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Where do things stand and why is this happening now? does it have anything to do with a potential strike? richa richa richa richard engel joins us now. talking to blogger tom ricks about whether a potential strike on iran has anything to do with the fighting going on right now. >> some people think that what this is about is in preparation for a likely war with iran, israel testing the rockets that would be fired against it from gaza. so we may something with lebanon soon. its a preliminary. thi...

0 working and now theyre all instant, i dont know what, st. paul on the road to damascus and that road is crowded, these converts. your thoughts. >> theres a personal tloefl this. the fact is none of the other republicans liked mitt romney and he didnt do anything during the campaign to endear himself to them. he attacked them all in the primaries primaries. this is kind of the revenge of the clowns here. he knocked them off one at a time, sort of knocked them over in iowa and elsewhere along th...

0 want to make your bones as a prospect for 2016? just take a piece out of the guy who went down in 2012. get a piece of romney and wave it in the air. newt gingrich, bobby jindal, theyre all doing it. our guests are both msnbc political analysts. howard, i have to tell you, this is something like ive never seen before. lets start with these clips of the sunday talk show circuit. republicans ran with mitt romney remarks that the president had won because of gifg gifts to minorities and young vot...

To avoid a ground invasion of gaza. why is this happening now? does it have anything to do with the potential strike on iran and its nuclear sites? richard engel is nbc news chief foreign correspondent and joins us from gaza. richard, listen to this conversation which happened yesterday. it was "washington post" columnist david ignatius, very good in the intel community, and also talking to blogger tom ricks about whether or not a potential strike on iran has anything to do with the fighting goi...

0 questions, there were not many. ed henry asked the question about benghazi. otherwise the white house press corp took a walk. on the sunday morning chat shows, on a bipartisan scale, members of both parties have to get to the bottom of who changed the white house talking points. susan rice went out and said something that was not true. >> brian: simple as this, soon as ambassador rices name came up. it is full blown andesh is in to find out what the enteligence said within 24 hours of the 9/11...

gingrich, bobby jindal, theyre all doing it. howa howard, i have to tell you, this is something like i have never seen before. lets start with these clips from the sunday talk show circuit. republicans ran with mitt romney remarks that the president ran because of giving gifts to minorities and young voters. >> i just think its nuts. i mean, first of all, its insulting. this would be like walmart having a bad week and going the customers have really been unruly. i mean, the job of a po...

Think theres two things in petraeus. theres the surveillance state aspect of it. why was the fbi raiding his e-mail and what is the threshold for that? then i think the way in which the mythology that david petraeus cultivated around himself. it was a combination of performance in the battled field, im not the best judge of this, substantively quite good along with a savvy way of getting the press to go along with the story he was telling about david petraeus. one of the things were seeing in th...

Nominated. >> theres a power struggle going on between the department of defense and the entire rest of the intelligence community. i dont see how you have a four-star general heading up the cia. >> we should not have a military person leading a civilian agency at this time. >> you cant have the military, i think, control, you know, most of the major aspects of intelligence. >> the fact that he is a part of the military today is the major problem. >> tom, one of the concerns there is the cia wou...

Half. depending on how you count them. this was a media strorry, it would be dishonest not to look at my role here. you know, i want to take a little bit of an issue with something tom said. you know, petraeus likes journalists and so forth. i think petraeus had a mission to pull off, getting information out to the public that was favorable about about the war itself. thats what i want to look at. it happened to be the case as i think, you know, tom experienced as well. a lot of petraeus peers d...

Its heightened because the affair was with a woman writing a biography of him. i want to bring in tom ricks, author of "the generals." also senior fellow for new american security. tom, ill start with you. do you think we should be this should occasion us to take a hard look at the coverage of general petraeus over the last eight years? >> no question that general petraeus recognized he needed to talk to the media. i think, what worries me are the lessons of it. hey, you are too smart like david...