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And former one, jeb bush, competed for the attention of billionaire magnate adelson, so joining me now, the "washington post" chief correspondent, dan balls, author of "the take" and dan ralston, host of "ralston reports" on some of the fine nbc affiliates out in nevada. welcome to both of you. . i want to start with you and start with chris christie. to me, the more remarkable thing was not him trying to get the scandal behind him, not having a press conference, but the fact that he decided, yo...

Service members 50 years hence? >> those are big policy issues, but all of those issues that lgbt issue, the racial issues, all of those things have long ago been solved on the battlefield where, as general mccaffrey was saying, that the camaraderie, the intense love that is built up between combat soldiers and marines that enables them to say, yeah, ill give up my life for you and i know that youll give up your life for me. that is just overridden. all of those other differences so that in an i...

What faith teaches us it is our obligation to take care of our brother and feed the hungry and to heal the sick. i havent heard some leaders of faith have done that, but not all. >> well, i think there are voices of faith standing up around the country and saying that these policy issues that you described snap the food stamps program and others are moral issues and great work happening in north carolina right now. clergy across the state are standing up around an initiative called moral monday ...

About policy issues, mentoring issues, educational issues. and then, reverend al, weve got to bring whites to the table. >> right. >> to really have an honest conversation about race relations without them calling us disingeneral -- insightful because we bring things up. thats disingenuous. come to the table. face it so we can fix it. >> and work it together. you know, the parents of trayvon martin released a statement supporting ron andalus lucia, t parents of this young man. its hard to believ...

The issues that he stated that he cares b immigration, job inequality, when youre talking about the disproportionate about of black and latino young men in jail because of pot violations compared to young white men, he can only have these conversations if he starts actually saying, look, we do have a race problem and proportionately these issues were talking about, income inequulty has to do with the fact that were not talking about race in its wholeness. until we have that conversation, we cant...

Care enrollment. he said, no, im not even going to accept that money. not going to do those things. important policy issues. we want to make sure those dont get lost in the personality and the politics. >> and the other issue is -- when youre -- but when youre having this argument about did hoboken get enough and the governors office is strongly saying, oh, no. they got all this money. getting lost is, clearly, publicly, the mayor of hoboken has been saying consistently, we did not get enough. w...

In terms of vast generalations instead of great policy issues. >> so i think the public opinion on the 20-week ban is interesting. different polls say differ things. it depends on how many exceptions you allow, which is often the case for all abortion polling. >> as i would not dopy job if i remind seven out of ten americans support roe v. wade. >> we will talk about how all this will change in and when a certain candidate enters the race. i think its like adding explosiveness to an already expl...

Arent necessarily the most articulate spokes people. as a result we talk about this in terms of vast generalizations instead of great policy issues. >> so i think the public opinion on the 20-week ban is interesting. different polls say differ things. it depends on how many exceptions you allow, which is often the case for all abortion polling. >> as i would not be doing my job if i remind seven out of ten americans support roe v. wade. >> we will talk about how all this will change in and when ...

Two, the last time i checked for that to happen. >> thats true. conservatives i know and respect and follow on this, say the war on women has been a fab bricks by the democratic party successfully to drive this wedge. b, its liberals who obsess over the birth control issue and republicans dont want to talk about it. then i feel like they keep talking about it. right? its like, yes, i dont think the republican party wants to wage the battle on birth control. thats not the hill you want to die on ...

It was a quick round, bill. >> the president claimed he didnt know. he didnt know about the nsa spying on allies, he didnt know about the obama care website, he didnt know that you wouldnt be able to keep your doctor. so how -- whats the difference between christie not knowing and the president not knowing? >> the difference is the issues that president obama said he didnt know about why policy issues. this is a scandal. how could you compare that to health care policy, intelligence policy and f...