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Richard? >> i guess that means im going to become a pastor. i dont know. >> very interesting. >> its a sunday, why not? very interesting stuff. savannah sellers, thank you. all right. lets bring in political analyst robert trainen and a democratic strategist. thank you. ivanka reacted to the criticisms and she put out a statement. she said this heard, i have heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity and volunteering complying with the ethics rules and ...

Ethics forms and she has to be transparent. it means she needs to use a government e-mail. it means that in fact she could be subpoenaed before congress if need be. it means just that. shes a government employee whether shes making 1 4u00 $10 year or $1, she has to abide by every single ethics law that every single government employee has to abide by. thing is a good thing and kudos for her for proactively doing this. >> you heard savannah describe the precedence here, right, that we have seen b...

Woman voters get it, theres nothing pro woman about the obamas economy record, poverty rates and stagnant employment. are you concerning president obama is losing his edge with women? >> i think everybody expected things would get closer as we got closer to the election, but i want to disagree with robert. mitt romney and paul ryan have said they would sign legislation that would ban abortion. so they did want to overturn roe v. wade. so am i surprised that women are a like i might like romney m...

Top republican donors are in a three day retreat for mitt romney in the midst of a final push of a tight campaign. heres an example of why the money is so important to they will. las vegas, battleground state nevada, its seen more than 73,000 ads this election cycle. the most of any media market and the most ever in a single year. and theres plenty more to come. with three weeks to go until election day, the campaign ads will be kicking into overdrive. now, the romney campaign and republicans ju...

Massachusetts have said governor romney was not that conservat e conservative. and according to the debate a week and a half ago when governor romney was asked about raising taxes on the rich, he said that i would not do that. when he was asked specifically about certain aspects of the health care plan, he obviously acknowledged in a more mod ral tone. so when take you a look at his record and what he said, the facts pretty much speak for themselves. >> robert, daniella, thank you both. . if t...

Again. >> vote. >> vote. >> vote for barack obama. >> robert, im wondering if this is a problem for mitt romney whose frankly position on abortion has been a little fluid. >> theres a cup ku cup he will inaccuracies. the president cannot overturn row v. wade. when you take a look at the cross tabs, wecomen are saying like governor romney, im willing to give him a second look, i didnt understand where he stood during the primary season, but now that i understand his positions during the debates, ...

Calling for shake-ups at some point, even in successful campaigns. all inside baseball. but the one thing that robert said thats absolutely right is it does contribute to the image of a man who has no consistency, who doesnt believe in anything and who flip-flops across the board. what he just said is exactly the position that governor romney should take. look, the conservative base is coming at in my judgment to vote against president obama. what governor romney has to do to that 15% of the ele...

>> robert, you heard the poll i mentioned a few moments ago with 46% of the majority thinking that the health care law is going to hurt the national economy. as an economist, do you think thats true? is there going to be the money to pay for what we need? >> i think a poll of voters asking what they think the effect of of the health care law will be on the economy is not a very good way to figure out what the effect will be. theyve heard hostile advertisements for the last two years about the he...

Robert, thank you for being here. >> nice to be here, alex. >> so this first half of your piece provides a really simple explanation of why the current health care system does not work and how it came to be. give us a very short version here. >> okay, i think every economist begins with the idea that private insurance markets are, if anything, the worst possible business model for providing health coverage. the basic problem is that, if an insurance company can predict that youre going to need e...

Every other sector of the economy, when theres more competition for your dollar, the firms step up and provide better quality at lower prices. theres every of reason to expect that to happen here, too. >> robert frank from cornell, we appreciate your time. thank you. >> its a pleasure. in a moment, the price of vanity. during these tough economic times, are americans willing to pay up to look good? ♪ the glamorous mouth may startf as an irritant. itll cause cavities, bad breath. patients wil...