let's go to john harris and then to chris cillizza with the same question. expect president obama unite the party, the democratic party, his party, behind the single message or at least a common front going into nease elections or is it already too scattered? john harris. >> chris, president clinton's message to me was that they should at least urgently try this. i think the people around him privately do acknowledge what i think most people here in washington acknowledge, that it's very, have been hard to change the fundamentals of this election with so very little time left and with so much of it resting on the economy, which isn't likely to appreciably change before the midterms. so president clinton i think has no illusions about how dire the situation is. >> on the very point on nationalizing the election, president clinton knows as much about politics than any of the three of us, certainly. does he know or something that we don't know about the potential of barack obama to unite the party? or is everyone for himself at this point? >> i think he knows e

john harris, enjoyed reading your piece. thanks so much. >> good to see you. >> coming up, can $100 million and a donation from facebook save some of the lowest performing and worst performing schools in the nation? >>> plus, will she or won't she? sarah palin issues the strongest indication yet that she's considering a presidential run in 2012. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. i was like, yes, this works... [ male announcer ] only rogaine is proven to regrow hair in 85% of guys. puhh puhh puhh putt and that's it. [ male announcer ] stop losing. start gaining. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to au

john harris has the preview. >> joining us now for politico turn the table is the host of abc's "this week." bob woodward has a new book, on national security and war. obama's war, causing a big stirrer, as it is a hocalled. >> the white house chief spokesman, robert gibbs, has said he read the whole thing and he says it is accurate. bob woodward has a very established history writing these books. he goes to everybody. he talks to everybody. we know how many of his books have been out about various subjects, all bestsellers, often giving interesting looks inside the process as is happening and developing. i don't think it claims to make any sort of long-term conclusions and judgments over the strategy, but it is the process as it is going on. i think we know also as the process is going on, the review that took some people painfully long, there were leaks all the time about how many differences there were within the administration over what was coming out. we know for instance that vice- president biden was committed to a counterterrorism strategy, while general mcchrystal and many in

john harris and chief of politico joins us. look what happened next after that interview was posted on politico. let's watch. >> do you have any evidence to the charge you made, simple question? >> of course i do, you'll get it at the appropriate time. you're not entitled to it. at the appropriate time you'll get it. >> you're his stalking horse, fred. you're his stalk s horse. you're his bird dog. he send another to my daughter's house and i'll take you out. >> how are you going to do that? >> watch. >> you're working for cuomo. you're a terrible journalist. >> thank you very much. >> that was paladino taking on fred dicker, the legendary statehouse reporter in albany for "the new york post." john harris, what does this tell you about the race? >> i was as disappointed as you were, andrea. where's the discussion of entitlement reform? what about taxes? what it shows is something that we've seen for a while. those certainly at the political junky level we can enjoy. this is a circus up in new york with, do put it mildly, an ecc

john harris is joining us now. john, good to see you. david axelrod, i think that was largely respected he would return to chicago to begin the president's re-election campaign, but if he leaves, this will also set off another chain of events p.m. there is talk, too, robert gibbs, the press secretary could moo move up to an adviser role and a new face in terms of the daily press spokesman? >> that's right. i think some expectation that maybe gibbs' deputy bill burton would be ready for that job and move up. that is a natural move for robert gibbs, of course, because he has already played that role as kind of senior adviser and part of the inner circle. he is busy holed up in skull sessions with obama. >> it's not just axle rod. we have been talking about rahm emanuel expected to make a decision in the next couple of weeks whether he will run for mayor of chicago. it seems like he is putting all of the pieces in place. >> clearly going to do that, yes. >> i guess the conventional wisdom is that he would be replaced by pete rouse already i

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. >> editor and chief of politico, john harris. >> i'm ripe for the picking. >> it's called a terrible tv segue. that's what that is. >> ttt. >> we'll be talking to president clinton later in the show. he's been out a lot lately. and quick to offer advice to not just democrats but to the president. >> willie, you will find him in fine form. he is really valuable, very relaxed, in good spirits. he says, look, i'm done with politics. this is not what i do anymore. in fact, you push the buttons. he is happy to talk at length about politics, specifically what democrats need to do. i spoke with him yesterday at the clinton global initiative, he's got very strong opinions about what democrats are doing wrong and specifically what president obama needs to do better. clinton is incredibly concerned about how independents are fleeing the democratic party. he says that's the key to this election. somehow in the next month they have to get independent voters back. he says president obama should acknowledge openly that people are upset with him. he said it was a good thing on cnbc when the woman s

