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As he hammers republicans over looming budget cuts. today it is radio day, the president taping interviews with al sharpton, joe madison and yolanda adams, all hosts of shows with predominantly african-american audiences. yesterday it was interviews at the white house with reporters from eight local television stations. a white house reporter for real clear politics grumbling she is feeling like a seagull these days feeding off of crumbs. jonah goldberg is editor at large for the national review...

American public and sell these policies. now, everybody thinks, oh, he is going to put pressure on republicans, and he will. there are lots of democrats that dont love the idea of this kind of end run that he is going to kind of bypass congress and use the american people to leverage congress. theres lots of democrats who that sentiment doesnt sit all that well with, and kelly is right. look, this is an straix. its not unique. its an administration that theres been plenty of grumbling about that...

Vote and i think he made the point, you know, he wanted womens health issues and equality in pay and same time with the departure of hillary clinton, you are looking at a national security cabinet all men and there is concern. the president to be fair to him, was in favor of susan rice it looked like. didnt work out. now you have a treasury secretary announced soon, probably jack lu and replaced by a male candidate, as well. i have heard and did write about this today. there is some frustration ...

Because theyre so much larger than us, were not able to lift them up like a normal patient and move them around. get enough guys back there to get the weight up. that horse will roll up like this, we can slide her out. >> for the moment, sharons okay. but being a true horse lover, shes not worried about herself. >> i was very concerned about twister. i just didnt want anything to happen to her. i heard a little grumbling that they might have to put the horse down. i said dont. just dont. take ca...

How different are they from democrats in the house and senate who still retain a majority? do you see -- you obviously wrote an outstanding book about bill clinton and how he used the democratic congress to sort of position himself in the middle and them on the left. do we expect something like that, obama, the deal maker, obama the praying mattist, to use democrats in the congress in that way, or not? >> i dont see their incentives as being that much different. i do think that president obama, ...

Harry reed trying to get something passed. so theres a lot of moving parts. this is not a really easy road ever. so far, things are not overly optimistic, there was a touch of optimism yesterday and this morning but it went away this afternoon. >> what happened? >> who knows. >> what happened between yesterday afternoon and evening when everyone sounded like this thing may happen and now? >> what happens is they go in a room and start going back forth with each other and realize that they have n...

He has to give his caucus a chance to get on the record and vote for an alternative before doing something else. the question is going to be when it comes time to do something else and we are running out of time, whether he will bring along enough republicans to make a majority for it. >> seems like there is a question about whether he will bring along the 218 he needs tomorrow to pass the symbolic posturing and whatever you want to call it, plan b. there is grumbling that they dont want to vote...

With us here on the set, writer for "the national review" online, bob costa. robert, thank you so much for being with us today. >> good to join you. >> hey, chuck, so were having a debate here. yesterday we had matt lewis, well-known conservative, guy that we really like, saying that john boehner was weaker than ever. "the new york times" today, not as well beloved in conservative circles, how boehner gained strong backing from the house gop. a lot of really good sources in there. whats your tak...

Is look at its options getting out. >> it feels like there is a rumbling and things may be shifting. how much shifting are the rebels taking in terms of taking back those areas they lost. >> we are hearing opposition groups in syria that the rebels are making progress. rebels have recently taken over several key military bases in syria away from the syrian military. and when the syrian military tries to launch a counterattack they are repelled by rebels. bill: there was a controversial cartoon d...

If those revenues arent tax hikes on the top 2% that the president is call iing for? >> it depends on the starleting point versus the end point. for republicans, the issue they are dealing with is they are going to face blame and internal problems no matter what happens. so for them, if they get an offer from the president that they can at least sell as including significant spending cuts or entitlement reform, that when they agree to allow the tax rates go up, they will be grumbling in the part...