cordes, nancy, thanks. the battle for the house will be decided by dozens of critical contests, races that could go either way. the republicans need a net gain of 39 seats to take control, and at least 77 democratic seats are vulnerable. about a third of them are in the south where in this election year, even many conservative democrats are feeling the heat. once again, here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: roy heron is running for congress. in his ads, he's a tennessee country conservative. ♪ roy heron, tennessee country boy. he'll save our jobs and guns. ♪ >> reporter: his anti-tax, pro- life, n.r.a. endorsed. >> oh, thank you. >> reporter: but he's also a southern democrat. >> hey, brother. >> reporter: another one polls show losing next tuesday. his republican opponent, stephen fincher, has beat up heron because he's a democrat. like barack obama and nancy pelosi. >> this is the party of san francisco and chicago. and that-- that doesn't represent the eighth district. >> reporter: for democrats, traditio

i expect nancy pelosi will continue to be speaker. it is going to be tough, democrats are closing fast. democrats are doing well. there are lots of opinions, but i'm confident that nancy pelosi and the democrats most importantly, will be in the majority in the house. >> will you at least agree al the real power is in the house? >> i agree you on that. >> >> sean: nancy pelosi, it is interesting mr. speaker, if you look at numbers and the ad that are being run in this election cycle, no democrats running on health care, stimulus, cap and tax. if anything they are running away from pelosi and obama. what does that tell us? >> members of congress, like anybody else they want to make excuses for their leaders. they don't want to tell why their leaders are on tv in a negative way. it is self-preservation. that's the only way they have to go. >> sean: al, let me ask you this -- wait. hang on, relax. >> he's been in ohio on west coast, apparently a lot of people like to see him. >> sean: here's a simple question: if democrats are so proud of

and jim marshal is a long way from nancy pelosi. jim marshall doesn't support nancy pelosi. he voted the same as republican leader 65% of the time. >> by the way, that ad was from georgia democratic congressman jim marshall. let's bring in our company. democratic strategist and editor of the daily voice, keith boykin, anna recox, and joined by former republican congresswoman susan molinari. do you think part of what's going on here, what we're seeing what look looks a takeover of the house, has to do with nancy pelosi? >> i don't think that's the issue here. the issue's about jobs and the economy. the american people are not going to go to the polls and think, i would vote for a republican -- a democratic candidate except nancy pelosi. so let me vote for republican instead. >> have they sort of been successful, have republicans been successful in demonizing her as part of what's wrong with the system that's entrenched in washington? >> i think that's part of what they are trying to do. i don't flow if it's successful in reaching people beyond their base. great for mobilizing

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nancy pelosi on the democratsic side. if they go back to campaign we saw both of them trying to go and get their tattoo on the story. let's listen first to nancy pelosi. >> nothing less is at stake than the choice to going back to the exact agenda of the bush administration or moving america forward. >> that was her interview with my colleague. she was making the point which democrats love to make that this is about the bush administration. we're going to relitigate that now we'll go to john boehner and the way he decided to describe what the issues are. >> the house finds themselveses in a state of emergency. the intuition does not have a break. and seems incapable of acting on the level of it. there's no accountsbility. there's no cons questions. >> i find it interesting neither one of them is being as honest as they could be about exactly what the situation is. but let's start with the nnsy pelosi part. the republicans have decided they can use as a battering ram to help get republicans effected. is it working? >> they

but true to form, nancy pelosi is having none of it.'t you worry that maybe you could end up instead of being one of the most famous speakers in history to be just a footnote? >> i'm not a footnote. i'm the first woman speaker of the house and have passeded the most comprehensive health insurance reform. i didn't come here about me. i came here about policy and the issues. i wouldn't... are you saying would i rather not have passed the health care bill so i could keep this office? never! never! >> osgood: next, e equals einstein. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. since our beginning, we've been there for clients through good times and bad, when our clients' needs changed we changed to meet them. through the years, when some lost their way, we led the way with new ideas for the financial challenges we knew would lie ahead. this rock has never stood still. and there's one thing that will nev

