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Who just had a press conference today. carly fiorina. what are they doing? theyre talking from their gut. from the emotional part of saying how do i connect with the voter? in talking about issues as well. we could be all the policy wonk in the world. but, guess what? politics to a certain extent is changing. its almost becoming like the entertainment industry. we need to figure out besides it being entertaining that we have candidates, especially like today like 9/11 where we are dealing with i...

Gut. from the emotional part of saying how do i connect with the voter? in talking about issues as well. we could be all the policy wonk in the world. but, guess what? politics to a certain extent is changing. its almost becoming like the entertainment industry. we need to figure out he besides it being entertaining that we have candidates, especially like today like 9/11 where we are dealing with incredibly tough issues. we need the president -- the presidential quality of a good manager, stron...

Someone was going to offer an amendment for our side saying, you shouldnt cut it, so the bottom line is, there are people who are particularly energized about what happened yesterday in philadelphia. and they should be. but it has more to do with the broader debate about whether we should be investing in affordable mass transit rather in city transit systems or passenger rail or light rail. this debate has been going on. and is going to continue to go on. >> let me ask you about the positive tra...

>> can use prosecutorial discretion to make determination what is priorities will be? there will be always for any president, there will not be enough people to do everything that needs to get done. so they are going to have to make decisions right? that falls under his discretion and i think that is their argument. laurence tribe, the most respected constitutional lawyer in the country has said this is, this falls under the presidents authority. so i agree with you. i think its a gray area. i t...

They need to start talking. now some will say its talking, some will say its negotiating. ill leave that to them. the american people think they need to get in a room and figure it out. i do think its possible. because i think the president understands, like it or not, he can win in the short term by blaming republicans, but unless he helps speaker boehner out of this mess, his second term agenda is gone. they need each other until the midterm elections and youll find people that think the democ...

Couple of days who are, a, appalled by the use of chemical weapons and many believe, you know, a line has to be drawn, whether it was drawn at the right time or in the right way or whatever, that you have to do something, and be, want to back up the president. everything does seem to become political if washington as you well know. >> yeah. >> and so youve got some former hawks who are saying wait a minute, on the republican side, and youve got former doves on the democratic side saying go ahead...

Important because watertown is a town of -- eight square miles, 32,000 people. everybody there heard it. everybody wanted to know what was going on. and it was our job to let them know what was going on. >> the police let you stay there. they werent pushing you a i side saying get out of here or anything like that. >> police were no sso focused. when we got there, maybe five officers, their priority was protecting themselves, the public, apprehending this person, they didnt even notice us in the...

Believe in government action to increase the rights of people or to strengthen the safety net or to rev up the economy would take issue at this and not like this speech. this was a sort ideological speech. i dont remember any of these people, anyone on the conservative commentary, decrying ronald reagans speeches when he put out conservative principles. the government is the problem, not the solution, and gave a point of view. so, i mean, its really i think hypocrisy on their side saying, oh, my...

These people, i am also not displeased when i hear these wacko comments because it drives more and more people who are on the fence over to our side saying, look, these guys are nuts, weve got to have sensible gun laws. and we do have to have sensible gun laws. let me tell you for every representative stockman, theres representative dent and fitzpatrick and gerlach who -- >> explain that because you know that suburban politics where you have republicans representing moderate political communitie...

Committee asked a federal court to make attorney general eric holder turn over documents it wants to see. president obama says the documents about the botched gun-tracking program called fast and furious are protected by executive privilege. though they dont appear to actually involve the president. the white house claims the investigation is politically motivated. >> of course it is politically motivated. they said it was -- >> what isnt? >> at this point everything is. democrats are saying it ...