we think john kerry is probably the richest guy in congress. you don't see it because of how it's reported. all of his wife's money. she doesn't have to report the wife's detail. >> laura: people watching this might be surprised most of the people in the top ten are democrats. seven democrats, three republicans, right? >> yeah. well we did the top 50 and it's 31 republicans and 19 democrats. the top 10, as you said is 7 democrats and 3 republicans. again, because categories are sort of amalleable, it's hard to put anyone in any specific spot. these are all minimum net worth. they could be -- >> laura: who is the oddest story? is there anyone of the top earners or inheriters who have con conventional path to wealth? >> one of our favorites is herb kohl is usually listed as the poorest member of congress because liabilities outweigh the value of his basketball team. jared from colorado who became internet millionaire with blue mountain greeting cards online. basically most of these people made their money the old fashioned way. he they inherited

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you heard a hint of that between john kerry and john mccain. listen to this exchange. >> i believe this s. without question, the tea party downgrade because a majority of people in the house of representatives countered even the will of many americans in the united states senate prepared to do a bigger deal. >> the members of the house of representatives had a mandate last november and it was jobs and the economy and it was spending. and for them to then agree to tax increases and spending increases, which obviously repudiation of the mandate that they felt they had. >> reporter: notable that john mccain said the mandate they felt they had because there was, as john kerry indicated, some dissension within senior republican ranks, mark zander, a member of the leadership got behind that gang of 6 that the tea party was resisting. john mccain at one point talked about the demands from the tea party for approval of a balanced budget amendment before there could be a deal. so some of those pressures, i would expect, alex, are going to intensify with

beside the fact that john kerry disagreed with him. and the american people want the war to come to an end. and the cost is high and the u.s. government and members of the s.e.a.l. team six, they got osama bin laden in may. that gave the president the freedom to say, look, we have inhibited al qaeda as much as we've hurt them enough that we don't need to stay at this force level. so i would expect the 30,000 surge troops to come out as the president keeps on his path. >> okay. i'm going to ask you to put on your excellent economic perspective hat because we know the asian markets open later this evening is there an expectation of how rocky it will get? >> reporter: well, the question is how much. the administration is hoping that the political controversy around the s&p decision, the fact that they made a math error before they came up with it, will help blur the impact of this and certainly politically that's in the discussion. listen to this between john mccain and john kerry on meet the tres today. >> i believe this is, without ques

. >> max baucus, john kerry, patty murray. >> signed a pledge against any tax hikes. >> really is going to have to be who can fight ideologically. >> 82% of americans now disapprove of the way congress is doing its job. >> it's also very disturbing, the lack of diversity. >> this super committee is so distressing. >> melissa harris-perry can't stand talking about the super committee, so she'll review a movie for us instead. >> all right, i'm going to do it. but i need to make sure she understand this ain't no game. >> republicans are trying to explain how losing two senate seats in wisconsin is actually a win for them. >> what we saw happen in wisconsin. >> two seats picking up last night was decent. >> this is sort of a test for progressives. >> this is devastating for unions. >> ed schultz joins me. >> i can't do this story tonight without having fun with these people. >> and iowa gets crazier as the candidates get ready for the straw poll. >> i've got more than one gear. >> also preparing for tomorrow night's big race. >> fun and entertainment, we're always going to have a petting zo

joining us now, john kerry. senator kerry, good to have you. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you, david. good to be here. >> when you see news like this, when you hear of the loss of life among our soldiers, is your reaction what are we still doing here or is it are we doing everything we need to do to beat al qaeda, not the taliban? >> my first reaction, david, and i'm sure john mccain is at an extraordinary sense of loss and sense of gratitude for their quality of sacrifice and service. our hearts go out to their families. i think john and i join every american as if we have lost a member of our family. the first thought is sadness and sorrow for the loss. john and i, and i think many others believe we are in a transition in afghanistan. the effort that they have making there is one that is important to our national security in this transition. there were seven afghans there, members of the commando force. it's part of the transition taking place. i think we have to find out exactly what happened. i'm going to be very interested to