i expect nancy pelosi will continue to be speaker. it is going to be tough, democrats are closing fast. democrats are doing well. there are lots of opinions, but i'm confident that nancy pelosi and the democrats most importantly, will be in the majority in the house. >> will you at least agree al the real power is in the house? >> i agree you on that. >> >> sean: nancy pelosi, it is interesting mr. speaker, if you look at numbers and the ad that are being run in this election cycle, no democrats running on health care, stimulus, cap and tax. if anything they are running away from pelosi and obama. what does that tell us? >> members of congress, like anybody else they want to make excuses for their leaders. they don't want to tell why their leaders are on tv in a negative way. it is self-preservation. that's the only way they have to go. >> sean: al, let me ask you this -- wait. hang on, relax. >> he's been in ohio on west coast, apparently a lot of people like to see him. >> sean: here's a simple question: if democrats are so proud of

cordes, nancy, thanks so much. as nancy mentioned, president obama campaigned in rhode island today, but not for the democrat who's running for governor and that's tonight's campaign 2010 hot sheet. the president did not endorse democrat frank caprio who is running against former republican turned independent lincoln chafee. the reason? chafee backed mr. obama for president in 2008. on a radio show today, caprio had a few choice words for the president. >> i never asked for president obama's endorsement. he can take his endorsement and shove it as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: in response for that, a spokesman for the president said "this close to the election, emotions are running high." now turning to some dangerous weather. >> we are in a tornado! we are in the tornado! >> reporter: a storm chaser got a close look yesterday at a tornado outside dallas. it was one of at least two that swept through the area, injuring four people. the town of rice was hardest hit a roof was ripped off at the high school and f

house speaker nancy pelosi.re are some dems out there campaigning in the political fight of their life. they're breaking with her a bit. here is a couple of those ads. >> georgia is a long way from san francisco. jim marshal is a long way from nancy pelosi. jim marshall doesn't support nancy pelosi. >> i heard my constituents and they don't want a liberal running the house. they want a conservative. i'm going to vote for the one that allows me to represent my constituents. >> shannon: they laid it out there. pelosi is running the show for now. >> they sound like republicans. it's true across the country. nancy pelosi's popularity in districts like her own district, but very few others. if you look at midwest and south, she is not popular. this is one of the only ways they can save their seat. >> shannon: somehow the house remains in democrat control, how much trouble are the guys in with her? >> pelosi looks at this and says every man for himselves. do what you have to do to win. she has a thick skin. he may rep

congressional correspondent nancy cordes is in west virginia tonight. nancy, manchin got some pretty big attention with that campaign ad heard round the country. >> reporter: that's right, katie. and the governor says he has no regrets about releasing one of the most explosive ads of this election season. west virginias have never seen their governor like this, leveling a rifle at the agenda of his fellow democrat, president obama. >> and i'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. >> reporter: don't you think it's a little bit over the top to be firing a gun when you're talking about the president? >> i'm not talking about the president. i'm talking about cap and tradement it's dead on arrival. should be. >> reporter: the ad is a calculated move by man hin who may have earned high marks for his handling of mining disasters. >> the rescue teams are prepared. they're charged up, ready to go. >> reporter: but in ad after

and they were saying nancy, nancy, look, there's the capitolment and i kept looking for a capital a, a capitol b and a capitol c and i said i just don't see it they said it is right in front of you. one thing or another eventually i realized that this bufl domed building that they were pointing at was not a capitol letter but the capitol, with an o of the united states. beautiful lum necessary ent. and i don't -- -- don't ever see it today without being in awe of what it stands for. >> and you're the first daughter elected of a former member. and you did it, i know you said in the book your father was so proud of you because you did it without his name from a whole different area of the country. >> that's right. >> what would your dad say if he could see you today. >> he'd cry, i think, he'd cry. he was so in awe of sam rayburn. when he served in congress, he served with these giants in the congress. he was a new deal congressman. and then became the mayor of baltimore when i was in first grade. and when i went away to college he was still the mayor of baltimore. and speaker of the h

