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I have a thought experiment i like to do, just play along with me, did you ever allow yourself in the context of the health care reform debate to think, what if senator clinton had stayed in the senate after the 2008 campaign and it had been sort of you here in the house and senator clinton in the senate. and there was a bit of a thelma and louis womens leadership. have you ever allowed yourself to play that thought experiment at all? >> i really havent had time for that experiment, although i h...

texas. thank you. >> thank you. top of the hour here. welcome back. $2 billion gone. poof. now as he gets called a crook, the man of jpmorgan explains the big time screw up. why jamie dimon warns something has got to be done about the economy before november. youll hear everything, but first this. the russians are turning the table on the united states today. this is him on the left side of your screen. today he is accusing washington of arming the syrian rebels. the united states ...

Back and do a little thought experiment with your viewers. >> we love thought experiments on this show. imagine the world the last eight years without leaks. we would not know about the drone program, we would not know about enhanced interrogation, we would not know about the covert war in iran, we would not know about the things critical to decisions we have to make as informed citizens. whats happening right now and right here, off perfect storm, the right, where mccain has been -- senator mcc...

Two main alternatives to mitt romney in the republican party. newt gingrich wanted to acquire the moon as the 51st state in the union. not kidding. rick santorum wanted to divest ourselves of most of idaho. all the federally controlled land in idaho he wanted to sell. rick santorum is not going to be the republican nominee for president, but imagine that he was. in fact, i think this is a useful thought experiment. imagine that rick santorum not only got nominated but he won the general election...

One of the things that rick santorum proposed wile running for president when it looked like he might have real chance is that we should kind of sell idaho. this is what it was like this year in the republican primary. this is difference between the two main alternatives to mitt romney in the republican party. newt gingrich wanted to acquire the moon as the 51st state in the union. not kidding . rick santorum wanted to divest ourselves of most of idaho. all the federally controlled land in idaho...

Weve seen in the last decade or two? >> one thing thats obvious but needs to be said is that there was a thought experiment. if all gay people woke up one day and there were all purple or green, there would be no problem with discrimination because everybody would be out. so what happened terribly in the aids crisis is it force teed an enormous number of people to be out that would never have been out. so it really exponentially increased the visibility of gay people. >> i think coming out has b...

Managers name surfaced again. they are trying to get an amendment on the ballot in november so they can turn the silverdome into a casino for him. among the people trying to bring it to silverdome is the former emergency manager. the guy that sold pontiac for a song and who now represents in business the canadian guy he sold it to with whom he is now working to pass the gambling amendment. back to the thought experiment here, this would be like fake president santorum using his power as presiden...

Off in november. >> and so we have tonights thought experiment. imagine if i or, say, hilary rosen had said that about mitt romney. how loud would the republican outrage tonight be? heres how loud mitt romneys outrage was at his supporters not-so-veiled suggestion, that he just might end up in jail for trying to kill president obama if the president is re-elected. or he might end up dead, shot presumably by the secret service in his attempt to assassinate president obama. it turns out mitt romne...

>> ill tell you this right now. if barack obama becomes the president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. if you cant galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for mitt romney, were done. well be a suburb of indonesia next year. our president and attorney general, our vice president, hillary clinton, theyre criminals. we are patriots. we are braveheart. we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in november. >> and so we have ton...

Chief executive, the president, and the court was there as a safeguard against democratic forces, and this is even before women or african-americans got the right to vote. >> that is an interesting point. >> and we are going through the process of writing a new constitution, and i love that thought experiment, because not only does it speak to the compl complexity and the diversity of views among women, but how long does it take to erase years and years of patriarchy. i was last in cairo on marc...