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Not say about himself. president clinton understood how important that was and understands had his role in a lot of places in the country, not only a guy with a 69% approval rating, not only the most popular political figure in america, but hes become kind of like a neutral arbiter on economics and on economic policy, on what it takes to make the government successful in terms of managing the economy. he speaks with particular force and authority to middle-class voters to working-class voters, a...

Not an ad on tv that uses that old quote of his about how inequality should only be spoken about in private rooms and then says, well, look at what romney says in private rooms. here is what he says in the debate which is the real romney? >> do you think moderators should play that role? i dont want to knock jim lehrer, hes a distinguished journalist, but i have seen people like the late tim russert and people like bob schieffer, whenever they hear a complete nonsense statement from a politician...

>> whose job is it? >> his campaigns and the super pacs. i dont understand why theres not an ad on tv that uses that old quote of his about how inequality should only be spoken about in private rooms and then says, well, look at what romney says in private rooms. here is what he says in the debate which is the real romney? >> do you think moderators should play that role? i dont want to knock jim lehrer, hes a distinguished journalist but i have seen people like the late tim russert and people l...

Position, sir? >> i understand the argument that he wants to be a kind of neutral arbiter, but, yes, absolutely. when you say, you know, flat out there is no tax cut for the wealthy in my plan or he says that kind of higher income people arent going to pay any smaller of a share of the tax burden, when hes been saying on camera for more than a year now that he intends to reduce their rates to 20%, that he intends to reduce the inheritance tax, reduce capital gains -- >> its called cut. >> its pr...

A couple of things that strikes me about this. first, how in the world does cnn find this thing four days afterwards? >> brian: crazy. >> bob: that raises some questions in my mind. >> brian: you dont believe it? >> bob: i believe the story but i believe cnn, when the state department called them -- what is the word they useded about cnn? i would use much worse words but i cant anymore. disgraceful that cnn wouldnt turn the diary over to the family before going public with it. they should be ash...

From his personal diary which one of his staffers found in the wreckage against his family wishess. a cnn executive defends the decision saying quote cnn negotiated, had a conversation with the family, respected the obligation to keep out personal details and only report what it was obligated and news worthy to report. the fact that the governmen government wants to stand as the oerbmobile arbiter on this frankly offends me. >> jim pinkerton joins us and alan colmes the host of the alan colmes s...

A couple of things that strikes me about this. first, how in the world does cnn find this thing four days afterwards? >> brian: crazy. >> bob: that raises some questions in my mind. >> brian: you dont believe it? >> bob: i believe the story but i believe cnn, when the state department called them -- what is the word they useded about cnn? i would use much worse words but i cant anymore. disgraceful that cnn wouldnt turn the diary over to the family before going public with it. they should be ash...

Issues certainly, when you were 21, and your deployment changed your politics. i want you to talk about that and then talk a bit more broadly about what you saw from democrats in this convention. >> absolutely. you know, my deployments both to iraq and kuwait absolutely were life-changing in so many ways. specifically with regards to social issues and kind of my politics in general, seeing firsthand the extreme, really the extreme negative effects of what can happen in societies where the govern...

Experience changed your politics quite a bit. you were a conservative i believe, conservative on social issues certainly, when you were 21, and your deployment changed your politics. i want you to talk about that and then talk a bit more broadly about what you saw from democrats in this convention. >> absolutely. you know, my deployments both to iraq and kuwait absolutely were life-changing in so many ways. specifically with regards to social issues and kind of my politics in general, seeing fir...

Convention. we havent seen it yet, much in evidence yet. but remember, the speech with the second quartered press, the day before the republican national convention, he said he was willing to reach out to republicans and seek compromise with republicans in a second obama term. again, we havent seen much evidence that he is willing to do that. but he started to sound notes that at least sound more conciliatory. >> joe, where so far is the focus onions and the debt? we have heard a lot about women...