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Everything i can to advance this as a private citizen, and the only next step that i can do is to run for congress and fight it through congress. because thats where its going to change. its going to have to change with congressional action, and so thats the large piece of why i was prompted to do this. >> i just -- it is incredible to imagine that a family grieving in this way would also then have to have this fight and i cant imagine the anger you felt on top of your grief and co-mingled with ...

That? >> yeah. like a blunder bust, which should say, you know, everything you load into it. the strategy, it didnt matter much what specific allegations were, only that there were a lot of them. it was never really about the truth. it was about creating a cloud of susp suspicion which undermined american belief in the voting system. >> yeah. and you really saw that. i didnt matter what they said, and it edd a dilemma. do you have to fact-check everything? or in the act of fact-checking, are you...

Yes. >> so he said the whole time, that was chris wallace on fox news saying -- and peter fa var row who is the guy thats been purning this saying no, this is a tariff on everybody, ally, friend and foe alike. >> peter is who is right about its going to have to be globally applied not selectively applied. but the deeper question is, why this blunder bust approach to things? we certainly could negotiate better trade deals. the south korean trade deal allowed a 4% tariff on american cars sold in s...

Assads air force cannot take off. thats an example of a limited action that ultimately can produce big benefits. >> so you think in order to tip the balance. >> you cant just simply send them a pea shooter against a blunder bust at the end of the day. time is not on our side, and our vital national security interests will not be pursued. >> you would like more? >> i think the president is headed in that direction. this is the first step. obviously, hes convinced the red line he himself subscribe...

And then you have to consider other options with your allies as to whether or not, for example, you might consider ripping up air fields so that assads air force cannot take off. thats an example of a limited action that ultimately can produce big benefits. >> so you think in order to tip the balance. >> you cant just simply send them a pea shooter against a blunder bust at the end of the day. time is not on our side, and our vital national security interests will not be pursued. >> you would li...

Schools of thoughts here. ted cruz happens to be one, how many minutes did the police sleep that night, which is a paraphrase, but the notice of a ticktock versus what happens on the sunday shows, which i feel like has been litigated over and over and over again, but perhaps theres more appear tide for that. >> i dont think the white house should be let completely off the hook here. i dont want to characterize it as a whitewash, but there was an attempt to put the most flattering possible versio...

The boy scouts, have been for a very long time, both a service and a religion organization. every time you say the scout oath, you pledge to do your duty to god and country. >> zach wahls gets tonights last word. thanks for joining us tonight, zach. >> thank you, lawrence. > under the boardwalk with chris christie. lets play "hardball." good evening. im chris matthews in san francisco. let me start tonight with the brazen decision by mitt romney to have chris christie open the republican conve...

Have the big noise from jersey do the nasty stuff. pick a pleasant, unthreatening fellow like, say, tim pawlenty for the ticket. christie now joins the tuba section along with john sununu and other big boys brought in to pound away to obama. having won the nomination in a clown show, here come the parade of elephants. uh-oh. look out. theres some rogues out there. republicans who wonder why mitt romney wont release those sticky tax returns. and why hes letting the crazies attack hillarys closest...

David corn of mother jones always good for an insight. let me go to you, david corn. what do you make of this thing? christie, who he will not be on the ticket clearly, they are making him the blunder bust. whats your thought? >> you know, we see whats happening in the last couple of days. last couple of hours. as mitt romney gets mired in the tax return issue and shows that he really cant get his -- get out of it. theyre going to, like, all out obama hatred. an attack. so you have john sununu s...