that season. i m interested in progress and working with people. woodruff: the mayor of newark, new jersey cory booker. we re pleased to have you with us. great to see you thank thank you very much woonch we ve been competing with a group i guess it s ledisi. you can clear that up. reporter: i m on the floor with he had markey one ed markey. nobody calls massachusetts a battleground state but how much could turnout for the top of ticket drive what is a critical senatorial race? the turnout in massachusetts is going to go off the charts. we re on obama loving state. once people cast that vote for obama to set the course for another four years, thinks to going to auger for elizabeth warren very well. i think there s going to be a lot of momentum in her direction. reporter: when voters talk to each other is there consciousness that the senate is so site and a change of seats could mean so much to massachusetts? i think today it s not the case but within the final two
obamaç and we ll bailiff you tt with bring you that with other speeds. >san antonio mayor julio castro plus other major speeches tonight. on-line you can find our 24 hour live stream coverage events inside and outside the hall. ifill: let s get started right down to the floor to ray suarez who will be with us tonight and the rest of the conventions. ray suare. suarez: we will hear from senate majority leader harry reid of november and house minority leader nancy pelosi of california. later on there will be video tributes, the first to fermenter president jimmy carter and one to the late senator edward kennedy of massachusetts. and of course much later tonight as judy mentioned, the keynote from the 37 year old mayor of san antonio texas, hoolian julit trocastroand michelle obama, tht lady of the united states. woodruff: mark shields and draifd brooks were with us last weak in tampa and they are here with us in charlotte. what does this line up tonight say to you wha
play by the rules, because i cannot lose, but when i get in, i am going to fix this campaign finance issue, so what are your thoughts? i think my answer is the same, and that is that i do not know. now i do not think anyone knows. it is the obvious race between obama and romney, but it is the issue of campaigning, and we do not know who is going to end up in the white house if he wins reelection. there are differences between the two. obama campaigned as a leader, but he governs as a timid leader. you cannot be a transformational leader and not ruffle many feathers, and he understands that, and we have wasted a lot of pressures term, and if we go back to the original stimulus bill, if it had been better crafted, better targeted, larger, we would have perhaps not had ongoing erosion in terms of jobs that we have seen, so time matters comi-con when it comes to us it time matters when it comes to a sense of urgency, and i did not know if the president when he is back in the
pictures, they include claire mccaskill, john kester, joe manchin, bill nelson. what are you hearing from your side over there about whether or not there may be some senate democrats who might be willing to abandon the president on health care? glie think there are some senateand there are some democrats in the house. remember, there are 21 senate democrats that got elected in 2006. that was a much different way than we saw in wave than the last election. in the the senate, that s the country club, the house what i refer to as a truck stop, where everybody is able to see a microcosm of society. the senate is going home and hearing a different message than the last time they got elected. they re going to be much more open to the legislation that we passed in the house. they re going to be with us. and look at what the blue dogs are saying, that nancy pelosi is not listening to them. look at the number that voted with us. martha: it sounds like you think there is room to pull some of
crushed by debt, proposing just a short term relief, a little jobless aid sprinkled in there. bill: b doesn t mean what it stands for. martha: bailout, baby! bill: stuart leads our coverage. bailout, what do you call t. stuart? some are calling it a mini back door bailout, that is a fact. here s what happened. the states have to borrow money from the feds to pay jobless benefits. states jobless benefits. that money should be repaid this year and next year. in order to give the states a little helping hand financially, there s a moratorium on the repayment of that debt. so the states don t have to pay back the feds for the money they have borrowed in the past couple of years to pay state jobless benefits. that is financial help going to the states. some will call it a mini bailout. some will say no, no, no, it s just help for the states, so they can maintain jobs. either way, it s financial help, going from the feds to the states. that s what s happening. bill: does this ha