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Cart before the horse and made reckless charges first and scrambled to justify them later and when he cant, he moves the goal posts. what we saw last week and what were likely to see this week, more of the same from him. >> how could the justice department make the original problem of saying they didnt know about the gun walking program and then they said, we did know about it after all. how does that happen? >> two things, one, the original letter written on february 4th, which has been much di...

Resolving the contempt dispute and instead the committee repeatedly shifted the goal posts in the investigation after failing to find evidence to support its unsubstantiated allegations. >> as many as 80,000 responsive documents, and yet, only about 67 -- 7600 have been turned over, so, who gets to choose what is relevant? and, i think, this is a large part of that offer, is that it is in many ways, a very narrow offer and, some suggest not even a real one. >> reporter: house republican speaker ...

He made that prediction in an interview with "time" magazine. here listen. >> i can tell that you over a period of four years, by vitter virtue of the policies we put in place get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. >> shepard: i would like a pony as well please governor. government economists have been clear under current law their projection today is thawn employment will hit 6% by that point. and governor romney moved the goal posts in just a matter of weeks. he said h...

The country is going in the wrong direction, are they just wrong? they dont understand how much better things have gotten because i think they are looking at their paychecks. they are looking at future debt levels on their children, debt burden on their children and theyre worried. i dont think this is a political issue really. i know its a political year. people are really freaking out about how were going to be able to pay off this debt in the future. and thats a metric that i think that the p...

The country is going in the wrong direction, are they just wrong? they dont understand how much better things have gotten because i think they are looking at their paychecks. they are looking at future debt levels on their children, debt burden on their children and theyre worried. i dont think this is a political issue really. i know its a political year. people are really freaking out about how were going to be able to pay off this debt in the future. and thats a metric that i think that the p...

The country is going in the wrong direction, are they just wrong? they dont understand how much better things have gotten because i think they are looking at their paychecks. they are looking at future debt levels on their children, debt burden on their children and theyre worried. i dont think this is a political issue really. i know its a political year. people are really freaking out about how were going to be able to pay off this debt in the future. and thats a metric that i think that the p...

These are the central issues that this country is facing right now. its amazing to me that president clinton disagrees this much with the sitting president. >> well, the president of the united states sat down across from the speaker of the house and they were on the verge according to some of some sort of a grand bargain but at the end, the president changed the terms, moved the goal posts and mr. boehner could not go along with it. so when it comes to the really big problems facing the country...

To the conclusion weve come to. its not that the democratic party consists of angels, but the republican party. >> i think even the democrats would agree with you. thomas, democrats under the presidents of clinton and obama by contrast have become the sent tryst protectors of the government willing to trim retirement and health benefits in order tord maintain the governments commitments in the face of global economic challenges. not something a lot of republicans credit the democrats with doing ...

world over its support for israel in its conflicts over palestine. the palestinian conflict has dominated 70% of israels existence as a nation, and its the reason given for animosity in the arab world against america. but that conflict could be coming to an end if you believe what israeli prime manager benjamin netanyahu told me this week. >> i think theres one other thing. i think that i could deliver a peace agreement. i could get the israeli people to follow me, if i believed that i...

but that conflict could be coming to an end if you believe what israeli prime manager benjamin netanyahu told me this week. >> i think theres one other thing. i think that i could deliver a peace agreement. i could get the israeli people to follow me, if i believed that i have a serious partner on the other side willing to make the necessary compromises on the palestinian side. >> would you accept their belief, though, that they should have a country which is contiguous? >> yes. >> not...