mr. turner the republican was up by six points in two polls. that caused a lot of excitement for the folks here. there was a great effort by the democrats to deploy an army of 1,000 or more on the seats today. new york city mayor koch revered in this city. he supported bob turner and he's speaking now. >> greta: which is extraordinary. former democratic mayor supporting him. eric, thank you. >> straight ahead, former governor paw:city out of the race for the white house. but he is -- pawlenty is out of the race for the white house, but he is making news. vice president cheney and his daughter liz go on the record. what happened between the for sunsweet, growing the perfect prune plum is an art form. and now, after nearly a hundred years working hand in hand with nature, we present a true masterpiece: d'noir prunes from sunsweet. excellent. they're delicious. that is really good. i'm definitely hooked. absolutely perfect. and now, we invite you to try a plum masterpiece. d'lightful, d'licious, d'noir prunes, only from sunsweet. can become romant

mr. turner, is recognized. mr. turner: thank you, mr. speaker. now? it's with true humility i accept this awesome responsibility. and i pledge not to forget how i got here. it was an important bipartisan election. it's the only way it can be done in new york city. and i'll also promise not to forget why i'm here and it's the future, which is ably represented here by these handsome grandchildren, not even the whole brood. follow a good example and be brief, thank you. the speaker: under clause 5-d of rule 20, the chair announces to the house that in light of the administration of the oath to the gentleman from nevada and the gentleman from new york, the whole number of the house is now 434. without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the question is on adoption of house resolution 372. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise

mr. turner won. one is the economy.nd obama, you know, it's going to be hard to spin that any other way. two, gretchen, as you mentioned, gigantic jewish vote in that neighborhood and third and unless you've lived in that neighborhood, you didn't realize this but theens of thousands of robocalls went out about mr. weprin's vote on same sex marriage here in new york state. apparently, the robo calls portrayed his vote against a vote against god even though weprin is an orthodox jew himself. >> pete sessions is a chairman of the congressional committee and says new york have put washington democrats on notice. eric cantor calls it a major victory. this seems a little bit stronger than when the democrats won that seat in upstate new york about six months ago after a scandal forced the vacancy of that seat. again, very curious to see if they did some post poll analysis and talked to some people. how many people looked at what weiner did and how he embarrassed those people by what he did and said we're going with the republi

mr. turner, is cognized. mr. turner: thank you, mr. speaker. now?th true humility i accept this awesome responsibility. and i pledge not to forget how i got here. it was an important bipartisan election. it's the only way it can be done in new york city. and i'll also promise not to forget why i'mere and it's the future, which is ably represented here b these handsome grandchildren, not even the whole brood. follow a good example and be brief, thank you. the speaker: under clause 5-d of rule 20, the chair announces to the house that in light of the administration of e oath to the gentleman from nevada and the gentleman from new york, the whole number of the house >> the house now stands at 242 republicans, 192 the democrats, with one vacancy. on the other side of the capitol, senate worked on a bill that red streaks trade restrictions with burma. this would provide $7 million in assistance to communities hit by natural disasters. right now, senators are voting on whether to pass an extension of faa programs and service programs for six months. curre

mr. turner's pain.ight be a pinhead in this regard. >> 16-year-old lexi won the lpga classic last sunday and donated $20,000 of her winnings to the wounded warrior project. we an proud her contribution and her skill. she is a patriot. >> the high bid for this poster signed by all five living presidents, i don't think they've ever signed anything together ever before, the high bid is $46,000. you can bid on billoreilly.com. another $100,000 has been raised if you give a donation of $25 or more you get a facsimile of this document. that is it for us. check out the webs thanks for stops right here. because we are definitely because we are definitely looking out for you. closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc >> top of the morning to you. it's thursday, september 22, 2011. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you so much for sharing your time today. the stage is all set for tonight's big debate on fox news and the top two candidates in the statistical tie now so that means game on. >> we don't need to n

mr. turner has athe crmocrat in islamic community center to build in downtown manhattan. the so-called ground zero mosque. seeing the republican candidate ahead in the polls in this race has had national democrats spending half a million bucks in recent days trying to save the seat from becoming a casualty of anthony weiner's new dizmo. i made that word up. polls in new york closed an hour ago in new york. we're awaiting the first returning. joining us from queens, new york, andrew siff for wnbc. you're at republican bob turner's campaign. how do things seem there? how excited are people? >> people are pretty excited, rachel. former mayor ed kotch is on his way, who crossed party lines to vote for bob turner. he was one of the voices who at least according to the polls has been successful in convincing voters along this queens/brooklyn border, this quirky area, to send a message to president obama. as you mentioned, the polls showed bob turner ahead by six points then the democratic money kicked in. the turn out the vote machine was out in force today with 1,000 democrati

