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Members towards a sane deal with the president of the united states and democrats who, by the way, won the election. lets bring in former virginia congressman, tom perriello, now the president and ceo of the center for american progress action fund. tom, good to have you with us tonight. >> always good to be here. >> you bet. have republican leaders boxed themselves in by catering to this fringe element out there that just doesnt want to deal with reality? >> well, i think it is a tough situatio...

Center for american progress action fund. tom, good to have you with us tonight. >> always good to be here. >> you bet. have republican leaders boxed themselves in by catering to this fringe element out there that just doesnt want to deal with reality? >> well, i think it is a tough situation for them. but even more importantly, its a tough situation for the middle class and working class families right now. people are headed into the holiday season and they dont know what their own personal fin...

Center for american progress action fund. tom, good to have you with us tonight. >> always good to be here. >> you bet. have republican leaders boxed themselves in by catering to this fringe element out there that just doesnt want to deal with reality? >> well, i think it is a tough situation for them. but even more importantly, its a tough situation for the middle class and working class families right now. people are headed into the holiday season and they dont know what their own personal fin...

Not -- if he said he didnt know the presidents position on israel i would call it b.s. to say on this particular issue of jerusalem being the capital, i think thats a nuances issue and he may not have known the interest. the answer is president does think jerusalem should be the capital of israel. >> bill: how do you know. >> putting the language back in to reflect the presidents position. >> bill: you believe that what i said before to dick morris that barack obama ordered god and jerusalem put...

Megyn: occupy oaked getting a taste of its own -- occupy oakland found themselves met by a counter protest from dozens of residents and local business people. the occupy crowd who is out protesting what they say were heavy handed police tactics during a january demonstration. but a group of fed up oaklanders say they have had enough. >> this fringe element, they are destroying childrens art in city hall. it makes no sense at all. their message has gotten diffused. i have had the win doze of my d...

Feds, dont give money to cancer research. some are popular with those that want small government and focus on things he has said at least to this former aide. >> ron paul has always attracted this sort of fringe element. first time i met him was 1988 in beverly hills at the home of timothy leery, lsd guru. you have this element of people who follow ron paul. some of them are like anti-drug left. some of them are we want to buy gold coins right. theres just no middle there. i do think that its im...

>> chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. >> abcs john carl in iowa for us tonight. >> well turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. >> this the skeleton in ron pauls closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. >> so you read them but you didnt do anything about it at the time. >> i never read this stuff. >> why did the press take so long to start examining the congressmans sometimes inflamm...

Party, a fringe element that is fueled emotionally by his words because they think this guy hates obama the way they hate obama. >> absolutely. >> and will get in the ring and wont stop punching. and romney as we talked about earlier this morning is a nice guy, is going to keep his hands in his pocket. hes not going to punch obama. they want -- >> one of the best ways i think to understand whats going on is to go look -- newt had a line in his speech about challenging the president to lincoln-do...

I dont know, lincoln talking about what was going on in the civil war below the mason-dixon line. i mean, this is civil war talk about a president of the united states. >> oh, come on, chris, look -- >> look at what he just said. >> look, i can play "hardball" on this as well. >> "big fat stinking lie." >> i dont agree with what he had to say, but to suggest that somehow wayne lapierre is somehow some fringe element, let us not forget that the president of the united states has said about his ow...

Public deception to try to guarantee his re-election in 2012. >> you know, i got to tell you, again, ron, the language, "lie," "conspiracy," its almost like, i dont know, lincoln talking about what was going on in the civil war below the mason-dixon line. i mean, this is civil war talk about a president of the united states. >> oh, come on, chris, look -- >> look at what he just said. >> look, i can play "hardball" on this as well. >> "big fat stinking lie." >> i dont agree with what he had to s...