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>> rev, joe points out the primary problem which is the base is shrinking. but within that minority party loves this rhetoric and it speaks to them in certain ways. thats where they live and breathe. but another huge problem is what youre pointing out in that segment which is the entertainment complex of the right wing. drives a lot of their policy thinking and a lot of their political maneuvers. they also speak to that same sort of minority within the minority party of the republican party. tha...

>> no, i dont think they say that. they get a policy thinking they may not even know how long they will need it for. theyre out of work. they lost their job. they go get a policy, six months later, they get a job. theyre covered by their employer, something else happens, they can sell it and move on. insurance rates are pretty heavily regulated in terms of what the insurance companies can do. lets lock at this last chart and remind ourselves what is supposed to happen under the ofordable care ac...

To figure out the majority of the country would like to have background checks. what can we do to make that happen? the majority of the country would like to see something done on immigration reform and for the life of the republican party as we all know something needs to be done with regard to immigration reform. and yet theyre not doing anything. and so as long as they put short-term political gain ahead of sort of long-term policy thinking, thats not only good for the party, the republican p...

About keeping something from happening and not about trying to figure out the majority of the country would like to have background checks. what can we do to make that happen? the majority of the country would like to see something done on immigration reform and for the life of the republican party as we all know something needs to be done with regard to immigration reform. and yet theyre not doing anything. and so as long as they put short-term political gain ahead of sort of long-term policy t...

You take h this thing. you take this mba policy thinking. thats the problem with ed policy now. its the this view of problems that are more complex. its like saying a teacher will get lazy when they have tenure. a teacher wants to teach. why else would you take a [ bleep ] salary and really long hours and do that job? >> 10% -- >> where do you get that number? >> maybe youre a [ bleep ] cameraman, i dont know. >> reaction from michelle fields, mark hannah, good for you, a. b, what a phony. love ...

Dominance of policy thinking ended when barack obama was elected president. but today was the day that the obama administration made the single biggest play to define what comes next. today, he nominated chuck hagel, in doing, he nominated the first vietnam veteran. >> he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that is something we only do when it is absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared to the guy at the bottom who is doing ...

Ugly event in libya just before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing toind out what happened then. >> paul: so, susan rices nomination becomes an opportunity in dans...

Before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing to find out what happened then. >> paul: so, susan rices nomination becomes an opportunity in dans telling to try to get ...

Control of the partys policy thinking to score those political points. >> because there is an opening. well be finding out about what the obama side wants people to watch and listen for what r boert gibbs joins us live from the spin room next. this is msnbcs live coverage of the last presidential debate. well be right back. >> theres no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a foreign administration. >> im sorry. could i just pause. i did understand you to say that the...

Whether its the conspiracy theories about the president not being born here, whether social problems -- fiscal policies. this the not a policy thinking toward the future, their future or the countrys future. they are ignoring hispanic, lat latinos and hispanic, young people, black people, brown people. >> women. >> dont forget the gays. >> people that have higher education. >> john, do you agree with alex that this is party rooted in a period, i guess, not the last, but the last century, i guess...