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mr. turner took it. >> he did. >> and this basically, you look at this district in new york city in the boroughsd brooklyn. overwhelmingly a democratic district. 3-1. but the republicans tried to tie the democratic candidate in this race to president obama. tried to make it a referendum on president obama. yes, there were local issues in the area. but the republican came out a winner and they won that other special election in nevada. republicans are youing right now. they are very happy. they're saying this is a referendum on president obama. democrats say these are special elections and don't have a bearing on what's going to happen next year. back in '09 and '10, the democrats won a lot of special elections, but didn't do so well last year. >> we can't say it's a harbinger of things to come. thank you very much, taking wolf's spot. come back any time. this is your political ticker nor this hour. >>> meantime, just about top of the hour here. take a look at this. >>> i told you i would highlight these types of stories and today, i have another one about a child who didn't have to die. we can d

mr. turner is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. now? >> new yorkers don't ask for permission.rd. >> cut him some slack. he will occupy anthony weiner's old congressional seat. >>> don't ask, don't tell. the ban on gays serving openly in the military will officially be repealed on tuesday. this comes after months of reviews, court challenges. two house republicans are making a final push for a delay, though, saying that they simply need more information on specific policy changes. >>> the fbi under fire this morning trying to explain how anti-islam views made it into one of their training programs for agents. critics are calling it pure bigotry. one of the sentiments taught, the more devote a muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent. more on this controversy from brian todd. >> reporter: in the often tense relationship between the muslim community in the u.s. and law enforcement, another potential problem. fallout over an fbi training presentation, which claimed that main stream muslims sympathize with militants. "wired" magazine said it obtained slides that were shown at

turner's win was a referendum on mr. obama, many believe. sh voter in the turner district, traditionally democratic overwhelmingly disapprove of fellow democrat brohm. they particularly are offended by what they see as bad policies and antiisrael rhetoric and get this. former new york city mayor ed koch, a die -- a dyed in the wool democrat crossed party lines and supported republican turner. >> president obama is a nice guy and i helped elect him and all those things. he threw us under the bus. >>> koch sees the win as proof positive of president obama's mishandling of the united states -- israel relationship. >> question is ed koch right? has president obama thrown israel under the bus? >> pat buchanan and no he hasn't. he has been critical of netanyahu. netanyahu does not like obama and he moves very close to the republicans. but in this district, not only ed koch an orthodox jewish community there and new york daily post and news endorsed turner. this is really in a way an antiobama vote, i think. really sending him a message out there an

mr. turner, the republican leading 47-41 over mr.'re hoping that it sends a wake-up call to the president of the united states saying come on, snap out of it. you just lost this heavily democratic particular district. new york 9 and you're going to lose it all unless you snap out of it and go back to your core values. >> that election is tomorrow, right? why is it so significant? anthony weiner, how many times did he win that seat in that particular district? >> 5,000. >> it was a landslide almost every time but the last election which was a little closer. this seat would become a republican seat, it's no doubt that democrats living in that district or in new york all around the state would be concerned about it. >> i remember when that upstate seat turned to the democrats from the republicans, it was a major thing. it goes to show you the republicans and the tea party overstepped their bounds and they don't understand that the american people doesn't like the way they've been acting and how are they going to say -- what are they goi

mr. lopez. >> to answer your question regarding the contract awarded to turner construction, their general construction manager are not self-performing a lot construction work. the contract they were rewarded for pre-construction projects, the cost to run the job, and their feet as a percentage of the value of construction. the vast majority of the work, over 90% will be done by specific trades that are yet to be bid. under contract we advertise and awarded at a price that came in below the estimate. i do not know if the market conditions or when it was, but they did get the word in what we were expected to. we've had seven or eight different contractors. and-- we had seven or eight different contractors. that was the first major project that dpw had that included on that. prevailing wages -- this contract has that provision included. so does all over other work. supervisor avalos: very good. thank you very much. i do appreciate the presentations. it has been a really good offering to me, especially the work i have done on both america's cup and the local high your ordinance. i saw the two very related

