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Day. >> ah. its the can when you cant do other things. >> indeed. >> theyre always from history. in terms of the president looking ahead at six to eight months, what theyre telegraphing right now from the white house is that the heavy lift theyre going to ask for is a variety of measures related to gun violence. because it is a variety of measures, i think they mean it to be treated as a grab bag. but eight package of immigration reform that cannot be broken into its component parts. is that the...

Going to look to the election ne next year. foreign policy is something you can do without running to congress for permission ever day. >> ah. its the can when you cant do other things. >> indeed. >> theyre always from history. in terms of the president looking ahead at six to eight months, what theyre telegraphing right now from the white house is that the heavy lift theyre going to ask for is a variety of measures related to gun violence. because it is a variety of measures, i think they mean ...

Intend to, maybe more than their first terms. why is that? >> the main reason probably is when a president comes in for a second term, he usually has about six to eight months to get things through congress. it may seem small, but even lbj in 65, with 61% presidential landslide, more democrats in congress than any other time in the 20th century except for roosevelt, he knew enough about the senate and the house, he said ive got six months because im going to be asking democrats and some republic...

Have some people believing hes telegraphing, im telling you, its simplest for you to do it, but im willing to do the more complicated route. >> im not sure thats right. i think a lot of people are on the left, including nancy pelosi who are wanting-- or invoking the 14th amendment and theyre looking at cues he might do that. and i think the cues saying he wont are stronger, jay carney said from the podium, the 14th moment saying it wont work. >> megyn: and telling our viewers, that the democrats...

State hillary clinton must appear before our foreign affairs committee and she has promised to do so before january 15th, were going to hold her to her word. we know she will be appearing there. its the first step of the whole state department and obama administration accountable after this was a terrorist attack that resulted in a murder of four brave americans. we talk a lot about ambassador stevens, dont forget smith, woods and doherty, fine americans. we have to ask ourselves, why didnt the ...

About zingers theyre talking about the hostess snack cakes. theres been so much telegraphing of punches of the romney campaign not only with the zinger comments but also last week when they started telegraphing the notion they were going to take on the president on his vars veracity, they were going to challenge his onsti. theyre tal graphed so gratuito gratuitously, it makes me think that some of these things must be decoys and that mitt romney is not going to try to throw zingers on him or hes...

Convention getting ared for big speakers. everyone is getting ready. the band is getting ready. and were getting ready. >> coming from the floor of the tampa convention there is an argument here that the crucial swing states where republican governors rule, are they improving economic fortunes helping the president? the better it looks in the swing states, the better they look for the commander in chief? there are shocking polls indicating that may not be the case, that voters may be favoring th...

This summer. >> how does he handle the cheney overture? i cant say definitively that the offer for the -- the offer for the fund-raiser came from cheney and not from the romney campaign, i should say. its hard for me to imagine that the romney campaign would go out of their way to try to evoke dick cheney in this way. how do they handle this ongoing legacy? the reason i singled out the washington post, i dont mean to pick on them, but the white wash they have run today by people saying, yes, the...

The offer for the -- the offer for the fund-raiser came from cheney and not from the romney campaign, i should say. its hard for me to imagine that the romney campaign would go out of their way to try to evoke dick cheney in this way. how do they handle this ongoing legacy? the reason i singled out the washington post, i dont mean to pick on them, but the white wash they have run today by people saying, yes, there is a joint event, but pay no mind to the connection between the two people. they h...

Obama three years ago or obama today? why not just come out and tell the american voters where you stand? kimberly, what is this all about? >> kimberly: this is -- ill use another phrase involving cake. trying to have it both ways. they are able to say marriage is between a man and woman and biden supports what president obamas stance is. but nevertheless it puts out an olive branch, telegraphing, okay, well take care of you in the second term. smart political move. its what joe biden really fee...