well, paul equale says that... he has an office on capitol hill, which he says is the equivalent of waterfront property. and, you know, he is a member of the permanent establishment. he doesn't have to stand for vote every two years and he gets to play the game. and, you know, micel bromberg, our other lobbyist, sayshe same thing. he says, "it's much more fun to be the chess player than one o the pieces." >> "'mr.oakley spent some good time a couple of weekends ago with some of my members on a boat,' equale said. 'many activities that our members do are to make sure joe moakley is enjoying himself.'" >> joe moakley was a member of the house rules committee. >> chairman. >> chairman, that's right. and the rules committee in the democratic congreshad a lot of say over what came up and what form it came up and so forth and so, yeah..and so they spent a lot of time courting joe moakley. and i think paul equale says it's cheaper... it was cheer to do it on a boat in the boston area than to pay for a fund- raiser here in

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. >> and house budget committee chairman paul ryan, and a republican from wisconsin saying both parties share the blame equally for the credit down grade. >> and we were reporting a call for the top mannan, tim geithner, to leave, and now some news about his future. >> apparently he's not going to be leaving. a statement from the treasury department today saying geithner has decided that he will stay and that he looks forward to dealing with the challenges ahead, big once as though they may be. and a statement from the press secretary, jay carney, the president asked him to stay on and he welcomes the secretary's decision to do so. and others call for his resignation yesterday, as you noted. >> thank you very much. live from washington. some world leaders holding emergency conference calls about the stability of financial markets. part of it a reaction to the u.s. being downgraded by standard and poors but they are also dealing with a euro debt crisis because of a cash problems in spain and italy and a growing list of nation that is are trying to avoid financial collapse like we've seen in greece. deputies fro

was able to finish with a paul or an even score of seventy to stay in contention for his second major title however he is seven shots behind leaders steve stricker who equalled the major tournament record with a round of sixty three and could go even further shooting for birdie on the last hole st and it was not to be though bob the american in football settling for seven and two shots ahead of second seed gerry calenders michael roy meanwhile is awaiting the results of a scan but hopes to compete in the tournament. if it's assumed tomorrow and i know that i'm not going to do any more damage to it i would play. you know there's a couple of points where where i thought about not continuing but. as i said it's very important tournaments and i'm still you know i'm still even par and still in the hole so. you'll see what the results are tonight and if i can strap it up and play again tomorrow. on the ten is still both former world number ones from russia . and that all have been knocked out of toronto's scalp sort of fell victim to kazakhstan's boy a shock six three seven five defeat for this year's wimbledon finalist and she goes out to play rang just one hundr

. >>> time now for your "cnn equals politics" update. let's talk about ron paul.hed the win for the straw poll this saturday in iowa. what's he up to? >> we haven't heard a lot about him. he almost won that straw poll. only a few hundred points behind michele bachmann. his campaign out with a brand-new add today, playing in iowa and new hampshire. this special really interesting. kind of comparing mitt romney and rick perry to president obama. those are fighting words. and the top two democrats in congress. the campaign tells me they're spending good money to play this add in iowa and in new hampshire. and ron paul's people tell me they were really, really pleased with this very high close second-place finish in iowa. we're going to hear a lot more about ron paul between now and the rest of the primaries and caucuses early next year. i can't wait to hear what wolf has to say. >> i know, we're all sitting here to see what the president told him. now, though, watch this. wolf blitzer just sat down with president obama and he's asking tough questions. also a look beh

paul. she sounded an alarm that has great poignancy and significance today. she said, if we keep on this way, it will be celebrating the 1848 convention without being much further advanced in equal rights than we are. we should not be faced because this is written into the framework of our government. today we are 13 years past her worst fears. i want to impress upon you one thing. add your voice to the chorus, sound by sound, note by note, as we rise up in a symphony of voices and say the quality. and then we also stop violence against women and children. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. i like to get you on my radio show to talk about these issues. if she could just get a percentage of the tea party media, we could probably change a lot in the world. now i like to welcome shelley back to the stage, along with family. [applause] >> thank you very much. before i turn the microphone over, i get so excited having our past american future mayor, a really want to bring to the stage an incredible woman who helped me make that introduction, and i fail to do that. i want you to a challenge a woman from china to e-mail me and helped me at 3:00 in the morning, was always there

