ja what do you think of sestak?t to stay in the house of representatives. look, i want to talk about myself in this campaign. i want to talk about what i've done for jobs in pennsylvania. >> right. >> increased funding for health care, education, environmental protection, the experience i have had touching all 67 counties. listen, i have been in a lot of tough campaigns, and i'm ready for another. i'm ready to take on all comers. it's nice to have president obama and vice president biden and governor rendell all endorsing me, but i'm taking my case to the people. that's what i have always done and i'm going to do it again. >> you said you wanted, senator, to talk about yourself. let's talk about you politically. last year you were campaigning with mccain and palin. did you vote for them? >> yes, sir. >> what do you say now about your choice? do you think it was a good choice at the time? seriously, as a voter, as an american, as a pennsylvanian, do you think they would have been a better choice than what we have now

i don't think joe sestak is. ways on the second amendment. that's an important culture issue in pennsylvania where i am definitely on the right side of this issue. i think right now the issue that's most important to people is the economy. it's jobs. that's always been my focus. i'm a guy that came from the private sector, a guy that actually worked in the real world before going to congress where i sat on the budget committee and focused on economics and budgetary issues. i think that is by far and away the most important issue on the minds of voters. it's exactly what i'm prepared to address and i think it's going to work very well to my advantage. >> how do you think arlen specter votes in the voting booth? did he vote the last 30 years as a republican in the privacy of the voting booth or did he vote secretly for the democrats or what? what's your sense knowing the guy all these years? what is he really? >> chris, i don't know that he has a real core. i think he is whatever he needs to be at any given moment

it's not about joe sestak, it's not about our job. it's about americans. it's about everyone having the same quality health care my daughter did at 4 years old when she had a brain tumor and the military has tricare. that's the soul reason i got in politics, so everyone would have that opportunity. principle must triumph over politics today on this issue, and no longer can we have people worried about political calculation and their job. those senators should be down there, being led by the majority leader, senator reid, fighting for public health care plan option, because it's good for the pocketbook. it's good for the economy, and overall access for all is good for americans. that's what we really need. and what this is all about. >> congressman, i know your 4-year-old daughter had a brain tumor. she's now 8 years old and doing very, very well. he has gone through hell and survived and conquered this thing. with that in mind, will you vote for anything that doesn't have the public option? is the co-op a possible alternative if the president of the united

some of us are rooting for you, congressman sestak. you're running . why don't you take out these planes. >> what about. >> it i said the four requested should not be in there. the original four are the only ones i support. >> voters don't want half a loaf. they want the whole loaf. >> dennis -- >> julie, if i can. >> if i can jump in, from what i understand, general petraeus does not need to get on a first class commercial flight if he needs to be somewhere quickly. those are the four planes the pentagon requested. frank frankly general petraeus unlike citigroup doesn't need to be out of iraq in a hurry needs have private planes to get somewhere. i am fully supportive of our military and leadership getting somewhere. >> when did any general not have a plane when they needed it? >> apparently now. >> it's ridiculous. this comes down to leadership. nancy pelosi gets on planes, private jets all the time. murtha would like to do the same exact thing and the president of the united states of america decides to get on these types of planes to go to chicago

congressman joe sestak oosh he's been to 67 counties already.ends to announce tomorrow morning. he's going to run against specter and bring democracy back to where it began in philly. it's going to be a real race in "the politics fix." this is "hardball" only on msnbc. op what's going on out in the country. it's getting wilder. you can't hold a town meeting. the ones who aren't going on vacation are going to find a lot of anger out there on health care. we've been watching the pictures. they're continuing to burn out there. "hardball" comes back to talk about it in "the politics fix." with rheumatoid arthritis, it seems like my life is split in two. there's the life i live. and the life i want to live. fortunately, there's enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop joint damage. because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma and nervous system... and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enb