this is an approach that did work before in 2004 for john kerry. you might remember, a year before, a lot of energy, a lot of attention with a much hotter candidate, howard dean, but ultimately, the electorate was convinced that they needed to pick somebody who was a more electable candidate against george w. bush. obvious dlipt work out for john kerry in the long run. that's huntsman's pitch. i'm a sane republican not like those other fringe republicans. that's his argument that he's making. >> all right, we're looking forward to the interview. you can see jake's entire interview with jon huntsman along with the president's campmpgn adviser david actixelr, coming up tomorrow morning on abc's "this week." >>> now a story that we have followed closely the record shortage of medicines in this country, to treat cancers. doctors are telling their patients to come back, we have simply run out of medicine. what's going on here? here's abc's t.j. winick. >> reporter: tonight, america's supply of medications that fights cancer and other diseases is in crit

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bush did to john kerry in 2004, and that is to discredit him early and often. >> you know, jonathan, i just want to go back to the citation for that political quote. i want to read it again. here's how that quote is attributed in politico. "a prominent democratic strategist aligned with the white house." as i said in my introduction, that narrows it down to about 300 people. >> a thousand people. >> a thousand, there you go. the other stuff is all david axelrod on the record saying things perfectly sensible and responsive to things he's getting about romney and things he said before, so it actually doesn't read to me as suddenly the obama campaign has come out and decided to turn over its cards about romney. this story came to them. >> they have always had two things that they are going to go negative with. one is his years at bain capital, remember when ted kennedy was running against romney in 1994 for the senate from massachusetts, he pulled that out, it was a close race, kennedy won in the 11th hour by going to people who had lost their jobs as a result of decisions made by bain

they are patty murray of washington, max baucus of montana and john kerry of massachusetts. we're a quarter of the way way. the committee is supposed to be set up by next week. >>> we've seen what's been going on in britain the past few days, fires, looting marauding gangs. the sale of aluminum baseball bats has skyrocketed. amazon reported orders were up more than 8,000 pr. on the amazon discussion board there. if you find yourself not able to update your status. anonymous might be to blame. the hacker group is vowing to kill facebook november 5th. the video message says even if you delete your account, all your information stays on facebook. facebook is not commenting on the alleged plot. >>> just days before president obama and his family are supposed to be on vacation, there's been a small fire at his vacation home on martha's vineyard. the fire chief of chill mark, massachusetts says an outdoor gas grill caught fire at the main house at blue heron farm. the damage was minor. >>> the london riots no doubt a serious situation. count on comedians to find the funny side. he

patty murray and max baucus and john kerry. >> joe johns from washington, no surprise to learn, there is finger-pointing and bickering over the appointing. not that many seats to begin with. like picking a jury. the outcome of the trial could rest on what those people think in the jury box. >> reporter: yeah, but the problem is it's six republicans and six democrats and you end up with a tie, right? all right. the only reaction that really sticks out this morning on this committee is to senator patty murray. senator murray is a member of the powerful appropriations committee and also a member of the budget committee which makes sense, but here is the thing. she is chair of the democratic senatorial campaign committee which is supposed to help democrats get elected to the senate so they spend and raise a lot of money to do that. republicans got out of the block quickly saying she shouldn't have been chosen because of her relationship with the dscc and what is especially hard for republicans to swallow is that the dsec has been out in front in opposition to entitlement cuts, including m

john kerry is an interesting selection here. someone very likely could be the next secretary of state if president obama is re-elected, someone who has shown a willingness to do bipartisan deals over the last few years, the '04 nominee for the democrats so loved and respected by them. max baucus, very much talked about during all the health care debate as someone in the middle of the road swing guy and patty murray, more of the politician here as being head of the dccc, how far will she be willing to go on entitlements? >> let me get kristen in here. what kind of role is the white house playing here, an advisory role in democrat picks, for example, or trying to steer clear and let congress take this on. >> reporter: jonathan, the white house has been in constant contact with the folks on the hill. having said that, those picks were spearheaded by congressional leaders. here's what we'll see from the president. he will be putting the pressure on we expect publicly and behind the scenes to get some sort of a balanced approach. he'

