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Hang together or hang separately. he brought up a significant point. large majority of the american people not only dont have any skin in the game, more significantly, because it is attitudele and its an abstraction. dont feel that they have any skin in the game. i think thats very, very dangerous. >> we look at this decline, we can point to a couple of things. look at in congress, for instance, 1970s, when the numbers were 75%, 80% a lot was the world war ii generation. during world war ii 12% ...

That to me is closer to what clapper should have said. >>steve: exactly right. he should have said we can do that later. given the fact that james clapper said were not monitoring millions and millions of people, even though they were -- >>brian: i meant to say i was. >>steve: maybe the guy doesnt know whats going on. remember when diane sawyer talked to him in 2010 about london. >> london, how serious is it? any implication that it was coming here? any of the things that they have seen were com...

Government in general. i think it has to do with administration that reviles its enemies, marginalizes them and tries to ostracize them and to consider them beyond the pale and thus the implication if you are working in the bowels of the irs in washington or in cincinnati, well, fair game. i thank one of the reasons you have had this firestorm over the nsa which i think is rather inocuous is because if you give the government the leeway for the information you have to have a mod couple of trust ...

Court and in interest of demographic diversity and excellence was confirmed 97-0. they were able to agree here is a person supremely well qualified. if we want to be optimists, maybe that could happen again. >> if i could just say something to pick up on nans point about the hypocrisy and the republicans and grassley in particular. they fought like hell to get george bushs nominees on the d.c. circuit when the case load was not only lower but they wanted to go right up to the 11th seat and now t...

Its a sat sight to see the obama administration placing its reputation atop this particular law. >> woodrow wilson himself went around the country basically saying i think this is kind of a terrible piece of legislation, but youre forcing me to -- and daniel patrick moynihan wrote a great book called "secrecy" with a great section on the espionage act. that gives you a sense of the terrible history it has. >> in terms of the use of the espionage act, the administration has used it six teams to a...

President has been trying to pursue, the republicans want something they can tie to president obama. in absence being able to do that now they are turning to rhetoric. its pretty pathetic. >> jamie: define what morally we have to expect from the president? >> tell me where he has lost that morality. i would be happy to say when he has not shown moral leadership, deported more fathers and mothers than any other president in the history or the use of drone strikes. those are legitimate to have but...

National security implication is there but in both cases is an overreach. >> eric: president obama delivered an hour long speech on counter terror. timing kind of stinks to me. 300 million will be in backyard probably talking about the scandals. does president obama is going chase this down a hole and not talk about it this weekend? >> i dont know what he thinks. the polls indicate that most americans arent following it especially not the benghazi story. irs story that jay and i are getting most...

National security implication is there but in both cases is an overreach. >> eric: president obama delivered an hour long speech on counter terror. timing kind of stinks to me. 300 million will be in backyard probably talking about the scandals. does president obama is going chase this down a hole and talk about it this weekend? >> i dont know what he thinks. the polls indicate that most americans arent following it especially not the benghazi story. irs story that jay and i are getting most att...

You can. >> you say don blankenship will probably be indicted at some point. whats been the holdup? >> well, ive got some news for you. i learned something just before we went on the air. >> oh? >> blankenship is the -- the u.s. attorney is after him diligently and seriously, serious investigations. not at all political. its the way investigations should be done. systemically working his way from a lower level employee, indicting them, sending them away to prison. working up until blankenship --...

Times" making it clear the chief of staff dennis mcdonough told those in the west wing he expects them to spend no more than 10% of their time on the controversies. we have to stay focused, even if its not going to break through. in the short run, we have to keep hammering on. how is the recent performance of government supposed to reassure the public? when it comes to immigration reform, dealing with a lot more visa applications, perhaps or the implication of health care. something the irs has ...