the security features include laser engraved signatures and images that can only be seen under ultraviolet light and licenses for drivers under 21 vertical instead of horizontal. you will get your new license when your old one expires. >>> in financial news, apple may be ready to end its exclusive iphone deal with at&t. the "wall street journal" reports apple plans to begin making an iphone that works with the technology used by verizon and others by early next year. they are also working by the way on a fifth generation of the iphone. cisco announced plans to sell a $600 box that will turn your television set into a giant video phone. it wil

michael steele just wrapping up. we're going to bring you live events from around the country. we'll take you to minnesota where the president is stumping for the democrat candidate there for governor. we're going to go to the governor race in ohio where the democrat is trying to keep his office, ted strickland. we'll take you to arizona where sarah palin surprised a crowd earlier in the week, and we are going to dip into california, which is i got the admit my home state, a race i'm particularly interested in. that is where meg whitman has dumped so much money into that race for governor, more than $130 million. and i think we want to pause and bring you the next speaker here, sarah palin is now taking the stage. ♪ >> thank you so much, orlando! thank you! thank you, michael. thank you so much. you look beautiful. thank you so much, leading victory 2010. thank you for all your efforts. orlando, let me ask you, aren't you proud to be an american and don't you love your freedom! [ applause ] all right, then we know who this day is for, freedom for protecting our constitution. we

. >> over the weekend, michael steele appeared with sarah palin in fund-raising event in florida. don't take momentum for granted? >> it ain't over until it's over last ten days, we just be thinking we got it in the bag. >> rhode island will host president obama and also michael steele and scott brown. a sign of this crowded and competitive campaign trail one week before the midterm. >> time 5:48. >> tornados damaged a school and overturned vehicles in texas. the roof of an elementary school in a city of rice was severely damaged as well as a high school football field. that caused a mess on interstate 45. they say several homes were severely damaged and no word on the number of injuries. >> we had our own weather system pass through. where is it going? >> it's gone away. it's down south and as good as advertised. we saw some of the streets and some of the parking lots, but it's passed but more is on the way. unfortunately right now, it looks like it could clip the end of game two on world series on thursday. that is few days away. right now, it's something, a little bit of a conc

michael steel is predicting the republicans will win back control of the house of representatives. >> voters are tired of the fact that the federal government has not listened to them oh the past two years. has moved in its own direction and rhythm and they want to pull back on that and i think you will see an unprecedented wave on election day that's going to surprise a lot 0 people. >> reporter: now as far as the democrats, former virginia governor kaine is trying to do his best to help the party save as many seats as possible he says he believes the democrats will win the turnout battle. >> i think it will be close and as you point these races are very close but from this point forebard it is all about turn joint and ground game and we have good early voting trends. we have work to do but think we can do it. >> we will have more on what which state is targeted by both parties in the next half hour. coming up next, the sports equivalent of a nasty campaign. thankfully the redskins ended up on top. grab the coffee and some water to go with it this morning. >> that has to to with the

. >>> and michael steele being asked his word on what the minimum wage is, take a listen. >> what is the minimum wage, michael? >> you really like the middle wage, don't you? >> i -- >> whether minimum wage is $7, $10, or whatever it happens to be in whatever part of the country you live in, the fact is if you don't have a job, that number is irrelevant until you get one. >> the minimum wage is notñr $7r $10, but let's move on to jobs snow that will be your headline. that will be the headline, lawrence, you still don't know the minimum wage. >> he's right about that. it's $7.25 and it's the same in every state. >> what's that? i'm sorry. don't know if you heard michael steele but what about the fact that there is a federal minimum wage. it's $7.25. >> right. it's the -- it's more than just not knowing the number that it's $7.25. it's really that you're not in touch with working men and women. the republican party, the reason we have $38 million of corporate non we don't know who they are or who's expending it against our candidates in senate races so far, so far money that i think is

not to be outdone, sarah palin and republican national committee chairman michael steele are speaking at a funz rairz in california tonight. palin all but endorsed whitman without using her name. >> republicans seem to be a little more enthused about going to the polls coming up in 17 days than democrats seem to right now. and that is a problem. you need to have your people excited, get them motivated to get to the polls. b brianna keilar is joining us this morning. she is in maryland. >> reporter: i have to tell you in this parking lot that i'm standing in, you're not sensing an enthusiasm gap. these are union members and they're going to be going out to the surrounding neighborhoods knocking on doors, trying to get people to vote. they're very enthusiastic. we were listening to them firing themselves up. someone was giving a speech about how november 2nd is really the beginning of president obama's reelection campaign and they were doing a cheer from his -- from when he was campaigning, fired up, ready to go. that said, the issue has to do with this democratic stronghold in maryland

in the meantime, she's teaming with rnc chairman michael steele to raise money., sarah, just tell the american people you're not running. as consolation, maybe you and michael steele can turn your road show into a money making show for real, a tv show. you could call it steele magnolia. >> for more opinions and an less, don't miss "parker spitzer" 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> we announced the top ten cnn heroes of 2010 selected by our panel. we're calling on friends of cnn heros to help us tell you about these extraordinary people. former nba star introduces us to harmon parker who has built bridges over rivers in kenya. >> hello, as 2007 cnn's heroes, as the founder of my foundation, which works to improve the quality of life in my homeland of the congo, i see how much the world need heroes. now i'm thrilled to help cnn introduce one of this year's top ten honor's. >> what strikes me about this place is the beauty and the feeling of being insignificant. the beauty of this place also becomes dangerous because of these mountains when it rains. i've worked all over kenya

michael steel is also campaigning in rde island today, a day after he predicted big gains for republicansext tuesday. >> i think you'reoing to see a with a wave, an unprecedented wave. >> not surprisingly his democratic counterpart projected confidence. >> we got work to do but we think we can do it. >> some of the democrats are playing defense, like joe biden and bill clinton to get out vote in some very blustates. >>> a new poll suggts that democrats may no be getting help in the november elections from voters who are still on the fence, especially on congressionacandidates, it found th 45% of persuadable voters prefer the republican house candidate while 38% pick the democric contender. >>> looks like it going to be a nice day today. is a look at some of the sunshine breaking out. we have a jetstream that will bring high cuds. we'll lk about the chance of rain and how it could affect the world series. >> check this out. story what caused a house to collapse in the ocean and new standardto cutmissions for trucks. i spenthree hours on my homework -- or at let that's what my mom thinks. w