mr. o'donnell never attended. atest padding from team o'donnell, bozo and a witch. i thank you both for your time considering the circumstances. i'll start with you, your reaction to mr. o'donnell's admission. >> that will get you blackballed. there's no such thing as a rogue clown. i mean there's unions, meetings, dues, even a secret horn blow. sounds more like a scab to me, keith. >> so he didn't go to the special school. did you go to the special school? >> i went to the special school twice. i wanted it covered. >> does it upset you that he only dabbled in clowning? >> clowning isn't dabbling. it's a life choice. does the pope dabble? keith, are you dabbling in the news right now? i spent $20,000 on huge foot implants. that's not dabbling. that's commitment. >> actually, i am dabbling in doing the news now. let me switch to the witch. spiritually speaking, what kind of witch are you? are you a good witch or a bad witch? are you margaret hamilton or melissa joan hart? >> i'm the wicked witch of the west village.

mr. o'donnell's repudiation led ms.bble in witchcraft and swerve off into that category? >> well, i don't think clowning leads to witchcraft. maybe the other way around. i think clowning more leads to obesity and alcoholism. i wouldn't know anything about that. >> mr. o'donnell claims his role as fill-in bozo he would ride around in the bozo mobile. does that sound accurate? what is your preferred mode of transportation? >> you remember reading i'm funny at any stage. i'll tell you right now i don't want to talk about it, it's a depressing moment in my life. next question, please. >> you had co-bert blow up on you, i know. to the witch again, trailing her opponent here, should she embrace her past and consider using witchcraft to get ahead? >> yeah, i mean, she is anti-masturbation, anti-sex, that is something we can rally around. put the wart back on. i would even vote for you if you came out of the broom closet if i could see the lever. i've been making love to myself. what you say about that is so true. >> let me clo

mrs. o'donnell resist peer "what would you say then? >> when my heroes is harry truman. he made the difficult decision to compel the adoration of the u.s. armed forces at a time when most of the generals said, are the exact same reasons, unit cohesion -- we should not have a racially integrated military. that was an important decision. the ultimate long term and that has made our military was the most progressive in terms of promotion and advancement opportunities. as you said earlier, most of our nato allies long ago realized that we are giving up on the service of thousands of potential volunteers who could be serving our nation at home and abroad. i do not think it makes any sense to continue to exclude them from open service in our military. >> we are not necessarily going to open discussion on that, because we want to get tested and questions. this comes on the issue of campaign finance reform. >> what is your position on campaign finance reform and what is your reaction to the recent supreme court ruling allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns? >> mr

mrs. o'donnell resist peer "what would you say then? >> when my heroes is harry truman.e made the difficult decision to compel the adoration of the u.s. armed forces at a time when most of the generals said, are the exact same reasons, unit cohesion -- we should not have a racially integrated military. that was an important decision. the ultimate long term and that has made our military was the most progressive in terms of promotion and advancement opportunities. as you said earlier, most of our nato allies long ago realized that we are giving up on the service of thousands of potential volunteers who could be serving our nation at home and abroad. i do not think it makes any sense to continue to exclude them from open service in our military. >> we are not necessarily going to open discussion on that, because we want to get tested and questions. this comes on the issue of campaign finance reform. >> what is your position on campaign finance reform and what is your reaction to the recent supreme court ruling allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns? >> mr.

mrs. o'donnell are running for his old seat.f facing mike castle who is popular in delaware and thereafter, speaking of sarah palin, she helped christine o'donnell to vault to the front, and defeat mike castle, and not incidentally dooming republican chances of winning a majority in the senate, because as you point out, she is losing by double-digit, and there is a poll out today, norah that had her losing by 11. that is sort of an outlier, because most of the polls are 18 points she is behind chris coons. another reason why the president is there with vice president biden is that this is one of the few bright spots for democrats all across the country. they are eager as the white house and democrats to portray republicans in the back pocket of the tea party a group they believe will eventually lead the republican party, the wagon train right off of the cliff. so they want to emphasize this connection, of course, and christine o'donnell, and controversial for a number of reasons and perhaps most famous or infamously because of h

mrs. o'donnell resist peer "what would you say then? >> when my heroes is harry truman. he made the difficult decision to compel the adoration of the u.s. armed forces at a time when most of the generals said, are the exact same reasons, unit cohesion -- we should not have a raally integrated military. that was an important decision. the ultimate long term and that has made our military was the most progressive in terms of promotion and advancement opportunities. as you said earlier, most of our nato allies long ago realized that we are giving up on the service of thousands of potential volunteers who could be serving our nation at home and abroad. i do not think it makes any sense to continue to exclude them from open service in our military. >> we are not necessarily going to open discussion on that, because we want to get tested and questions. this comes on the issue of campaign finance reform. >> what is your position on campaign finance reform and what is your reaction to the recent supreme court ruling allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns? >> mr.

