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MS. CAMEROTA: Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is an Obama supporter and she joins me live from D.C.

Senator Klobuchar, thank you for being with us this morning.

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Well, it's good to be on Alisyn. I enjoyed your spirited discussion there!

MS. CAMEROTA: We have many of them here.

What do you think of Senator McCain's announcement that he is suspending campaigning and he would like to postpone the debate?

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I think it is bizarre. And I honestly believe that Mississippi is just not that far away from Washington, D.C. -- as Senator Obama has said, when you're president you have to do a lot of things at once. And I believe that John McCain could be here, working with colleagues -- as we have all been doing for the last week -- on this economic crisis trying to put a plan together, and still go and do the debate. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

MS. CAMEROTA: But Senator, look, you're there on the Russell Rotunda. I think that many Americans understand that they elected these guys to be senators, not to just run around the country campaigning. And they would like their senators to go back to Washington, roll up their sleeves and get us out of this economic crisis!

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: You know, Barack Obama did reach out to John McCain earlier yesterday and actually said that: Let's work on this together; let's do a joint statement. I don't think there's any problem with that.

The point of this is a debate takes, what, two hours? It takes about an hour to get down there, an hour to come back. I just don't see that as a problem. I think this is something of a political ploy instead of reality here.

MS. CAMEROTA: But here's what's interesting --

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: This --

MS. CAMEROTA: Senator, let me just interrupt you in terms of the political ploy, because let's remember that Senator McCain did want more debates than Barack Obama. He wanted something like 10 halls originally, which Barack Obama did not agree to. So it's certainly not John McCain trying to get out of a debate.

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Well, I have no idea, but we have three debates. We only have 40 days left in this campaign, which is the most important campaign that I can remember in terms of the direction of this country.

The date that the McCain campaign gave -- if they didn't do it Friday -- is the same day as the vice presidential debate, which seems very strange to me as well. I think that's very important, since we haven't heard as much as we'd like from our vice presidential candidates in terms of a debate.

So I think that we should go forward with this debate. I think the American people think that we should. This is a debate about national security. The candidates have pledged they want to work together on this economic crisis.

MS. CAMEROTA: Okay, Senator Klobuchar, sorry to do this --

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Barack Obama wants to get this done.

MS. CAMEROTA: Sorry to interrupt you! Stick around, if you would, just for two minutes, because we want to talk to you about what's going to happen at the White House today also.

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I would love to do that. Thank you.

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