judge. nidal hasan comes face-to-face with some of his alleged victims. bonding with the boss, how the recession is driving employees closer to their managers, maybe even a little too close. good morning, i'm chris jansing. this is "jansing & company." terrorism analyst kendall coffey and politics daily blogger, matt lewis. republicans are pushing to take the hill. trying to get control of the house. but don't count democrats out yet because instead of retreating, they're standing their ground in some important races. kelly o'donnell has the key battleground matchups. >> this is like a special hamburger. >> reporter: fund-raising in miami, he stopped in havana where the cuban food is hot. >> then you put french fries on top of it. >> reporter: kentucky's senate debate. >> he's going to keep saying obama, obama, obama, it's about kentucky first. >> reporter: in a tight race with rand paul. >> he doesn't want to talk about his support for president obama and all of president obama's initiatives. that's what this election is about and he's trying to run away from it. >> reporter: in wisconsin the battle is over obama's health care reform. senator russ feingold defended his yes vote. >> a good compromise that brings the country forward. >> reporter: ron johnson is backed by the tea party. >> i have a very specific proposal and we repeal the health care bill. that will save trillions. >> precisely. >> that will save trillions. >> reporter: feingold who championed finance reform pushed johnson that outside interest groups buying ads disclose their donors' names. >> will you call on them to stop? >> i have no control over that. that is part of the problem, you have no. that is the right free speech. >> reporter: the fight over tv ads took a lighter turn in colorado. tea party-backed ken buck teased michael bennet. >> i don't know who senator bennet is running the ads against, but i don't think i'd vote for that guy. >> reporter: the plot twist in west virginia is a democratic senate candidate shooting down some obama policies. >> i'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. because it's bad for west virginia. >> reporter: joe manchin told us he did not want president obama's help, but said bill clinton was there was as a friend. >> i never had anybody come stump for me. i don't do that. whether it be president obama, with all due respect, or anybody else. >> that was kelly o. reporting. democratic strategist karen finny and blogger for politicsdaily.com, matt lewis. i did give a little chuckle for that. bill clinton, he's just a buddy of mine, he just came on down. >> we just pal around. >> let's look at the big picture, if we can. "new york times" reports that both sides are jockying for position that there may be some races where the democrats are getting back into play. but money is a big issue here. it's kind of a chess game. where does that money go? some folks have had the money pulled away now. how important are these decisions at this stage of the game? >> they're critical decisions. this is the time you look at the map and you have a limited amount of resources and you try to figure out, it's almost like a horse race, right? where is your best bet in terms of candidates that with a little bit more money they will actually make it across the finish line and where are the places where you just don't think this is going to happen. these are tough choices. one thing that makes this year pretty unique, the field is so big. you're seeing things pop late, which always happen, but they're popping in unique places, as well. >> do you think we're seeing more last-minute turns than we have seen, matt, in the past. are people tuning entice the more than they have been? >> russ feingold is a prime example. three months ago nobody felt russ feingold would be in danger in wisconsin. i think the fact that we're even talking about feingold being in trouble really underscores how problematic things are for democrats. i mean, it's not just defending seats like pennsylvania where pattumy is going to win or florida but it expanded into even russ feingold now being in trouble. that's devastating for democrats to have to worry about defending that seat. >> that's quite a face you made, karen. >> i was trying to let matt finish. the amount of money being put into these races by outside groups, mostly republican, is making a huge difference. you have in some groups democrats outspending republicans, seven to one. democratic candidates doing a good job, working hard. >> you can talk about the money all you want, but what is the net results? >> you have millions of dollars of advertising against you, it is hard to fight all those attacks. >> and i guess there are probably some people from the tea party who would take exception to that. it was interesting this morning michele bachmann who always has interesting things to say was on "today" show and she was talking about what she sees as the chances for the tea party. let me play that little sound. >> whether it's ken buck in florida, mark arubio in florida or rand paul in kentucky. the tea party candidates overwhelmingly have caught fire and we're going to see a very different u.s. senate in a very different house going forward and that's good. that's energizing the republican party. >> you know, we had a little time, matt, for things to settle from the primaries to see some of these tea party candidates, not just on the campaign trail, but as we've been seeing them in some of the debates. where do they play into all of this? >> well, look, i think michele bachmann is absolutely right and here's what's going to happen. i don't think republicans are going to win the united states senate, but i think the united states senate will be dramatically changed. i mean, right now there are two reliable conservatives in the senate, tom coburn and jim dement otherwise we have establishment republicans people