we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. >> meet jack davis. he claims he had a hand in creating the democrat majority with nancy pelosi. >> she has done a great job for this country. >> great job? jack and kathy cannot fight for us. they come with strings attached. host: what is going on here? guest: folks are wanting to put two candidates as the negative. jack davis on one side. it is an interesting race. i am sure the new york voters are tired of hearing about it. it is a very republican district. district. host: those were congressional at. here are some for jane corwin. >> cafe is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. and -- kathy is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. >> im jane curtin. i will not cut medicare or social security. >> look for yourself. >> look for yourself. kathy hochul.caf >> i am kathy hochul and i approve this message. guest: this is all about medicare. in the first ad from jane corwin, she is trying to distance herself a little. corwin did say she supported the brien budget

we just cannot afford ja davis or jane corwin. >> meet jack davis. he claims he had a hand in creating the democrat majority with nancy pelosi. >> she has done a great job for this country. >> great job? jack and kathy cannot fight for us. they come with strings attached. host: what is gng on here? guest: folks are wanting to put two candidates as the negative. jack davis on one side. it is an interesting race. i am sure the new york voters are tired of hearing about it. it is a very republican district. district. host: those were congressional at. here are some for jane corwin. >> cafe is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. and -- kathy is the one who says she will cut medice and social security. >> im jane curtin. i will n cut medicare or social security. >> look for yourself. >> look for yourself. kathy hochul.caf >> i am kathy hochul and i approve this message. guest: this is all about medicare. in the first ad from jane corwin, she is trying to distance herself a little. corwin did say she supported the brien budget and m

we need to turn that around. >> businessman jack davis is the wild card in this race. spending $3 million of his own money. >> people need congressman like me. i cannot be bought. >> reporter: davis ran for the seat three times before as a democrat. but is now running on the tea party line. >> i believe in smaller government, lower taxes, cutting spending. >> reporter: davis appears to be drawing conservative voters away from republican corwin. >> hochul voted to raise property taxes 11 times. >> reporter: corwin and outside conservative groups have outspent democrat hochul and her supporters by more than two-to-one. and republican leaders have rushed in. >> jane will work with us to stand up to nancy pelosi and the liberals in washington d.c.. >> they're willing to balance our budget on the backs of seniors while not even touches millionaires and billionaires in this country. >> reporter: a fierce battle with a potential fallout far beyond this one congressional district. elaine quijano, cbs news, buffalo. >> mitchell: overseas a saudi woman was detained this weekend

we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. >> meet jack davis. he claims he had a hand in creating the democrat majority with nancy pelosi. >> she has done a great job for this country. >> great job? jack and kathy cannot fight for us. they come with strings attached. host: what is going on here? guest: folks are wanting to put two candidates as the negative. jack davis on one side. it is an interesting race. i am sure the new york voters are tired of hearing about it. it is a very republican district. district. host: those were congressional at. here are some for jane corwin. >> cafe is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. and -- kathy is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. >> im jane curtin. i will not cut medicare or social security. >> look for yourself. >> look for yourself. kathy hochul.caf >> i am kathy hochul and i approve this message. guest: this is all about medicare. in the first ad from jane corwin, she is trying to distance herself a little. corwin did say she supported the brien budget

we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. >> meet jack davis. he claims he had a hand at creating nancy pelosi's democratic majority. great job? nancy pelosi pushed through the system was that created jobs in china. jack and kathy cannot fight for us when they come with strings attached. the national republican congressional committee is responsible for the content of this advertisement. host: the latest ads in rochester and buffalo, new york. thank you very much for being with us. you point out in your story this morning that she is up four percentage points. another poll has it essentially a dead heat. how did it get this close? guest: there are three candidates in this race. certainly, medicare has emerged as an issue that many voters are concerned about. there was some polling and a poll that found on saturday that one in five voters -- medicare is the most important issue. host: in the poll, you point out that the candidates' unfavorable ratings continue to grow. what does that tell you about the negative ads we have seen? guest: yes, the u