joe sestak is challenging him in the primary.oken with democratic colleagues by saying he doesn't think anybody there is organized. he thinks this is manufactured outrage. there is a deep strain of anxiety and anger about all of this. it's nice that his didn't degenerate into a riot as some have. but you do hear still the outrage. steve: there is frustration. they are passionate about what they are talking about. brian: especially in pennsylvania. by the way, a lot of people think that some the anger that senator arlen specter is getting he was a republican when elected and has become a democrat. joe sestak says i have been a democrat the whole time. he will be joining us in five minutes. steve: we are going to play for you the sound bite. this is an eye opener, too. here he is yesterday. >> i told your office and i was told -- >> traditionally people who come to town meetings are people who have objections, something to complain about. i emphasize they may not be representative of america but they are significant and their views

we had congressman sestak on this show.hat he said about you. >> is he a good enough democrat? >> i'm not sure he's a democrat yet. what i need to know is what are the principles you're running for? >> he is suggesting you were running from the democrat party and he wasn't sure you were a democrat. >> i've been voting more with the democrats all during my ten tour. pro-choice, support a woman's right to choose. i broke with bush on embryonic stem-cell research and the nuclear test band treaty. president obama thinks that my principles and values are right in line with his which is why he's backing me. and joe biden and ed rendell when congressman sestak starts to throw stones, he lives in a big glass house. the guy has the worst voting record in the congress from the pennsylvania delegation. he's missed 104 votes this year. he talks about his military record. if he was still in the service, he would be court-martialed. he's been awol, absent without leave. i'd rather talk about the issues, but if congressman sestak wants to

sestak.when president obama said he would support me and -- vice president joe biden, i did not ask that the field be cleared, it was not discussed. i am ready to take on all comers and i will stand behind my votes won by one. i don't believe in these statistical generalizations. s make about a vote, and i will tell you what i did what i did. >> i have a question that disorder related to that. you have been in office and public service for a really long time. and i think that in the last administration, you kind of did have to look over your right shoulder. it so, what i wondered was, in a positive sense, what progress a position can we expect to see out of you that you kind of could not give in to your natural instincts previously? what can we see you taking a leadership position on? >> let me refer to the town hall meetings. i am out there fighting for president obama health care plan and nobody and the democratic caucus has been out there with four town meetings. nobody has done it. [appla

congressman and senate candidate and retired vice admiral joe sestak will join us in a moment. plus there is a dot connecting revelation to share with us in a special report, and i have ended up in a christian broadcasting network news story. it goes about as well as you might expect. which is to say it goes very, very poorly. that is all coming up. but first time for a couple holy mackerel stories in today's news. as we have reported recently, many republican officials have enthusiastically embraced the conspiracy theory that health care reform is a secret plot to kill old people. health reform really isn't a secret plot to kill old people. the part of the house bill cited by the conspiratists to supposedly prove their point actually says medicare will cover consultations about living wills, advanced directives. if patients want to talk to their own doctors about what they want to happen at the end of their own life. that's it. but that hasn't stopped people like republican senator chuck grassley of iowa, the top republican on health care in the senate who said "we should not

democratic congressman and senate challenger joe sestak stops by and u.s.ews and world reporter peter roth and ryan ellis and tim martin and del castilla will be with us. chuck todd is at the white house in addition and richard engel will report live from us from afghanistan. >>> recovery crews resumed operations this morning following tragic mid air collision over the hudson river. nine people were killed in the disaster involving a private plane and tourist helicopter. >>> predawn bombings in iraq killed 40 people. the blast are the latest major round of attack since u.s. forces withdrew from iraq's urban areas in june. >>> pennsylvania authorities say the man who killed three women and himself during a shooting rampage was questioned by police a week before the massacre took place. george sodini matched the description of a man pulled a gun out of a computer bag but let go when the witness could not positively identify him. >>> mark lester told a british tabloid he, in fact, could be the biological father to paris jackson. >> michael jackson in a private

