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Him. they have until friday to make their decision but may vote whether to indoers him to tonight. the man he may replace, house speaker john boehner says he thinks ryan will get the support he needs. >> i think paul ryan would make a great speaker but this decision is up to the members. i think paul is going to get the support that he is looking for that he laid out a very clear vision of how he would run the speakership and i thought the members responded well to him. >> joining me now are rep...

Himself. >> for me, its like performance art, you know? i sometimes watch it and actually we can get done shooting on a day and ill come home and turn on the news and ill think, our story lines are not that crazy, theyre really not. thats your morning dish of scrambled politics. joining me is david nakamura. dana millbank said as he wrote in an op ed piece. he brought up senate republicans who could face tough primaries coming up this year, what they had to give up in order to get the payments...

Favorable, very limited, very small. but is the president reaching out to the larger media? no. >> well, then you have front page analysis in the "new york times" where the buck stops, some see a bystander and even dana millback wants obama to know when did he know it? answer, not much and about a minute ago. and its hard, just to briefly touch on this, the nsa spying, i thought maybe the president was engaging in plausible deniability. but for him to say he didnt know foreign allies were having...

Favorable, very limited, very small. but is the president reaching out to the larger media? no. >> well, then you have front page analysis in the "new york times" where the buck stops, some see a bystander and even dana millback wants obama to know when did he know it? answer, not much and about a minute ago. and its hard, just to briefly touch on this, the nsa spying, i thought maybe the president was engaging in plausible deniability. but for him to say he didnt know foreign allies were having...

Government has not been as active. robert gibbs had his assertion on the andrea mitchell show that he thought the president should have been more upfront. let me read what dana millback had to say. he called it the you disinterested president. president passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. late monday he responds as if he was a bloke on a bar stool getting his information from the evening news. jon stewart played a couple of clips as well of the president saying he ...

When you hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell say we recognize there needs to be new revenues in the deal, thats big. >> very briefly, dana, does grover norquist though still frighten some members of the house? >> oh, he frightens a whole lot of them. thats the thing. theres two-thirds, three-quarters, maybe more of that caucus are the conservative republicans, and jared is right. the problem isnt grover norquist per se. hes an entertaining, happy warrior. the problem is there are people who ar...

And i wouldnt want to go 300 times or so in a political career. thats the center, the nerve center of the country. its middle america. >> all guns ablaze in there, right? >> absolutely. to bring in bruce springsteen now is not a big deal, in my opinion. is he a closer? yes. will he bring more people? yes. he sort of comes across all ages groups. anyone from the baby boomers down. if springsteen were in town, id go see him regardless of who we were campaigning for just because its bruce springste...

Today with "washington post" political columnist dana millback. >> hi, s.e. >> hi. lets start with with the pugh poll. it puts hit ahead likely voters and registered voters and hes made big gains among women voters and middle class voters. is it about one debate night? >> its time for obama to panic. we did this a couple of weeks ago when the polls were the other way, and then it was time for romney to panic. its probably not time for anybody to panic. this race is now what it was weeks ago, mon...

Distractions and bologna. >> yes, bologna. mitt romney has been serving a full blt of the stuff, big lies toasted, on welfare, medicare and defense cuts. claims that are refuted as often as they are repeated. joining us now from charlotte, site of the democratic convention, eugene robinson and dana millback, both esteemed columnists for "the washington pos post". one properly atired in a jacket, the other slightly more casual. we accept both. >> we didnt think youd notice. >> we notice everythin...

That looked very much like an earmark to make sure this engine at the pentagon said it does not want for the new joint strike fighter, makes sure that continues to be built. he actually lost that battle today. >> dana, one more quick question. i want to talk about the-35 at the end of the show. i thought that was really interesting. but is there a price to be paid here? are the republican voters waking up today and going when are they ever going to do anything about jobs? or have they not gotten...