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Country is something that the people at least in the important early primary states are -- whether they like it or dont. thats why im here. her are you dismayed in your poor showing in the cpac shuffle? >> no, both ron paul and mitt romney spent a lot of resources to get numbers. thats not important. thats a great group to speak to because you have national press corp covering you and it is on national television on c-span and other places. it is always a good event to go to. what matters is wha...

In and what your vision of the country is something that the people at least in the important early primary states are -- whether they like it or dont. thats why im here. her are you dismayed in your poor showing in the cpac shuffle? >> no, both ron paul and mitt romney spent a lot of resources to get numbers. thats not important. thats a great group to speak to because you have national press corp covering you and it is on national television on c-span and other places. it is always a good even...

>> who do we have on the list? run down the members. house who are the talkers. >> reporter: first of all, where does this all this come from? it comes from c-span, had the function on the website for quite a while where you add up the number of days the members are on the floor and there you go. the gold medal goes to ted poe, republican of texas. followed by sheila jackson lee, democrat also of texas and joe wilson of south carolina. those two at the top are very interesting, so just start wit...

Number of days congressmen and women have talked on the floor, and its from c-span, so on the senate side, go with me here. the gold medal goes to harry reid, obviously no surprise there, and senate leader. silver mitch mcconnell and bronze dick durbin. joe johns joining me. not part of the list. the guy well go to in d.c. you know, were they talking to full chambers each time here or just those c-span cameras always set up at the capitol? >> reporter: a little bit of everything, but the thing a...

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

Biological weapons. >> but you were wrong. >> my goodness, the intelligence was certainly wrong. >> if you had known he did not have them -- >> i didnt know. >> if you had -- >> i didnt. >> if you had -- >> i have no idea. >> with me now, former defense secretary bill cohen, who served under bill clinton. chairman and ceo of the cohen group. were laughing because that is classic rumsfeld. >> there were knowns and unknowns. >> his briefings became for a while there, the briefings were really must...

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

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Radio correspondent association that hes okay with more media but now that theyre in charge things seem to have changed a little bit and he changed his mind. heres his new quote. i believe the american people and the dignity and decorum of the united states are served by the current system of televised proceedings provided by the house recording studio. i dent mean you could bring cameras in when were in charge. given the obvious hypocrisy when c-span asked against to bring in cameras, boehner r...