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>> thats true. they find their cameras even in recess. >> i do think that is certainly part of it. and lets face it. theyre just on different sides of the issue. i think there are obviously great regional differences in terms of how people view guns. the sort of anti-crime argument that might work in illinois or new york probably doesnt play in north dakota. the murder rate in north dakota is 11 per year. >> arent we seeing in polls, for example, in south carolina, places that you might believe ...

For cheating on your husband or wife if youre in the military. even though the cia acts like its the military, it doesnt play by the same rules. in the cia its not illegal to have an affair. you can have one without going to jail, but honestly, the cia rules might take all the fun out of if. if you want to have an affair without getting fired for it, you have to tell your boss that youre doing it and you have to tell your spouse, which probably makes it less of an affair and more just the thing ...

Its the military, it doesnt play by the same rules. in the cia its not illegal to have an affair. you can have one without going to jail, but honestly, the cia rules might take all the fun out of if. if you want to have an affair without getting fired for it, you have to tell your boss that youre doing it and you have to tell your spouse, which probably makes it less of an affair and more just the thing that happens right before you get divorced. even with the rules, you cant have an affair with...

Even though the cia acts like its the military, it doesnt play by the same rules. in the cia its not illegal to have an affair. you can have one without going to jail, but honestly, the cia rules might take all the fun out of if. if you want to have an affair without getting fired for it, you have to tell your boss that youre doing it and you have to tell your spouse, which probably makes it less of an affair and more just the thing that happens right before you get divorced. even with the rules...

Debating. congressman ryan or mr. ryan or -- >> didnt they rule out congressman ryan for the moderator? >> yeah. >> requested that the moderator refer to him as mr. -- >> for the moderator. >> the moderator. >> doesnt play by the same rule that martha -- >> and you spent a lot of time discussing what youre going to call the other person, what that conveys. i sort of wondered if did they really come up with joe youre going to go out and refer to him as my friend? i dont think so. i think this was...

Court justice, actually. which i think was an interesting thing to hear. >> do you think the romney camp would pick a woman? or do you think that doesnt play in here. >> i dont know that theyd be opposed to picking a woman. i think theyre not going to be big risk takers after what happened four years ago and there arent that many vetted republican women who have been through the wringer a few times who i think would be obvious choices and not present a risk. >> i hear they are vetting incredibly...

Security matters. when economy times are good it doesnt play as big a role. right now americans are concerned not just about the state of the economy today, but about, are we ever going to get out of it? has something gone fundamentally wrong in america? they look at housing prices, trillion dollar deficits and there is a growing concern that something has gone fundamentally wrong and that america cant turn it around, and that is what is driving the intensity of this election. jenna: so interest...

Second-guessing, the armchair quarterback stuff, the arab spring, bin laden, the winding down of iraq, actually the stabilization in afghanistan, none of these things are resolved. they never are. but seriously, you could not get a better year in foreign policy. >> its pretty remarkable that he could be running for re-election on a better foreign policy record than economic record. and yeah you cant, bin laden is an accomplishment that obviously cant be downplayed. we are out of iraq. we might b...

Way. >> of course. >> thats why it doesnt play. the other thing is, i just offer two history lessons for this christmas. one, ive been reading a book about the christmas of 1941 which is right after pearl harbor and what was going on at the white house, winston churchill had come here. you talk about problems, you talk about a challenge, the world was at war. hitler had eaten up most of europe at that point. the japanese were amok in the pacific. we didnt have a military that was prepared, reall...

Me at every step. to a lot of independent and moderates that sounds good like things are bad, but i could have done a much worse job. also, you know, i think this narrative of the class warfare, you know, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer it pits america against each other and it is frankly un-american. i dont think its -- >> the problem with it, kathleen, is its true. if the facts are the facts, i mean, separate what you call it. what slogans you use. the fact of the m...