directly ahead, senator john kerry tells the media to censor the tea party. what? and, later, the white house press corps is hammering the obama administration on the jobs question. we will examine how the president is handling the heat. upcoming. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is our beach. ♪ this is our pool. ♪ our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer event get an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz for an exceptional price. but hurry, this offer ends august 31st. in the factor follow-up tonight. bad news for the tea party. 40% of respondents have an unfavorable opinion ever the tea party. only 20% have a favorable opinion. and massachusetts senator john kerry, he doesn't like the fact that the media covers the tea party at all. >> i have to tell you, i say this to you politely the media in america has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. the medias has to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or si

kerry of massachusetts and patty murray of washington state but the republican senators the john karl of arizona arizona pat toomey of pennsylvania and rock morton of ohio and we're still waiting on nancy pelosi to announce that the the three democrats of the house john boehner has already released republican house names and they are jeb hensarling of texas gave camp in michigan and fred upton of michigan and the mainstream media is already falling all over itself describing who these lawmakers are what committees they're on what positions they take let's be honest here there's a so-called super committee that's supposed to save us from more credit downgrade and decide in the future of america's social programs really think they're going to pull this does it matter that it's bipartisan is that going to lead to some truly equal deal the places the needs of the american people first or is it all a charade because as dylan ratigan described it yesterday our congress is bought and more studio in los angeles is anika sperry and host of the young turks university and thanks so much for join

coming up this morning, we are going to bring in jor john kerry, maria bartiromo. up next, politico's top story of the morning. don't miss willie's week in review. first the forecast with bill karins. bill. >> the markets tanked yesterday, so did tropical storm emily. it went over hispaniola. now, we have turned our attention to the story with us all summer long. that's the heat. 108 yesterday in dallas. our friends in oklahoma city were 108. it's where the worst of the heat will stay. beautiful from boston to new york and philly. dry and beautiful weather. as far as the rest of the country goes, another beautiful day in texas and oklahoma. let's go through the weekend forecast. a chance of showers and storms from new york down to d.c. hot in dallas. as we go through our sunday on the eastern sea board, afternoon showers and storms. sunday is going to be cloudy, cool and damp. if you are waking up over manhattan, you are watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. ♪ >>> that's right, it's that time of year again, folks, when the president tries to convince us he

kerry and like max baucus their biggest contributors are also j.p. morgan they are also goldman sachs so what does that tell you. it's tells me that it's not a bipartisan committee at all i mean when you look at the american system right now political system as a whole the reason why it's so disastrous is because corporate interests trump everything else so you have citibank ok you have goldman sachs funding so far these three democratic senators that are supposed to be in the super committee so what are they going to do are they going to really focus and fight on increasing taxes no they're not going to do that because they have you know they have corporate interests that have donated so much money to them and their political campaigns and you know keep in mind that with the super committee all you really need is a simple majority to pass whatever deal you're you know the republicans are trying to pass so think about the people that harry reid has chosen for the democratic side max baucus is a centrist that is what his reputation is ok he. he's know

john kerry is the former relations committee. the components we need to look at tax reform and defense cuts. kerry is the senior policy voice in the party. he can provide some sort of cover for the party once it cuts into the defense budget. those are the three elements i took away from this. fascinating stuff, obviously. >> what do you think about -- we didn't get around to you on the wisconsin battle last night. are you surprised? >> yeah, i guess i'm a little surprised. you know, if all -- labor was very, very much invested in this, obviously. of all the things to get them riled up, the stripping of collective rights is the biggest thing. everyone is worried about their own pocketbooks, the stock market, the jobs market. it was tough to get traction over the closing weeks. two seats picking up last night was decent for democrats in labor. they wanted three seats. it sends somewhat of a message, but it's a setback. >> this is devastating for unions. they called it a historic assault, all out. said scott walker was a nazi, a fas

