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They were the recent past, things that had already happened in the pentagon papers case and the vietnam war here and the afghan war, but they have both seemed to serve to undermine confidence in current strategy, because we find exaggerations, we find the military exaggerating in the past about certain success rates for certain exercises, and that is the kind of thing that undermines strategy going forward, isnt it? >> well, it does, but you have a president who actually has also questioned his ...

>> i didnt give him the full force of what i could do. >> wow. well, that is simply unacceptable, and ms. sherri must resign immediately, so i owe ms. sherrod an apology for not doing my home world war i. >> i did take a banned substance, and, you know, for that im very sorry. >> a fist bump, a pound, a terrorist fist jab. i reyet that. it was not my intention, and i certainly didnt mean to associate the word terrorist with senator obama. >> the past two years have been hard on all parties invol...

Former lieutenant governor jane norton. ms. norton once leading by double digits now finds herself trailing mr. buck despite support from national gop leaders. that is all subject to change because of recently leaked audio. at a campaign event last month mr. buck was pressed on the validity of president obamas birth certificate by tea party birthers. afterwards he vented his frustration to another person at the event, a democratic party tracker, who happened to be carrying a small tape-recorder....

Texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave wiegel. you have ken buck. ive got to think he is voicing john mccains private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? >> cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty -- thats pretty...

As he was. you know, what buck was saying here, i think, is legitimate, and they really do -- republicans really do believe the media and the obama administration are letting this hang on and throwing these questions out there at their rallies in order to slip them up. theyre wrong. polls show that theres a big chunk of this base that believes this stuff, but they really do mean this. they want to talk about the deficit. now, the second part is they dont have a lot to say about how we can cut sp...

And, yet, the american intelligence community believes they are actually helping the enemy, and, yet, the -- both -- two successive administrations, the bush administration, and the obama administration, have seen pakistan as a critical ally, and necessary for any kind of eventual victory in afghanistan, so it is such a dilemma for the united states in how it deals with pakistan. >> mark mazzetti, "the "new york times"." im sure you havent reading all of the documents. we expect you back with mo...

Are going to be a tough political battle. he has not had that many republican co-sponsors so far, but i think he will be if republicans come into power one of the folks to look for for intellectual firepower and an stooul actual policy discussion. the question is whether or not others will line up behind him. >> ezra klein bringing intellectual firepower to "countdown." thank you, ezra. sdoo thank you. coming up, "the countdown" apology hall of fame gets a new wing thanks to the little known t...

This issue to hang out there so theyll look crazy or they think it makes them look crazy. in bucks case i think he was being very savvy. you know, this is what smart republicans should stay cia. stop talking about the presidents birth certificate. >> now, buck is complaining that he cannot get tea party audiences to pay attention to something like the national debt because they want to talk about the presidents birth certificate. this starts to make me think is the mainstream media giving the te...