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>> i want to say, though, we can sit up here and talk about all of this all day long. but dont discredit women and think that all they care about is what somebody said on a bus 12 years ago or however long ago. at the end of the day, women decide on issues that matter to them. how it affects their children and their families, their pocketbooks, the kitchen table issues. i mean, thats what theyre focused on. they want to know their family is safe and secure. hilary, while you are saying they care...

Also well see what happens. omalley is in and bernie sanders might speculate to be in as well. i think we should not count out the sitting vice president of the united states quiet over the last few months but could mount a challenge. whats going to matter, when it comes out both the democratic and republican primary, who could talk to their base the best and mobilize their base the best and -- >> who do you think, richard? >> im telling you, if you talk to democrats, they want a candidate thats...

And i think there hillary clinton is going to have an advantage over any member of that republican primary today. weve got three first-term senators and, you know, one guy who was governor a very long time ago, not in public life for a long time, so i think when you look at the breadth and diversity of hillary clintons experience, first time ive done that in two days, that, you know, she is going to win based on her experience, policy and issues. her life experience, though, is about being a wom...

Jon: and do you think that the mess that obama care has been so far is part of the reason that the president keeps, you know, whipping out his pen and pushing back some of the requirements of the law so that you know, some of the onerous responsibilities are not laid upon the american people an employers and so forth until after the midterms? >> jon, if you remember in 2010, i ran for office myself, wasnt successful, i ran in 2010, obamacare, that is what caused the republicans to win the house....

Like the tea party movement theres something more here? >> i think its fair to say this will continue but its more about how effective you can be. cornell has a point that it does work in america if you get into certain districts. you can pressure elected officials by rallying, by taking action. hes right, that was the success of the tea party, that we were out there and we were continuing on kitchen table issues. this issue, however, i think fades and the reason it fades over time is the high b...

Change, not just global warming has been dumped but climate change has been politicized too much. do other republicans agree with that? >> a little bit of a debate on what we call climate change or call it global warming? a broader debate on sort of extreme weather adapitation now. now theres -- >> all because somebody has politicized it. >> but you talk about kitchen table issues. this is something where people say something is happening with the weather. >> its snowing in may, i mean, hello. w...

And this latest round is that. three dozen freshmen republicans who are eager to put themselves on the record as being wholly opposed to the entire law and eager to do away with it entirely. but had is also designed to get those votes to then vote for a different bill. house majority leader eric candor would like to see passed which would take money out of the health care law and put night one for people with pre-existing conditions and part of a bigger agenda that he has that is focused on more...

>> i dont remember that being said. >> that paul kruger and nancy pelosi and people on the left have been making. we got no problem here. everything is fine. i wonder if that message is actually resonating with americans. >> i think its what is resonating is the connection to job growth. i think what the deficit hawks have not been able to do -- this is bobby jindals criticism of the republicans saying they are looking like accountants and they are not talking about kitchen table issues. the fac...

They embraced my views on job creation, economic development. >> should you not campaign on it as much or do you disagree with john mccain? he said my position is my position, but he seemed to be hinting that shouldnt be one of the -- >> everybody knows that both courts and legislatures are going to determine what the policies are with regard to life and family and marriage and all these social issues that define who we are with the people. obviously were focusing in virginia is on the things th...

Aisle. >> yeah. one of the ways he won that really tough first race, again a democratic, blue-collar district that had been held by democrats for many, many years he did very well, martha, with the blue-collar working class voters and also with women. mitt romney has a gender gap problem, there is no question about it. obama does better with women than mitt romney does. paul is very appealing to women voters. he always done very well because he speaks of those kind of kitchen table issues, marth...