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Bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> lapierre also railed against the media for quote intentional corruption of the truth. intentional corruption of the truth, of course, being something wayne lapierre is very, very familiar with. just ahead has john boehner relocated his moral compass? thats not a rhetorical question? the house speaker jabs fellow party members over their unwillingness to take up immigration reform. not surprisingly conservatives are already punching back. texas cong...

Happened this week when republican members of congress went home to face constituents. some of whom are are now covered thanks to the aca. republicans had no response when asked why they want to take away benefits and no real plan of their own to tout. lets bring in our panel. dana milbank, jim albui, zer lean na maxwell, and mccay coppens, political e editor for buzzfeed. thank you for joining us. dana, im going to start with you. how much now do you think this plays into the 2014 calculous? th...

Lets say get to 2015 or 2016, a few years into obamacare, making the change then could have ar e arguably been worse than doing it right now. >> a conspiracy theory thats rising on the right about this is that by changing this, well never really be able to know the truth about the health care law, whether or not more people are really getting new insurance who didnt have it before. in your view, is there any merit to those kind of conspiracy theories? >> you know, i think we are -- were losing a...

People go to work every day in this industry. you cant just beat up on them. >> when you were cheated out of oil royalties. >> and to sit here and listen to the federal government say we cant share a penny with you. i will not rest until this injustici injustices is gone. >> and she won? >> do you think theres a bunch of fairy godmothers who just wave a magic wand? >> she holding the most powerful position in the senate. >> the weekly standard caught on after realizing that the footage doesnt co...

Buzzfeeds kate is still with us as is michael steel. i want to start with you to explain to people exactly what happened this week. it gets confusing. t shaun mccutchen was giving check to campaigns and basically the aggregate limit meant he could give to 28 candidates. if its okay to give to 28, why cant i give to 29. can you explain what the answer to that was and what the significance of this ruling really is? >> sure. if you go back to the post slaughter gait gate era theres a supreme court ...

40-hour workweek. that passed with 18 house democrat on board, but the bill, of course, likely to die in the democratic-led senate. bret? >> it appears the president had bigger plans than the rose garden for that sign-up announcement. >> reporter: its interesting because buzzfeed has a story out tonight that the white house asked the broadcast networks, abc, cbs, nbc, fox broadcast for primetime on tuesday night to tout 7 million sign ups being passed, but buzzfeed reports it was turned down by ...

Move there. >> it seems to me that narrative we heard in the fall about the website working, is this just one of those classic examples of good news not getting as much attention? >> it was a lot more exciting and up expected that the website really could not sign up people in october and now that its working i hear all the time just talking to friends and people who arent following obamacare on a daily basis it doesnt work. >> but it seems like things like "between two ferns" have chipped away ...

Cnn, which is the ability to become a publication once in a while and to acknowledge the fact its part of a greater media ecosystem, that these people can feast solely on this story or they can just dip in and out when they want to get ahead of it. >> mixed publication is an interesting term because on the one hand you have more viewers than usual coming in for the coverage but it is focused on one main topic which is the missing plane. its been some coverage of ukraine, some coverage of the lan...

The huffington post, the gawker, buzzfeed, mashable, are actually staffing up. theyre hiring reporters. which i think sfumt hire. that you have a professional group of people who are paid to go out and report the news. there are more of those. we did for the first time ever, a count of how many people do these native digital organizations employ. 5,000 people. thats not enough to make up for the 16,000 that were laid off in newspaper newsrooms over the course of the last decade, but its a pretty...

>> how could you think in this day and age that anything you say is not being recorded after mitt romney and 47%. remember, this is a four-term house democrat. he is not new to politics, number one, dont do a fundraiser in texas, when youre painted as a trial lawyer. then in trying to fix this, then in trying to fix this they put a picture up on the facebook page, bruce braley knows everything about farms, loves farms, that farm is in england. and buzz feed, what do you think, should we take the...