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March 19, 2013
Sort of getting right about what happened there. because its possible we are going to have a republican president sometime soon again, and i want to know that the republican party has been through an acknowledgement about what went wrong there, and some sort of process to make sure it doesnt happen again. do you feel like there is at least honesty that it was a mistake, that theres some effort to make sure it doesnt happen again? >> i wish i could say yes. i wish i could answer in the affirmativ...
January 29, 2013
Member that votes in the affirmative for gun control. among aborns proposal treating a task force within the justice department to track certain interstate gun traffic. his group backs micro scamping and allows bullet casings to be marked and traced. there is a move to push the environmental protection agency to regulate ammunition that contains lead. they say they dont have authority but there is internal disagreement about that. several groups joined together to sue the epa to force it to regu...
January 1, 2013
Were keeping our eye on these movements. this deal that was reached by vice president biden and the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell gained the support of most, but not all senate republicans. one who voted in the affirmative. senator, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, chris. >> lets talk a little bit about how this thing moves forward. is it your assumption that at the end of the day the republicans and the democrats on the house side will have voted yes and that it will b...
December 30, 2012
On their keister and i think youre right, harris. people havent tuned in. theyve been busy with holidays, theyve had family to think about and only now do they turn their attention to it. >> and theyve built up their debt over the holidays. is there anything good economically about going over the cliff? >> thats a question i cannot answer in the affirmative. theres one potential issue that could come out of this. thats that everybody realizes just how important and how big the government spendin...
December 6, 2012
Who is that man dancing? then theyll start to say, dont you know? thats simpson bowles. >> steve: good luck. >> well see. >> steve: thank you very much. >> youre welcome. >> steve: always a pleasure. >> brian: i always think dance something a great way to communicate. ive always said that. >> gretchen: brian, lets see it. try. your nose is growing like this. >> brian: i wish i had time, but were up against a break. >> steve: yeah, we are. >> brian: thanks so much for coming in. >> steve: the law...
November 23, 2012
Idential motorcade was rushing to a sarasota airport. >> the vice president was in contact with the president. >> the president told the vice president, quote, sounds like we have a minor war going on here. i heard about the pentagon. were at war, somebody is going to pay, close quote. >> by the time air force one took off, hijackers had been 234r50iing united flight 93 for nearly 30 minutes. at 9:46 and two minutes later command center updated faa headquarters that united 93 was now, quote, 29 ...
November 5, 2012
Coast. and could slam the very places that are still suffering from the aftermath of this storm. well have scene update in just a bit. also with election day hours away there is fresh speculation about the impact of evangelical voters and whether the controversy over the mention of god at the democratic convention -- remember they took it out of the platform? will come back to haunts democrats when the party faithful come to the polls. >> ill do that one more time. all those delegates in favor s...
October 19, 2012
Boston. never do that. never tell somebody theyve got a perfect game going into the ninth inning. so what we do, its kind of like when you have a lot of turbulence in the air. you look at the flight attendant. is she cool? is he cool? are we going down? youre with the romney people. >> yes. >> and so for those of us who are looking at these polls and are confused and say, it could be a romney landslide, it could be an obama landslide. >> is it like the flight attendant? >> what are the flight at...
October 18, 2012
January. so these people were putting together resumes and women who had the right credentials to serve in some of these high-ranking positions. so the real absurdity is that he looked around and that he personally met with groups to go out and find these women, as if this was some sort of affirmative, good act on his part. >> so people were standing up for women, it just wasnt him who was initiating it? >> it was the bipartisan womens groups who were standing up for women. and the good news is ...
October 18, 2012
Things that was delivered to him may well have been in a staples binder, was these groups had a discussion with both candidates well before he got sworn in in january. so these people were putting together resumes and women who had the right credentials to serve in some of these high-ranking positions. so the real absurdity is that he looked around and that he personally met with groups to go out and find these women, as if this was some sort of affirmative, good act on his part. >> so people we...