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There. if you look at the executive orders, for instance, this is a president who actually had historically low numbers of executive orders. fewer than his predecessors. fewer than george w. bush. fewer than bill clinton. fewer than any president since grover cleveland. the scale of the slope if you look at the numbers of the presidents, hes at the bottom. theres not the substance of it, but i think jonathan gets to the desire on the part of base republicans to delegitimize the whole enterprise,...

Massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the brand-new u.s. e...

Shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the

>> its the first time that all these different factions and philosophies and personalities came together in one place. >> the seed was planted when there was a massive march on the pentagon. people realized that we could go beyond light protest, into more massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> had been managing the war since 1961. and the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven year as secretary of defense. no one of my predecess...

People realized that we could go beyond polite protests into more massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan. to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonigh...

>> the seed was planted when there was a massive march on the pentagon. people realized that we could go beyond polite protests into more massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan. to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say tha...

Please stop! please stop! >> it was the first time that all of these different factions and philosophies and personalities came together in one place. >> the seed was planted when there was a massive march on the pentagon. people realized that we could go beyond polite protests into more massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secre...

They always seem to increase as time goes on. and there is some consternation within that caucus about as you had barbara boxer on earlier today, making a move to be too far into iraq and being involved in it. a lot of these folks supported president obama as he wanted to get out. they dont want to see him go back in. nancy pelosi said she believes the president has congressional authority to move and does not need to seek it from them. that will probably come up with house republicans if he doe...

Reporting in "the washington post." how good is u.s. intelligence whats going on inside iraq? >> we want to know how close the tribal people, the sunnis are the key group in this case, how much are they supporting the isis folks. if you remember back in the middle of the last decade, isis or its predecessors had trouble with sunni tribes. they sort of split with isis. now its the other way. the sunnis are supporting isis and helping them actually move forward and take over cities. so the questio...

Predecessors and republican governors all around the country. when democrats swept last novembers election, recapturing the governorship, the lieutenant governors office, it looked like the medicaid expansion was going to happen. it put democrats in control of the state senate while leaving the statehouse, though, in republican hands. virginia is the only state that obama won in 2012 where a democratic governor has not been able to expand medicaid yet. it is the outlier blue state in that way. w...