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Care insurance companies p preemted -- >> you were complaining because they put neat stuff up front and hard stuff was after. >> two things they announced today. medicare cuts they put through the bill will be a surprise to seniors. second thing they had to extend the pre-existing condition program. theyve had 365,000 people select a plan. they dont have enough people to cover the pre-existing conditions that were supposed to be funded through the bill. theyve had to extend that. greg, i want to...

There and not alienate everyone, not the least of whom is president obama. president obama is going to actually have to return the compliment that bill clinton gave in the last cycle and the one before. hes going to have to deliver his base to hillary clinton if she is, indeed, the nominee. so bill clinton can only push it so far. he needs to be aware of that, even though he obviously doesnt much like the company. >> i return to something that john howman wrote last year, which was bill clinton ...

Exoriated by hard democrats. you guys got to do something. it looks like the mid-term in 2006 when president bush came out and said it was a thump and he ultimately dismissed rumsfield. that was a dark moment for the bush presidency. this is not about life and death but still about the defining issue and debate in the obama presidency. which is what should government do and what can government do effectively. >> i think -- doesnt it also get to a point about management, who in the white house --...

Around. both were considered for veep and decided against. and it just shows you that some of the assumptions about them being great successes, im not so sure. >> theres also a lot of stuff about president obamas relationship with former president bill clinton. >> strained. >> yes. but came around on it seems olympic. >> sort of a love story in the end, right. >> love story. >> president obama as you guys know, is so different in terms of his style from president clinton. theres this great scene...

Unexploded land mines lirting his background. now, theres no proof that any of that stuff would have ultimately been harmful to the campaign. it was just the fact there were unanswered questions. unlike the other potential -- >> by unanswered you mean he failed to answer those questions adequately. >> exactly. unlike the other possible v.p.s they were vetting they did not get the level of info from chris christie they wanted. theres a memo in this book from the vetting team they quote at length ...

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Against one another in 2016, i dont think there are probably any two happier people tonight they were not on either of those tickets at this point, given where the president is in the polling, the kind of challenges hes looking at. im sure shes happy to be looking from the outside in i think chris christie is, too. >> candy, its great to have you on the program. thank you very much. jonathan martin as well. thanks, fascinating stuff. let me know what you think. follow me on twitting. up next, ...

Part is still coming as jeff was saying. you cant get this right how will you do the hard stuff? >> i think the statement no one is madder than me is what sticks in a lot of peoples craw. the notion hes sitting and watching from the residence of the white house and says oh, gosh that didnt go well just brings really strange to people. he should have been, you know, in the command and control post, making sure that everything was in order. should he have been running his own simulation of the sit...

Talk to you. thats not a negotiation thats a dictation. >> thats not where we are right now. i really hope -- i think america understands where we are right now. but if you dont, let me tell you that 800,000 people are not working but they want to get paid for it later. theyve offered a piece of this and that the as they attempt to get the kind of government that they want. not the kind of government that people need and are customed to having. this is again, let me say, a self-inflicted wound t...

Agree with the judge about the passion and the rhetoric and stirring up people over this, youve got to use intelligence. youve got two clubs. use cr shutting the government or debt ceiling. youve got 61% of americans behind you on the debt ceiling where they want the president to engage in negotiations which would end up you with giving spending restraint to the gop or cr continuing resolution where americans are four to one opposed. why would you stake everything j something where americans are...