. >>> and straight ahead on 9news now, why maryland lawmakers may be forced to return to the statehouse to avert a budget crisis. and why so many bikers are rolling in to the pound center today. >> and the winds are picking up. we've got some storms coming through tonight and also a bigger one coming through sunday. i'll let you know about that forecast, also some snow in the forecast, details coming up! the news continues, stick around. i have never encountered such a burning sensation... until i had the shingles. it was like a red rash. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. it's something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com >>> maryland lawmakers may be headed back to the statehouse. governor mark is now scheduled to meet with the legislature's presiding officers next week about holding a special session. lawmakers failed to pass a revenue package during the 90- day session need touchdown avoid about a00 million dollars in cuts. the cuts would impact public schools and higher educati

. >> the old statehouse museum tells the story of arkansas' history. we caught up for a preview of the upcoming visit there. >> we are located at the collection management storage facility for the old statehouse museum in little rock, arkansas. welcome. >> what do we have behind you? >> this is what we call our mobile unit. we have stacks. we have everything in our elects from an electric chair, two electric chairs to johnny cash's guilt tar. so this is where kind of the heart of our collection at any given time there's less than 2% of things on exhibit so this is where we keep them. it's a controlled environment. the temperature and humidity and light levels are all controlled to make sure that the artifacts are safe and 166 inmates were executed in that chair and this one, only one was executed because lethal injection came in shortly after this one was constructed. so we have a large collection of our prison system and a few years ago we had a great exhibit called badgers, bandits, and bars. a colorful history. >> it is. >> so we have our first fami

. >>> the old statehouse museum in the history. we met up with a curator on an upcoming exhibit there on civil war flags. >> we're at the facility for the old statehouse museum in little rock, arkansas, so welcome. >> thank you. what do we have behind you? >> this is what we call our mobile storage unit and we have stacks. we have everything from in our collection from an electric chair, two electric chairs, to johnny cash's guitar. so this is where kind of the heart of our collection at any given time, there's less than 2% of things on exhibit, so this is where we keep them, this is a controlled environment of the temperature and humidity and light levels are all controlled to make sure the artifacts are safe. >> and this is one of the electric chairs? >> these are two of the electric chairs. the older one is what they called sparky 1 and 166 inmates were executed in that chair. and this one, only one was executed because lethal injection came in shortly after this one was constructed. so we have a large collection of our prison s

then i had a mom that said quit complaining, do something. >> i said, well, i will run for the statehouse. i didn't know that you should not run against a 30 year incumbent. once i got in, the only option was to win. what was surprising is that we went to a series of consultants. i told my friend that i have this money and no one will take my money. one consultant said that you are too young, you have small children, you just need to look at school boards, you don't need to run for statehouse. another consultant said, nikki, your dad goes to that temple a mother is less than 1% indian. you can't win this district. so was a lot of can't. one of the interesting things was what really jumped me over to say that i'm going to do this -- hillary clinton was a guest speaker at an institute. she was very good giving a speech to a few hundred people. everyone is going to tell you why you shouldn't do it, and that's all the reason why you should. that's what she said. if anybody tells me i can do something, it motivates me to do it. i didn't see young moms running for office or women running for of

. >> the old statehouse museum in little rock tells the story of arkansas' history. we caught up with curator jo-ellan mack for a preview of upcoming visit there on civil war battle flags. >> we are located at the collection management storage facility for the old statehouse museum in little rock, arkansas. welcome. >> what do we have behind you? >> this is what we call our mobile storage unit. we have stacks. we have everything from in our collection from an electric chair, two electric chairs. >> sure. >> to johnny cash's guitar. so this is where the kind of the heart of our collection at any given time, there's less than 2% of things on exhibit so this is where we keep them. this is a controlled environment. the temperature and humidity and light levels are all controlled to make sure that the artifacts are safe. >> and this is one of the electric chairs? >> these are two of the electric chairs. the older one here is what they called sparking one. and 166 inmates were executed in that chair. and this one, only one was executed because lethal injection came in shor

just last week, he visited the statehouse in annapolis. the house of "the today show close what will welcome a new edition tomorrow morning. sarah palin will cohost alongside matt lauer. you can catch occur tomorrow morning follow --catcher her tomorrow morning. towson university is one in two deaths. 20-year-old ryan bailey was walking northbound when he was struck by a car traveling in the same direction. he was pronounced dead at the scene. most students found out through their facebook and twitter accounts. >> it was a fun night, and you wake up the next morning and two kids are dead. >> police hope that a $2,000 reward will lead to information and an arrest. police are investigating another weekend death on at the towson campus. 27-year-old timothy coyer was found dead by his roommates. he is believed to be an iraq war veteran and went into cardiac arrest. the medical examiner is trying to determine how he died. a vigil for both the students will be held tonight on the towson campus. and, of county police are investigating a second mu

