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

pelosi. ( applause ) . >> reporter: pelosi moved into the leadership after 14 years in congress. first she had to break through what she calls the marble ceiling. >> they were saying things like who said she could run? okay. and then another one was, why don't you just tell us how you want things to be done and we'll incorporate some of those ideas. i said, well, you know, too late for that. >> reporter: in the end, male members were won over by pelosi's fund-raising and campaign skills. here is a startling number. since 2002, she's raised more than $217 million for democrats. >> the house will come to order. ( applause ) >> reporter: she's credited with bringing order and discipline to what can be an unruly democratic side of the house. however, she does seem to be a lightning rod, criticized for everything from her designer suits to her authorized use of government planes. >> those in favor say aye. >> reporter: but she says it's her effectiveness that rankles her critics. even michael steele, a fellow marylander, seems to agree. >> she's from baltimore. you know, we know how t

let me tell you, without speaker pelosi, nothing gets done. she has proved that we need to put more teachers back on the job so that kids have teachers in the classroom. but i digress -- senator feinstein, my partner in all of these great things, congressman miller, my buddy, a friend -- i do not know how many times john burton wrote us about this, but we thank you for your persistence on this. let me just take a moment to thank the person that i have called one of the greatest secretaries of transportation, is not the greatest -- ray lahood. you need to know about this man. he knows i feel this way about him. when you called ray, you cannot make small talk, you just get to the point. he knew about this because i remember i was with him when we were announcing another grant. he said, don't worry, i know about the transbay terminal. in other words, you do not need to talk to me about it again. he is a hero to me because he showed that we can work across party lines. lord knows that we need to come up particularly in times like these. i want to

pelosi was 47. and the mother of five. >> so a mother of five to a to member of congress, only woman in the room a lot of times, you talk about in the book. was it just her saying to you, you're the one i want to take my seat? how did all that happen. >> it's pretty much that. i had really not entertained the thought of runing are for public office. i was a volunteer in politics. i was chair of the california democratic party which i thought was the greatest honor that anyone could have to chair the biggest democratic party in the country and work with my republican counterparts. but when sala became sick and she asked me would i run for her seat that she wasn't going to run again, i didn't realize that her illness was terminal, but she said i'm going to spend time with my family, so will you run. it was a completely new fresh thought for me. people had asked me to run for office over time but i had five teenagers, it would have been completely out of the question. but. >> they were by and large gon

put the brakes on pelosi. replace betsy markey the national republican congressional committee's responsible for the content of this advertising. >> georgia is a long way from san francisco. 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 republ

congressman pelosi has represented the eight districts in congress since 1987. speaker pelosi is in her second term as the speaker of the house of representatives, making history in 2007 to serve as the first woman of the house. job creation has been her top priority for san francisco. she has worked to transfer treasure island from the navy, work to clean hunters point, and transformed the transbay transit center into a multi modal facility. speaker pelosi provided the first seed money to the project which allowed us to begin the planning process to get to this point, and has consistently worked tirelessly on behalf of the transbay project, culminating of the equipment -- commitment of recovery act funds. working with president obama, speaker pelosi has focused on creating american jobs and moving the economy in a new direction. under her leadership, congress passed tough wall street reform legislation to rein in big banks and protect consumers. historic health care reform is for promised achievement and she continues to be done energy, security to create jobs,

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

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

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 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

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

if nancy pelosi loses them 40 or 50 seats you could walk through the deepest confidence as nancy pelosid. >> thank you. >> neil: very good writer, by the way. meanwhile, lawmakers addicted to spending unaware of step one in alcoholics anonymous. don imus knows what it is. he's been there and now he is here. then the president scrapping the idea of bringing a business guy to the economics team. it has charlie gasporino asking if ceo is just not in his d.n.a. [ manager ] you know... i've been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i'd like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job. what i'm saying... excuse me? alright, fine. no, you don't have to do it. ok? [ male announcer ] notre dame knows it's better for xerox to control its printing costs. so they can focus on winning on and off the field. [ manager ] are you sure i can't talk -- ok, no, i get it. [ male announcer ] with xerox, you're ready for real business. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stain motion. sta

and jim marshall is a long way from nancy pelosi. jim marshall doesn't support nancy pelosi. he voted the same as republican leaders 65% of the time. he worked against the health care bill because we can't afford it. and jim marshall is endorsed by the nra, right to life, and the chamber of commerce. they wouldn't have anything to do with the nancy pelosi supporter. >> so the mid-term elections, a referendum on the speaker of the house and the senate leader? it looks like this, the education of a president, what president obama has done and hasn't, and what being president has done to him. and in the interview that was conducted in the oval office late last month, there is this quote from the president. mid-term elections, a referendum on the speaker and democratic leader. peter baker will be joining us later. on to your phone calls. danny in west virginia. democrat's line. caller: good morning. it is certainly a referendum on speaker pelosi and reid. and i've always been surprised that the democrats, my democrats couldn't do better than those two as leaders. but more than th

let me tell you, without speaker pelosi, nothing gets done. she has proved that we need to she has proved that we need to put more teachers back on