joe, we're going to have you back, congressman sestak. thank you so much, i love your spirit and your fire on this, thanks so much. >> glad to be here. >> we should point out that the day i went on vacation, in the house, nancy pelosi guaranteed those who were supporting single-payer, that she will bring it up for debate before anything comes out of the house. so can we say that single-payer is still alive? i guess we'd have to legislatively. next on "the ed show," senator john mccain said this country needs some straight talk about health care. i think you might sneed a straight jacket after hearing his rant on bipartisanship. this is my verizon small business specialist, tom. now, i know the catering business but when i walked in here i wasn't sure what i needed. i'm not sure what i need. tom showed me how to use mifi to get my whole team working online, on location. i was like, "woah". only verizon wireless has small business specialists in every store to help you do business better. you're like my secret ingredient. come in today and

sestak. when president obama said he would support me and -- vice president joe biden, i did not ask that the field be cleared, it was not discussed. i am ready to take on all comers and i will stand behind my votes won by one. i don't believe in these statistical generalizations. s make about a vote, and i will tell you what i did what i did. >> i have a question that disorder related to that. you have been in office and public service for a really long time. and i think that in the last administration, you kind of did have to look over your right shoulder. it so, what i wondered was, in a positive sense, what progress a position can we expect to see out of you that you kind of could not give in to your natural instincts previously? what can we see you taking a leadership position on? >> let me refer to the town hall meetings. i am out there fighting for president obama health care president obama health care plan nobody has done it, and if i could -- [cheers and applause] if i could to my o

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congressman joe sestak joins us from philadelphia. you were admiral in the navy working at the pentagon at the time. what do you make of this? this is in the book, by the way. it's not put out by some publicist. it's in the text of the book. tom ridge, former u.s. congressman, former combat veterans of vietnam, all kinds of awards as a warrior, he's real. what do you make of this? >> he is real, and this is a disappointment, that the security of the united states can become a political football is unacceptable. on the bigger picture, when you see that we have had an administration that politicized everything from attorney general's elections over to intelligence and the selection of it to go into a war, you begin to understand rapidly why, one, people really do believe even if they don't know tom ridge, why this is probably true, and, second, why so many have lost faith in washington, d.c., and their politicians. where principle is after politics. >> do you have a sense as a military guy and as a political i go now how politics does p

arlen specter, the incumbent, joe sestak, and republican pat toomey who has outpolled specter in earlierublican polls and now that

>> well, actually i think it's sestak who deserves that cue dough. specter has got a huge lead in the nps right now. >>> now the old rule that politics make strange bed fellows, make that surf mates. republican congressman dana rohrabacher who is from out there along with massachusetts congressman barney frank. rohrabacher told politico he invite ed frank and his partner and set them up at a surfer's hotel because frank's partner is a suffer and frank will, quote, probably have to lie on the beach like a whale. >>> mitt romney is coming out a book. the once and most likely future presidential candidate has inked a deal to public "no apology." an apparent reach by the well-born romney for the soddy buster vote. i think we should make these guys write these books in public at some starbucks so we can watch them write them instead of ghost writing them. i think obama is the only politician in modern history to write his own book. >>> 7 republicans out of 40 republicans in the senate voted for judge sotomayor today. out of the six republicans retires nex

for example, when general petraeus tries to go from one place to another you get around quickly >> sestakapologize for interrupting but i must point out i feel you are missing the big issue, diverting into detail. what kind of private jet it was you guys look bad on this and for criticizing the banks and car guys for a private jet when you insist on private jets. i got three words for you, first class air fare. what's so bad about that? >> i'm not going to defend lawmakers using them but i will defend that gentlemen and gentlewomen like general petraeus whose time is of essence in a war that those men and women do need rapid transport between certain areas. i will not defend lawmakers using them, but i will defend those four-star generals and i will defend the secretary of defense that needs to use their time to get to certain places rapidly. that's why the defense department requested four, not eight. >> turning to the other congressman, republican. i believe the defense department said these jets were not needed. they didn't need them, right? >> no, only four they said were needed. >> d