at the statehouse in annapolis, lawmakers uncorked a new era for wine drinkers in maryland.ouse of delegates passed a new legislation that, for the first time, let people bring their own wine into restaurants. >> this is a vehicle to give restaurants the opportunity to compete. >> reporter: prince georges delegate. >> reporter: line ivy is one of the sponsors and said the cork law brings maryland in line with similar laws already in effect in d.c. and virginia. >> a lot of the high-end restaurants allow this policy and to have maryland say no. it meant that our restaurants were not on equal footing. >> reporter: but not everyone is ready to raise a glass to this idea. rusty romo owned harry brown's restaurant in annapolis for 33 years. >> and now thirgiving us one more thing. >> reporter: bee, wine, and liquor sales are critical parts of the business and he's concerned that some people may shy away from his wine list to save money instead of asking toup cork a truly special bottle of wine and there is a difference of that than a man walking in with a bottle of yellow tail at

. >> i am pretty much food to the statehouse and working with the senate president. i just came from a meeting with him. i spoke at length with the speaker yesterday. we have three different versions of what next year's budget should look like. the first one was the one i put in. now we really only have two versions. one in the house and one in the senate. they need to find some compromise. >> based on developments in the last couple of minutes, budget negotiations have really picked up momentum. one expert suggested that if they have not come about to compromise plan by saturday, the session may have to be extended beyond monday's deadline. david collins, wbal-tv 11 news. >> promising news ahead of tomorrow's jobs report. last people are filing for unemployment benefits and the number of claims fell to a four- year low. it still was not enough to boost the market today. >> all street did not seem to be in a celebratory mood and one of its worst weeks of the year, and spot a positive new economic data. >> investors are still a little bit worried. >> economists are en

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>> reporter: , the lights are still on and they're working hard in the statehouse in annapolis. this is the final day of this legislative session and perhaps the most important one for many marylanders. by midnight tonight many will likely know if their income taxes will go up. it's all part of a stalemate over the budget. lawmakers are required by the constitution to enact a balanced budget by the time the legislative session. that is at midnight tonight. if they cannot do that, this session will have to be extended and that hasn't happened since 1992. governor martin o'malley says he's confident that lawmakers can get it done. >> this one certainly is going down to the wire on a lot of important things, nothing more important than the budget, but with a little bit of greater understanding and some greater spirit of compromise we can come together and close this out successfully. >> reporter: so here's the holdup. that income tax increase i told you about, the house and senate have both agreed that it should go up for people who make more than $100,000. there's a lot of particu

david collins even found some statehouse shenanigans as lawmakers worked feverishly to get the job done before the monday midnight deadline. >> this unusual weekend session included work on banning of arsenic in chicken feed and expanding gaining in maryland. between sessions, they managed to resume budget negotiations. they are close to an agreement. they agreed to shift the cost of teacher pensions to the county over four years. it will be 100% the final year. how to offset the costs is still being discussed today agreed to accept the house proposal raising income taxes on those warning -- earning $100,000 or more. they are still discussing how much to reduce exemptions. a standoff developed between the house and senate over the governors wind energy legislation. it is currently held the senate finance committee. prince george's county senator is considered the swing vote on the committee. according to his colleague, the house is holding up legislation he sponsored to pressure him into voting for the wind energy bill. he has amendments he was planning to offer better now on the senate

not just in my statehouse, but in statehouses all across america and most importantly, in our nation'snows we need more courage. >> we welcome become to the show, wisconsin governor scott walker. governor walker, a great pleasure. you know, preparing for this interview, a lot of my conservative pals said, for heaven's sake, ask him what the message is if he loses. you have the battle, and what's the message if you lose. last friday you said you're going to win. tell me how. >> well, i think for ussist real simple. the choice we have in our state, much like the choice in america. in our case, two different views of of government. putting the power back in the hands of people and we want people to go forward, the direction we've been taking, or do we want to go backward? prior to my big election, being elected to office, democrats controlled everything and those are the days of billion dollar budget deficits, and double-digit tax increases. people don't want to go back to that, and i was just in illinois the other day. do they want to go back to what we see in realtime to the south of us

