that's the one piece of good news that tim pawlenty could finally help this state. >> pawlenty is a lot like bush. he is a conservative, but fiscally, he's even tighter than bush. he said this about the cash for clunkers. here it is. >> the effect of this is that we pulled the demand forward and just dissipating what was future demand for car sales. see that in the numbers today. along the way we hurt the used car lots, salvage industry, charitable industry that converted old cars and more. i would not support increasing those programs. there's a joke that says the main value for the cash for clunkers program, we may get a lot of cars with obama stickers off the road. >> get a lot of cars with obama stickers off the road. i don't know what you think, i think that's border line racist, class warfare because of the economic disparity in this country. is this who this guy is? really now being cast on the national scene, going to get a lot of attention now. is he known for saying stuff like this? >> you're going to have fun with this guy, ed schultz. look, i guess you can make a joke of som

how are they doing when luke at mitt romney, newt gingrich, haley barbour, tim pawlenty, sarah palin, you know, your colleagues? >> my friends. >> who is being snapped up by who? >> governor pawlenty is making headlines now because he is moving quickly and moving early. obviously, that was a strategic decision there are a lot of very, very talented campaign staffers out there who were with mitt romney last time and inclined to be with him this time. i think most of the senior staff of the romney organization are committed to mitt romney but people on the mid level, i know that governor pawlenty is going to them saying, look, you go back to mitt romney world, you will have the exact same job you had last time, all those senior people are still going to be there come to my campaign and you can really grow. you can get promoted up the food chain. this is the silly season right now, everyone is running, all running for president but they are all pretending not to be running for president because the absolute worst thing you can do as far as republican activists are concerned is to look li

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. >>> minnesota reason governor tim pawlenty is making the media rounds fresh off his political action committee this week. he's taking all the he'll really going to run for president attention. he's gone on fox news to make a poor people joke. >> the main value of the cash for clunkers that we'll get a lot of cars with obama stickers off the road. >> because only poor people would vote for a guy like obama. anybody who voted for obama probably had a really lame car. if you've got a really nice car, keep in mind, tim pawlenty doesn't want you embarrassing him with your vote. >>> okay, as promised, tonight's moment of geek. the kakapo is the largest and rarest parrot in the world. it was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in the 1970s. it's a ground dwelling bird, which might have something to do that there's only 124 kokopos known to be left in the entire world. and thanks to the recovery plan, the remaining kakapos live on the island of new zealand wris where they're originally from. during mating season, the kakapo inflates his whole body like a plan, then he emits a lou

in fact, the number one question on tim pawlenty's mind is what do i have to call obama to finance my 2012 race, because that's the only way he's going to finance it. >> tonight's big winner, austin goldsby, president obama's head economic advisor, he was named washington's funniest celebrity. >> the economy? >> like that title. >> i'm not sure. >> are we going to have to turn the heat on tonight, bob? it's borderline. >> you know. >> it's a not tough anymore. >> outside today, we had cold winds coming in and we had very very astute viewers. >> we have the identity now? >> mary alexander, among others sent me the name. now we know. that's what we're here for. outside temperature. and thanks for sending that in, our temperature is a chilly 57 degrees after 70 degrees. our average low now, october is the month our average low temperature drops the most. tomorrow morning, 56 is our average low, by the end of the month, it's down into the low 40s. 70 here. can you see where that cold air is coming from? that was the high temperature in buffalo today, 50 degrees. 46 right now. they've been

is tim pawlenty a guy that excites republicans right now?> i wouldn't use the word excitement. >> is he a viable candidate for 2012? >> let's go back to going rogue. tim pawlenty, if you named a dark horse for the republican nomination, people are looking at him, saying he's an interesting guy. i've seen him. he does better. he doesn't seem dynamic for tough, but i saw him on one of the national programs. i think he did an excellent job. i think he's a real comer. he's going to be a real competitor. the question is can we get the bonding going that none of them seem to get, except for sarah palin, in the republican party now. >> do you fear that republicans may again nominate someone who excites the republican base but has very little chance of resonating with the broader american voting public. >> i don't know when we did that. i think bush was a more exciting -- i guess mccain in 2000. do i think palin is going to get the nomination? if you ask me now, i would say no. i don't know she's going to run. she had all that problem with her famil

. >>> talking about minnesota there is some new moves today by minnesota governor tim pawlenty, the signal, he wants to make a presidential bid in 2012. right, the republican today launching a political action committee and website to lay the groundwork for a run for the white house. pawlenty was on john mccain's short list for the vice presidential spot in 2008. and since then, he has anoipsd won't be running for a third term as minnesota's governor and starting to chris-cross the country, speaking to republican organizations in swing states such as ohio and florida and has assembled a campaign team. >>> all right, coming up, we will have more on the issue of afghanistan, the top military commander in afghanistan today has some new words. that is right. he says it is a critical time for the u.s. mission there, but are more troops really the answer? >>> plus, 2008 was a rough year for all of us, and that even includes the richest people in the world. >>> and later, new information about michael jackson's health in the days before he died. details from the king of pop's autopsy. was he in g