a true shington diplomat. we know nfib is very aggressive on the half of their agenda. thing, you led t the fight i the supreme court to try to block obamacar if the republilicans win control of the senate, there are questions about whether that will be the opportunity to overturn obamacare. if the republicans win, is that a priority for you? >> i think they wowould have a majority thais very small. compromise is going to be necessary. you bring out obamacare, we talk about reform at can happen now. dayouou are not going to, one, say, it is time for repl. >> i think we need to be realistic. we need to control health care costs. at the end of the day, we need immediate relief for sml business owners. access, what products are being sold in each state. it is not so much about the big picture anymore. >> whawould d you push, and how would you do it? would it be piece by piece, or you try to put forwa a bill that could tackle all those issu? >> what remains to be seen is tuesday, how many seats. >> you know w whatou are goi to roll out as soon as tuesday happenens. we want

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but over the last 30 years have built an enormou amountof weand influence e in shington, d.c., and it's very hard for se members of congress to te contry to their position. >> and then got to thinking is morning when iknew you were coming in during my show preparation, which involves about nine minutes, andat is there is so much stuff on peop's minds now. gun control and so on used toe almost paramou in people's lineof concern >> ah. >> but now withisis, with the ebola crisis, with peop cutting people heads o with climate ch and so on, it gets shoved almo the back buer is that something you have to deal with? >> well, yeah. i n't see whe they're -- there is no reason why a congress andn administration shouldn'be able to deal with a nuer of problems all atonce. we should be able to do that. buyou're ght,as a country we tend to focus on one or two thikz at the time, whatever kind ofloats at the top in the 24-hour news cle. so part of our job is keeping engaged with members of congre, work wth them on legiation, get the political work that will get people ected. on a lot the issues, these

nixon won an and or surgery over mcgovern in 1972, despite the " s"shington post' investigation. by genera, 1973, on a story set, -- by january, 1973. a discovery that white house connection to the hush money that was paid to the burglars to keep them from spilling the beans. and at that point, congress realized they needed to look into it. so the senate voted to hold an investigation. mike mansfield was the chairman, the majority leader at the time. usually when a resolution is submitted to hold a special investigation, the person that commits the resolution becomes chairman. edward kennedy had been chair of the subcommittee of the judiciary this started looking into watergate. and he suggested the creation of a special committee. but people thought of edward kennedy as a presidential candidate. mike mansfield realized they should not have anybody on this committee who could be seens as a presidential candidate. so he prevailed on sam irvin. a very conservative, constitutionally oriented lawyer from northe carolina. and not a presidential person. and several other senators, like

ilthere's lot of idlock coming in shington, what we're seeing in stateswith conservave governors oh,exssin, ere's a bunch of @thers i could nam-- neil: you didn't mention new jers. >> well, new jery. yo would be able to point suc. they have lower emoyme rates. theye able to work across -- not inew jers. cdc is head ofhe natialovernor's associatiohe delived eight ouof the nine or lessaying he wsmore ththe big reason for that. does that mean those otr governors many of whom might be contemplating runs of thr own feel indted. >> they n sta separatelyrom vernor christie wisconsin is a prime ample here. have rong businesses. he brought in -- well, governor wker brought inhe work righto work legislatn. top ten for sinees ithis country are run by nservativeovernors. and i think at's important to poi out re. what wasngton c't do and what oma andis waingtonolicies haven't been able to do, constive governors have been able to transend all tt and find solutionso -@problems tt plague o country. clearly idlock in wainon isffecti this. but at theame ti governors can have a real a proven rord inorkin

now oregon voters aska, shington, dc, approving this. ould be looking at a dozen stat aowingt fo medicinal purses. gary johnson, onhis issulike many, yo weread of the curve. >> well, i tnk running as a third party caidate, i likenhe debateright now,oke andepsi. democrats and republicans. you know, th talk about the economy. they tal about corpore taxes coke says, let's drop it to 3pecent from 33 pernt. pepsi says let's drop it to 28 percent. ll, let's eliminate corporate tax. let's imate income tax. let's abolish the irs let's it with conaumion tax the free marke would sa tt's really the logical w tdo it. neil: are you smoking pot riht now as you say this. >> i will stop after this show neil: people hear thesdom of that, explain why it'sot crazy talk. >> t's notrazy. all the talk aut jobs, locate comsiness anywhere in torld otrhan the unite states. replace it with a nsumption t. for those wching -- neil: woul't tt put a chill on spending? >> wel actualy -- nebecauss if y remov the income t. it would be revenue neutral because you have em

b.w.i., thurgood marshall, e shington dulles both hav record lows of 20 degrees. we're forecasting lows at 19. those would set new records. low, how average e'll be for rage w the temperatures. gh the get throu efinitely rs we're d ut.ng to bottom o in many of the teens climb only to tomorrow afternoon h spite another day filled wit sunshine. 32 to 37 degrees will be the range. there is a bit of a warmup headed for the weekend but with mup will come some rain. in about 10 minutes we'll go new york, and localized n a very lake effect snow blizzard in right now. that's it, leon. >> thanks. look forward to it. eral e meantime fed investigators are on the scene rash in al plane c chicago. fficials say a cargo plane went down early this morning shortly after takeoff from midway airport. nto a nearby home an elderly couple by inches. he pilot was killed. the faa says the pilot reported some engine problems just after takeoff and was trying to eturn to midway. there was no fire or explosion. >> in new jersey a man there allegedly left a path of destruction after a night

for now, though, that's the view over shington. 40 degrees at national airport.ht wind from the south at 3 miles per hour. hourly temperatures here the next couple of hours, up to about 50 degrees by noon and most of the afternoon, temperatures will be in the low to mid 50s. chilly, but on the sunny side for sure. 53 at 1:00. 56 by 3:00. that's our high in washington today. back down to 52 by 5:00. sun is down at 5:00 this afternoon. 4:59 is sunset tomorrow. oh, feels like winter already. focus on fall. college football frarcht, special request, air force on the root at unlv in las vegas. it's a 4:00 kickoff. that's the game to go to. temperatures in the upper 70s to near 80s. sunshine out in the desert. and another one out in the desert tonight, colorado and arizona from tucson. it's the 100ic kickoff. game time temperatures also up near 80 degrees. so good weather for football. today, back here in the east, it will be chilly. clouds will start to increase this afternoon. skies will be mostly cloudy tonight. that will hold temperatures up just a bit. so another

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