the head of the cherokee called on senator brown to apologize describing the staffers as down right racist. senator brown challenged his opponent elizabeth warren s claim she is of native-american heritage. she used the minority status for professional eastern personal gain. last night brown s campaign released a statement offering regrets and sent out an apology. senator brown has spoken to his entire staff, including the individuals involved in this unacceptable behavior and issued them one and only warning that this type of conduct will not be tolerated. he regrets that members of his staff did not live up to the high standards that the people of massachusetts expect and deserve. secretary of state hillary clinton is suggesting that this month s attack on the u.s. consulate in lib why may have had ties to an al qaeda affiliate in the region. secretary clinton s comments which came during a special u.n. meeting add to the administration s changing explanation about what happened
to discourage outside spending in the state as if they needed it. warren is one of the most successful fund raisers this cycle bringing in more than $28 million. brown trails that but raised an impressive 19 million. joins us now is david bernstein. he s a political reporter for the boston phoenix. he watched last night s debate. thanks for coming on. i start with this. my reaction from watching this debate last night was brown wants to paint warren as a liberal elites and he called the professor about 62 gazillion times. his best hope in the race is about partisanship. massachusetts doesn t elect republicans much, and i didn t hear until the end if you like scott brown, you re empowering the party you don t like. did she play that card enough last night? personally i don t. i agree with your assessment. there s very little question people i talked to within both camps and around the political
dancing to no music whatsoever. relive the majesty of woman walking around and guy who brought props that only make sense to him. stunning can you tellut-aways o shaping history. guy pretends he was just asleep and a woman with way too much arm flab and guy who didn t know there were balloons. to one of the most catched contests of the election sight. that s the fight for the senate in massachusetts where first-term incumbent scott brown holding the traditionally blue seat occupied by the late ted kennedy for 46 years and his brother jack before him. he nearly won the seat in a special election when he rode a national wave of tea party anger. last night brown came in his usual green pickup trucks and reminded voters he s one of the
most independent senators. this election he finds himself awash in wall street money from bigwigs dead set on keeping his challenger out of office. at the debate warren attacked brown s record claiming he holds 98% of the families hostage, working for the top 1% or 2%. brown fired back by repeatedly referring to warren as professor warren, trying to paint her as a liberal elites. she s obsessed with raising taxes. i m not going to raise taxes. i m going to protect the pocketbooks and wallets of everybody listening. if you want someone to spends your tax dollars, give it to professor war len. it s about whose side you stand on. he stands for subsidy for the oil companies and breaks for the billionaires. he stands for the top folks gekt special deals. i m out there for working families and small businesses. now, both sides have agreed
nearly as liberal as you think it is. when i look at brown s success i look at where i grew up, maybe cultural conservative. there s something about scott brown that really appeals to them. what do you think those voters see when they look at elizabeth warren? how is she doing with them? i think that it s on the edge. i think that s why this debate last night was really key introduction for a lot of them because most of them have really only seen her through, you know, some tv interviews and her ads obviously, a lot of advertising. but they haven t really seen her go back and forth. a lot of people have the type you re describing, and i completely agree with you about the makeup of massachusetts. it s not as liberal or knee jerk democrat as its often painted. but the problem that a lot of people are having, the types of people they find her to be