i'm thinking about it, remember the name of jack davis. >> he was a democrat who was running a pretend tea party candidacy. >> what happened? >> he brought in 9%. >> did they do that with a purpose in mind? >> yes, i think -- >> it's a convinced democrat. >> yes. >> and he managed the tea party -- >> may have done that -- [everyone talking at once] >> yes, they had done in in other districts. >> why did they do that? >> it was a strategy they tried in other districts. [everyone talking at once] delivering this republican seat to the democrats. >> i don't think you can say every one of his votes would have con to corwin. >> how many would you say would have gone to him? >> i don't know it. would have bin a -- the fact -- [everyone talking at once] >> the fact that it was 4 points. >> now, he would even easily have delivered that. [everyone talking at once] >> playing math is not politics, john. that's traditionally republican district. this is a third -- >> there's another reason -- so what -- >> there's a reason why -- >> it was -- >> it was -- [everyone talking at once] >> it was a pr

jack davi ja jack daveis has a slight lead. this relates to the budget proposal released by paul ryan that would turn medicare into a voucher program. kathy hoakle is running with that. she has an endorsement from andrew cuomo who cut a video talking about medicare. if she wins that race, it is not clear she will because it is so tight, a lot of democrats will look at this as a referendum on the ryan plan. you mention somebody going rogue up in alaska beside sarah palin. there is a new book called blind allegiance to sarah palin, written by a former aide of hers, frank bailey. it includes some e-mails from the former alaska governor, not clear whether there are any bombshells. it is another example why it is so risky for sarah palin to jump into the race. not only is she her own cottage industry but a cottage industry for a lot of her attackers. there is another book coming out this fall not written or authorized by sarah palin. the palin defenders are out today calling this new book out today calling it fiction. we are going t

we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. >> meet jack davis. he claims he had a hand in creating the democrat majority with nancy pelosi. >> she has done a great job for this country. >> great job? jack and kathy cannot fight for us. they come with strings attached. host: what is going on here? guest: folks are wanting to put two candidates as the negative. jack davis on one side. it is an interesting race. i am sure the new york voters are tired of hearing about it. it is a very republican district. district. host: those were congressional at. here are some for jane corwin. >> cafe is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. and -- kathy is the one who says she will cut medicare and social security. >> im jane curtin. i will not cut medicare or social security. >> look for yourself. >> look for yourself. kathy hochul.caf >> i am kathy hochul and i approve this message. guest: this is all about medicare. in the first ad from jane corwin, she is trying to distance herself a little. corwin did say she supported the brien budget

the vote republican jane corwin is forty two percent of the vote there was a third party candidate jack davis but he only took nine percent of the vote the democrats won because they successfully turned this election into a referendum on the republicans plan to end medicare take a look at this ad that's been running around the nation. as we saw yesterday's election the american people are putting up with the right wing radical agenda to kill medicare so it's paul ryan with the help of the tea partiers and it's millionaire and billionaire financier is like the koch brothers killing off the republican party as we know as we know it and it's talk about this issue is phil kerpen vice president for policy of americans for prosperity phil welcome back my pleasure thomas nice to see a hopeful soul of the fourth democrat to ever hold the city as i mentioned since eighteen. seats hundreds isn't it time for the republican party is for backing away from from paul ryan the way the new congress tried to do sunday in africa and i think that would be a big mistake to read this race that way the democr

davis but he only took nine percent of the vote the democrats won because they successfully turn this election into a referendum on the republicans plan to end medicare take a look at this ad that's been running around the nation. as we saw at yesterday's election the american people are putting up with the right wing radical agenda to kill medicare so is paul ryan with the help of the tea partiers and its millionaire billionaire financier is like the koch brothers killing off the republican party as we know as we know it or talk about this issue is phil current vice president for policy at americans for prosperity phil welcome back my pleasure thomas nice to see a hopeful soul in the fourth democrat to ever hold the city as i mentioned since one thousand. seating hundreds isn't it time for the republican party is for backing away from from paul ryan the way the new gamers tried to do a sunday and a half ago and i think that would be a big mistake to read this race that way the democrat here only won by about forty seven hundred votes the tea party candidate a phony tea party candidat