we've had in the statehouses, one statehouse, the governor said he would not enforce spare pay. we have others who have called it a nuisance. we know many voters didn't vote for the lily ledbetter fair pay act. we know there have been many efforts with ballot initiatives to roll back in some cases even access to contraceptives. i think that is a move in the wrong direction. i don't think that it's helpful to women. and i think women are seeing it. >> right, but -- >> and they will be taking their distrust into the ballot box on it. >> this is clearly an issue democrats feel that they have an advantage on, but aren't you politicizing it all the more by doing something when they're taking money from the preventative health care act or want to, by saying it's an assault on women? portraying it like that, and just the facts don't back that up. >> well, i would say that women and families care a great deal about preventative health care. >> but men do as well. so do children, so do old people. >> the republicans are politicizing it by calling the -- >> so no democrats are politicizin

should the measure pass, it would then go to the statehouse.the governor says he'll sign the bill, making connecticut the fifth state in five years to abolish capital punishment. >>> the president will host an easter prayer breakfast at the white house today. mr. obama will be joined by christian leaders from across the u.s. the president is also expected to sign a bill today regarding insider trading by congressional members. >>> first lady michelle obama will be visiting walter reed national military medical center for a preeaster with military families and their children. later she'll visit the wounded warriors being cared for at the center. >>> stay teuped, there's such an uproar over the pink slime beef filler. >> now the government is taking action to make it easier for you to know if your package or that package of ground beef contains the pink slime. >>> batman, we go behind the mask of the man pulled over in montgomery county and his real- life superhero mission. >>> also a student at the university of michigan is now suing her school

the statehouse stalemate in a special session. governor o'malley, house speaker, michael bush, will get together at the mansion to discuss a special session. moore broke the impag pass by sending a letter as a compromise to the budget. and the shift in the cost to teacher pensions. the governor responded by saying, "i appreciate your willingness to complete the general assembly's budget. i have never known a session to end with a perfect result. concluding, the budget would be a positive step forward. >> baltimore employees will have to pay more for health care. right now they pay 20% of premiums for health care insurance. they pay no ductible and are charged no co-pay for most of the medical care they receive. employees would pay an annual ductible of $250. they will also pay 10% of medical bills. their premiums would remain about the same cost. city employees represented in red have heart disease, diabetes, and hyper tension two to three times higher than normal. as a result, they want to encourage employees to switch to an h.m.

. >> 11 news has learned there is a break through in the statehouse stalemate. governor o'malley, michael bush, and mike miller will gather for a breakfast meeting tuesday at the governor's mansion. they will discuss agenda items for a special session. they broke the impasse by presenting a letter to the governor and speaker promoting a compromise to the revenue package tied to the budget and a -- tied to the budget, and he wrote "i have never known a session toned with a perfect result, but concluding the budget would be a good result." >> baltimore employees will soon have to pay more for their health care. right now they play 20% of their premium but they are paid no deductible and are charged no co-pay for most medical care received. under the proposed changes employees would pay an annual ductible of $250 and they would pay 10% of medical bills and premiums would remain about the same cost. rates of heart disease, diabetes, hyper tension two to three times higher than normal. as a result, city officials want to encourage employees to switch to an h.m.o. and

--www.ncicap.org-- >> the 2012 maryland general assembly is being held in the oldest operating statehousey point of the 90-day session with lots of issues unresolved. the two-ton gorilla in the room is the $1 billion budget deficit the state is facing. even more daunting is how to close the budget gap in such ause tear times. options require some tough decisions to be made. tax proposals including increasing the gas tax. proposals local jurisdictions are being considered. now is the time our elected sfaleds need to do the heavy lifting. they must address the deficit and provide services to citizens. the answers are not partisan so requires them to do what's best to maryland despite party loyalties. we are depending on them to do what is right.

he found refuge in one of the statehouses. he was blonde. he was blue eyed. he looked "aryan." he was in a stolen hungarian uniform. he would deliver medicine. it was very dangerous. there are some incredible stories we have of close calls. >> what is the impact on me being the daughter of to holocaust survivors? is there any? >> it is profound. it is something i try to pass along to my children. it gives you enormous perspective on life. you learn to look at things through a very different lens. in our family, not only did they personally face existential threat to their existence, but they face them as part of a targeted race. a lot of terrible things happen around the world every day. whether through violins or car accidents. we can see existential tragedies that the fall families. what made the holocaust so scary and the impacts of profound on subsequent generations, it is that the eventual threat was targeted because of who our family was, because of being jewish. that is why about the faith traditions we have. there is no way i could ever not to be jewish or profoundly id

