scott brown, massachusetts, susan collins, maine, lisa merkow ski, alaska, olympia snow main, and senatord paul, kentucky. tim carney, what else happened in that race? i'm thinking about it, remember the name of jack davis. >> he was a democrat who was running a pretend tea party candidacy. >> what happened? >> he brought in 9%. >> did they do that with a purpose in mind? >> yes, i think -- >> it's a convinced democrat. >> yes. >> and he managed the tea party -- >> may have done that -- [everyone talking at once] >> yes, they had done in in other districts. >> why did they do that? >> it was a strategy they tried in other districts. [everyone talking at once] delivering this republican seat to the democrats. >> i don't think you can say every one of his votes would orwin. >> how many would you say would have gone to him? >> i don't know it. would have bin a -- the fact -- [everyone talking at once] >> the fact that it was 4 points. >> now, he would even easily have delivered that. [everyone talking at once] >> playing math is not politics, john. that's traditionally republican district. t

is pretty snow susan collins yeah go ahead maybe even and maybe even john boehner and what about dick lugar you know i know that a couple of these guys behave like the adheres all through but in the house of representatives harder but here's the here's the deal and this is the important thing to john boehner this is a whole bunch i mean this guy's got to grow up he's got to be an adult and he has going to have to govern. he has a majority but he has the discipline and if you want to look for an example of how to do that look at nancy pelosi you know she disciplined a really tough majority ansi flosi though we're a seven hour seven day week so she works ten hour days and the cause that i'm hearing in town and i don't think i'm talking out of school is that john boehner works a four or five hour day or six or seven at the most i'm really likes to show up in the evening at the clubs and got a couple of balls but a little bit famous for sitting out on the one of the decks of the capitol sunning it midday so you know this is a guy who has has not shown the personal discipline or the politi

[applause] >> i am susan collins a senator from maine. i have always been an avid reader i usually have a book going in washington and one in maine and the one most recently finished is lee scott brown nemours who is my colleague who is a senator from massachusetts. this truly is extraordinary and is very well written and its gets me a lot of insights about scott brown and his very difficult childhood. it is absolutely amazing he has accomplished as much as he had considering the impoverished and difficult childhood that he had. anyone who loves force will love the book because in some ways it was coaches and basketballs that saved scott brown. of books that i am reading right now is the fifth witness. this is a series of books that one lawyer who largely practices at of the back of his car son known as the lincoln lawyer series it is great fun moving right along and is end nice break to read this before i go to bed. this summer, i will read my first e-book realize people have been doing it for years. but this is my first one. it is suppo

thank you, susan collins. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> senator pryor, welcome. >> thanks for having me. i think everybody understands this now but we want to make sure everybody in the stands the trend is adequate you haven't the guts get one more hand. [applause] and i really just want to say one thing. i know davis more from arkansas is here. thank you for being here and all of you in the blue shirts, if you are making a difference. thank you for coming to washington and fighting a good fight. it is certainly a fight worth having and thank you for all the things you represent and are going to accomplish. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> leading off the first panel this morning is academy-award winning actor maaskant long time jdrf advocate kevin kline. one of our country's finest films and stage actors as senator lieberman mentioned mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he t

thank you, susan collins. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> senator pryor, welcome. >> thanks for having me. i think everybody understands this now but we want to make sure everybody in the stands the trend is adequate you haven't the guts get one more hand. [applause] and i really just want to say one thing. i know davis more from arkansas is here. you are making a difference. alf thank you for coming to washington and fighting a good fight. it is certainly a fight worth having and thank you for all the things you represent and are going to accomplish. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> leading off the first panel this morning is academy-award winning actor maaskant long time jdrf advocate kevin kline. one of our country's finest films and stage actors as senator lieberman mentioned mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he testified before our committee ten years ago at our 2001 hea

thank you, susan collins. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> senator pryor, welcome. >> thanks for having me. i think everybody understands this now but we want to make sure everybody in the stands the trend is adequate you haven't the guts get one more hand. [applause] and i really just want to say one thing. i know davis more from arkansas is here. thank you for being here and all of you in the blue shirts, if you are making a difference. thank you for coming to washington and fighting a good fight. it is certainly a fight worth having and thank you for all the things you represent and are going to accomplish. thank you. >> thank you, senator. [applause] >> leading off the first panel this morning is academy-award winning actor maaskant long time jdrf advocate kevin kline. one of our country's finest films and stage actors as senator lieberman mentioned mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he t

