portman, mr. fisher just mentioned the hyper partisanship that grips the congress, and i think that all ohioans hope their two senators were work together. in this campaign, you have been harshly criticized by ohio's junior senator, democrat brown. if you win, how would you work with him, given your fundamental differences on trade and job creation? >> interesting question. senator brown is the other senator and he has been very partisan. i do not think in the history of our state we have not had a senator who was not running for election who has been as active and partisan in this campaign. i suppose that he is trying to make up for the fact that he chose not to lee fisher support in the democratic primary. i have spoke with senator brown about this. i told them i was looking for to working with him. he has said he looks forward to working with me. i know he is supporting my opponent. i spoke to governor voinovich today. he is choosing to leave the united states senate, but he has reached across

portman? >> thank you.nk you to the organizers for given the opportunity to give different visions. i chose to came to toledo to announce our campaign. this part of the state to often get left out. i have been back over a dozen times sent the biince. i have done this all over the great state. ohio has won a top-10 and implement rate in the country. we have lost some in the best and brightest young people. for the last four years, my opponent has been for lieutenant governor. it also been the governor of department of development appeared is responsible for creating jobs the. all of the things are a republican attacks. he will do it all night. he wants to distract us. the federal policies he is supporting. he is a strong supporter. he is not working for ohio. i am learning because i believe ohio and our country is heading in the wrong direction i believe there is a better way. there is a better way on health care and taxes and spending. they are helping getting private sector jobs that. i was born and raised

what about congressman portman? he would never know it by listening to him tonight, but here is who he is. he was a lobbyist for a foreign country. he was a congressman who supported the deregulation of wall street. he was bush's trade adviser. "the washington post" has described him as mr. washington. if you want to know who we are for, see who is for us. he has received more money than in either washington candidate from lobbyists. he is no. 2 in wall street money. do not worry, he is on his way to being number one because he will be one of those who leads the fight to repeal wall street reform. i think it is time that congressman portman took responsibility for his role in helping cause this recession. he knows better, despite his commercials. this is not a steep recession. this is a national recession. mr. washington had his choice and now it is our turn. >> thank you. mr. portman, two minutes for your opening statement appeared >> thank you. thank you for being here tonight and thank you to the organizers. i ch

portman. >> mr. portman, given the threat posed to the world by al-qaeda and the taliban, is it wise for the u.s. to begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan as president obama plan to do beginning next year? >> thank you for that question. we saw on tv that there are additional concerns, particularly in europe, about terrorist concerns. i hope the administration continues to view this as a war, because it is. president obama has supported and lee fisher has supported a withdraw from afghanistan on an arbitrary date line. this is what the military is saying. this is what the people in afghanistan are saying, including president carter said. this is what the people are saying all around the world who are worried america will not be able to protect them and us against terrorism. if we have an arbitrary deadline to withdraw, they will wait us out and afghanistan will be a safe haven for terrorists. it becomes a platform for another attack on our country. we simply cannot allow that. as we look at the n

rob portman has a plan to get ohio working again. suspend the payroll tax, help small businesses expand and create good jobs. cut taxes, end the reckless spending, stop the job killing energy tax hike. tell rob portman to keep fighting for ohio jobs. paid for by the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> bill: so both sides like that ad and portman does lead pretty big in ohio, correct? >> in fact when that ad went on portman had a small lead and since that ad has been on it's surged itemizes specific. 27 years this is record unemployment. specific proposals from the senate candidate. and less government, less spending. >> bill: how many of the obama people. you said 14 of the obama people. how many like that ad? >> almost everybody. >> bill: really. >> because it transcends politics and ideology. what the american people are asking for -- >> bill: they want specifics things. >> not just negativity that comes smashing down. >> bill: all right. the worst ad that you have seen surprised me. it's the christine o'donnell ad. roll the tape. >> i'm