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. >> three students arrested on the steps of the statehouse. it you will hear from two of them,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> we are going up to around 80 degrees today and 88 tomorrow. we could very easily get to 90 degrees on monday. back to 80 degrees on tuesday with a chance of rain. temperatures back on wednesday. 68 and 72 and 73 on friday. >> the plan to build a larger windmills fails. >> the controversial bill brought students and protesters and others to the state capital. a group got thrown in jail. >> reporter: for the second year, a requirement for maryland utilities to buy more wind power died. the house passed it by the senate committee wouldn't let the bill go up for vote. early on these college students lined up to support the legislators wanting to change a law. >> the ability to be constructed for a change was wonderful. stephen blake many students, you may look to pad. the students care more about the environmental cause or you. >> i really want any organizing to be about other people and how i look later. >> keep that in mind when you

david collins is monitoring the developments and joins us live from the statehouse. what is the latest there tonight? >> that impasse continues. the house speaker today plains the impasse on what he calls this in its obsession with the prince george's county gambling bill. it took only minutes on last day of the session for state budget negotiators to realize talks are not going anywhere. the general assembly needs five hours to print, distribute, discuss and vote on whatever compromise is reached. the deadline is midnight. it sent mike -- sent majority leader mike miller is said to be holding up the process. >> if the budget of the state of maryland goes down and the senators are more concerned about the session of gaming and you are with school construction and school funding, hospitals, higher education money, let them aware that when they go home and tell their constituents why they had to spend extra time in annapolis. >> i am not involved with trade- offs are being hijacked on issues. >> governor o'malley does not want to take sides but says the house version o

so the wildcats versus the statehouse this monday. >> all right. brackets are busted. >> not here. >> anybody who has those too, and you know maybe it's not so surprising that those two are in the end, but it's how everybody got there which is the crazy path. >> our director just said, not me because i didn't play. it's true. i kind of want to see who makes it. i want to wait and see. >> she will turn in her bracket on tuesday. >> was no money or anything it's. >> today is not a bad day to do anything you want to do outside. not the prettiest day but it's a comfortable day overall. taking a look out at the corner of n and t bank stadium as we keep on pulling that back or get canned in yards on the bottom right of your screen. we are watching -- or is at the bottom left. i can't see what direction the camera is going. >> you are right. >> just making sure. opening day is in about five days. counting it down. 2:00 is when the action begins. special coverage begins at 2:00 on friday. orioles in town versus the twins. camden yards. of course, bringing

and let me ask you about the gambling issue and now, because you couldn't get this, the entire statehouses to pay. where does this go from here? >> who starts? >> and let's you have start, delegate o'donnell. >> there was a proposal on the table to expand gaming and a six-sided prince georges county and the measure failed. so, you know, we'll see what will happen going forward. i will tell you this, that the original round of slots licenses issued under the 2007 law we passed, referendum in maryland, 40% are up and running right now. we have to look long and hard. i think the majority leader and i have a lot of common ground on this issue, and we ought to be very careful how we proceed with this. >> you want to give us some final thoughts? >> i so enjoy disagreeing with him and on this case, i really don't. we have to be careful about this. these are weighty issues and this is my hope we can resolve it in this march that is good for the state of maryland. >> thank you both for being with us. >> great to be here. >> thank you. >>> and let's go to the weather. >> and it's beautiful outside.

. >> reporter: at the statehouse in annapolis lawmakers have uncorked a new era for wine drinkers inouse of delegates followed the state senate in passing new legislation that for the first time let people bring their own wine into restaurants. >> this is a vehicle to give restaurants the opportunity to compete. >> reporter: prince george's county delegate jolene ivey is one of the sponsors and says the cork law simply brings maryland in line with similar laws already in effect in d.c. and virginia. >> a lot of these high end restaurants allow this policy and to have maryland say no, it's just meant that our restaurants were not on equal footing. >> reporter: but not everyone is ready to raise a glass to the idea. rusty rolo has owned harry brown straints in annapolis for 33 years -- restaurants in annapolis for 33 years. >> now they're giving us one more thing we have to wrangle with. >> reporter: beer, wine and liquor sales are critical parts of his business and rusty says he's concerned some people may shy away from his wine list to save money instead of asking to uncork a truly s