nancy lieberman, how are you doing? >> well, i'm hedging that bet. i love it.would, too, trust me. do you ever go and just play ball and hang out. i do all the time. and plus, in dallas with the cowboys, apparently, they're better at basketball than football. do they make you spot them points. no, it's competitive and michael and tony, we play a bit of basketball. those guys, they're very good. and i'm sure they're good. but you're one of the best that's ever laced up the shoes. >> no, i don't need to give or get points. we're out there competing and having fun. really, the best of the bunch is tony romo. that makes sense, i guess. >> yeah, he looks like a basketball player. well, given the way he's had to run around the back field. well, it's a pleasure having you here. thank you, i appreciate that. >> now, let me ask you this, we do a lot of these things. what makes your book different from someone else's formula for success? >> because no one else has had the life story that i've had. you're not going to find it in someone else's office. it's an unbelievable

nancy pelosi has taken it to a new level. if you want to create jobs the quickest way is to provide more funding for food stamps and have unemploymentens for those who have lost their jobs. it is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance. is that how we create jobs now in america? >> i want to thank speaker pelosi for being so -- >> sean: you're starting in. >> no. look she has been honest, give her a break. as a san francisco liberal she had the courage to stand up and say, i believe in food stamps. i think food stamps are the right way to jobs. i think every american who watches this debate can ask themselves the congress newt gingrich was speaker of which cut taxes, balanced the bunt, reformed welfare, medicare, was that the right way to create jobs? during those four years we not only payoff 405 billion dollars in federal debt. but we created millions of jobs. 2/3 of the people on welfare either went to work or went to school. or, is the pelosi congress with its job-killing, which ba

doing everything they can who say this is something who voted with nancy pelosi. if you don't like nancy pelosi, then you don't like earl pomeroy or fill in the bank. she is hurting the candidates. >> reminds me of what they tied tried to do to tip o'neal in 1992 during the reagan years. finally, joe biden today when he hits new hampshire after a stop rally in florida that will be joe biden's 100th campaign stop. >> yep. >> he is the energizer bunny of this democratic campaign, isn't he? >> the surrogate in chief. this is the thing with joe biden and it's not necessarily true with barack obama at this point. joe biden can go into some places rural culturally conservative places that barack obama might not be able to, including joe biden's hometown of scranton where he was a few weeks ago. >> that takes us, thanks. see you later. >>> that takes us beautifully to battleground, pennsylvania, where jbtd is known as the third senator because of all of his years in neighboring delaware. senate candidates there, pat toomey and joe sestak making last-minute pitches near p

speaker nancy pelosi, mayor gavin newsom. mayor said some mighty nice things about me, but i tell you -- this would not have happened without the speaker and the mayor. i had been navy secretary about 10 minutes when the speaker called and said, "can we do something about treasure island?" i went up and talked to her, and and i talked to the mayor, and it was a group effort, a team effort, and we stood on the work that other people have done, and a couple of those folks are here today. mayor willie brown, and my predecessor as secretary of the navy, both of whom were here when this process started, and both of whom live the groundwork for what we are able to do here today, so thank you. united states navy in association with treasure island began 70 years ago, right after the completion of world expo, 1939-1940. the navy took this over, and from these shores, tens of thousands of sailors and marines left the fight in the pacific in world war ii, and a lot of those sailors and marines who left from here, this was the last time

nancy snyderman, nbc news, port-au-prince. >> the grim picture there from our own dr. nancy snyderman in port-au-prince, the capital city where she told us late today, by the way, tomorrow the government begins a new effort to get people out of the temporary tents they've been living in since the quake ten months now. >>> on wall street today, the dow surged higher, then fell back to finish the day up, but just modestly. the dow gained 31.5 points. >>> when we come back, the story of two supreme court justices relaxing, getting to know each other while firing shotguns. you know it's bad when the press asks if you'd take a lie detector test. meg whitman didn't tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in california. she got caught in insider deals at goldman sachs. she changed her story about physically abusing an employee. she campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of 9 years was undocumented. her tv ads have been condemned as false and misleading. and even her hometown newspaper said meg whitman has demonstrated "a loose

with nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi can count on him. what about us? the national republican congressional committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> to think that the republicans are trying to maybe tap into the fact that people are unhappy with some of those votes, like health care. i think the economy. i mean, there's, no matter where you're going to go you're going to find a lot of unemployment. it's a heavy manufacturing area. we've lost a lot of those blue collar jobs over the last 10, 20 years. if you go to ashland, worcester, if you go to canton, you're going to find that same unemployed people, need jobs. i think that especially this year they're trying to find that candidate who is going to help them get a job and turn this economy around. >> i've been retired since 2005 but my company, the hoover company, has left canton. and 15 years ago, they started going to texas. ten -- excuse me. to mexico. >> so from 2005 to now, there are young people working there, husbands and wive

nancy lieberman who is like a basketball maven is telling you i didn't know the nba terminology. gi into meetings with koches. and they would say we're going to play the nail, the elbow, the boxes. we're going to glue it, ice it, black it. i was like, what are you talking about? i mean i was embarrassed. i didn't know what they were talking about. i have spent nine months learning the terminology and it's empowered me in every meating that i go into. >> susie: looks like you've hit a home run, nancy, thank you so much for talking to us. >> thank you very much. >> i just loved her, she talked so disarming, acts like a champion but really down to earth, easy to talk to. and i think it's so cool that she's now going to be coaching a men's basketball team. >> tom: it's interesting that despite all her success on the court and sidelines coaching, she still has something to learn and that's a lesson to all of us that you never stop learning. >> susie: absolutely. she had a lot of good tips for women and for men on exactly that topic. >> tom: heart of a champion. >> susie: that's "night

why isn't this contradictory, nancy? >> because what the obama administration is trying to do is say how zones repealed and they want it done through congress. there is a real risk from the pentagon's and administration's point of view of doing it through the courts. the administration's feeling on this is if you do it through congress it allows the administration and debt of defense to manage sort of when it happens. they can tie it in with the review they're doing on the implyations -- implications of repealing don't ask/don't tell. they can set the timetable and give it finality, not let it drag on for years and years in the courts and go back and forth. gwen: well, the president is leaning toward orderlyness and clarity, yet if he -- at the end of the week this whole issue is anything bument >> that's right. quite extraordinary at the pentagon. they seemed to be caught flat-footed by this injunction but the judge had said a month ago she would issue this worldwide injunction on enforcing don't ask/don't tell. so toda

go along with nancy pelosi -- they're out there saying "i didn't go along with nancy pelosi." >> that'sheir record. we don't have -- sometimes washington gets used to a rubber-stamp congress which was the very homogeneous congress of the republicans. we are very diverse in opinion, gender, generation, geography, philosophy and the rest -- house democratic caucus -- and some members did not vote for some the bills and that's their record and that's what they go out and say. i just want them to win. they know their districts. they are great communicators. very eloquent communicators to their own constituents. and they are the ones who will be the independent representatives. i say to them, "your job description and your title are one and the same. representative." so they run on who they are. they don't run on -- and what this is about, again, just takes it to the middle class. it's not about me, it's about the middle class. they know that. that's what unites us. >> woodruff: even if they're implying criticism of you in a campaign? >> they took a different vote, so that's a disagreement.

. >> florida resident nancy jacobini thought she was being burglarized. she called 911. she later found out an ancient from her bank jp morgan chase was breaking into a home to change her locks after she fell behind on her mortgage payments. but she was not even in foreclosure. we will be joined by her lawyer. two years into the recession, will we finally see a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures? and is to revelations that major lenders may of committed fraud and forced thousands of people out of their homes, a coalition of 40 state attorneys general is expected to announce a joint investigation into the allegaons. the bank of america has halted foreclosures across the country. senior congressional democrats have joined the call for national moratorium, but the white house says it is not needed. we will speak with a york democratic congressman ed towns and others. progress of hunter. a california man who is accused of plotting to kill employees at the aclu and the tides foundation of san francisco and its he was inspired by watching glenn beck on fox news. byron willi

