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Days. it may be true that the public does not care. there is no-no registering of public opposition or assigning blame to the president of all people on these scandals. >> megyn: let me jump in. the polls show that the people do care and they think the irs deal is a real scandal. they think benghazi is is a real scandal. lesser degree care about what the dojs doing to reporters. the numbers are pretty high in terms we believe these are real issues and were not happy about them. yet, they dont af...

Anchor of "fox news sunday." chris, in the beginning of course everybody on capitol hill was hesitant to point blame to figure out if someone had slipped through the cracks and whose fault it might be were hearing a barrage of criticism from a number of big names on capitol hill who want to know how this could have been missed? >> more than pointing fingers or assigning blame. it is because we want to get better. martha: right. >> you cant say for 100% certainty we could have prevented bombing b...

Not heard of. it didnt resonate but he tried. >> if he tried, he didnt try hard enough, lets put it that way. you see whether its senator simpson or anybody else, nobody is saying, now wait a minute. if we need all this money in washington, shouldnt we audit the government programs that are asking for more money and see where the waste and fraud and abuse are and see if we really need to ask the american taxpayer -- and this is really -- this is about the assigning of power and democratic party ...

Bombing. israelis believe hezbollah is behind the bus attack. how confident can we be with their intelligence? >> not very confident, jonathan. there is uncertainty about the identity of the perpetrator. some say he was captured by american forces in afghanistan and incarcerated for a few years. if the reports are corrects, this changes the dynamics of the accusations against iran and hezbollah. all i am suggesting at this stage, its very dangerous to make any definite assigning blame and then t...

Whos not competing in iowa. simon, thank you so much for coming on and doing this simulcast. i see you at the mic there. whats it smell like to you out there? whats the sense? if id ask you to do a little peration now on which way its going, what is it? >> first of all, its always a pleasure to welcome a democrat to the simon conway show. >> are we all giving our party labels o out here? are you giving me yours or what? you want to give me one but dont give yourself one. >> chris, im not a repub...

Well, simon conway is an iowa radio talk show host who has spoken to each of the republican presidential candidates, except mitt romney and jon huntsman, whos not competing in iowa. simon, thank you so much for coming on and doing this simulcast. i see you at the mic there. whats it smell like to you out there? whats the sense? if id ask you to do a little peration now on which way its going, what is it? >> first of all, its always a pleasure to welcome a democrat to the simon conway show. >> ar...

Radio talk show host who has spoken to each of the republican presidential candidates, except mitt romney and jon huntsman, whos not competing in iowa. simon, thank you so much for coming on and doing this simulcast. i see you at the mic there. whats it smell like to you out there? whats the sense? if id ask you to do a little peration now on which way its going, what is it? >> first of all, its always a pleasure to welcome a democrat to the simon conway show. >> are we all giving our party labe...

Jimmy williams. i didnt introduce you like that. how would you frame what were watching right now with the health care debate? >> i think its very important. the republicans are right. this law was not wanted by the american people. now that they got to under they know its a bad law, it will make health care in this country worse, the deficit worse and its not something you can salvage. it should be repealed and replaced with reforms that are actually going to drive down costs. >> do you think t...

And we had to acknowledge there are going to be some issues democrats and republicans just dont see eye to eye on. thats how democracy works. but there have to be some issues on which we can find common ground. its one thing to disagree on principle. its another to simply stand in the way because of politics. now is not the time for sitting on the sidelines or blocking progress or pointing fingers or assigning blame. now is not the time to do just whats right for your party or your poll numbers....

Tone. now, as a step in that direction, i have went and visited with the house republican caucus last friday, and we had a good -- [ cheers and applause ] -- we had a good discussion about the challenges facing the american people and our ideas to solve them. it was good for the country to see a robust debate. i had fun. [ laughter ] and we have to acknowledge, there are going to be some issues the democrats and republicans just dont see eye to eye on, and thats how it should be. thats how our d...