equality. that is my personal belief. everyone is entitled to their personal belief too. >> representative paul, you said you believe definingrriage is a job that should be left to the states. recently senator santorum asked if a state wanted to allow polygamy, would that be okay too? what is your answer to that? >> that is like asking if the states wanted to legalize slavery or something like that, so past reality that no state is going to do that. on the issue of marriage, i think marriage should be between a single man and a single woman. and the federal government shouldn't be involved. i want less government involvement. i don't want the federal government having a marriage police. i want the states to deal with it if they need to. if you didn't need the states really, why do we have to have a license to get married? why don't we just go to the church? why can't we permit them to do whatever they call it that is their problem not mine. so nobody elses forces their definition of marriage on you. that is what we have to prevent. less government would be better if you have to have regulations let the state governments do i

equality. that is my personal belief. everyone is entitled to their personal belief too. >> representative paul, you said you believe definingmarriage is a job that should be left to the states. recently senator santorum asked if a state wanted to allow polygamy, would that be okay too? what is your answer to that? >> that is like asking if the states wanted to legalize slavery or something like that, so past reality that no state is going to do that. on the issue of marriage, i think marriage should be between a single man and a single woman. and the federal government shouldn't be involved. i want less government involvement. i don't want the federal government having a marriage police. i want the states to deal with it if they need to. if you didn't need the states really, why do we have to have a license to get married? why don't we just go to the church? why can't we permit them to do whatever they call it that is their problem not mine. so nobody elses forces their definition of marriage on you. that is what we have to prevent. less government would be better if you have to have regulations let the state governments do

equality. that is my personal belief. everyone is entitled to their personal belief too. >> representative paul, you said you believe definingmarriage is a job that should be left to the states. recently senator santorum asked if a state wanted to allow polygamy, would that be okay too? what is your answer to that? >> that is like asking if the states wanted to legalize slavery or something like that, so past reality that no state is going to do that. on the issue of marriage, i think marriage should be between a single man and a single woman. and the federal government shouldn't be involved. i want less government involvement. i don't want the federal government having a marriage police. i want the states to deal with it if they need to. if you didn't need the states really, why do we have to have a license to get married? why don't we just go to the church? why can't we permit them to do whatever they call it that is their problem not mine. so nobody elses forces their definition of marriage on you. that is what we have to prevent. less government would be better if you have to have regulations let the state governments do

equal." the reason some republicans do not believe the payroll tax cut stimulates the economy is because it's not permanent. in june, paul ryan called the tax cut "sugar high economics." a spokesman for leader cantor wrote "cantor has never believed this type of temporary tax relief is the best way to grow the economy." david camp, also a member of the super committee told the a.p. "tax reductions no matter how well intentioned will put the deficit higher, making the panel's task that much harder." joining me now, msnbc contributor and "the washington post" columnist ezra klein. thank you for joining me tonight, ezra. >> good evening. >> we started this conversation on friday when i joined you on martin bashir's show that you were guest hosting, and we talked about this payroll tax question, so i'm excited to get to extend this conversation with you. >> we should have a tax hour once a week. >> oh, okay, all right. now, extending the payroll tax will cost the government about $115 billion. there's no doubt republicans are right about this in the sense it will increase deficit, but how do you score it on its stimulative a

it's not equal, we should stop pretending it's equal, they are doing ideological battle and it's not the same on both sides. >> i can keep hearing this from paulhat the problem here is the center. the problem is not the center. the pro been is hyperpartisanship and it's not about moral equivalence here, it's about that both leaders intentionally side stepped the gang of six and that shows bad faith in my opinion. >> the gang of six are out there, but you do us a disservice when you say it's hyperpartisanship on both sides, because it's not. none of those three senators, democratic, are as close to hyperpartisan, it's not equal. it's not equal. >> okay. all right. all right. we'll watch this play out. this is a -- this is a very consequential, important policy debate. incredibly important policy debate. we'll see leader pelosi's picks, we'll move on from there. hopefully they'll surprise us. i understand. hopefully they'll surprise us. >>> ta movie on the raid that killed osama bin laden might be in the theaters early next year thumbs down and asks if team obama is sharing classified secrets. that's next. [ male announcer ] this is the network.

