please welcome governor mitch daniels.rs and applause) gf never, thanks so much for coming on. good to see you. all right, are you the republican governor of indiana. >> for two more months. >> stephen: previously director of office of management and budget under george bush. senior advisor to reagan, you've been around for a long time, okay. and you've got a book here, out in paperback now called keeping the republic, saving america by trusting americans. so what do you mean by that? do i have to trust all americans? because my understanding is there are about 47% who are parasites. (cheers and applause) can we trust each other? >> yeah, sure. and you know, i think the point, stephen, is that democracy really only works if people are allowed to make their own decisions. and i think a lot of folks with perfectly good intentions believe that you or i maybe we're just victims, you know, and we need them to page decision for us. we might pick the wrong mortgage or the wrong credit card or the wrong health care. we might pick

with governor mitch daniels.nk you sop much. 4h)1)16@.$86mccu8u8u8,xw),xg5v:x >> stephen: welcome back. we're here with governor mitch daniels with his new book, keeping the rep eck, all right, governor daniels, you are the governor of indiana. there has been a little bit of dust up in the senate race in indiana. >> heard a rumor. >> stephen: yes, mr. mourdock has raised some hackles by saying on the sensitive issue of abortion that if someone gets pregnant from a rape, that was intended to happen by god. okay. are you endorsing pour dock for senate? >> i'm a noncombatant, actually, in deference to my new job at purdue. >> stephen: i am. >> i'm not trying to dodge the question. >> stephen: you're not trying to but are you. >> on some justification on the day i accepted the new job at purdue with their nonpartisan status i said i would recuse myself from anything partisan, and i have. i haven't taken any roll in the campaign for or against anybody, as sort of a vow of political celibacy. >> stephen: okay, why an m

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

no anger, nothing, just doing what he's supposed to be doing. >> there you go. >> thank you, mitch.e a good night. >> appreciate it. >> see you first thing in the morning. >> all right. >> as you can see, they're really children's scissors. but we do thousands of quilts with them. last year, we did over 1,000 quilts. the year before, 916. we made some great quilts. to the gentlemen's credit, they do it with these. it's unbelievable. >> still at the end of the day, even children's scissors are safely secured. >> all scissors clear. i put them right here. they're going upstairs. they have to be in the control pod before we change shifts. >> the prison is not taking any risks with demetrius burks either. he will soon be transferred to the secured confinement unit to start a 15-month stay for assaulting a corrections officer. he has lost virtually every privilege he had. but he is allowed monthly visits. >> i'm fixing to go see my mamma. i don't know y'all. i ain't even going to lie. >> his mother, maria burks, and stepfather, tony conner, have come to see him today. >> good morning. vi

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

before but it makes sense. >> all day, mitch.l day. the problem isn't that there's too much money in elections it's that there's not enough elections in the first place. luckily there's a way for us to fix that. >> our nation is in trouble. debt, foreclosures, a sluggish economy. but this is america and we've got a sim way to fix our problems. spend massive amounts of money to tell america how to fix our problems. it's called election spending. >> cut. >> hi, remember me with the pie? i'm an actress. i'm getting paid $313 for doing this. so is my son. and my back-up son. >> i'm just here in case this kid has a meltdown. >> there are mothers, our fathers, our coworkers but most importantly they are all paid actors. and it doesn't stop there. >> i work in post production adding to graphics. >> i make $1.75 an hour and i don't work fast. >> american money, american jobs like speaking into a microphone for cash and it could be so much bigger. in 2000 election spending was $3 billion n.2052 it could be 100% of the g.d.p. >> everyone w

the bus uses one-third as mitch energy and pollution. routes all over the country they provide faster frequent service at a lower fare. john: and they don't find that clamorous. one criticism, the interstate highway system the same goal biggest government intervention you think it is the wonder. it worked with a corporate program. congress said it is funded by the users. as the money comes then we will not build it then held it comes. we design and track pay as you go but it could have forked but government funded it. to much money is the problem. john: i ride amtrak. thank you for your subsidy. >> i ride in the megabucks. john: good for you. the much bigger part of government is defense do you know, that the brownie recipe is 26 pages long? recipe is 26 pages long? why would [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an un