bobby bright voted with nancy pelosi, and taken $25,000 from her.s responsible for the content of this advertising. >> bobby bright is a democrat in alabama where nancy pelosi essentially is a four-letter word. >> bobby bright one of the to democrat whose have come out in really a pretty intense and rather crude way distanced himself from the speaker. but, look, i actually asked her when they came back for the month and a half in the summer, home, ads like this were running all over the country, using her as the boogieman about that. she didn't let me finish my sentence. she says sternly this is not about me, this is about the country, about the party. >> let's listen to nancy pelosi saying, what? rung ads about me? no way. >> this has nothing to do with me. it is about our fight for the american people. i think that is the contrast that will be drawn. the republicans are there for the special interest, the special interests are pouring tens of millions if not hundred million dollars into this campaign to, to try to go back to the status quo that th

so i got to my computer and there is an e-mail from nancy saying i just sent you a check for the exactmount i was going to ask her for. so i was like oh, thank you francesco. we have an expression that's francesco there he goes again. >> you were on a role >> i took nancy with me to the cardinals residence and out of nowhere, i am telling you this is so dissent to me i said you know cardinal it would be so fantastic we have 15,000 homeless people in san francisco and 3500 are chronically homeless if we have a place they could come and be pardoned it would be so fantastic. i didn't hear about it -- the cardinal did say i will send it to the committee there is a committee of cardinals who decide these things and so i guess he did because three weeks before we opened the portuncula, i received this document from the pope. >> oh, gosh. >> making our little portuncula. >> crossing it forgives your sins. >> the first holy place paypally decreed in the united states of america. >> francesco and our lord did it they have very active and our lady intercreeds all the time. >> you've got some sou

nancy lee harris who is dan's mother in our new series "moms tell all."ls us we are among the first westerners to come here to the valley. >> the musharraf government is threatening to deport any afghan refugees who participate in demonstrations. >> reporter: for the past decade he's traveled the globe as an abc news correspondent extraordinaire. >> and you just heard correct. a new era officially begins. >> for for the last two months, i have come to know him as my co-anchor at "gma weekend." although he cuts a dashing figure in the newsroom, i had a feeling it wasn't always that way. so to find out how he went from this to this, i decided to take a journey to his home in newton, massachusetts. >> hello. >> i'm bianna. >> reporter: and meet the woman who knows him best, dr. nancy lee harris. tell us everything about dan. >> i can't wait. >> okay, let's go. both dan's parents are doctors but from an early age, it was clear he'd go his own path. >> it didn't surprise me that he would be on television. daniel from an early age liked attention. he liked perf

rudy hernandez. >> nancy pelosi said, "for different from a thank you for your interest to the area.tion from left to itself felt fifth of a future. with and if america will have to our culture and for a fee of 5 ref info for tonight from line are on a table of hispanic immigrants. fifth family and community are making america more americans. this is the essence of our history, to honor that character of america fifth we must path comprehensive for for immigration reform.

i think it is bigger than nancy pelosi. a lot of house democrats trying save themselves saying i won't vote for pelosi for speaker again. if it is a democrat majority it is going to be the enabler for an obama white house. voters are saying we don't care about senior we don't want the democratic agenda as it current operating to keep going. interesting, two of the endangered barons, frank and -- >> paul: barney frank of massachusetts and kanjorski are in danger. >> not only the history of the financial crisis but for -- these are the two architects in the house of the financial services reform. >> paul: that was supposed to be popular. >> it was supposed to be. it is now a political failure with a policy failure. voters figured out this does not end bailouts. those two guys are not getting credit for. >> in kanjorski's district it is 60% registered democrat. a poll last week said 60% of the voters think it is time for him to be retired. there's that as well. they feel these guys have been around too long. >> paul: let's tur