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congressman toomey, chris o'donnell next door for example that want to do away with the 14th amendment, that actually thinks there can be a state established religion. >> chris: honestly, mr. sestack has christine o'donnell who advertises on some pennsylvania tv stations because that covers northern delaware, do you think that has hurt you? >> i don't think people fall for that. this is pretty silly. joe sestack is so worried about his own record he is trying to run against somebody that i have never met and that i don't agree with. who is really extreme here? the fact is joe sestack is to the left of nancy pelosi. that is no exaggeration. he voted for every single item on the big government agenda we have been living through for the last two years and his only criticism has been that it doesn't go far enough. joe sestack is a guy outside of the the mainstream of pennsylvania. >> chris: i want to get into your record first and then to joe sestack's. you say you disagree with christine o'donnell on what? >> i think that, you know, some of the accusations that joe sestack was attributing to her which that i don't share those views. >> chris: any in particular? >> i think th

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former nevada teacher sharron angle, mountain man joe miller, delaware brain wizard, christine o'donnell and mr. racial diversity himself, rand paul, down in kentucky that's who's getting demend minlt's money. unless democrats stand up to this and i call it evil, these will be the people decide how your child gets educated and who is doing it. demint and the right-wing governors like chris christie are on a mission to reshape education by number one, destroying unions, they are evil, and discriminating against tax paying american teachers that want to privatize public schools and make education a race to the bottom line. now, this is not the country that i grew up. and we get into this conversation often times in this political season. well, you know, we just have too much us versus them. well, let me ask you the cultural question tonight, folks. whose side do you stand on? do you really think that gay people shunt be able to teach in public schools? does jim demint know for sure that he didn't have a gay teacher? where are we going with this crowd? this is not the republican party of, let's se

former nevada teacher sharron angle, mountain man joe miller, delaware brain wizard, christine o'donnell and mr. racial diversity himself, rand paul, down in kentucky that's who's getting demend minlt's money. unless democrats stand up to this and i call it evil, these will be the people decide how your child gets educated and who is doing it. demint and the right-wing governors like chris christie are on a mission to reshape education by number one, destroying unions, they are evil, and discriminating against tax paying american teachers that want to privatize public schools and make education a race to the bottom line. now, this is not the country that i grew up. and we get into this conversation often times in this political season. well, you know, we just have too much us versus them. well, let me ask you the cultural question tonight, folks. whose side do you stand on? do you really think that gay people shunt be able to teach in public schools? does jim demint know for sure that he didn't have a gay teacher? where are we going with this crowd? this is not the republican party of, let's se

mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> christine o'donnell is trying to redefine herself in a tv ad.ve you a whole lot of defining to do when you're trying to convince voters you're not a witch, which is the first line of her ad. >> the tae party versus republican party. we find out which side lou dobbs is on in our spotlight. i've bs over the span of 11 years. today, i'm a divisional learning and development manager. we can actually help people develop in their own careers. my job allows me to make a difference in the lives of almost 100,000 associates in the northeast. if you think about it, that's almost 8 times the size of my hometown. my name is nick and i work at walmart. ♪ ♪ no. no. ♪ [ engine revs, tires screeching ] ♪ ♪ whoo-hoo, yeah ♪ whoo-hoo, yeah ♪ whoo-hoo, yeah ♪ [ vw ceo ] ladies and gentlemen, we give to you the all-new volkswagen jetta. and we have one more surprise for you. fifteen-thousand nine-hundred neunzig dollar? [ indistinct conversation ] [ sobbing ] [ camera shutters clicking ] ♪ ♪ whoo-hoo, yeah ♪ whoo-hoo, yeah >>> ahead on the last word. delaware's tea

