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Analogy, when we came into office we heard a lot of complaints about the financial aid forms that families have to fill out to get federal financial aid. and i actually remember applying for some of that stuff and remember how difficult and confusing it was. and arne duncan at education worked with a team to see what we can do to simplify it and made a big difference. thats part of the process that weve got to go through. in fact, if we can get focus groups and we sit down with actual users and ...

Healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i work at walmart. im a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. theres more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. thats the real walmart. hello, judo fans, i know youre out there. i have seen our focus groups. listen up, rachel maddow show, judo fans, on sunday, the presidents cup is coming to the irving texas convention center. it is a two-day event, there will be 363 judo competitors. despite h...

Hello, judo fans, i know youre out there. i have seen our focus groups. listen up, rachel maddow show, judo fans, on sunday, the presidents cup is coming to the irving texas convention center. it is a two-day event, there will be 363 judo competitors. despite how awesome that sounds, maybe that is not your thing. maybe, specifically, youre into wine. again, look for further than the irving, texas, convention center. because that is also the venue for the 30th annual beaujolais wine convention, t...

Never thinner. he wanted to mix and mingle with the people. that made him very vulnerable. there were only 12 secret service agents in a 12-mine motorcade in dallas that day, passing 200,000 people that crowded into the roads and hundreds of open windows in buildings. this was almost inevitable. as far as the legacy, wolf, i was really amazed at the extent to which john f. kennedy has influenced all nine of his successors. they have all used his words and deeds repeatedly to help him accomplish ...

When that happened for president bush, the katrina problems happened. at the same time the american people gave up on his ability to confidently execute the iraq war. not just opposition to the policy. they gave up on hoist competence to administer the policy in iraq. and the second material for president bush disappeared at that point. there was nothing else he could get done. we reached a pivot. president obama is not there but he is dangerously at that point. if you talk to democrats, i ran i...

And maybe ill ask chris christie about it during the break. they write in the book about the prospect of switching out biden, putting hillary clinton in place. david, you say didnt happen like that? >> i was there. ill tell you exactly what happened. that was the buzz in the political community in the fall of 2011. it was raised that we should take a look and see if that even makes a difference. there were no focus groups, there was no big project. we put a question in a poll where we split the ...

Joe biden for hillary clinton in the last go around. how much loyalty do you think the president has towards joe biden? >> i think hes got quite a bit of loyalty. you know, in the fall of 2011, both i and bill keller, who was the former executive heir of the "new york times," we both wrote columns saying that if obamas numbers did not improve, that joe biden very well could be dumped from the ticket. now, what "double down" -- >> hang on. is that the egg before the chicken or the chicken before ...

Very difficult period politically. >> heres jay carney responding to the report in the book coming out tuesday. >> its important to know that campaigns and pollsters as part of campaigns test a lot of things. what i can tell you without a doubt is that the president never considered that and had anyone brought that idea to him, he would have laughed it out of the room. joe biden has been an asset to this president in two campaigns and throughout five years of this administration. >> well, chris ...

Making himself a moment from the nomination on. it doesnt make any sense. >> is does this make sense? he said, look, the fact is that you -- its like playing war games. you play political games. you put out the theyreeos. is that all this was. what would the matchup like if it were to be obama/clinton. >> see, i dont know if it happened. first of all, the idea of running focus groups and running posts cost money. i dont know whether daly was involved in the campaign. all the people in the campai...

Hillary clinton was ready for it. we had heard rumors through that time that johnson is talking about that oh, maybe the president will replace joe biden with hillary clinton. in fact, i think hillary clinton is probably on the record being asked about it because i have a vague memory -- >> she is. >> the presidents numbers were down. you know, all of that kind of thing and i got to thinking today reading jonathans article about this book that probably one of the happiest people today is hillary...