so tea partiers, worried about tea party candidates being cut up, and they have everything to worry abouting. the guys that use to wave a pitch fork on the way to washington, dc decided to pitch a tent in washington. the bulls are now wearing gloves and putting their tea cups on coasters. it's weird. it's not what bulls in china shops do. it is just not them. their leaders see it. so, now, do you? that is why i am on this like stink on you know what. we let this continue to happen, my friends, our country is going you know where. that fast food place, and i will have a heart attack because i will keep getting upset. will keep getting upset. anyway, stay tuned. will keep getting upset. anyway, stay tuned. boss: uh...what about this? gecko: what's this one do? gecko: um...maybe that one. ♪ dance music boss: ok, let's keep rolling. we're on motorcycle insurance. vo: take fifteen minutes to see how much you can save on motorcycle, rv, and camper insurance. my kids say i speak a different language. but i love math and math and science develop new ideas. we've used hydrogen in our plants for de

will have an impact we don't actually have the tea partiers just because we had the financial crisis that it didn't really matter who the president would have been well it depends on how the president goes about addressing the crisis so i'm not so sure we would have as many tea partiers as we have right now but the tea partiers will change the culture here the question is how will there be unintended consequences in the same way that obama changed washington but in an unintended way well we shall see and hopefully they won't be anything for the worse chuck thanks so much for being here thank you now still to come tonight our tour. time winner is rush limbaugh which took his bigotry to a new level this time telling our native americans to tell you what he said in just a moment and as you know that today is native american heritage day. probably have no clue about this day set aside to remember the first settlers of this country starting to discuss it in depth just a moment. seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team using your headline prime minister vladimir

to the polls it would appear that nothing is energized the republican party more than hot tea tea partiers are the g.o.p.'s competitive edge in this election will the republicans and the entire body politic later regret this. and you can. discuss the tea party's role in american politics i'm joined by steve lesser in new york he's the editor of op ed news in washington we go to phil kerpen he is vice president for policy at americans for prosperity and arlanda we cross to peter brown he's assistant director at university polling institute and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want advice to go to you first even in researching this program i came across a phrase someone describing the tea party movement tea is the republican party's cocaine thrilling for the moment but ruinous over time how would you respond to that statement. i think it's absolutely true i mean you know in the short term the tea party is great for the radical right wing part of the republican party you know people lik

gotten huge ve because they took on tea partiers. rand paul also leads the waony.at squea where joe miller is being threatened. i'm not sure how it's going to work. >> i think alaska is the most fascinating state in the country. it looks like lisa could win a right-wing candidatey. and joe miller the pale-in senator has had a series of problems. you think it's pretty much done for rand paul and marco rubio? do we agree they look pretty strong. >> florida could be a surprise -- chris: yeah, with chris coming week.e in the when john f. kennedy was elected, it was a cliff hanger p and here's the nbc news coverage. >> got the filter, got the blend. news election central, jeff huntly and david brinkley. >> senator kennedy cast his vote today at branch public library. somebody was standing outside holding saying "the landslide begins here." we'll see about the accuracy about that later in the evening. >> we're all waiting in this room to see who will be the next president of the united states. building is a national guard army. it is about

this might be the topic that gets democrats and republicans and even tea partiers together perhaps and it's an earmark. okay, there are people on the democratic side. >> pork. >> and certainly, the tea partiers who are anti-pork and in fact the tea party has more of a coalition to press the g.o.p. to ban all earmarks and some republicans are pushing back on this, and saying that they don't want to do that. >> right, senator jim demint who you might a call the tea party senator on the right leading the charge and on the top, starts at the top. the president talked about banning earmarks in his radio or youtube address on saturday. listen to what he had to say. >> we have a chance to go further, on a bad washington habit that wastes billions of taxpayer dollars and taking steps to restoring public trust and bans the interests not of republicans and democrats, but of the american people. >> i'm sorry, clayton, no one is talking about compromise. the president didn't say i want to compromise with jim demint and the republicans and jim demint didn't mention the democrats or president when h

expecting and reasonably so what is what is your thoughts i mean could we get even more extreme tea partiers going forward say because we need more tea party. i'll say my opinion it's more of a fringe stuff you know i'm not a witch stuff i mean is that what's going to energize people to vote again because if there is gridlock somebody is going to be blamed and it will be a plague on both your houses do you worry about that as a democrat. well you know you can say the tea party is a bunch of individual ideas and individual states when you have one vote in congress you can have to vote on it and then suddenly you have a national issue so for example i watched the tea party press one of their leaders talk about they might even have to compromise on the debt ceiling and the way they would do it is if there's also stated a limitation on spending that can joins the fact they have to raise the debt ceiling so even the tea party is going to have to compromise but they haven't got a clue about their positions because they will not be able to stop spending on social security and medicare those are des

