if you are thrilled the way washington, d.c.orks and you like politics as usual, with congressman kirk and karl rove, he is your man. i would be honored to have your vote. >> let me confront the elephant in the room, the character issue. congressman kirk, what you tell voters to embellish a resume attacks what you say about someone who makes banks to unsavory characters and to student loan program virtually collapsed? >> i misstated part of my military record. it is a painful process. i learned a big lesson from that. i apologize to the people of illinois. the national security of the united states has been a life work of my. >> i am proud of the community bank my father started 30 years ago. no one has ever suggested that the bank has done anything improper difference between myself and congressman kirk is that i have always told the truth and values matter. you may not always agree with me but what you will always know where i stead. people are sick and tired of washington, d.c. politics as usual. congressman kirk has to answe

this is the problem with washington, d.c., not being able to get things done. they're stuck in gridlock. if either of these guys go to washington, they will get in the corner when they get there, and fight everything that makes sense. >> that is a good talking point, but how would you deal with the issue of medicare payments? that is a recurring issue? >> by working toward a common- sense solution to get things done. that is what is frustrating to the people that are watching tonight. all they hear is that they have to do with our way, or the highway. what happened with health care, which i opposed, was that the democrats just ram things through. that is what kendrick meek voted for. we need to do what is right for the people. the president started out saying he was onto it reached across the aisle and make sure we get everyone involved. it has not happened. it needs to happen. whether it is the medicare issue, the hotel worker, every florida in watching tonight, they need to have someone that says enough is enough. i am running against the entire system. >> tha

washington d.c. firefighters will be in court today claiming racial discrimination. for years, african-american firefighters have been unfairly penalized in trial. they are calling for more oversight. the fire department will not comment until the suit is filed. >>> another big story we are following this morning. president barack obama says the don't ask, don't tell policy against gays serving in the military will end while he is in the white house. he doesn't want it to happen through the courts. the issue is argued here in washington and sarah is back in studio with more. >> reporter: the justice department is asking for an appeal of the ruling of don't ask, don't tell. a judge stated the gays should serve openly, but president barack obama doesn't want it to end abruptly. the action was discussed at a town hall event yesterday. >> i agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed services and make sacrifices on behalf of our national security, anybody should serve. the

the problem with washington, d.c. is that many people believe that they cannot admit when they are wrong. they cannot change course. unfortunately, i think that is what we're seeing. i hope we will have a spirited debate. i have a lot of respect for senator murray. this is not personal. this is about -- i believe she is heading in the wrong direction. i think the extreme pressure in washington, d.c. has taken us down the wrong path. i want to say thank you to klxy and kspx for reporting on this debate tonight. before putting on this debate tonight. >> thank you to all of you for joining us this evening for a very important discussion about who will be your voice and your advocate in the united states senate. how many families are shriveling today? it is not through anything they did, but the mistakes and greed on wall street. this state is my family. i family is hurting. that is why i am working so hard to work with your community leaders to get you jobs and get this country back on track again. i will take on even th

they are coming to washington, d.c. to change the way we do business, to change the direction of our national government to fiscal discipline, limit period government and reform. >> we should say, though, that the fiscal discipline that your party has had problems in the past. do you agree? the republican party? >> yeah, greta. i think -- i agree strongly. i said after 2006, the republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. our party walked away from the principles that minted our initial governing majority in 1980 and 1994 and the american people walked away from us. the very suggestion as i read some in the media promoting that the mistakes of the past republican congress were that they didn't compromise enough. good heavens! the republican party failed because there was too much compromise, deficits, borrowing and even bailouts. and the american people are saying, we want this new generation coming to washington, d.c. to partner with the principled men and women in the republican and minority in congres

it was a story i was surrounded by in washington, d.c. where everyone around me, the parents were from south carolina, north carolina, georgia. my mother was from rome, georgia migrated to washington, d.c. my father migrated from southern virginia to washington, d.c. different decades, would never have met had there been no great migration, had they not left the south and landed in the same city. so in some ways i exist because of the great migration and i think i've been in some ways writing it all my life. >> rose: david grossman and isabel wilkerson coming up. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> ros