. >> finally asked today to say something nice about one another o'donnell said coons gave good answers to questions. mr. coons was given two minutes for his response. >> my opponent christine o'donnell is someone who has shown remarkable persistence. she's run for the united states senate three times in the past five years and her passionate commitment to the conservative social causes that she's championed through her adult life i respect. i think that come bin nation of passion and persistence has served her well. >> thank you. >> you didn't use your whole two minutes. you had extra time. >> as promised let's call in howard fineman. howard, good evening. >> hi, keith. >> the debates in a moment but first the story. i have sean hannity in my pocket and i can go on the show and raise money to attack you guys. it might be a little tacky to thumb your nose at your own party, but at least you'd be ahead. is there any logic to doing it when you're an outsider and you're down by 19 with 19 to play? >> well, there's logic to her. i mean, this is the way she's thought from the beginning. she's run against the

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o'donnell defended using political donations to pay the rent on her town house where she lives. mr. at last count down by 18 point. o'donnell down by 17 points. they are running such nutty, cuckoo for cocoa puffs campaigns. this could be a nice way to pay your rent or make money off your special interests. running for office has become a racket. >>> when "the new york times" asked christine o'donnell who in the senate she most admires, the answer she gave was surprising. the first senator was jim demint. nothing unusual there. the south carolina republican endorsed her campaign for senate and is probably as far right in his conservative beliefs as she is herself. so that wasn't the surprise. that made sense. the surprise was what o'donnell told reporter mark leibovich a few seconds later. quoting from the article. after a few more seconds, she mentioned hillary rodham clinton, who left the senate almost two years ago. quoting ms. o'donnell, she is a woman in a man's world holding her own. as one woman also taking some flack, i deeply admire that. okay. but you know hillary clinton's

o'donnell defended using political donations to pay the rent on her town house where she lives. mr. t last count down by 18 point. o'donnell down by 17 points. they are running such nutty, cuckoo for cocoa puffs campaigns. this could be a nice way to pay your rent or make money off your special interests. running for office has become a racket. try thermacare heatwraps, for all day relief without pills. i was surprised, thermacare worked all day. you feel the heat. and it relaxes and unlocks the muscle. you've got to try it. [ man ] thermacare, more effective for back pain than the maximum dose of acetaminophen, the medicine in tylenol. go to thermacare.com today for a $3 off coupon. thermacare. no pills. no pain. just relief. my professor at berkeley asked me if i wanted to change the world. i said "sure." "well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we

one thing we know, any interview with lawrence o'donnell will be a nfascinating one. let's watch lawrence and mrgreen. >> are you a witch? >> no. first i want to remind everyone that demint started the recession. >> your nickname in high school, i'm told, was turtle. does that tell us -- where did that come from? does that tell us anything about how this race might end up? >> demint started the rerecessi, demint is responsible for the recession. >> seriously, alvin, your nickname, turtle. where did that come from? >> no. >> no? okay. >> demint started the recession, and i'm the best candidate that defines where we are at in this country. >> lawrence o'donnell. you can't miss those interviews, whether it's vice president biden, levi johnson or alvin green. amazing jim demint started the recession. did you see the streaker at president obama's rally in philly the other day? there were streakers. he's up there. firing up the base. let's get excited about the mid terms, the good people of pennsylvania. some dude gets nude and goes streaking through the crowd. oh, dear. oh, no. oh, my lord. so we fou

sharron angle and christine o'donnell have both benefited from the financial largess of republican senator jim demint of south carolina. mrdemint's political operation has provided some of the muscle for their campaigns. senator demint stands alongside christine o'donnell and sharron angle and carl paladino in defining this year's republican party stance on gay rights. >> if a person is a practicing homosexual, they should not be teaching in our schools. >> that was jim demint back in 2004. he brought that view up again and repeated it earlier this month during something called the greater freedom rally in south carolina. if the great state of montana, the state republican party has a party platform that seeks to make homosexuality illegal. you know, like in iran. under the crime section of the party platform, they state, quote, we support the clear will of the people of montana expressed by legislation, to keep homosexual acts illegal. do the crime, do the time. again, this is not a wacky "do you believe that guy, carl, carl paladino" problem. this is the republican party this year. the republican candidate for governor

they weren't just attacking each other, christine o'donnell had some strong words for her own republican party! mrade? >> yeah, help me out. meantime

