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Coming, one if by land, two if by sea. your party needs a little oomph. lets take a look at something strange happening in nevada, the gambling capital. heres harry reid on president obama. lets listen to this, interesting. i want to suggest two things hes doing here. one, hes showing that hes tougher than observe marr, more liberal for the progressive base to get your crowd up, you get your people out there. >> my peeps. >> and the other to seem more distant from the president for the middle of...

And jon kyl, the second highest ranking republican in the senate says unemployment benefits are a necessary evil. hold it right there. you know whats evil, senator? is your party and the way you have outsourced millions of jobs and then turned around and cut the water off on hard-working americans. no fault of their own. and legendary baseball analyst peter gammons is here tonight. hell join me in the playbook to talk about the passing of yankee owner and legend george steinbrenner, but this is ...

We are back with david axelrod, senior adviser to president obama. i want to wrap up the political section by talking a little bit about the progressives. i think youve probably read a lot lately about how the progressives are so upset with the president because he didnt stand up when it came time to get a public option in health care, because he hasnt pushed hard enough for the energy bill and the climate bill and that kind of thing. no action on dont ask, dont tell. something caught our ear fr...

We are back with david axelrod, senior adviser to president obama. i want to wrap up the political section by talking a little bit about the progressives. i think youve probably read a lot lately about how the progressives are so upset with the president because he didnt stand up when it came time to get a public option in health care because he hasnt pushed hard enough for the energy bill and the climate bill and that kind of thing. no action on "dont ask, dont tell." something caught our ear f...

>> theyre very mainstream. check out the gallup poll. >> let me play this sound cust harry reid on president obama. >> on a few occasions i think he should have been more firm with those on the other side of the aisle. he is a person who doesnt like confrontation. hes a peacemaker. sometimes i think you have to be a little more forceful and sometimes i dont think he is enough with the republicans. hes a very strong man. hes calm, hes cool. hes deliberate. but as i just said, i think sometimes i ...

Has the president been tough enough on them? i think its a fair question. harry reid said today in an interview that he wished the president was more forceful, that hes too much of a peacemaker and he would like to see president obama be more confrontational. whats your response to that? >> i agree with harry. ive said for quite some time when the president was doing stuff, he was far too conciliatory. its taken him far too long to come to grips with what most of america now knows is that these ...

Wanted to phase out the program. unless we think harry reid doesnt have complicated positions to work out, just hours after the president left nevada, harry reid had his first big general election sitdown interview with john rolston and reid asked where he disagrees with the president and talked about the health care bill. take a listen. >> on a few occasions, i think he should have been more firm with those on the other side of the aisle. he is a person who doesnt like confrontation. hes a peac...

>> and we interviewed the general on that very subject yesterday, that it is a national security issue, would you have made it front and center. in speaking of national security, you just came from the senate floor where you escorted hamid karzai to the floor. thats unusual. weve had foreign leaders addressing joint sessions, but hes getting the red carpet. in recent months, had to go to kabul because the vice president couldnt breakthrough to him. the ambassador. ranking general. >> i dont thin...

World perfectly suited to where the israelis and the palestinians are right now? and i would say the answer to that is probably no. look, fighting with the israelis over settlements or something else is an occupational reality. every serious or would-be peacemaker does it. but the fight has to be worthwhile. it has to be part of a broader strategy so that the end of the day, after the mess is cleaned up, after everybodys neat and prepared to sign up or show up for the signing ceremony, everybody...

But i think it has to do more with the fact that he came into office a year ago, he wanted to calibrate the relationship between the united states and the muslim world. and the easiest and clearest way to do that is put some distance between the united states and israel. he did that. that made people nervous. i think theres also some sense here that some degree of racism, to be perfectly honest. >> because they see him as a black man. let me ask you an ideal question. it seems to me the great am...