victory over ron paul by 152 votes, however, her first place finish has led the media to declare bachmann a real contender. it was noted saturday night her vote total was roughly equal to the number of people who visited his blog that hour. but the real realignment in the republican race came with rick perry's presidential announcement on saturday. quick primer on perry, he served lieutenant governor to george w. bush starting in 1998 and assumed the governorship after bush became president. he was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006, and again this past november. he's run ten races and never lost a single one. the late, great molly higgins who claimed for george w. bush -- if american was only governed like texas, america would be a lot more like texas, which for perry could be a good thing. here's perry making the case in south carolina on saturday. >> we have led texas, based on some just really pretty simple guiding principles. one is don't spend all of the money. [ cheers and applause ] you know, two, is keeping the taxes low and under control. three is you have your regulatory climate fair and predictable. four is reform the legal system so frivolous lawsuits

equal to sweden. >> reporter: and so, last question: which distribution do you prefer? you can let us know online. >> brown: paul's next report examines the connections between the financial crisis and the growing wealth gap. >> woodruff: next, the unending aftermath of the japanese tsunami and the meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant. only recently have authorities acknowledged they misled area residents about the dangers. john sparks of independent television news got an inside look at the area around the nuclear plant. >> reporter: this is he end of the road. beyond a well-staffed check- point lies the 20 kilometer evacuation area, a dead zone that surrounds the fukushima nuclear plant. we were stopped, our papers checked, then the police waved us through. 80,000 people evacuated this area when explosions rocked the nuclear facility in march. vehicles were abandoned on the highway, shops were shut, with their shelves full of stock, and damage from the tusnami simply left to rust. we are now ten kilometers from the fukushima-daiichi nuclear plant. our personal radiation monitor has begun to rise, so we

want to you paul this is going to go through and you know you know as well as anyone else that i fundamentally believe that we need to cut defense spending but defense spending does not equal half of our budget exactly so it's kind of a big deal that if this trigger would be unleashed defense spending and investment spending would be treated as a. back to that same thing do you think that's fair why i think it's not practical i don't think it's ever going to happen i think it's a good pick let's be totally honest with each other here they are trying to accomplish this by the twenty third of november and the whole idea is that they will make hard decisions between now and then and i'm going to happen one of the things that's notable is that when you look at the defense budget matter how you feel about it there's a huge process q.t.r. the quadrennial review process the g j roc process which looks that threats versus resources and something called the g eight work up process now i've involve myself in all of these back when i was inside as a planner these are complex processes which take years to accomplish and no politician is going to do something to make a decision that wo

paul isn't one of them but the others that you listen to or well intentioned well meaning people but they're uninformed and there is a tendency that emerged during many decades of the cold war to equal weight defense spending with patriotism the notion that if you weren't supportive of the defense spending that somehow or another you were sympathetic because i mean isn't it hence unpatriotic and i think many of these people are stuck in a time warp and they're listening to the wrong voices they're listening to advisors who have also been with us for many many years who have personal agendas unconnected to the interests of the american people what agenda do you have why why and why you know you're not some lefty anti-war activist you are a colonel you're a retired colonel you're a decorated combat veteran i know your thing that you know well what am republicans going to take on well i think that's changing and i think that was the point of your previous discussion but i think you're going to see more of that in the future more and more americans are finally beginning to ask. questions but they've lived remote from the realities of war for war has impose no cost and no detectable cour

. >> ron paul came in second in the iowa straw poll. some are suggesting he's not getting equal other republican candidates running for the republican presidential nomination and i'll ask him if he thinks that the national news media has been pair to him, but we'll also get into some of the substantive issues. he differentiates with all of the other republican canned dads, includad , including the president of united states, when it comes to bringing the american troops home, from germany, from south core re, a he wants all those back in the united states immediately.re, a he wants all back in the united states immediately. i'm also going to ask him if he thinks iran does or does not threaten the united states. also nikki haley, the governor of south carolina, she'll be here in "the situation room." she's a rising star in the gop. we'll talk to her, as well. >> teenagers on facebook, do they have a right to expose themselves on line? we'll on that case coming up next. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aa

paul seem to not understand. all of us can use a helping hand every now and then. despite the myths, in our country not everyone starts on an equalld. i almost feel we'd be better off if some other countries, england, for instance, they'll admit you don't start on an equal playing field. the challenge for us, we want to pretend that's the case here. i almost think be more cathartic if we admit we don't start on an equal playing field. becoming oprah winfrey, opr

equality. that is my personal belief. everyone is entitled to their personal belief too. >> representative paul, you said you believe definingiage is a job that should be left to the states. recently senator santorum asked if a state wanted to allow polygamy, would that be okay too? what is your answer to that? >> that is like asking if the states wanted to legalize slavery or something like that, so past reality that no state is going to do that. on the issue of marriage, i think marriage should be between a single man and a single woman. and the federal government shouldn't be involved. i want less government involvement. i don't want the federal government having a marriage police. i want the states to deal with it if they need to. if you didn't need the states really, why do we have to have a license to get married? why don't we just go to the church? why can't we permit them to do whatever they call it that is their problem not mine. so nobody elses forces their definition of marriage on you. that is what we have to prevent. less government would be better if you have to have regulations let the state governments do it.

