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A fan of thrillers. >> unbelievable. the blue pencil job by bill clinton. thomas caplan, i love digging your plind on this stuff. when we return, let me finish with -- i have an important thing to say about this movie "game change." its what really goes on in the back room of politics and the pressure on these people. come back and watch it. youre watching "hardball" only on msnbc. if there was a pill

hesitate to talk again and again giving credit to ronald reagan for creating job growth in the 1980s. the better the economy, the worse it is for republicans this november. plus giving newt the boot. rick santorum has been saying it all week. he said it again today. its quitting time for newt gingrich. what santorum needs is what mitt romney fears. an unobstructed race between the two. also republican legislatures are passing voter i.d. laws to stop voter fraud. but are those rules r...

of the united states and tonight you have these three issues to deal with. one is the fact that defense secretary paw netta said that israel may strike iran in the spring. number two, youve got americans who had been kidnapped in egypt now released, but they have americans who are not free to leave egypt, egypt, and thirdlis pakistani intelligence service has taken into custody the pakistani doctor who helped us get osama bin laden. what are you going to do about those things, if anyth...

of the united states and tonight you have these three issues to deal with. one is the fact that defense secretary paw netta said that israel may strike iran in the spring. number two, youve got americans who had been kidnapped in egypt now released, but they have americans who are not free to leave egypt, egypt, and thirdlis pakistani intelligence service has taken into custody the pakistani doctor who helped us get osama bin laden. what are you going to do about those things, if anyth...

secretary paw netta said that israel may strike iran in the spring. number two, youve got americans who had been kidnapped in egypt now released, but they have americans who are not free to leave egypt, egypt, and thirdlis pakistani intelligence service has taken into custody the pakistani doctor who helped us get osama bin laden. what are you going to do about those things, if anything? >> first of all, thats a good question. i give you a lot of credit for that one. first i would be s...

secretary paw netta said that israel may strike iran in the spring. number two, youve got americans who had been kidnapped in egypt now released, but they have americans who are not free to leave egypt, egypt, and thirdlis pakistani intelligence service has taken into custody the pakistani doctor who helped us get osama bin laden. what are you going to do about those things, if anything? >> first of all, thats a good question. i give you a lot of credit for that one. first i would be s...

people, thats not the way -- >> corporations. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> i should also tell my story. im also an employee. >> $10,000? $10,000 bet? >> im not in the betting business. >> okay. >> i know what its like to worry whether youre going to get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered if i was going to get a pink slip. >> if you dont like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> we have a safety net th...

we could raise taxes on people, thats not the way -- >> corporations. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> i should also tell my story. im also an employee. >> $10,000? $10,000 bet? >> im not in the betting business. >> okay. >> i know what its like to worry whether youre going to get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered if i was going to get a pink slip. >> if you dont like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >>...

of life. believers thirsty for change. >> i have a dream today. (cheers and applause) >> rose: also today, americas ambassador to china, gar locke. >> china has enormous challenges and with it come, we believe, responsibilities as well. to its people and to the rest of the world. and while it has gwn significantly economically, we believe that it needs to open up even more and that it has to play by international rules. and thats why youve seen president obama speaking out about how ch...

(cheers and applause) >> rose: also today, americas ambassador to china, gar locke. >> china has enormous challenges and with it come, we believe, responsibilities as well. to its people and to the rest of the world. and while it has gwn significantly economically, we believe that it needs to open up even more and that it has to play by international rules. and thats why youve seen president obama speaking out about how china must play by the rules, that it cannot game the system from ...