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Street who were there to prote the revolution until it continues are sending a message not only must you amend this constitutional declaration, you must renounce all these super powers you have assumed for yourself. >> one of the interesting things, and ayman hit on it, is watching the militarys role in all ofthis, the military now taking a center role again aling with these egyptians in the street is that move designed purely to intimidate? >> let me express something very simply p the muslim b...

Has been discussed at a republican party. >> you would think. right? but what do we hear from both sides? theres rhetoric on both sides that is not helpful in this process. i think as we move forward as a party, we need to recognize that we need to do a better job of explaining why it is that we believe less government is better and more individual responsibility and freedom for the individual is better. and if we do that, we will get the young vote, the women vote, the hispanic vote, the minori...

It does seem at least that the sentiment may be shifting from, you know, two or three weeks ago absolutely, no way, not going to go over the cliff, and now you have a lot of folks who are starting to say, hey, you know what, we might go over the cliff. >> absolutely. theres several leading democrats who are sort of pushing the white house to do just that. now, the white houses line is we dont want that. the president has spent this time in the past two weeks meeting with constituents, stake hold...

Compromise on. >> meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, republican senator marco rubio gave the weekly republican address today. part of his message? the tax rate should not go up on anyone including the top 2%. >> we must reform our complicated, uncertain, job-killing tax code by getting rid of unjustified loopholes. but our goal should be to generate new revenue by creating new taxpayers, not new taxes. >> joining me, author of "the escape artists: how obamas team fumbled the recovery." d...

Jobs. >> you think that rick perry should stick to his flat tax or some other economic issue and not reopen the birther issue. that was a mistake? >> what we are focused on here in ohio is talking about the number one issue on the hearts and minds of people. if we are not talking about those issues candidly, we are off message. i have a white board that has those five or six words on it. if our candidates arent talking about those issues, at least for the people of the state of ohio, the republi...

Hip ma advertised in the repetition of those terms. >> they simply were robotic and frightenly on message. i would say, if you compare it to how they sounded in 2009 when they were talking about death panels and socialism and talking about a government take yoefr of the health care system, they actually sounded more reasonable in this meeting than they had sounded and less lunatic than they sounded in a lot of 2009. that was part of the goal. they put lamar alexander up there and wanted to see l...