the president's aides have been looking to john -- george bush's takedown of john kerry. sources say there are two aspects to the strategy. the first is to go after romney on a personal level. is inauthentic, unprincipled and weird. the second tact is to go after his record as a businessman. he was the ceo of a venture capital firm daaled bane capital which both created and eliminated jobs. the goal is to paint romney as the picture of greet. romney describes it as dis pick pickle, desperate and disgraceful. they say there's nothing the president can do except make it about a referendum on the economy. they probably have a very good point. meanwhile, the obama campaign is saying anybody who claims to have a crystal ball for the campaign strategy isn't telling the truth. go to cnn.com/caffertyfile" or post on the situation room facebook page. an increasing number of you are taking advantage of that. . >>> six state senate seats that were in jeopardy in yesterday's recall elections in wisconsin. republicans held on to four of them, which means the party still has a slim maj

keep in mind, john kerry perpetuated this a few months ago. hillary clinton was embracing the idea this guy is a reformer. that's behind us at least and at least we isolated regime, us and the europeans and isolated regime that is isolated in the arena. that is progress. >> the state department today broadcast we won't use military force against bashar assad without calling for saber rattling or threatping the use of military force. foolish in extreme to take it off the table. that said is what we are looking at is a policy failure from both administration. the second part of the bush administration when we had an opportunity to squeeze assad and make him do what we wanted him to do or encourage him strongly to change his behavior. we opted not to do them. largely because we wanted him to participate in the peace process. then you look at the engagement, the obama administration tried, sending ambassador, talking to assad as reformer. it's failed. this is what happens when you have regime and dictator that is the nature that assad is. >> bret:

john kerry is rich. so -- >> greg: he married rich. >> bob: something i would do if i had the opportunity. ja you don't like rich people. >> bob: i like democrat rich people. >> you like rich left wingers. >> greg: rich lab ares are different from rich republicans. they don't want you to get rich. >> bob: there is something to be say about that. but these are three good choices i think in this community, everybody is saying that the down and out on the committee. this committee is the last best chance to get ourselves a long-term debt relief program. >> greg: i disagree. just have another committee. have that committee create another committee. >> greg is right. this committee is manifestation of congress' inability to do what we pay it to do, make decisions. they couldn't decide so they gave it to committee. these are the three most liberal members of the senate. believe in central planning of the economy and that higher taxes on everybody. >> so you are saying you don't like the choice? >> max baucus i

kerry of massachusetts to that committee. the rest of the 12-member panel is expected to be named next week. in britain, rioting continued to spread from london to other cities. this picture of a woman leaping from a burning building in london was on the front page of nearly every newspaper today. mark phillips has more on the riots and the government's response. >> reporter: the trouble didn't go away on the fourth night of rioting in britain, it just moved north to the cities of manchester and birmingham, where looters tried to take up where those in london had left off. but there were more police and fewer rioters. just as there were in london where police numbers were more than doubled to 16,000 and where they chased trouble down before it could begin. after three nights of looting and burning, britain declared it had had enough. >> this is criminality pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated. >> reporter: where the fires had burned, the morning light revealed destruction that looked like the wartime blit

they voted for john kerry, 2004. barack obama 2008. this means republicans have roughly 16 months to make inroads into this generation before we lose them for the rest of their lives. this is troubling to me. not just because i am a republican but i believe the ideas of the conservative movement and the party have offered better solutions to the issues that are most important and that affected them most directly. the title of my book "american individualism" is a reference to my great grandfather herbert hoover and the guiding principle he said fourth almost 90 years ago that i believe captures the spirit of the millennial generation in surprising ways but i will go into this by one to tell you a little bit about my background besides the headliner biography of the great granddaughter of herbert hoover. i have always been a proud republican because of that and also had my own journey. since the beginning i was a student of herbert hoover life come a legacy and also of american conservative movement. i never knew my great-grandfather. h