i mean, did christine o'donnell take any steps forward in her attack on her opponent, mr. coons?ck, can you hear me? >> yes. yes. go right ahead. on the attack, i can see that she fumbled that big time. citizens united conservatives say, okay, fine, free speech, campaign contributions, great for everybody, we just want more transparency. when it comes to, for example, gun laws and constitution, amendment on gun ownership, sure, we look at that and stay is great. i'm sure prize she didn't say kilo, kilo. i think if you are talking about the debit, in the debate club, coons wins on content, christine wins on style and neither one of them really seems to me to have won anybody over on that. let me -- do i have time for a short story? >> you know what i wish i did. rick, i don't, my producer said we got to wrap. i thank you for bringing us the stories and your interpretations. >> tell you what. >> yeah, real quick. >> i will tell it today 1 to 4, 1150 a.m. >> good plug. >>> meantime, mission accomplished but a long road to recovery ahead 230r9 3 chilean miners rescued after 69 days u

mr. paladino said on the "today show." but let ne get your thoughts on christine o'donnell. we know what happened in 1999. now she's got pearls and soft muse nick the background. she says i'm just like you. i'm you. does that work? >> she still has a dark ominous background behind her, so i'm not quite sure she solved the problem. but at the end of the day if you're a candidate like her unwilling to go and do any national news and appear on shows like yors, then the only way you can define yourself is through a 30-second ad. if you ask most voters in delaware or anywhere around the country the first thing that springs to mind when they hear her name is witch. in part because of her many, many appearances on bill maher. so many some respects she has to do that because at the end of the day her campaign is i'm you. and most people think witch when they hear her name. >> is it smart to have that i'm not a witch be the first thing out of your mouth in your first general election campaign ad? >> that would not ha been my recommendation. if you have decided that you're not going to engage in a back and forth an

mr. coons is facing chris teen o'donnell the republican. one other pictures in the paper today, presidential aid for sanchez. the orange county to that "wall street journal" now. michigan now, paulette? caller: paul ito. i think the department of justice's case in california is without merit. it is frivolous and it is a fruitless caucus. i would rather see the government take their time to prosecute corruption with cities, states and counties, agencies, the appointments of financial managers. and i'll give you a fact. we have an grievance against the city of detroit police department. this is a ten-year case under 14141. this is a case -- the city of detroit police department has to date has utterly failed to comply with the federal judge as well as the justice department. and i would like to see them spend more time on cost of living adjustment issues, jobs, misconduct, civil and human rights violations. thank you very much c-span for doing this nor senator stevens. thank you. host: the caller mentioning ted steens, the late senator making

mr. paladino in a moment, but first nbc's kelly o'donnell has the latest on that. >> an emotionally charged issue in a couple of races on the campaign trail. but first in new york t candidate who nearly came to blows with a reporter and then tried to reset his public image has now ignited a new firestorm trying to win the support of a local group. >> leading orthodox jewish leaders in brooklyn, new york's republican candidate for governor carl paladino lashed out against gays and claimed gay marriage is bad for everyone's children. >> i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid sexual option, it isn't. >> reporter: he was speaking to a group that opposed gay marriage. >> you can depend on me to protect and defend your family from those who seek to bankrupt your citizens. >> i didn't march in a gay parade this year. a gay pride parade this year. my opponent did. and that's not the exact that we should be showing our children. >> reporter: in response, cuomo's campaign said paladino showed a stunning homophobia. paladino had insisted he meant no ha

. >> last night in the debate on a number of occasions you use the name christine o'donnell in the same sentence with mrtoomey, and are you trying to do some labelling here. christine o'donnell is not running in pennsylvania. she's running in delaware. why do you keep trying to draw her into this race? >> well, because when congressman toomey was a lobby gist for clubs for growth, the wall street founded firm, actually it was called club for shrinking by many because he went out there with personal attack ads, mainstream republicans. if that senate continues to get people like a team toomey, o'donnell, someone who actually believes that you should kick out of your own party mainstream republicans, how is he going to work with the rest of us? that extreme view that has no defense, we can't have in the senate that is already pretty broken. it will go into a deep freeze if he gets there where he actually wants to kick out mainstream republicans. >> you have a bit of a problem here. i mean, mr. toomey spent ten years in congress, and, yet, he -- you have spent three years in washington, and people are calli

