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Scouting and to have popular culture impact 100 years of their standards is inappropriate. >> but this isnt about a fad or popular culture. scouting membership has dropped 21% since the supreme court upheld the gay ban in 2000. adult membership is down 14%. and there are almost 13% fewer scouting units nationwide. boy scout sponsors know were a center-left nation. people like santorum and perry pretty much by the numbers are out of step. lets turn to michael rogers, gay activist and managing dir...

Universal. its never going to be universal. the criminals arent going to comply with it. they could care less. youre not going to computerize -- youve seen youre got stopgap to computerize the mental health records. so were is what is going to happen. we ought to quit calling it right now universal check. the real title ought to be the check on law-abiding people all over this country. >> al know lapierre fully supported background checks in 1999. >> lets talk what is reasonable and what is not....

>> what has worked very well for scouting and to have popular culture impact 100 years of their standards is inappropriate. >> but this isnt about a fad or popular culture. scouting membership has dropped 21% since the supreme court upheld the gay ban in 2000. adult membership is down 14%. and there are almost 13% fewer scouting units nationwide. boy scout sponsors know were a center-left nation. people like santorum and perry pretty much by the numbers are out of step. lets turn to michael roge...

0 one of the biggest secrets of this administration. its something the administration has been fighting over with newspapers and with congress and with all different sorts of groups suing them who have been trying to contain what mike isikoff has gotten closer than anybody else to naming. and it is happening right in the midst of really big changes happening right now in national security in washington. today in washington, of course, was secretary of state john kerrys first day on the job. he w...

0 even though that was an almost first day priority for president obama. he still says he would like to close guantanamo, just as george w. bush said he wanted to close guantanamo. we have congress to thank for the fact that its still open. congress has blocked the presidents options for closing that offshore prison. but notice also that not a single new terrorism suspect, not a single new prisoner has been added to guantanamo since president obama has been in office. people have left by a numbe...

0 very, very desperate to find someone to run for his now open u.s. senate seat. also today, the president gives a barn burner in minnesota. he says on the political issue where we are supposedly so politically divided that we can never make progress of any kind, he says on that issue specifically, actually, right now we have a national consensus that we can move on. thats all ahead. plus, the political right all at once, all in unison gets very vocally angry with karl rove. poor karl. frank ...

Middle class families earned more in 1996 than today. i mean, its absolutely amazing. the middle class are still asked to share the sacrifice with the cuts to the big three. >> thats right. >> we have to grab this conversation. >> thats exactly right. and, ed, what this is also about, its not only morality and fairness, it is about politics. because what do you think the big money folks are doing? the big corporations who are enjoying record-breaking profits? the wealthiest people doing phenomen...

Interests very well. we never clarified the key questions that i thought needed to be asked. and hillary quite aptly in that clip there, turkey? where are you getting your facts from. from the party standpoint, i get the idea of wanting to drill down on benghazi and all these issues, but were scattered. were all over the place there is no cohesion there is no current message there is no sense of where were leading with the questions we have, which of course gives opportunity for you and others t...

Jobs? >> senator, your thoughts on what policies would reduce this wide gulf of income inequality? >> let me just kick off a very few. i think what almost all economists recognize is that when real unemployment is over 14%, counting those people who have given up looking for work and are working part-time, we need to invest significant sums of money, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure -- roads, bridges, water systems,s that transit, et cetera. second of all, given the threat of global warmi...

>> karen, isnt this a classic example of how something can be made up, and then theyll be called out on it later on when someone really doesnt have any political chips to lose on it. >> it is. but a little bit of history. you may remember, ed, that i worked for former secretary, i guess now we would call her clinton in the white house when she was our first lady. she back then talked about the vast right-wing conspiracy, and a lot of people didnt believe her. not so much of a conspiracy anymore....