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Id be pissed, too. i would want my own thing, and when i got it, i would want to make sure there is no backsliding to the bad old days. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected in 1976, it didnt come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening and struggle. >> 50 years from now, will people still be speaking predominantly french in montreal? >> yes. >> no doubt about it. >> no doubt about it. >> french first is something most would agree with. how far and how rig...

Democrat from massachusetts. dick durbin said earlier in the program about not your daddys gop. as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think theres been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the former republican leader, bob michael, a mainstream conservative because he was too close to tip oneill. th...

To have overcome logic. >> congressman dan kildee. joining me now, former congressman, barney frank, democrat from massachusetts. dick durbin said earlier in the program about not your daddys gop. as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think theres been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the form...

My last name is bourdain. i lean french. hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you dont think its preposterous? >> i do not think its preposterous. but i hear we have a situation -- >> it is stupid. i agree with you completely that this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy...

So we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy produces by-products of stupidity. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking quebecois like second-class crap for much of history. so i get it. id be pissed too. id want my own thing and when i got it id want to make sure theres no backsliding to the bad old days. >> when the ...

I get it. i would want my own thing and make sure theres no backsliding. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected in 1976, it didnt come out of a vacuum. it came from a couple decades of awakening and struggle. >> 50 years from now, will people still be speaking french in montreal? >> yes. >> no doubt about it. >> no doubt about it. >> french first is something most would agree with. how far and how rigorously you want to go with that? well -- >> do you think there was ever any possibi...

>> you dont think its preposterous? >> i dont think think it is -- but i hear we have a situation -- >> its stupid, i agree with you completely that this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city, so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but ever bureaucracy produces by-products of stupidity and that was it. and it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated the fre...

Them out for good. claire mccaskill and republican pat toomey introducing a bill that would ban pork permanently. the move is got knot getting widespread support in this latest session. senator? >> good afternoon, neil. >> what do you make of the resistance here in congress? >> well, you know, its going to be a battle. always is. but we have made a lot of progress. last congress, senate republicans adopted a moratorium and the democratic senators responded in kind. for this congress the senate r...

Coffee, tea or colas. >> there is some backsliding, because a lot of us have the diet dr. pepper in the morning, and the mormon coffee. it is true. >> i love the idea of being a kid and navigating the practices, just this idea of what it means to be a kid who is different, and besides the belief, itself, and i thought, that i can relate to and that i get is the idea of being a different kid in that space. >> when i went into a room as a kid, i could tell, i grew up in southern california and not...

we begin tonight keeping them honest on the campaign trail. the obama campaign trying to walk a very fine line against mitt romney. the criticism is coming, and as youll see its not just from the romney side. the campaign launched a new five minute documentary attack ad. >> i feel in my heart people need to know what romney did to indiana in 1994. >> we had been bought and sold in the past. we never had a problem. >> when bain capital bought us, that was a whole different story. >> mit...