mr. iglesias was, quote, shy about doing his job on madrid. madrid is patricia madrid, a democratic candidate for congress who reasons were hoping the u.s. attorney would target with an election eve voter fraud indictment. iglesias didn't do that to patricia madrid. the bush white house and republicans were apparently furious about that, and then david iglesias got fired. the federal prosecutor, laura dan ahee, continues to work on this case. she will decide ultimately whether criminal charges will be filed. >>> next up the off the kook and conspiracy theory that president obama was secretly not born in the united states and, therefore, is secretly not really president might be a more complicated off the kook end conspiracy theory than we originally thought. a new north carolina poll by public policy polling finds that the percentage of north carolina voters who say president obama wasn't born in the u.s. or they're not sure if he was, is 46%. 46% of north carolina voters think obama might be secretly foreign, and he, therefore, might not reall

mr. iglesias to undertake a prosecution.idea the press should apologize for making the flood-lit inference here is ridiculous. mr. rove addresses the fact one of his proteges was installed to replace a fired u.s. attorney in arkansas. according to mr. rove, this, too, was entirely proper and his aide was only suggested for the job. quote, after i learned the then u.s. attorney was likely to leave his post." the then-u.s. attorney was a man named bud cummins. while he did speculate leaving that post, his ousting in june 2006 was not at all voluntarily. he was asked for his resignation by the bush administration because the white house wanted to give another tern the opportunity to serve in his job. quote, i don't think many of us were aware the administration might want to ask someone to step aside just to give someone else an opportunity." that someone else who got that opportunity was karl rove's aide tim griffin. the idea karl rove's role in this was he was just replacing a guy that is leaving anyway is wrong. he is saying

mr. iglesias joins us. >>> and is this the face of the republican party's presidential nominee for 2012? well, he won't get votes of any of the dog lovers if you know what i mean. these stories ahead. >>> first, time for "countdown's" "best persons in the world." dateline cluster fox land number three best admission. you have imaginary friends. steve doocy, the fixed news offering some friendly advice to health care town forum attendees. from one of my friends, i got a lot of friends who send me stuff. this is one of those things where if you find yourself at a town hall meeting and need to ask a really hard question, that would be hard for these guys and gals to wheeeasel out of, ask t one of these five questions. the questions turned out to be identical usually word for word to a list of talking points called five questions americans should press their leaders on from the website of the heritage foundation. so steve doocy's friend is a website. his other friend is a toaster. dateline cambridge university, england. number two best snappy answer. steven hawking recipient today of the uni

mrs. wilson urged the white house to fire david iglesias before the election, but she claims she did no suchhing. those are some of the latest headlines. "washington journal" continues. host: this is david sloane, the senior vice president of public relations for aarp. guest: thank you for having me. host: i want to show our audience two clips. then we will come back. >> the prescription drug companies have already said that they would be willing to put up $80 billion in rebates for prescription drugs as part of the health care reform package. we may be able to get even more than that, but think about it. when the prescription drug plan was passed, medicare part d, they decided it would not negotiate for the cheapest price. as a consequence seniors are way of repaying, and forced go out of pocket -- that the anatdonuts always looming, and if we can cut that in half it is money back into your pocket. that is one reason that aarp is so supportive because it will save it seniors money. >> aarp says they are supportive and have been for years on comprehensive health care reform. the president do