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About, are actually really in step with the presidents approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, lets talk about the progressive community because on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as this is all washington talks about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could argue that, in terms of th...

Presidents approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, lets talk about the progressive community. because, on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as, this is all washington talks abou about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could argue that, in terms of the goalposts, were arguing in and aro...

These states were talking about, are actually really in step with the presidents approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, lets talk about the progressive community because on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as this is all washington talks about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could ...

This iconic moment in movie history would not have been possible without the woman the papers called "baseball an" one of the first noteworthy sports stalkers, one of the first to put the fan in fanatic. >> would you come watch me play some time? >> oh, roy, you are priceless. >> reporter: she w played by barbara hershey in "the natural" starring robert redford as the object of her fixation. her story was once splashed across the tabloids, but her recent death was a mere blip on the news radar. ...

Is one who wants to starve the possibility of an empathetic, engaged government in the lives of the most vulnerable people in this country. i do come back to what ari said. because even with all due respect to ezra, youre hearing paul ryan who is cruel and clueless and this is a la la land fantasy, budget proposal being treated seriously by someone like ezra klein, who is treated seriously inside the belt way. for too long in these last years, inside the beltway has had a fixation, an obsession ...

But number two, i think the approach here needs to be one where we do what were not expected to do, and the first card we always play is cutting those programs that are going to impact people most directly, whether its seniors, whether its children, and that taints the narrative from the beginning. lets go and see that budget go into the defense department, go into those areas that are typically off limits for a lot of republicans, but republicans will admit quietly we can make those cuts, numbe...

Workforces in the world. there are strong centers of p power in that building. none of that has been litigated at all. i know they talked to al jazeera once. do i care if he is running the pentagon, as far as i can tell no one has done much in congress to sort that out. >>. >> that is not the person who takes the orders from the white house or decides what our relationship is with a foreign country. that is what they made the hearing about. even their fixation about benghazi is located in state.

Decides what our relationship is with any other foreign country. those issues belong in other jobs. thats what they made the whole hearing about. >> no, absolutely. and even their fixation on benghazi is located in state. they went after hillary clinton -- >> 100%. >> that has nothing to do with this job either. at the end of the day i started out says, confirm chuck hagel. he was an enlisted man, fought in vietnam. im saying, i dont know why i support him because it hasnt been about him at all....

Here, senior political writer for "politico," jonathan martin. jonathan, you have a piece this morning on how the president is facing criticism from democrats on the hill for not engaging them. so what have you found? >> sure. its mostly on the senate side. my colleague, manny, and i spend a lot of time talking to senate democrats. what you hear is the rank-and-file democrats in the senate say that they just have not heard that much from the president over the last four years, and theyre hoping ...

Principles. we must be willing to provide details in describing our views. >> reporter: it boils down in short that republicans are arguing that conservative principles need to be better articulated and advocated. one of the ways they do that is what a lot of people think are hostile rhetoric, focusing what conservatism can do to advance the country. jindal made the point of washington is obsessed with zeros. too much fixation on the budget and deficit. that is an important thing to be dealt wit...