sestak.hen president obama said he would support me and -- vice president joe biden, i did not ask that the field be cleared, it was not discussed. i am ready to take on all comers and i will stand behind my votes won by one. i don't believe in these statistical generalizations. s make about a vote, and i will tell you what i did what i did. >> i have a question that disorder related to that. you have been in office and public service for a really long time. and i think that in the last administration, you kind of did have to look over your right shoulder. it so, what i wondered was, in a positive sense, what progress a position can we expect to see out of you that you kind of could not give in to your natural instincts previously? what can we see you taking a leadership position on? >> let me refer to the town hall meetings. i am out there fighting for president obama health care plan and nobody and the democratic caucus has been out there with four town meetings. nobody has done it. [applau

congressman joe sestak -- he's been to 67 counties already.i think it's fair to say he intends to announce tomorrow morning. he's going to run against specter and bring democracy back to where it began in philly. it's going to be a real race in "the politics fix." this is "hardball" only on msnbc. ever worn your clothes in the shower? if you're using other moisturizing body washes, you might as well be. you see, their moisturizer sits on top of skin, almost as if you're wearing it. only new dove deep moisture has nutriummoisture, a breakthrough formula with natural moisturizers... that can nourish deep down. it's the most effective natural nourishment ever. new dove deep moisture with nutriummoisture. superior natural nourishment for your skin. >>> what's going on out in the country. it's getting wilder. you can't hold a town meeting. the ones who aren't going on vacation are going to find a lot of anger out there on health care. we've been watching the pictures. they're continuing to burn out there. "hardball" comes back to talk about it in "

. >> i do think he is in a tough race, and joe sestak, his challenger, missed a golden opportunity to commend him for his handling of it. there is no question that all week long, the democrats have been on the defensive. they emphasize the positive meetings that have worked, three out of four, they insist, being good meetings without this kind of pyrotechnics. but i do think that the white house has come back by reclaiming and rebounding -- rebutting the most egregious errors. but politically, it is very tough. >> how did the white house get behind the curve on this? >> the republicans had planned and implemented it instantly. i plan to get their people at these town hall meetings and message them in advance so that they were armed with the questions they were going to ask. it is a surprise, again, at the white house is behind. this seems to be a recurring pattern. they are about a week late. i agree with mark that they are coming back pretty strong this week. whether they can turn the whole corner remains to be seen. when it comes to arlen specter, i think he helped himself in the de

i think that joe says jack -- joe sestak, the challenger, mr. gould and opportunity to commend him for his handling of it. -- missed a golden opportunity to commend him for his handling of it. three out of a four insist there have been good meetings, without this kind of pyrotechnics. but i do think that the white house has come back by reclaiming and rebutting the most egregious errors. but politically, it is a very, very tough. >> how did the white house get behind the curve on this? >> the republicans had a planned and implemented it instantly and got out there first. a plan to get their people at these town hall meetings and to send a message to them in advance that they were armed with the things they're going after. they were way ahead of the game. it is surprising that the white house was behind it this is a recurring pattern, that they are about a week night. they are coming back pretty strong this week. whether they can turn the whole corner remains to be seen. when it comes to arlen specter, i think he help himself in the democratic pr

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joe sestak almost got it right. we are a republic. yes, we owe the people of pennsylvania -- i did 12 years as a senator -- our best judgment. that does not mean we ignore their judgment. that means you have to take into consideration what is going on across america, and your judgment could impact lives and impact this country, and i think that you have to get the sense that the direction that the house is going right now, and the senate may be going, could be very disruptive to americans, not just a handful of folks at town meetings, but disruptive to america as we know it, and they had better think about what they are doing. greta: ok, senator santorum, thank you. i love iowa. i am always suspicious though when you guys got out there. >> thank you, greta. greta: up next, terrorists have made horrible threats that they want to get nuclear weapons. want to get nuclear weapons. greta: there is alarming new information about pakistan and its nuclear arsenal. according to a research group, there have been at least three attacks, and the