mr. obama's approval rating is 48%. disapproval 45. in the senatorial contest coons leads christine o'donnell 54% to 38%.ooks like karl rove could be right about delaware. there is also uneasiness about the direction of the country. today in paris, france, thousands of people protested the french's government's attempt to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. you can believe this madness. france is financially under water just like america. so it's looking for ways to save money. but these loans won't even give their country two years. pathetic. talking points submits that most americans see scenes like this and get angry. most workers here would consider 62 an early retirement. and it is an entitlement mentality the democrats have been pushing. but most americans are self-reliant people. they don't want the nanny state. they don't want to be like france and other european uncan tries. it seems like president obama admires those societies thus the gulf between he and many americans. that combined with the bad economy has created the avalanche to which george soros referred. that's the memo. now for the

o'donnell. okay, thank you, jon and robin. we turn to chris coons. we have a technical glitch. our satellite went down but he joins us by telephone. mr. coons, thank you very much for joining us this morning. you heard christine o'donnell there. i'm not going to ask you about your halloween costume just yet maybe but she says you're ducking debates. why won't you debate her again. >> george, thanks for a chance to be on with you. we've had several debates just in the last few days. we had two yesterday and i think miss o'donnell who has now run for the u.s. senate in delaware three times has failed to ever put forward concrete coherent ideas, the number one issue facing delaware, how to create jobs and get america back on track, how to get us moving forward. while it is important for us to debate issues like the separation of church and state and the first amendment, i think it's more important for us to address the real questions that delawareans ask me day in and day out, how are you going to get us back to work and what experience do you have working in the private sector or working with the private sector? >> let's get into one of

mr. obama is doing. that's a significant drop from <8>. christine o'donnellwants to prove she is a serious contender for the senate. >> this election cycle should not be about comments i made on a comedy show every a decade and a half ago. >> trailing by double digits in the poll the gop hopeful spent much of last night's delaware debate on the offensive attacking the democrat chris coons. >> he will continue to rubber-starch the spending policies from washington. >> reporter: -- she couldn't distance herself from controversial statements she's made in the past. >> i'm not a witch. >> there's been lots of discussion in the national media about things my opponent has said or done that i, frankly, think are distraction from the core issues delawareans ask about, both of us about. >> -- on saturday day night life. >> it wasn't all laughs. they sparred over issues from health care reform to the military's don't ask don't tell policy. >> i would move swiftly as a senator to repeal don't ask, don't tell. i think it is discrimination plain and simple. >> i don't thi

mr. steele, $7.25 is the number you're looking for. >> that's the reality people are facing right now. >> good evening from new york, i'm lawrence o'donnell. as newt gingrich recently reminded republicans, ronald reagan's speech in 1980 was america versus the malaise. and this week gingrich unveiled his latest contribution to the campaign talking point cannon. his new slogan is, "paychecks versus food stamps." he recommends that republicans repeat the democratic party of food stamps and the republican party of paychecks. so republicans believing it a winning slogan have run with that this week, making sure americans know that the party of paychecks doesn't know. and doesn't care what's actually in your paycheck. last night on this program, republican national committee chairman michael steele didn't know that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. even after several republican candidates had run into trouble because they either didn't know how much it was or hinted that they wanted to lower it and some actually saying they wanted to eliminate it all together. since about 2/3 of americans support raising the minimum wage, you'd expect

. >> what a dramatic walkout, norah o'donnell storming off the set. >> unbelievable. >> good day, mr. for norah. >> this is like the live "30 rock" episode. >> just messing around. >> did you have to say that? do you think anyone was fooled. >> not by nora's acting. >>> you know jon stewart has his rally restoring hope, stephen colbert restoring fear. duelling rallies. steve colbert made a cameo on "the daily show." they started scrapping about whose rally is going to be bigger or better, and jon stewart called in the big gun. >> steven. >> yes, yes. >> "daily show" audience, look under your seats. >> look under your seats. what's under there? >> open the envelope, please. >> oprah providing fre transportation for jon stewart's rally stephen colbert had his moment, the show that follows mr. stewart's. here was his message to oprah. >> my grandfather had a saying, he used to say [ bleep ] oprah. i'm your oprah, look underneath your chairs. i am bringing this studio audience to my march. you're going to the march and you're going to the march and you're going to the march. everybody is