like mitch mcconnell and sometimes a good conservative, but not really what conservatives would consider to be a conservative hero. but now you're going to add in people like rand paul. i think he's going to win and mark arubio in florida and pat toomey in pennsylvania and who knows what is going to happen? dramatically different whether or not republicans take over and conservatives are going to be, you know, maybe five times more powerful than they have been in the past. >> let's take a look, not to do cross promotion, but my friend lawrence o'donnell had some interesting guests last night including rand paul and one thing they talked about and one thing they talked about was medicare. so, let's take a listen defining where he stands on medicare. >> if you want to have medicare for the elderly or education for our children, you can't do it by running up trillions of dollars in debt. that is my beef. my beef is this, that we have to cut. but i don't come out and say, oh, well, we're spending too much. what we have to do is cut medicare, we want to abolish medicare. you're absolutely distorting my views. my views are this and i do get a lot of support from the left because they understand the true progressive understands what i am saying. >> does the true progressive understand what he's saying? >> what progressives are saying particularly when you look at the gop pledge where it will cost $700 billion and we say, okay, where you going to cut and they won't give a straight answer. ron paul is right, we do need to bring in the deficit and i think republicans will say where they will make the cuts rather than keeping it so vague up until the election. >> we have not talked about alan green in a while, but that does not mean he is off the radar. the interview last night staying strictly on message even as lawrence tried to have some fun with him. let's take a listen. >> are you a witch? >> no, first, i want to remind everyone that he started the recession. >> your nickname in high school, i'm told, was turtle. does that tell us? where did that come from and does that tell us anything on how this race might end up? >> well, dement started the recession and he is responsible for the recession. >> alvin, seriously, your nickname, turtle, where did that come from? >> no. like i said, dement started the recession and i am the best candidate. >> he stayed on message. i mean, that's something. >> i almost think it's gotten to the point now where alvin greene does not have a realistic chance of winning. >> i think it has been that way for some time. >> it's not cool to have him on tv,e honestly. i think it's almost inhumane. the guy is not ready for primetime. >> do we learn something from some of these cants going forward, matt? >> i think in the case of alvin greene, no reason to have him on. i don't think he's a viable candidate and i don't think it serves the public to have him on. >> but i'm talking about the candidates who are running for and who are actually elected, not elected but actually win a primary for a very important job. are people going to look at things differently or are these just sort of random things that happen? it's kind of a silly, crazy election and you look at it all through the prism of how upset everybody is and nothing to glean from it going forward. >> i think there are some trends going forward, chris. one of them is it used to be that experience really mattered. it used to be that, i really feel like the public, it's not just a temporary thing. people are very angry right now, but i feel like the notion that you should be a public servant and maybe serve in the state senate or be a military leader before running for political office, that's kind of out the window. in some ways, that is a good thing. too much elitism. there are some down sides to that and i think in some of these cases, we're seeing the downside. >> no, look, i think in all seriousness when we get to the end of this election and we see some folks who actually won. we may have buyers remorse and think next time pay closer attention in the primaries than we have in the past. >> karen, matt, we will continue the conversation. we will move ahead to this morning when many of the people who survived last year's attack at ft. hood will face the man accused of trying to gun them down. major milestone in stem cell research. doctors are treating a human being with embryonic stem cells. just a matter of hours before those 33 chilean miners will get to see the outside world after being trapped underground for 69 days. 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>> i wouldn't expect any great revelations. i think we already know quite a bit about this story. unfortunately, the biggest part of the story, which i think we don't know may not come out in this trial, which is what did the military, what did the department of justice know about the communications between hasan and yemeni american cleric before the ft. hood massacre. >> who is known to recruit. >> i mean, he is known to recruit people. he is known to turn people into human bombs and the same person that recruited the underwear bomber and i think these are the more difficult questions because my understanding is that those details are uncomfortable and unpleasant and i think -- >> uncomfortable and unpleasant. do you know in what way? >> we'd like to see more about that in detail. the e-mails that were sent back and forth because there are some uncomfortable questions about why did the military or the fbi not pick up on this beforehand? so, again, known to recruit human bombers. how is it that these communications could have been deemed harmless? i think a lot of people need to understand why that happens so it doesn't happen again because this is the answer. how is it that someone within the u.s. military was recruited by an al qaeda recruiter, someone within al qaeda and yemen while