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Were not trying hard enough. that is my opinion. >> what do you make of -- we played sound bytes there. people, i think mischaracterizing the segment, describing me as outrageed and angry. if you watch it, just, i mean, does this say outrage to you? >> when i read the piece author seems to have, shes african american and seemed to have real pain in having grown up with this image of a white santa. she speaks about it honestly saying i didnt understand why that had to be. your thoughts? >> i dont...

How he handled the messy rules of the senate, historians are going to be a breathtaking grab of power. they can blame republicans too, but cokie, what i was fascinated by when i was in congress and turn to my republican brothers and sisters, i say you guys are acting like republicans are going to be in charge for the rest of our life. you do know that the way we treat them will be held against us when they get back in power. i wonder democrats employing this option, do they not know that 2014 is...

Voted for the bill. the democratic leader said they were just protecting themselves from getting steam rolled by attack ads. >> what you saw with those people who had real serious concerns, the fact of the matter is about 30 of them and i have talked to them were insulating themselves against sound bytes. >> does that work? >> thats the unknown question. they have gotten push back from insurers. to the presidents proposed fix. the president of the leading trade group of insurance companies said ...

Insurance policy, and you voted against it. so they wanted to insulate themselves from that. but the fact of the matter is, if you look at the second part of that deal, it allowed insurance policy companies to continue selling what we know to be substandard policies. >> but you still voted for it. >> i may not call them junk. gentlemen, they voted for them. i dont blame anybody for insulating themselves from the soundbytes because thats the world we live in, unfortunately. >> final word, do you ...

This moment. i dont know, i like this person he is my friend but he is doing the wrong thing. how do i handle that. these are complicated situations that kids are getting into. they need more than sound bytes. >> parents think how do i get them off the video games? >> that is mine. >> and i had to start limiting to the point where i allowed my son to earn the time and it was limited in fashion. is there anything wrong with boys being fascinated by that? >> of course not. they are not all bad. wh...

Does get ushered in on october 1st. in other words the exchange become public and searchable and things like that i will say the downside for the president and the white house is i would much rather see those sound bytes be an explanation of what goes into effect on october 1st. than a lot of quotes around whats happening in the shutdown. and in some sense is, that is a little bit of a victory for conservatives, because the president is right now having an argument with them, rather i think what...

Rally and a campaign in which youre explaining obama care, is there was very little in those sound bytes that walked people through what we know theyre still confused about on obama care. so it goes to what some of david said, which is the campaign has been timed not sort of six months ago, but literally for the beginning of the exchanges. and i wonder if thats a strategic question that they might reexamine going forward. >> to this point, i dont know if they waited strategically to try and -- i...

Do you think that people keep their base fired up and they get the people in the middle who are undefied sided? >> i think both sides feel they are fighting and they detest the new law. nor does he want to negotiate over the debt ceiling. sure in todays media filled world it almost seems like you have to talk about terrorism or the slave act as the president referenced in his speech in maryland yesterday in in order to break through and get clicks and have your sound bytes played over and over a...

>> a lot of the business owners around the country are looking what it means for them. what the costs are going to be. a lot of people making the decision whether theyre going to drop health insurance for their employees and just pay the fine because its cheaper. so, theres going to be a lot of unintended consequences, dont you think? >> do another repeal vote. part of the problem is, how does this get managed and the obama administration and the states set up their exchanges? >> time is wasting...

Much de bunked. that and the question of who -- >> how about president obama? we rolled three sound bytes after susan rice went on the talk shows that you mentioned were wrong. president obama still repeating those talking points. >> he said he was using his initial intelligence brief. wait a second. whether the president was involved in that process between then and the times he said those things, i cant tell you, i dont think anybody can tell us. >> he said he called it terror from the get go....