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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 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 f...

Pass something while a bunch of conservative republicans will oppose it, because its raising taxes for one thing. >> the issue of taxes, is this a consequence of really what happens with bush 41? who is recovering in the hospital, by the way, right now and certainly our thoughts are with him. when he broke that pledge, read my lips, no new taxes, that was a real turning point for republic i had dans thought he lost that election because he went back on that pledge and raise taxes. will you get a...

Affects the statewide results. so ive got an idea. why dont we divide it up? so we get a chunk anyway if we lose the cities. >> like michigan, pennsylvania, new york -- at least where you have a large big city and minorities, they like to cut them off. >> the thing is, there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors to the electoral college. every state gets to -- >> why do they -- >> it became the consensus position over time. that winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system,...

Results. >> it would benefit the republicans. a lot of minorities we like to cut them off. there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors. every state gets to set its own rules. >> there must be a rational. >> it became the consensus position over time. winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system, you could make the argument to divide it up by population in every state. that would be fair if you did that in every state, in which case it would reflect the popular vote. but tha...

The fact that philadelphia and pittsburgh, large urban population -- minority populations, they just cant stand that fact that that affects the statewide results. so ive got an idea. why dont we divide it up? so we get a chunk anyway if we lose the cities. >> like michigan, pennsylvania, new york -- at least where you have a large big city and minorities, they like to cut them off. >> the thing is, there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors to the electoral college. every stat...

in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the race for president of the united states is getting more brutal by the day. we begin this hour with mitt romney responding to a firestorm of controversy, surrounding his taxes and his time at bain capital. and hes accusing the obama campaign of stooping to a new low. our national political correspondent jim acosta had a chance on friday to interview romney. it was an excellent interview. >> ...

greenberg are here in the studio to tell us what every politician should be saying right now. and the whole worlds buzzing about a north korea mystery woman. shes always by the side of the new leader there. nobody seems to be saying who she is. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." president obamas been hammering mitt romney for sending u.s. jobs overseas during the years he rain bane capital. this afternoon in colorado romney turned the tables labeling the president as t...

Shaikh mohammed. he is alleged to be one of the masterminds of al qaeda. apprehended in pakistan and transferred to guantanamo partly i think by the bush administration, right? partly as a kind of propaganda ploy. once khalid sheik mohammed was in guantanamo, we just brought him in. when you talk about the politics i want to get back to in a second. guantanamo issue, people forget. this was a consensus position in american politics like so much that consensus fallen apart and like john mccain wa...

There have been a lot of folks in the gay community who have been disappointed with the obama administration. you will have david axelrod on later and definitely want to ask him about this. >> ezra klein, lets bring you in. isnt the white house trying to be too clever if you ask barack obama, as he was asked on the 2008 campaign, do you support gay marriage, he will tell you no, i do not support gay marriage. doesnt seem to me that is threading the needle. it seems to me thats a pretty conservat...

Joining us now, we have simon rosenberg, founder and executive director of the new democratic network and also with us, syndicated columnist tony blankley who served as press secretary for newt gingrich years past. tony, let me begin with you. the speech that we heard from newt gingrich yesterday, first of all, what will he repeal? why would he want to repeal health care when its fundamental premises came from mitt romney and senator mccain? why would do you that? >> neither mitt romney nor sena...