now on the senate side they will probably vote for rob portman and portman is a pet project of mine because people focus on christine o'donnell so much and some of the backier republican nominees, port nunn is a very responsible, very serious person who is running for the senate. doesn't say any stupid things about witchcraft. and ease's got a huge lead, like a 15, 20 point lead. and what's particularly interesting about that especially concerning the joblessness there is portman is an ardent free trader. and the senator from oy is not. and portman seems to be cruising to victory even though he is for free trade and globalization. >> woodruff: that means more job kos leave. >> what all this means is people want jobs but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. so they are trying different things. >> woodruff: how do you see it? >> yeah, i would say a couple of things. first of all historically when times are bad, voters especially in the industrial midwest have turned to the democrats. and this areas that's not the case. democrats hold the state houses in pennsylvania, ohio, illinois, wisco

also, those numbers coming on the heels of the debate between the two last night, portman and fisher, exchanging barbs over the future of social security. roll this here: >> it's a sacred promise with the seniors of our country, and there are ways we can solve this, and i will tell you one of the ways is not to raise the social security trust fund as congressman portman did when he was budget director. there are other ways to do it. i know it's getting close to halloween, but i would ask lieutenant governor fisher to not scaring seniors about social security. he gave a more advanced reason tonight because he's not on the campaign trail but when he talks to seniors, he says don't touch it and portman wants to take away your social security. not true. bill: the straegy is dealing for unemployment and the fate of health care reform, that in ohio, the battle ground state, the hot political developments are at your fingertips, wherever you are, on the road, on the go, download our mention headquarters iphone app, or pick it up at the app store. we're making updates every day. if you want t

portman is a conservative. they tried the message against him. failed utterly.d-a-half ago. bush has gone and not top of mind. >> bret: but the governor's race, john kasich up 5.4 according to the average over ted strickland. that closed and that is important for this white house. >> hugely important. ohio obviously, center of the country, huge swing state in presidential election. part of the reason that race is closer is ohio voters tend to give their governors two terms. it's just -- ohio, political culture is very hard to get an incumbent out of there. that's what is making kasich's job tougher. >> bret: why so many visits? 2012? >> a combination. they think they have a shot to get that and they are concerned about 2012. i think obama rightly should be concerned about governors because we'll have restrikzing coming up. we haven't talked about the governors but democrats are in bad shape on that. >> bret: quickly, james. >> ohio and pennsylvania have a lot of vulnerability democrats in the house seats. don't forget about that. >> bret: you voted this week in

rob portman is up according to the poll, 14 point on the average. rob portman is an example of someone tied to the bush administration. former budget director. that line by the bush administration policy let us into this ditch. is not selling in ohio. a place where they traveled 1 times. >> it didn't work at all. if you look at the political environment. unemployment is higher than the national average. the stimulus hasn't worked. fish herb has been title charge of the state economic development. terrible thing to have around your neck in the political and economic environment. >> very quickly, there are a couple of races in california. governor race and senate race, where the democrat hold to slim lead. >> a budget gap of $19 billion. this is a traditionally blue state. brown has a surprise situation going on with the leaked voice mail. we'll see how it plays out. >> bret: log on to the home page of foxnews.com and watch exclusive report from william la jeunesse on what voters across the country have to say about majorñ÷?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)) >> bret:

tell rob portman to keep fighting for ohio jobs paid for u.s. chamber of commerce. >> the u.s.ads was one of the most positive. you liked it? >> excellent, excellent, excellent. >> you told me how bad they were why does that add fork wore you? >> he is talking what he will do. >> i have never seen that. i am from ohio. he's letting people keep their money i think we know better to do with our money than anybody else does. >> he was specific. he said the specific things he was going to do. >> he gave us solutions he told us what he could do not what he couldn't do. >> i like the positive message. >> i thought he was very specific. he said an issue he said what evidences going to do. i don't know what else he could do besides give you the actual word for word plan. >> i kept it positive. that's always a good plan. >> this is also from ohio this one takes a slightly different approach. remember this state just like nevada is suffering serious unemployment. this ad also tested extremely well. it represented how they felt. let's take a look. >> 1,250 jobs gone. >> ncr? >> yeah, stri

