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Narrative around fairness, tax policy, things that they want to keep kind of in the ether, on the front burner. it doesnt talk about the economy, which is of course where republicans want to go. white house press secretary jay carney got a few questions about the harry reid claim and pivoted back to policy. this is what he said today. >> the reason why this is an issue at a policy level is because the president believes very strongly that we need to have greater tax fairness. and that we need to...

What, 132 days? >> right. >> so one of the things he did today was continue on with his fundraisers when i think he could have served himself a lot more by dropping the fundraiser, sending a surrogate and head to colorado. wyoming and colorado, my home states. they have tremendous problems, lots of wildfires. if he wants to be out of washington and he wants to look presidential, it would have been a much better way for him to spend his day and it would have given a lot of needed comfort to the f...

What, 132 days? >> right. >> so one of the things he did today was continue on with his fundraisers when i think he could have served himself a lot more by dropping the fundraiser, sending a surrogate and head to colorado. wyoming and colorado, my home states. they have tremendous problems, lots of wildfires. if he wants to be out of washington and he wants to look presidential, it would have been a much better way for him to spend his day and it would have given a lot of needed comfort to the f...

Rick klein of abc news. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. before we get to the political implications of this and they are considerable, lets talk about the policy. the administration will stop deporting younger illegal immigrants between the ages of 16 and 30. they then will be able to get renewable work permits. but to qualify, they must be in the u.s. for at least five years. no criminal history. graduated from high school or served in the military. steve, good idea or not? >> look, i...

Whats most alarming is it means women wont have access to cancer screens, to basic well women checkups. we have seen more than 100,000 women in texas lose access to basic preventive care. this would be another 100,000 women. so were hopeful in courts but we shouldnt have to be going to court to protect womens basic access to health care in this country. >> thats the thing. its not just in texas. you have similar legislation in arizona. the courts have blocked efforts in indiana, kansas, north ca...

Why are we sort of at this knifes edge, intense fraught pitch for a long period of time. >> part of the question is why doesnt it move along with progressive shifts on gay marriage. part of that is that gay marriage ends in something to celebrate, a wedding. once you kind of -- >> thats a good point. once you get under, over the kind of underlying bigotry, theres, you know theres kind of just its just good. whereas an abortion isnt something to celebrate. right. its much more morally fraught and...

That got passed and we had you on to talk why it is a scam. the actual jobs act, the american jobs act, that was a concrete discrete bit of expansionary policy they tried to put forward. he did the primetime speech, he did all the things, it went nowhere because whatever you say about partisanship at a policy level one party is implaquably committed. >> obama has put social security on the table to be cut under the theory of this phony crisis that doesnt exist. >> right? >> and as soon as he did...

Romney and how hes got to claw back some of the deficit hes now got with women voters with independence, this makes no sense. by the way, the irony of them doing it in the name of family values is also obscene. this is womens health. its basic health services. i dont think it works on a policy level. i dont think it works on values. just within this strange dynamic of the republican party at this time -- look, if acorn was still alive, theyd still be trying to shut it down. >> the repercussions ...

We need to be having a more comprehensive conversation. its easy to attack the president what he said if people had to pay the real price, then you know, maybe they would be quicker to get off of oil. so how do we have a conversation? even if we got gas prices down, thats not going to solve the fundamental problem. >> i think the deal is -- the rules are if youre an office, you own it. we have seen that in the the last 20 years. cut both ways. both parties. i dont think -- >> its hard to escape....

Spikes in law schools and business schools relating to the economy because people think these are safe bets. they are not depending on what school you go to. i didnt know peter was 63. with a bow tie, hes looked 63 for a long time. i had to get that in there. i think at the policy level, what you have to do ultimately is figure out whether we are just talking about education in the broadest strokes as something we fund or whether we have job training and job placement in part of a federal recove...