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The republicans are saying. they say president obama is facing questions. each time the president claims he department know. he didnt know about the nsa spying on allies, he didnt know that if you keep your doctor -- so whats the difference between christie not knowing and the governor not knowing. >> the difference is president obama said he didnt know about policy issues. this is a scandal that leads to his office in which his staff and possibly him exacted political retribution in retaliation...

Go. >> the president has claimed that he didnt know. he didnt know about the nsa spying on allies. he didnt know about the obamacare website. he didnt know that if you -- 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 were policy issues. this is a scandal. how could you compare that to health care policy, intelligence policy and f...

The top aides, youre not buying that, correct? >> like i said, his statement and actions thus far have proven that hes not a straight shooter that he has claimed to be and the questions require answers. he needs to step up and face the music and answer those questions. >> congresswoman, heres what the republicans are saying. they say president obama is facing controversies. each time the president claims he didnt know. he didnt know about the nsa spying on allies, he didnt know obamacare website...

Military officers by senior white house officials including the president and the vice president and this became a big problem for him. what do you say -- >> again, i think you have to take the full picture here, john. i would say on that matter, i think the american people expect that their commander in chief listen to all of his adviser, civilian and military when it comes to discussions and debates about matters of war and peace and decisions that affect the lives of our men and women in unif...

Way. and that is your mornings dish of scrambled politics. joining me now for our first look at politics is bobfranken. >> i think the person running audio on that jack kingston sound bite should probably sweep the floors, too. i have no idea what the man said. >> next time well get it with subtitles. lets talk about obamacare. for the first time since it launched, the white house is using michelle obama to help sell it. first ladies dont normally get involved in policy issues. why is she gett...

Debate right now on the nsa than the u.s. has that in decades. thats a development. you have to link it back to snowden. >> robert, the nsa is obviously going to have a huge impact on all sorts of political issues in 2014, but there will be other issues. im trying to figure out where this country is going to go. we can look to a recent nbc/wsj poll, which points out there are significant gender gaps on all sorts of major policy issues. when you look at should congress be republican controlled, p...

Conversations with him. first of all, did he make it clear -- did you emerge from those discussions convinced, as you apparently said, that hes going to run for president? >> i asked him directly. he tried to skirt the issue, but basically said that he would be traveling throughout the country and that he would -- i asked him was he going to new hampshire, to south carolina, iowa? and he said he probably would be going to all of those places and doing the things that a presidential candidate wou...

We did talk about this on the show this morning. i want you to hear the different views. >> they think the problem is about the rhetoric. it is not. republicans say they want to do better outreach to women while trying to push greater restrictions to womens access on health care. >> republicans dont have a problem working and talking with women we controeg l 30 of the governships and 26 state houses and senate chambers. we in fact now how to speak to women on policy issues.

Off, it may actually be rhetoric. i didnt think it was actually that bad of an idea to say, sit down and listen to me, these are not ways to do this. >> the president improved his communication skills talking with women as we saw from that tape. look, at the end of the day, republicans dont have a problem working with and talking with women. we control 30 of the governor ships. we control 26 state houses and senate chambers, you know, we in fact know how to speak to women on their policy issues....

But now it has worked for you, is that right? >> it is. i had a ureka moment yesterday. and what broke the log jam for me was a new feature on the website that allowed me to withdraw my prior applications. this time i used a brand-new e-mail, frankly an e-mail address that i obtained just for this purpose. because the system wouldnt allow me. i made so many efforts i think the system thought i was somehow a fraud, to which i responded if a crook spent that much time trying to peninsula me, he --...