they voted john kerry 2004, barack obama at gwot 2008. this means republicans have roughly 16 months to make inroads into this generation before we lose them for the rest of their life. this is troubling to me. not just because i am a republican but i believe the ideas of the conservative movement and the republican party offer better solutions that affect them most directly. the title of my book "american individualism" is a reference to my great grandfather herbert hoover and the principal he set forth almost 90 years ago in which i believe captures the spirit of the millennial generation and surprising ways. i want to tell you about my own background first other than the a great granddaughter of herbert hoover. i have always been a proud republican because of this. but also have my own journey. since the beginning i have been a student of herbert hoover life, legacy, american conservative movement. i never knew my great-grandfather. he passed away 13 years before i was born but my upbringing was stories of him and his wit, wisdom, phil

harry reid is going to pick max baucus, john kerry and patty murray. baucus is a centrist and works with republicans on taxes and more in the middle. this could signal that they are looking for a deal. "usa today" poll said six of ten americans want compromise. >> bret: patty murray head of the democratic senator call pain. >> on the left. >> bret: thank you. oil hit the lowest mark since september. crude fell $2 to close at $# 9.30 a barrel. gasoline is averaging $3.5 a gallon. five cents less than a week ago. gold hit another record high. closing at $1740 an ounce. up $30 from monday. price tag for president obama's healthcare law may be bigger than anyone anticipate anticipated. $50 billion bigger every year. correspondent shannon bream is here to tell us about new analysis with alarming conclusions. >> good evening. >> well that analysis comes from the national bureau of economic research. they claim the budget office underestimated the cost of the healthcare law. according to the report, joint committee on taxation told cbo to calculate the cost b

john kerry, not either. gretchen is right, the one ray of hope that the republicans would have would be max baucus. the thing that some are saying is he's been reasonably good on taxes, so he might side with the republicans on some sort of tax reform. remember, the way the super committee will work is they just need seven votes in agreement to send it to the house and to the senate for a simple majority vote. he could be the 7th vote. >> peter: i think a lot of americans are hoping this so-called select committee, this super committee that will be composed of 12 wise senators, not 12 angry senators, that's what we're looking for, i think. >> gretchen: mitch mcconnell giving a sneak peek who he might select, saying it has to be somebody willing to accept something less than the absolute perfect solution. >> steve: compromise. >> gretchen: if you're looking what his words means, that means he would be selecting more moderates. in the meantime, some members of the house who are democrats and more to the left of

you know how john kerry began the debate in 2004, really, bo? >> he began it by saying -- by saying both george bushç and i love this country. we just have different views of where to lead it. >> and then went on to talk about the president's and the vice president's failure to serve that country in vietnam. >> actually, he did not. michael, did you even watch the debate. >> i did watch the debate. >> he did not. >> you know, guys, look, i get the joke here. i mean, this is perfectly. >> it's not a joke, michael, to say that somebody didn't love the country and he's president of the united states, to call the chairman of the federal board -- >> you sit back -- >> because he's got the policies of a -- it's ugly, it's despicable. >> that's fine. >> you don't have the guts to denounce it. >> you know why it's surprising to me, michael, i'll let you respond in just a minute. >> go ahead. >> i can remember so many times in my life that i've been called on to denounce things others have said and to apologize what i have said. >> there's nothing to d

john kerry lobbied for this spot, he's the chairman of the foreign relations committee, but he wants to have a sweeping domestic achievement. he wants to raise his stature if you will in the senate. the controversial pick tonight is senator murray, she's a trusted lieutenant to harry reid in the democratic leadership, she has a tough dual assignment now. she's also the chair woman of the democratic cen torial campaign committee. she raises money for senate candidates in the 2012 election year. she's going to be raising money for democrats who are attacking republicans for cutting medicare. she's going to be talking seriously and open mindedly about cutting social security. that is the one that's drawing some fire tonight. >> david, we still haven't heard any names on the republican side, what do you make of the three names we've heard tonight. will there be more finger pointing blaming as we've seen over the last several days, or do you think these three people will look at compromise will look at all options on the table? >> anderson all the indications are there could be a stalemat

