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0 fortunate in our system. the fact that ken langone and the right-wing media feel the need to respond to the pope, i believe, means that they are very defensive and not on solid ground on the subject. they know exactly what the pope is talking about. and they shouldnt be upset because the rich, well, had a really good year in 2013. for instance, this guy, republican donor sheldon adelson, jumping to $15 billion a year. its a 16% increase in one year. its fair to say that a obama economy is work...

>> i just want to remind people that your organization is citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, or crew. how do you parse out the equation of money in speech just for starters? >> first i want to say what brad said is often not true. it is not new voices. its all voices and very few voices. very few voices on rich people. when you have a group like the american national -- or crossers theyre funded by remarkably ...

you. one, we will find and bring to justice the men who did this. and secondly, we will get to the bottom of it. wherever the facts lead us, well make clear to the american public. whatever mistakes i made will not be made again. when you look in president, martha, it seems to me should look at his most important responsibility. that is caring for the national security of the country in the best ways to look at how he handled the issues of the day. >> congressman ryan. >> weimar in the...

lot of people expressed concerns about spectrum, for example, but they didnt really think the fcc was interested in doing much about it or could do much about it. conversely, here in washington i often hear that people in silicon valley dont understand the legacy frameworks of the communications act that we have to operate under, and so its -- you sort of have two different conversations going past each other. even though we all share the same goal of maintaining a dynamic industry. so...

up next on booktv amy gutmann and dennis thompson discuss what compromise is so difficult in todays political world. the authors of "the spirit of compromise" argue constant campaigning has produced the current discord. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you so much. it is a great pleasure and privilege for me to be back at the constitution center with so many friends and philadelphia in this, extended family and especially to be here for the launch of this book. i cover politi...

But for newt to get out there and try to stir this up and suggest that barack obama is anti-white, that was really despicable, but what do you expect when youre in the death throes of a campaign. >> newt has been playing this to the campaign. in louisiana last night, somebody shouting that the president is a muslim and wants to destroy the country and gingrich not clarifying the matter at all, just letting it go. >> heres what i would like msnbc and the rest of the media to do. sheldon edelson h...

>> the lead investigator told me this was absolutely not self-defense and they needed to prove it. its been more than a month since the 17-year-old unarmed black teenager called trayvon martin was shot dead in sanford, florida. the shooter, george zimmerman, has claimed that he killed the teenager in self-defense. but an extended and newly released surveillance video is now raising serious questions about the veracity of zimmermans story. here are new angles, never seen before, showi...

its been more than a month since the 17-year-old unarmed black teenager called trayvon martin was shot dead in sanford, florida. the shooter, george zimmerman, has claimed that he killed the teenager in self-defense. but an extended and newly released surveillance video is now raising serious questions about the veracity of zimmermans story. here are new angles, never seen before, showing george zimmerman handcuffed, being brought into the sanford police station four hours after what h...

In tampa. the biggest difficulty for gingrich off of last night, though, could well be a little guy sitting out there watching this debate in las vegas, sheldon edelson thinking im through writing checks. >> thats another piece of conventional wisdom. he could also say, newts been mistreated. newts been attacked. im going to invest more. >> oh, lord. >> but there is another guy in the rocky mountain west that was watching last night going, this rick santorum guys doing okay. a ill going to write...

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