the strongest and she's also in washington, d.c. so the whole world is watching. bout how bad the washington school system has been, even though it's been lavishly financed. she made real headway. she won battles. she won particularly a contract with the teachers union that allow job security to be based in part on your performance as a teacher and how well the students are doing. scho school, washington, d.c. students start to do better on their test. she closed schools about let go employees in the central office and teachers and principals. controversial. she won battles. in the end, though, she lost the war. there will be back sliding in washington, d.c., as a result of this. because she was tough and insistent and had the support of the mayor. politically. but she made great headway and it's a tragedy that she is leaving. >> white house secretary robert gibbs was asked about this and said i don't think the republican has regrets about not getting involved in a mayor race. >> i think president obama in 20119 whether want to discuss something other than cutting

politicians in washington d.c. to step it up to make things better and to you know create more jobs. more affordable for those who have lost their homes in these last couple of years and so on so definitely the anger is turning more towards washington d.c. as people are expecting change to take place from their well that is of course part of the irony of it all too is that we see so much anger towards washington d.c. towards the washington establishment and yet at the same time people do expect washington d.c. and the government to be the place that really helps them out and i think that's part of why americans are so confused and so lost right now is that they don't really know who to direct the anger and who expect to fix their lives as they see it thank you so much for filling us in. our before we go it is time for our tweet of the day not only did president obama have a streaker in the crowd at his rally on sunday in philadelphia someone also threw a book at him do you remember back a few years ago when a journ

washington washington, d.c. yes isn't working. my question is why in the world would we send the same people who created this mess back to washington, d.c.? that's why the people of illinois need new ideas and fresh voices. >> the debate will continue. the campaign will continue in crunch time. good luck to both of you. thank you for sharing your views with us here on "meet the press." we'll be watching closely, of course. coming up here next, we will have our political round table and talk about some of the big issues that continue on the campaign trail. we'll have more from the campaign trail next week, next week, the colorado democratic senator, michael bennett will square off the republican and tea party favorite, ken buck, our senate debate series coming up next week on "meet the press." >>> mid-term picture, new jobless numbers, tight races across the nation, and another high-level obama administration departure. how will it all impact the campaigns? our roundtable weighs in. joe klein and wall street journal's peggy noonan

we must hold people in washington, d.c. accountable.barbara boxer has been there 28 years and she has done nothing to help the people of california. carlyforcalifornia.com. we can use all the help we can get and we can beat her. >> sean: thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: next our weekly round up of how the liberal media is selling you its biased views. media mash, next. >> sean: election headlines this week the hill.com is reporting the democrat running for the seat vacated by sestak, admits helping tea party candidate get on the ballot. in the hopes he would steal some conservative votes from his republican opponent. according to the most recent midterm election numbers guess who is still down in the polls? looks like the joke is on youz#a >> sean: welcome to media mash where we expose the most outrageous example of the mainstream media's liberal bias. here to go through this week's material is president of the media research center brent bozell. welcome back. >> how are you? >> all right. we got drill thrill up my leg a

on his watch in washington, d.c., he has spent -- part of the spending of $3 trillion. . we could talk about $13 trillion on the book. $3 trillion has been accumulated since he has been in d.c. that's something that he has to take responsibility for. >> you take responsibility as well for what republicans did in terms of running up the debt before that? >> i have said before over and over, republicans are just as much to blame and i am not going to be one of those republicans when i get to washington, d.c. >> let's be clear on that point. the budget proposals he is proposing would blow more of a hole into our budget than we already have and depending on what we do with these extensions, an additional $4 trillion. >> do you agree with republican leaders that say that tax cuts do not have to be paid for? >> no, i don't. i think we have to find spending cuts. i don't know what you're talking about in terms of tax cuts. >> extending the bush-era tax cuts for the highest earners, it would cost an extra $700 billion. should those be paid for? if republicans like you want to cu