. >> calling the statehouse christmas free a holiday tree. >> a possible tax on your tree?y parade of lights formerly the christmas parade of lights. >> the homeowners association banning blinking and colored christmas lights. >> there apparently sa school, they can't have poinsettias in their classes because it might offend people who are not christian. >> all right, christmas is a special case. that is an incredibly important holiday. again, i'm sure that nothing else rises to that level of outrage. >> war on hanukkah now, too? >> this is the war on easter. >> war on -- wait for it -- full holidays. >> let's talk war on halloween. >> war on fossil fuels. >> war on the constitution. >> the war on ladies' night. >> war on fishermen. >> can you accept the war on saw? >> it's the war on chocolate milk. >> war on sugary drinks. >> war on food. >> war on spuds? >> war on conservative women. >> the media is waging a war against conservative women. >> of all the wars jon stewart considered last night, the only one for which he could find any shred of evidence is the war on women,

series, examining how the politics in the maryland and virginia statehouses mirror the national debate sreenivasan explains. hari? >> sreenivasan: our next installment is a report on how virginia resolved its budget standoff today. that's on our politics page. also there, make sure to sign up for the morning line emails from our politics team. on his making sense page, paul solman answers a reader's question about how the fed creates money. on art beat, we talked to ziggy marley about a new film on his father, reggae legend bob marley. plus, we highlight a documentary from our pbs colleagues in washington state on the deconstruction of dams on the elwha river. it explores what that means for communities along the river and the fish that once ran through it. here is an excerpt narrated by debbe hirata. >> across the united states, a quarter of a million dams block rivers and streams. by 2020 nearly all of them will reach their 50-year life peck tonightsy. as dams age, they begin to break down, spillway gates rust, reservoirs get clogged with sediment and concrete walls begin to fall apa

it was the fact that i saw the business person wondered why we didn't have more business on the statehouse. then adeimantus had quit complaining and do something about it. so i said i didn't know you were supposed to run against a 30 year incumbent primary. i'd no idea. but once i got and the only option was to win. the only surprising thing was such a series of consultants and i told a friend i had this money and no one will take my money. and one consultant said, you are too young. you've got small children. you need to look at school boards. you don't need to run for state house. another consultant said in a key comedic temple. there's less than 1% indian. you can't win this district. one of the interesting things was what really jumped me over to sam going to do this since i was that the institute and hillary clinton was the guest speaker and she was there giving a speech to a few hundred people and she said everybody's going to tell you what you shouldn't do it and that's all the reasons why you should. another site unabated since i can't do something it only motivates me more to want

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waiting for the cemetery vote," starts; with that great struggle to capture the courthouses, the statehouseand particularly a congressional seat. and it was such a titanic struggle that virtually everything went including stealing ballots by the thousands, taking ballot boxes, throwing them in the river, intimidating people, terrorizing people, serial murders occurred in that election including the republican candidate for congress from a district east of little rock. he, the election was stolen from him. and he went to a little town in arkansas to investigate it after people he sent there to investigate the fraud either were chased away or disappeared. so he went there on his own to find out what happened, and he was murdered. and then after that other people had to be hurded to keep it quiet -- murdered to keep it quiet. so there was kind of an acceptance of that in the commitment -- community because everybody understood that it was important that your side won, so whatever was needed to get people into office was permissible and acceptable. so in that instance no one -- although there w

. >> we are in the original house of representatives chamber at the old statehouse which was the arkansasate capitol from 1836 to 1911. and the secession convention was held in this room in 1861 and really one of the most dramatic moments of the early part of the war in arkansas happened here when it came down to one, only one delegate, a man named isaac murphy from north arkansas had refused to vote in favor of secession. the chairman of the convention, you know, asked him to change his, change his vote, and murphy refused to do so. after which a woman named martha trapnell who was in the balcony right behind us threw a bouquet of flowers at his feet in recognition of his principled stand. later in the war, of course, this was the confederate capital until little rock was taken on september 10 of 1863, and after that this was the seat of the unionist government for arkansas at which time isaac murphy became the governor. >> tell us about this book. what's different about the arkansas experience in the civil war compared to the stories that most people know about south carolina, georgia,

