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>> . >> reporter: well, because by and large, and this is true on both sides of the ideological divide, believe that its sort of a last resort for the unelected, unaccountable supreme court to preempt the democratic branches of government. by and large, they want to let the democratic processes go forward. and they only want to step in if there is absolutely no doubt that a law violates the constitution. so that rhetoric of sort of letting the democratic process go forward is something you hear ...

About unelected officials. these officials, these justices, were appointed by presidents who were appointed. and that means the american people indirectly did vote for these people because they voted for a president that they knew had a certain political leanings. and those leanings helped influence who they picked to be justices. >> no, no, thats just a misunderstanding of the role of the justices. they are inherently there to stand in the way of the can democratic process. they are inherently ...

Ha do you think arizona was trying to do? >> i think fundamentally basically its trying to claim that theres voter fraud where there isnt. this is a law in search of a problem that doesnt exist. this has been done by numerous nonpartisan groups. what we find is that in the time when we should be modernizing our election system. when we should be inclusive of individuals to participate in the democratic process, a law like arizona hinders participation. what i mean by that is if youre a young per...

Thats a process and those are things that the body will have to buy into ultimately. i think at the end of the day, though, you know, you can have a shortened process. but thats all going to be generated by the number of candidates who are in the primary. whether or not they want to have more debates, its going to be up to them. the networks and the cable stations going to come to them to put on these debates. as we saw in 2012. they will accept or not accept the idea of moving the convention up...

Least a year before iran is closing that window of vulnerability. the danger point, the red zone. israel has a very different sense of where the red doan starts and when. >> i think when you look at what the president said, he said a year from iran making a decision to pursue, to break out, they could have a bomb. thats a complicated process that involves enrichment, weaponization, a number of processes to get them to a place where they could deliver a nuclear payload. the u.s. and israel have t...

It. thats not what the american people voted for. john boehner says hes willing to stick around town to get a deal done? >> ill be here and ill be available at any moment to sit down with the president, to get serious about solving this problem. >> but president obama says john boehners presence is not the solution, its the problem. >> the holdup right now is that speaker boehner took a position, you think the day after the campaign, that said, were willing to bring in revenue, but were not will...

People voted for. john boehner says hes willing to stick around town to get a deal done? >> ill be here and ill be available at any moment to sit down with the president, to get serious about solving this problem. >> but president obama says john boehners presence is not the solution, its the problem. >> the holdup right now is that speaker boehner took a position, you think the day after the campaign, that said, were willing to bring in revenue, but were not willing to increase rates. and ive j...

Constitution. morsi has set a december 15th date for a vote on the document. joining me is joel rubin, director of policy and government. good to see you again. were going to begin with egypt. one of your areas of expertise. is there anything in the new constitution that should concern the u.s.? >> well, the united states has major interests with e egypt. the security is a corner stone with our relationship with the arab world. we have to worry about the evolution of their democracy right now. t...

Transparency. you cant because its an intelligence community. they cant tell you everything. stop making it a scandal when you begin with the idea its a scandal and then were going to fill in backwards the details. >> the crime of watergate was much bigger than a mere burglary as you know. it was about richard nixons attempt to rig an election and subvert the democratic process itself. are these guys such fanatics that theyve forgotten the basic facts of their own countrys history? >> yes. >> th...

So were at.58%. >> these are early votes. youre head then, they redid them and we made a 4,000 vote mistake? 4,000? >> were ahead by about 1800, 2000 votes, then it swung to the other side and all of a sudden he was ahead at 1:00 in the morning. were asking for -- first there are many irregularities with the actual amount of bas counted. there are instances where polls were locked and also, walker announced on saturday, that she would do a full recount of the early votes sunday but came back and...