because today, we're awarding the home on your show, to sergeant toomey and his family. [applaus [applause] >> rebecca, rebecca-- >> how are you doing? [applause] >> is that pretty good news? >> i'm going to cry. >> i'm going to cry it's remarkable. it's magnificent and a fantastic opportunity to see this couple get their home and when we come back, we'll talk with them more and explain the incredible program that general sisco made possible for our wounded heroes. stay with us. congratulations. [applause]. (applause) >> i tell you, we've had a lot of wonderful moments on this show, but i don't know how we'll ever have one that tops what we just experienced when one of our wounded heroes who comes back from serving his country on the show has been presented a brand new home, tommy and rebecca toomey holding a key to the home. rebecca, what is the greatest thing you think of when you move your family into the home. >> being stable. we're not moving tomorrow, we doesn't have to go anywhere, this is where we're going to be and just being safe, like just-- >> you guys sent a

was toomey -- >> it looks like toomey voted against it. >> let's be clear. having looked down the list. >> senator toomey, if you can get somebody emailing us, i want to put you on this honor roll. this vote, can i just say john, the reason why we're making such a big deal about this vote, is this vote more than any other vote explains what happened to the republican party over the past decade. these so-called small government conservatives that i worked with, and when i left town, we had $155 billion surplus, there's reason why when bush left town we had a $1.5 trillion deficit. and this $7 trillion medicare part d drug benefit program, that they didn't pay for a cent. all of these so-called republican stalwarts voted for it? >> yes. and willie, how many republicans voted against it? >> 25. >> out of 225. >> so very small number. and if you look at those 25, there are some very good people on the list. but there's reasonably only one, mike pence, who was a conceivable republican presidential candidate this time around. just to make a point. there were not a

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toomey: will the senator yield? ms. mccaskill: absolutely. mr. toomey: thank you very much. that is common refrain from knows who like to go back to earmarking that we can't turn this over to the bureaucrats. who is it that controls the bureaucrats? it is cofnlgt if we think the bureaucrats are allocating resources in a way that we don't approve of, we can change the rules. we write the law that determines the criteria, the metrics, the process by which they compete and evaluate competing projects. that's entirely up to us. so it is not fair for us to suggest that the bureaucrats won't spend it wisely. well then we should set the rules so that they must. and frankly, they don't have the kind of incentives that some people who are holding elective office think they have to try to show up back home with a big oversized check. the bureaucrat doesn't have that incentive. so i would argue that i can't imagine any bureaucrat that would award several hundred million dollars to build a bridge to nowhere or to build a cowgirl hall of fame or an indoor tropical rainforest. these are t

toomey: mr. president, i'd like to make some comments about this amendment, but i will do it at a later time when time is more available. i just want to thank my colleague from maine, my colleague from ohio for their helpful cooperation in this process. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i'd like to discuss for a moment detail about -- we'll do more detail about the amendments later. i want to say a few words about each of them. they are consistent first with the spirit of the underlying bill, a version which i cosponsored. i am particularly appreciative of senator gillibrand for her good work on this overall issue. the underlying stock act clarifies that insider trading laws apply the same way to members of congress as they do to the rest of the country, pure and simple. it makes sense. my amendments would also extend generally applicable laws to members of congress. one amendment would apply financial trade disclosure rules to members in the same way that they apply to oth

toomey, the best way to balance the issues that we have, who knows? in the future, in the housing element might be totally different so it might not matter of. but today, it is a slippery slope. if you make that decision in this case, the floodgates open of all the people who were denied before or all the people want to change something. if we were talking about rh3 going down to two units, that would be one thing. we are talking about a situation where we are going from a block that is rh3, they forgot -- the predominant houses in the unit are three-unit buildings. it will go down to a one-unit building. i am try to accommodate their interest and respect the housing element in a way to apply what we assessed should be the law of the lead for san francisco. i'm not saying it is perfect or ideal, but we have credibility here because of what is actually the case. that is why staff recommended disapproval. with many other cases, the staff does not recommend approval. but this one is unique. i have nothing wrong with this family. i am doing what i feel li

and the rick perry superpac make us great again was started by mike toomey who was perry's chief of staff and co-owns an island with dave carney, perry's chief strategist. but just because you spend time on an island with someone does not mean you coordinate with them. after all, gilligan never even learned the professor's real name. so this is a difficult decision. i've talked it over with my spiritual advertiser, i've talked with over with my money. but i haven't yet talked it over with my money's spiritual advisor. please welcome former fec chair general counsel to the 2080 mccain campaign and my personal lawyer, mr. trevor potter. trevor, thank you so much for joining me tonight. (applause) trevor, trevor, you see these shoes? you see those? pretty good. trevor, here's the problem. i need your help. can i run for president and keep my superpac? don't sugarcoat it. >> no. >> stephen: okay, that's a little less sugar than i was hoping for. why? >> you cannot be a candidate and run a superpac. that would be coordinating with yourself. >> stephen: right. and i would go blind. but here's t

. >> every chapter has somebody, mark co-rubio talks about american exception vandalism and pat toomeybt perspective. i'm trying to sound the alarm like you do every night. after watching it for about ten years and house and senate. i really think this may be our last chance. that is where the title came from, "now or never." >> sean: i have the same sense as you do. i really worry that if we don't correct this ship and get it in the right direction, we're now, what, $16 trillion in debt. $5 trillion in new obama debt. i think a second term of obama, how much more debt can we accumulate? >> we can't sustain borrowing $120 billion every month. we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar. >> it's not doomsday and the point of the book we can solve the problem and we can control our own destiny if we do it now. about but if we wait until things start collapsing. greece has lot control. the things that made america great are still working but greatly diminished. i'm trying to recruit americans to help us. >> sean: south carolina takes on this rule in picking the nominees who is going to be.