it's been more than nine years since washington, d.c. intern chandra levy disappeared. now all these years later, a suspect charged in her murder is finally going on trial. it was a case that shattered the career of congressman gary condit. amber lyon reports on how the case began. >> a murder mystery that rock the the nation's capital. >> anybody who has information surrounding chandra's disappearance, please contact us. >> reporter: and captured the country's attention. >> the missing washington intern >> reporter: an attractive intern missing without a trace. >> we don't know. >> reporter: an investigation that embroiled a powerful congressman in scandal. >> do you know anything about where chandra levy is? >> reporter: a story of sex and secrets filled with strange twists and turns. >> the ultimate story of washington power and intrigue. is there a murderer in the midst of the united states congress? >> we have spoken with congressman condit's attorney. >> shame! shame! shame! >> reporter: in the summer of 2001, a scandal erupted on capitol hill that ignited a media

up washington, d.c. you had the opportunity to look at those ads and look at the tape. i did not say the things they said i said. what i talked about when i talked about stallone's was they took the guaranteed student loan program and put it in the health-care bill to try to reduce the cost of the health care bill. that is not what i want. i do not want the federal government running this program. on what the banks running this program so we can have some up capability. >> even if you -- even if what you were saying was true, it is not a true reflection of what you said in the republican primary. the idea that we would take the student loan program and put it in the hands of banks which charged credit card rates to our students tried to go to college, i think it is a tolerable -- students trying to go to college, i think it is horrible. >> it created a huge subsidy for private companies at the expense of our kids. we are in the worst economy since the great depression. they are taking refuge in our commu

this year washington, d.c. raised some $5.3 million, money earmarked for research. >> i think breast cancer is something as women we should all be concerned about. i walked for the little girls of the future. >> reporter: advocates have been at it for more than two decades now. but these walkers are still hopeful. >> i hope that by us putting our feet down every step of the pavement, that we will get one closer to ending this. >> reporter: i'm ross plateer fox 5 news. >> they topped last year's fundraising effort pulling in $5.3 million. last year they raised $5 million and proud they managed to do it in this current economy. >>> pink is showing up everywhere in honor of the fight against breast cancer. and that includes people's hair. yes, salons in maryland and across our area are offering pink hair extensions for breast cancer awareness month. the proceeds are going to various treatment centers or charities. check with your salon to see if they were participating. i believe if they are not and you ask them,

not of course getting rain but much of the washington area, washington, d.c. itself and point close in are seeing rain showers and these will be moving through throughout the course of the morning hours and indeed during the course of the day today. you might not be getting rain at this moment but you will likely get it a little bit later on today. most of this rain is light to moderate, just a couple of spots here and there where it is a little bit heavier. current temperatures around the region. we're in the going to see huge changes in our temperature today. 54degrees in the district. 55 in cambridge. 51 in baltimore. fredericksburg is 54 degrees. mainly light to moderate rainfall today. a breezy day with the wind out of the north 10 to 15 miles per hour and cool. a high only about 58 degrees. fall is here, folks. really feels like it. >> it does, doesn't it? thank you. >>> let's take a look at the roads and julie wright is in with that. >> good morning to you both. yes, indeed, waking up to yet another soggy start to a monday morning. a lot of road spray,

my father migrated from southern virginia to washington, d.c., where they met, married and here i am. and had it not been for the great migration i wouldn't exist. and yet i felt that the story wasn't really being told from the perspective of the people who had lived this. we didn't know why they left or how they made the decision to leave. what were their lives like before they left? how did they get the courage to leave the only place they've ever known for a place they'd never seen, anonymous and not welcoming to them? how did they make it once they got there? those were the questions i had and those were the questions that gave us a sense of how the cities came to be and how so many african americans ended up in these cities, detroit, chicago, cleveland, los angeles, new york. tavis: when you say how these cities came to be, there is a narrative, a storyline, that's been written and told for years now about what this migration did to these various places that you just listed. and it's not been a sexy story, it's not been a kind narrative about what we brought with us when we came