he was on a u.s. military base? how could that happen? those are the questions we really need to be answering. i don't think we'll find any great revelations about nusolhassan or his motivations. this was an individual who was pushed to the edge by an al qaeda recruiter. that's really the story here. >> the other terror going on. new york city, first civilian trial ever of guantanamo bay detainee. ghailani facing 220 counts of murder and also charges for his role in the 1998 embassy bombings. and, clearly, one of the big things here is the fact that the prosecution decided, kendall, not to appeal a ban on a key witness in this case. tell me how you see this case right now? as it stands, how strong a case is it? >> well, you've got to know that new york prosecutors, they've had plenty of experience with serious terrorism cases, considered very, very carefully how high the stakes are in this trial before deciding to give up on somebody who would have been a critical witness. the stakes are so high because if this case is lost, the legal war on terrorism is going to have a redefinition and there may be no more civilian trials of accused al qaeda terrorists. at the same time, enough attention to this that if this case is lost, i think the obama administration is going to get some measure of heat for being too soft in the legal war on terrorism. >> do you think, kendall, though, that the case really has been damaged that significantly by the loss of this witness? >> well, there certainly is a confidence that the prosculatec have stated. we don't know all the evidence. they believe they're going to get a conviction, let's accept that in faith. the one thing is clear, when somebody was a witness that could say, yeah, i spoke to the defendant and helped him get tnt to perpetrate these embassy bombings, that is absolutely lights out, slam dunk kind of witness. the other thing that is pretty clear, in a military proceeding in guantanamo, this witness would have been testifying. key witness down in guantanamo excluded up in new york. that's a difference that will be a haunting one for any reason there is a failure to get a c conviction here. >> do you think the stakes are really that high? >> it's very interesting because the judge also issued this other ruling in his verdict which is kind of curious, which is that he said even if ghailani is found innocent, not found guilty in civilian court, he could still be sent directly back to military custody in guantanamo bay, which is a little bit strange if you think about it. again, it brings up the very difficult problems there are in trying to try these individuals in civilian court. do we want to do this? with the 9/11 conspirators. we would like to see them here in new york. there are very serious considerations that go into this legal and otherwise that we don't necessarily think of. in the case of ghailani not being able to pult a key witness in saying this guy just didn't buy a truck or some conteaainer he bought explosives. obviously, this person intended to kill people. i think it's something that military prosecutors and civilian prosecutors are going to have to think about in the months to come when we decide whether or not to put the 9/11 conspirators on trial in new york. >> evan kohlmann, thanks for coming in. kendall coffey, thank you. >> thank you. big step for stem cell research. the first trial is under way. we'll look at some of the ethical and political implications. and danger behind the wheel. why parents could be at lohse partly to blame for distracted teenage drivers. etfs? exchange traded funds? don't give me just ten or twenty to choose from. come on. td ameritrade introduces commission-free etfs with a difference-- more choice. over a hundred etfs.... ...chosen by the unbiased experts at morningstar associates. let me pick what works for me. for me. for me. the etf market center at td ameritrade. before investing, carefully consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. contact td ameritrade for a prospectus containing this and other information. read it carefully before investing. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, including celebrex, may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance increases if you have heart disease or risk factors such as high blood pressure or when nsaids are taken for long periods. nsaids, including celebrex, increase the chance of serious skin or allergic reactions or stomach and intestine problems, such as bleeding and ulcers, which can occur without warning and may cause death. patients also taking aspirin and the elderly are at increased risk for stomach bleeding and ulcers. do not take celebrex if you've had an asthma attack, hives, or other allergies to aspirin, nsaids or sulfonamides. get help right away if you have swelling of the face or throat, or trouble breathing. tell your doctor about your medical history and find an arthritis treatment that works for you. ask your doctor about celebrex. and, go to celebrex.com to learn more about how you can move toward relief. celebrex. for a body in motion. you don't love me anymore do you billy? 