mr. weprin and for a republican like bob turner who didn't soft pedal his conservatism, i think it says something. clearly were local issues at play. mr. weprin serves serves in albany, and nobody likes albany. when you look i don't think you can dismiss the fact that it could mean a lot about what is to come even though so much time is left between now and the elections everything could change and this could clearly than an after thought by the time people go to the polls last year. jon: we are looking at live pictures right now of the president in raleigh, tkaur ham, north carolina, air force one has just touched down there. he will be making a peach in a little less than two hours from now trying to tout his jobs plan. what are you hearing, david, about the whispers that are being said in washington to the president's people about the message that this sends? >> reporter: this is never good, because this helps republican fundraising, it helps enthusiasm and it scarce democrats. i think the message to the president is he needs to focus on jobs and the economy which he has been doing in septembe

turner of ohio. i want to start, mr. chairman, with your own words about why you thought it was so important to have this hearing. let's listen. >> we can't afford to have federal telecommunications policy where it affects national security to be made in the same way the white house partialed out a half billion dollars in loan guarantees to the failed corporation, a large campaign contributor to the president. >> that's a brig big charge off the top there sayi ining this w done for political reasons. that the lightsquared deal was done for political contributions. is that what you think? do you have evidence to support that. >> the issue is that the fcc chairman refused to come before our committee and answers questions as to why they would be proceeding with the lightsquared technology at a time when there's unambiguous testimony from general shelton that this absolutely conflicts with gps and threatens our national security. so these are questions that you have reported on, that you know. i was merely citing them indic

mr. president, we are on the wrong track. bill: that is bob turnerngressman-elect now and what does the outcome tell us about the race for the white house in 2012? martha: you know, the white castle, they say customers should eat 'em by the sack. one man obeys the slogan every day, 290 pounds and is now suing the white castle and you will never believe it when i tell you why. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ here a am ♪ stuck in the middle with you ♪ you started out with nothi nothing...♪ martha: 24 past the hour, here's a look at some of our top stories, right now. a car bombing targeting iraqi police officers left more than a dozen dead. the bomb exploded outside of a restaurant where police were having breakfast and new numbers for retail sales, flat-lined during the month of august. august was a tough month all around for the economy. retailers have reported strong back-to-school shopping and auto sales over the month but, now some are worried recession fears could spike weak sales numbers in an uncertain stock market weighing in there as well and a mass

turner is taking his place. the gop says it is a sign americans are disgruntled with the way the president has handled the economy. meanwhile, mrto north carolina to rally support for his $447 billion jobs program. he is now asking voters to pressure lawmakers into passing that plan. danielle nottingham reports from washington. >> reporter: president obama is trying to drum up support for his jobs bill in raleigh, north carolina, today. he is asking voters to help put pressure on congress to pass his american jobs act. >> what's congress waiting for?! there's work to be done! there are workers ready to do it. let's pass this jobs bill right away and get it done. >> reporter: the president toured a small manufacturing plant that he says would benefit from his proposal. >> puts more people back to work, and it puts more money back into the pockets of working americans. >> reporter: the recession has hit north carolina hard. unemployment there is above 10%. 1% higher than the national average. president obama won north carolina i 2008, the first time the state went for a democrat in 30 years. the white house insists this trip is a

again being questioned by dr james turner our attention to libya now with more insight into what's going on there the interview coming up. well today we're joined by mr thomas have a birth european commissioner for human rights talking to us from a star wars thanks very much mr howard for joining us now let's get right to where well we know that there were cia prisons in europe and people were tortured and now you're pushing for the truth what more should we know there is a lot more to know in fact because we haven't had a full account for what really happened and who took the decisions and on what grounds when these black sites were established on european soil of the things that we still have to know what do you think is most important i think we have to learn from history and unfortunately during this period of ten years there are serious human rights violations for committed and we have an atmosphere impunity when it comes to these violations of human rights i think the truce has to come out on board really happened who took the decisions who allowed the establishment of these secret places of detention and thereby allowing torture to take place

mr. president, we are on the wrong track. >> reporter: bob turner, a former cable tv executive, becomes thecongressman in new york's 9th district since the 1920s. anthony weiner held that seat for seven terms before a personal scandal forced him to resign in june. early on it was expected david weprin would win in a district where democrats outweigh republicans 3-1. >> a message to president obama and i think it is that he's got to get off his passive consolatory mood and -- they would say the opposite but i'm saying -- and go out and hustle and be -- use his bully pulpit, make the better change. >> maybe they're tired of the democrats. maybe they're tied of the promises. >> democrats played down the significance of the 9th district race. >> a local election between two people known to the district. >> reporter: but robert zimmerman, a democratic national committeeman says, his party needs to cut through the spin. he sees this as an opportunity for democrats to come up with a more focussed and disciplined agenda. >> this administration really seemed to lose a very clear and specific skraeag

