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Congressman jackie spear. she serves on the committee that held the hearing earlier today and "the daily beast" michelle cotter. >> at least congressman issa didnt cut mics off. >> we all got to say a few words. >> i mean, more and more of the same. clearly this has every appearance of a witch hunt, congress woman. >> here is the problem. we have a chairman of a committee who is supposed to be objective who goes on fox news before the first hearing and says there was white house involvement in t...

to the right its another excuse to attack the law and the president. >> he hasnt put enough loopholes into the law already the administration is now resorting to an honor system to enforce it. what the hell is this, a joke? >> what the extension means is i tried to sign up but couldnt finish the job. >> the president continues to make swiss cheese out of this law. >> it is more about making certain that the administration is not embarrassed by the enrollment number that was supposed to...

Is it off the table? >> of course its not off the table. what mcconnell is betting on is that americans are going to forget all of those cuts in spending the last time we did this and thought oh, okay, the republicans are give on taxes this time. youve got to have all of these things on the table if they have any hope. everything will have to be on the table. it is interesting. they seem to have a problem with that mat mat kal issue all of the time. nia and michelle, thank you both for your ti...

In terms of bargaining around the debt ceiling limit. theyve got a situation where th theyre obviously talking about cuts. but one of the problems is people dont really wants cuts. and, also, i think the other reality is if you look at whats happened so far, i think weve cut out quite a bit. revenue thats come in so far, actually, i think its been a third or fourth of that. so thal eve got a real challenge going forward in terms of what are we going to speak with. >> michelle, as long as its out...

Any one of the things at stake, the entire world economy. and i dont think republicans, if theyre looking back at what happened in 95, 96, it was good for clinton that they shut the government down. it wasnt good for republicans at all. it very much set up a situation where bob dole was hurt in his campaign. if they want to help president obama in terms of approval ratings, dont shut the government down. >> michelle, the republicans are now saying their taxes are off the table. >> weve resolved ...

0 promises hagel a lot of tough questions. many of these same -- now, the propgsing a big fight to oppose his nomination. but, in the end, will the president get his man? joining me now is retired general wesley, former nato commander now chairman and ceo of wesley clark and associates. and former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell now an nbc news analyst. doesnt the president get to pick his own team? or has something changed? >> absolutely hes going to pick his own chief. the right wing is lini...

Conservative entertainment complex. >> now, michelle, when you look at these are strategists, pun diss on the right, when they oor saying its time to stand up, how long will it be before boehner and some of those in the congress say i just got to say this is killing our party and is hurting the nation. >> i think john boehner is well aware of the pickle that the party is in. this is a guy who is a pragmatist on some level. but the question is what can he do? you have a base. and the purists are ...

Weve seen this movie before. last year, it was the debt ceiling, the countrys credit rating was downgraded for the first time. and the american people are sick of it. 68% want to compromise on a deal and theyre blaming republicans if they dont get one. 53% say theyll blame the gop. boehner cant control his party much less compromise. the nonsense going on shows the tea party still runs the speaker. joining me now is michelle cotter, washington car respondent for "the daily beast" and co-host her...

Mean, that would have stopped what this madman did? >> its a desperate attempt to try to deflect responsibility for this tragedy. i dont think ive ever talked to anybody who believes that the solution to these tragedies that weve seen in our schools over the last few years is to put more guns in schools. i heard that argument driving over here to the studio and its frankly preposterous to believe that children are going to be safler in their schools if we allow everybody to carry guns into them....

The verge of exactly that. the republican governor, rick snyder, is debating whether to sign a new bill that would allow concealed weapons in churches and schools. gop lawmakers passed a bill last week late at night in a lame duck session, literally, literally just hours before the tragedy at sandy hook. now snyder says hell give the bill extra consideration. what that consideration is will be looked at through the lens of everything thats happened. the governor seems to understand that everythi...