jack davis was the third-party candidate in this race. i would not say that the race rode on that incident, but things like that worked against corwin. and kathy hochul brought up medicare any chance that she could. host: what was the role of the independent in this race? did pull votes away from s corwin? guest: republicans are saying that was the case. he got 9% of the bug. he spent a lot of his own money in this race. republicans are certainly making him to be a factor. but when you saw his support of the last few weeks, it was not clear that all of his support was going to corwin. it was not clear that if he was not in the race, all of his voters would have gone to corwin. host: how much money was spent outside of new york and by these candidates? guest: jean corwin and jack davis put a lot of their own money in. $2 million by outside groups. host: do we know when the newly elected congressman will resume her role in washington? guest: i asked that i had. i am thinking maybe early next week. but i think it was premature to win a swear

republican jane corwin placed second with 43%, followed by democrat-turned-tea party candidate jack davis at 9%. at a victory rally tuesday night, hochul supporters chanted "medicare, medicare." >> tonight, we showed that voters are really willing to look beyond the party label and vote for the person and the message they believe in. ( applause ) and we showed that thousands and thousands and thousands of voters are more powerful than millions and millions of dollars of special interest money. ( applause ) >> woodruff: outside interest groups, including the conservative american crossroads, spent more than $2 million on the race. in a statement, the group's c.e.o. steven law said, "what is clear is that this election is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks that 2012 will be just like 2010." house budget committee chairman paul ryan authored the republican medicare plan. today, he warned against politicizing the issue, at a washington event hosted by the peter g. peterson foundation. >> whenever you put out a reform and what they do with medicare is they shamelessly demagogue it, call it m

we invited a third candidate, jack davis, but he did not respond to our invitation. when did not invite the green party candidate because he did not qualify under the debate guidelines. we begin with opening statements, the order of which was determined by coin toss. >> thank you very much for hosting this event. i decided to run for congress because i look at the federal policies coming out of washington and i believe our government is taking this country and the wrong direction. i grew up loving the american dream. the team from a middle-class family. my parents did not have college degrees. we worked really hard, took some chances, had a great people working alongside us, and we were successful. when i was a kid, i remember delivering phone books with my friends. as a teenager, i used to proofread the phone pages. after going to college and getting my m.b.a., i came and worked in the family business and the rochester area. i also helped as chief financial officer of finances, working alongside the c.e.o. backing up a regional decisions, and joined the board of dir

. >> reporter: a big factor making this a dead heat, jack davis who says that he represents the tee party tea party across lines and a sign of how stakes the are, close to $2 million so far, and national leaders flying in to show their support. >> i think she's a great candidate. >> regardless of the outcome t. will be significant as it previews the battle lines ahead that we'll see in the next round of congressional races next year. very close race and everyone is watching and the election is tuesday. >> this tuesday. $2 million and good for the local economy. they could use some of that economic stimulus. >> that's just from the outside groups. a couple of the candidates have put a lot of their own money in as well. >> i hope you have chicken wings. >> i had buffalo wings and they were delicious. >> good. >>> amazing efforts to save homes near the mississippi river. we'll take you there. and behind the scenes at hillary clinton's crisis center. stand by. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like hom

we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. host: in "the washington post" story -- the democrats have also created a web site. here is what the front page looks like. house republicans' budget subsidized millionaires, of course, and oil companies but ends medicare. big oil subsidies, tax cuts for millionaires and tax breaks for of shoring companies tallied 172 billion. in fact your telephone calls. this is antioch, california. patricia, independent. how old are you? caller: i am 60. the way to improve medicare is to go with dennis [inaudible] plan. if we all pay into it, everyone can be taken care of. right now as far as doctors opting out of medicare, doctors would go out of business without medicare. there are maybe one or two that can afford to exist without medicare. hospitals would close without medicare, without the medical insurance program. i am 60 so i am not included as part of this new ryan plan, but i have concerns for other people. my mother is on medicare right now, and she pays $100 per month out of personal sec

