she has a $2 million war chest and tommy thompson comes in at $600,000. not that he can't catch up. obviously this will be a close race all the way. now let's turn to washington, d.c., and tammy bald win, representative baldwin so glad to have you been the "war room." >> i'm thrilled to join you. >> your race is one of the hottest races -- if not the hottest race in the country. and why is everybody watching this race from your perspective? >> in part because of what you suggest about how much is happening in the state of wisconsin right now, and so we know that we're going to have a recall race this summer, and right on its heels will be the fall elections, we have to recollect our president, of course, i'm running for the open us senate seat but you know there's also a battle for control of the u.s. senate. this is really crucial, especially when we see some very dangerous proposals coming out of the house of representatives. we need that -- that senate to be the folks protecting the people. i know you have given considerable at attention over the past weeks on the paul ryan budge

tommy thompson was thing to tell the women of afghanistan. >> what is the motivation? you have seen the polls. why would the republicans be behind this tax why would the president be behind this ta? >> an old afghanistan taught me a new word. it is reify. i looked it up. reify is the confusion of a concept with reality. that is the word everyone was using in afghanistan. we were confusing a concept with reality. >> do not believe it? are they consciously misleading the american people? >> we are in an election cycle. sometimes elections make for bad strategy. >> co back to the checks and balances. congress has been over there. did you run into any members of congress? >> i did not. i did spend some time with some people out of holbrook's office. we are missing parts. we would send money out but we cannot send people to oversee its. usaid was given an enormous amount of money but they had virtually no staff people to oversee its. at one point, at each staffer was overseeing $2.7 million worth of contracts. locally they were ever seen $1.2 million. it was a war zone. you

. >> what is the story of the 2003 visits of tommy thompson, the george bush administration? >> there is a woman's hospital that became a case in point into how things could differ so dramatically. tommy thompson had gotten involved with the help of the military to help modernize the women's hospital. we were going to improve its. in the mortality is extremely high in afghanistan. there is no sanitation. people were defecating in corners. women were birthing on plastic sheets. an officer has been part of this. he was told this was one of our premier projects. he was a health official in mexico. origins in new mexico now. he said he'd never seen anything like this. he said i never have to see this again. the infant mortality rate skyrocketedtommy thompson was thing to tell and the women of afghanistan. -- said we helped the women of afghanistan. >> what is the motivation? you have seen the polls. why would the republicans be behind this tax why would the president be behind this? >> an old afghanistan taught me a new word. it is reify. i looked it up. reify is the confusion of

led by tommy thompson to get this going. we think we should reform the other welfare programs along the same way, because the approach i would argue, there are two ways of looking at this. at the safety net. number one, is our objective to treat the systems of poverty, to make it easier to tolerate and cope with and live with, or is our objective to look at the root causes of poverty to try and erat indicated it? and what we're trying to do is end a cycle of poverty by going at the root causes of poverty. and what we have learned is throwing more money at these programs without reforming them doesn't actually succeed to getting people on the lives of upward mobility and independence. so we want to reform these programs so that people actually get on their feet, on to self-sufficiency, and you can't do that if you don't have a growing economy there offering jobs and opportunities for them to enter into. >> we've got time tore just one more. one right here. >> chairman ryan, good morning. david french. with ens resources. how

running for senate, she's going to tell what's she's doing to take out probably former governor tommy thompsonrepublicans have a primary there, but its likely he's going to win. she's going to talk about the issues in her race. then we'll go to kathleen salk in the democratic run for governor. she hopes to take over scott walker in the fall. sheas turning into a hot and nasty campaign. she's not backing down. we might have a few things to say about the motor city mad moan, too. >> we were talking about wisconsin the other night. i can't figure out what is going on out there. they have these fictitious candidates being permitted to run, and it sounds like seven grade politics not the grown up world where you run for office because you want to win. it's like the which would west. i can't figure it out. >> wisconsin is such a fascinating state, and paul ryan is from there, too. there is going on in wisconsin. >> fascinating is not the first word that would spring to mind. but as jennifer, you're more diplomatic than i have. more viewpoint coming up next. i know this stuff and i love it and i try

. >> you have a big race nationally which is the race where tommy thompson is to run against tammy bawlwhat is going to happen there? >> i think tammy is going to be a really, really strong candidate. she is raising a lot of money, getting around the states, she is doing everything she can. i think it's time to kind of turn the page and move on. we can't just keep going back -- let's let some new people in there to do it and i think tammy was be a tremendously new and vital person -- >> she is going to be on the show later this week -- >> good, your viewers will get a chance to really meet her. >> i can only ask this of another former governor, when you were governor -- and when you left actually, you were championed as one of the most pro choice defenders of women in the country of all governors, and you had blocked a number of issues lot of bills that attempted to rescind that, now the successor comes in and undoes a lot of what you had protected. how does that feel? >> it isn't about me. it's about women. you wonder what world do we live in when you pass the laws that they have in wi

montana, where denny ray burg is ahead and wisconsin tommy thompson is ahead and ohio.ven in some other states like michigan, they're within five points, north dakota as a likely pickup. >> when we're talking about a shift. how many seats do you think will shift over, some will obviously keep their seats and we've had an unusual level of retirements, and tell us what you see the makeup of the senate being after november. >> a lot can happen between now and then, but if you look at the current polling and project it. you're looking at a republican gain of ten seats, and a probable loss of two. and we might lose scott brown in massachusetts, and we might-- and the olympia snowe seat to angus king allegedly an independent, but really a democrat. but i think what may be a net republican pickup of eight seats which would give the republicans 55 seats in the senate. and basically, practically, even though it's not officially 60. with a sure passage of most of what will be president romney's agenda. >> so, speaking of the audience-- (applause) >> certainly agrees with that. bu

