amendment. none of the funds made available for injury, prevention and control at the centers for disease control may be used to advocate or promote gun control that is still the law. or how about allowing the government to release the information it is still allowed to compile about gun violence. once upon a time the atf used to release gun crime data to the public. but starting in 2003, republican congressman named todd teahart from congress started pushing through an amendment that would prevent the atf from releasing gun crime data to the public. he is gone from public, but his amendment lives on. it gets added to spending bills over year. so we aren t allowed to know what the atf knows about gun crime. maybe instead of banning research on gun violence, maybe we could now allow or even encourage research on gun violence. maybe we could make the data we do collect on gun violence more available and not less available. so far d.c. has not been able to pass a bill renewing the lapsed
the greater good and help us win. martha: all right, karl rove the senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush and is a fox news contributor. karl, welcome. i don t like being called the establishment. i supported marco rubio and todd teahart and a lot of the sarah palin on tuesday night, i added new hampshire. before you start calling me that establishment guy be, be careful. martha: you know what, karl, that s one of the points i wanted to bring up, including rubio, sharron angle, i think you ve also supported. i m helping raise $50 million, 3 million of which we ve already spent on behalf of sharron angle in nevada so be careful when you call me an establishment republican. i didn t call you that. that s the way this battle line has been drawn, tea party versus establishment. so you raise a question i want to ask you. are we at a stage in all of this where if you re not particularly in favor of one
charlie cook is the editor and publisher of the cook political report. charlie, generally looking at all the tea leaves, there s a good phrase, tea leaves, is the tea party cresting, or could they really end up being the powerhouse? all that we ve learned the last couple of days come november. i think there will be places where they will be really influential and places not so much and it s going to be week to week and candidates and campaigns still matter. i like the way you put the kansas, where jerry moran who won the republican senate primary, you know, by any standard he s a conservative, but other guy tiahart. tiahrt is incendiary where moran is sort of the bob dole. yeah. it s as much stylistic or almost as much stylistic. chuck, you re looking at it a great way too put it. i want to really get let s move quickly to the big races we re all watching. marco rubio in florida is
that s that lets you watch tv. that s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. last night some less than far out republicans prevailed over their more right wing rivals in michigan and kansas. michigan, businessman rick snyder who called himself one tough nerd won against the conservative field and in kansas, after they both joined michele bachmann s tea party caucus jerry moran beat todd teahart in the primary and seven out of ten voters in missouri backed a referendum rejecting the new health care law. is the tea party wave cresting a bit, or will nominees in florida, kentucky and nevada help republicans take over the senate? chuck todd is an nbc chief white house political correspondent and nbc political analyst