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Honest, the notion of gun control is a misnomer. no one has proposed at any credible level or wasnt even the legislation that i saw, that had to do with actually taking away peoples guns or any of the rhetoric you saw at the nra convention. had to do with background checks. which, by the way, the nra used to support. so i mean, the reality is, i dont think this is going to be an issue that democrats are going to be pushing. it may come up. obviously, i think the republicans are going to try to e...

Presidential campaign. but im not sure if its going to work. i sort of agree with donny that this is a big, big, big bet on the american peoples idea of the role of government. and its potentially a huge disaster for the democrats. >> if the president does what howard is prescribing a big campaign the sequencing is tricky. at the same time hes contemplating the big campaign, you got senate democrats getting panicked. you ask mark pry or in arkansas, you ask mary landrieu in louisiana, these are ...

The 60 votes necessary to clear procedural hurdles in the democratically controlled senate. as ben jacobs writes its, mark pry or may face the toughest re-election campaign of any incumbent senator in 2014. hes running against conservative rising star tom cotton in culturally conservative arkansas, a state that is becoming increasingly difficult for democrats. luke russert joins us from capitol hill. luke, as pointed out in those two examples alone, this is a risk but looks like its moving forwa...

Economy is on so much better ground than it was exactly four years ago or right after that financial collapse. but a lot of those other numbers what it shows the median household income, americans who are living below the poverty line and see the results, the great recession that are still with us. almost lagging indicators. >> that cannot be ignored. you have what we have always said or the numbers have shown, wall street doing well and the people at home suffering. especially those who are the...

Red state democrats to figure out how to talk about this legislation. you saw from the president. he didnt say gun control. he talked about gun violence. and theyre very much making the point that this isnt about taking peoples guns away. its about reducing gun violence. i do think hell have to sit down with senators like kay hagen, senators like mark pry you your up for re-election to talk about this. i think, also, that even if the president loses on the assault weapons ban, he wins because th...

Welcome back. as we gear up for the presidents second inauguration, are we better off than we were four years ago? the answer depends on the stats you pick. there are plenty of numbers suggesting that the country is on more solid footing than it was when the president took office in 2009. the dow up 5,550 since then, just shy of the 14,000 mark. the economys growing instead of contracting. in the first quarter of 2009, the gdp contracted and grew 3.1% when measured last. now, though it remains w...