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portman or dent, orlando in cleveland all over 5000.t is an 18% increase from the week before. >> by the end of the year the total outlay for political ads is expected to reach a record $3 billion. >> fog hoping the coastline was the increase in low clouds and it's also cooler out there. it the cooler weather continues this evening as well. more morning dense fog cluster the coast will see fog in our inland valleys and drizzle expected as well as we head into the afternoon cloudy, cool and breezy temperatures along the coast 53 degrees, 60 in a loss in the locations. the changes come to the forecast as we move to the weekend you see the tail end of the storm that's approaching the bay area. another one on its heels. this what is yet to push through. as late tomorrow and early friday and is wanted to weekend. the stickle on future cast you notice in the afternoon of thursday staying dry said this will not affect the giants game 7:00 and the evening ratings starting to come in to the north bay coastline and overnight the winds will questi

at ohio maybe lee fisher running against portman there making some sort of a surge. you wouldn't see folks like ken buck appearing to be pulling ahead a little in colorado. you are not seeing this across the board. in the few races you are seeing more democrats tune in. this is not a major change. >> paul: what you see every year is a lot come down to the wire of there's going close sometimes they all break in one direction. they for the democrats last time maybe it will be different this time. when we come back the christie clones. trying to capture the new jersey governor's magic. can he repel republicans to victory in other blue states? [ j. weissman ] it was 1975. my professor at berkeley asked me if i wanted to change the world. i said "sure." "well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomi have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae a amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we're hoping to supplement the fuels that we use

. >> reporter: jobs dominated ohio's senate debate where rob portman worked to keep his lead over democrat lee fisher. >> lieutenant governor fisher seems to want to talk about the one game, what a great job he's done to win some competitions. the fact is ohio is losing ground. >> reporter: republicans appear to be gaining ground. a cbs news poll finds the gop is favored to win at least 25 of the 35 seats in the house now held by democrats. winning the senate appears more of a long shot but analysts say it's still doable. just because president obama's comments have become more heated towards republican candidates don't expect the same thing from mrs. obama. the first lady is expected to keep her message very specific, what the outcome of this election will mean for children. kendis? >> thank you. >>> the california gubernatorial candidates also faced off last night in their final debate. republican meg whitman and democrat jerry brown jousted over jobs and taxes but things got heated when the mediator, tom brokaw, asked brown about an audio tape released last week in which the aide used t

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arkansas wouldn'ten losing by 15 or 20 points and looking at ohio and lee fesher running against rob portman there making some sort of a surge. you wouldn't see folks appearing to be pulling ahead in colorado. so, you're not seeing this across the board. i think in the few races there, you're seeing more democrats, but this is not a major change in dynamics. >> what you see in the senate races every year is now a lot of them come right down to the wire. it's going to be close, but sometimes they all break in one direction, they did for the democrats last time. maybe it will be different this time. when we come back the christy clones, gubernatorial candidates are trying to catch candidates are trying to catch some of the new jersey mmmmmm. mmmmmm. candidates are trying to catch some of the new jersey wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. i love light & fit. with the most advanced engine in its class? that it has three cylinrs with dual overhead cams? that it has 50 h

work together along in ensuring peace and stability in the region i therefore russia is of kiem portman's i've been here . for you here and around the world. are cool and i think russia can make a great contribution in maintaining peace and stability in the region. thank you very much neal. and i've just been watching life common turns coming to you from honeymoon that amuse capitol where the russian president dmitry medvedev and his vietnamese counterpart. were discussing the key points in mutual cooperation well president dmitry medvedev is in good nam to seal the deal to build get now first a nuclear power plant and according to both presidents cooperation will also increase in such fields as telecommunications mechanical engineering oil refining as well as banking and outer space exploration well we'll be bringing you more on this as we're going to hear from our correspondents and we'll discuss this in a more detail. let's not take a look at the other stories we're following for you today and a georgian russia could be one step away from a fresh spy scandal with reports tbilisi detain

received $1 million donation from news corps, and put out tv ads such as this one for republican rob portmanohio senate race is fighting back. saying no foreign money is used to fund political activities. conservatives say this is the latest salvo by democrats who for year poured union manpower and money in the election. >> now all of a sudden it's an issue of concern that groups on the right doing better than groups on the left. >> crossroad gps founded in part by political strategist karl rove put out ads like this one against the democratic candidate for senate in pennsylvania. now the democratic senator max baucus is calling for the i.r.s. to look in the non-profit group involved in the political activity and not required to disclose doe nores. he wants the tax agency to example whether they're operating for the intended tax exempt purpose. republican senators orrin hatch and jon kyl also sent a letter warning that political influence should not determine which groups are investigated. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news. >>> the house ethics committee set dates if the hearings in c

