first lawrence o'donnell with different difficulties, and a science lesson from congressman paul broundoesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the view finder. >> don't say you weren't warned this would happen. we don't have it. we were going to show you i guess you can figure outs the etch-a-sketch tape of the romney guy saying we're going to etch-a-sketch thing. but the control rom room, it doesn't always happen. >> the woman fainted on the air and her co-host kept talking like nothing happened. >> are you okay? >> what this does is give us an opportunity. >> one person was unconscious while the other person kept talking like the last year's debate. >> everything is coming up romney. the latest polls have romney neck and neck with obama. >> which polls are the pundits' favorite? >> before the debate the majority were leaning toward pew and gallup, but look what happened last week, a massive swing. >> in7-eleven cull polls obama is up 20 points. >> the poll is polling well among pundits who no longer give a. [ bleep ] >> i call my was bias on 7-eleven. they have a margin plus and minus

. >> representative paul broun made those comments at a baptist church in georgia. the church has since removed the video, but the bridge project, the political watchdog group reposted the video. broun is a medical doctor and said cites on the house committee of space and technology. he is running for re-election, unopposeed. >>> volunteers from the yes on proposition 30 campaign gathered this morning in front of mcclymonds high school. the measure is backed by governor brown and would raise the sales tax and race income tax on high earners to raise money for schools and colleges. >> it's about the children. it's about the community. it's about time. it's about us having enough resources. >> opponents of proposition 30 were also at the event and they urged voters to vote no on the measure. if approved proposition 32 would severely restrict the amount of monies unions can contribute to political campaigns. >>> support is growing for a bay area gay teenager who was denied his eagle scout award. hear what some otherwise eagle scouts are doing. >>> a prehistoric found i

. >>> last time i told you about republican congressman paul broun, the member of the house science committee called things like evolution and even the big bang theory lies from the pit of hell. are you curious who else is picking up the slack for broun on the science committee while he's out there spreading his "planet of the apes" world view? dana rohrabacher called global warming a complete fraud. quote, we don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. could be dinosaur flatulence or, you know, who knows. might be tricky to square that with broun's assertion that the earth is only 9,000 years old. next it's ralph hall. in order to support legislation to cut finding for scientific research and education, hall said this about scientists who come before his committee to talk about the reality of climate change. quote, i think we ought to listen to them. i just don't think we ought to mind them. that's a thinker. their colleague, jim sensenbrenner, has called the idea of climate change an international conspiracy and scientific fascism. heard enough? don't forget about todd ak

. >>> that's paul broun. the republican leadership put him on the committee that is responsible for science. science, space and technology. >> i've come to understand that all that stuff i was taught about evolution and embryology and big bang theory t is lies straight from the pit of hell and it's lies to try and keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. you see, there are a lot of scientific data that i found out as a scientist that actually showed that this is really a young earth. i don't believe that the earth's but been 9,000 years old. i believe it was created in six days as we know them. that's what the bible says. and that's the reason as your congressman i hold the holy bible as being the major directions to me of how i vote in washington, d.c. and i'll continue to do that. >> this is a person who is actively involved in shaping science policy in america. congressman broun's office responded. he was speaking off the record to a church group about his

georgia republican paul broun, a medical doctor, gave a sermon at a baptist church last month and addressedhe issue of evolution. >> i've come to understand that all that stuff i was taught about evolution, embryology, big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. and it's lies to try to keep me and the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. there are a lot of scientific data that i found out as a scientist that actually showed that this is really a young earth. i don't believe that the earth has been around 9,000 years. i believe it was created in six days as we know them. >> well, bill nye the science guy had this to say in response to congressman broun's comments. quote, since the economic future of the united states depends on our tradition of technological innovation, representative broun's views are not in the national interest. he is by any measure, unqualified to make decisions about science, space, and technology. wow. ready for something really scary? one of broun's cohorts is todd akin who holds the theory that women can prevent

the town is represented in congress by one of its most conservative members, paul broun. 99% conservative, he disputes everything on science says on how earth and humans became to be. listen to him at a speech last month at the liberty baptist church. >> all the stuff i was taught about evolution and big bang theory and all that is straight from the pit. >> broun says the earth is only 9,000 years old which lines up with christian's literal approach. he is a medical doctor and sits on the house committee on science, space and technology is challenging what the scientific world has deemed to be fact. >> very much like saying you think that the earth is flat. it's not flat. you can show that, you can prove that to yourself. to claim that it's 9,000 years is not off a million years, but off by a factor of a million. that is extraordinarily wrong. >> reporter: tv personalty and scientist bill nie says the earth is 4.5 billion years old. nie says we know that because of something called radiometric dating that determines the age of ast troidz and we can also look at fossils and the layering of

bowles-simpson which can we can squabble about who exactly, what obama should have done, whether paul broun should've voted for. whether -- there was a moment where it something could happen, but it didn't. i would be wary generalizing the last 10 years, to say the preceding 20 years would've been the model. and they do think that the system isn't so broken or so partisan that one couldn't have more like what we had in the '80s and '90s on a whole bunch of issues. and i think this really does to get to the original topic of the panel, the more i've thought about this just sitting, presidential leadership, skillful presidential leadership and real practical leadership as was rhetorical. i mean will be very, very important to i do believe you could to immigration reform in 2013. i don't think it's really a huge substantive disagreement about that. [talking over each other] >> for the right piece of legislation, but is anyone going to step up and do that? and you could imagine 2013 it would resolve a lot of these issues. that is what a lot of these issues that seem a tractable. but it does req

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