john rydell eports tonight. the case is ow focused on dna evidence. >> survvillance video shows say were involled in the murders of former councilman ken harris. it happened during a robbery at the new haven lounne. ú%t because none of the wwtnesses actually sawwthe suspects faces, dna evidence is considered rucial.ú foo most of today a police dna expert gave jurors a detailed lesson in how dna is lifted from evidence. prosecutors say there was no real bllod on ttat halloween mask found near the scene but thee say other dnnamount of one of the suspects was discovered inside of the mask.ú >> but the defense atttrneys spent mmch of the afternoon cross-examining the dna expert questioning how the evidence was collected and then analyzed..3 >> he technician, that is testifying now,,cannot tell the jury where the mask came from, he cannot tell the jury underú whaa circumstances it camm in to possession of the police department. in this case was packageed in one purse. there were at minimum 13, 14 itemssput in one

gil jerry brown dice que otros politicos como harry truman, franklin d. roosevelt, john f. kennedy y su padre pat brow ex- gobernador de california tambien iniciaron su campaÑa politica en un dia del trabajo como hoy, por esta razon desea continuar con esa tradicion,.acompaÑado de un gran numero de lideres politicos y sindicales democratas busca conquistar el voto que lo lleve a gobernar de nuevo en california. actualmente jerry brown ocupa el puesto de procurador estatal, pero fue gobernador de california de 1975 a 1983, y dice que quiere regresar a sacramento como gobernador para que california sea de nuevo un lider del pueblo y para el pueblo. --la recesion le está pegando duro a la cigueña en el area de la bahía.--segun informes recientes, el numero de nacimientos disminuyo en siete de los nueve condados locales en el 2008.--solamente "napa y sonoma" registraron mas nacimientos, pero los numeros son muy poco significativos. --a nivel nacional, la tasa de natalidad disminuyo el aÑo pasado a uno de sus niveles mas bajos. ---la policia de vallejo busca a dos sospecho

john mccain said he hilikes snookie. now harry reid and lady gaga yesterday tweeting. it started as a conversation then it was a conversation about two friends getting together. lady gaga writes there is a vote on gay veterans, repeal "don't ask, don't tell," call harry reid to schedule a senate vote. and then we bounce back. harry reid. there is a vote on "don't ask, don't tell" next week. anyone qualified to serve his country should be allowed to do so. good enough. lady gaga comes back with god bless and thank you, harry reid, there all of us like you who leave in equality and the dream of this country. we were born this way. then it continues. harry reid said it's the right thing to do. come back to vegas soon. harry reid inviting lady gaga to vegas. how about that? you got to like this will media culture we live in where the country's leaders are talking directly to lady gagas and snookies. still ahead, your e-mails are next and morning joe just moments away. anywhere you use sugar you can use splenda® no calorie sweetener. [ male announcer ] savory. fluffy. yumm

earlier, alzheimer's association president harry john said progress in treating the disease is painfully slow in coming. >> do need to see treatments. today we don't have a treatment to stop or slow the progress of the disease even though we have treatments that are improvements for people's functional lives so we have got to invest more in research to make a difference in that in time for this baby boomer generation that is going to have at least 10 million people have the disease themselves. >> right now, more than 5 million people in the united states are afflicted with alzheimer's and that number expected to triple by the middle of the century. >> he talked about the small, relatively speaking, amount of funding goes toward it, as well. >> litdling less than $500 million saying woefully underfunded compared to other diseases. >> it's a shame. we'll take a break. two minutes until the top of the hour. mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. so i can't have any? if you can deprive me of what ca

john, good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> let's talk about larry summers, decided to go back to harvard. always been part of the plan to go back so he could retain tenure there. day, here's this guy who's a big economic adviser. does the white house look at him as an asset or a liability? if you will excuse the phrase. >> i think they look at him as an asset, for sure. he has a reputation as prickly and internal battles inside the white house but the white house thinks the program, the stimulus package of the president larry summers helped put together and the emergency responses to the economic downturn have been a success, maybe not the great success certainly the public doesn't think so and they think he did a good job. >> interesting. let's talk about the bob woodward book. woodward, great reporter from "the washington post" who's been reporting for decades and has phenomenal sources inside every white house. better than anybody's. really reports sort of the dirty back fighting that goes on among people at high levels of power. it's sort of like high school madness almost. s