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for just a few number of patients and the objective is to test the safety. now, what they've decided to do is to feed, i believe it's 11 patients who had a rene spinal cord injury. >> so, they're recently injured and they're in this study, how -- i'm trying to get a sense. you mention it's about safety. i'm trying to get a sense of what exactly they'll be doing. what would be considered a successful trial? >> so, any time medical science or the medical community develops a new therapy, whatever that therapy is whether it's a drug, a device or in this case a cell, we always want to protect the safety of patients involved. and that's also the primary role of the food and drug administration. so before we start to test whether the treatment works, we first ask, is it safe? and in the case of cells, there are a lot of safety concerns, so, i think it's very important that geron decided to do a safety study first, just to ask the question, if these cells are injected into the spinal cord of these injured individuals, will it be safe? will it be okay after they received those cells? >> as i understand it, this will go on for at least a couple years. doctor, thank you so much. matt, i want to go to you, this is not something that we've heard about a lot in the political discussion, but the fact that this is happening, that this is embryonic stem cells which, of course, has been at the heart of the political debate. could it resurface? >> it absolutely could. as technology progresses, we'll have to wrestle more and more with ethical questions, such as this. keep in mind, there are already adult stem cells which have proven effective. you basically in the laboratory take sperm and egg and some people would say that's creating a life. in order to create stem cells the embryo is then discarded. i think everybody agrees that whatever we can do to help the people who have spinal cord injuries is a very good thing, but this opens up a pandora's box of huge ethical questions. when does life begin? if, in fact, life has begun at this point, are we now destroying it? what does that lead to? does it lead to cloning? this is dpogoing to be a huge, e question. >> there will be influence depending on how successful it might be but even apart from that because we won't know in the short term. in the short term, where is this going to play into the political debate? >> obviously, you know, a case in front of the supreme court now with it obama administration and it's interesting there was an interactive poll that showed 73% of americans favored stem cell research and what was most interesting was republicans, born again christians and catholics are in that group. which means support for research is actually broadening. from a political context, that certainly matters. in addition to the the moral questions that matt mentioned, moral questions about if we have the ability to help someone with spinal cord injuries, how do we not do that? obviously, the court will have to 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used to. fame, maybe some fortune just around the corner. kerry sanders is live at the scene for us. i want to get to the fame and fortune, but i know there was a briefing, somebody's walking in your shot, kerry. get them out of there. i want to get to the briefing -- >> well, we positioned ourselves here to show you the last-minute activity. the latest is that all systems are go. everything is in place and in about 90 minutes the road to the mine that goes back into the city of copiapo is going to be shut off. nobody else will be allowed out. as we pull in here, i can show you the final activity. even some camera crews that positioned themselves way up in cherry pickers. it's estimated now by the government that there are 1,700 journalists who have come here for more than 200 nations. let me get past this vehicle here. you see that the activity is continuing. they actually put these barricades in overnight and they've actually wired them together so that nobody will be able to push out here when things start getting under way. as i spin around, let me just stop for a second and go ahead and turn around, you can see the officers asking us to stand back. this is an area where we have been able to walk day in and day out. now, that's no longer the case. it appears that they've done the final tests and now they're doing the rehearsals of those tests because what they did is they had the helicopters that are the ambulance helicopters flying in formation back and forth. they will do that again. they have taken the capsule down and brought it up. they stopped about 40 feet short of where the men are and they'll do that again and then practicing more at the triage and they essay everything set there and family members who are going to be greeting their loved ones when they show up. each one gets three family, loved ones. they come through with their suitcases and waiting there on the other side, anxious. looks like everything is set and the president will be here around 5:00, 6:00. we may begin to see miners coming out around 7:00 eastern time. lawrence goldbloom from the minister of mines says he thinks it will take 48 hours to get all three up. >> 48 hours, wow. kerry, thank you so much. we'll keep checking back in. democrats are looking to someone more popular than the president for campaign help. tomorrow, michelle obama will make her first official campaign appearances in chicago and milwaukee. norah o'donnell is in washington and, norah, what do they think the first lady is going to accomplish? >> you know, chris, she was named by "forbes" the most powerful woman in the world. they are hoping she can be the most proliffic fund-raiser. she is kicking off this tour to eight different states and most of the events she's holding are invitation-only fund-raisers. raising the big bucks for the democrats out there who are in very tough races. it is true, her approval ratings are better than her husband's. it's also true if you look at some of these fund-raisers, more important to get in with a fund-raiser with michelle obama than the president of the united states. she is making the stops in the key senate races and for the democrats to hold on to the senate. her advisors say, look, this is not a red meat partisan speech she delivers. she will talk about her husband's record and the administration's record and very similar to what she told a group organizing for america recently where she said, don't let frustration keep you from voting. change is difficult. we're just beginning to see the results. don't stay home. that's largely going to be the message