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Hes the one that really is the big proponent. >> after we coined the term "snow trolling" last week, it engender response like this treat. lol, 30 inches in new england. charles cook, conservative "national review" criticized the left for hyperbole on global warming but at least admitted weather is not the same as climb, allowing "its silly to see snow out your window and conclude the world is cooling." joining me now, tim carney, senior political columnist of the "washington examiner." my frien...

Person of the year. so obviously, what he did has a lot of profound consequences for the dialogue in this country and around the world about the extent that their governments are watching us. >> it certainly does elyse. when edward snowden talks, people do listen to him, but i suspect that when youre looking at these holiday messages, his is probably the only one that mentions george orwells novel "1984" dont you think? >> yeah but he said george orwell and this big brother watching us, he said ...

Its nothing -- i mean, there are some songs we havent heard before, but its basically for the beatles nerd. >> okay. >> a lot of alternate takes. >> for the beatles nerd, if were talking outtakes, can you hear them talking, or is it pure singing? >> you can hear some of them talking. you can hear them joking around. >> thats fantastic. >> there are songs weve heard on the radio for years and years and years and theres a different inflection on their vocals or a different guitar strum. youre like...

Know of anywhere where theyre actually offered. so if you want to buy insurance, to cover the unexpected situation you would terminate a pregnancy for any reason, youre probably out of luck. now think for a minute about what the republican party is saying here. they are making it clear, they are quite willing to intervene in a private health insurance market, not to make sure people have basic package of care, not to control spiraling health care costs, not even to make sure that poor people are...

That poor people are getting covered. no, they will intervene in the market in order to stop insurance companies from offering coverage for illegal, constitutionally protected medical procedure. a party that does that is a party that is committing political suicide. and if you think that is hyperbole or doubt that, consider this. even the right-wing governor of michigan, republican rick schneider, did not want his party to pass this into law. he passed a similar measure last year, saying, i dont...

Precisely to those words and sentiment, that this is the same kind of historical figure, that mandela is the heir to lincoln. >> john king, if i may bring you in here, your take on the presidents remarks, what they mean here and what they mean back home. >> i think it was quite fitting for the president at the end to connect his own story to mandelas story. when big leaders pass, theres a lot of hyperbole, sometimes great exaggeration at the farewells, the memorial services. can you imagine a sp...

These republicans in the house know they are going to get reelected in 2014. the historical average is somewhere around 90% of incumbents get elected. theres no real pressure on them to change that strategy. they are going to stick with it as far as they can. this probably helps them get re-elected in some of these districts. i dont see that dynamic thats coming in. a month ago or so we were talking about how the republican party was in tatters after the shutdown. i think that was probably hyper...

Will, patriots in the word of inat the pen dense. >> what does the word patriot mean to to you? >> someone who answers the call to the country. >> is edward snowden a patriot? >> i dont know if its a patriot. it was a public service to raise the issue which is real government over reach and lack of oversight to pay attention as to how far and easily the government collects all this information on individual americans. again, you have to be careful of not trading lib early for the illusion of sec...

Stupid. i would not have gone forward had known there could be major problems. you have to wonder, and you can guaranty it will come up at todays white house briefing, why if there was quote, unquote fear inside the white house about this being potentially unavailable, they moved forward anyway, bill. bill: the email suggest that is henry chao, who we have gotten to know last few weeks he was worried more about pr and then consumers getting insurance. what did you find in the email? >> reporter:...

Concern that healthercare.gov would not be ready on october 1st. he writes i am picturing in my mind all the major print and online publications taking screen shots of what is below and just ramping up the hyperbole about health care.gov not functional. kathleen sebelius met with some of the so-called navigators in south florida, the website went down. >> this is a disaster. we have asked the american people to behave differently. when was the last time we asked the entire country to do somethin...