. >> rob portman order for billions of tax paid preferred should be jobs overseas. >> democrats are poundingepublican opponents with this job message they hope will resonate outsourcing. on the air, >> jobs are be all source >> and on the campaign trail. >> you're literally one year later those jobs relocated to new york. in el salvador because of the structure and borscht. >> democratic throwster says his research shows that democrats are getting hammered with joblessness and bad economy. they are accusing republicans of outsourcing jobs. >> it is one of the things the democrats have to work with. people are more angry about jobs winter season the absence of jobs as they look rather committees. >> that is why democratic leaders aren't using the remaining days before the elections are pushing a lot of our legislation. by creating jobs and making it in american not transferring jobs overseas. >> a series of bills in the house. even one this week requiring american flags are made in america. and now in the senate, built-in tax breaks for companies expand overseas and give new tax incentive to

. >> ohio polls give rob portman a great lead. >> it is a tough time for ohio. >> tough times mean tough campaigning to keep democrats in power. >> in that new poll, 49% say the economy is their number-one concern. nothing else is close. still ahead, a tragic turn in the investigation of american believed to be murdered by pirates in mexico. >> she has become the face of education reform after a national documentary, but tonight, the outspoken top educator in d.c. is stepping aside. >> profanity-laced testimony in >> profanity-laced testimony in a murder trial bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. it's an american man believed to be killed by mexican pirates has taken a di

so we for governor endorsed john casic and for senate we endorsed rob portman. we had a mixed bag of democrats and republicans who we endorsed for the statewide offices. and we also had a couple of local congressional races. obviously, the dreehaustchabt one, and we have endorsed chabt in this one. host: do endorsements matter in modern american politics? guest: you know, well maybe both ray and i would be flattering ourselves by saying that they do. we certainly hope that they do. i mean, presidential candidates come into the office to meet with us. all of the candidates seem to be eager to get our emperimeter on their campaigns. if only to use as fodder in their commercials. to say the cincinnati enquirer or the pittsburgh post gazzzet or the philadelphia enquirer endorse you really will move some people to at least take a second look at you if they needed to be persuaded one way or the other. host: ray, agree, disagree? guest: yes. i wouldn't overstate their importance but certainly the campaigns are very, very interested in it. and in some of the lower level

. >> reporter: jobs dominated ohio's senate debate where portman worked to keep his lead over fisher.tenant governor fisher wants to talk about what a great job he has done to win competitions. the fact is ohio is losing grown. >> reporter: republicans appear to be gaining ground. a cbs news poll shows the gop is favored to win 25 of the 35 seats in the house now held by democrats. winning the senate appears to be more of a long shot but analysts say it is still doable. >> thank you for watching 9 ws

. >> reporter: ohio polls give rob portman a big lead in his campaign to keep a senate seat republican. >> it is a tough time right now for ohio. >> reporter: for ohio democrat, and for michelle obama, tough times mean tough campaigning. keep democrats in power. in that new poll by reuters, 49% called the economy their number one concern. nothing else was close. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. >>> the first lady will be back in her home town tonight. she has two appearances scheduled in chicago ts evening. >>> meanwhile a conntion has been found between president obama, and sarah palin. a genealogist at ancestry.com says all three are related according to the genealogist. the president and palin palin are tenth cousins through an ancestor named john smith. as for rush himbaugh, he and the president 10th cousins one time removed from an ancestor named chmond terrell. the company made the connection while searching for theamily history of political rivals. >>> a group that opposes same sex marriage wants to go to the supreme court. harry jackson filed a petition. he has a g

lee fisher and rob portman. watch live coverage at 7:00 p.m. .astern here on c-span > the c-span networks is available on television, radio, online and on social media networking sites. find our content any time through a c-span's video library trip we take c-span on the road with our digital bus and local content vehicle, bringing resources to your community. the c-span network is available in 100 million homes, created by cable, provided us about it -- a public -- . provided as a public service. he describes himself as an optimist and the leader of a new generation of labor. he

