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Campaign when donald trump would have good debate nights and the republican keyboards would appear to go off the rails and put the party in all sorts of crazy positions, a lot of democrats, the trump campaign and the republicans today sound like the democrats four years ago and guess what, trumps president. >> well, but that assumes there is a donald trump in the democratic field who can kind of defy all of the norms and traditions and metrics and the way we consider. >> do you think there is a ...

And we were being manipulated by the oil producing countries. and he felt that the way to do that was to lower the dependence. >> many of these proposals will be unpopular. some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices. >> but congress balked at many of his proposals, even though his own party was in the majority. >> carter did not have allies, he did not even have allies within his own democratic party. >> lets talk about the democratic party of your presidency. you c...

Country will face during our lifetime. >> there was a shortage of oil. and we were being manipulated by the oil producing countries. and he felt that the way to do that was to lower the dependence. >> many of these proposals will be unpopular. some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices. >> but congress balked at many of his proposals, even though his own party was in the majority. >> carter did not have allies, he did not even have allies within his own democratic p...

Actually score points which could help him in the next couple weeks if he follows that path. not sure if he will. >> imagine talking whos going to govern once in there? just going to be -- this country is so divided right now, and neither of the candidates seems to have, be talking about how they would unite people. >> seems to be the thing today, though, i have to say. ive been asking the question, you brought it up. the idea hillary clinton needs to make an affirmative message for why she want...

Attached to dollars and cents. thats what governor mcauliffe did. >> so at this point, its sort of an open question whether the governors line item will stand. but youre writing about another option that governor mcauliffe has in this situation, a possible public/private partnership to go forward with medicaid expansion. you say the governor could turn directly to the marketplace, invoking a republican-authored law in return for big profits operates a public program. thats how we got commuter ex...

Its pretty hard to dislodge these people. theyre strongly in the base of the right wing party that doesnt want to hear about it. >> ive talked to some aides who are close to some republicans who voted no on this and they said they know how bad it looks. not necessarily something they want to do, but they say the reality has become the united states senate, the way this works now is that a vote like this is simply a vote for gun control. it doesnt matter. you cant -- >> right. >> the constituency...

This is simply a vote for gun control. it doesnt matter. you cant -- >> right. >> the constituency groups that you have to court to win your renomination, there is no more -- used to be able to -- this used to be procedural, we didnt pay attention. all this stuff gets -- >> boy is that tough. >> this is whats wrong. you want to know whats wrong in the united states senate? whats wrong in the united states senate, the idea a cloture vote, im sorry im using the term. >> i know what you know. >> th...

>> where is -- >> the economy is pretty good compared to the united states, but there are a lot of people who are concerned about the cost of living, how the -- the cost of housing is very high, the cost of electricity. other elements of daily life very high. also concern about sharing the burden. ultra orthodox -- members of the ultra orthodox community dont serve in the army and dont really particinate the economy. thats something thats a unique issue for israel. not relevant to the united sta...

Openly like sean hannity about comprehensive immigration reform. republicans were buking mitt romney over his explanation of defeat saying obama showered gifts on constituency groups. i think thats more than rhetorical. that might be a recognition on the part of republicans that that kind of language has defined their he policies too much for the last four years. well see if theres a shift there. i think the ground has changed a lot in the last ten days. >> well, im, you know, here in d.c. guys ...

More morell, the acting director of the cia. is your beef with the cia and not susan rice? >> if thats the information that she got, the question is, who did she get it from? was it changed from the time from are either mike morell got it or somebody else? were going to get to the bottom of this. i think thats a clearly important topic for the intelligence committee to look at. my belief is, our chairman, dianne feinstein, is as eager to get to the bottom of this as any republican on that commit...