. >> when you have arguments from paul krugman who says debt doesn't matter, when countries start spending so much that their debt equalsycle. i don't think any country ever bucked that trend. you start going 100% of gdp. it feeds on itself. there's a crowding out of investment. you are working around the clock to pay off your debt and interest payments. it's a terrible challenge for the president. he's got to do a couple things at once. he's got to take care of the debt and grow the economy. >> you have to be an optimist with a capital o to think your children are going to have a better shot at doing better in this country than you are doing right now. it's a huge issue for the president of the united states. we feed off this. it's almost all negative. when you reduce it to the smallest size, people living ordinary sizes, no they can't rack up debt like that. >> jn king said when the fundamentals of the economy are strong, it's hard to say it's strong right now. the debt gdp ratio is a horrible fundment fumental to have in place. >> mike was talking act you have to be an optimist to think your children are going to hav

paul ii said america's the con innocent of hope. we were created under a divine idea, the idea that all men are created equal, and we want people to come to america. part of what makes this country as great as she is is the confluence of all of those juices of different kind of folk. that came from different kind of places. but there's a way to come to america. and it's consistent with the rule of law. and, my friends, because some folks, they haven't got the message, we've got to control that border. and i think you control it with a wide variety of tools. some places where physical fence works, you use it. other places where you might use a technology fence. and in still others you're going to need boot on the ground. and because that's an international border, some of those boots are going to be military boots. my friends -- [cheers and applause] we've got to also say, we've got to also say, quite frankly, that we've got to provide disincentives for folks to break our laws. and so we say no to amnesty, and we say no to sanctuary cities, no to benefits for folks who came over here legally, and we revisit the question of birthright ci

paul ii said america is a whole. we were created under a divine idea. the idea that all men are created equal and we want people to come to america. part of what makes this country as great as she is is the confluence of all of those juices that came from different kind of places. but there is a way to come to america. it is consistent with the rule of law. my friends because some folks haven't got the message, we have to control that border. i think you control it with a wide for 80th tools. some places where offense -- other places where you might use a technology fence and in still others you will need loots on the ground and because that is an international order, some of those boots are going to be military boots. my friends, we have got to also say, we have also got to say quite frankly that we have got to provide disincentives for folks to break our laws. say no to an uzi uzi and we say no to -- cities and no to benefits for folks who came over here illegally and revisit the question of birthright citizenship. i go back and think about -- i go back and think about what was the purpose

paul several times in "america's newsroom". do you think that he is not getting a fair shake for the way that he's presenting in these polls? is he not being treated equally with these other candidates out there by the media? >> well, i mean, i think the candidates have -- i think that he's getting a fair shake, but i also think that it spells good news for ron paul, and these issues -- ron paul has been championing these issues in regard to our spending and our debt and the fed, and you know, the fact that these issues are mainstream conversations now that we're having at dinner tables across america, i think that's a good thing and think that ron paul should be credited for a lot of these things, and you know, it all goes back to our economy and i think that these polls that show all of our candidates within striking distance of the president all go back to the fact that americans are not happy with the direction that barack obama has taken this country. that's what this is telling americans across this country. martha: there's a piece this morning in politico that talked about fund raising and it says that despite the fact that the house of representat

paul ii said america was the continent of hope. we were created under a divine idea, that all men were created equally. we want people to come to america. part of what makes this country as great as she is is the confluence of all of those different folks that came from different places. but there is a way to come to america, and it is consistent with the rule of law. some folks have not got the message, so we have to control the border. i think we control it with a wide variety of tools. some places, a physical fence where it works. other places, you might have a technology fence. in other places, you will need boots on the ground. and because that is an international border, some of those boots will be military. [applause] we have got to also say, quite frankly, we have to provide disincentives for people to break our laws. we should say no to amnesty and node to send share for cities. no to benefits to people who came here illegally. and we need to visit -- revisit the question of citizenship. i go back and think about what was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment? we need to be clear a