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And so this is personal for me. >> anchor kate bad win joins me now. the president seemed to be speaking from the heart right there. how much does he intend to push on these initiatives? how much does he think he can get done in the next two years? >> thats two different answers how much he wants to get done and how much he can get done are two different answers. you see why its important to him. he points to a study by the u.n. that laid out the issue of the 1858 countries that the u.n. has dat...

>> i understand that, mr. chairman and i will look -- >> thats what you said three months ago. >> im a staff-level federal employee and i do the best job i can. >> mr. huff -- >> five senate democrats are joining republicans and calling for shinseki to resign, mark ushg call, jeanne shaheen and john walb. political columnist congressman patrick murphy and hes the first iraq war vet to serve in congress and hes also an america s nbc contributor. gentlemen, thank you so much for your time. >> hi, ...

30 students in a nude selfie scandal. but police in new jersey say they really have no idea, gretchen, of how many of these nude selfies are actually on these kids phones and devices. >> wow. its such a huge problem, but it does bring to light kind of the privacy and whether or not its the kids or parents business what they want on their phones. its amazing how this is the new trend -- we didnt do this stuff when you and i were growing up. warning, now, about ecigarettes. what top scientists are...

Inexplicable if somebody involved in the creation of the website doesnt get fired. >> so, you know the team. if you were there right now, who would you recommend gets spared? >> well, the way you phrase that question -- [ laughter ] >> im making the serious point, this is a -- billions according to bloomberg, two-month-long -- you cant blame the republicans. this is a two-month-long public meltdown. look, shouldnt somebody be held accountable? >> this is a big thing. big things are heart -- ther...

Injured. 32 1/2 hours, thats whats left to go before this government shuts down. joining me live, chrkristen wel. we know president obama has said that he is going to veto the republican plan passed by the house last night. although the senate wont even take it up, so it wont probably get to that. what is, though, the presidents strategy now in terms of actually moving the ball forward? >> craig, good afternoon. i can tell you there have been meetings here at the staff level, at the white hous...

And russian officials tomorrow. they dont want the president to go to the g-20. a few called for a boycott of the olympics. any indication at all that they are going to gain momentum? >> its really a slippery slope for the administration to go down. if they continue to cancel meetings on the staff level as well. thats really where a lot of work gets done. secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel are scheduled to have meetings this week as well with russian oh fficials. if ...

About? >> i find it interesting that government christie took on senator paul in this and found it more interesting that senator paul would fire back and start this back and forth that usually leads to people like chris and myself to do that on a staff level for a couple of years. now the heavyweights are in the fight early. >> chris christie talking about government surveillance last week, pointed to what he calls a dangerous strain of libertaria libertarianis libertarianisms. he said are you r...

Then in november there was the presidential election. in march, thats when the treasury department was first informed at a staff level only were told, that there was -- they were given a draft that showed there had been wrongdoing. they found wrongdoing, but that only got to the staff level. in april of 2012, a final report got to the treasury secretary, and the deputy treasury secretary. and then in may, we all know that the final report went public. so it was in march of this year that others ...

Given how long hes been working on it, sends a message to a lot of republicans that the white house are looking for a political issue. >> i thought you didnt want the white house to be calling anybody, but okay. >> jonathan, we get past -- >> calling them and saying how can we help? how can we give you the space you need? >> john, when you get past the hurt feelings and you get to the policy, where do we end up on this? if they actually do get in a room and they get the space they need, whats th...

Figured things up. >> reporter: lawmakers are not entirely on vacation. theyre back in their districts talking about the impact of the sequester. in boston, funding for health research would be reduced. >> we have got to stop the sequestration cuts, we cant strand our researchers. >> reporter: in indiana, they could slow production driving up the cost of your main course. and in san diego, about 30,000 military jobs would be in jeopardy. >> im as frustrated as you that they sent us home. >> repo...