representatives. cnn has told the former president tried to talk the democratic nominee in florida s senate race to drop out and to endorse charlie crist, who was elected as a republican, but who is now running for the senate as an independent. president clinton s cutthroat calculation, that getting his longtime friend kendrick meek out of the race, we can show you the candidates here, was the only hope of blocking republican marco rubio from winning that senate seat. what mr. clinton wanted was for kendrick meek to drop out, endorse the expect candidate, charlie crist. mr. kendrick s spokesman confirms these negotiations, and our sources tell us the former president thought he had a deal, but mr. meek at the last minute changed his mind. here to help,time magazine political columnist, joe klein, nicole wallace, author of the new novel 18 acres, cnn s political senior analyst, gloria borger, and congressional correspondent, dana bash. wow, five day s out and you get an inte
nearly turned into a wrestling match. it was nasty. it was personal. and it was hosted by cnn. so, we ll take you behind the scenes. and the young american swimming champion cut down in the prime of his life right in the middle of an overseas competition found dead in the ocean. his coach is here to tell us what happened. and uncovering a growing and disturbing trend. drunken moms, mothers taking to the bottle when the kids, the job and the husband become too much to handle. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin in haiti where a fast-moving infectious disease has already killed 2 is 53 people, sickened at least 3,000, and is well on its way to becoming the next big international tragedy. to make matters worse, cholera has reached the crowded capital of port-au-prince. it is a story we ll be following next week and cnn s dr. sanjay gupta and his team are headed there now. but paula newton is already on the ground and what she s witnessing in tent cities and in hospita
on the campaign trail in florida. he s trying to shore up support for democratic candidate kendrick meeks there who is running a distant third right now. meek has been running behind republican/tea party candidate mark rubio and republican turned independent former, or governor charlie crist. the road trip, the rally, the meet and greet, that s clearly one way to campaign, even for some of us who like things the way they used to be. it almost seems quaint and archaic compared to flooding the airwaves. campaign spending in these off year elections is off the charts. these ones specifically. following the dollars in our washington bureau is cnn senior political editor mark preston, from the campaign media analysis group. next to him is our good friend evan tracy. good to see you, guys. thanks for being with us. mark you wrote about this in your column today. struck by the number $182
then to seattle for democratic senator patti murray. in los angeles he ll stump for democratic representative barbara boxer, in nevada for harry reid and minnesota for gubernatorial candidate mark dayton. vice president biden coming to harry reid s defense as we speak in reno. as you may know, reid stands a real chance of being ousted by tea party candidate sharron angle. when that rally is under way we ll bring you pictures of it. i don t know if we have live pictures of that now. we don t but we re on top of it and bring it when it happens. former president clinton spending a second day in florida trying to boost the sagging campaign of democratic senate hopeful kendrick meek. he s been running a third behind republican/tea party candidate marco rubio and the man you see there republican turned independent governor charlie crist. so the road trips and rallies, meet and greet, clearly one way to campaign. it s the way we grew up on. flooding the airwaves is
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