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Hill a year from testifying about any form of an attack on any government facility anywhere in the world which they could have preempted by closure or the actions we have seen. i think if you do the thought experiment with benghazi hadnt happened, clearly this as you point out unprecedented closures wouldnt have happened. typically when we have had these kinds of threats, the information is quite specific and its particular country and you get a closure of embassy and consulate facilities in a p...

The first go-round of this. they had a brutal terrible time. conservative minded colleagues sought to have one of the women fired. the press lined up outside of her house and showed up at the casino where she worked causing her to miss work for weeks. she drank heavy amounts of alcohol, a habit that persists. i obsess about it, she said, every day. >> and for her there is no redemption. there is no public apology to her. thats it. thats all the public knows of her. thats how theyve defined her i...

She drank heavy amounts of alcohol, a habit that persists. i obsess about it, she said, every day. >> and for her there is no redemption. there is no public apology to her. thats it. thats all the public knows of her. thats how theyve defined her in that place. >> what do you think would happen, to game this out? theres a great film called "the contender" in 2000 which was all about a vice presidential candidate and female politician possibly having a sex tape. and its a great movie. id recommen...

I obsess about it, she said, every day. >> and for her there is no redemption. there is no public apology to her. thats it. thats all the public knows of her. thats how theyve defined her in that place. >> what do you think would happen, to game this out? theres a great film called "the contender" in 2000 which was all about a vice presidential candidate and female politician possibly having a sex tape. and its a great movie. id recommend people see it. what would happen if something, if we, for...

Frank rich came to his defense in this. is david gregory a journalist, a thought experiment what name one beef he has covered with distinction and any memorable interviews he has conducted. his charge is preposterous. columnist that published the leaks, greenwald was doing the job of a journalist and even activist journalist is irrelevant to that function. when you think about greenwalds line of questioning or gregorys line of questioning, was it out of line? >> the question, when did you stop b...

Going back and doing it all themselves and pulling their data off the internet. >> heres a thought experiment that matt iglesias said, google glass plus prism is going to be a lot of fun. think about that, think about the amount of information thats going to be streaming through peoples google glasses that is going to be sucked up somewhere and stored somewhere. that is the library of data that just -- it boggles the mind of how much sheer information there is out there about any one of us all t...

Contract, takes us back to a prenew deal era. so a lot of the achievements of the 20th century were on the line and would have been gone now. imagine, lets just do a little thought experiment, if romney and ryan had won and the economy as it is today is starting to go up, right? the lesson would be everybody would be saying, well, you know, obama, he was jimmy carter. it wasnt until romney came in the economy started getting better and it got better because they slashed taxes for the wealthy, sl...

Analyst kirsten powers and you say powers? >> well, i agree that was a good statement. the only thing i would add to this was this was just stupid. so, and its a really bad advertisement, unfortunately for liberalism. i consider myself a liberal. i dont think this is the type of behavior most liberals would engores. it wasnt just insensitive it was intolerant and, you know, we can just do a quick thought experiment and say would the professor ever say write muhammad on a piece of paper and jump ...

Advocate here, a thought experiment saying if we opened marriage to same-sex couples, why not incest, why not polygamy? she was asking ted olson this. ted olson says because theres a difference between conduct that the government can regulate and have popinions about and classe of people. the government can say, there are certain forms of marriage that involve specific conduct that we have deemed harmful to society that we can sanction. so its not like hes come up with this point no one has thou...

Analyst kirsten powers and you say powers? >> well, i agree that was a good statement. the only thing i would add to this was this was just stupid. so, and its a really bad advertisement, unfortunately for liberalism. i consider myself a liberal. i dont think this is the type of behavior most liberals would engores. it wasnt just insensitive it was intolerant and, you know, we can just do a quick thought experiment and say would the professor ever say write muhammad on a piece of paper and jump ...