john kerry will be a participant, he will do good work, he really will. i know him. it's touch to watch. now mcconnell says he'll only put people on there who will promise under no circumstances not to raise any revenue. where are we going? >> is this an exercise in futility? >> well -- it's too late now to put the gang of six on there. these are people that grappled with this since january of 2010. you don't need new facts, you just neat to get at it. they don't want to get at it or they wouldn't have put together the weak package that they did. >> obviously something has to be done. i guess the question is, where do you start? as somebody who spent so much time looking at these issues, are there areas where you think they can start? how do they at least begin to come to some sort of consensus? >> they can pick up a 67-page report that's written in english and using terms like going broke, shared sacrifice, we're all in this together, and it's very specific. that's why nobody touches our report, because when they can battle into the vapors about cutting this or doin

senator john kerry he's fallen from number one, this year he's number three. $193 million. i believe a lot of that has to do with his wife's inheritance. >> don't take that number seriously. the way congress reports assets many things that are held in the name of your spouse can be accounted for as just over a million dollars. so we count those as $1 million. when we suspect they're worth hundreds of millions more. this money is the hiends ketchup fortune that is in fact his wife's money and we suspect could be closer to $1 billion. but all we can count is this $194 or so. >> my goodness. let's move down the list to senator jay rockefeller he comes in at number four with more than $100 million less than john kerry. he's doing all right. $82 million. >> this is all family money. rockefeller family name. folks know that name and this is largely family trusts. and it's been the same money for years and years and years. >> in all, you found 50 members of congress worth more than $6 million. how does this line up with years past? >> it's a little higher this year. in previous ye

john kerry they turned him into a some kind of traitor, horrible things against a guy that served his country and faced bullets, but weird is interesting because weird plays on some of his vulnerabilities. he's incredibly formal in his behavior in public, he does seem artificial in the way he presents himself. you're laughing. >> that's in his genes. >> it's not that, here's the tangible issue. the tangible issue is that there was a real concern in 2008 he has a hard time connecting personally to voters. >> and he does. >> how do you turn it into a negative, a lot of guys can't connect but it's not frightening. how do you turn it into scary? >> i don't think this weird card is going to be advantageous to the obama campaign. >> a weird card is different than a mormon card. >> when you play a weird card, you know what you're playing. >> the obama campaign isn't going to engage on mormonism but that engagement will probably occur in south carolina, people like rick perry, people like michele bachmann, the fundamentalist christian community who think mormonism is more than weird, thing it

you see john kerry and david axelrod calling this the "tea party downgrade." we saw lindsay gam and others say thank god for the tea party for bringing this to our attention kind of thing. i don't think americans are going to care that much about it because they're not going to see it effect them. i think voters care about what effects them, what affects their wallet, pocketbook, investment. they're going to care about jobs, whether or not they have them. i'm not sure how much this aa rating is going to affect the election. we'll. >> rick perry has a solution to the economic ills of the country is facing. he -- he had some kind of a come and pray away the bad economy get-together. >> yeah. yeah. it's called the response, i guess 30,000 people showed up at reliance stadium in the capital where rick perry, of course, is the governor of texas. and it was billed as nondenominational, but tell that to the jewish folks, muslim, the buddhist, the nonreligious and even the catholics who wouldn't, i don't think, have felt that welcomed. rick perry wants people to fast

. >> it was david axel rod that said that and not john kerry. he lifted it from axelrod. he is the great gray iminance hovering over this process . >> speak being the blame game. it doesn't look like it is sticking on the president. should he be saying i could have done a better job at -- >> it is a mea cullpa. if we do that. apologize for what? he's done a good job in terms of negotiating with people who don't want to objective. mitch mcconnell's major objective. >> can he do anything wrong. >> i will not like what he did with afghanistan or libya. i wish he would have envoke the 14th amendment. he strikes me. i gave you specifics. >> what about the way the press treated him? >> i think the media finally realized they can no longer carry his water. this was the first instance that even the left came out and said, we can't make excuses for him. cannot as bill dally say defend the indefensible . that is a collective concensus from the left. >> we have spoken throughan drea. >> we are getting carried away with this. >> and it is silly to think of the leftest to turn on obam