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

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

, a lot of house democrats trying to save themselves now, saying i won't vote for pelosi for speaker again. if it's a democratic majority. it's going to be an enabler for an obama white house, so i think that voters are sophisticated saying we don't care about seniority. at the end of the day we don't want the democratic agenda to keep going. i think it's interesting, two of the endangered barons, frank and kanjorski. >> paul: barney frank of massachusetts and kanjorski, the number within and two democrat on the financial services committee. >> that's right. they are in danger, not only in the history of the financial crisis, but for, these are the two essentially architects in the house of the financial services reform-- >> i thought that was supposed to be popular. >> what people figured out it's now a political failure along with a policy failure and voters figured out this does not end bailouts and it's interesting, those two guys are not getting any credit for it. >> but there is part of the wave going on here as you mentioned. in paul kanjorski's district. registered democrats

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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

he even takes a shot at pelosi's san francisco constituents. >> jim marshall is long way from nancy pelosi. he doesn't support nancy pelosi, he voted the same as republican leaders 65% of the time. he worked and voted against pelosi trillion dollar health care bill because we can't fourd afforded it. >> so could it force her from her post and do democrats need to distance themselves from washington to win in november. you know this is perfect example of how democrats are trying to distance themselves as much as they can from the white house, even some in president obama and harry reid and nancy pelosi. do you think growing pressure will force popelosi out? >> it's difficult to say. the we're seeing kind of an unusual amount of pressure on pelosi before the election from a lot of these centrists who are in tough re-election fights and realize there h she could be a liability. >> they take out these ads they are not going to support pelosi in the next congress. marshall says he is not running against him but he is speaking to neutralize by tying all these democratic candidates to pelosi. in

pelosi is from the same mold. this one from delaware, every time i look at your comments you have something derogatory to say about obama and the democrats, but meanwhile, you have the bat crazy lunatics over in the republican tea party saying all kinds of idiotic crap, and why don't you rag on them too much? is the fox noise channel paying you under the table. and this one, holy moly, jack, if the democrats want to scare people in return, they could put john bay for toehneboehner's ph billboards to make people remember why they don't want to vote for republicans. and nancy and harry will put the cap and trade on their own party. if you want to read more, you will find it on my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfile. >> jack, thank you. >>> president obama is trying to make amends with african-american voters and getting advice on what he needs to do. >>> white house correspondent suzanne malveaux has more on president obama's town hall meeting today with youth voters. suzanne? >> hey, wolf. the president's town hall is aim

to nancy pelosi, thank you yet again. what a remarkable effort. deserve an enormous amount of credit. we thank you. we are proud of you. this is a big deal. on top of

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

they're trying it with nancy pelosi. it is working.im marshall, my congressman is out there saying he's not going to vote for her for speaker and doesn't like her. you've got bill owens in new york doing the same, one guy in ohio. the senior citizens turning out to vote now 25 years ago remember jean kirkpatrick, san francisco governor's speech and it resonated for a while, this san francisco democrat. and you'll see a lot of seniors vote, a lot of them will remember '84, remember san francisco democrats and it's working. >> roland? >> it is nonsense. at the end of the day, they're using her as the example because she is the speaker of the house. the house has passed more legislation than the senate has passed. they're saying she is the reason why we're in this predicament. keep in mind, in 2006, republicans also held her up by saying don't let her become speaker of the house. so people are going let's remember a speech from 25 years ago, share saying she's a liberal leader of the president's agenda and let's make her target number one

to stand up to the president. >> and nancy pelosi. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no against their trillion dollar health care bill. >> and voted against nancy pelosi's energy tax on -- >> i'm trying to bring people together to make good things happen for our country. >> in the last one you have a congressman who's a democrat, an ad in his district showing him next to john boehner, the republican leader, saying, look, i voted 80% of the time with john boehner. is this the way you're going to keep the majority? >> well, here's the thing, we're proud of the fact that we have an ideologically diverse caucus. we have a whole range of >> but they're talking about the speaker. >> no, what they're doing is they're talking about independents on certain issues. issues where they stood with the speaker and the president, and the issues where they opposed the speaker and the president. that's their job. as opposed to on the other side where you have this ideological purity test, and it's being moved even further to the right by th

