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You want to keep people in the labor force, dont want to keep people on the sidelines. but it was crafted to avoid all those pitfalls. what were seeing now is simply, it seems to me, punitive. what do your colleagues, your republican colleagues, how do they defend this to you? >> well, their general notion is that people should just go find a job. and i must say, i think they are living in gated communities and some kind of a bubble, because if they were in my working class community, they would...

And we need to renew this fight, insist on a vote on the floor, and try to carry that vote to the house and restore this unemployment. i mean, in oregon alone, its 17,000 folks. as you mentioned, 1.3 million across the country. not only is this a program that provides significant funds that immediately strengthen the economy, but it is carefully calibrated so it only adds additional weeks in areas of high unemployment. in other words, if unemployment is low, then you go back to the regular 26 we...

Made her home in virginia. just outside of washington, d.c. so with all of the pitfalls of running for office in another state, not the state youre identified with, we have come up with five easy steps to succeeding as a carpetbagger. to go through them with us, at the table, we have msnbc.com political reporter benjy sarlin, ann lewis, ana marie cox of the guardian and sahil kapur of talking points memo.com rejoins us. so, scott brown in new hampshire, the liz cheney in wyoming, i hear that cam...

Modamily is a number of new sites matching co-parents. compatible partners for creating a child. >> facebook for fetuses. >> to find fetus, yeah. >> reporter: a dating site that cuts straight to the divorce. what happens when they meet that special somebody? >> see a lawyer. get a co-parenting agreement, get background and health checks and discuss how you are going to get pregnant and financial cost and custody. >> reporter: more than 5,000 people signed up on this site alone. there are other c...

Who i met through modamily. modfamily is a mash up of mom dad and family. >> reporter: and modamily is a number of new sites matching co-parents. compatible partners for creating a child. >> facebook for fetuses. >> to find fetus, yeah. >> reporter: a dating site that cuts straight to the divorce. what happens when they meet that special somebody? >> see a lawyer. get a co-parenting agreement, get background and health checks and discuss how you are going to get pregnant and financial cost and c...

Conservative attacks on obama allow them to kind of shift responsibility for what happened in those years, or to say were a new conservatism, the one true conservatism and not going to fall into the same sort of pitfalls the bush administration did. >> it does feel like even the disrespect toward the president, a lot of reasons for it. but some does seem to be rooted in this idea what was done to our guy, were going to do twice over to your guy. and so were at a point where republicans cant even...

Hes made point, click and shop a huge part of our lives. now amazons ceo is promising delivery by drone. he unveiled his plan to cbs "60 minutes". >> these are octocopters, but theres no reason they could be use as delivery vehicles. >> reporter: she says the vehicles theyre developing can carry objects weighing up to five pounds, which he says covers 86% of the items they deliver. they can fly within 10 miles of any distribution center and they would be autonomous. that means no operator with a...

Coordinates of your house on gps and the amazon drone will fly there. but some potential pitfalls, the weather could be a problem. they could be hacked, knocked off course, and this also said they wanted to prevent these from falling out of the sky and hitting us all in the head. those are some of the things theyre going to do to tweak their development of these objects. >> theres a lot of skeptics out there. theyre hearing about this, brian. i guess the question, is this really a legitimate par...

Anyway, why do you think women are flocking to snapchat instead of facebook or doing the regular texting? what are the potential pitfalls as well? >> sure, thats a great question. i think one of the reasons, and the primary demographic is 18 to 23-year-olds. women are really using this because they really like the idea that when they send photos and videos to their friends and their friends receive it, it disappears, as you said, within ten seconds. its quite the opposite experience on facebook....

Gender makeup of each opponent. it can make pol pot look like father christmas. mr. obama is indebted to women who figured mightily into his presidential victories, so acquiescing to women is a job requirement but there is a price. appointments made at the expense has pitfalls. some examples on the gender side, hillary clinton, former secretary of state and all around powerful mans wife has yet to tell us about benghazi other than to ask what difference it makes when and how four americans were ...