christine o'donnell is interesting an intriguing, is to the right of the general electorate. the full electorate. mrdent that he came out of the debate and did not hurt himself and went in with a comfortable lead. she wasn't supposed to win the primary and this is an unpredictable, strange year. a victory for mr. coons, but we'll see. >> jon king, thank you. >>> your next political update coming up one hour. for the latest political news, go to cnn politics.com. it blocks pain signals fast for relief precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol. another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix, taken with other heart medicines goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death, by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming dangerous clots. ask your doctor if plavix is right for you. protection that helps save lives. [ female announcer ] certain genetic factors and s

mr. coons, you have a one-minute rebuttal. >> i was surprised to see in the newspaper an interview profile of both of us. miss o'donnell'stement, pretty similar to what you just heard from her, that she would not have her faith be a central driver of her decisions if elected. and i'm interested if we can explore further your suggestion that the constitution would be your guide. i'm interested in hearing whether it's the constitution passed by the founders, the constitution of 1920, the constituion of 1930, the constitution of 1975, the constitution of today. because to me protecting a woman's right to choose, protecting reproductive predom and making sure that we've got on the record miss o'donnell's views on things like prayer, abortion, evolution, is important. these aren't just random statements on some late-night tv show. these are relevant to her service in the united states senate, what sort of judges she would confirm, what sort of issues she would take up. i'm someone who stands firmly behind the constitution as it stands today. i respect stare decisis, the decided case, the case law that governs the united state

mr. coons, you have a one-minute rebuttal. >> i was surprises to see in the newspaper an interview profile of both of us, miss o'donnell's statement, pretty similar to what you hear from her that she would not have her faith be a central driver of her decisions if elected. and i'm interested if we can explore further your suggestion that the constitution would be your guide. i'm interested in hearing whether it's the constitution passes by the founders, the constitution of 1920, 1930, the contigs contigs of 1975, the constitution of today. protect the woman's right to choose, making sure that we've got on the record miss o'donnell's views on things like prayer, abortion, evolution, is important. these aren't just random statements on some late-night tv show. these are relevant to her service in the united states senate, what sort of judges she would confirm, what sort of issues she'd take up. i'm someone who stands behind the constitution as it stands today. i respect stare decisis, the case law that governs the u.s. >> go to the issue of faith and politics, because you are a student pastor at yale, you said in an interview once t

mr. buck, let me start with you. you do have tea party backing. the tea party is a major movement in this campaign, sharron angle, christine o'donnell getting a lotelaware. the question is whether the tea party represents an extreme, insurgent political force or whether it's a legitimate political movement. what do you say? >> i think it's a legitimate political movement. what we're talking about are folks that are frustrated, that we are spending so much money in washington, d.c. and they're every bit as frustrated with republicans as they are with the democrats. the republicans are every bit as much to blame for the mess that we're in as the democrats. that frustration has exhibited itself in a lot of energy. folks are not going to try to send the same type of republican to washington, d.c. that they've sent in the past. so i think it is a lot more mainstream than it has been. >> at that point, there are a lot of folks, supported by the tea party, in the tea party, who say it's a mainstream movement. others say it is anything but. the institute for research and education on human rights and naacp are releasing a report this coming week. here it

mrs. a. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> we walked in, there was nobody at the reception desk. we said, we're here, we'd like to speak with ms. o'donnell they said, hang on a second. and over came a third gentleman, who was less happy to see us. >> oh. >> and he said, what show are you representing? i said, the rachel maddow show. he said, that's unacceptable. >> unacceptable was his response to you saying the name of the show? >> yes. you slammed her, ripped her. >> trashing, something like that. >> essentially, i remember classless for sure. >> we can't find the o'donnell campaign, and when we did find them, they insulted us and told us to leave. >> within moments of that happening, within moments of us getting booted out of christine o'donnell's headquarters yesterday, the great oliver willis popped up on our show's self-serving rss feed when he blogged about this e-mail from the o'donnell campaign. it reads, dear patriot, the charade is over. even the liberal media led by rachel maddow and keith olbermann can't cover up the truth. help me lead the charge against liberals by donating -- >> it's oddly flattering to learn that the o'd

