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And the computers were going to cut into the post office profitability. they didnt. they let the problem fester. why is the united states of america. why do so many americans want the big government to run things when they cant run them? they just cant do it. >> i agree with you entirely. although i must say there were a lot of americans who were fooled by obama when he ran for office in 2008. he was a row shark rorschach test. >> bill: he was clear to me and other interviewers that he was a big...

if they fail -- and thats expected -- what happens? >> reporter: it seems that despite the very -- we call it the super committee and they had super powers. this committee written in law had the power to bypass many of the procedural hurdles that slow down and hold up legislation up here on capitol hill. despite having the power these 12 committee members were not able to bridge the gap on a philosophical difference on what they believe. a big issue thats held up negotiations to this p...

im not getting into that. >> i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. thats really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. >> were covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. lets go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to b...

Speech but that dont mean it was a campaign speech. it was funny monitoring twitter. some headlines said chris christie leaves the door open. chris christie loning towards getting in the race. others saying chris christie rules out a run for the white house. hes basically the rorschach test for republicans right now. it depend on whether you want to see him get in the race. bill: what does it say about how republicans feel about the current field? >> i believe there is some dissatisfaction about...

money and influence. how deep does that run? take a look. the television empire, fox with its news programming is part of his world. 20th century fox was huge, hit films. in publishing, "new york post," "wall street journal," what he has in print, along with harpercollins publishers limited, books like sarah palins, all part of the empire of rupert murdoch. we will dig much deeper into the rupert scandal and one of the senators calling for an investigation. first, one of the other stor...

Taking credit seems to be just as much there in a different -- imagine george bush giving that statement. he would have made it about the s.e.a.l.s and obama made bit himself. isnt the whole story they have made up multiple stories and cant keep their story straight about how we got osama? maybe that doesnt matter in the long run but certainly wasnt sort of good handling of a message. right? >> i think it has been handled quite well. what we are talking about is inside the beltway nuances. for t...

Valuable -- vital information sometimes but it also leads us to intense criticism. frankly, i think looking back over these years and i think this should be a very thorough analysis, as leon suggests, of what contributed to our ultimate success, but looking back on it, it was putting together lots of different pieces of information the interrogations that are permissible under law, the -- >> right. >> electronic surveillance, the overhead surveillance, all these pieces led one toward the other. ...

This is murky. im getting almost like a rorschach test, depending who you ask, you get different responses. john mccain, of course, who was a prisoner all those years in vietnam at the hanoi hilton, of course, was tortured many of those years, doesnt like torture. dianne feinstein is chair of the intelligence committee on the senate side and she doesnt like it. the bush people, as a group, say it works. im not for it. it looks like it is murky. your view? >> im somebody who is against torture bu...

Sometimes but it also leads us intense criticism. frankly, i think looking back over these years and i think this should be a very thorough analysis, as leon suggests, of what contributed to our ultimate success, but looking back on it it was putting together lots of different pieces of information and the inference that i have and i think senator feinstein has reflected, is that a lot of this information was on taubed the traditional way. the interrogations that are permissible under law, the -...

Court appeared to rule, im not a lawyer, but talking with my colleague, they appeared to go with the letter of the law. >> the president and the state of the union address coming up. as weve seen the president taking a centrist approach, is this a sign of pragmatism going on? some people are saying where is the real president obama and is he showing up tomorrow night? >> reporter: its funny, folks who attend the white house saying this is the same guy, he ran as a pragmatic, he was just a rorsch...