. >> toomey was almost the first prototype of a tea bag -- tea partyer. thank you, thank you. >> even though we're after hours. melissa? >> but here is what iowa does. i agree with you, i think he is a blip. i don't think this was sort of a santorum choice or something. and i think the one thing i disagree with there's not this libertarian resurgence. there was a three-way here. santorum, romney and paul. and although iowa doesn't necessarily pick winners, it does often tell us what the agenda will be in terms of the issues going forward and so i look at those three and see the libertarian strain, the kind of small government train that we saw as part of the initial impetus of the tea party. i see this very traditional evangelical christian strain that kept trying to find its place and ended up on santorum and orderly republican establishment. that is what will be fought out. it may not be the personals. one great thing about the santorum birth control stance, of course, there's really only one kind of sexual contact that almost never leads to reproductio

with me now is pennsylvania senator toomey who says we are missing a key part of this argument. >>guest: thanks for having me. i think we are, it is unfortunate that the president is trying to appeal to the worst, and fanning the flames of resentment and create a divide between the american people when he should try to unite and look for ways to create more opportunities. he seems to be paying now with the incest -- incest ensure is higher taxment on investment economy is devastating to the capital because capital formation is the big driver of job creation and economic growth. someone who has investment income already paid income tax on money when they earned it. what he have after tax they choose to invest, say, in a bit, and that business, then, pays taxes on its income as high as 35 percent, and, with what is left over after that, a dividend or capital gains payment goes to the investor and you pay yet another tax and that, maybe, is at 15 percent so to then say that is 15 percent is not as high at 20 percent paid in the first place on someone else's income, that is apples a

toomey -- >> not paul ryan. >> mike pence. >> but not paul ryan. >>> and academy award nominations are out. >> what did you learn? >> i was just reminded of where mika gets her brilliant from -- her father. >> mika, anything? >> my dad is amazing. no, take it away. >> it's early. >> what time is it? >> time for "the daily rundown" with check todd. >>> thank you, guys. that musicals fires me up the showdown in the sunshine state. gingrich didn't take the bait. he came out on top. we'll break it down in minutes. >>> plus mitt's millions under pressure. romney releases his tax returns today, showing about $42 million in income over the last two years. not bad for a guy whose job has been simply preparing for a run for president. >>> the state of union is tonight. the president promises to lay out his vision for strengthening the economy and middle class. a giant platform for what's basically the kickoff to the reelection campaign. it's tuesday, super tuesday. january 24th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. what a packed day from the first five minutes, mitt romney was on

if you put it in context it not the 99 park at the 100 is accurate so i will build a toomey dollar addition. that is going to cost me $4 million in what we know is that the rich scale back when things get more expensive. some people don't believe that. go to new york and compare the living space the rich living in new york with the living space they lived then in wyoming. the high real estate prices in new york induce the risk -- bridge to build smaller living spaces and someone thinking about building a 2 million-dollar addition onto his mansion would say in response to this tax, hold that i'm going to scale back to a 1 million-dollar addition in that way with the tax that it will cost no more than i was planning to spend and if we all scaled back in here is the alchemy inherent in the tax, if we all scaled back none of this is any of the worse for wear. it is a relative mansion size at some point that matters. if we each build smaller additions nobody is less happy than if we each build bigger ones than in the meantime the government has got a million dollars worth of tax revenue and a hi

against pat toomey, who most of us think of as a good conservative. think these are choices that show that really rick santorum running as a conservative may not be all it's cracked up to be. >> as far as the other six republican candidates out there, as far as you know, you're father would vote for any of them over president, is that right? >> all i can say is that i plen to support the republican nominee. my dad will have to speak for himself on what he's decided. i think he would like if the nominee weren't him, but looks like right now, we have a good chance of winning. but if it weren't, he'd like to see a nominee who wouldn't go to war wrecklessly, that the president needs to arooufl of congress and that most americans or many americans, are growing weary of war and would like to see us begin to come home from afghanistan. so i think if he had a nominee that were willing to accept some of those positions, i think he would consider, but ultimately, we're trying to be that nominee. >> how's he going to look tonight, do you think? what are you inte

. >> reporter: edward toomey, a neighbor, said her father had been worried about her for months. >> it was on his mind, you could tell. it was his daughter. you don't know what to say. you can't do anything, can't help him. it was rough. >> reporter: jessica told her family she will be fine, but you can only imagine how traumatic this was. her father and some other family members aren't going to wait for her to come home. they're flying off to europe today for a long-awaited and joyous reunion, ann. >> jim at the pentagon. thank you. >>> it is now 7:12. once again, here's matt. >> thank you. >>> now to gabrielle giffords' emotional farewell to congress. she formally resigned her seat in the house of representatives on wednesday. that's a little more than a year after she was shot and nearly killed. capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell has more on that. good morning to you. >> reporter: for the first time in years today gabrielle giffords is a private citizen again. no one around here was ready to let her go, and when the time came gabby giffords inspired something we don't see a