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Strategist, and sitting with me, and also of course our senior msnbc political analyst. shall r84% with a positive reaction. 52% very positive reaction to the speech last night, so it reminds me of one of those clinton speeches when all the experts said too much detail. the public loved it. i heard some of the commentators say too little detail. i think they missed what was going on, as we obvious do. people out there in the country heard a very powerful narrative, rooted in american history, sa...

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You are or not, i want to know historically if its true or not. >> its not the dumbest thing thats been said about the end of the soviet union. what she wanted to say is the soviet union spent so much money that it bank resulted itself and ended. and investments in sputnik were the beginning of that bankruptcy. thats wrong on two counts. first of all, actually 1957, which ed and i remember very well, it was a scary moment. >> i was 50. >> we remember it because when it happened they made all ame...

>> its not michele bachmanns response to the state of the union shes talking about, its this. >> what was up with that? >> where was her producer? why was she looking off-camera? >> balloon head. >> what was she doing looking at the wrong camera? >> i call her a balloon head for a reason. >> who looks at the wrong camera? who looks at the wrong camera. >> good evening from new york. im lawrence odonnell. today president obama reiterated his state of the union call for a new sputnik moment in ame...

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Competitive, investing in innovation and education and infrastructure. making sure that we are responsible about bringing down our deficit. >> those points are reflected in this just released excerpt from the prepared text of the presidents speech. half a century ago when the soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. the science wasnt there yet. nasa didnt exist. after investing in better research and education we...

For washington this year. in the annual state of the union address, president obama proposed a series of measures aimed at trimming the nations massive budget deficit. among them, a freeze on domestic spending which would save $400 billion over 10 years. he proposed lowering the corporate tax rate and he called for cooperation from all parties in government to increase the global competitiveness, encouraging more initiatives for education and innovation. >> half a century ago when the soviets be...

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President talked about. do you agree with him? is this our moment? >> that was another one of those wtf moments that when he has so often repeated the sputnik moment that he would aspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space. yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> well, the soviet union went down after t...