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Countries like russia, but were very inwardly focused. >> it is, the more connected we are around the world, we know more about whats going on, yet well be in this era, well look at the post-iraq era is an era of america turning inward. >> well, america works on long trends, and weve always had these periods where we get very involved in international, and americans say thats it, im exhausted, im tired. and this is a challenge for the american president, both in syria last august in 2013, and no...

this is "the daily rundown." chuck todd. lets get to my "first reads" of the morning. i feel like weve had the first game of the nfl season, the midterms if you want to call it, after last nights special election. republican david jolly narrowly won a special election in floridas 13th district. it gives republicans a big victory and puts up a red flag for democrats hoping a strong candidate and campaign can overcome a difficult national environment. jolly beat democrat alex sink by jus...

The economy has to do with your own personal perceptions of how the economy is working for you. and our poll shows its not working for most people and the family. its not working for the middle class. thats an important part of the psyche around how the economy is working. you can see that the words that were being used to describe the direction of the country were very negative. and as you said, even consumer confidence is at an -- at least in the last four years, at an high. the disconnect is ...

Its a dramatic turnaround since then year-to-year. today, the jobless rate is down a full percent. inflation is down, and the dow has climbed more than 2,500 points, and the latest consumer confidence number has soared from 58% to 80%, and yet with all of that, the publics view of america and the economy is the same or worse than it was 12 months ago. our latest poll finds 71% of the people still dissatisfied with the economy, essentially unchanged, and now 63% say america is off on the wrong tr...

Happened over the last four years in terms of our deficit. >> fred, another part of the poll thats interesting, were able to look republican distric those that live in democratic congressional districts. a few things where theres not surprising diversion, right, in republican districts, the presidents rating is 62%, and 56% when it comes to direction of the country. health care law, 56% say its a bad idea, democrat districts, 52%. thats not surprising. heres where they do agree. they have a nega...

0 offers a morning television trifecta with notable nuggets, but not about the speech. well share them. a new york congressman is trying to explain his "grim" proposal to a reporter last nye. plus a severe southern storm forces hundreds of kids to spend the night in school. good morning from washington, january 29, 2014. this is the "the daily rundown." the post-state of the union wednesday. its a busy day. so lets get to my "first reads." for some, president obamas speech was a symbol of sc...

Obamacare, because we have seen so many republicans, and i just talked about eric cantor, who are definitely going to focus on obamacare, the negative, what they see as the negative aspects of obamacare. pollster fred yang said its probably fair to say has goes health care, so goes the obama presidency for the next year. do you agree with that? >> im not sure i agree with that. kids can stay on their parents health care until 26, many people are able to afford it now, and if you have a pre-exist...

Saber rattling. republicans saying they want to extract something. president obama saying hes not going negotiate. ramesh, what do you anticipate well see here? will we get to the brink again with another debt ceiling battle? >> you know, its hard to say. i think there will abe split on the republican side and it may end up being the fiercest fight is within the republican party because there are going to be a large number of republicans who dont want to go along this read and other republican r...

Theres a case pending in nevada where a judge has reached the opposite conclusion that the constitution does not compel same-sex marriage and its only a matter of time before the issue does get to the u.s. supreme court. it declined to weigh into the question last year and it will come back before the supreme court at some point and the only question is when, and i would think the justices are not eager to have this case back before them. theyd like to lay it play out among the lower courts firs...

Might take it on in a piecemeal way. democrats saying they want to see a broad bill passed through both chambers. ramesh, do you think there is a broad bill getting done like the one we saw passed for the senate? >> i think it does to a significant degree depend on what speaker boehner wants to do. he would have to know that moving such a bill would be pretty much a career ender for him, but the interesting thing about these priorities and this discussion in washington is how little it has to do...