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Have suggested in the past that theres been a revolving door that goes from the treasury to wall street and back again. is this man part of that coterie or is he very much and firmly in the public service camp? >> its much more in the public service camp. i read this morning a critique of the choice of jack for treasury secretary by some financial markets guy who is saying, i dont know, hes not one of us. >> right. >> now, when i hear him say hes not one of us, i sort of think the same thing i t...

Republican party for their wealthy supporters to be despising and blaming people who earn less than $30,000 describing them as grifters and parasites? how is that helpful as john alter just said to their political prospects into the future? >> its not helpful at all. to bring an analysis you gave and jonathan alter laid it out very clearly before us, the reality is these people are kvetching, theyre belly aching -- >> i like the yiddish. >> theyre incapable of understanding whats going on with t...

Things. to its detriment sometimes. they have votes on it. and it does start to divide people. i think a lot of the republicans are starting to look at that, those issues and even if we believe in them, even if we believe, were not for guy marriage or we want to talk about abortion, first we need to talk about the things that both sides can at least have some agreement on. and i think youre going to start to see more and more of that, even from very conservative members of the house and senate. ...

Politics. >> james peterson, john alter, and karen finney, thank you all. as we go to break a note on one of our favorite romney sound bites, mitt romney made this one on may the 17th, hours before his appear raps at a now infamous florida fund-raiser. i wonder if he can recall exactly what he said. >> im not familiar precisely with exactly what i said but i stand by what i said whatever it was. ♪ [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse ...

Point, john, we have heard a lot from mr. romney about the evils of divisive rhetoric. lets take a listen. here he comes. >> i will not divide america as i have seen the president do over these pastself months. i will stop this divisiveness and i will do everything in my power to unite the american people. this is a time for us to come together as a nation. we do not have to have the kind of divisiveness and bitterness and recriminations we have seen over the last four years. >> its laughable. t...

>> i dont mean to laugh. >> what do you think about johns suggestion that we have to tackle the primaries. not necessarily with his solution, but we need to highlight not just amending the constitution, which wed all like to talk about, but really engaging the primary system in a way that -- >> we have had primaries for awhile. my problem is -- >> let me be clear. im making a specific point which is that mechanism and structure by which we conduct our primaries seems like it has vast improvement...

Congress. both sides of the aisle, democrats harry reid and nancy pelosi, republicans mitch mcconnell and john boehner, where is their leadership? compare them to lyndon johnson and speaker sam rayburn in the 50s. before my time, but i hear it was awfully nice. giants-like speaker tip oneill, even the loyal opposition of gerald ford and everette dirkson in the 60s and 70s. john alter is with us today. theres a human tendency to look to the past. they call it euphoric recall. we look to the past....

Embarrassment. >> john alter, youre going to be seeing a lot of that tape, 2008 tape of back when christie was u.s. attorney. youll see a lot of that if christie jumps in the race. >> absolutely. youll also see a lot of tape you showed earlier of his saying im not ready. thats really a problem for him. hell be asked by every reporter about the "im not ready" comment and hell be challenged by every other republican candidate on immigration. look at the heat that rick perry is taking and hes been ...

He has said i run a machine, i own washington and theres nothing you can do about it. thats where we are. >> well, lets take a lock now at something he said recently. the obama/rel pell lows iscy/reid system is clearly aç secular socialist machine and obama is the most radical president in american history. what is this new precious bodily fluids right how of "dr. strangelove" why is he saying secular socialist? what is that about? that phrase? >> well, he is trying to appeal to social conserv...

Tend to win, he is a interesting to -- he is a trogladite. >> maybe there are people really, really red hot, angry but how angry would you have to be, john alter to vote for this guy, even in a caucus? >> well, he is going to get some votes because he actually -- the times i had fascinating conversations with him, i thought in the 9, he was actually right on a few issues, so, its what day you catch him on, kind of the good newt, who sounds reasonable and intelligence and then theres the unbeliev...