john kerry is the under all the circumstances mat example right now. chris: is this the amen chorus? that he's used to getting these one-liners from the right and then he has to talk to regular people. >> i think there's some of that and it's always been part of the republican playbook when you have a veteran to say that the nonveteran doesn't have the respect of the troops. since 1992 the veterans have won. i don't think it's the people that don't like the military. it's just that fewer and fewer have served. since the time the draft ended, the military is the thing they admire in the abstract but not like if they'd been in it. that generation of leaders may become important political figures and leaders but only because of what they learned. not because of their stat us as having been in the army. it's not that we stand up and salute politicians who have military backgrounds but they've learned things now. >> we did an event the other night after the cover story and i talked to a number of vets who were offended by what perry said. they said one of t

they voted for john kerry in 2004. they voted for barack obama in 2008. this means republicans have roughly 16 run to make inroads into this generation before we lose them for the rest of their lives. now this is troubling to me, not just because i'm a republican, but i believe the ideas of the conservative movement and the republican party actually has offered better solutions to the issues that are most important to this generation and the issues that affect them most directly. now the title of my book, not the subtitle, "american individualism" as a reference to my great grandfather, herbert hoover on the guiding principle he sat for almost 90 years ago in which i believe captures the spirit of the millennial generation is surprising ways and i'm going to go into this in a minute, but i want to tell you a little about me on background first besides just the headliner biography and the great grandparent or of herbert hoover. because of this has always been a proud republican, but i've also had my own journey. since the beginning of the stories i i can r

if you wanted to look more left and right, patty murray the dccc chair joined by john kerry. it's going to be an interesting mix. >> you're going to be busy up there, luke. give us a shout if nancy pelosi decides. >> reporter: indeed. i think this kerry addition is quite interesting because of his 2004 experience. he's someone who a lot of folks think he's very far to the left. he's willing to do business especially at this stage in his career. he could be secretary of state if obama wins a second term. >> exactly. if not sooner. >>> joining me now democratic strategist tad devine and michael steele. this is an interesting mix, if anything is going to get done, it's going to be done this committee because they fear the triggers. they and all the lobbyists fear the automatic cuts which cannot be negotiated. >> it sound like we don't know all the members yet, it sounds like reasonable people are being appointed by both sides. one of the three representing the far end of the party. nevertheless people who can sit down and talk to one another. it's in their interest. in in the co

al gore got 42%, john kerry got only 41% of white votes in 2004. obecause meas' 24% was on the high end. last november's she lacking of democrat -- shellacing of democrats beat a retreat. democrats got only 37% of white votes last november. 37%. it's all very worrying for the obama re-election campaign because in the most recent nbc poll, he, the president, is down to just 36% of whites. there you see the drop, helene, why the fall off? >> and you're asking me? i thought it was interesting what you said right now -- just now about the white house and obama's re-election campaign worrying about this. trying to get these guys to talk about race, is one of the hardest things to do as a reporter covering the white house. they always tell you, we don't look at it that way. they've tried so hard to present barack obama as a candidate who is not thinking race, race, race all the time they've don't present him that way. but of course they're worried about that. i think that's definitely an issue. a far bigger issue is not about whether race is going to be

kerry has been selected by the democrats by the senate side to participate on this committee. interestingly he did not pick his budget chair, anyone from the gang of six that worked on that deficit reduction package or anyone on the commission who voted yes for the deficit package last year. now, these names are all due on tuesday. we're awaiting the other nine very soon. lynn? >> tracie potts for us in washington. thank you. >>> at a somber ceremony in delaware yesterday. the remains of 30 american service members killed when their helicopter was shot down in afghanistan last weekend arrived back on u.s. soil. president obama traveled to dover air force base to meet the families of the fallen soldiers. the military has opened an investigation into the devastating helicopter crash which led to the single deadliest loss for u.s. forces during the nearly decade-long war in afghanistan. >>> there has been a fourth night of violence in england as riots spread across the country. within london, though, calm has been largely restored with the help of a flood of police officers. the