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Republican party is really three parties. its kind of -- i hate to say it, archie bunker sort of party. and for the last four years, the archie bunker wing has been ascended because it was their visceral reaction to obama and they were content to let the evangelicals run in front of them. now, what youre seeing is not so much progress ideologically as the business wing assert itself. they want business reform because other big businesses want those immigration laws fixed. and they want sort of t...

To stop plots, prevent future attacks and, again, save american lives. these strikes are legal. they are ethical, and they are wise. >> for more analysis, lets bring in ryan grim, d.c. bureau chief for "the huffington post" and david corn, d.c. bureau chief for "mother jones" magazine, both super men. i think what concerns people so much about this story is what mike was referring to, the vagueness of some of the language. let me show you a few examples. targets may including al qaeda or an asso...

Top 1%. i dont know how you sort of begin to repackage that message in 2013. >> the far right is immune to the evidence of the elections. they dont really care. count chocola is a good example. his claim to fame is losing his congressional seat to joe donnelley and went on to become a senator. he brought extra democrats to the house and extra democrats to the senate. he is still pushing forward with the same strategy. because it worked for him, it works for his organization. >> weve spent a lot ...

Richard murdock or the partys current 26% approval rating. ryan, i mean, on some level this is not surprising at all, but some -- we call them reasonable minds. some insightive perhaps politically savvy minds in the republican party are thinking, hey, maybe its not so great for us to elect crazy people to the ticket. >> right. they explicitly took a hands off approach this time, and they said were going to let primaries shake out, and then were going to get in whoever wins, but its tough to figu...

Questions about what that portends and means for finance reform. ill read something from the huffington post. outside democratic groups focus on winning elections clearly hoping that ofa will be a boone to their efforts to win back the house and expand a democratic majority in the senate. campaign reformers see the launch of a nonprofit that will accept corporate donations as the final retreat from the presidents long ago we should to change the way washington works. your response to that? your ...

Were seeing now, obviously, the civil war in the gop. we saw it before with democrats. you saw the emergence, of course, of bill clinton, who was the new democrat, and you saw in some ways the only way that george bush was able to run was he sort of had a different idea about republicans too. this whole idea of compassionate conservatism. >> i have the same head-scratcher that ryan has with all of this stuff, which is that i dont understand how they square the circle between the policies that th...

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This is a whole new generation of reformers, activists, people in government. is there an expectation that the u.s. will be even that involved? >> absolutely. theyre very much a double-edged sword here. the united states suspected dictators in this part of the world for many years. people re he resent that. that has built hostility twavrdz the u.s. theyre hoping with the new changes that the united states will change its policy favoring democratic transition over stability and sometimes dictator...

Tongue-tied. at one point when he stood up alongside the president, he wasnt sure what to say. ultimately he said, mom, i made it. he handed the president a ball signed by his teammates. they gave the president a number 44 jersey from the miami heat and it turns out as we saw on twitter he and dwyane wade and some of the teammates enjoyed a little tour around the white house earlier today. so this was a pretty unique experience for some guys who its hard to imagine could be star struck themselve...

Happening in these next four years or at least while the president has kind of the space to continue to make moves politically. i think that well also see the republicans pushing back by not trying to win by communicating more with people of color or young people or even the elderly for that matter. instead, theyre going to make moves like what theyve done in the virginia state legislature, which is try to change the maps and how peoples votes are counted. so weve got to keep moving forward in a...