tommy thompson. [cheers and applause] jeff fitzgerald. good luck in your u.s. senate race.son. now, you can applaud. [applause] thank you. this is one of my favorite parts of any gathering. i would like to have all our veterans and the families of veterans please stand. [applause] thank you for your sacrifice that gives us our freedoms and our liberties and protect us. thank you. god bless you. i am excited to be able to introduce our next speaker. he is the founder and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition. he is the senior adviser to bush-cheney campaigns. they're only a few of the titles for him. [laughter] at least one relative is here. as chairman of the georgia republican party, he led the gop to its biggest victory in history, helping to elect the first republican governor since reconstruction. as executive director of the christian coalition from 1989 to 1987, he built one of the most effective public policy organizations and political history. he is a best-selling author, husband, father, and a true patriot for conservative american values. ladies and gentlem

. >> so tommy thompson, s likely to get that g.o.p. nomination, they haven't selected that yet and he's likely to face congresswoman tammy baldwin running to be the first openly lesbian senator in the country. so that will be a very close race. this is a very important battleground state in the presidential election and obviously there's a lot of attention because of the governor's recall that's going to be this summer with governor scott walker there, a republican. >> suarez: in virginia, one of the longest of the long nights in 2006 jim webb decided not to fight to keep his seat. another open one. >> and virginia always takes on national implications in part because it's in washington, d.c.'s backyard but also because you've got big personalities there and you've got tim kaine, former governor, former democratic national committee chairman, one of barack obama's best friends running for the democratic ticket there and george alan, the former senator, who jim web unseated in 2006 wants his seat back. he obviously still has national am

. >> so tommy thompson, s likely to get that g.o.p.ination, they haven't selected that yet and he's likely to face congresswoman tammy baldwin running to be the first openly lesbian senator in the country. so that will be a very close race. this is a very important battleground state in the presidential election and obviously there's a lot of attention because of the governor's recall that's going to bth sumr with govnor ott walke there, a repuican >> sarez: virginia, one of the longest of the long nights in 2006 jim webb decided not to fight to keep his seat. another open one. >> and virginia always takes on national implications in part because it's in washington, d.c.'s backyard but also because you've got big personalities there and you've got tim kaine, former governor, former democratic national committee chairman, one of barack obama's best friends running for the democratic ticket there and george alan, the former senator, who jim web unseated in 2006 wants his seat back. he obviously still has national ambitions. this is a lot

out of delaware, a safety out of south carolina state, christian thompson and out of cali and then tommy from the university of miami. baseball now on frank robinson notes. orioles pitcher got to see how you really throw a ball as a hall of famer. here's ken. allowed one run with the desoto home. two over seven. ten outs, 2-0. got the base loaded. the birds scored 5-1 in the sixth and then hit cruise control. chris davis has three hits, two rbis tonight. starting out the day helping out the little leaguers around town and then smacked a solo homer all the way to utah street. 25th oriole to do so and with a diving, robert andino, orioles win game two. birds now 13-8 and in first place tied in the american league games. so who wins the three-game series now tied in one of these? find out tomorrow when we bring you o's/a's tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. on wjz. collegiate men's lacrosse. john hopkins. loyola valiantly fought back. watch rob geeda for hopkins. the first of the season in the 9 in overtime. loyola dropped 3-12 and 1. cats losing 1-0 in this eastern conference semifinal. that's the seco

thompson and asa jackson. in these sectors around, tommy streeter. finally, from georgia, deangelo tyson.the selections from friday courtney upshaw, kelechi osemele and bernard pierce. they are pretty excited. >> i am happy about the situation i landed in. it is an honor to be on a team like this. they are very physical. it is the way i'd like to play. >> after going home at night, i was hoping to talk to my agent and my family. baltimore picked me up. once i got the call, i was very excited. >> ravens fans should be, too. impressive to get courtney upshaw. johns hopkins and top right loyola after their annual men's lacrosse game going in opposite directions. some habits are hard to break. the 50th meeting in the series of -- 46 of the first 49 went to hopkins. coppersmith with the rocket shot. hawkins took a 5-0 lead. down 9-8 in the second. tied at 9-9. overtime. final seconds. the feed. it went in. hopkins snapped loyola at 12- game winning streak. we showed you the perfect tribute to frank robinson -- a bronze statue north of center field. it is a tremendous weight to the map -- comme

thompson in the fourth round. in the fifth they took a cornerback is the jackson. finally, they got a new target for joe flacco taking tommy schrader. so they've got the new class of rookies. including one that i'm sure all of the sportscasters are going to do exactly what we did the first time they roll out his name or your. >> if he's busy, let's hope they learn it fast. >> that so they can so all of the letters on the back of his or z. >> number something. >> number 12! great day shaping up a little damp if you're going all because of the rain that moved through yesterday. it did come through late enough in the day that most folks did not have their plans dampened by the showers that came through. a few rumbles of thunder, mostly south of the region. those stars that we talked about toward the midwest are still very potent. they are moving our way. we will see them around tuesday or so. of course, taking a look at the two stadiums. you will see the orioles on wjz today. that came at 1:30. raven sitting pretty quietly right now. 46 degrees right now. 42 is your dewpoint, relative humidity at 85%, westwind at 6 miles per