program with the word paradox i'd like to ask another paradox i think that's in play right now the tea partiers and a lot of republicans that are echoing tea party part of the tea partiers. you know through the campaign you know get rid of government and cut taxes if i can if the caricature of their point of view how do you pay for wars then ok and again that's something that really hasn't been brought up is in your mind in the end i know there's so little information out there about it because the election was just only a few days ago but is defense going to be off the table you know get rid of social security but you can't touch defense i mean what's your sense of it because at the end of the day there's going to be a contradiction if you want to cut government there is a lot of fat you can cut from the military even even the secretary of defense has said that. yeah i don't think that i really don't believe that when you look at the military budget you know that you're going to cut that dramatically i believe like all budgets there is a lot of fat in the military budget but you know when you

they're very aware of this republican leaders, are working to find ways to include tea partier partiers, moving forward. they're talking about weekly press conferences. many of the members of the current leadership aren't keen on that. >> the president, we heard him in india today talking about making these mid-course corrections, in response to the republican's victory on tuesday during the elections, however top republicans were on tv sounding not too conciliatory, what's the prospects of bipartisanship? >> highly unlikely. republicans know they won the election primarily because of who they weren't. they also know that the white house is looking to be looking for ways that divide republicans along the way. i think that the prospect for the next two years is most likely to be much more gridlock. >> we may be in for an interesting couple of years. rick, thank you very much for your reporting. that does it for our political coverage tonight. >>> now to a dire report that we heard out of haiti today. for a while this weekend, it was looking like haiti caught a break, when hurricane tomas

here comes the tea partier. this sound coming from newly elected member of the congress, alan nonelism he says he is going to threaten to shut down the government if the president doesn't wipe the health care bill off the books. here it is. >> are you willing to participate in what would lead to a shutdown of the federal government to stop this monstrosity from going down the tracks? >> i agree with congressman boehner. we need to do what ever is necessary to make sure this bill never goes into effect. >> are you willing to participate in a shutdown of the federal government if that's the only way to get the president to come to the able? >> yeah. >> laura, what do you think? >> i mean, yes, on the one hand, republicans are desperate to do away with this bill because heaven forbid we have more americans with a government program that they actually feel wedded to that they enjoy, they get something from, like medicare, like social security. the point here is i think we are set egg the bar here high for government

>> not just tea partiers. earmarkers are unpopular with 20, 25% of the public as a hole. win for a republican party. understanding the message. it strengthens jim demint's hand and a bit of a moment for mitch mcconnell. he wouldn't had gone as far out as he has opposing this. he said this is crazy. you are not going to su stain this, but this is important. he's proud of what he as done for kentucky. if you are senator for 25 years you define yourself with senator of kentucky and worthwhile earmarks that you he secured. >> fusion in paducah. >> yeah. >> had to be in paducah. if it had been in the normal legislative process, would haven't been efficient. but he swallowed hard to give the statement but i give him credit for doing it. interesting moment where we are seeing that the republican establishment is adapting to the tea party. trent lott, the republican leader said, was quoted in the "washington post" saying the tea partiers will get here and we'll domesticate them. we to get them under in control. it's more the opposite. >> talk about extending the bush era tax cut.

there's the tea partier, the write-in, and the football coach with an old family feud for good measure. alaska likes to brag it's the last wild state. and this senate race just might prove it. and all in -- election day is upon us. and the stakes have never been higher. "nightline" brings you your essential election guide in this special program, starting right now. >>> good evening. i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with politics. in what's shaping up to be a watershed election. it's ironic that perhaps the dominant figure on the campaign trail this year is not even running for office. at least not yet. sarah palin has endorsed 50 candidates in the midterms. if many of them win, it will add to palin's reputation as a kingmaker and fuel speculation that she will pursue the biggest prize of all, the presidency. so, will she run or won't she? my co-anchor bill weir has our report. ♪ >> reporter: it is election season in west virginia. there's ted nugent with the anthem. and a hopeful senator on stage. but there is no disputing the star attraction. >> sarah palin! >> reporter: a name

a state that democrats and liberals are making is they're not talking to the tea partiers that they're backing off and and adjusting and censoring themselves and inflating the power of the tea partiers and so is the media i mean the only three four hundred thousand people who call themselves tea party used who spent more than twenty hours in the last six months under initiatives and going to rallies and so forth but you have glenn beck you have fox network you have even the washington post in a new york times pushing pushing and so exaggerates them and that intimidates the democrats to be less progressive and less liberal and so has the momentum in politics you simply asked one question who's on the on fence even who's on the defensive once the democrats turn became on the defensive they're falling backward and they're not going to recover the dangers of corporate capitalism is something that you've been following all your life i wonder about the corporate influence in this election cycle and in washington in general are the corporations creating movements like the tea party to maintai