intelligence information had been seized from his residence and we have learned a location of numerous statehouses. to someone who understands the value of intelligence, making an act -- an announcement like that is the loss of numerous potential targets. the attorney-general announced that the drone killing was justified and went through a list of criteria including the certainty that he was a terrorist, the likelihood there will be few collateral victims, and the on feasibility of capture as justifying the strike. it is interesting to contemplate how we would have gotten intelligence if we have captured him when all employees must use the field manual to conduct interrogations'. that manual has been available on the internet for years and is used by terrorists as a training manual. we have no classified interrogation program at all. those know precisely what to expect and expect techniques from a manual designed for use by the most experienced recruit. when he was captured in detroit, there was no interrogation program operated by the fbi. he was put into the criminal justice system. however, th

this week he went to the statehouse to support the death penalty, which he believes is justice for his family. >> the people who died and can't be here to speak for themselves, the people that were tortured, the people that were raped, the people that were murdered do not have a voice and they seem to have less and less of a voice. >> on thursday, the state senate passed a bill to ban the death penalty after nearly 11 hours of debate. >> does a moral society execute people? i've come to the conclusion that both the realities of the death penalty as it is applied and the moral issues that it raises dictate that it be abolished. >> it would be abolished or all future cases, replaced by tougher prison time for heinous crimes. the 11 men on death row right now, including the pettit killers, would still face execution. some family members of murder victims want to do away with the death penalty approximately. >> the death penalty has so many flaws and as a victim family member i came to realize that it hurt us more than it helped us in so many ways. with the endless appeals. >> the state ha

. >> why it is so important is the taliban have been locked in statehouses for the last ten years. they have not met with a new generation of afghans who have come out the post 9/11 generation. they need exposure to these things. if you have taliban i would hope the first thing that would happen is you would get delegations of afghans from all walks of life meeting with the taliban. at the taliban meeting working with teachers, nurses, doctors and afghan business and members of the afghan police. presumably the office would give the taliban exposure to modern afghan society that has come since 9/11 more than ever before. >> on mark's point sins the burden on the taliban for this reconciliation process it would be an opportunity for the taliban to clarify and reassure women of afghanistan on this point. how do you assess the ability of the loyal opposition to mobilize afghans to participate in the country's politics and how do new address issue of the split between north and south and mobilizing the south particularly in the direction of democracy and development? >> we have good qu

statehouse voted 86-62 to repeal the state death penalty following a vote in the senate and democraticit into law. we know this will make the nutmeg state the 17th state to ban the death penalty and the fifth in five years only 33 more to go. we now know that last month was hottest march in the united states on record thanks to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration which has temperature records dating back over 117 years we know 15,000 distinct all-time temperature records were set across the country and thanks to the environmental visualization lab we just know what climate change actually looks like. we now know that the president will not be signing an executive order that will require those companies with federal contracts not to discriminate against gay, lesbian, or bisexual people. he is on record supporting the employment nondiscrimination act that would make it the law but there aren't the votes for it and the white house as part of the we can't wait campaign has been far more muscular to push through other policies. we're reminded in 2012 it is not against the la

based on what you see on the democratic national committee -- >> well, that is from the republican statehouses education, health care and the economy being number one through three, and understanding that, this is a national conversation about the economy and to both of your points here, the question then becomes is if i'm a member of congress in virginia perhaps that the state matters at both the republican and the democratic levels i want president obama on my side if i'm a democrat and mitt romney on my side if i'm a republican, but to your point if i'm in california or massachusetts, i'm on my own. >> or virginia, florida, and you have lots of company. >> and sometimes you want it and sometimes you don't and it depends upon what kind ofç district you are running in. members of congress are all about running for the re-election, because politics is local, but we know that the national polls show that the congressional approval rating is 12%, but when you ask that person about the local member of congress, that number is higher. >> not everybody hates their member of congress, but they hate

state after state, we are seeing newspapers eliminating positions, eliminating reporters in the statehouse able to focus on this. so you have less investigative reporting going on. that's one of the reasons we did this project. host: he brought the issue of partisan politics as well. don on twitter rights -- -- writes -- did you find this broke down along a party line? guest: we did not find that and we're not even saying that in the report. some states have democrats and others have republican spirit that is not an issue we have sorted out that way. i don't think you can find that in the study. host: talk about the center for public integrity and what you do their. guest: we are 22-year-old investigative news organization. we do major projects, getting data and documents, and then doing an investigation. those investigations show all over in the washington post or the new york times or "the huffington post" or npr, and the news hour. people use our work. right now we have a big project looking at money and politics in the super pacs. that is an area where we see a lot of money. host: wher