we introduced you to nancy.ancy was struggling with her mortgage payments, but not yet at the foreclosure stage, so you can imagine her terror when the bank came to change the locks on her house. in your instance, you do not have to image that it played out on this 911 call. stories like nancy's leading florida's attorney general to start issues subpoenas demanding documentation. matt widener is nancy's lawyer. he says to expect bombshell details once these documents see the light of day. what information do you believe will be disclosed? >> i think we're going to continue to find that what these banks have done across this country and the way they victimize consumers is going to fundamentally destabilize real estate markets across the country. i want to give you a lot of credit because you first brought this story to the nation's attention and about the same time, congressmanç allen grays has been calling for attention on these issues, but i want to make it clear that you brought this to the attention of ameri

if you're as powerful as you are and you are in tune with this district, why are you not stopping nancy pelosi? there's a bar being set for them that's somewhat higher than some democrats out there and they're saying, you had a responsibility to step up and you didn't. >> let's take a look at the national republican campaign committee who is running in john spratt's district. >> for years, congressman john spratt was listening to south carolina, but since nancy pelosi took over, he's become, the cap and trade energy tracks, spratt voted yes. the wall street bailout, spratt yes, spratt, yes, yes, every time. john spratt he's not our congressman anymore, he works for her. >> paul: you know, james, a lot of-- in the past a lot of these candidates who are culturally conservative, some are pro-life, a lot are endorsed by the nr, they could say i'm a cultural issue, i'm one of you, okay, in the conservative districts, this time, they could vote liberal on economic issues, this time, the litmus test issues are all economic. they're exposed. they don't get-- who cares, this time. it's not even

have had a hand in helping nancy pelosi retain her job as house speaker. sworn enemies politically. real irony. >> one of the weird things this political ason. thank you very much, brian todd. >>> he tomorrowed a senate veteran in pennsylvania and bucked the democratic party establishment. i will ask congressman and senate candidate joe sestak why the president and his formal rival are embracing him and whether he thinks that is a plus. >>> too many medevac helicopters supposed to save lives have been costing lives. we are going to tell you what is being done to try to make them safer. back in the 80's, it was really tough for me and my family. i was living on welfare and supporting a family of four. after i got the job at walmart, things started changing immediately. then i wrote a letter to the food stamp office. "thank you very much, i don't need your help any more." you know now, i can actually say i bought my home. i knew that the more i dedicated... the harder i worked, the more it was going to benefit my family. this my son, mario and he now works a

no one disputes you vote with nancy 97%. are you giving in to pressure from nancy pelosi to vote with democratic leadership on bills to do not think for southern nevada or you believe that nancy pelosi is agenda is the right one for southern nevada? >> i appreciate the question. those numbers are pretty silly. i like to point out in the time that senator heck was in the legislature, he voted with northern republicans 99% of the time. he voted with me 92% of the time. he would like to explain that to some of his supporters. i have stood up to leadership and i am not nancy pelosi or barack obama. people know what i stand for. i always coached based on my conscience and constituents and country. the things i have voted for are similar to the things i supported and voted for in the legislature and i campaigned on in the last election. i am proud of my voting record and i hold it up. >> since the republicans were in the majority during the time i was in the senate, she voted with us 92% of the time. she has voted 97% of the time

i was down in the carolinas, and they were definitely sort of demonizing and vulcanizing nancy pelosi. there was even a dunk tank. >> he was normally a likable guy, spratt, easily collectible, but not this year. >> he has done a lot for the district in the 28 years that he has been there. tying him to nancy pelosi, a senior member of the democrats who voted for cap and trade and the economic stimulus, that is not favorable for democrats, especially in rural, republican- leaning districts. >> he was so energized out of maryland that we have people dropping like flies, 36 people dropping due to heat exhaustion, and according to politico, he is going to be hitting the road every day between now and the midterms, either in person or via the computer, but it looks like he has got a big itinerary, massachusetts, nevada, pennsylvania, oregon, and others. he just wrapped up in philadelphia today with vice president joe biden there. philadelphia still remains favorable. we are going to be seeing them hitting the campaign trail. tomorrow, he is going to a state where he can help the candidates.