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Only hinted. >> that is so much bs it hurts hes going to invade eastern ukraine. hes going to take it and say to the keiv government. and if youre going to put up a yard stick saying anywhere in the world the russian used to have influence is now fair game youre going to get the battic states. >> crimea was part of russia before. >> so what? >> we have imposed miles of sanctions already disrupting the russian economy. russia has an economy of $2 trillion gdp per year. 17 to 2. then, you add euro...

Mocking the president over republicans. the rest of them are. but i think you both make a good point, that they dont get personal about barack obama. when they go after him, its because the computer doesnt work -- >> thats right. teleprompter. >> or something like this. but lets face it, you cant make personal comments about the first black president of the united states. you just cant. >> which is what the man wrote about. >> and hes right, absolutely right. you cannot do that. all right, now...

He did use the yard stick. >> jon, it was a really big missed opportunity. here we have the first black president. he is in his second term. he could have put politics aside and taken this opportunity to celebrate dr. king. not talk about republicans and democrats or blacks and whites. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of dr. kings amazing speech. it wasnt done. the media missed it. no criticism of the president for missing this opportunity. >> all right. more news watch ahead, including media r...

Manure. >> the way the right is playing it because he they cant stand anything that the president does, that the president is somehow purposely hurting little children who want to take the tours for the white house they-- >> he is. >> when this is clearly a security issue something youd like to be oblivious too. >> alisyn. >> you can say anything you want, thats the fact of the matter. >> alisyn: yes, lars? >> the president just spent a million dollars for a golf weekend. that was the extra cost...

>> shannon: is he competing against the mitt romney of 2012? >> he is competing against frustrated aspirations. he is competing against his own frustrated as ankle aspirationr the whole campaign mitt romney and the state of the economy. this week is tricky are for the president. there is no higher moment, no larger moment for the obama 2008 brand than when took the stage in denver. when tries to do it in charlotte he will be measured by the yard stick he set for himself in 2008, absolutely. >> s...

People sort of hoarding cash and not taking risk and slowing down, all of those things that you social with with a recession and now, forget about the-- >> and spending is like the highest its been in a year. >> because its been so depressed, it had a springback. what youre seeing, at that point at the margin people are not saying, yeah, im going to take that extra leap and buy the extra thing and doing the reverse, and thats what were seeing, and you know, im not going to go off on the housing ...

Century. we should have a simple yard stick. is every child in america getting what they need so they can lead a full life and what do we have to do not to change it in 20 years but to change it fast enough to save the future of every child in america. thank you. good luck. >> interesting. newt forgot to tell us that there were no role models because there was a thousand parents sitting out in the audience. he forgot to tell us that really what we needed to do was demand jobs, not food stamps. h...

Yemen that the forces of the president there used sniper fire to kill somewhere between 45 and 50 people, shooting them in the neck and head, and wounding about 200. now if they did that the in tehran, wouldnt there be cries for american intervention to stop this horrible massacre? >> the only argument, joe, for libya is we did it because it was possible. but if its not possible to get rid of gadhafi or to help the rebellion make sure it held on to benghazi or some of the other cities, then what...

Throughout the summer, t.j., going into november. its not like the 2010 elections werent going to be epic, because it will be seen as a yard stick on president obamas presidency. now we have a supreme court vacationancy and these real conservative interest groups to raise money to run tv ads and for them its about trying to take back congress. >> our jeffrey toobin, jeffrey is still on the line with us as well talking about john paul stevens, soon to be a 90-year-old member of the liberal wing o...

Of the middleman. the insurance company. >> exactly. >> what do you mean? >> we should be paying for everyday health expenses out of pocket and the costs could be lower and the doctors would be held accountable for the patients rather than the insurance company. instead, the idea is to use tax dollars to pay insurance companies more money. thats the conservative answer. im sorry. no. $15 billion a year? a year. exactly. >> four years. >> the american people dont think we believe that were going ...