harry. >>> thank you. also in washington this morning our political analyst john dickerson. john, good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> talk about larry summers decided to go back to harvard, always part of the plan he would go back so he could retain tenure there. at the end of the day, here's this guy, this big economic adviser, does this white house look at him as an asset or liability, if you will' excuse the phrase. >> i think they look at him as an asset, for sure. i mean, he has a reputation of being prickly. there were certainly internal battles within the white house but the white house thinks the program, particularly the stimulus package the president put forward he helped put together and all emergency response to the economic downturn have been a success, maybe not a great success the public doesn't think so but they think he did a good job. >> interesting. talk about the woodward book, a reporter from the "washington post" reporting for decades and has phenomenal sources inside every white house, better than anybody's, really reports sort of the dirty back-f

with nevada reporter john raulston. >> you know, john, what i think is interesting is that we are nitpicking on everything that harry reid is throwing out there. >> harry reid didn't throw this out there. you put it out there. >> i would like to see harry reid come into this studio with you and i and have a true debate. >> well, a real debate. senator reid accepted the debate, set for october 21st, a thursday night, sway great night for getting a big audience on television, but what happened? angle just declare she had would not be participating in the very debate she asked for originally. her alibi? "we have always been very clear that we didn't want to debate after early voting started because we wanted an informed electorate." well, early voting starts just five days before this now-canceled october 21st debate. raulston estimates 80% of the electorate wouldn't have voted by that point. that aside, how would an extra hour or so of a angle answering questions make the electorate less informed? me thinks she protest too much. >>> next, burn notice. jon stewart and steven colbert gave us the

. >> the 1998 race against congressman john enson that was 1/10 of 1% race after harry reid had been in the senate for 12 years. interestingly, mr. reid lost a close race for the senate in 1994 to paul axo. he's had experience. back then the problem was new people coming to nevada. many people hadn't heard of him. it was hard to get the message across and mr. ensign had support in the casinos and his family an important part and mr. ensign won a 2000 race for an open seat in nevada so the two of them are colleagues and harry reid's problem this year is not so much there's a lot of new people that don't know him. the polling shows that he's very well-known, that his record is known. his problem is that his positions on public policies are unpopular with the majority of nevadaens and this is a state that voted 55% for barack obama, but not a state that seems in a mood to support the obama democrats proposals. that's why we see harry reid running these negative ads and figures the only way he can win is to say the other candidate is even worse. >> mike: yeah, he's demonizing sharron ang

john, you were there. what happened? >> it was a very strange crowd, just to set the stage so people know. it was an hour-long forum. harry reid wasn't there. he previously answered set questions. they played the video tape, then sharon angle was there. there were 800 people there. clearly, the reid folks sent people in there and the democrats sent people in there. both sides were equally unruly. angle, who was live, was getting heckled. at the end, there was a scuffle that broke out. there are astonishing pictures on the las vegas sun website of a man who was an angle supporter throwing a fist at a woman who was really bothering him and trying to get by him. who started? who knows. who cares? this is the kind of passions going on on both sides. it's not go sharon or go harry. it's kill sharon or kill harry. this is just astonishing. >> every cycle, we say boy, it's never going to get stranger than this or that. this cycle, every election cycle takes on its own personality. this one, it feels like all the venom you read

john dickerson, thanks. >> thanks. >> harry? >> all right. >>> now the latest of a trial of a connecticut man facing a death penalty for a home invasion that left three people dead. prosecutors released video of a victim making a last desperate attempt to save her family's lives. cbs news correspondent betty nguyen at the courthouse with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: harry, another gut-wrenching day in court yesterday and now this. the public getting the first look at troubling images and chilling 911 calls in the trial of steven hays, he is one of two men accused of murdering a mother and her children. these are the last images of jennifer hawk pettitte alive. this newly-released video ticks off the final moments of a horrific crime. pettitte withdraws $15,000, nervously explaining that she and her family being held hostage and the money is a ransom. the manager called 911. >> we have a lady in the bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. she is petrie if ied. all right petti

