I was on Thursday to chat with Tamron Hall, Mark Murray and Karen Finney about Rep. Anthony Weiner’s resignation.

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Thanks to Betty and the CBS crew for having me on to chat about the New Hampshire debate.

I did an interview with John Oliver during Sarah Palin’s One Nation bus tour up the East Coast. A brief comment made it in – at the 1:25 mark!

I followed Sarah Palin for two days of her One Nation bus tour up the East Coast. I joined her in Boston late Tuesday night; the tour hit the Freedom Trail on Wednesday and New Hampshire on Thursday. On Friday, she had breakfast with Kelly Ayotte.

You can also read my account of what it was like to follow her. The headline: Sarah Palin’s tour a rolling menace.

“It’s like following Princess Diana,” one reporter said.

You can also listen to our 2012 dispatch from the road – I’m on with Alex Burns, who was at Romney’s presidential announcement.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The first Republican presidential primary debate — with some of the key contenders AWOL — kicked off the nomination fight Thursday with shots at President Barack Obama’s domestic and foreign policy.

The faceoff, co-sponsored by Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party, came just days after Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Bin Laden’s death sharply reoriented the debate among the five candidates here — the first 15 minutes were spent on foreign policy — not jobs, the economy or the national debt, which have been key issues for the GOP.

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I spoke with MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer today about my trip to New Hampshire this weekend, where a tea party-backed candidate was elected as the new chairman of the state GOP.

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I took a three-day trip to New Hampshire to attend the annual state party meeting. They elected a tea party-backed chairman–over the protestations of former White House chief of staff John H. Sununu, the outgoing party chief. In our lead story yesterday, I write that combined with other tea party victories, it’s an omen for the 2012 race:

DERRY, N.H.— If anyone thought the tea party movement would fade away after the November elections, content to have played a key role in ousting the ruling Democratic class and splintered by internal divisions, they were mistaken.

Saturday’s victory by tea party favorite Jack Kimball in the New Hampshire GOP chairman’s race provided the most significant evidence to date that the energy that activists brought to the midterms is now being channeled in a different direction—one that could reshape the 2012 GOP presidential race and require candidates to rethink the traditional approaches to winning the Republican nomination.

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I had a great time talking with Natasha Barrett and Melanie Hastings for TBD’s “Let’s Talk Live” this morning. We discussed Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery and her husband Mark Kelly’s interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer.

I was honored to appear on NPR’s All Things Considered this afternoon to talk about how the Tucson shooting will affect the tone in the new Congress.

You can listen here.

I loved writing this story about Giffords’ marriage to Mark Kelly. Many thanks to the personal friends who took the time to talk to me.

TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA’s selection Thursday of a backup commander for astronaut Mark Kelly served as a reminder that the shooting in Tucson affected another community nearly as much as Capitol Hill — the one affiliated with America’s manned space programs.

For critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and Kelly had become the first couple of space exploration, a unique, high-profile team that took to the national stage as some of the most critical decisions in the history of U.S. human spaceflight were on the agenda.

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