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

the challenger, mitch romney has not been on the show. we have asked him to be on the show.have any night, any time, short notice, whenever he wants, he can be on the show. he's got 39 days. i don't want to persuade anybody unnecessarily, but if he's not here in 39 days, don't vote for him. >> coming up, one of paul ryan's jbs is to help people forget about mitch romney's 47% comment but ryan stumbled and brought it up yesterday on fox news. he really did. . >>> in the rewrite tonight, now everyone knows what they should have known when he should have announced his political candidacy. arnold schwarzenegger is a clown and a liar. and arnold finally agrees with me that he is stupid. a word he just used to describe himself tonight on hannity. the stupid liar, arnold schwarzenegger is in tonight's rewrite. >> with your help, we will win florida. with your help, we'll represent 100% of the american people still. and with your help, we will win this election! >> in the spotlight tonight, the problem that won't go away. mitt romney's 47% problem. on sunday, it was paul ryan's turn

you said mitch katz convinced you laura's law was wrong. laura's law works. nevada shows, city of new york with kendra's law shows that kendra's law can and will save lives. it gives the police a tool so that people can be treated instead of jailed. and your mental health court in san francisco proves it. i think that all of you would do well to attend the graduation ceremonies and see the people who have been treated and rehabilitated. dr. peter [speaker not understood] described mental illness, it is a physically-based illness, a disability of the brain and the person. unless the person is defeated -- unless that person is treated, they will be defeated, for their brain cannot work. and you can pass all the laws saying, don't pan handle, but if people have a mental disability where they can't comprehend the law -- and i watch it on my own street. the people -- the mentally ill people on our street are my friends. i talk to them. i try to convince them to take their medicine. one guy wanted to fight with me. i said, i'm not going to fight with you. one of us

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.e 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 de

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

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,

mitch has been taken in by this family in georgia. affiliate wsb quotes investigators as saying he's gained ten pounds in a week, been given glasses to replace the ones that were taken away from him years ago. his sisters are in protective custody and mitch's mother and stepfather are in jail, charged with child cruelty for allegedly locking him in his room and underfeeding him for years and years. they go to court thursday for a bond hearing as we say, we can do better. >>> coming up next, talking to first woman ever to moderate a presidential debate. her thoughts on president obama and mitt romney's big showdown tomorrow night, denver, colorado, carole simpson, such a pleasure, such an honor. she'll join me live next. >>> well, we went deep into the vault for this one here at cnn. the date was october 15th, 1992, presidential debate nearly 20 years ago, to the day. remember this? >> the candidates are the republican nominee president george bush, the independent russ perot, and governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee. my name

i'll walk mitch mcconnell's dog. politically direct lineup. only on current tv. vote smart. our democracy depends on an informed electorate. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> winds are getting rough. streets are starting to flood as we get closer to high tide. it's likely that we're going to see flooding in this area. we'll go inside where it's safer. in that situation i will see what is going on, and figure out what the next step is going to be. >> cenk: you're looking at the citizen journalist we've used before. he's now in new york. you're seeing pictures of flooding in new york. this has just barely made landfall in new jersey. unfortunately, we also have our first fatality in queens. we had one in maryland. this was a fallen tree because of a storm. now another fatality in queens. that's the update on the storm. now let's turn to the campaign again. they endorse mitt romney. what on god's green earth were they thinking? their editor rick green was talking on msnbc and he had this explanation. >> there seems to be a gridloc

watch here as mitch speeds into a turn, his passengers are not only not wearing shirts, no one's wearingeatbelts. but does he ever pull out his cell phone? here it is. pressed against his ear while speeding through a turn. and here he's on the phone and does a one-handed u-turn across double yellow lines. >> this is probably illegal -- ugh! >> reporter: but the most disturbing event comes at 3:00 in the afternoon. he falls asleep behind the wheel. >> that shocks me. we were notified about that just because it was so dangerous. that could have been head-on. it could have been the end of our kid. >> that's a lot to take in. >> that's a lot more than i thought. >> watching myself, things don't go as smoothly as i think they do to make me more aware of what my actions do to other people. >> hey. >> reporter: there's a lot of nervous laughter as we re-unite the families. but everyone knows this is deadly serious. so parents, if you're wondering how to stop your teens from grabbing for their cell phones, first off, set rules and enforce them, says parenting expert, michelle bourba, author of "

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

. >> reporter: but rangers rookie mitch moreland was the hero. ryan's rangers win 3-2 to get right back in the series. game four on halloween night was so big it took two presidents to get it start. >> you have a 24-year-old on the mound, a 23-year-old catching it. >> reporter: baumgartner needed a lot of help but tossed a shut out over 8 innings. baumgartner finished the season 2-0 making his father very proud. >> they say your son has a little nasty streak in him. where did that come from? >> his mother. >> down to right, this ball is gone for a 2-run home run. >> reporter: aubrey grew up in the dallas area and was a huge rangers fan. >> i remember for a second i was looking up the stands where i saturday as a kid eating dollar hot dogs. it was real surreal. >> for the win, he's got it. 4-0 san francisco and they're up 3-1 in this 2010 world series. >> one game away and we can all feel it and taste it and smell it and everything. >> and javi is gone, he likes to wear bow ties. >> reporter: it was time for lincecum to get down to business. >> li

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