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They dont seem to be acknowledging that the concepts advanced in that video were devastating. >> right. >> and you can prove it in the polls the following week of the campaign. >> right. >> as howard said, it is not the packaging, it is whats in the cereal box. theyre trying to change colors on the outside and pretend theres an entirely new product and everybody will be excited on the inside. you mention governors. from a strategist standpoint, i am reminded last time the republicans were in thi...

Sex scandals ever. >> sure. >> now hes one of the most popular politicians around with about two-thirds of all americans approving of him. how much, if at all, then do you think getting caught in a scandal hurts politicians? its a temporary hurt it seems. >> i think it is temporary. it depends on the scandal. im hoping to get into a scandal to raise my visibility across the country. im not sure which way it will be. bill clinton is back stronger than ever. you have the two politicians weve talke...

Caucus or the trust of his caucus. but i think this can change that. were going underneath it. the presidents going underneath it to build those relationships and have real discussions based on fact, not what leadership is telling them. >> david gregory, the next episode of "meet the press" is on sooner than most people think because we lose an hour saturday night. >> thats right. >> so if its sunday, the longest-running show in the known universe, who do you have on? >> were going to talk about...

The rules. >> put their mouth with their money is. chris, the change inside the republican party on national security and defense is pretty breathtaking. i mean, you now have a part of the -- you have rand paul and some establishment republicans that didnt think the sequester cuts were deep enough, were happy to take the defense cuts, and are now pursuing a, you know, a fairly not drastic, but very well articulated argument against a hawkish counterterrorism policy. >> i think theres -- im of tw...

Perfectly appropriate and the white house will engage with it consistent with the way we engage with a whole host of outside constituencieconstituen. >> thats fascinating. he was reading the whole thing. you think theyre a little lawyered up on the whole thing? >> i think it needs to be looked at more. >> steve, whats going on there? as reported by "the new york times," its cash for access. >> look at the dna of the embryonic obama movement was the notion were going to do things different in was...

Speakers would generally try and outdo each other in how extreme they could be. thats been the path for a long time. from chrissistys point of view, if you compare to where governor bush was in 1999, he had to kind of pick a fight with tom delay and newt gingrich and say im a different kind of republican. >> right. >> chris christie is in the luxurious position where he doesnt have to say it. theyre telling him youre a different kind of republican. >> exactly. >> perfect. >> well, and also, i me...

Hip hypocrisy alert. >> weve seen articles in the blogs, papers come out tomorrow that, dont have d illinois after his name as you always see after the name of recently resigned public officials. jesse jackson jr. not a democratic congressman from the city of chicago, unlike when tom delay was convicted and you saw republican former majority from texas and duke cunningham. not the to minimize the crimes of one or maximize the other. >> but treat both the same. >> right. its interesting how our c...

Fair elections now act and other state level reforms, including new york state or new york city, rather, have those kind of programs that basically take the millionaires out of giving directly to candidates, and that reduces corruption. they may be able to spend on their own voice, maybe their movies, make their ads, but if we dont have people flying on planes together and feeling that they owe someone hundreds of thousands of dollars for bundling, theres a lot less of that second door, the corr...

Years that he doped. is lance armstrong the worlds biggest liar? thats "the washington post" fact checker right there. are there some scandals that are, in fact, just too big to rebound from? >> well, probably yes. i mean, this is one that because lance armstrong not only inspired so many people to get into biking, but inspired some with live strong and overcome cancer and he did so many things and we did build him up to be this iconic figure and he consistently lied over and over again to the p...

Obama. what does that mean? i mean, you know, when the republicans have to-- and the house have to negotiate with president obama, dont they have to send speaker boehner over to do one-on-one negotiating? >> so in the old model in the house, boehner changed things a lot. hes a different speaker than weve ever really seen before. in the old days the way it would happen we remembered this with nancy pelosi, remembered it back with tom delay, the majority leader for the republicans, which is whip t...