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Some glee. whats now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the president approached this issue, everything he laid out in that big speech a year ago, everything he laid out in that agenda was something he could do without congress. congress is the one place we have to pretend that climate is not changing. but even though congress has gotten no better on it in the past year, actually, despite popular perceptions, a lot has changed around the politics of this issue. eve...

He said, its not that sexy. the whole long speech went off for an hour. it was punctuated by a plane flying over the president and drowning out his words because the venue they chose was on the flight path from national airport. they did not do a great job with the logistics at that speech a year ago this week. but the president did roll out that agenda a year ago. he reiterated it last night with some glee. whats now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the presiden...

And the state is the most in doubt out of the 50. so youve got a lot of cost-cutting going on, at the same time, you had this massive influx of low income people from the public housing developments into the new neighborhoods and the crime began to surge. and you had a lot of anger in the police department over the job cut backs. the fop was quite upset about that. that colors everybodys perceptions. ive had police officers calling me to talk about how the statistics have been monkeyed with, and...

Been consistent in the last few days in saying, look, its an incremental approach. the amount of advisers that would go there, aits a fact-finding mission. what sort of sensors are there. what do the iraqis need. why say all the steps would be predicated and air strikes certainly one of those on what the advisers would find. theres one other aspect for the middle east. very delicate balance when it comes to perception, as to the biggest country like the u.s. and where it is and what its going to...

Hearts of the government, into shia, to try to, you know, psych the army into running away. at the other side is attempting to kind of tell the people that might be under their control, you know, were going to be all right, were going to provide services. what are perceptions of isis like in baghdad as they come south conquering cities? >> reporter: this city is divided like this entire country. the shiite community believes that they are a marauding pack of demons who are coming here to cut the...

Way that kind of thoughtful conversation would not be rejected in my opinion. >> we are going to go to a completely different subject. maybe, maybe not. its a tumblr question. its from savannah. do you and bill have differing opinions when it comes to any political matter, and if so, which ones? >> well, i practiced law for a long time. and there is such a thing called the marital privilege. where you do not testify against your spouse. you know, bill and i -- >> you disagreed with him on edward...

Your spouse. you know, bill and i -- >> you disagreed with him on sno snowden. you said it. >> i did? >> you said it is a message of importance and you disagreed. >> i did. we have this discussion at home. we are constantly sharing ideas and perceptions. we have, i think, an agreeable general kind of view about our country and the work that we think needs to happen in order to keep the american dream alive and give particularly young people a chance to have the same opportunities we had. but we ...

Woman and i get what youre saying about sort of her capacity for discourse but i also think its the code switching. its a particular kind of discourse she was good at. >> this gets at your broader point about intersectionality because this is also about class in addition to race and gender and how we view class and o.j.s daughter obviously is of a very different class than rachel. that shades peoples perceptions of trustworthness, of honesty. its also skin color, she was a beauty. >> all of it t...

Was during that round of eric cantor rebranding that the republican party -- eric cantor rebranding that he suggested maybe perhaps in some form, his party could accept something like the dream act for young immigrants. eric cantor said that could happen. and because hes the majority leader in the house, he could make that happen. but as always, this was rebranding, which is about brand and image and not actually about behavior. and so he never actually allowed a vote on the dream act or anythin...

Pizza party, because america, it was during that round of eric cantor rebranding that the republican party -- eric cantor rebranding that he suggested maybe perhaps in some form, his party could accept something like the dream act for young immigrants. eric cantor said that could happen. and because hes the majority leader in the house, he could make that happen. but as always, this was rebranding, which is about brand and image and not actually about behavior. and so he never actually allowed a...