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>> im not asking you that. >> in hindsight. the world is a better place because saddam hussein is not there. >> so it was a mistake or not? >> i dont understand the question youre asking me. >> knowing -- and we sit here -- >> thats not the way a president -- a president cannot make a decision on what someone might know in the future. >> was it a mistake? >> rubio eventually adopt what had has become the consensus position. george w. bush made the right decision to invade iraq based on the intel...

>> thats not the way a president -- a president cannot make a decision on what someone might know in the future. >> was it a mistake? >> rubio eventually adopt what had has become the consensus position. george w. bush made the right decision to invade iraq based on the intelligence he had at the time, but we now know that intelligence was flawed so, yes, he may have made a mistake. but its that faulty intelligence, not the president, that deserves the blame. it is true there were problems with ...

Those draconian penalties we put in way back then are locking up way too many people particularly african american men for too long. thats a consensus position. same on inequality. she is talking a lot more about inequality. guess what? everybody has been talking more about inequality since occupy wall street, including the president. so i think she is shifting in a way that the party and large parts of the country shifted. and i suspected bill clinton were running for president right now, he wo...

The carry interest loop hool hole. why should he pay more than the man that flies his private jet t. if you have et rule says simply millionaires and billion fairs should pay as least the same tax rate as their secretary and assistants. >> see, thats not really wild and that far out there. because when i say that the conservative audiences, conservative audiences like that. not if theyre on wall street. but across america. i think every day americans, i think its becoming a consensus position. i...

Our own domestic legislation apply, there might be some agencies within the u.s. government that are unwilling to quite go that far. so, that was the compromise that was reached at that particular committee meeting. im confident that over time, the administration will come to a more consensus position that will say, under no circumstances do these treaties not apply when we have effective control over an individual in our custody. >> a complex compromise that was reached. of course, that exact l...

Enormous job of organizing and pressuring in particular private businesses which also helped to make those religious freedom bills which look like they would allow private businesses to discriminate against gay people. they made those so unpalatable that political officials fell in line. in this case, mayor bloomberg used to march in this parade despite the fact he disagreed with their policies on gay rights. according to the supreme court they have a constitutional right to exclude gay people f...

Eric holder may be including some serious felony the in this category. tell me about that. >> as alan indicated. there is a consensus position if you are a non-violent offender you should be put in this category of having voting privileges. eric holders remarks went beyond that. he didnt get too specific. but he made a blanket case that its a violation of someones civil rights that they are a if he wil --they are a felon and ce participating in voting activity. >> we agree on that. martha: thats...

Bottle. it cant be put back in. the victory in se sae tack has excited folks around the country, has helped build the momentum. we now have campaigns in the city of seattle and chicago and new york for higher city minimum wages, and we have state minimum wage campaigns in roughly a dozen states and a strong federal minimum wage campaign. as you said earlier, people are acutely aware something is deeply wrong with this economy. it actually starts at the bottom and thats where we have to start to ...

The death of public figures is an incredibly important occasion to wrestle with their legacy and the wrong message can be destructive. it tends to establish what the consensus position is, what weve all collectively learned from the persons life. president obamas statement read in part the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty. america has lost a true friend. as a grocers daughter who rose to become prints first female prime minister she stands as an example to our dau...

Margaret thatcher died today at 87 and there is an understandable instinct to be charitable upon someones death. the death of public figures is an incredibly important occasion to wrestle with their legacy and the wrong message can be massively destructive. it tends to establish what the consensus position is, what weve all collectively learned from the persons life. president obamas statement read in part the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty. america has lost a t...