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Coming awfully close now to say hes going to take on social security and medicare. can you touch that third rail in politics and survive? well see. finally, mike huckabee has pulled back his claim that president obama grew up in kenya. again this week, he took back a putdown of natalie portman. thats where it belongs, in "the side show." we start with the sleazy attack on president obama and how it could hurt republicans running for president. the washington bureau chief, ron reagan. great t...

His point? people like sarah palin and huckabee to name just two are so contemptuous of the truth that the republican nominee will be collateral damage, diminished by association. if will is right, we can only say republicans will deserve what they get for not putting a stop to this sewer talk. plus -- religious leaders on both coasts are calling on peter king to cancel his hearings next week on the radicalization of american muslims. they say the hearings will do nothing more than stir up anti-...

Pornography where a kid who is 9 or 10 is exposed to stuff we werent exposed to until we were in college or even later, a more conservative generation regarding sex. and here it says the number of teens and people in the early 20s who remain abstinent goes well into the early -- it goes close to a third, mike barnicle. this is a dramatic shift. our youth are becoming more conservative when it comes to abstinence and sex. i think its a reaction to all those images theyre bombarded with at an earl...

Take on social security and medicare. can you touch that third rail in politics and survive? we will see. . mike huckabee pulled back his claim president obama grew up in kenya. and then, again, this week he took back a putdown of natalie portman. thats where it belongs, in the slide show. we start with the sleazy attack of president obama and how could it hurt the republicans running for president. msnbcs political analyst, washington bureau chief, an article. ron reagan. great to see you. >> g...

Huckabee to name just two are so contemptuous of the truth that the republican nominee will be collateral damage, diminished by association. if will is right, we can only say republicans will deserve what they get for not putting a stop to this sewer talk. plus -- religious leaders on both coasts are calling on peter king to cancel his hearings next week on the radicalization of american muslims. they say the hearings will do nothing more than stir up anti-muslim hatred. king says its muslims be...

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To throw them out of office because theyve made life uncomfortable for us? >> well you know, i think its, this comes at a very interesting time. theres a lot of reassessing going on about the question of these automatic spending programs. we used to say, when i first started covering politics, that social security was a third rail. if you touched it, you died. now, generationally, theres clearly a shift here. people, younger people want to have their social security when they get older, they wan...

You might not like to hear that. calling them bums was your word. i do believe some have talent and will make it -- >> but youre saying theyre not doing anything productive, and that would be my word. whats your word? >> i dont think its a question of whether those people are productive. im sure theyre good people. the question is should the federal government be doing all the things its doing? its in too many lines of business. it needs to shrink back. >> why are you guys so political? i though...

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