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Wanted to. >> speedy one. okay, thank you for joining us today. this is what eric clapper said three months ago. he said does the nsa collect any type of data at all on hundreds of millions of americans. no, sir, it does not. not willingly. there are cases where they could collect enough for me, but not willingly. what did he not know it was not being truthful? >> when you talk about targeted collection and just data collection, aggregated data collection. youre talking about putting on this dat...

Joining us now is columnist of who is counting. irs is tasked for being "a", non-part an and neutral but implementing 47 provisions of obamacare. can they do this fairly? >> its very unclear. the attorney general of oklahoma currently has a lawsuit against the federal government claiming the irs has broken the lay by taking on to itself the power to issue subsidies and various other things to the states and to people involved in obamacare. so that is very questionable. a lot of constitutional sc...

Could figure that out, a little female common sense here saying, you dont wait until the crisis, no. were in a mode now in washington where we just lurch from crisis to crisis. we sort of lurch from fight to fight. we have one or would issues at a time that blow up. right now were going to do immigration. well see what happens there. before it was guns. maybe well go back to guns. but we have these major crises, things blow up. were going to go off the fiscal cliff or whatever it is. sometimes w...

More popular, more broadly, than they actually were in the actual electorate. and that ended up being a real political liability running nor national office. i think thats not the case in the districts. i think it does end up being maladapted at the national level to being wrong conservative how they are. >> theres something about a guy like chris christie out of step with new jerseyans on gay marriage and funding, and yet hes able to retain his popularity. part of that is due to sandy, but that...

Care act. i want to go back to this organizing point. the town hall meetings that happened that july 2009 on the affordable care act, the polling for health care reform was at 60%. >> right. >> and literally, the polls drops precipitously during that three-month period, down -- as a result of that. >> because public opinion was not a firm thing on the affordable care act, you know what i mean. >> people were firm about they should have that and the government should do something about that. >> i...

So one standard model that we think about how democratic governance works. theres individual citizens that have policy preferences. those policy preferences are aggravated in something like public opinion. and the elected representatives represent the aggregated public opinion. and when they represent and legislate, they pass laws which are relatively in sync with what people think. but, of course, peoples views on things are often real ambivale ambivalent, or uninformed. some copyright laws wor...

Have to dig through the information if you want to find out about a senate race or house race. >> google.com/elections information on how to register for vote important for people deployed overseas. >> great source for the military. google will be rolling out things closer to the election. this one you can access over your mobile device. >> all sorts of election information including how to register to vote where to find polling places and great resources. >> what is this election center? >> i u...

Minimum wage job and see if you still think its all good for the 1% of let it trickle down. >> if the wealth is all gathered aggregated at the top 1%, theres the thesis in the story that it makes it harder for other people to have a chance. they rig the political system and perhaps the market system in a way that no one else can get a piece of the pie. >> look at these people youre talking about, the people who invented google, these people were not the 1%, they were the 99%. theyve been in the ...

consequences if the panel failed to decrease the debit. hes one of most popular bloggers in cyber-space. can he still call himself a conservative? our conversation with andrew sullivan. >> especially during the iraq war to have made such a massive blunder and be forced to hold myself to account for it and have my readers do so and stick with me, that was a very maturing experience. >> plus, the "huffington post" expands to canada. so whats up with the canadian woman whos running it, ...

Home. the alleged shooter was holed up in his house for six hours after this whole police shootout. investigators think the guy started shooting at the officer when they showed up trying to serve an aggregated battery warrant. washington state, two deputies were wounded in a shootout yesterday in a walmart parking lot. according to police reports, the man who shot them was killed by another deputy. another person, believed to be a teenaged girl, was also killed. police think she was connected ...