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I had just gotten a musical system in. c-span was on, you know, mpr, here we had rock music blaring, sitting on the back porch watching the rain. and the wine kept on pouring. and they started talking about, you know, once elizabeth was gone. and the comment was made, you know, this is the way it should be. and once elizabeth is gone, this is the way it will be. >> the comment was made? welcome back to "hardball." that was former john edwards aide and former loyalist -- former loyalist andrew yo...

Every day and try to come up either with piecemeal legislation, bit by bit by bit, less likely. more likely the so-called sidecar legislation where they cobble together a group of amendments in another bill, go forward with the bills that are there and then send it to the president to be signed. but theyve said it, were going to do this quietly. >> right. >> that isnt what the president said in the state of the union. that isnt what the president said to the republicans the other day. but unfort...

Discuss energy policy. thursday hell will he liver re-- deliver remarks at the national prayer breakfast. >> president obama called jobs the number one focus for this year. later on he urged lawmakers to keep on trying for an agreement on healthcare. but is there bipartisan on either issue? is it really possible? >> what theyve been stiff armed by speaker pelosi. >> maybe its the house democrat leadership thats a impediment. >> i understand were not interested in debating this bill but what shou...

>> greg: original face. >> yes. >> you mentioned how obama wants to bring up the mysterious people telling him what he should do and he says i have been told, such and touch. you know who i felt sorry for in that speech? the strawman. mary, you said obama made your head spin when called on congress to be more transparent, bringing up that the promised the healthcare debate would be televised on c-span. the state of the union was televised on c-span. on healthcare saying i take my share of the bl...

And said you would broadcast the health care debate on c-span, you didnt. you rolled your sleeves up, you worked with the other party and ultimately, you were able to make the deal. now, here is an observation over the past year in my view that attribute hasnt been in full bloom. >> that was just some of the criticism president obama faced when he hosted the republican retreat in baltimore. was this unprecedented television visit just a photo op or a real push for bipartisanship? here for a fair...

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With c-span with its live camera of every person who is going in and so many people went in who should not be on camera going into that building. >> it feels like it was a bazaar. it was come on in, we just won the presidency. come on in. lets talk. >> open for business. >> lets do some business. we got the guy who runs the qatari sovereign wealth fund, a russian bankerer, the russian ambassador, victor vesselburg. >> if i can correct you, it is not that hes the client of columbus nova. i talked...

Yeah.in should have done more research before you got me to do this. >> laura: thats an understatement. the choice of an aspirational comedian like wolf, with one hbo special, i guess, a few writing gigs to her credit, tells us a lot about the correspondents association. some of those who cover the white house, lets face it, we know it, are brimming with hatred of this president and all that he represents. lets face it, he embarrassed them with his electoral victory and he continues to prove the...

Of white women. everybody, where i was saying, -- sitting, people were laughing. >> jesse: i watch the whole thing on c-span. she lost the crowd early and she bombed. theres so much good material about the trump white house from jim acosta to twitter to the russians to pelosi and chuck schumer. it is so easy to make, even clean jokes, the majority of the stuff was very dirty. i can handle dirty jokes and everybody there can handle dirty jokes. i think it takes more talent to be clean. almost eve...

C-span coverage, it was -- i was thinking, wait a second, can we just have a full screen and reads at there? because we need to see the exact -- we need to see the exact facial expressions on the reporters who are laughing at the particular times which we are about to highlight. when you compare what she was saying to what happened when the president was speaking in michigan, wow. >> by the way, is this better than that phony washington white house correspondents dinner? is this more fun? i coul...