turning dozens of blue congressional districts red and launching a new tea partiers into the senate. >> we've come to take our government back! >> reporter: and so this morning washington woke up to a new reality. speaker boehner. >> last night, the president was kind enough to call me. we discussed working together on the american people's priorities. >> reporter: working together. that's the challenge ahead for these two very different men. men who have proved themselves to be canny and skilled politicians, now thrown together at the pinnacle of american power. >> when you're in this place, it is hard not to seem removed. >> reporter: president obama today seemed chastened, aware that the wave that made john boehner speaker carried a message for him. and he clearly wanted to say he got the message. >> this is something that i think every president needs to go through. now, i'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacer like i did last night. you know, i'm sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. >> reporter: right now, it might seem boehner has

beforehe tea partiers take office. but they are challenging president obama tonight to match the republican move and ban ear ma. from capitol hill, news4. >>> president obama plans to meet with congressional leaders from both parties at the white house thursday night. he's invited four leaders fm each party to join him for dinner at the residence. >> coming up tonight, a report that more full body scab and passenger pat-downs could add up to holiday delays at the airports. >>> a new project to save d.c.'s historic buildings from flooding will disrupt traffic at the heart of thecity. >>> [ beeping ] ♪ my country ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i sing [ laughs ] ♪ oh, land ♪ where my fathers dd ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring ♪ >>> he's worked out a pretty good deal. he's figured out how to be at the football game. >> don't you think the weatherman should know when he needs a coat or not? >> they've already given him a pretty hard time about that. what's your

but that is a nonnegotiable proposition for virtually all tea partiers. they have an ally in president obama, of all people, who is endorsing the ban. so, it's going to be quite the fight to see play out in both the house and the senate of republican conferences. >> all right, rick, thank you so much. >>> we turn next to a developing story in ohio tonight, where one member of an ohio family that mysteriously vanished last week, a 13-year-old girl, has been found, bound and gagged, but alive, about ten miles from her home. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: 13-year-old sara maynard is alive. a s.w.a.t. team found her bound and gagged inside the basement of this home near columbus, ohio. >> that is good news. and it scary because i live right there. >> reporter: police say this man, 30-year-old matthew hoffman, was taken into custody and charged with kidnapping. >> my friend dated him and she just broke up with him. he had choked her. >> reporter: police say they don't know how hoffman is c connected to the family, but his mother lives within walking distanc

and tea partiers. they energized voters, struck fear into republicans and democrats alike, and they insist they're here to stay. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: and this is a special western edition. good evening, everyone. control of the new 112th congress is on the line this midterm election night. the polls are now closed in more than half the states, including arkansas where cbs news projects republican john boozeman has defeated senator blanche lincoln. she's the first incumbent democrat in the senate to lose a seat tonight. another senate pickup for the g.o.p., indiana. dan coats takes the seat of retiring democrat evan bayh. in the bellwether state of ohio, we project rob portman the winner. the seat remains republican. in connecticut, democrat richard blumenthal is the projected winner his race against republican linda mcmahon, former c.e.o. of the w.w.e . in florida, tea party favorite marco

>> and more than the number of tea partiers in congress is the fact that every republican in congress is looking over his or her shoulder afraid of a primary challenge and that's going to suggest that the only safe vote for a republican on anything that has money attached is a no. >> and the place where sarah palin and the tea parties are going to have the most lasting effect is in the presidential primaries, starting up in a few months. gwen: that's where i was going. >> the message is unmistakable. if you are in a situation like all the presidential candidates will be depending on grass-roots activists, that you've got to bow to them. again and again in primaries those people showed their willingness to punish incumbent republicans they thought were too moderate and richly reward people who agreed with them and all these presidential candidates learned that lesson well, i think. >> the tea party has to have some learning in it. one of the lessons of tuesday night was that while the voters liked the revolt, there were some rebels they just didn't like, like sharron angle and ken buck

do you think the tea partiers come in and the moderates go right? is that how it gets better?xactly the case. what has to happen as a natural consequence of political gravity, if you will, if they are going to be successful going forward, there has to be common ground seized upon. unless and until that occurs, if there is a further movement to the right, for example, though it's hard to imagine how much more right it can go, that is going to be difficult for successful race in the future. people want to be focused on jobs, cutting spending and working together to get that done regardless of strong ideology right or left. >> jim morrison died 30 years ago. you are about to pardon him. why do it? >> for justice. when you review the case and rlsz wharealize what happened o, it seems the right thing to do for his legacy and his family. >> charlie crist, the out going governor of my mom's state. thanks for being here. a quick commercial break, then neil cavuto. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medi