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So speaker boehner is sort of buying the party some time by being patient. >> playing the quiet game. >> well, the difference is your parents stayed your parents. and whether hes going to stay speaker is another thing. >> that is true. as much as a teenager i tried to protest they were my parents. after the break, have we already lost the battle against climate change? chris hayes looks at the politics of power. thats coming up. "stubborn love" by the lumineers did you get my email? i did. so ...

Considering is a two-month continuing resolution so you fold it in with the debt limit. they want to use that as a massive leverage point. you talk to the white house and talk to democratic leaders, theres not a chance theyre giving anything up. they regret doing it in 2011 and at the end of the day this is congress problem, speaker boehner knows he cannot default and hes not going to let it happen. >> i feel like john boehner is like my parents when i was 4 and lets play the quiet game. finally...

Texas youre not going to change anything. but north carolina is a swing state. >> obama won it in 2008. >> he won it in 2008. north carolina, the politics can possibly be changed, but people have to come out and vote in off-year elections. >> as long as they can actually get to the voting booths and cast their ballots. >> the demographics are moving in favor of the democrats here as well so it may be just a matter of time, so well see. >> time is moving in favor of democrats. after the break, ...

Priebus said using the word self deportation is a horrific comment to make. i dont think it has anything to do with our party. when someone makes those comments, when someone makes those comments, obviously its racist. >> right. >> is reince priebus just making up to the fact of romney? >> hes finally realizing that the way to win is the less the gop candidates talk, the better their chances are. particularly given that some of the most horrific moments from those debates actually were fox debat...

People, but clearly when he made that statement, he did not have all of the information. >> right. >> so thats a big problem. >> yeah. >> because if there is that kind of an audit going on and the president doesnt know about it, and youre going to send him out in front of cameras to say something that contradicts that audit, that is a major problem. not only for -- in terms of safeguards and transpair anticipat -- transparency and security, thats a huge communication problem for the president. s...

Unconstitutional. i think that is incredibly damning, the fact that these operations were already under way and post hoc the court says this is a violation of the constitution. >> this is clearly going to have an impact on capitol hill. lawmakers will have a hard time ignoring this because of the response youve seen from the general public and the senate judiciary chairman, patrick leahy, announced today that he was going to hold a hearing into this. so what weve seen since these revelations cam...

1929 when bob bennett won election, you remember that year well, it was the perot year, a lot of fracturing in politics, the economy informs tough times and you had the perot candidates circumstance the bill clinton candidacy and people were mad at washington them didnt think washington was answering their concerns in a time of a tough economy. here is what you said on election night. >> the one thing that has not changed to keep with the time has been the congress. and so we ran on a platform t...

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