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Joining us, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza. vine a political commentator. maggie, youre a political analyzer. stay inside your lanes. you commentate. you analyze. nothing else. >> i think they are cooking the books on this. people want to know the answers to that. they also want to know, what kind of insurance will those people actually have? >> cooking the books is quite an allegation but even another senator on that show on fox acknowledged that theres a transparency i...

Earlier i spoke with tom coburn, who has introduced a similar bill in the senate. >> its a takeoff of what we did with the transparency, original transparency bill with president obama that we did in the senate. and what we found is you can have -- fa that the quality of the transparency isnt as good. the other thing we know is that theres only one department in the u.s. government that knows all their programs, and thats the department of education. the rest of them dont know. the only way you ...

Passenger may have breached -- that means the investigation would be something different because, again, it is a much broader number of people. chinese government saying we cleared our 130-some-ott passengers and it is not one of them. how do you vet had a information? this is an international investigation. how can you even get at figuring out among the passengers and crew who to look closer at? >> you would have to look at all of them. simply all of them. clean slate and start from the beginni...

I asked last night after the briefing was over. i wrote a story about it i asked the state department, hey, do you -- is there an update? are you going to make this deadline on thursday night? and they said no update for you today but we will keep you posted. so today at about, i would say 2:00 i got a message that they were going to go ahead and give them the information so i talked to the foreign services got the information right now. and basically they are happy about it. they are very very ...

The transparency issue. they say they are going to be different than the past previous administrations. well, we have had problems with foia with them. there is an article that they flunked the foia test. then you now you also have the ambassador issue. they say they are going to be different. >> indeed, susan, thank you. >> thanks. okay, lets all go off-the-record for just a minute. on january 21, 2009, the day after president obama took the oath of office for his first term, he signed a memora...

People dont approve doing your job. they dont care. throw myself on the membersy of historical court. exact same thing going on in the obama administration right now they dont care about the poll numbers or am i wrong. >> something to that the bush example is a good one. presidents, republicans, democrat especially this late in the second term become a lame duck they get into a bubble. they hear the criticism all the time coming from all sides not just for the right for this president. he has th...

People dont approve doing your job. they dont care. throw myself on the membersy of historical court. exact same thing going on in the obama administration right now they dont care about the poll numbers or am i wrong. >> something to that the bush example is a good one. presidents, republicans, democrat especially this late in the second term become a lame duck they get into a bubble. they hear the criticism all the time coming from all sides not just for the right for this president. he has th...

Growing of people thinking about -- and he was asked if that could possibly include you. and he said he had the authority to issue a subpoena to anybody who needs -- he needs to get information from. if you were to get a subpoena for whatever reason, what would you do? >> im not going to speculate on that. matt. [ inaudible question ] >> wondering what else, what other e-mails -- [ inaudible ] did you know about that? is there a transparency issue in general? >> no. a, i dont know what youre tal...

>> sir, the only way someone can get an accurate information about their price is to get their -- >> let me ask you another question. when did you decide to use this below 50 at 27 and above 50 at 50 years old? when did you make that decision? >> that was decided by the team as -- >> by who? who made the -- the problem with this whole debate is yall wont tell us who made the decisions. >> i can tell you i did not design the site. >> who? who made the decision on the 27-year-old quote for someone...

>> sir, the only way someone can get an accurate information about their price is to get their -- >> let me ask you another question. when did you decide to use this below 50 at 27 and above 50 at 50 years old? when did you make that decision? >> that was decided by the team. >> by who? who made the -- the problem with this whole debate is yall wont tell us who made the decisions? >> i can tell you i did not design -- >> so who? >> the site. >> who made the decision on the 27-year-old quote for ...