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Republican, someone who could maybe win a general election but could never win the republican presidential nomination, another rudy giuliani. perception is not always reality. >> i believe that the institution of marriage as its traditionally known is between one man and one woman. >> they said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on the public sector unions. >> im pro life, i believe in exceptions in rape, incest or life of the mother. thats my position. take it or lea...

Going to tell us? when were you going to let us know the basic information so we could have that debate and what else is there out there that we ought to be debating that we dont yet know about. those are inconvenient questions for the president but they have to be asked. >> on some level it is really hard to articulate a counterterrorism policy at a time of great change across the region, right? there is fact and history and where president obama stood as a senator and candidate on issues of su...

Were back live and im so happy to be joined on the telephone by pete rose, baseballs all-time great. he is live in cincinnati right now, also knows a thing or two about suffering through a very public ordeal in baseball after wrongdoings like a-rod is doing. so before the break, pete, i wanted to talk to you about this issue of the punishments that are being handed down to all these dope-taking cheaters in baseball now. compared to the punishment that was handed down to you. you said to the soap...

Youre absolutely right. dont lie. come forward as quickly as you possibly can. and to be honest with you, i would like to be looking for baseball, going around to these baseball camps and telling my story and its got to wake people up, as far as if you get caught, it can be a lifelong situation. >> and exactly my next point. the former commissioner said, pete rose is all about deterrent and its totally effective. vincent said, no one in baseball gambles and its all because rose. we made it clear...

Unwind the 9/11 -- or not unwind but get us past the 9/11 mindset. but this event sort of takes us -- i dont know how ever many steps backward in terms of the sense of security around a sense that perhaps we do not need a counterterrorism complex, a national security complex thats as far-reaching as we have had. can roth, the director of human rights watch, wrote the war against al qaeda is over. this is an op-ed in the "washington post." he says theses fill yachts are significant actors in yeme...

About the fact that this is now -- you were able to get nearly 100 republicans voting against it. and its just, frankly, i think the fact that its something the obama administration was hiding from the american public. so youre actually getting people breaking from their partisan lines i think for frankly cheap political reasons but at least its allowing us to have more of a conversation and have people, you know, the sort of libertarian wing -- >> libertarians on each side joining together. >> ...

They have, and interacting and solving that racial dynamic and smoothing out that racial legacy locally. you can talk till hes blue in the face. he cant solve that, not in five years. >> cornell, by talking about it, while it might satisfy some who want to see the president out in front on these issues, it also alienates a lot of people who then feel hes not the president for everybody, i suppose. youre damned if you do, damned if you dont. >> its problematic. i think race is to our culture what...

Smoothing out that racial legacy locally. you can talk till hes blue in the face. he cant solve that, not in five years. >> cornell, by talking about it, while it might satisfy some who want to see the president out in front on these issues, it also alienates a lot of people who then feel hes not the president for everybody, i suppose. youre damned if you do, damned if you dont. >> its problematic. i think race is to our culture what social security is to politics, its the third rail. you touch ...

Solving that racial dynamic and smoothing out that racial legacy locally. and he -- he can talk until hes blue in the face. he cant solve that not in five years, not in eight years, whatever. >> cornell, by talking about it, while it might satisfy some who want to, you know, see the president out in front on these issues, it also alienates a lot of people that feel hes not the president for everybody, i suppose. youre dammed if you do and dammed if you dont. >> i think race is to culture what so...

The surveillance video of the brave u.s. army soldier. this heart-stopping event took place when a man lost control of his electric wheelchair and beingly tumbled face first onto the d.c. metro tracks, literally landing just inches from the high volt aiblg third rail. thats when army specialist michael menchalka was descending the escalator and saw something go over the platform. he jumped on the tracks to assist the disabled man. thankfully, able to pull this man to safety. >> saw someone go ov...