davis, another candidate in this campaign. some have called the end -- video a set up. did to authorize the actions of your chief of staff and have you considered firing him? >> i did not authorize that activity. he was acting after hours on his own time. he was acting as a volunteer on behalf of the gop. i had no awareness of this year as i was preparing for the debate the night before or i was not aware of anything going on. the video speaks for itself for it is up to the people to decide how they feel about that. he is not acting as a member of the assembly or as my employee. i have no plan at this time. >> someone on my staff -- if someone on my staff had done that, they would have been fired. >> our next question? >> the 26 congressional district has long been a conservative republican-leaning district. some might argue that it is in part because the presence of a third-party candidate. if you win next week, how will you represent the interests of those who did not vote for you? >> i have already done it as a county clerk

. >> much attention has been paid to a videotaped incident between your chief of staff and jack davis. some have called it a set up. did you authorize the actions of your chief of staff, and have you considered firing him? >> i do not authorized that activity. my chief of staff was after hours and on his own time. i am -- not taxpayer funded time. i had no awarenes of it. i was preparing for debate so i was not aware of anything going on. the video speaks for itself and it is up to the people to decide. he is not acting as a member of the assembly or as my employee. i have no plan on doing that. >> you have one minute. >> someone on my staff who had done that, they would have been fired. >> thank you. >> the 26th district has been a conservative republican leaning district. some might argue it is in part because of a presence of a third-party candidate. how will you represent those who did not vote for you? >> i am -- my reputation will work across the aisle. i am not partisan and i will make sure those individuals know what kind of independent thinker i am. this is something i subscr

the tea party candidate, jack davis, had 12% support in the poll, far behind the others, but enough to affect a close race. one of robert gates' on a pass before retiring as defense secretary is to set the pentagon on a budget-cutting course that he spent much of his tenure trying to avoid. gidget de -- he is expected to give details of the approach in a speech today at a washington think tank, expected to be his final speech before he retires. intelligence officials are warning against deep spending cuts by congress. they say the u.s. could end up with the same intelligence failures that led to the september 11 attacks. in the report being released today by the intelligence and national security alliance, it warns that when the u.s. declared a victory and slashed intelligence operations in africa, that was just as al qaeda was taking root. meanwhile, lawmakers said that while the are keeping the budget just about flat for 2011 and 2012, there is still $80 billion for the third straight year. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> c-span's local content vehicles tip

a native american professor of native american studies actually name is jack forbes at the university of california davis i interviewed back in the ninety's for a book i was writing carr the last hours of ancient sunlight book that inspired leo di caprio to make the eleventh hour movie and and tom shadyac to make his movie i am and and i think it was frankly frank's or jack forbes's concept that inspired those two filmmakers. what jack told me was that native americans had this concept when they first came here you know when europeans first came to this continent cold with a cold and it's a word that means one who eats a cannibal one who eats the wife of another and what they were looking at was basically a dysfunctional culture this european culture a culture that was willing to murder a culture that was willing to rob a culture that was willing to steal but i would suggest to you that we are. still in many ways in fact a culture that we've we've awakened a lot since this country was founded but we still have a long way to go and then in the middle of this comes along a demagogue lik

forbes at the university of california davis i interviewed him back in the ninety's for a book i was writing called the last hours of ancient sunlight the book that inspired leo dicaprio to make the eleventh hour movie and and tom shadyac to make his movie i am and and i think it was frankly frank's or jack forbes's concept that inspired those two filmmakers. what jack told me was that native americans had this concept when they first came here you know when europeans first came to this continent with a cold and it's a word that means one who eats a cannibal one who eats the wife of another and what they were looking at was basically a dysfunctional culture that european culture a culture that was willing to murder a culture that was willing to rob a culture that was willing to steal well i would suggest to you that we are. still in many ways in fact a culture that we've we've awakened a lot since this country was founded but we still have a one way to go and then in the middle of this comes along a demagogue like george w. bush and you know stand in a with the bullhorns of the missi

we should mention that jack davis did not participate. guest: davis did not purchase of a dying two debates we've had in the district and his numbers really -- davis did not participate in two debates we've had in the district. it's hard to say if one candidate won at all. candidate won at all. corwin pointed out -- yoar