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Politics, it matters a lot whether youre pitching policy or character of republicans were effective at going at hillary clintons character including with things that didnt seem obviously terrible like the wall street speeches became a bigger issue than some might have expected given how many ties there are to wall street from both candidates. is this a character attack? >> it is a character attack. i mean, i would say if you look at trumps numbers, i done think you need to have that many more ch...

Do you think with this new comey letter, hillary clinton has not talked about it on the trail today. do you think that is wise? earlier on, folks were saying any time she is talking about e-mails is not a good idea. >> thats exactly right. obviously, it is good news for her and good news for her staff. good news for huma. considering what the alternative could have been. she doesnt want to talk about e-mail. she doesnt want to talk about the fbi or dysfunction at the fbi. those words should not ...

Im an extraordinarily private person. being in front of the camera instead of behind it is a new situation for me and not one that a relish. its also hard come forward because as a victim when you come forward youre dismissed or not believed and have their character attack. for me the response has been almost positive, all those things have happened. i think theres definite reasons why women dont come forward and why its challenging to come forward. thats one of the reasons i chose to do so. id ...

Ability and the opportunity to explain herself and her position just as she said, but shes not the problem. the problem is the president of the united states. >> thats an end, i hope, to the vicious and baseless character attack that has made rice the center of a witch hunt by the right even though she has done nothing to disqualify herself. mccain tried to make her unnominatable but made it so obama will look weak if he doesnt nominate her. he asserted an inappropriate political cover-up. he al...

Are on your ticket and who you have said you would sign their signature piece of legislation. talk about that. thats a concrete thing. that has real numbers. thats been evaluated by the cbo. dont talk about the romney plan, the romney plant doesnt exist. the romney plan is whatever you want it to be, whatever you want to hear. so dont talk about that plan, because you cannot win talking about his plan, because his plan will be whatever he wants it to be. >> steve, what do you think would happen ...

>> you lie! >> oh! megyn: in 2009 congressman joe wilson took a lot of heat for that exchange in which he challenged president obama during the presidents health care address to congress. publicly yelling, "you lie." mr. wilson later apologized for doing that x the president accepted his apology and then called publicly for a more civilized discourse in this country. >> we have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big, important issues that matter to the american people wit...

Disdain for romney he never had for mccain who obama respected for an honorable man and war hero. that doesnt hold for romney. he was no goddamned war hero. does the presidents disdain for romney make it into a character attack and small ball as opposed to the big-mined campaign in 08 which the subtext we respect senator mccain. >> before we start, can i get that in the form of the power point presentation? >> done. >> particularly the cutter/ax thing. was there any blood on their faces? i think...

When they called him a vampire. this is the next part of the story from this super pac. it doesnt matter whether its true, and quite simply they probably dont care if its true. what they care about is getting in it on the air and right now they have not heard it yet. but what they have done is by running an ad that is so salacious and over-the-top, it promotes the character, its a character attack. they know whats its going to create controversy and is going to be seen even before they put a nic...

Accused of it again, of engaging in language that his critics call class warfare, you know, demonizing the rich, im the guy whos going to protect the middle class and the blue collar workers, and these blue collar -- at least the white blue collar workers seem to be saying no to that, they seem to be rejecting that. why? >> the president never move today the middle after his midterm shellacking. he did not go back to try to coalesce his party and wring those clinton or reagan democrats back into...

Surrogates, robert gibbs, the folks in the trenches, are out there sort of icing that with this narrative that mitt romney doesnt play fair, hes never played fair and theres something dastardly going on in the cayman islands. >> the romney campaign calls this a character attack. its correct to call it that. this is part of the campaign, this is not about the tax policy debate or about what mitt romney actually did with his money. this is trying to build a frame around mitt romney as somebody who...