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When they inspire, motivate. words like tear down this wall can help defeat an empire. words like hope and change can lead to health care transformati transformation. words like mission accomplished can embarrass a nation and words like are you now or have you ever been, can cripple institutions and industries. words like we hold these truths to be self-evident can spark a revolution and words like we the people can empower the individual, even though words like never worked a day in her life ca...

Because well keep doing that to him. theyre not going to listen -- we wont get a second interview, were not going to get a second one. if mark did that and laced into him, the goodbye would be permanent from this guy. >> thats part of the problem here because if you dont do that, then youre enable lg him to use you as a flat form to say things that are not true. the other day he gave a speech that romney said if obama is reelected, half of the economy will be controlled by the government. again,...

Theres a catch 22, joni. we will never get that interview. >> no. >> because we will keep doing that. he wont listen to -- it wont get a second interview. we wont get a second one. if mark has lace need him, like david and i would like to -- >> well thats part of the problem. if you dont, then you are enabling him to use you as a platform to say things that arent true. the other day he gave a speech in which romney says if obama is re-elected and obamacare is in, then it will involve half of the...

People in the white house listen to him stammering and stuttering. to jessicas question you dont respond to every question we have. if you pride yourself on saying we dont listen to the chatter out there. there is cable chatter out there saying he bombed. you felt xiled compelled to say did a great job. do you feel pressure to depefen him? >> earnest went on to say verrilli had a solid performance. the white house is acknowledging if the court strikes down the entire law or even just the individ...

Paying attention. this tip at the tar mac isnt the issue. the presidents thin skin is. ive seen it before. when he went after bobby jindal over the louisianas governor criticism over his handling of the b.p. oil spill. i am telling you, barack obama never forgets. just ask anyone at fox. because for a guy who claims he doesnt watch the so-called cable chatter, he sure can chatter on and on about it. line and verse. that, too, is fine. getting your dander up over how the media is covering you is ...

It. >> during that entire week, the dominant news story wasnt about these huge monumental choices were going to have to make as a nation, it was about my birth certificate. that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here. >> not exactly. we want to give credit where credits due. ja jake tapper of abc news was the first one i think to notice that. he was making the case the birther debate overshadowed all of that. the due pew center tracks all of news coverage. the birther st...

Cycle and the cable chatter, always focused on the next election instead of the next generation. as some of you know, im not somebody who spends a lot of time surfing the cable channels, but im not completely in the bubble. i have a sense of what the coverage has been, and mostly its an obsession with what will this mean for the democratic party? megyn: so does he have a point? >> yeah, well, look, hes doing what so many other politicians have done when they get in trouble in the polls. it must ...

Dealing with racial issues. theyve stumbled here a couple times. we had a teachable moment a year ago. now another teachable moment. at certain points, you sort of say, hey, guys, theres supposed to be a learning process here. and i dont know quite why theres sort of a blind spot for them. theres some obvious factors. but i do think that they need to -- i think they need to be introspective here and figure it out. there is a very strong sense here that the very team -- the president, whos condem...

It was about transforming a politics thats driven by cynicism and a 24-hour news cycle and the cable chatter. >> thats not to say this is all the administrations fault. hardly. this mess started with a conservative blog posting that took comments by sherrod about race out of context. and the naacp, an organization founded to promote the basic idea that we should treat everyone fairly, joined the white house in the unfair rush to judgment. to judgment. so now what? -- captions by vitac -- www.vit...

Dominating. very interesting development, wolf. >> ed, stand by. i want to bring in gloria borger our senior political analyst and john king both of whom have been doing some reporting on what is going on as well. first to you, john. a huge embarrassment for the obama administration. >> it certainly is. number one, wolf, you see from secretary vilsack there and we will try to get more details but you call that manning up whether in politics, in life, or anything else. just saying, me, my respons...