there's a lot of lawyers in washington d.c. some good some bad bending going as one of the good ones for eighteen years he was a researcher investigator and legal counsel at the food and drug administration he explained how the regulatory agency does its job. i've case primary mission is to protect the public. their job is to to both try to prevent unsafe products from getting on the market that could could affect consumers their jurisdiction is actually quite broad they have jurisdiction over over foods and pharmaceuticals and f.d.a. has a lot of responsibility and a wide jurisdiction so it's easy to get confused about how they actually operate what does the f.d.a. do. you have to. help me with my diet out there presumably. to make sure that. i work for the f.d.a. . they protect. their patients every regulated by the third of the nation's economy third of the nation's economy they're trying their best but we're overwhelmed by all the different products that are out there right now and it makes for scary keeping out of the publ

this is a problem with the washington d.c., not being able to get things done. they are stuck in gridlock and they cannot get together. if either of these two guys go to washington, they will gets in their corner when they get there. they will fight anything that requires common sense. >> that is a good talking point. what would you -- how would you deal with the issue of medicare payments? that is a recurring issue. >> by working with the other people in the congress for a common-sense solution. that is what is frustrating to people who are watching tonight. all the year from washington is, we have got to do it our way, are you have to take the highway. it happened with obama care. i opposed it. the democrats rammed the thing through. will we have to do is say, look, we do need to do -- we need to do what is right for the people. the president started -- the president started out saying, i am going to work across the aisle. it has not happened. it needs to happen. whether it is the medicare issue with the doctor, the hotel worker, every authority in in this audi

chamber of commerce's activities politically are managed here in washington d.c. but what's really interesting and we haven't been too much of a suggestion of this yet is that along with the m.p.'s they also have a foreign lobbying agenda which could include attacking labor regulations or or environmental standards in trade agreements so we do know there's a lot more to be uncovered there were looking for doing that uncovering is just crazy to me right this is america what's the point is this is you know make a joke really a mockery of our entire election system if it turns out that it's not being done to mistakenly you know that's exactly right every commercial they have they're talking about american workers american jobs you know lowering the tax burden on american comedy and authority who you know who and now we know that they they're also courting the state bank of india the petroleum company the state owned company in bahrain they're coordinating with foreign owned corporate interests that are against workers there or against workers here i mean it adds just

this is a problem with the washington d.c., not being able to get things done. they are stuck in gridlock and they cannot get together. if either of these two guys go to washington, they will gets in their corner when they get there. they will fight anything that requires common sense. >> that is a good talking point. what would you -- how would you deal with the issue of medicare payments? that is a recurring issue. >> by working with the other people in the congress for a common-sense solution. that is what is frustrating to people who are watching tonight. all the year from washington is, we have got to do it our way, are you have to take the highway. it happened with obama care. i opposed it. the democrats rammed the thing through. will we have to do is say, look, we do need to do -- we need to do what is right for the people. the president started -- the president started out saying, i am going to work across the aisle. it has not happened. it needs to happen. whether it is the medicare issue with the doctor, the hotel worker, every authority in in this audi

washington d.c. . well john joins me now in the studio with more on this story you know so you covered the hill. that's right the the conclusions that were coming through but what happened after that you know was this a huge scandal was the media all over because i feel like this is a story that the majority of americans probably don't know about actually it was a huge scandal when this broke back in one nine hundred seventy one and of course led to the church committee which we now know investigated watergate the cia's dirty wars and latin america but you know what really came for it was in that era a lot of people were aware that the f.b.i. was spying on them was actually not protecting the citizens was engaged in this secretive covert war to dampen any kind of political dissent throughout the country i think why we don't hear about it now and why we don't know about political prisoners is because it is a very dark period in american history according to a lot of historians i know and i found out abo