private, they re perfectly honest with me. we ve worked through these things. even though they were more conservative than i was, they knew i wanted people who could work to work. and when i pointed out that you couldn t ask poor people to go to work if they lost their food support or they couldn t provide medical care for their kids, as a result of it, they got that and didn t want to take it away. we had a kind of debate that sensible people have when a husband and wife have a difference at home and they work through it by listening to each other and figuring out what the best compromise is? the republican party in the era under you decided early on in the health care fight to just say no and they didn t get hit hard on it. president obama has decided, maybe it s chicago politics, you don t talk about the opposition. dick daley politics. he never mentioned boehner s name. never mentioned mcconnell s name for like a year and a half and now he s calling him out. should he have called
made last night. you send another goon to my daughter s house and i ll take you out buddy. how you going to do that? yeah. watch. there s more to this tape. by the way, who is this candidate that s threatening to take out people? and all the president s generals. how is president obama working with american generals in afghanistan? who s calling the shot? that s my question for bob woodward. remember this scene when michele bachmann was so inspired by president bush that she wouldn t let him go at that state of the union. well, she s turned on bush in her latest ad. that s in the sideshow. all of that is ahead. first, let s check in on the latest polls in the tight races around the country. for that we go to the hardball scoreboard. let s start with california. where a new ppi c poll shows what we ve seen from other current polls. senator barbara boxer s building a strong lead over republican challenge, carly fiorina. up in alaska it looks like a real race now
dick daley politics. he never mentioned boehner s name. never mentioned mcconnell s name for like a year and a half and now he s calling him out. should he have called him out earlier? is that good politics? probably. they just get away with saying no and stopping things. probably because the other side was systematically attacking not just the president, but also speaker pelosi and senator reid and they re not and you wouldn t expect them to be because very few people are, they re not as gifted on telephone or in defending themselves as president obama. so you d get them in the ring. and so they hauled them in there, but the election, the republicans want this to be an election on every bad thing you ever heard about barack obama, nancy pelosi and harry reid. and so the reason the president is doing this, i think, is not
let s see what issa does have in mind if republicans gain control. plus, wait ll you hear the threat that karl paladino the governor running for new york, made last night. you send another goon to my daughter s house and i ll take you out buddy. how you going to do that? yeah. watch. there s more to this tape. by the way, who is this candidate that s threatening to take out people? and all the president s generals. how is president obama working with american generals in afghanistan? who s calling the shot? that s my question for bob woodward. remember this scene when michele bachmann was so inspired by president bush that she wouldn t let him go at that state of the union. well, she s turned on bush in her latest ad. that s in the sideshow. all of that is ahead. first, let s check in on the latest polls in the tight races around the country. for that we go to the hardball scoreboard. let s start with california. where a new ppi c poll shows what we ve seen
good friday morning to you. still waking up there, i m erica hill. good to have you with us. fog not guilty new york city. and right there, too. i m harry smith. good morning, everybody. breaking news this morning, you ll never guess who showed up in a prison in peru. it was beth hole way trying to vis visit joran van der sleuth, face to face for about five minutes. of course natalie hole way s mom who disappeared in rememberu. also people in new york talking about this not only people in new york affected but really unusual in the city yesterday. huge storms rolled through around rush hour. hail, powerful winds, there was a huge thunderstorm. sideways rains and a possible tornado. dave price joins us this morning in queens in forest hills, new york where the storm hit hardest with the latest this morning. talk about destruction, dave. you know, typically when weather like this happens we head to a plane and to the south and midwest. but it is in our backyard. new yor