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Not to wait. the good news is that we are starting to see a ken census abouts action congress needs to take. the vast majority of americans, including a majority of gun owners support requiring criminal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. [cheers and applause] so right now democrats and republicans in the senate are working on a bill that would ban anyone from selling a gun to somebody legally prohibited from owning one. thats common sense. there is no reason why we cant get that d...

Union told us he had no idea how many walmart workers were actually going the join the picket line today. walmart, of course, has projected the kind of confidence youd expect from a company that logged nearly half a trillion in net sale last fiscal year. theyve said they have 1.4 million u.s. employees, more than a million of them they expect to stay on the job for this heavy shopping season. why dont we see if we can get closer to the protesters and maybe talk to one or two of them. you can see...

>> yeah. i mean, i think she does. look, this was -- the administration will tell you that this was something of a tryout for susan rice as a potential secretary of state nominee. and if thats the case, she failed in the tryout. she has an obligation to go and make sure that the information shes presenting to the american public is as true as can be. and we also have to go back and look at how these talking points that she relied on came to be. i mean, why was it that james clapper, to choose ju...

As liberals have been happy to point out were originally a key idea -- a conservative idea, but that idea is quite different from the one expressed by obamacare. the original idea was to save consumers money through choice and competition, obamacare does the opposite, creating a tangle of mandates and taxes. what say you? >> certainly better competition for health insurance is a good idea. that was the original vision of exchanges. unfortunately, in massachusetts and now with the federal law the...

Months ago. we have basically the same makeup in government. obama controls the white house, we control the house, democrats controls the senate. but guess what? the american people dont expect a status quo in governance. gregg: theres a recent rasmussen poll and, juan, i want you to take a look as well, 57% agree that raising taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year is a good idea. can you put that up on the screen, if you would, the poll? 35% disagree, so almost 60% now think the presid...

American enterprise institute who wrote an op-ed for "the new york times" making the conservative case for obamacare. welcome to the show, j.d. >> thank you. good to be here. >> you write in your op-ed, quote, the architecture is based on conservative, not liberal ideas about individual responsibility and the power of market forces. the mandate is about personal responsibility, a hallmark of conservative thought. so why are conservatives against a conservative idea? help me make sense of this. i...

That doesnt mean that you cant shop for health insurance in other states as well. but again, have that debate. engage in that debate. mitt romney just hasnt seemed to be able to stay with it. in fact, joe, he hasnt seemed to be able to stay with any message consistently. and i think thats whats killing him right now and why hes not breaking through to swing voters. >> well, you know, a couple of weeks ago i wrote that its hard to debate effectively when youre biting your tongue and swallowing yo...

>> this is a time of choice for the american people. our mission is clear. if we want to get rid of obama care, were going to have to replace president obama. >> this change of heart on health care surprises jonathan gruber, the m.i.t. economist who worked with governor romney on that health care reform bill. romney even gave gruber an inscribed picture of the bill signing. >> there is no explanation but pure partisan politics for this. theres none because look at it, this was a conservative ide...

Care, were going to have to replace president obama. >> this change of heart on health care surprises jonathan gruber, the m.i.t. economist who worked with governor romney on that health care reform bill. romney even gave gruber an inscribed picture of the bill signing. >> there is no explanation but pure partisan politics for this. theres none because look at it, this was a conservative idea. its only because the democratic president endorsed and passed it that now its the devils work. there is...

Care, were going to have to replace president obama. >> this change of heart on health care surprises jonathan gruber, the m.i.t. economist who worked with governor romney on that health care reform bill. romney even gave gruber an inscribed picture of the bill signing. >> there is no explanation but pure partisan politics for this. theres none because look at it, this was a conservative idea. its only because the democratic president endorsed and passed it that now its the devils work. there is...