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>> way ahead of that. chuck todds nbc news chief white house correspondent and msnbc senior political analyst mark halperin is the co-author of "double down." gentlemen, two heavyweights to talk about this. trying to see a dynamic situation might turn out is the hardest thing in the world. youre looking at week two that could be ten-week or five-week. >> it feels like this is going 20 go for most of the year in some form or another. the sandy allegation by the hoboken mayor brings the feds into ...

Actually be bringing people back to listen by what has been said by this guy, this leader. >> yeah. i think he is kind of the gorbachev of the catholic church. and i think ultimately maybe his goal is to kind of bring it down. >> maybe the de klerk, maybe the f.w. de klerk maybe. the guys that sees the time has to change. >> something like that. >> by the way, bill, i love your show. im not just blowing smoke. your show is amazing. its always challenging to be on because i never know what im sup...

By this guy, this leader. >> yeah. i think he is kind of the gorbachev of the catholic church. and i think ultimately maybe his goal is to kind of bring it down. >> maybe the de klerk, maybe the f.w. de klerk maybe. the guys that sees the time has to change. >> something like that. >> by the way, bill, i love your show. im not just blowing smoke. your show is amazing. its always challenging to be on because i never know what im supposed to do except listen to you. "realtime with bill maher" retu...

Essentially of ignoring this story pretty much entirely. >> rush limbaugh has been pretty critical of chris christie right now, so the question is this, how much will this hurt christie assuming he can salvage his political career and maybe run for president of the united states? >> well, chris christie reminds us of this giant split that exists in the republican party and in the conservative movement. i think were reminded of that again today as people take sides as commentators and republican ...

Really isnt serving him very well. some of the heavyweights from first administration are all gone including previous. a president who came to office with a lot of management experience, this is a management breakdown. he needs people around him to help him run this beaurocracy, change the way hes leading to be honest and walk in the oval office and say, sir, this isnt working. here is what we have to do. >> susan, in the presidents defense, shouldnt he be able to expect the experts at hhs and v...

>> i heard ice storm, because i could till something, we got one of those in the city of atlanta a couple years ago, and the city literally shut down. we dont have the capacity to deal with it. >> busiest airport in the country. hey, while were you sleeping, americas top diplomat flew to geneva and this could be a history making mission. secretary of state john kerry is trying to secure a landmark deal between iran and other world powers. now, the goal is to keep iran from developing a nuclear...

And barack obama has done, valley jarrett is a first-rate person, a wonderful human being. they only bring people who have been close to them. you have to watch that. john kennedy was extraordinary good at reaching out and getting a number of republicans to help him in key posts in order to avoid inis a lairity. ronald regan brought in californians and also asked jim baker to be chief of staff. there are not a lot of heavyweightes who have independent standing around the president who can give h...

Califano when franklin roosevelt was there he has heavyweights around him to run his domestic programs. you do not see this with president obama. who is his domestic counselor? can anybody name it? >> i can. >> who? >> her name is cecelia munoz. her forte is immigration. but i dont see her anywhere. >> im sure shes a wonderful human being. shes not a heavyweight in american political terms. where is tom daschell when they need him to run this? >> give me a couple other examples other than the he...

Grappled with it because he believes in it. >> i dont have an issue with that. but i still think the way he runs the white house is much more splittic kaypolitically at governmentally atuned. when lbj was there he had joe califano when franklin roosevelt was there he has heavyweights around him to run his domestic programs. you do not see this with president obama. who is his domestic counselor? can anybody name it? >> i can. >> who? >> her name is cecelia munoz. her forte is immigration. but i ...

>> so there was no surprise that the rnc blasted out this e-mail. white house veteran david gergen said the issue is confidence. >> this is an administration that has been very, very good at its politics, but has never been very good at execution of policies from day one. they -- its an administration which has some really smart people in it, and a lot of younger people. it doesnt have very many heavyweights. >> reporter: administration officials point out the president only learned of the spyin...