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Through the developments since we last spoke. unbelievable. what you make of this latest play by putin and russia. have they outmaneuvered obama again? >> i dont like to praise a former kgb colonel on the most popular cable channel in america but it was a master stroke. he played the game, as the ambassador said, very smoothly with lavrov and then with tweets coming out of the russian embassy in london with photographs of a duckling as a lame duck obama and well invite you to an orthodox christm...

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It certainly is desirable to put more money in the pockets of americans and stimulate the economy that way. but by taking the 2% off of the social security tax and then replentishing that lost revenue from the general funds, they do real damage to the very rationale of social security. social security, when it was passed in 1935, was a political master stroke. fdr and the other people had a hard time passing social security. and they came up with a very shrewd rationale. and that is that this is...

Right now what the left is worried about is these temporary extensions for the rich are going to turn into perm nanlt extensions. the president can trump them in proposing broader tax reform which could benefit the middle class and start to really address that would be the master stroke that may move us along this debate right now. i want to thank you for joining us. karen finney running in straight from a flilgt from d.c., where the action is happening. thank you for joining "news nation." well...

They said well, we might do something but we are not promising how much. i think ali had it right. it depends on how much they do. you will probably not notice it much, frankly. >> i mean, the american manufacturing groups or worker groups were saying, well believe it when we see it. >> i hate to be a terrible cynic, but i think we should find out who are the media strategists for the government of china, and these people should form their own global pr company. it has been a master stroke. it h...

>> i should tell you, china has a massive delegation here in toronto. a whole lot of deputy prime ministers and more ministers than they have taken anywhere, and a whole boat load of business men meeting here with others around the world to do business. i think china would like to play this lower down the agenda than it is. china might not let its currency do enough. we dont know how this is all going to play out. >> one way that this played this week was this shows that maybe china really is do...