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Political playbook, john harris. good to see you. >> here we are, hard workers, everyone else awol. >> i appreciate you being here. yesterday, i was all alone and said, we need to get harris in. i need a little early morning company. thanks for doing it. lets talk about president obama. we had the story with the banks, had that blair house meeting with the ceos to talk about the economy weeks ago, notebling because no one from the six biggest banks in the country were at that meeting. you spoke ...

Stimulus, on the screen, the number of ads that have been sponsored by the republican party. 52 of 112 ads, feature the stimulus, that is just the first part of it and there are 170 total ads that use the word, stimulus and when they talked about stimulus they used it in the following phrases: failed stimulus. wasteful and massive stimulus. so, rich, are they running toward it or running against it? >> it shows what a failure, both politically and substantively, the stimulus is and the obama adm...

The reports also said the person who lobbed this explosive device was in custody. whats interesting, kyra is just yesterday, in another gathering, president mahmoud ahmadinejad said that israelis were plotting to kill him. so maybe because of that statement, this incident today got some attention. but, again, the presidents adviser telling us that this was no assassination attempt, and we shouldnt blow it out of proportion. >> and, of course, the media advisers would want to play this down, if, ...

But substantively, it is important to keep in mind what the republicans are using the filibuster to block right now. theyre blocking wall street reform now. when more than two-thirds of americans say they want wall street reform. everybody who understands that there is an economic crisis right now, that was caused by a financial crisis, everybody who understands that wants the financial system to be fixed. so in practical political terms, how do you make the case that youre against financial ref...

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