because he liked the ones we had done with natalie portman. >> larry: how did you come up with the wholeof digital shorts? >> there's a long history of short films on the show. >> larry: i know. >> when we came in, it was something we were well versed in. because we had our own group and we had our own website, and we had had a couple of small pilot deals. so we kind of spent a lot of time making short films. and specifically short music videos. but we didn't get hired for that. you know, i got hired off my audition and they got hired on their writing packet. but when we got here, we suggested, you know, we do this kind of stuff. is there a place for it. we talked to, you know, some of the producers about it, and they said, yeah, lorne would love that. we're always looking for something to play while we change sets. so we went off and shot one on our own. i think the first one was called "let us" and it aired. if you want to do another one, do a shot. and the next one we called "lazy sunday." >> larry: now, lorne, is there someone upstairs at nbc who does the blue pencil stuff? >> absolu

. >> reporter: ohio poll give rob portman a big lead in his campaign to keep a senate seat republican>> it's a tough time for ohio. >> reporter: for ohio democrat, and for michelle obama, tough times mean toughampaigning to keep democrats in power. in that new poll by reuters, 49% called the economy their number one concern. nothing else was close. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. >> the white house today said the don't ask don't tell policy of the military is running out. the white house press secretary robert gates said president obama's view remains that the ban on openly gay service member in the military should be ended. meanwhile, the defense secretary robert gates said faye abruptly ending the policy would have enormous consequences for the troops. yesterday, a federal judge ordered the pentagon to stop enforcement of that policy. the justice department is consering whether to appeal that ruling. >>> a group opposed to same sex marriage in d.c. wants to take their case to the u.s. supreme court. bishop harry jackson file a petition. he had a group that had argued t

rob portman in the senate race is significantly ahead of his democratic opponent lee fisher, an opene they will hold. and you have six house seat that is are held by democrats that are in jeopardy, including the one here in columbus with mary joe kill roy, the democratic incumbent. all the people are on the defensive about the economy and jobs with voters saying, hey, you democrats are in charge, why haven't you fixed it and kilroy over the finish line. those people are not coming out in the same numbers. the same question is can the white house and democratic candidates churn up the numbers enough to protect them from the fallout? the president is coming back to columbus on october 17th for one of the big pep rallies. and democrats here are hoping that can give them a boost. >> okay. you know the plant in maryland where the president was, a lot of people looked at that and said he seems down. do you think that's true? did you get that sense? was that a reflection of white house frustration over the economy? >> reporter: well, who wouldn't be down after two years of working at the pa

you see that in the senate race, portman has a solid lead and the house raid, 15th district of ohio whereis on the defensive and her response to these high unemployment numbers is to say, steve stivers, the republican, would take us back to the wall street casino days and what stiver's response is as he reflected in the forum a few minutes ago was, look, she's doing anything she can to distract from jobs and spending. those are the issues. it's not getting better. the stimulus hasn't worked. we freed a new approach and need to cut spending. that's where the argument is playing out and right now works in the republicans' favor. >> thank you. >>> president obama, of course, pointing out how important small businesses and entrepreneurs are in creating jobs. the president spoke less than an hour ago as a factory in maryland. >> small businesses like this one are the bricks and blocks of our entire economy. and over the past two years my administration has been doing everything we can to help encourage more success stories like this. >> "businessweek" magazine calls them one of america's most

why is it in the race for the senate it seems like they left bob portman alone in that race. i would think they want to get the senate back. they seem very fixated and focused on you. i was wondering, when were you running the budget and insisted on a balanced budget and congressional budget office numbers and no gimmicks in terms of accounting, you along with minchey forced clinton into -- alongbit with minchey forced clinton into the signing of that. are they threatened with your background? >> i o' >> i think they are. somebody as a reformer who wants to return to government as a last resort not as a first resort there. is something more central. the senate matters, the house matters, they are 0 focused on governors' races governors control the tempo inside a state. governors decide to a large degree what happens in terms of redistricting. they are very, very concerned about this. in fact my opponent said if you don't reelect me you really hurt barack obama's chances for reelection. you see it is the governors that are the people that really manage a state. my business is