key piece of evidence presented in a councilman harris.. dnaaexpert took the stand in the triil of 3 men charged wiih the -úkilling. >> john joins us nnw with more on what jurors are being told úbout he evidence tooiggt. john? >>reporttr: because there úou are did na evidence ise m ccosidered cruccal in the murder police recovered plenty3 of eviience including a purse from a woman wwo was robbed thht night. the purse úncludes latex gloves, dna from one of the suspects. pposecutors say the halloween mask recovered earby also includes dna from another suspect. charles and gary and william are all chargeddwith first degree murder. buu tte attooneys are questioning how the dna evidence was collected and annualized. 11, 14 items put in this one purse. sattthhre for three the itemssttat came backician% pooitive for orrdiffeeent one and came baak positive on this??% >>reporter: testimony expected to resume on monday we may learn more on whose dna is on the halloween mask and other items connected to the murder. this is fox 45 nees at 5:30..%%-

tell and oppose john mccain's shameless filibuster. we're not asking you to agree with or approve the moral implications of homosexuality, we're asking you to do your job. to protect the constitution. >> like this afternoon, alongside the service members legal defense fund, gaga spoke at a rally in portland, maine, in an effort to pressure collins and snowe. she called them out, she called mccain out, even called scott brown out, and told soldiers who continue to serve with prejudice to go home. gaga explaining that equality is the prime rib of american and everyone should have the right to wear the same meat dress. >> if the senate and the president are not going to repeal this don't ask, don't tell policy, perhaps they should be more clear with us about who the military is fighting for. who our tax dollars are supporting. and ultimately, how much does the prime rib cost? because i thought this was an all you can eat buffet. this equality stuff, i thought equality meant everyone. >> here with us now, former special assistant to presid

harry reid wasn't even there. he had previously answered set questions, they had been given to him before, he answered by videotape. they played that videotape. sharron angle was there. clearly reed sent some 800 people in there. but both sides were equally unruly. certainly, angle who was live, was getting heckled and then at the end as she was leaving, there was this scuffle that broke out and there was some astonishing pictures on the "las vegas sun's" website of this man throwing a fist right at a woman who was apparently really bothering him and trying to get by him. who started it, who knows, who cares. but this is emblematic of this race, chuck, the kind of passions that are going on both sides. and it's not, go star sharron or go harry. it's kill sharron and kill harry. the animosity out there on this state toward these candidates is just astonishing. >> vaughn, every cycle, we say, it's never going to get stranger than this, than that. this cycle of course, every election cycle takes on its own personalit

i'm calling to ask the senators to vote with senators harry reid and karl le in to repeal don't ask, don't tell and oppose john mccain's shameless filibuster. >> the senate is expected to vote on whether to repeal the law tuesday. >>> kid rock lost in court. the plaintiff in his civil trial were awarded 40 grand in compensatory damages. the money will be split among four people. kid rock must be paid 15% of that. rock got sued for a fight back in 2007 at a georgia waffle house. rock already served a year of probation and took anger management courses for the incident. >>> it's going to be all smiles this weekend. that's for sure. >> yeah, pretty good and especially for tomorrow. tomorrow is about as good as it gets around here with temperatures only in the lower 80s and loads of sunshine out there. let's look at tonight because i think it's going to be continued very nice and getting chilly. i hope you don't have the air conditioner on. i hope you have it turned off and hopefully the windows opened because it's a great night for that. you may find yourself getting up in the middle of

tell and oppose john mccain's shameless filibuster. we need to do this for our gay and lesbian soldierers and finally repeal don't ask don't tell. >> now lady ga ga is bound for portland, maine to lead a rally. her goal, getting the two undecided republican senators there to support her cause. cnn senior congressional correspondent, dana dash. lady ga ga fan, maybe. hey, i understand you cancelled your brack fast to talk about this. i'm starting to wonder what you were playing on the radio this morning. >> reporter: i have a poker face. >> well, don't ask, don't tell. the showdown is definitely looming, right. >> reporter: no question. it is looming. there's a vote scheduled for 2:15 tomorrow morning. what we're talking about here, kyra,a vote to proceed to a broader defense bill. in that defense bill is that authorization to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy, but the issue -- nothing is ever easy in the senate. the issue is republicans, pretty much all of them, say that they're angry at the way the process in which the senate maj