. >> speaker pelosi says you get bigger bang for the buck by food stamps, but unemployment insurance, a bigger bang for the buck than by giving tax breaks to the rich. you say, she is correct and you are in favor. >>guest: she states you get the biggest bang, if you put a dollar out in food stamps it returned $1.75 to the economy. >> what, wait a second, wait a second. >>guest: the tables i have seen have been consistent. people spend the money. >> if you take a dollar out of private enterprise and give it to the government, force it to the government and the government spends it you get more bang for your buck when the government spends it than when a private individual spends it? that is flatout wrong. >>guest: people will get it and spend it on things they need. on food. and clothes. and buying food and clothes employs people in the food and clothing industry. we know that. >> we will deal with the facts, the top 5 percent of income earners control 37 percent of the spending. when you let them keep pore of their money they will spend more and what they do not spend they invest and

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.

is this a referendum on obama or pelosi? you think and suspect as i do somebody in the white house is trying to help the president and blame her? >> i can't tell you what their plan was. we can look at this. the policies of obama and pelosi are the same policies. >> sean: good point. >> this election is about public policy. it is about all this spending. the american people know they can't spend themselves rich so the government can't either. we have run up trillions of dollars in new debt on our grandchildren. what have we got in return? more unemployed, not a better economy. they are terrified of the uncertainty that comes with financial services regulation, with obama care, are we gonna have a gigantic tax increase in january? every single thing that the obama, pelosi, reed, administration and congress have done they've all been consistent, all driven down the country's throat just with democrat votes and they are all failing to work. >> sean: isn't that the bottom line? people want government that works for them. what do

the secretary of the navy was there with nancy pelosi. i have to tell you, this has been the most amazing six most g six weeks i have had since being elected in local office. i mentioned doyle drive. we had our first, since being mayor, with nancy pelosi and the secretary of the navy, we signed an agreement with the navy. it is a public-public-private partnership. and number of those individuals are here today. 8000 housing units. 32% of them below market value. 500 rooms and hotel. the most sustainable brain development in the country. we have been talking about it for 20 years. we are now delivering on it. we are a few months away from finalizing the eir but the deal is signed. trust me, this deal was dead a couple of years ago. it was going nowhere. these guys started to panic, for good reason. now it is real, it is happening. 2000 construction jobs every year. you can extrapolate that out over the 10-year construction phase. that is a big deal to this city. hunters point, arguably, even bigger. 700,000 square feet of new retail. 10,00

you guys have to mic up nancy pelosi.epublicans will never take back congress if they see the nancy pelosi i saw last night at the game. >> john gould fought for this first place in line. >> a good time. three innings better than none. >> not exacy the sentiment of giants mascot lucille. if the team gets anymore pumped up, it might explode just like they did last night. >> there's people across the wa we saw and screaming at me right now. they'rgonna see the game for free for a few innings. if you want to get inside and pay, the price jumped up to pretty much wt the tickets were going for yesterday, about 400 to 500 bucks to stand there and watch 'em. live, rry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> we're getting lots of pictures from giants fans. barbara showing her husband and son enjoying a moment from last night's game. (cheers and applause) >> house speaker pelosi mit like it here as well. walnut creek after a three-run homer in last night's game. nate ellis sent it powered by youtube.com. >> a new car recall. is yours among the

in that same vein, i would also like to thank acknowledge our congressional delegation, speaker pelosi, senator feinstein, senator boxer, congressman miller. [applause] is through their hard work and their contribution that we have been able to get to this day and have a successful transbay project. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. now, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the mayor of san francisco. mayor newsom has led the way in creating jobs and stimulating the city put the economic growth. under his leadership, san francisco has become a hub for clean technology, renewable energy, and green development. during his tenure, development progressed through the planning stages to the start of construction. we thank our mayor for his strong support of the project and for all his guidance. >> thank you all. welcome. a small crowd for san francisco. this is rather extraordinary. that did all the thank you's. god forbid that i repeat every single name he mentioned. we have another six or seven speakers coming up. but i do want to get to the banks after it was not long ago,