turner's take on the results. >> we've been told this is a referendum, and we're ready to say, mr.'s take a closer look at just what we're talking about. here's the state of new york. the district down here. in new york city you see manhattan over there, this district has brooklyn and queens, let's take a closer look now. in the november 2010 midterm, let me close that down for you, anthony weiner, remember he just resigned, he got 69% of the vote, 61-39. that was last november. what happened last night, 54 for turner, 46% for his democratic opponent scion of a big political family. this is not a strong district for president obama, 55% of the vote. john kerry at about the same four years before that. here's the big thing that makes you jump. remember, the republican won this district. look at the voter registration. look at the voter registration. even if you add in the conservatives to the republicans, 3-1 voter advantage for the democrats and yet they lost. just one special election but to lose in the heart of one of america's most democratic cities and lose by eight points is a

turner called his victory a message to washington. >> this message will resound for a full year. and will resound into 2012. this is a referendum and we're ready to say, mr. president, we're on the wrong track. >> the president's approval rating sits at just 43% in this district. more bad news for the white house. in nevada where republican mark amaday crownsed kate marshal by 22 points, 58-36, he won in all 17 counties. you can explain away both special elections on a localized basis, but the fact is, this is the july-august hangover that has stung the white house, presidential approval ratings nationally at low points for the president. yes, there were local reasons why new york 9, weprin made orthodox jews upset on his views over gay marriage, there's a lot of localized ways to explain this away, but if the president's job approval rating had been higher in this district, he might have been able to come in and help. the fact is he couldn't come in and help. the district will be disappearing just like new york 26. democrats had a hard time getting a good candidate. it's still a wake-up call for democrats. the white house will argue what happened last n

now republican candidate bob turner hopes that he will win that seat and he joins us today. we've also invited mr. wepurn who is running against him to come here any time as well. good to have you here today. >> good morning, martha, nice to be here, thank you. martha: what is your sense of why there may be some opening for you in that district? >> although it's a very strongly democratic district, the discontent on the overarching issues of jobs and the economy, the obama polices, are turning off many democrats. they're coming over, i think , erode thank base is necessary and getting democrats to switch will be the key to this. martha: obviously, now that -- let's turn to the poll numbers we have. this is a ciena poll, i looked at about three different polls, some of them show you behind as much as 6 percent, this one shows a tie, it also indicates that there's a lot of folks who haven't folded this race yet and they're still learning about both of you so that leaves a lot of openings as well. nancy pelosi has shown interest in doing some fundraising, you have rudy giuliani -- giuliani in your c

turner called his victory a message to washington. >> this message will resound for a full year. and will resound this to 2012. i've been told this is a referendum and we're ready to say, mr. president, we are on the wrong track. >> president obama's approval in new york's ninth district now just 48%. more bad news for the white house in nevada. republican mark stroupss kate marshall winning all 17 counties in the district. karen finney was the dnc spokesperson. michael steele also an msnbc political analyst, former head of the rnc. two of my favorite strategists join me in wednesday. thanks so much. appreciate you being here. ladies first. debbie wasserman schultz called the loss in new york an isolated issue smepd it's a special election of purely reflective of who showed up to the polls. there were other factors at play in the new york race. she said how much of the loss last night can be attributed to the president's plummeting popularity, karen? >> i think you have to look it at the dems of that district specifically remember that there is very large jewish pop lagts and there are concerns within the jewish community about the way president obama has handled the midd

he got to the podium and he had, if you noticed, bob turner who won new york nine standing with him. basically saying, hey, mru're horrhaging the jewish vote. and mr. perry is very strong about saying we stand with israel and that means, by the way, no statehood for palestine. >> all right. so let's listen to governor perry. >> we are indignant that certain middle eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of israel and palestinian leadership. and we're equally indignant of the obama administration and their middle east policy of appeasement that has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. we would not be here today at this very presipus of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the mile east wasn't naive and arrogant, misguided, and dangerous. >> that's getting right to the point, governor perry, you know where he stands on that. let's take a look at another presidential candidate, mitt romney. here's his quote. what we are watching unfold at the united nations is an unmitigated diplomatic disaster. it is the culmination of president obama's re

