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>> cheney is amping up his criticism and hillary clinton and obviously the white house and colin powell on "meet the press" this weekend clearly laying out a different scenario. >> its become a very partisan issue and thats allowed the president to appeal to votes from democrats as a legacy that they need to be with him because this will be part of his legacy, and it will be an important cornerstone for the partys foreign policy going forward. hillary clinton is expected, you know, to ramp up th...

Gives the kind of response steve was talking about. the political response to this thing has been both dishonest and way too week. i think this may be one of the lowest points of his presidency. >> charles? >> its because you cant run away from this. on the other scandals, the democrats would sit it out or pretend that there wasnt a scandal, call it a witch hunt, call it partisan, and the press would join with the democrats and that would be it. here the democrats have been screaming very loudly...

Intervention is the problem and creates the cliff because of the distortions and creates more uncertainty and destroys wealth . these farm bills are terrible and safety bail outs for producer to guarantee prices and restrict foreign competition and gop wants to get behind something get away from subsidies milk producers included. >> julian, back in 49, we decided the government would buy up milk. if it went down too low. >> and it is it partisan . when the price goes so low and troop upon drops ...

Has been overly forthcoming saying where we are are at in each step along the process as they gather more information. this is an important part of the world right now. i hope we can focus on the policy. how can we protect u.s. interests in that region and make sure that more u.s. interests dont suffer attacks like this. we need to figure that out, no question. >> shannon: is it fair to say there is actual lay bipartisan backlash here because now we have all of the members of the senate foreign ...

Aggressively. >> all right, lets get to rachel scott tonight. and rachel, it was your question to senator mcconnell there, saying its a nonstarter. senator collins, who is a republican, saying we still need to know more. so, the obvious question, will there be a deep dive into what led up to the attack on the capitol? >> reporter: well, david, there is just simply not enough republican support to launch an independent commission, but all eyes are on house speaker nancy pelosi. she does have the ...

They know shes been available to come to washington for months and shes willing to come next month. they dont understand why the majority of republicans wanted to do this in new york. the staff is the one doing a lot of this questioning instead of the members themselves. you know, we saw a letter from house minority leader nancy pelosi. shes trying to put the pressure on paul ryan to ensure that these efforts by the republicans to bring this to a quick conclusion are cut off. >> paul ryan is say...

>> make it partisan. the ideas saying we are auunder attack. >> this wasnt a letter, it was a shock test. >> and initially, there was some confusion about who it was sent to. on friday night in des moines at the impromptu press conference the candidate said he even sent the letter to republicans and the spokesman said he sent it to republicans. it was sent to republicans and democrats so thats something that they cleaned up over the weekend but the reality here is that that is the best hope here...

Controversies being whipped up in washington, it is hart to paining it partisan. on the other hand with the shinseki case, you cant throw somebody overboard. it was a decision made by the president in the highest level ands counsels with the top advisors, there is not a easy fix as this was in the shinseki case. >> it took a while to get to the fix and so many questions about the va scandal and our viewers have questions about as well, chris. on this topig of bergdahl, there is politics on both ...