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accused of killing former council member can harris. one witness described how he knew exactly who one of the defendants was. barry simms is live outside court side -- courthouse east. >> germain murray said he watched the surveillance videos on the internet. he did report what he saw or heard the people were that he could identify to police until more than one month after the crime. >> once again, they reviewed surveillance video is. this security officer told he called police and identify the defendants. special police officer in jermaine murray said he saw the videos online. marie identified charles mcganey and jerome williams. he said he had another -- a number of encounters with them about loitering. as he watched one video, he pointed to the person in the middle and describe what he called "a funny walk" buying one of the men. in another video and he identified mcganey saying he saw a side view of his face. they're using his testimony to bolster their case against the three men accused in the september 2008 murder of former baltim

good chance that you are gonna see majority leader mitch mcconnell, and you are gonna see defeated harry reid. >> he then redistricted the sand people of mars would defeat the cloud walkers of venus. pelosi's opponent, businessman john dennis, has a new ad comparing h her to a not so beloved character from film. roll tape. >> i wish there was a political party. >> i don't care about political parties. i just want a home that is not blown away by debt. eon, toto. >> i will put you in debt for generations. >> that's not good at all, pluto. >> hello, my pretty. i will save you from the evil republican. first pay $18,000 a month for my downtown office. and then go into massive debt for wall street bailout. and here are my monkeys to make you pay for it all. >> thank you for saving us. who are you? >> i'm john dennis. >> it is like the production value of a vivid video. it is like they take a movie and re-do it. i just have a feeling it will turn bad. >> those are not cheap. >> terrible stuff. >> here is what i learned here. he threw water on this woman's face and the face didn't dissolve. it

in 1998, the race with john inson, that was close. how close was that? do you see this shaping up as something similar? >> the 1998 race against congressman inson was a one-tenth of 1% race. it was after harry reid had been in the senate for 12 years. interestingly, mr. reid lost a close race to the senate in 1974 to republican paul exo. back then, harry reid's problem was a lot of new people coming to nevada. many of them hadn't heard of him. hard to get your record across. mr. ension has support from the casino interest and gaming industry of which his family is an important part. mr. enson won the 2000 race for open senate seat in nevada. so the two of them are colleagues. harry reid's problem this year, governor, i think is not so much that there is a lot of new people that don't know him. polling shows that he's very well known, that his record is known. his problem is the position on public policy are unpopular with the majority of nevadaens. this is a state that voted 55% for barack obama. not a state that seems in the mood to support the democrat

harry reid in terms of bringing this up again in the future, right? they laid out the arguments that need to be set aside. he has to allow for more amendments. my guess is probably if this does come up in a lame-duck session after the election that he will allow for more amendments. john mccain said we need this review first. my guess is this will not come up again until after december 1 when that review from the pentagon comes over to the white house for the president to certify. >> lehrer: why was susan collins so critical to this? >> she voted in may in committee along with the democrats so she voted to include the repeal of don't ask don't tell into the bill. it was a vote they were counting on. listen, you know the math in the senate. they have 59 votes. to get to 60 they needed at least one republican. since susan collins had already voted with them, they figured she would be that 60th vote for them. that's why she played such a key role. but she said she blamed it on the process, right? she wanted moreallys. she wasn't there for them today. but

we already told you about her back and forth with senator harry reid on twitter. now, of course, she's taking on senator john mccain and his reluctance to repeal don't ask, don't tell. he is reluctant. she told her 6.3 million followers, we're jealous. "senator john mccain is attempting to stop the don't ask, don't tell repeal vote this tuesday with the filibuster." she gave a little social studies lesson "a filibuster is a way to disrupt the senate floor from discussing or voting on a given law to hijack our debate." twitter silent on the subject from senator mccain. seems even hollywood stars can't let go of the meat dress. actress kate walsh who gave out a shout out to gaga. she showed up on "tonight show" wearing an asomble made out of sushi. >> is that lol? >> i guess it is. >> i don't know who she is. >> i don't either. we need to get out more. >> i think she ought it be invited by the uso. that will be fascinating. get lady gaga, on the u.s. tour. >>> coming up chris jansing. >> then at 1:00 don't miss "andrea mitchell reports." boss: our breakout session i

. >> i'm calling to ask the senator to vote with senators harry reid and carl levin to repeal don't ask, don't tell and oppose john mccain's shameless filibuster. >>> and rudy giuliani goes to the most unfortunately named campaign venue of the year. all the news and commentary now on "countdown"! >> gosh, you think we'd learn. >>> good evening from new york. last week to the values voters summit, she compared tea partiers to the followers of a character from the chronicles of narnia, the lion. and her next news story will about the wardrobe. in our fifth story, or maybe we're talking about the narnia sequel, the silver chair, and how christine o'donnell improperly paid for it with campaign funds. the nonpartisan government ethics watchdog group this afternoon filing a complaint with the delaware attorney's office and the federal election commission. crew submitting as evidence the sworn affidavit of keegan. keegan, the second former o'donnell campaign official to say so, alleging that she used campaign cash to pay her rent, as gas money, to pay for food, and for a bowling outing. crew w