we hear from first lady michelle obama. interestingly enough, chris, i think that michelle obama is a little bit more modeling herself more like someone like laura bush than hillary clinton as first lady. for the first midterms during the bush years hillary clinton did about 20 events. you see michelle obama campaigning in eight states and the joint rally with the president in oohio. i want to bring our company back in karen finny and blogger for politicsdaily.com, matt lewis. i don't know, karen, what do you say as a democrat when the president, you can go see the president for less money than the first lady? >> i say good for her. you go, girl! look, first ladies are always very popular on the campaign trail, particularly with the base. we know right now for democrats raising mun eaoney and getting base out are two very important things. >> we know she can raise money and a lot of people want to talk to her, see her and have their picture taken. the question is, will she motivate people to get out to vote? >> we certainly hope so. what she does -- >> that is not an answer. we know you hope so. >> absolutely. >> okay. >> she reminds people, here's the thing, first ladies give people a different viewpoint into the president, they humanize them a little bit and also she reminds them what they voted for in the first place and the same kind of nostalgic way you have seen the president at big rallies, we are to keep it going. she remind people of that. >> matt, you made the argument earlier this is a referendum on barack obama. if going out there she is able to do what karen thinks she is able to do, make him warmer, fuzzier, more likable than he is now, maybe not put words in your mouth, i think that is what you were saying. does this potentially help to get out the vote? does this help energize the base? >> it doesn't hurt. i think michelle obama is a charismatic person and she has all the positives of barack obama without the baggage, which is always the case. karen's exactly right. i remember republicans using laura bush when george w. bush, you know, was persona nongrada in some states. they are using her wisely. they need to be careful and protect her brand. vice presidents are attack dogs but first ladies have to be above the fray. based on norah's report, they'll use her smartly and send her to places where she will be well received. 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[ laughs ] come on, be honest. these days do you find yourself to be be more chummy with your boss? better friends than you were a few years back? a new study says blame it on the recession. the street.com cites a survey which is the world's largest staffing group saying that more than three-quarters of bosses say they are closer to their employees than they were before the recession began. 61% of employees say they feel the same way. let's bring in karen finney and matt lewis to have fun with this. the article says that remaining employees feel like survivors and that makes sense, right? >> absolutely. probably everyone is taking on a little bit more responsibility, working more closely together, probably a bit of overlap. i think i'm glad i work for myself. >> a lot of these people say they aren't just making the jump to friend like on facebook or something but one in five, matt, say they are willing to take their relationship with their boss to the next level if it will help their careers. apparently the things we will do to keep our jobs. >> well, let's hope it doesn't go there. i think that's maybe taking it too far. some of this could be -- some could be a positive biproduct. our grandparents who came through the depression were different than us. we're fickle. i never had a job that was more than five years in one place. we tend to be fickle and think the grass is greener on the other side and maybe if something positive comes from this downturn it will be an appreciation for those of us that have jobs. question like our jobs and are blessed to have a job. >> let's get everyone a plug to keep their jobs longer. actually, to your point, matt, 70% of the people polled say that even though they may be more friendly with their bosses, they don't want their jobs and chances are they have seen people let go and make tough choices. >> you appreciate having a job in this economy and being able to take care of your family. you don't want it to move up but stay where you are. >> in the interest of political pundit employment, keep watching. tell your friends. jansing and company 10:00 a.m. to noon eastern time. thank you for helping me give that shameless plug. that's going to do it for me. i'm chris jansing. see you back here tomorrow and every week day at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. contessa brewer is next. hey there. >> coming up, we have developing news about a missing girl in north carolina. police now say it's a homicide investigation and the stepmother they say appears to be involved. we're just hours away from seeing the first of those trapped miners in chile emerge from their underground home. a live updates on preparations here. and lessons not learned. wait until you hear how much wall street is paying out in bonuses. quick break here. we'll be right back. i like that. bankers are known to be a little bit in love with themselves. are we going up? we can get the next one. i'd like to get your advice on hedging - risk... exposure. what makes us different? for 300 years we've chosen to focus on our clients. what a novel idea. stay twice... earn a free night! two separate stays at comfort inn or any of these choice hotels can earn you a free night -- only when you book at choicehotels.com. ♪ to connect our forces to what they need, when they need it. ♪ to help troops see danger, before it sees them. ♪ to answer the call of the brave and bring them safely home. 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