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The tax is 14.5. you have massive variations just across the border. >> its interesting. its hawaii, alaska and california. then south carolina. >> thats all taxes. >> all taxes. >> taxes explain almost all those variations. >> california, they were $5 and more back in 08. do you think well get to $6 a gallon this sum sner. >> that would be a worst case scenario. probably predicated on some revolution in saudi arabia. take your guess there. people need to get used to the idea that the floor for ...

Then when the prices tacked back down, we all forget until the next time it goes up before the summer driving season. >> right. and what we do is then we conduct exhaustive studies on what happened the last time around. and the studies have shown in 07 and 08 it was to a large degree speculation that drove the prices up. economists are pretty much universally agreed on that. my prediction is year or two from now, theyll study this period and find the exact same thing. well just keep doing this u...

They look at electoral map and see states like neighboring indiana, north carolina, colorado, virginia, which they surprisingly won in 08 and now see them taken over by the republicans and know they have got a pretty high hill to climb. at the same time they do stuff and look at census data and see emerging potential democratic votes with the latino expansion in places they didnt win, you know, such as arizona and think there might be some hope there, but they are pretty ruthlessly pragmatic fol...

Collide, its beck versus huckabee, round three in the side show tonight. we start with the birth of the birther movement. ben smith is senior political writer for "politico" and eugene robinson is the pulitzer prize winning associate editor of "the washington post," an msnbc political analyst. ben smith, everybody is chatting here at "hardball" about your big report today about the birth of birtherism. i believe the key issue is do politicians sell it? do they try to get elected on it? do they...

Entitlements. hell give you whatever you want. hes a populist. that is not -- thats why hes -- >> you guys are agreeing on this, but -- >> here ate problem for republicans and hes sucking the air out of the room for the people that do have ideas and problems and people who arent well known who have substantive ideas cant find a microphone. >> from a partisan standpoint i want to attack you all not getting in the way of trump because i think hes your mess. its americas mess because we have this r...

Analyst of this whole thing. i guess it did surprise me. i keep going back to the question of where did it come from? al gore in the campaign against dukakis. what does it mean? >> it means it actually doesnt matter where it starts. it starts with somebody who doesnt like whoever the target is of the smear. but the question is where does it go from there and how does it develop, who elaborates it and who believes in it who exploits it. >> you won a pulitzer prize for writing about the 08 campaig...

Any politician and it sticks. >> sean: consider by come par is on the critical coverage or lack thereof, of our current president. even anchors cannot help but notice. >> president doing his brackets yesterday and going to a fundraiser. would we be more critical if this was skwaoub? >> i shake my head and think, president bush never -- never could have said that and gotten away with a story on page -- >> sean: the bias didnt end. the 08 election gave the mainstream media an excuse to victimize m...

Any politician and it sticks. >> sean: consider by come par is on the critical coverage or lack thereof, of our current president. even anchors cannot help but notice. >> president doing his brackets yesterday and going to a fundraiser. would we be more critical if this was skwaoub? >> i shake my head and think, president bush never -- never could have said that and gotten away with a story on page -- >> sean: the bias didnt end. the 08 election gave the mainstream media an excuse to victimize m...

We start with the birth of the birther movement. ben smith is senior political writer to politico and eugene robinson from "the washington post," an msnbc political analyst. ben smith, everybody is chatting here at "hardball" about your big report today about the birth of birtherism. i believe the key issue is do politicians sell it? do they try to get elected on it and believe it? real politicians. there is always going to be crazy conspiracy theories. the distinction is not where it came from,...

Analyst of this whole thing. i guess it did surprise me. i keep going back to the question of where did it come from? al gore in the campaign against dukakis. what does it mean? it means it actually doesnt matter where it starts. it starts with somebody who doesnt like whoever the target is of the smear. but the question is where does it go from there and how does it develop, who elaborates it and who believes it and who exploits it. >> you won a pulitzer prize for writing about the 08 campaign....