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With a conclusion theres a valid reason to have the stand your ground law in florida. >> it is interesting because the stand your ground aspect of this is kind of a model. the two people who authored the bill said this is not a stand your ground case. you have mark omara, george zimmermans lawyer, saying this is not a stand your ground case. now everyone seems to agree but the upshot of that is the law of florida -- >> theyre not alone. several states have this law. >> florida was a test case an...

Forward. thats a generally popular message until you start cutting people where they can feel it. i think both sides are wondering how much do people feel it? when you have this game of political chicken, i think both sides are using this as a test case. >> even if they do feel it at home, how much are they willing to september? >> people do understand that a huge deficit is not great for the kids or grandkids, but how much will it affect me day to day? both sides i think will let this run out. ...

Me twice as long to fly to chicago than a week ago, because were having this crazy budget fight, why cant we raise taxes a bit? thats exactly what the white house wants. let the republicans have this test case and let people see what happens. ill bet people say raising taxes a bit on the wealthy is fine. the way it could backfire is if people dont really notice, its not such a big deal, it turns out theres a lot of fat to trim after all. it will be interesting to see to see how it plays out. >> ...

Want to do. the test case is gun control. talk about it in the state of the union as we talked about on this show. im extremely pessimistic whether anything can be done you look at the republicans and democrats elected officials, theres not a majority that want to do it. it will be a good test case to see if they can use the public pressure, west virginia and harry reid in nevada to do things they might not otherwise want to do. im extremely skeptical. people have tried this in the past. no doub...

Its not a moment to go small. secondly, talking about the nra thing there, this actually has got bigger stakes even than gun control. this has become one of the first tests in recent american politics of special interests versus the national interest. so this is not just about now gun control. this is a real question about whether todays washington can take on wealthy, powerful special interests. today its the nra. and the budget debate, its going to be other groups. >> aarp. >> this is an inter...

State. that there isnt some kind of tough restriction. so thats going to be an interesting test case in terms of the rest of the country and how much the gun control groups still feel that they can have an influence with elected officials because thats going to affect what happens here in washington, if anything happens here in washington. one thing i would pick up on what jon meacham said is it is about a culture of violence. of course it is. but there is that culture of violence in countries a...

Is that the u.s. is going to be much -- it is going to lead a lot less i than it has. >> we had the right strategy. we could have the right strategy and there isnt an opportunity. >> in the 1920s it game clear that the victorious powers of the united states, france, britain werent prepared to enforce the global order that they had imposed at thefo versailles settlement. and it became obvious to countries like germany and the soviet union that this they could violate with impunity. in 1922 you ha...

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Any decent conception of the interest of the country, it is being waged for, that implicates the united states autonot to happen. and thats also something also working in the background of the criticism of hagel over his israel comments because he simply looks like someone who is a skepticism, who exhibits a skepticism, who would be at the helm of the pentagon. >> but at this point obama is going to look really weak if he doesnt own hagel. and hes been so silent. i really just dont understand wh...

Much broder than he had anticipated. jenna: so that brings us to another central question, robin. do you think the priority of morsi and who is in charge of forming this new egyptian government, the priority is a stronger, safer, more powerful egypt, or a stronger, more powerful muslim brotherhood? what, where dot priorities lie? >> oh thats the big question. well know more over the next week or 10 days. this is a confrontation that cant endure because it has the potential to do the same thing t...