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Forward-looking agenda, say, i am going to tackle entitlement and put our fiscal house in order and tax reform so this year, he could say, we have to continue to fight the battle. he said, i wasnt smart enough to figure out how bad it was, i have done the best i could and i know it has come up short, but viempathy for you being in a bad place that. doesnt work. >> greta: what do you think eye am permexed by james carville, a very strong clinton democrat, why he would make public statements about...

But it points out there was it will to no growth in consumer spending. fed chairman ben bernanke testifies before the joint economic committee thursday. head of the house oversight committee says the labor department has jeopardized the integrity of the employment data for political reasons. california republican darrell issa made the charge in a hearing on how the government releases its jobs numbers. ranking member cu elijah cummins says they seem like they are channeling the methodology than ...

I would say one thing thats very interesting is when the spacex vehicle did not go on saturday because some problem was discovered, thats a good si sign. it says their software is working, their methodology for doing this is working. >> tell me about this fascinating new initiative youve launched called 100-year starship. >> spacex is now providing us and knowing that private companies can do access to space, 100-year starship is about humans being able to go to another star system within the ne...

Even the new york times poll, of all people-- the presidents campaign is now complaining about the methodology, where democrats were over-sampled by 6% because two-thirds of the people see this for what it is, political expediency. this is the presidents old position. he changed it 3 times in between that he had in 1994. >> this was clearly a political decision, a political move. you know, democrats have long taken black people for granted. now this president, coming out with this issue -- hes n...

Even the new york times poll, of all people-- the presidents campaign is now complaining about the methodology, where democrats were over-sampled by 6% because two-thirds of the people see this for what it is, political expediency. this is the presidents old position. he changed it 3 times in between that he had in 1994. >> this was clearly a political decision, a political move. you know, democrats have long taken black people for granted. now this president, coming out with this issue -- hes n...

>> sean: i agree. heres whats interesting. you know, for stephanie cutter to go out for the obama campaign and complain that the new york times poll, which over-sampled democrats by 6 percentage points, is the methodology is off because it doesnt show what they want. if they think theyre losing cbs news and the new york times -- how big a problem is that in the end for them? >> its a huge problem. it is going in the wrong direction. if a new york times poll shows the president obama is behind wi...

Republican against obama, generic wins handily. if you run a real republican with a name on him, he doesnt do that way. to the extent romney is generic, to the extent he isnt a negative. negative campaign against him doesnt work, as long as he sticks on the economy, explain what is he will do. and runs almost exclusive on that, he can win. i think he has discipline. i would add stability to stay on this right until the end despite the urging to get all sexy and interesting. i think that is the w...

>> six-point gap. >> im talking the gender. >> oh, gender. >> you said the poll was taken under the worst of circumstances for republicans. im sure it was an outlier. this new york times poll, as a republican thats been following polls for 30 years, we aint ever ahead three points among women in may. i say never. never. >> you have a poll. they did this. i its a call back. you do a type of poll you havent done often at "the new york times" then get a result like this. >> it could be correct. >> ...

Ahead. the obama campaign, you undermine his credibility and maybe he doesnt win that argument. but my question is, is he winning that argument despite of his background? and de-facto the guy the alternative is better. >> ben, the words -- you know, leverage, buyouts, managed bankruptcy, we havent done a deep dive into what it is precisely that mitt romney has done as the head of bain and sort of his methodology is broadly speaking for the economy. do you think the american public gets into thos...

Of how the poll, it was a callback, not a traditional survey they did. this was such a resounding number that its within any margin of error you want to create which was the presidents public support for same-sex marriage. did he do it because he thought it was right or for political reasons? 67% said political reasons. so again, put those caveats aside. thats a lot of people saying that he did this for politics. do you understand why last week it looked more political than maybe you ever wanted...