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. >>> thank you, senator ted kaufmann of delaware. >>> senate majority leader harry reid, scheduling a vote. it would clear the way for a full debate of financial reform. we'll have special coverage of that event. and next thursday, we're taking this show downtown, broadcasting live from the march on wall street at city hall. that next week. that will do it for today. "hardball" up right now. >>> nasty business, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, going negative. senator arlen specter has attacked democratic congressman joe sestic's military record. a new commercial opens by saying that he was relieved of duty by a 31-year naval career. with just four weeks to go before the primary, why is he doing this? it's our top story tonight. >>> also, president obama takes on wall street, the president traveled just a few subway stops from wall street to urge the wall street's masters of the universe, not to fight proposed new regulation. >> unless your business model depends on bilking people, there's little to fear from these new ru

and louise join others like of course, the sheriff of wall street, eliot spitzer, lawmakers like ted kaufmann, congressman allen grayson. check out dylan.msnbc.com for a full list of those who not only get it, but are believers in innovator, investor, a bank designed to lend and invest, not designed to extract and steal. these people are on that mission. and we're all, myself and others, tremendously grateful to them for their help. >>> i want to turn to our dig list now. europe slowly getting airborne again after ash from the icelandic volcano grounded planes. planes have been taking off from paris, madrid and frankfurt. the ash cloud is shrinking. the volcano switching do lava production. i don't know. >>> new details about a cyberattack that hit google last december. remember this whole china google routine. hackers targeted a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company's web services, including email and business applications. think about gmail. passwords weren't stolen but the hackers may have found weaknesses that google wasn't aware

people like senator ted kaufmann, senator sharrod brown, senator blanche lincoln, dick durbin, maria can'twell, carl levin. bernie sanders. they all want an honest debate about the fundamental flaws in the bill. however, those in the leadership role are attempting to quash that debate and serve the bankers who deliver them the money. lawmakers, actually trying to bring transparency to the shadow banks. lawmakers actually trying to stop the police and regulators for being under the employment of the crooks they're supposed to supervise. trying to fix a bill that perpetuates permanently too big to fail. it's a bill that is designed in fact deliberately to hide the next bailout so that congress never has to do it again. and meantime, all of them, the bankers and the politicians, hold you and i prisoner, to too big to fail banks that have only gotten bigger. four of them now control 60% of all the assets in our country. with leverage like that, my friends, you don't need a democracy, you own the place. the goldman sachs lawsuit finally put a spotlight on the dire need to fix the derivati