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Boehner is talking about is a serious sore spot for this administration. this is a president who factored in domestic political situations on foreign policy arguablely to a greater degree of predecessors. when this president considers his options in iraq he faces pressure from republicans who say you lost iraq and the loss of 1.7 trillion dollars, almost 5,000 americans in that effort, you are going to make that all in vein because you will not stop the guys. >> how do they suggest they stop the...

As we know predecessors have tried to do that to get our children to eat healthier and have some better, tastier choices. im fortesty. how about that? >> tasty. >> you like that, bernie. >> do i as do, not as i say. >> news changes everything. this is where we started at this hour. we want to go to president obama, we know just held a bilateral meeting with the australian prime minister tony bab bottom in the oval office. it was supposed to be behind closed doors. in fact it was. there were ques...

Could eclipse his predecessor in the movement. >> to do that he has to survive. all three of his immediate predecessors were killed. and right now he has a u.s. bounty on his head of $10 million. wolf? >> what are you hearing, can he take baghdad? >> one analyst says he doesnt believe he can. there is tough forces there that will fight him and keep him from moving into the city. we also have the iraqi security forces and of course they were the ones that let them get this far in the first place....

The first infantry to land in france. we followed the story of these individuals through the course of the day. i mean, many of them actually died as soon as they landed. it was a terrible, terrible tale. >> recently our friend and colleague tom brokaw helped show on "meet the press" the george stephens footage, that is so remarkable. the color footage taken by the famous director george stephens, found by the directors son, that is remarkable. it shows us -- were so used to the black and white,...

Constitutional law professor barack obama as he was running for president. and he said that he would not use signing statements the way that george w. bush did. and george w. bush issued, you know, twice as many as all of his predecessors combined in provisions and bills. while barack obama has not issued as many signing statements, i talked to a number of legal experts, and, you know, academics who studied this who says he uses this power in exactly the same manner that george w. bush did. >> a...

Office january of 09 your friend must have known this is going on and why didnt desomething or scream from the treetops? >> i dont know. i think there has been a tendency not only with rick but with his predecessors that this huge bureaucracy at the upper levels in the v.a. has a habit of isolating the secretary, keeping the bad news and waiting out the man in charge. the idea is if you are a bureaucrat they cant fire me. this guy will be gone soon. i will keep the bad news from the boss and eve...

World view that dominated this country under his predecessors, george w. bush. instead of emphasizing military might and rattling sabre, the president spoke of the need to engage partners around the world and to find other ways to influence events overseas other than military action. lets watch. >> i would betray by duty to you and to the country we love if i ever sent you into harms way simply because i saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed to be fixed. or because i was worried about...

[ female announcer ] call an allstate agent and get a quote now. time now for the side show. new york mayor bill de blasio has broken with his predecessors, mayors blumburg and giuliani on numerous issues, but his latest is over something you never expect to make headlines, whether to lift the ban on keeping ferrets, there they are, as household pets. ferrets. yes, as ridiculous as it sounds, the weasel prohibition is back. originally implemented 15 years ago by giuliani, the ferret ban was mo...

>> let me ask you, james, because i admittedly have been torn covering this story. obviously, something like this happens, it garners a lot of media attention. on one hand, you have this horrific event that demands coverage. at the same time, you want to be careful not to give these killers too much attention and the platform they want, because in many cases, it seems, james, thats what these shooters are looking for. clearly elliott was looking for attention. do you think it could encourage oth...

And then what does he do? he moves the goalposts, he changes the rules. this is chris christie at his best. this is what hes done continuously. its not to be -- its not a surprise to us in new jersey, but its unacceptable. >> he ran around the state, denigrating every one of his predecessors, democrat and republican, basically being like, these shiftless losers hustled and conned all you people, because every year, year over year, they had a shortfall. and instead of paying the money into the pe...