mr. brown said. she is sitting there herself saying that he did. for christine o'donnellyou mentioned everything about how good she is. you don't mention the fact that she is just not qualified. what is wrong by saying she is just not qualified? sarah palin is not qualified to be president. what is wrong about saying that? she need to come back down the road. as of right now, what is wrong with saying that the woman is just not qualified? guest:hi, mary. we have a home down in your neck of the woods. we can certainly say that, but the truth of the matter is, when a man runs, no one ever says he is unqualified. what they say is he is fresh, has new perspective. people are far more likely to say that women are on qualified than a man. some of this is sexist in nature. the truth of the matter is, christine o'donnell, whether i agree with her or disagree with her, is no more less qualified than many men that run. very often, there is this pile on on women candidates on this issue. host: houston, texas, on our line for republicans. caller:hello? host: if you have your televisi

o'donnell is running a national campaign. she is trying to talk to the country, talk about national issues, sort of not even really talking about how they get filtered through delaware. mr. coons is talking delaware, delaware, delaware. that's the frame everyone is approaching this. in there listening to you and the other questions chris coons was getting asked, i didn't feel that was true. i felt there was a lot of big picture questions about difference between democrats and republicans, national questions that you guys here in delaware really are concerned about. does that seem right? >> of course we are. chris coons is a deep thinker. he actually reads books. in contrast to his opponent who is as shallow as can be and is floating on a sea of notoriety and chris along with his predecessor, joe biden, who also reads books, has a view and a profound view of what the world ought to be like and what america's role in the changing world ought to be. >> do you believe that republicans are more excited for the election this is year? >> i keep reading that's the case and i find it hard to believe because i'm pretty excite body this election so i can only speak for myself and

i think those views with o'donnell and others are too extreme for mainstream pennsylvania. >> mr.oomey, do you want to rebut? >> the extreme view is held by a tiny minority in american society that believe there should be no restrictions whatsoever, taxpayers should fund abortions, partial birth abortions should be allowed. he doesn't respect the rights of law-abiding citizens selling firearms in many ways. it's joe sestak that has views that are well outside the mainstream. >> i voted against mr. taxpayers funding it and you know it, congressman. >> you did not, joe. when you're being dishonest, i'm going to call you on it. >> may i have my time back? >> go ahead. >> congressman toomey, i voted against it. i still respect the second amendment. i lived my entire life, 31 years, in the u.s. military with weapons. i respect the pennsylvanians that go hunting. but i do believe that there is community safety that has to be considered. you voted against an increase for a law enforcement officer, but i voted against that amendment. >> the record is very clear and everybody can look this

mr. buchanan. >> and then you're glad to get him out of the house. >> pat buchanan, chief washington correspondent norah o'donnell back with us. and managing editor of "fortune" magazine. >> mika had a great panel yesterday. i was blown away by the power in that room. we've got the women up there that help run the economy and mika. >> exactly. >> we were in the guy ghetto. >> a few of us, and i got called out. there are three men. >> sheila bair, fdic, fcc chair, attorney general's office, and elizabeth warren near the white house. as they introduced, they said they hear me with my knucklehead sidekick. and then joe stood up and said "i'm here." >> a barnicle moment. >> christine barney assured me she could arrest him. >> the only one on the panel with arresting powers. she immediately called joe out and said, i'm coming after you. >> when andy ser remember puts on an event -- the president of the united states there. barack obama making a speech and the seal falls down. >> way to go. >> that was his carpenter. that was not a time warner carpenter. >> buchanan, did that ever happen in the nixon or reagan white ho

mr. speaker, one of the efforts by the democrats was to paint republicans as extremists, whether it was marco rubio, sharron angle, christine o'donnellebate told a different tail, but so does the new poll, that said that people actually think that democrats are more represented by their extremists than are the republicans. so, is that message falling flat, and again the extremist republicans, who you should be afraid of and that's how they're represented. >> well, the challenges when i wrote to save america, the submarine title stopping obama's secular socialist machine and the washington establishment, that seems like strong language, but most americans when they watched obama care, they watched cap and trade and giant taxes increases and lifted his radical appointees and most americans started out and that's pretty accurate and the result has been what you've seen. and he was a community organizer, he ought to be proud of the tea parties, they're all community organizers, they happen to be conservative community organizers, but they're out there organizers, the communities this week and in a lot of places they're going to beat a lo