republican candidate rob portman has outspent fisher by 7-1, according to the "columbus dispatch."candidates accuse the other of causing state jobs problems and interestingly here, chris, they did not get personal. let's go to the big showdown you were talking about. where candidates broke out the tough rhetoric there. it came down to a campaign aide caught on tape using a sexist slur. by now everyone knows the word to describe whitman. take a listen. >> we heard no outrage from you about the use of that kind of language, which to many women is calling an african-american the n-word. have you been in chanchrge of t investigation. >> i don't agree with that comparison and, number two, this is a five-week-old private conversation picked up on a cell phone with a garbled transmission. very hard to detect who it is. this is not, i don't want to get into the term and how it's used. but i will say the campaign apologized promptly and i affirm that apology tonight. >> i think every californian and especially women know exactly what's going on here and that is a deeply offensive term to wo

you have a bunch of senators coming in in rob portman, probably rob blunt from missouri and marco rubio from florida, those folks are going to be making deals in the business of government behind closed doors while we're talking about the quotable newcomers who are a little more brash. >> okay. eleanor, all this talk of the republican takeover in the house has set up big expectations. if, however, the republicans do not win big on election day, what kind of impact might that have on the republican party going forward? >> think i there will be civil war within the party there already is between the new tea party conservatives and the more establishment types. if they fall short of their expectations, particularly on the senate side, they're going to look at a couple of states, probably principally delaware, a seat that they would have had if they didn't go with somebody who was really a representative of the tea party. on the other hand, if they do make gains, even if they fall short of taking the majority, the new blood is thanks to the tea party energy and enthusiasm. they will have to

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lee fisher has a long way to go to try to defeat rob portman.ut the fact of the matter is that ohio is going to be much closer than is being predicted. >> bill: i have new polling numbers on kasich and strickland. it isn't tightening up. the poll on september it 5th was tight. 45 kasich, 43 strickland on september 25th. now today 49 kasich, 43 strickland. so kasich is gaining and obviously strickland is losing. i he will will tell you what, i don't think it's ideology in ohio. i think it's people going look, it's not working. we're scared so we're going to give the republicans a chance. that's what i think it's about. >> you know what? i wish that we as a party had created more jobs. but i will tell you this that people like me, we're continuing to push inside the democratic caucus to say we need to put our people back to work. and if the private sector isn't promoting the jobs, and this is where you and i may have a disagreement then the public sector has a responsibility to get people back to work, rebuilding america rebuilding bridges. >> bil

natalie portman, explain the connection with that. >> well, i mean, she was actually in college at the time that this whole thing started. i think there's a line in the movie where they're talking about there was a movie star on campus or something. but she's not in the movie but she was there at the time when this all went down. >> ben, "accidental billionaires" is still in book stores and "the social network" in movie theaters. best of luck with the movie. >> thank you very much. >>> new details this morning on how the next smoggy day could have affect your chances of developing diabetes. new research shows a strong correlation between adult diabetes and air pollution. last year, san francisco county had eight code orange days for pollution and the american lung association gave it a "d" for a grade. santa clara and alameda and contra costa counties got "f" for air quality in 2009 but there were some bay area counties that got passing grades. those are san mateo and santa cruz counties. they got "a" or "b" for particulate pollution. >>> good morning, folks. got to interrupt your frid

finally in ohio, republican rob portman leads democrat lee fisher by 19 points. we have to continue to check the "hardball" scoreboard in all the big races every night here on "hardball" leading up to election day. >>> well, republicans need to pick up ten seats to take control of the united states senate and they need to hold florida, keep it republican to get there. that fight heats up with big debate in florida. the latest average by pollster.com shows both marco rubio and kendrick meek trending up and the man in the middle, charlie crist, the governor trending down slightly. what would happen if crist were to take on marco rubio one-on-one? chuck todd is nbc news political director and chief white house correspondent, and also joanne reed is contributor for the grio.com and columnist for "the miami herald." i got to go to joanne -- what do you know of a possible pullout by the democrat kendrick meek to allow charlie crist to take on rubio one to one and probably have more votes than rubio to start with? >> there is not any talk with within the meek campaign.