senator specter has been and for that matter his democratic primary opponent joe sestak. the two of these guys have supported all the bailouts. they have supported all the massive spending. they supported big government, health care takeover. they support denying workers the secret ballot in various forms. and the american people, pennsylvanians are becoming just shocked, really, by this -- the aggressiveness of this lurch to the left. i think people realize when one party has complete control of the elected government this kind of excess is what you have. we have to have some balance. that's going to be helpful to someone like me running in 2010. sean: that's interesting. katy was describing all the names she was being called in a 10 hour period of time and all the names i have been called unfair in my period. i'm in the public eye i'm fair game. leaders would attack american people. look at this montage of nancy pelosi john baird and john dingell. i want to get your reaction. >> i think they are astro turf, you be the judge, of carrying swastikas and symbols like that t

. >> eric: bring in joe sestak in. welcome to fox news. >> good to be here. >> eric: same to you. you know the health plan that the obama administration put forth is losing support and continues to lose support. what do you do? >> we have to do what politicians should be doing, come on fox tv and say what the facts are. since the '90s, american lost health insurance and our healthcare has gone up 200%. doing nothing is not an option. the plan says we have your healthcare plan, you keep it. what we are going to do is say no more co-pay for preventive care when you go in. and we're going to cap at $5,000 the amount of out-of-pocket expenses. we'll say the large insurance companies where i'm sitting in philadelphia, 42% of the population of pennsylvania sits, one company, only one has 70% of all the private healthcare plan. so we're going to have a public healthcare plan option. you don't have to join it if you don't want to. but it will be there. because you don't pay $23 million to ceo, you can get the competition in one area that has 75% private healthcare -- >> eric: but a lot of

. >> congressman joe sestak running against senator arlen specter in the great state of pennsylvania,ood luck with your veterans summits this weekend. thanks very much for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. >>> wondering where all the rage during the health care town hall protests is coming from? look no further than our friend kent jones. i mean, not kent as the cause per se but it turns out he knows what is causing it. a little surprising. coming up. stay with us. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. this is the new e-coupe. yeah, my buddy's got all that. ouch. we've done corn dogs, pizza, and nachos. put it down. [ moans ] dude! pepto guy: sorry to hear that. everything ok? no, we are a little strapped for cash. do we need to buy a bunch of different medicines? pepto guy: oh, no, pepto alone relieves all five symptoms. it's a real value. plus gas too. dude. we're covered. you guys enjoy the game. easy. pepto guy: pepto-bismol. yup, you're covered. ♪ >>> as the republican party searches for

i don't want to get involved, and i'd rather talk about the issues, but if congressman sestak wants to debate, i'd go with him toe to toe. >> let me ask you in closing, if you look at the polling right now, does senator specter deserve to be reelected? 40% said yes, 49% said no. why does nearly half the state say no? >> well, it's common that when they say that, no one does well. >> if you do a general election match-up with inspect or too many -- toomey, in may you led the vote. >> democrats were vastly out numbered, but even that poll showed me in the lead, but getting back to your prior question, figures for incumbents are characteristically low. but john, there's only one poll that counts, and i've been in a lot of elections and a lot of primaries, and i didn't ask the president to clear the field. i'm prepared to take on all comers. and i think that when the final tallies are in, i feel confident, but it's a campaign, and starting tomorrow, i'll be traveling the state. my practice is to hit all 67 counties to take my message to the people. i've been elected five times, so far it's

pennsylvania democratic congressman joe sestak is asking governor owe balm obama to interseen because only 2% of the dealers have been reimbursed in the cash to clunkers, and four out of five applications are rejected because of oversights. an oklahoma dealer has come up with a unique way to get rid of the clunkers. he used a monster truck to flatten them. the government says they must be crushed but doesn't say how. the edmonds.com car buying guide says the cash for clunkers program is driving prices up for auto buyers. in chicago, the city's budget deficit is up so high that today was an unpaid holiday for most city workers. steve brown reports on the latest example of a growing trend for cities downing in red ink. >> oh, it's closed today. >> plus, the city garbage was not picked up, and city hall was shut down, minus police and fire, the city of chicago observed a reduced service day, closing most of the city government down for a day to save money. >> this is the greatest deficit the city of chicago has faced, that we have seen probably in at least a decade or more, and these are

