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Many of these cross currents. but the safe bet is usually 5-4 with anthony kennedy deciding the outcome. i guess if i had to predict thats what id say. >> youre always right about these things. thank you all for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks. the battle for congress has take an new turn. new polls show republicans are now in the lead among registered voters. so is the obama care debacle to blame? thats next. also ahead, why was president obama meeting with steve martin? and more impor...

President obama didnt know the health care website was a mess until after it launched and that he didnt know the u.s. was spying on leaders like the german chancellor. is "i dont know" an acceptable answer for a u.s. president. >> it is not a consistent pog. i think you have two cross currents here. i think cabinet officers and white house officials are expected to taken a assume full responsibility as andy noted and take criticism and heat. perhaps sometimes when it is not fully justified. i th...

But we all have challenges. >> youre juggling after all. >> what conclusions do you draw being the president of a womens college and having really explored all of the cross currents that we all experience? >> i think one of the central conclusions of the book is that a phrase "having it all" is just a really bad phrase and a really bad idea. if we set out the expectation that we should be doing it all, by definition were all going to be failing all the time. so we need to move the bar here so th...

Domestically, we need to worry not only about the oil price but also about the fact that our congress now is going to be discussing syria, and is going to divert attention from two debt differentials it must handle, how to keep the government functioning and the debt debacle, and the unemployment numbers suggests last week while the economy is healing its healing in a gradual fashion. what investors have to wreck nice is foreign policies will also trump economic issues and in your own investment...

Republicans and who may eventually support the president in the end, "huffington post" and others have noted sheldon adelson, a man we talked so much about during the general election, adelson and other gop donors, powerful folks are now backing syrias strike resolution and pressing some members of congress, republicans, to do the same. >> we have seen republican hawks who have joined the president, including folks who normally wouldnt support the president, including someone like freshman congr...

Billion dollars right out of consumers pockets, at a time when you dont really have a driver in the world of economic growth. so thats what the big concern is for the whole world, about an economy that is maybe fragile right now for some sort of broader con flick and higher energy prices. but were watching the energy part of this story very closely. also watching gold. it went up. just about every kind of market is moving in some way to the cross currents of what were seeing as the situation unf...

What is at stake for the republicans in this effort? its really a states issue now in many cases more than national. >> two pressures the one hand, recognition after 2012 republican party did help itself by talking about issues. the other pressure this is what the base wants. when republicans had control of one branch of government controlled the house of representatives they want to have votes on this. thats what matters to constituents and base. they are caught in this interesting two cross cu...

Rights, clearly the case of african-american rights in this country and in the doma, specific context, let states do what they do. in a lot of states like new york that could be good for gay marriage. >> so for example, is justice kennedy were to say that the defense of marriage act is unconstitutional, because states have the right to define marriage, including same-sex cups, that might lead him to say that california has the right to say the opposite under proposition 8 or the voting rights ac...

Are we able to look and as poem who follow politics understand the cross-currents. look at how the republican party moved from the elder bush to a much different frame in the younger bush and how its now moved away from the younger bush. its just striking, all of these philosophical differences, ideological differences. a lot of raw emotion because of decisions about war and interrogation of prisoners and all the rest all captured on that state. >> here he comes. well hear an amazing half hour n...

Going on in a meeting like that. >> kasie hunt, the president is taking a lot of heat from some democrats about putting chained cpi as a possibility within a larger agreement that would include revenues. is there any word from the white house that they may start to contemplate having dinners with democratic members of congress to keep them from going too far on that issue and keep the discussion going? >> there are some democrats who have expressed an interest in having -- hearing more from the ...