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Screaming as we see now with bitter language that denounces our president and collectively the aspirations of african-americans and others. >> but if the republican party doesnt change, and if their leadership doesnt change, and if they dont think differently on this issue of diversity and race and acceptance, and they stand by idle, doesnt that fuel extremist groups to feel emboldened to do more things than what weve seen? >> absolutely. dr. king said its the silence of good people thats even m...

Working with the state department so long, what do you think of our relationship and where it stands with iran? how different or similar is it to where it stood in 1979? >> i think its really misguided of the iranians to celebrate this day. the united states and iran had a long history of friendship t. really has been a tragedy that we have been in these times of broken relations for the last tray years -- 33 years. i would say at the time of the hostage crisis, the carter administration was dem...

Looming problems include quote lack of sufficient numbers and quality of personnel as well as undeveloped budgeting, procurement beings and lo guess particular -- logistic funding. afghan national security forces facilities, particularly police facilities are at risk of being wasted. were talking about at least 11.7 billion u.s. taxpayer dollars there to build military police and other facilities. the pentagon says it will make, quote: all necessary adjustments to help the afghan government sust...

The demint crowd. >> the commitments made earlier in the campaign will come back to haunt governor romney. >> how about julian david -- >> im the washington eisenhower -- >> i hope gettysburg can join this team. thank you, great family. susan eisenhower. well be right back. youre watching "hardball," the place for politics. ah. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own butter too? what? this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier sure do...

Hes the cellophane man. is there anything beneath the tie and shirt. is there any belief to determine that will last beyond the current speech? >> thats the problem. he had to run to the extreme right to get the nomination to begin with. now classically candidates move into the middle, but he didnt do that until late in the campaign,. which leads you to believe he was with the ideas he was espousing during the primary. hes made commitments. hes not part of the religious right but hes made commit...

Is there any belief to determine he will last? >> he had to run to the extreme right to get the nomination to begin with classically candidates move into the middle, but he didnt do that until late in the campaign which leads you to believe he was with the ideas he was he was he was as pousing. hes made commitments. hes not part of the religious right but hes made commitments to them on choice, on everything, contraception, even on same-sex marriage. hes against everything now it seems. >> they ...

Cellophane man up. cant see him. theres nothing there you can actually -- whats beneath the shoulder, the ties and the shirt? is there anything you believe can last past the current speech? >> thats the problem. he had to run to the extreme right to get the nomination. now classicicly candidates move to the middle. he didnt do that until late in the campaign which leads to you believe perhaps he was with the ideas he was espousing during the primary. >> thats my point. he made hard commitments, ...

Hes been talking act what hes going to do. hes loose on details. hes been talking commitments. barack obama has a four-year record and talking about his commitments. keeping the affordable care act is a big thing. you cant say theres nothing to it. either theres a huge imposition on the american populous or its not. its not big deal you are going to keep this piece of legislation. this whole he doesnt have a plan thing is overstated. part of the weirdness of this campaign is this forcing mechani...

I would like to remind everyone on the right what their commitments are. if you ask people, should we have a popular vote, you will see that democrats have a strong preference for that. 71% of democrats express it, 53% of republicans. republicans, support for it has been gaining. 41% in 2000. generally, the way this breaks down, if you look at the states that passed natural popular vote, democrats and people on the left like the idea of the natural popular vote and people on the right like the i...

Conservative primary which caused him to go way to the right of who mitt romney is. >> we dont know who mitt romney is. >> his campaign -- he says -- >> the language. >> he says, for example, that i support abortion now in the case of the health of the mother and then his campaign has to do that. >> let me say this. >> we dont know who he is. >> this gets back to why partisanship is a fairly efficient and i think overall useful metric for people to use because it doesnt matter what mitt romney t...