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Hang together or hang separately. he brought up a significant point. large majority of the american people not only dont have any skin in the game, more significantly, because it is attitudele and its an abstraction. dont feel that they have any skin in the game. i think thats very, very dangerous. >> we look at this decline, we can point to a couple of things. look at in congress, for instance, 1970s, when the numbers were 75%, 80% a lot was the world war ii generation. during world war ii 12% ...

Keep that in mind and thats the memo. now for top story tonight. reaction, joining us from reaction charles krauthammer. whats the most important thing you heard from those hearings, charles? >> what it did today isut a on that abstraction the 501 c 4 and c 3 which doesnt mean a lot to folks put a face on the abstraction of what it means when the government abuses you and you see these folks who look like ordinary americans who are trying to do the quintessential american thing. political speech...

For the love is an abstraction to him. he doesnt actually get at a fundamental level -- >> but in a polarized environment, just slapping backs, that wont do anything. >> it probably wont. thats why as i said, i think it is unfair to say that this is why he has failed. it might be that smoozing wouldnt make any difference in our environment. it is another tool in the tool box. and i think he recognizes this himself now. and hes gone on what they call a charm offensive. spending a lot more time wi...

Revolutionizing art. this is a really big gift for us because it really does transform the way that we understand the history of art. >> okay. for those who dont know, lets go ahead and talk about what makes a work of art cuban? >> a way of rethinking the way that we see the world. what theyve done particularly is they dismantled the picture. they fractured it into plains of color. they changed and introduced multiple points of perspective as opposed to one point of perspective. they factored th...

What struck you about libya? im throwing everybody off by mentioning that, but what did you like about it? >> seeing whats essentially a whole new country meeting these extraordinary kids who are just a week before the uprising were playing playstation, going to school in montreal, working in manchester who went home and in the course of a few weeks became hardened guerilla fighters and managed to topple one of the worst dictators in the world, a guy who everyone thought theyd be living with for...

In recent weeks, remember this. >> federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. air traffic contollers and airport security will see cutbacks which means more delays at airports across the country. thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids, these cuts are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy and they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemploy...

Democrats in the awkward position of having to say why they oppose balancing the budget. i agree with you that that would seem to put them in a tough spot, but senate democrats havent passed a budget in years and the amendment has been floating around d.c. for years and years without much support from democrats. 49 states have some kind of balanced budget. they have a requirement and federally this doesnt seem to go anywhere. why now are democrats going to sort of be afraid or chased or nervous ...

Furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. >> this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> president obama in recent days and weeks talking about the sequester, as it closes in. bit of a different tone, though, last night. >> this is not a cliff. but it is a tumble downward. its conceivable in the first week, the first two weeks, the first three weeks, the first month, a lot of people may not notice the full impact of the sequester but this is g...

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Tiger woods rehabilitation, being seen or playing golf with the president than it is about obama. >> but ann compton also said that this is a trend, this is getting worse with every administration. >> next on news watch, media takes sides in the sequestration showdown. >> this is the not an abstraction. there are people whose livelihoods are at stake. >> the president forecast dire consequences if congress doesnt act on spending cuts. and the media coverage parrott the theme. is the press protec...