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Ago. >> the thing im having a hard time getting my hands around -- ezra, you say this is a big problem. the problem is theres a context now in which the media is in its own kind of frenzy mode. >> right. >> we played this tape yesterday of the kind of genera of the reporter calls and gets put on hold. >> right. >> and what ends up happening for me is im having a harder and harder time getting my arms around what the scale and context of this is. and ezra im hearing from you, this is a big proble...

Attention in the questions of secretary lew this week in his hearing. lets listen. >> government keeps growing and growing. when it grows that means theres more people in the wagon and less pulling the wagon. >> if we get back to real budget negotiations, assuming eventually they will resolve the debt ceiling crisis and talking about budgets, thats going to be at the core, isnt it, of the fighting between the democrats and the republicans? >> the fact is that republicans do this as an aging popu...

Marsha ivans who wroed this, she questioned many things from the space capsule to the training of bullocks character. she sums it up by saying, quote, for me, its just too hard to watch. the scene in which debris is falling through the atmosphere u breaking up into streaking balls of white, finality brought back, slamming back, to say, to mind the real life image burned there forever of the last moments of the "columbia" shuttle. she said i had to look away. i wanted to ask, who is going to like...

Fiction. >> i went to see "the core" in grad school. we were laughing at different times than the rest of the audience as a group of geo physicists. >> jean luc margo says things are looking up. >> it is a shuttle mission that has happened. they pay attention that sound doesnt propagate in space. they also tried to portray the momentum p. when sandra and george collide with each other, and they will sort of bounce off with each other. >> i would give it an a. >> sandra bullock and george clooney...

Distraction. it isnt the core of what the problem is. over 3 million guns in -- >> no, no, professor, the nra says it is not the problem. nothing to do with guns. why dont you understand that? >> i understand the facts of reality. the facts of reality, you live in a country with 300 million guns in circulation, there is these kinds of challenges and problems. we have to go to the heart of the problem here and honestly this conversation about mental health, i think tends to just allow us to conti...

Project at the core. so we will talk more in a moment, but first, it is time for a preview with alex vwitt. >> hello, and glad to be with you again. some are kaling for a partial shutdown there in washington. and denver is doing everything right that d.c. is not. the mayor will join me with advice. and newly revealed fbi files show marilyn monroes connections to communism, and i will talk to the agency who got these files published. and al roker will talk about the valuable advice he got from wi...

Decisions we need to make ahead. what are some facts that you have come across that seem consistent in the school shootings that you have looked at? >> well it seems sometimes this is a new phenomenon. that it struck in the late 80s and went through the 90s but in fact the first school murder was in 1927. it was a school board member who detonated the local elementary school in bath township, maine, killing 37 students, children, elementary schoolchildren, and seven adults. so that makes it the ...

>> do you -- okay. do you really think he thinks that, that its something that -- you dont think he has a gut feeling about it, a belief? >> i dont think he has a core conviction about what the federal government should do with abortion. again, you look at how much hes gone back and forth. again, there are a lot of republicans, there are a lot of conservative republicans, mike, who -- what? >> i believe its an impractical issue for anybody trying to run for president as a republican. im asking w...

Policies. are those the issues that have specific resonance among latinos? >> absolutely, rachel. we know from polling that over 60% of latinos support the affordable care act. 70% of latinos dont want any change in social security. latinos are progressive. they see government as being able to bring change into their lives, help them with educational policies, social policy at the core. latinos ideological line up with the progressive democratic agenda. >> victoria, visiting scholar at ut-austin...

the initial attempt to get rid of the law came in january of 2011, two weeks after the gop took control of the house. that vote passed and died in the senate however as it has every other time that the house has tried to repeal the law. president obama says he has a sure-fired way to help middle-class taxpayers to help families making less than $250,000 a year, and get rid of tax breaks for the wealthy. i want to bring in jessica yellin who is in new york today. he talked about this ...