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Right thing and being defeated. taking that risk. after newtown, you and i talked an awful lot about how we disagreed with the nra despite the fact they have been our political allies for our entire life. talked about the need for background checks. 90% of americans supported back ground checks and a couple people in the nras office and washington, d.c. were against it and you caught a lot of flack in your district, ifn. your state. are you going to campaign supporting back ground check sths. >>...

Of the last 20 years or so weve seen over and over again that the flaws in the system of capital cases get prosecuted. this happened at the state level, happens at the federal level. for people who are against the death penalty in general, the moral arts are now being buttressed for the extent you believe it by the scientific arguments, that a lot of the scientific evidence has turned out to be 234r5uflawed and creating the movement that argument against capital cases are getting stronger. >> an...

>> a lot of highlights. >> we do have three hours. >> is there a bigger music fan at this table than you other than me? so for you. >> absolutely fantastic version of aint no sunshine when shes gone. thank you for pandering. speaking of pandering, new hampshire was ground zero for the race in 2016 this weekend. as more than a dozen potential or official republican candidates visited the state. they attended the republican leadership summit in nashville, always an absolutely great place to go. it...

Egypt may get nuclear weapons, uae will be seeking nuclear weapons. this is an irony that has my torts professor would say, should you have seen this coming like a freight train out of the mist. i mean its coming right at us and he knew this was going to be the result of this. >> he did. just to say one more thing, the way president obama has chosen to deal with this arms race is to gather the gulf cooperation council, leaders from those countries together in camp david in may for a meeting. the...

Busting through bureaucracies and making the state government of florida work for them. jeb needs to show what made him a great governor. and i think the challenge of running as a constituent-free candidate, i put jeb in that category, you no longer are speaking to people who have voted for you. youre no longer speaking to people with skin in the game in terms of every decision you make, in terms of everything -- jeb is not in a position anymore as he was when he was governor to rattle the cages...

Quite some time. tell us about chris christie. >> i think if anything, hes almost trying to replicate the straight talk express that sent john mccain to the top in this primary in 2000. hes made that his tag line im going to tell to you like it is. he started down that road with the two town hall meetings. everyone i talked to said it is a bad idea at this point to count him out. this is the kind of thing, the kind of state that will respond to that kind of campaigning. we were also talking earl...

This is a generational problem. there has been one bad deal made with public unions after another bad deal. republicans have done it, democrats have done it. and now its coming due on his watch. >> its often the problem that the deal isnt bad, but that politicians wont put the money in that they promised in the deal for years and years and years. a then it goes back. >> im just point to going to a political problem. this is a delicate issue to run on in general. and to make those arguments when ...

The economy in new jersey still sucks. and this is what undercuts the message. im all for somebody being an adult and talking about entitlement reform although i would challenge you to tell me when a president has led with entitlement reform and won. >> well, nobody does it any more. >> thats not true but -- >> who has? >> put that aside and ask the question whether this message of entitlement reform how that sits with the new jersey fiscal situation where the states been downgraded eight times ...

There were more than a dozen potential official republican candidates that visited the state of new hampshire. they attended the republican leadership summit considered to be the states unofficial kickoff for the gop primary. it is a great event. the list of speakers varied from governors to senators to business leaders. a guy named trump. but they all shared one common theme, whether they were being serious or trying to get laughs they were arguing why hillary clinton shouldnt be the nations ne...

>> oh, come on. it made a sense in his state senate district to take that position. nobody in the senate, though that ran for president came to the same conclusion. >> and yet people wont let go of that. >> john heilemann, jump in. >> i want to ask you a question about you said will book is about journalism. i want to ask you a question to sum up the totality of your experience at the "new york times". >> all ears here. >> there is certainly a perception that after a point that among a lot of yo...