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And when she is on the supreme court. secondly that illustrates what happened in a big way today. which is republicans talked about social issues much more than they did yesterday. not just abortion but same-sex marriage and a whole host of issues, trying to pin her down as an activist on those issues. she got around it by saying im going to be the impartial observer and decider. >> i feel like i didnt learn very much from these hearings. you always say that after a supreme court confirmation he...

Mainstream media. the proof of the by as is every day in all of the pages of their newspapers and magazines and some other cable networks. megyn: generally there was deniability. weigel does not have deniability thats why he was fired. >> true his beat was the conservative movement. he was purportedly supposed to be an objective observer of the conservative movement there to report on sarah palin and republican possible nominees for the presidency of the tea party movement and so on. what we hav...

Down robert hansen. he says its very unusual for one spy operation to include this many suburban families. their spy craft? prosecutors say some was the stuff of novels, like using invis able ink and dead drops of packages and so-called brush passes in public. how does it work? well, you have to hand off identical objects to each other, like this black berry that eric and i are going to do. whats the object of this brush pass? >> to exchange the information or device without making eye contact, ...

The device without eye contact, and with minimal body contact and as slick as possible so any observer wont notice it happened. >> you cant stop, either? >> no, you have to move directly through and you dont want a pause and bumble, it has to be fast. >> reporter: but they got high-tech like using steg nog ra fi, embedding an encode message that anyone could see, and then embedding software and using computers with special capability. i spoke about that with a former cia operative. they used spe...

It doesnt look good for mcchrystal. peter orszag is leaving. rahm may be leaving. we dont dye dye we went over the blagojevich trial, the oil spill continues, economy is not recovering. 133 days from an election. >> this administration that any neutral observer has to call in free fall. without a plan, crisis to crisis, the afghanistan policy up for grabs. everybody is fighting with everybody else. theres no strategy on bp. the government is in a cut-and-run phase. i think as a democrat, im worr...

It doesnt look good for mcchrystal. peter orszag is leaving. rahm may be leaving. we dont dye dye we went over the blagojevich trial, the oil spill continues, economy is not recovering. 133 days from an election. >> this administration that any neutral observer has to call in free fall. without a plan, crisis to crisis, the afghanistan policy up for grabs. everybody is fighting with everybody else. theres no strategy on bp. the government is in a cut-and-run phase. i think as a democrat, im worr...

Some of them arent even included that elected status at all. >> we stand today in the peoples house. >> thats republican state assemblyman that calls himself a small business owner. >> we have to educate our students. >> this democratic state assemblyman said he was a workers rights attorney. both went to great pains to avoid labeling themselves as already-elected politicians. on californias state ballot , this political observer sees it as a sign of the times. >> this is not the year of the inc...

It was interesting to note for me as sort of a political observer, the optics of this. you saw the president give his statement separately from the folks from bp who are out on the driveway, right? they are not standing next to the president of the united states. at the beginning of this crisis, we were told, you know, bp and the federal government are working together. now they may be working together on this escrow fund, but the government is clearly in charge here. and the president didnt wan...

I didnt get that clarity. and i think that command and control, a phrase thats worked its way around the white house, is essential here. he must be chief executive. he can no longer be vatican observer or intellectual or guy calling in experts or naming commissioners or whatever. i think hes -- or citing people for their nobel prizes. i think he has to be the boss. and he never mentioned here anything beyond bp. like arent there other oil companies that could help clean up this mess? you know, w...

Observer or intellectual or guy calling in experts or naming commissioners or whatever. i think -- or citing people for their nobel prizes. i think he has to be the boss and he never mentioned here anything beyond bp, like arent there other oil companies that could help clean up this mess? weve had hoffmeister, the former shell executive, saying you got to get all the tankers in here, all the people out there skimming. i dont sense this is a real national effort yet. by the way, why not ask the ...