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Is it something that democrats created? its a created thing. republicans may play into the storyline, or is there something real here? >> yeah. theyve trumped it up the fact that this is the record. theyre not very good on womens issues. theyre not get on education and not good on choice. when you have a piece of legislation like this, which should be a no brainer by any standard and you hold it up for either your opposition to gay and lesbian issues or some kind of manufactured constitutional q...

Criminologists dont believe the death penalty is a deterrent to crime. 78% said the murder rate is not lowered in death penalty states. 94% say little evidence supports the deterpt effect of the death penalty. 09% say death penalty has little effect on murder. if your vast research, did you find the death penalty as a deterrent to crime. if it is not, then why are we doing it? is it something? the vindictive nature of america? >> thats hard to answer. first, i will say, there is no evidence that...

Democrats, but the turnout declines substantially, megyn from a presidential year to a mid term election, from 63% on average for presidential elections all the way down to 48% for mid term. and thats an advantage for republicans because the people who turn out in mid term tend to be older and less minority and less young than the people who turn out for presidential elections. >> and do you believe that thats going to be the case in 2014, notwithstanding what we saw during the last presidential...

One day as he was doing this, his wife came home and caught him. and she said whats going on here? well, i have a problem. youre darn right you have a problem. just knock it off. so she contacted the friends of hers who worked at a v.a. center. she never really put two and two together that she was married to the btk strangler. so, he didnt have a high i.q. at all. he was just lucky. he worked for adt security and he was able to cut phone lines. he had a badge. he was able to gain access to peop...

Comprehensive strategy that include background checks as well as a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. this step is a vitally important one. >> talk to me about the bipartisan support. many in the beginning right after newtown in your home state believed if nothing else, universal background checks is something that you can see support from both sides. that seems to at least at this point not to be the case. it is a more daunting task than first believed by those who would like t...

Thinking big. in a funny way were doing all this small scare stuff, lose faa guys, look, everybody knows a rough path to stability is this. you try to get hands around and control growth in entitlement spending. you take a look at our tax code, which is kind of an incoherent pigsty that goes thousands of pages. you make it more rational. you make it something that is understandable to people and more allowing of growth. that will help create an air of stability that will actually allow growth to...

This small scare stuff, lose faa guys, look, everybody knows a rough path to stability is this. you try to get hands around and control growth in entitlement spending. you take a look at our tax code, which is kind of an incoherent pigsty that goes thousands of pages. you make it more rational. you make it something that is understandable to people and more allowing of growth. that will help create an air of stability that will actually allow growth to begin. so i dont think this is really all v...

Which is kind of an incoherent pigsty that goes thousands of pages. you make it more rational. you make it something that is understandable to people and more allowing of growth. that will help create an air of stability that will actually allow growth to begin. so i dont think this is really all very mysterious. and i feel like the white house and the hill are caught in this stupid, childish thing. >> steve, you want to get in. go ahead. >> the white house will argue they are trying to think bi...

Gets in a huge amount of cuts, somehow the republicans convinced themselves this is a really good idea for them. but why is it something that they say funding the government, 600 billion, that is something the liberals may be able to get taxes on, they could never get the defense cuts if not for sequestration -- >> there is a liberal case to be made that the bad things about the sequester are worth the cost. because it is a one-time opportunity of actually shifting the baseline of defense spendi...

The invasive nature of government that conservatives feel so much angst about it, it is right there on the question of the body. >> which was the point with "roe v. wade." at the time people thought it was a settled issue, and this issue was between the woman and her doctor, and they would make the decision, and that was it. everybody else get lost. that has completely changed a little bit. >> let me push back on that, because we have been using this frame of between the woman and her doctor, an...