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In arlington, virginia, addressing the economy and his plans to subsidize students loans. joining me today liz marlantes, political commenter an lish yar menendez patricia murphy, citizen jane politics and buzzfeed editor in chief, the always buzzy ben smith. folks, we just heard the president talking a little bit about jobs numbers at the top. unfortunately, there was some sort of terrible storm going over the washington area. so we missed that. we apologize if you were watching at home but he ...

Campaigns are figuring out right now, the image which republicans repurposed, reused the image. if you look at how many people tweeted about this, it was like 5,000 people. basically no one. totally internal conversation. >> thats a buzzfeed metric. 5,000 people is no one. >> its not -- thats not the national number of people. this is the campaigns taking these baby steps out into the language of the internet into this sort of new visual language and trying to figure out how to use it. >> they c...

This is interesting, marco rubio is changes his position, he is getting his first take of the ticket. he is campaigning in pennsylvania at tomorrows primary. he was the second most frequently mentioned name in an informal survey by the website buzzfeed. topping the list, rob portman who will probably be the nominee for vp. im used to having irregularity. i feel like thats normal. if you are not feeling like trying this on, thats not normal. activia helps with occasional irregularity when eaten 3...

Beef is, but we know where the marshmallow peeps are. look at that. that is maybe the best thing to ever come out -- to ever be on the show for sure. its probably worth putting this in a little context. our 100th show was on tuesday, i think buzzfeed sent us 100 boxes of peeps. what do you do with peeps other than theres -- those are some of the hundreds of peeps we have in the office. i have about seven cavities. and so we decided to make a set, actually, i had no role in this, angela dubois an...

Of his ride. >> a bumblebee believes he can fly. >> but maybe in the end, its not about the convincing people. its about getting them to believe. >> believe claim. >> i have a passion for dropping by zoos. ♪ >> that was brought to you with some added pixie dust from our friends at buzzfeed who did some digging in the old video vaults. i ask you guys, when it comes to making the pitch, who nailed it this week? who failed at it? >> done va rely failed, the solicitor general clearly had a bad day...

>> i agree. varelli was a disaster. one thing ive been hung up on is scalia. when he got up there and talked about the cornhusker kickback and he proposed this hypothetical that you know, what if we the supreme court took out the cornhusker kickback, does that mean the whole act has to fail. as far as my understanding of the legislation, the kickback is not in there. it was repealed during that reconciliation process. it makes me wonder about all of us are so siloed in our information and libera...

A radical race theory. which i dont agree with. this is who he was. he fought in mississippi. thats who the man was. for him to be a role model to barack obama, okay. but i dont know that its guilt by association. >> caller: i think the question -- >> oh, come on! >> caller: where is the media asking any of those questions? >> i knew about. it you knew about it. >> caller: i never saw the tape. >> no, no, no! i reject this idea that we should shrug our shoulders and buy the buzzfeed line that th...

Articles and accounts of obamas time at harvard law school. and this speech is referenced in many of them. but nobody bothered, through lazyness or active suppression, to find out what he said and what his connection was to derrick bell and who he is and what he believed. its just unbelievable. for ogletree to say, we kept this hid nen 2008. pbs says, we aired some of it -- >> caller: i wanted to ask you -- >> they didnt give you the audio. its a slice-and-dice six ways to sunday to shift your e...

A radical race theory. which i dont agree with. this is who he was. he fought in mississippi. thats who the man was. for him to be a role model to barack obama, okay. but i dont know that its guilt by association. >> caller: i think the question -- >> oh, come on! >> caller: where is the media asking any of those questions? >> i knew about. it you knew about it. >> caller: i never saw the tape. >> no, no, no! i reject this idea that we should shrug our shoulders and buy the buzzfeed line that th...

The audio. but it was clipped at the end. so you didnt have the audio and the hug in the same clip. the length they would go, even releasing the story about president obama that makes him look bad, the length the media will go to prevent the whole imagistic truth. when you see him hugging and you hear the words, thats when you get. >> caller: let me go into this more deeply. ogletree is saying what we heard him say here. i dont care if they find it now. so the medias only releasing selected port...