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Are some things that they agree on, but theyre not the big things. it just doesnt sound like a year when great big things are going to happen. >> one line basically the president had on gun control, but he did speak enthusiastically about the affordable care act, obamacare. anderson, i know you have a panel of analysts and experts who are anxious to weigh in, as well. >> certainly. lets start with former speaker gingrich. what did you think of this speech tonight? >> i think its a very good spee...

>> to reach that level of yes to the american people that believe that republicans in congress understand what theyre going to and have ana again da to address it, dont you think the republicans need ana again da. >> that addresses the needs of recusing costs to college. now the secretary has ana again da on how he thinks that should be done. i think its fair to say republicans have ana again da. theres a big committee -- >> the holes are the same. >> i want to get to the energy question. >> i j...

Kind of ask robert, because he is still well-sourced when it comes to republicans in the house. i have been asking from the beginning, robert, how long does john boehner want to put up with life like this? his term in the house, we expect him to seek re-election this year. do you really think that come january of 2015 well still be talking about john boehner? is he going to say enough, were going to let somebody else have this job for now? >> speaker boehner was elected first in 1990, represente...

Republicans and clinton cleaned gingrichs clock, but in reality, the republicans won two seat, set the stage for some pretty good things that happened policy wise after that. its not a debacle to shut down the government. heres the point. a majority of people oppose obamacare. whatever poll you look at. why does not the republican party want to embrace that? the republican partys got a problem, right? they havent won elections lately. the majority of american people dont want this. why doesnt th...

Shutdown. and didnt lose that many seats in the house. in addition, because of the shutdown, they were able to set the table for policy that was good, came later. welfare reform that clinton ultimately signed. the government shutdown was not a debacle for the republicans in realty. now, it was on tv the republicans were accused of starving children. do you remember that? little kids in new orleans are writing letters to republicans. please dont cut the school lunch program. i cant study if im hu...

Hes walked away from same sex marriage, lost a little of his credibility on same sex marriage, but will not be the conservative candidate in the primaries. i will say that. >> thats why his electability argument will be very important. the party divides almost exactly in half between what you would call the managerial side, more upscale and affluent and economically focused. the populist side, heavily evangelical. the divide last time was romney was the managerial candidate. they kept looking fo...

>> remember no names, no addresses, just numbers. these are business records, not your personal records. thats very, very different. there hundreds the appellate decisions reaffirming the governments right to get business records in the course of terror investigations. >> its hard for me to believe and lots of americans to believe with whom i talk with the general warrants and orders to collect tens of millions in the conclusion. it doesnt fit the standard. >> lets bring in our monday gaggle. th...

Bill: is that something that the president would have to sign? >> no. bill: already were hearing some give from democrats on the senate side. they talk kind of like the way youre talking frankly. >> the president can veto that but remember, before we have passed sanctions legislation over presidential vetoes. one example i would give you is the sanctions on south africa. if you recall, thats what, by the way, got mandela out of prison. got an election and an end to apartheid regime and got south...

Put it this way, when you look back at the gingrich contract for america and the kind of agenda of the tea party congress, in fact there was actual social policy they wanted to implement, much of it i think terrible, a lot of those things we still live with today, but there was an agenda, and there is no agenda now. >> this is just no, no, no, no. >> this is no, no, this is destruction, destruction, destruction, and that really comes, that transformation comes across beautifully in the piece. ju...

>> i think some of them are. >> you do? >> i do. this is unexplained otherwise. luckily for me ive been around the clinton administration and there wasnt this. >> wasnt there -- >> there was but it was much more folksy and gingrich could laugh and clinton could laugh back and they joked back and forth. it just looks like utter disdain for the president. its ironic, i know well talk about mandela but ill bring it up now. i screened the movie for the president. >> at the white house last week. >> ...