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>> right. >> but what is amazing to me, in the very same farm bill, look whos receiving the subsidies? more than 18,000 people living in the countrys largest cities received $24 million. in the same bill, the subsidies are not going to the food stamps in the farm bill. >> right. there was one tea party republican who is invaing against the poor from getting nutritional benefit from food stamps. he was getting 3.5 million in subsidies from the farm bill. he didnt want to talk about that so much. ...

Happened and he had to come back in and make the speech that he made in philadelphia. again, this is a situation where no one had the guts or the ground to tell him not to do it and he had been working on this speech in his head for many, many years. in fact, one of the things i reported out right at the start of the 2007/2008 campaign was this precise issue, this one hes found so difficult, not surprisingly, to talk about in public, was part of his very decision to run for president in the firs...

Time hes faced this, you know, he wanted to talk about race very early on in the 2008 campaign, and his advisers, they didnt try to tell him not to do it, they just said it was never the right time to do it. thats what happened, of course, web the reverend wright fiasco happened and he had to come back in and make the speech that he made in philadelphia. again, this is a situation where no one had the guts or the ground to tell him not to do it and he had been working on this speech in his head ...

Does his past tell us anything about what might happen next? joining us now is david axelrod, former senior presidential adviser to barack obama and now director of the institute for politics and msnbc senior political analyst. thank you for being here. >> im all nostalgic listening to this recounting of the week. im missing washington so much. >> i bet. you have known president obama for a long time. youve been with him through a lot of his political career. has he ever been through a very diff...

At the state department. daniel, thanks for joibing us. one of the groups investigators say tamerlan may, may, have had an interest in the caucasus emirates ce. what can you tell us about this group? >> from the primary radical chechen terrorist group since about 2007/2008, its led by a man named dough co-umarev. its been responsible for a number of bombings and killings in russia. it was designated under executive order 12334 when i was coordinator as a terrorist group, which mean thats we were...

Accomplishing? by drilling down on this one combat outpost, combat outpost keating built at the bottom of three steep mountains 14 miles from the pakistan border and going over the entire life span of it from the push up north to get there in 2006 to the counter insurgency in 2007/2008, that is trying to win over the local population, trying to connect them to the afghan government, encourage economic development, pay for millions of dollars in projects and ultimately the end of the outpost, the...

What you had to do to get access. were you in the loop and who got cut out of the action intentionally by mike dieber and the white house communication team, because they controlled what was happening. now you ask were they biased. i think its always been said that reporters are more liberal than conservatives. certainly newspaper owners are more conservative than liberals. what i saw in the paper about the nba players. they give more money to president obama. but owners give more money to gover...

What you had to do to get access. were you in the loop and who got cut out of the action intentionally by mike dieber and the white house communication team, because they controlled what was happening. now you ask were they biased. i think its always been said that reporters are more liberal than conservatives. certainly newspaper owners are more conservative than liberals. what i saw in the paper about the nba players. they give more money to president obama. but owners give more money to gover...

Carolina theyve struggled with vanderbilt. in 2007/2008 they lost both years. i actually called the game on thursday in nashville. the following year, south carolina only won that game 14-10. i think this could be a major upset. you look at your alma mater. this could be a good year. they won six games a year ago, head coach james franklins first year. outstanding job with you that program. george roger is the quarterback, younger brother of aaron rodgers of the green bay packers. another good r...

More of a traditional campaign. >> look, theres a marked reason. those numbers tell you the story. democrats really feel like they can win and win consistently and win with safe margins, if they can actually just get people to vote. and so theres a market need there. i dont think that the gop feels that it has the same, you know, force, the same requirements to get out there and develop technology, to meet that need. >> you know, its not true that romney campaign are the not doing it. they are b...