. >> i am susan collins, senator from maine. i have always been an avid reader. i usually have a book going here in washington and one in maine as well. the book that most recently finished reading is scott brown's memoir. he is my colleague, the senator from massachusetts. this truly has been an extraordinary book. it is very well written and moves right along and gives me a lot of insight about scott brown and his very difficult childhood. it is absolutely amazing that he has accomplished as much as he has given what an impoverished and difficult childhood he had. anyone who loves sports will love this book because in some ways it is basketball that save scott brown. a book that i am reading right now is michael connolly's the fifth window. this is the series of books that involves a lawyer who largely practices out of the back of his car so they are often known as the lincoln lawyer series. it is great fun. it moves right along and is a nice read from all my briefing books to read before i go to bed. this summer i am going to read my first the book. i realize

susan collins this week asked the question, "tell me how this ends?" and nobody can tell.re is no definition of victory. there is no prospect of victory. and i think in part, his exorritation, the draw-down, which is coming from the united states, is to try and keep nato from even making theirs more dramatic cutback in the afghan--. >> brown: do you sense this debate over the draw-down is-- i mean, something happened this week. it got stronger this week, didn't it? >> the call for the drawdown? >> brown: yes. >> the politics have changed a little. i think if you look at the polling, people are suspicious of it. the country's hurting economically. why are we spending money over there? but i think gate's argument, he said there has been progress in afghanistan. if we can sustain fighting in at this pace and make this progress at this pace for another fighting season and maybe a little longer, thin the taliban will be weaker and have an incentive to negotiate. that's his strategy, and i think it's a plausible strategy. he's to be trusted, maybe more than anybody else. i would

. >> i'm susan collins, senator from. i've always been an avid reader.ally have a book going here in washington and one in maine as well and the book that is most recently finished reading is scott brown's memoir. he's my colleague, the senator from massachusetts. this truly is an extraordinary book. it's very well for threatened -- well written and gives me insight into why scott brown and his difficult childhood. it's amazing that he has accomplished as much as he has. given what an impoverished and difficult to childhood that he had a. anyone who loves sports will love this book because in some ways coaches and basketball saved scott brown. a book that i am reading right now is michael connelly the fifth witness. this is a series of books that involved a lawyer who is largely practiced his worn out of the back of his car. his lincoln so they are often known as the lincoln collier series. it's great fun and moves right along and it's a nice break from all of my briefing books to read this right before we go to bed. faugh this summer i am going to read

susan collins, senator from maine. i've always been an avid reader, i usually have a book going here in washington and one in maine as well. and the book that identify most recently finished -- i've most recently finished reading is scott brown's memoir, he's my colleague, the senator from massachusetts. this, truly, is an extraordinary book. t very well written, it moves right along, and it gives me a lot of insights about scott brown and his very difficult childhood. it's absolutely amazing that he's accomplished as much as he has given what an impoverished and difficult childhood that he had. anyone who loves sports will love this book because in many some ways it was coaches and basketball that really safed -- saved scott brown. a book that i'm reading right now is michael connolly's "the fifth witness." this is a series of books that involve a lawyer who largely practices law out of the back of his car. his lincoln. so they're often known as the lin cob lawyer series. -- lincoln lawyer series. it's just great fun,

. >> here admitted to susan collins, the white house gave him a dollar figure and said start cutting.president in the size of the target that $4 hundred helped billion that has been assigned to the department of defense? >> i was informed about it the day before it was announced. >> hoary knows cuts are coming, but made a last appeal for the scalpel. >> we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. we are meant mostly by taking a percentage off the top of everything. >> gates said when you think about cutting off aid to countries like afghanistan and pakistan, it shouldn't be done as an accounting issue, but should be done looking at the long-term effects into the future. he also said that cutting the money to the defense department and to the military has to be done with an eye to what sort of role you want the u.s. to play down the road. he said it runs the risk of hollowing out the force. some of the supporters of a more conservative fiscal strategy who want to see budget cuts will say the u.s. has the most powerful military in the world. they can afford to make cuts. wolf? >> chris