and then finally, all signs are pointing to the fact that pennsylvania congressman joe sestak, a democratst arlen specter tomorrow. >> mark murray, a great point to end on. we are going to be covering that in tomorrow's show. make sure to check out first read first thing every morning. it's updated throughout the day. logon to firstread.msnbc.com. it's great to be back just to see you. >> new word, showmance, a twitterer said that's a crush on our show. >> "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. >>> crazy august. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, summer in the city. temperatures are rising in this country as town hall meetings on health care are turning into mob scenes. noisy, angry, vengeful crowds are shouting down members of congress who are trying to talk up president obama's health care push. catch this joyful scene surrounding democrat lloyd doggett down in texas when he called a town meeting. >> just say no! just say no! just say no! just say no! just say no! just say no! >> congressman doggett joins news a minu

he threw his hat in the ring this morning and sestak is hitting the ground running and five campaign stops planned for today and tomorrow and already visited each of pennsylvania's 67 counties. not bad. >>> beware of the recession. that's the warning being issued to president obama as we enter the august break. the month is traditionally not been kind to past presidents. some of may remember hurricane katrina and russian coup of 1991. andy card joins me. good to see you again. >> good to be with us. thanks for having me on. >> now, mort and i were talking a little bit about what you shared with me last night. i was fascinated by it. you were saying that the august recess, while we all may be expecting it will be consumed by the health care battle and people's local districts, you say, you know, don't expect that you know what's coming. say more about that. >> well, i think you have to expect the unexpected. first of all, prime time hurricane season. there are lots of tornadoes and inevidently a hurricane or a tornado that will disrupt the president's, quote, vacation. i'm someone who

congressman joe sestak is bravely going to come out of the gate and make a very big statement tomorrow morning, a very big statement. that arlen specter is going to have a rival for the nomination of the pare

congressman joe sestak oosh he's been to 67 counties already. i think it's fair to say he intends to announce tomorrow morning. he's going to run against specter and bring democracy back to where it began in philly. it's going to be a real race in "the politics fix." this is "hardball" only on msnbc. op what's going on out in the country. it's getting wilder. you can't hold a town meeting. the ones who aren't going on vacation are going to find a lot of anger out there on health care. we've been watching the pictures. they're continuing to burn out there. "hardball" comes back to talk about it in "the politics fix." (announcer) we will not be quiet when we're in a sandwich you'll know it we are our own mixed up blend of one of a kind spices we are miracle whip and we will not tone it down hi. number two, please. would you like that to hurt now or later? uh, what? sir, it's a simple question. do you want heartburn pain, now or later? these heartburn medicines make you choose... between hurting now or later. pepcid complete doesn't. it starts to n

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pennsylvania's democrat joe sestak now among those saying he would have a hard time voting for a health care bill without a public option in it. at the white house today, the press secretary mr. gibbs admitting that the president still has not reached out to any members of congress concerned about just the possible loss of the public option. meanwhile mr. gibbs and others, like hhs secretary sebelius still insisting, quote, nothing has changed about the administration support for a public option. indeed, everything has changed. >> as i have said now yesterday and earlier today, the president, his position, the administration's position is unchanged, that we have a goal of fostering choice and competition in a private health insurance market. the president prefers the public option as a way of doing that. if others have ideas, we're open to those ideas and willing to listen to those details. that's what the president has said for months. coincidentally, that's what the secretary of health and human services has said for months. that's what i have said for months. >> time now to call in o