mr. weiner resigned? disgrace after texting explicit photo and images to strgers. now the democrat is facing a serious challenge from the republican bob turnerld receive this district flip to red for the first time in 90 years. eric. we were talking about this yesterday saying the democrats outnumber the republicans in that district 2-1? or is it greater than that? >> reporter: it's 3-1. that's what makes this so asoundsing. the voters here have not sent a republican to washington since 1923. those here tell us the change tonighcould be historic and they say it's because of president obama. according to the latest polls there could be an historic turnover. bob turner is a 70-year-old retired television executive who never served in public office. he based his campaign basically, hammering away at president obama's economic policy. and his policies on israel. that gained a lot of traction in this heavily democratic district. the democrat is part of a prominent democratic family. but he has been 6 points or more behind in the latest polls. >> the course this nation is on, this administration's policies, they would vote for mr. weprin. they thi

. >> april 19, ted turner and steve pickens will discuss alternative energy, solar projects against the nation. mr. pickens who addresses crusade to reduce the nation's dependence on opec, which he regards as a threat to the u.s. economy and national security. >> asked him both for money. we could use it. >> our tradition here for every guest speaker come at us are truly took away saint thank you is to present you with a traditional npc coffee mug. thank you very much. [applause] and our final question of the day. that is the talk about his kent brockman were here with us today, how would he have reported on your speech? >> since instar ignores that most people want to hear about. details at 11:00. [applause] >> thank you all for coming today. i like to thank national press club staff, including the library and broadcast center for helping to organize today's event. here's a reminder you can find more information on our website. if you'd like to get a copy of today's program, check it out at www.press.org. thank you and we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversation

turner and smu for hosting us today on this beautiful campus. i want to thank all of you for being here. it is good to see you again, mr. secretary. i would like to thank you on behalf of allmericans for the leadership that you feel and the tenacity and determination you have shown in this issue. it is always good to see you again, tom. i think it is appropriate that you are on my far left today. [laughter] >> actually, froout there -- [laughter] >> for you, there probably is the right side. let me start off by saying two $0.20 trillion, that -- two $0.20 -- $2.2 trillion, that is what we need for our infrastructure. that is what is needed to maintain, to keep our 20th- century inheritance from falling apart. not to get ahead. we need another $2 trillion to enter the 21st century and to build a modern, clean energy infrastructure. we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year every year for the foreseeable future in infrastructure. instead, the united states is investing little more tn $50 billion per year in transportation infrastructure. our trade partners like china have been pouring investments into infrastructure.

turner and smu for hosting us today on this beautiful campus. i want to thank all of you for being here. it is good to see you again, mr. secretary. i would like to thank you on behalf of all amecans for the leadershiphat you feel and the tecity and determination you have shown in this issue. it is always good to see you again, tom. i think it is appropriate that you are on my far left today. [laughter] >> actually, from out there -- [laughter] >> for you, there probably is the right side. let me start off by saying two $0.20 trillion, that -- two $0.20 -- $2.2 trillion, that is what we need for our infrastructure. that is what is needed to maintain, to keep our 20th- century inheritance from falling apart. not to get ahead. we need another $2 trillion to enter the 21st century and to build a modern, clean energy infrastructure. weeed to invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year every year for the foreseeable future in infrastructure. instead, the united states is investing a little more than $50 billion per year in transportation infrastructure. our trade partners like china have been pouring investments into infrastructure.

turner and smu for hoing us today on this beautiful campus. i want to thank all of you for being here. it is good to see you again, mr. secretary. i would like to thank you on behalf of all americans for the leadership that you feel and the tenacity and determination you have shown in this issue. it is always good to see you again, tom. i think it is appropriate that you are on my far left today. [laughter] >> actually, from out there -- [laughter] >> for you, there probably is the right side. let me start off by saying two $0.20 trillion, that -- two $0.20 -- $2.2 trillion, that is what we need for our infrastructure. that is what is needed to maintain, to keep our 20th- century inheritance from falling apart. not to get ahead. we need another $2 trillion to enter the 21st centurynd to build a modern, clean energy infrastructure. we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year every year for the foreseeable future in infrastructure. instead, the united states is investing a little more than $50 billion per year in transportation infrastructure. our trade partners like china have been pouring investments into infrastruc