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I think the desire will be to have someone if -- we need someone elected who is a centrist. frankly having a democrat who is a centrist wouldnt be all bad because it is it perpetuate a logjam which i think frankly if youre in favor of small government a democratic president would be a good thing. >> who is that? >> well, it looks like right now hillary clinton or maybe john kerry steps into the breach. i dont see either one of them being elected. i think hillary gets elected personally. >> i don...

>>. were talking politics of 20167. new jersey governor cristhristie telling laura ingram how hes getting washington to work together? >> when you stand up firmly for your principles, then youre in a position to negotiate and break that logjam. i have done that in new jersey with a democratic legislator, so if i decide to do that with a little bit tougher group in washington, d.c., you have to know youre ready to fight, but also that youre ready to talk. 6 6 6. >> by the way, welcome to d.c., ...

>> maxie: mia hamm, goddess of . soccer, be with me. >> lulu: [ chuckles ] >> maxie: goal! [ whooping ] [ laughs ] >> nathan: it all fits, though. levi is harrell sr.s son doing his fathers bidding. >> dante: he would be the right age. >> anna: from what i understand about his disappearance, he would certainly have an axe to grind with felicia. >> nathan: exactly. it sounds like the guy would stop at nothing to get his hands on the jewels. >> dante: including kidnapping two innocent women. >> an...

John hickenlooper. it was troublesome and didnt sit well with some in his own party. >> i hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances, when he is shown playing pool in colorado, drinking a beer, and he cant even go 242 miles to the texas border. >> ouch! the president met yesterday with one of his harshest critics, governor rick perry. the two shook hands on the tarmac in dallas and flew today in "marine one." the president called it constructive, but there is no indication the mee...

Of the ones i just read, and there are certainly several others, is there one or two that youre most optimistic youre actually going to see happen, youre going to sebring about change and the way things are done? >> first and foremost is internally in congress is to have that filibuster reform so they can break the logjam and deadlock thats occurred in the institution of the united states senate. >> that seems like one of the toughest ones. >> yes. but they can be established in the first day of...

We just need to build the pressure with more states acting to kind of break through the congressional logjam. one of the things we think is so important is the minimum wage increases are going behind catching up the minimum wage to where it should be for inflation. theyre raising it to a higher level, 11 in massachusetts, the $13 rate that the california state senate approved, that would bring it to a higher level than weve had. its something we really badly need. >> its hard to overstate how im...

And tired of the logjam. mr. obama has promised that if congress does not cooperate more with him, that hell sign a bunch of executive ofrds getting stuff done by fiat. well thats not going to make many people happy. at this point in his presidency, president clinton has signed 238 executive orders. president obama the younger, 198. president obama 167. so you can see that barack obama hasnt been crazy with the executive order bids. but that was then. now the presidents under siege. all the poes...

I know his brother. he headed the agency where i was for a while. i like ari. hes funny. hes smart. he gets it. he plays rough in show business which i like but ill tell you this. if he developed the script called the obama carolout and a writer named ezekiel emanuel showed up with the script, ari would whack him. he wont say it because its his brother. lets take it over to zeke for a second. hes a salesman managing to make willie lohman look like -- and you could run the logjam at disney in tha...

When it dos congressional approval, the house worked hard to earn those low approval numbers. you can be the opposition but have you to offer another agenda. thats where republicans keep falling apart? >> the disapproval rating is not the republican house but the congress as a whole. that means democratic leader as well. this has been do nothing congress. when youve passed 56 and 44 of them substantial, we dont have a budget, its like groundhog day all over again. they are going to blame someone...

Wants to regulate carbon and make that part of the presidential legacy. >> you said the word. negotiate. hell have to negotiate with mitch mcconnell. at this point, i think there is no negotiation. if the republicans take over the senate, i dont see them having any reason to say, yeah, okay, well give you these five nominees or well we dont like those guys, but we like these guys. thats how it used to be done. i dont see after this point there will be much appetite on their part. >> thats sort o...