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Surrogates within the republican party, because when you listen to leadership and read between the lines of the messages coming out of them, theyre walking a tight political tightrope in order to continue to try to carry out the presidents legislative agenda without getting bogged down, if you will, in the latest political water cooler talk of the day. >> well, lets turn to that water cooler talk of the day. a lot of this is about the media. jonathan, about the late tweet yesterday, saying that ...

Can be -- what did he say? a stiff breeze away from damascus? thats a consideration. also american credibility in half a dozen frozen conflicts or other very difficult situations from north korea all the way through the middle east. these are all things that the president also has to take into consideration. the president said something very important yesterday. he said this is all about american national security. not just the national security of the people of syria or the people in the region...

Foolish across-the-board budget cuts known as sequester. >> reporter: the union has also negotiated deals in new york, oregon, and nebraska. unclear though how many people could take advantage of this because furlough arrangements differ from agency to agency and unemployment rules differ from state to state. but the labor department has warned that some states could be bogged down, wolf, by these kinds of claims. >> amazing how creative some of these opportunities are out there for federal work...

Reset when president obama heading into debate preparations this it time. so i think that youre absolutely right. the obama campaign is trying not to get bogged down, but they know its serious and the president has to do a better job in the next two debates to win re-election. >> and also to move it forward past the discussion. debate. it was a big one. thank you very much. were joined by sandra lily. there you see kristen welker at this live event. theres not a poll that doesnt show the preside...

>> my father would be on his feet, applauding the president and the way that the president stuck his neck out, it was my dads signature cause. he promised my dad that he was going to make this issue a priority for his administration and he did. a lot of his advisors said wait, its too complicated, too many vested interests youre going to get bogged down, but the president its an example of how the presidents leadership he was willing to do this, take this on. theres so many special interests, ch...

Polarizati polarization, was there things that cropped up that said im out of here? >> it was a disappointment of 38 votes on the simpson-bowles budget alternative. there are a lot of things we fought about in my 18 years, nothing new. its a partisan place. but when things like the highway bill, i mean, talking about building a road, gets bogged down, the farm bill that sort of blew up as we were leaving town yesterday and the student loan interest rate reduction, i mean, and, you know, the spea...

About 4.5 million people come across the border. you have left office, 7 million people across the border. why couldnt you secure it? >> the economy got better. its a long better. we had a fence, you know, in san diego. it worked. >> why didnt you put it all the way through? >> for one thing, back then, even the texas republicans didnt want it. >> you could have done it by executive order. >> i dont know if i could have or not. >> eric: dana is going mm-hmm. ill get to you in a second. bob, bill...

Thats been bogged down, absolute dysfunction. this morning, they did pass the tax cut holiday, that includes the unemployment benefit. but also they did the novel concept this morning of funding the entire united states government. listen to arizona senator john mccain and his comments on the senate floor about that. >> here we are again. a bill, 1,221 pages long, not one member of this committee has read it. 1,221 pages representing $915 billion of the taxpayers money and here we are not with a...

Battle with the administration going forward. so a lot of people are raising rates. so they are bumping in anticipation of whats coming down the road. we have more increases possibly. here is the thing. this is where the with it house made a huge mistake. the notion that insurance companies have to take 80% of the premiums and apply that to healthcare costs. here is the problem. healthcare costs continue to go up. in fact if we poured millions of people into a system thats already bogged down, c...

Made it very clear that they believe gadhafi has to be gone but the u.s. and the allies arent going to do that. no boots on the ground, no direct involvement. is that the way to go? does gadhafi have to go and if so how? >> you ask a very good question. this is based upon the drilling that -- and the terrible loss of life that americans have experienced with iraq and afghanistan. members of congress have watched these wars go on and on. boots on the ground and the idea of regime change that we w...