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Aware. >> well, we first reported this last week and it was -- actually, it was our male colleague, ted barrett, who when i got the list of members of this working group said wheres the women. >> we talked about it friday. >> we talked about it friday. now, i will say that some of the women who are in the senate and are very involved in this health care legislation and trying to make it right, susan collins among them, is saying you know what, im not worried about that. im still working and she ...

Jail time. one of the states with the weakest laws -- colorado. where el elly was hit by the seven-time offender. when we went out with this dui task force, they caught a repeat offender in just two hours. >> he has at least half a dozen twier duis. >> we went straight to the governor john hickenlooper. >> sitting here as the governor for four years, why is that? >> i think the legislature didnt feel -- they saw the decline in drunk driving fatalities and they felt the problem was being solved a...

Of their candidates lost. >> but they also had a substance problem, too. >> exactly. its about substance and its about the voters ultimately choose and theyre all equal and all cast one vote. so the suggestion i think you are getting at in the last segment that money is decisive is not only wrong as steve points out, its probably going to be more wrong over time. its how you reach them. you can reach them more economically, more targeted. >> my question was more about if shaun mccutcheon believe...

Fitted to lead. >> well, you know, again, bill, thats going to be up to the people to decide, not the politicians, not the media but the people. again, thats why we have elections. >> if your brother had gone away for a few weeks, a month, rehab, sought some help, came back, this wouldnt be an issue. he probably would win the next election by a land slide. why is there such a resistance in your family for him to talk to somebody, people that care about him just to make sure he doesnt have a subs...

Politicians, not the media but the people. again, thats why we have elections. >> if your brother had gone away for a few weeks, a month, rehab, sought some help, came back, this wouldnt be an issue. he probably would win the next election by a land slide. why is there such a resistance in your family for him to talk to somebody, people that care about him just to make sure he doesnt have a substance problem? well, you know, something, again, bill, i think we have a good team of health care prof...

Stand corrected. >> heres the problem. the white house, the administration is taking the same approach that the republican leadership did after the election. oh, it was a technology problem. theyre all running -- no, this is a substance problem going on. and people are paying more, getting less, and what they were promised, theyre not having. and doug and i, as doug pointed out, in the face of all the washington experts, how the american people would eventually embrace this, thats not going to h...

>> yeah. i think what this latest ig report points to is the fact that the administration has looked at benghazi as largely a pr problem rather than a substance problem. if you go back to the very beginning and the administrations handling of the benghazi affair they tried to suggest to the american people that the real issue here was the security issue and was the attacks themselves. and so when the arb report came out making all of these recommendation, the administration immediately, without ...

Without them he doesnt make it. >> bret: for all the criticism about mitt romney not having specifics, and paul ryan not having specifics if you look through the pamphlet, there is a question about specifics. about the presidents plan. on entitlement reform. on a lot of different topics. >> the difference isnt which candidate has specifics. the difference is who the media pestered until they provide specifics. president never offered specifics about the medicare reform or driver of the debt. he ...

Substance, and that goes so far because you have the president today saying who is the real mitt romney. the question is for example when mitt romney said he knows nothing about tax credits for people with jets and he said to the president i dont know what youre talking about, why not reply do you know what im talking about about offshore accounts and your absence of information regarding your taxes? without coming off, i guess, as being angry or some of these other notions floated around on thi...

In a stimulus that didnt stimulate and a health care bill that wasnt declared unconstitutional and higher than he would, my experience, when people say theres a campaign problem or a pr problem, its always a substance problem. i think i told you when i was in the the white house we once had an acrimonious meeting about war speeches waiting for the surge and everyone was complaining about the speeches we should say this and ratings would go up. my line was, you give me a better war, ill give you ...