[ male announcer ] dawn does more... [ sponge ] so it's not a chore. >>> back to "hardball." time for the "sideshow." first congresswoman, michelle bachman is on the offensive. yesterday in a minnesota town hall, she rolled out a new attack line against health care. she predicts the government of the united states could use health care to limit free peach to punish those who disagree with the government. here's the congresswoman with an anecdote she says she got from a friend living overseas. >> this is something people don't know. in japan, people have stopped voicing their opinion on health care. there's things that are wrong with japanese health care, but people started voicing, well, why is that, i ask? he said, that's because they know that they would get on a list and they wouldn't get health care. they wouldn't get in. they wouldn't get seen. so people are afraid. they're afraid to speak back to government. they're afraid to say anything. is that what we want for our future? and we're going to give up. we're not going to quit fighting. because government takeover of he

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he's like a sponge. very reseptemberrive to learning. receptive to learning. he's probably harder on himself than the coaches are. he's got -- he's getting better and better every day he steps on the court. >> reporter: learning basketball is part of a daily routine. he's also learning how to be a father figure to his two younger brothers while their father serves our country in afghanistan. his father frank is a sergeant first class in the army. he was deployed to afghanistan in july for a year tour of duty. this is the first time he's had to leave the states in ten years. in his absence, marcel has become the man ever the house. >> he's so much like his father. my husband is real, real stern with him. when he's trying to discipline them, it's funny to watch because he does it just like his father. he has that -- he tries to put that de voice in it. you know, do the pointing and all of that i see a lot of frank in marcel. >> reporter: frank may be far away in the literal sense but he remains close to his family. >> [ indiscernible ] he's like marcel, what are

it goes beyond dishwashing to help your hands seal in moisture while you do the dishes. [ sponge ] soredicted that? [ male announcer ] dawn does more... [ sponge ] so it's not a chore. >> larry: check in with anderson cooper who will host "a.c. 360" at the top of the hour. what's the lead tonight? >> well, we have breaking news tonight, exclusive to this program. what led ten american missionaries to be charged today with kidnapping 33 orphans in haiti? details you're only going to hear on 360 from new witnesses who say not only did the missionaries know they were breaking the law but there were plans also to bring the children back to the united states. this is the first time we've heard that. we'll talk to two men who had interactions with the apparent leader of this group, laura silsby on the ground. >>> also looking at your money, your future. worst financial meltdown since the great depression. despite all the talk, getting answers and finding out who's responsible, not a single wall street executive is sitting in jail. >>> and welcome to the tea party. we'll take a look at the u

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having the terminator show up to give her a sponge bath. [ light laughter ] [ as schwarzenegger ] "old lady, i need you to relax." [ laughter ] i don't even know what to make of this. several holiday inn expresses are offering free bed warming services, where employees wear electric blankets and warm up your bed before you go to sleep. [ laughter ] this explains holiday inn's new commercial, "i just stayed in a holiday inn express last night. friggin' weird, man." [ laughter ] this is scary. a new jersey man on the run from the police, chased -- crashed his car then jumped off a turnpike overpass. wound up in the hospital with both legs broken. man made a brief statement to police. he said, "action movies are lies." [ laughter ] finally there's a new iphone app that translates a baby's cry into words. [ light laughter ] the most common translation, "can you stop looking at your damn iphone for one second and pick me up. i'm a crying baby for crying out loud." [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: t

we are supposed to watch sponge bob and hannah montana? >> bill: all right. so you think this is an argument that is supposed to galvanize democrats to his support so he doesn't lose more voters? >> what's going to go on now is that he is worried that he has already lost the right but he is worried the left is going to come over and eat his lunch, saying he is ineffective. hasn't lowered unemployment. too close to golden sak's. didn't close guantanamo. he has to get nominated before he gets elected. >> bill: if you are saying that he wants to throw the republican party's party to the wolves so the democrats rally around him, then why is he saying publicly he wants detente with the g.o.p.? >> because that's what the public wants him to say and he has to give the appearance he is doing it. >> bill: it wouldn't be better for the president if the republicans would cooperate on some level? >> look, bill, when i worked for president clinton, we cooperated with the republicans in '96. what that meant is that i sat down with trent lott and i took his welfare reform b

wetlands are big sponges and when then they were floods, nature does have a way of preventing some of the worst destruction and trying to channel it into narrow channels proved to be not exactly behaving the way we wanted it to, couple of times i can think of than i think there is a lot of rethinking about whether those solutions are good or not or whether we should go back to look at the ecosystems and try to work more with them. i will just throw it in as an aside, there is mentioned in the book of sort of a two attitudes towards water, confusion and the dallas view and we are revisiting that. the confucian view being before so water to go where we wanted to go in the dallas view we are going to try to bend a little with the nature and go with the contours of the day and we are revisiting that in the debate today between what they call hard path and soft out solutions. >> high. just quickly i think one of the biggest bottled water contest the transportation cost that is so heavy but my question is, could you clarify two points. one you mentioned earlier, returning water in what cond

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we know from child development theory and practice, that kids are sponges when they are two, three years old. if we could create all day pre- kindergarten program that are of high quality, we will be helping tremendously. we also know in homes where you have a print-rich environment, where kids are read to, hear words, play with blocks, legos, they are better prepared for school. but we have to help parents. parents are having a tough time these days. we are still getting help of the worst recession to the great depression. that is part of the reason we talk about having the government create these early childhood centers. host: kay on the democratic line. michigan. caller: i grew up in detroit. we had an excellent the education program. as a matter of fact, the head of neurosurgery at johns hopkins went to my public elementary school, middle school, and public high school. he then went on to harvard. what we need is parent involvement. we need order in the classroom and we need teacher coordination. the third grade teacher knows what they will need in the fourth grade and so on. i think

we know from child development theory and practice, that kids are sponges when they're two, three, four, five years old. so if we could actually create all day, pre-kindergarten programs that are high quality, we will be helping kids kids tremendously. we also know that in homes where you have a prin print-environment where kids hear words, where they're read to, where they, you know, play with blocks, play with legos, things like that, that kids are better prepared for school, but we have to help parents. you know, and parents are having a really tough time these days. we're still in the worst recession, or getting out of the worst recession since the great depression, that's part of the reason we talk about having the government try to create these early childhood centers or having, schools having these services colocate in a school environment. >> host: kay, democrats line, in michigan. >> caller: hello? >> host: hi. >> caller: my phone beeped and i didn't know if you were speaking to me or not. i grew up in detroit and we had an excellent educational program. as a matter of fact, th

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