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This. paul ryan -- you sense that he knows that they are marching down a bad path and that he is trying to sort of being the guy, the dude with his head screwed on in a room full -- i wont say crazy people -- raucous republicans. and we get the read-out from the meeting yesterday and paul ryan is still trying to push his party forward. i understand that it is not dead yet and i understand that the plan is to have piecemeal legislation. i am hugely skeptical that paul ryan is going to be able to ...

If its convenient for you. i made you dinner, clean up -- >> go into his outlook calendar and schedule a dinner. >> the cloud in our house. time for dinner. emily, please come. bring your rotten brother. >> oh. >> were rotting at our core, arent we? how is this app store five years on now, what has it meant to you and major league baseball? >> for us its what steve jobs said, the best way to reach our fans. our game is a game with 15 new movies every day. you cant figure out what the end is. som...

The biggest campaign contributors in the state." this was happening, though, during his time as attorney general. it gave eliot spitzer the moniker, the sheriff of wall street. spitzer, of course, went on to become governor of new york state. he won in a huge landslide. he was sworn into office on january 1st, 2007, with his tough on wall street reputation right there with him. but the only thing most people remember about eliot spitzers time as governor is how it ended. >> to every new yorker, ...

The question is, will anyone agree with him? joining me now for the interview is elliot spitzer. governor spitzer, thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you, ezra. thank you for the kind words and i cringed when i watched the tough ones, but you gave a fair recitation. >> i want to ask about the what might have been. what was it like watching that unfold given your history on the issue and having taken yourself out of being an active participant in the political process around it? >...

With a sense of what might have been. >> a little more than a year after elliot spitzer assumed the governorship, news broke he had hired prostitutes which led to two cringe worthy press conferences during which he acknowledged the charges then resigned. that was in march of 08 when the sheriffs of wall street was forced to leave office in a prostitution scandal. six months after that in september that same year, wall street and really the whole financial industry and really the entire u.s. econ...

If youre going to believe in democracy, you have to participate in it. and this is where were getting into this period that you think the last year wutz tough, wait till the next year, because of all these natural divisions. i think egypt is a very pluralistic society in that theyre a huge array and not even all the islamists are united. >> just lacks pluralism. thats the point im making. thats the problem. its deeply pluralistic but it doesnt have a pluralistic effort. >> all these divisions i ...

Upcoming parliamentary elections. if youre going to believe in democracy, you have to participate in it. and this is where were getting into this period that you think the last year wutz tough, wait till the next year, because of all these natural divisions. i think egypt is a very pluralistic society in that theyre a huge array and not even all the islamists are united. >> just lacks pluralism. thats the point im making. thats the problem. its deeply pluralistic but it doesnt have a pluralistic...

Inside egypt. he was calling for another one in what were supposed to be upcoming parliamentary elections. if youre going to believe in democracy, you have to participate in it. and this is where were getting into this period that you think the last year was tough, wait till the next year, because of all these natural divisions. i think egypt is a very pluralistic society in that theyre a huge array and not even all the islamists are united. >> it is pluralistic. it just lacks pluralism. thats t...

Re-election. i think it will be an issue. remember in 08 obama, he said something similar to what karl rove said about generation and im a part of a new republicgenl politics. therefore, i think it cuts away from the, shes too much of an old face. presidential face still. also, look at the senate and look at the supreme court. being 69, make her look young in washington politics. >> i just, look, in the second term i recall ronald reagan and the debate said i wont make my opponents age an issue....

Elected with 49.9% of the vote. 52% in 1990. 55% in 96. won a big one in 02 with 65%. he almost lost in 08. his poll numbers in that state are not very good. this is a genuinely vulnerable guy in a conservative state. >> this is an unlikable guy. all the numbers show. in fact, the beginning of this year he was something like 55% in kentucky disapproved compared to 37% approved. there is irony here. a guy who first got elected in a very negative campaign against an incumbent senator. he has been ...