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Fundamental essence of the bill and it was an unexpected and significant setback. specter, arlen specter called the white house proposed changes totally unacceptable and they would gut meaningful judicial review. the point of this is, three, four years ago when the prous was presented with a strong bill, they pushed back. >> given their outrageous behavior in the a.p. case and the fox news case, and given their pitiful responses since then, theres no reason to think that the media shield law is ...

$563 in tax hikes for wealthy americans and $78 billion in new cigarette taxes. exciting new twist the president has managed to annoy both the right and left with this plan. im here to talk about it with jessica yellin, nancy cook from the national journey and jim from "the washington post". jessica. heres the big question. >> read it. >> i know. because you took the evelyn wood speed reading course. the aarp and progressive groups are mad about the changes, the adjustments, the cuts to social s...

Because youve been far too naughty! >> white house congressional aides got an earful from democrats on the hill yesterday about this so-called chained cpi which would reduce benefits for some social security recipients. oregon senator jeff merckley called it a fantasy. arizona congressman raul g. rijalva said it is a beltway figure leaf that i will never support. pelosis line in the sand was on raising the age on medicare eligibility. thats something she couldnt help do so thats what she took of...

Time. you had eight years of an administration that really gave up on trying to play the arbiter role, at which point the figure leaf kind of came away. the administration did a great job actually tactically, playing both of those roles in a way that they hadnt done at all during the first term, sending the secretary of state out to be the arbiter while the president could give the defender of israel speeches like that thats a tactical solution that doesnt get anywhere near the long-term structu...

Allow abortion for rape victims, even though thats plainly in contradiction from their previous stances. >> and they dont believe it. they would never enforce it. its the same thing as when romney said, rush limbaugh had a bad choice of words. >> i wouldnt have said slut. >> i wouldnt have said slut. its a figure leaf that they hope will, you know, fool these mythical i think largely, independents that are so easily fooled. i dont think people are so easily fooled. i dont think theyre fooling re...

>> i wouldnt have said slut. >> i wouldnt have said slut. its a figure leaf that they hope will, you know, fool these mythical i think largely, independents that are so easily fooled. i dont think people are so easily fooled. i dont think theyre fooling republicans, democrats, independents, or anybody. its a desperate attempt to put this back on the back on the eve of the republican convention. >> where the fight is going to happen. they havent finalized their platform. bob mcdonnell is in charg...

Government chose to break new ground here by establishing a religious exemption so narrow that practically no one qualifies for it. the exemption is for institutions that serve and hire mainly their own coreligionists. that would of course exclude all the organizations, practically all of the organizations who for religious reasons feel obliged to serve everyone on basis of faith, not of creed. jenna: some critics suggest that the administration, critics of your point of view say the administrat...

prospects in 2016. how could she best position herself now for a possible presidential bid then? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." s. a turning point in the race for the white house. the obama campaign is now going directly on the attack against the republican presidential candidates. they are naming names, and fighting back after months of largely turning the other cheek. but its not the president taking on his gov challengers. that task is now falling to the vice pres...

Jon: republicans are slamming the presidents compromise on birth control coverage requirements for religious employers. president obama proposes to shift the burden to insurance providers, a move the head of the house budget committee dismisses as an accounting gimmick. >> to paraphrase the bishops letter, this thing is a distins twout a difference, its an accounting gimmick or a figure leaf. its not a compromise. the president has doubled down. its a real teachable moment for america in two way...

Now they have a figure leaf 2458d make eve blush as a result of this issue. >> you mean a minuscule -- i get the metaphor. lets start with the republican party, how its coming apart. this is a strange republican party. it is a party run by a majority of tea party freshmen, redhots, if you will. they dont like government, dont like washington, dont like takeses, its the no-deal party. then led by the old bulls like boehner, upstop and people like that, hanging on their jobs as holdovers, leftover...