. >> good morning, harry. how are you? >> pretty good. so john boehner goes on face the nation yesterday and he says, quote, if the only, if the only option i have is to vote for some of the tax reductions i'll vote for them. is that a window? >> well, look. last week harry, the president argued pretty vociferously that we ought to extend the tax cut this is affect the middle class in this economy right now. that's what the president believes. i hope that congressman boehner's comments suggest a willingness to agree to the president's position. we ought not use the middle class as a political football. we ought to extend the tax cuts for the middle class. we ought to do it fairly quickly, give them certainty and make sure they know that they are going to get help in tough economic times. >> you know there are plenty of people out there including peter or zach who halt recently your director of office of management and budget saying there should be tax increases for nobody. now is not the time to be increasing taxes. >> well, harry, unders

it's a choice between nancy pelosi and john boehner. and it's almost impossible with only a month to go and they've been doing it for maybe a month to fill up the tank as much and -- but it's worth reminding americans that every election is a choice. if you have to run against the ideal, if it's a referendum, every one of us will get beats. nobody will get elected. we'd have nobody in office because there's no such thing as the perfect public servant. the choices you make in politics are like the choices you make in life. you look at the facts as best you can and you make the best available choice. >> that's part of a long interview that we did today for an upcoming documentary on the former president. >>> coming up congressman james clyburn said yesterday on "hardball" that if republicans win the house they'll use subpoena power to try to delegitimize president obama. republican congressman darrell issa called us and said that congressman clyburn was being, quote, paranoid. up next i'll ask issa what republicans are actually planning.

harry reid wasn't even there. he had previously answered set question, they'd given to him before, he answered by videotape. they played that videotape. sharron angle was there. about 800 people there clearly, clearly the reid folks had sent some people in there. but both sides were equally unruly. certainly, angle who was live, was getting heckled and then at the end as she was leaving, there was this scuffle that broke out and there was some astonishing pictures on the "las vegas sun" website of this man throwing a fist right at a woman. who was apparently bothering him and trying to get by him. who started it, who knows, who cares. but this is emblematic of this race, chuck, the kind of passions that are going on both sides. and it's not go, sharron or harry. it's kill sharron and kill harry. the animous out there on these state toward these candidates is just astonishing. >> vaughn, every cycle, we say, it's never going to get stranger than this, than that. this cycle of course, every election cycle takes on i

. >> reporter: an emotional and pointed doo ebate where harry reid inserted into a key defense fell, making it difficult for illegal aliens to get citizenship and senator john mccain is angry about it. >> this is a transparent attempt to win an election. that's what this is all about. >> with our forces fighting two wars, he says this is no time to throw partisan unrelated matters on to a must-pass defense bill. he says it's nothing more than currying favor with the hispanic voters. >> in desperation, they see november election is coming up is palpable. >> reid owes opponent agrees. >> he's politicized this and looking for votes in the places where he thinks he can find them and to attach them to the defense bill is an outrageous act of political maneuvering. >> i don't think we should talk about how beneficial the dream act is for democrats. >> senator reid wants to talk about how it helps the young illegal immigrants. >> the dream act is very simple it says a few billion in the country for five years before you're age 16 you should be able to go to state school. >> not just attend

and john and kiran, it's not just the harry reid and sharron angle campaign, just about every campaign is doing it these days. christine o'donnell announced a money bomb, raised a ton of money. all of these candidates are doing it these days. it is really sort of the next step in campaigning in this new era. >> because it's very easy to get just your message out. it's a one-way conversation. columnists -- yeah, they follow people's tweets. and the fact you can add video adds a whole other element, as well. >> absolutely, yeah. it's going to keep going on from there. it's not going to stop. and it's going to be amazing to see who comes up with the next, you know, sort of buzz application for social media. >> it really is amazing as larry was saying. people can commit news on twitter. who would've thought that was possible? jim acosta for us this morning, thanks. >>> your top stories this morning. river rising in wisconsin. a levee in real danger of failing this morning. basements and living rooms filling with water after a foot of rain came down last week. 150 residents in the area have