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Jebs second grandchild means for his candidacy. vice president joe biden, senator elizabeth warren, andrew cuomo or governor martin omalley. the vice president is the only one of them not polling in the single digits. so you got to ask, if not hilary, then who? >> that decision hasnt been made, for real. >> i have been preparing in terms of the thought work, the policy work and the groundwork necessary to offer a better direction forward for our country. >> is the presidency off the table here, ...

Care? >> i dont think it would be the first time an employee of any administration have a come to jesus. i love that term and think it is hilarious. there is 83,000 hss employees and the roll out was a challenge. we are trying to move one of the largest pieces of legislation we have seen in history. and it was a mess. it was a blupderring thing and i dont think that is new. i think they are trying to problem solve and apply discipline to make the policy work. but the fundmental thing that change...

Conser conservative health care. i think you see an interesting split where you have some people doing policy work. it is often the state versus the state level, there is room on education policy and crime and various things locate that. >> and to implement that. is that where a lot of that work is going is in the estates. >> often you see the state level is better than the federal work t. staff is there with the ability to produce real policy, i agree. the think tank is there. will they listen?...

>> what they should be concerned about is 2014. beyond the policy, theres a political cost, and it could be the senate. thats why you have senate democrats saying things like fix this and trying to propose things that they think might help make this policy work better going forward. mary landrieu, mark pryor, all of these -- you have all of these vulnerable senators in red states that are really saying, okay, the time is now to get this together and thats what they should be worried about going ...

Culture of surveillance seekers and one thing is feeding the other. >> yes, that is absolutely true, and you can draw a straight line from one to the other. >> and there is big work, policy work that needs to take place in washington, d.c. and we are talking about immigration reform, and there is a debate going on right now about whether the senate should bring up the immigration reform for debate and the debate about the debate and the senate wont hold any votes, but as we look at a new poll fr...

Questions? >> thats right. because those are the hard, detailed policy work of senators and congressmen that unfortunately gets lost in the modern system. we only have one committee chairman that shows up, but -- but i think i would point out these guys who protect diplomatses, the gentlemen who was just testifying, these are pretty gruesome situations, where your friends and colleagues are killed, and when that happens, i know i worked in the government during the east africa bombings, and ther...

It is based on mileage. >> wayne makes a good point about the privacy issue. transponder tracking my mile it is big brotherish. >> it is and john makes a good argument against it it is a important policy work. it is probably a bad idea. we dont need new tax. the mileage tax could hurt fuel efficient car it is the and questions of heavy congestion times and it is unworkable idea and why the

Billion last year. and china long since passed the u.s. as a major trading partner for africa. but there are criticisms, needless to say, of chinas work in africa that they are investing without regard to human rights and in some ways support supported regimes that abuse human rights. some look at it as a model of development, where you can grow economically, c demockratizing. >> egypt, libya, others that dominate our news cycle, we think of them as mideast regimes and think of themselves of tha...

Until maybe somebody saw it, rise up at long the ranks. this scholarship was actually my claim to fame to get to where i was right now. >> but then you did the work, which is always the other piece. >> thats always the other half. exactly. >> yes, the opportunity, but then also you did work. i will give you a quick word on this. is there something that -- should we care as diners. should we care who is our executive chef? make our choices in part financially, based on these kind of issues and co...

Resources. >> and to extract. >> and much of the criticism, most recently from jacob zuma has been that chinas relations with africa are not different from european relations in the past. >> colonial. >> exactly. where they extract natural resources, oil, member rmineral, et cetera, and send in inexpensive manufactured goods. by seconding out natural resources, africans arent able to gain the value of those resources by further developing them. >> turning oil into gas. >> or minerals into electr...