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Bureaucracy is a big word and certainly hard to change big operations. there are individuals here who have strong world views, many of whom in government and security say theres too much transparency as is and yet, michael, one of the big questions we saw in the syria debate was whether the u.s. public wanted to do another intervention. and the answer widely bipartisan answer was no. and yet here we are as weve been reporting in yemen and pakistan doing these operations. >> theres bureaucracy, a...

Afford defense, maybe he should start lacking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, but i doubt he would, because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. >> thus began the great bacon war of 2013. >> this is the king of bacon talking about bacon. >> reporter: but all this talk about pork actually got at a conflict, deep within the republican party, over spending and the growing national security state. >> my problem with some of the more lib...

Afford defense, maybe he should start lacking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, but i doubt he would, because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. >> thus began the great bacon war of 2013. >> this is the king of bacon talking about bacon. >> reporter: but all this talk about pork actually got at a conflict, deep within the republican party, over spending and the growing national security state. >> my problem with some of the more lib...

Who we think has the best prospects of actually winning and getting the country back on track to create jobs again and to give the american people the prosperity and the hope theyve been looking for. >> but isnt this the issue? look, the reason there is a tea party right now goes back to president bush. i actually think it goes back to the beginning of a more robust security state. after 9/11, the government expands to deal with security, theres also medical part d, theres government spending an...

Who we think has the best prospects of actually winning and getting the country back on track to create jobs again and to give the american people the prosperity and the hope theyve been looking for. >> but isnt this the issue? look, the reason there is a tea party right now goes back to president bush. i actually think it goes back to the beginning of a more robust security state. after 9/11, the government expands to deal with security, theres also medical part d, theres government spending an...

The party or wanting to take the party in different directions. were going to listen to that as a group of voters, and ultimately the people are going to be able to make their decision. i think youll find that we will be very anxious to choose someone as our nominee in 2016 who we think has the best prospects of actually winning and getting the country back on track to create jobs again and to give the american people the prosperity and the hope theyve been looking for. >> but isnt this the issu...

Lets bring in david gregory with "meet the press." a lot to talk about this weekend. i would guess you would be focusing on the many, many failures of the rollout of health care this weekend? >> well, yeah. ill have mitt romney on. almost a year after the election to talk about it. the president has now sort of taken him on as almost an odd m administrator adviser. i want to say something about where republicans are especially with mark and nicolle. it strikes me that what you have right now amo...

And governing by crisis with gene robinson, josh green and others. plus well examine roadblocks for comprehensive immigration reform. maria teresa kumar. and well discuss with nbcs richard engel and "new york times" mark masseti u.n. report on drones and americas security state all that when "now" starts right after this. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means its never been easier to get a new passat, awarded j.d. powers most appealing midsize car, two years in a...

Security, where people walked almost unattended in and out of every building in town. and there are times in recent years where ive kind of complained out loud or to myself about the security state that we live in in washington, but the fact is, were not nearly secure enough. and this is the latest demonstration of that, i think. i think what you can expect in washington is more review, more security, more long guns and more awareness of the importance of the people and institutions around us. >...

About the security state that we live in in washington, but the fact is, were not nearly secure enough. and this is the latest demonstration of that, i think. i think what you can expect in washington is more review, more security, more long guns and more awareness of the importance of the people and institutions around us. >> well said. gene, you live here. >> yeah. >> we live with the tiger teeth and the metal detectors and the cant drive by the white house anymore and all the things that have...