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all to watch tv i had to become a speed reader so by the age of 12i could read anything so i was of sestak books and decided i wanted to be a writer and when i graduate from college i locked myself in a room and wrote and wrote nine novels in about a year and a half and they were deep dark stories that took place in bars and new york city because i was reading a lot of james mcnamara and that is when i got on hundred 90 rejection slips take to the wall and i was like the most rejected writer. everyone i've worked with since i have a rejection slip from. it's funny i will meet new agents like you rejected me in 98. and rejection, rejection, then i met an editor at random house and he said i am not going to buy any of the crappy forgotten but go and read john grisham and michael crichton so i went back to boston and read john grisham and michael crichton and i read thrillers and i decided i could write a thriller so i wrote in medical thriller about threshold, don't worry, nobody -- you will never find it. it's out there but it was a horrible book and i wrote a book called reaper about a com

he's got a potentially tough primary challenge from democratic congressman joe sestse sest sestak. president get involved in internal politics in pennsylvania? >> well, i think part of the commit at the time president has is to make sure democrats like arlen specter are re-elected. this will be a very contested primary. joe has raised a lot of money, $4.5 million. mr. specter has $7.5 million. but it will be a contentious primary, like the lieberman/lamont fight, like a family fight. but i think overall the president has to go out there and support democrats. >> a new member of the democratic party. is it appropriate for the president and vice president to support arlen specter? >> they have to. he's a democrat because he cut a deal with the senate leadership and probably with the white house. i don't have the proof on it but -- >> become a democrat if they promised him that they would support him. >> correct, and raise money for him and they would -- >> is there a deal like that, though? >> i wasn't in the room so, i don't like to -- >> you know. >> wolf, sometimes you have to kee

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then senator specter and rep sestak speak at the net reed's convention.hen arthur fred kaplan. >> the blogger is conference is meeting in pittsburgh. we will have live coverage of the session to mark. scheduled speakers include congressman tom price, john shattuck as well as michelle malkin and grover norquist. >> this fall, into the home to the biggest court. to the grand public places to those only accessible by the justices. "the supreme court," is coming this fall. >> howard dean held a town hall meeting on health care. it was part of the net roots nation conference in pittsburgh. this is a little bit over one hour. >> thank you. >> do you want to start with some opening remarks. >> sure. i'm really looking forward to this. let me just say a couple things. first of all, the people in this room are going to be the most important people in america over the next 8 to 10 weeks while we get this thing done, because we're seeing extraordinary things being said that are flatout not true, there's maliciously untrue and the only way to counter those is the net

. >> joe sestak plans to challenge senator specter for his seat in the upcoming elections, good morning morning, good to be here. >> clayton: first we asked in the intro, are we being constructive in these town hall debates with all of the dwup disruptions we are seeing, are we getting anything accomplished and furthering the discussion and that is why we are seeing democrats scared or cancelling these town hall debates? >> i've only been in politics three years and we added in a new town hall this wednesday here in center town, downtown, philadelphia, at the broad street ministry at 6:30 wednesday night and i had my first last saturday ther day after we got out from congress. and that one brought about 300 people together and it was very harsh at times with the comments, but, i think this is a necessary debate. first, i'm a public servant and i work for these people and second, people have a high level of anxiety. how can they not, they are in a savaging recession and third, i don't think we have done an adequate enough job of explaining the goodness of the bill and i like these town h

. >> mike: joe sestak is running against arlen specter but a restless and pull yesterday said there'scan named pat toomey will probably run against either spector were sestak and a poll out yesterday to medicci one of them. shockingly enough part of the state. >> clayton: this is shocking to me because as a pennsylvanian and you are in pennsylvania it seems to be the bellwether of the country. as goes pennsylvania so goes the country. we sounds senator santorum blues i fairly sizable margin to bob casey there. maybe the mood is now shifting back the other way for republicans in pennsylvania. alysin's point is this could be a moment. one moment think that fiery there at least have that sound when -- this could be the moment that switches things for senator arlen specter in pennsylvania. listen to this connect one day god is going to stand before you and he is going to judge you and the rest of your cronies up on the hill. >> clayton: your cronies on the hill do when people are angry. the well arlen specter is a porter. >> mike: who would've known. are you treating you to push and mark