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>> right. >> but what is amazing to me, in the very same farm bill, look who's receiving the subsidies? more than 18,000 people living in the country's largest cities received $24 million. in the same bill, the subsidies are not going to the food stamps in the farm bill. >> right. there was one tea party republican who is invaing against the poor from getting nutritional benefit from food stamps. he was getting 3.5 million in subsidies from the farm bill. he didn't want to talk about that so much. let me put this very simply. anyone who can hear my voice and see my face, ask yourself the follo...

Happened and he had to come back in and make the speech that he made in philadelphia. again, this is a situation where no one had the guts or the ground to tell him not to do it and he had been working on this speech in his head for many, many years. in fact, one of the things i reported out right at the start of the 2007/2008 campaign was this precise issue, this one he's found so difficult, not surprisingly, to talk about in public, was part of his very decision to run for president in the first place. talking to his friends, some of the same people he's been talking to in recent days, he th...

Time he's faced this, you know, he wanted to talk about race very early on in the 2008 campaign, and his advisers, they didn't try to tell him not to do it, they just said it was never the right time to do it. that's what happened, of course, web the reverend wright fiasco happened and he had to come back in and make the speech that he made in philadelphia. again, this is a situation where no one had the guts or the ground to tell him not to do it and he had been working on this speech in his head for many, many years. in fact, one of the things i reported out right at the start of the 2007/20...

Does his past tell us anything about what might happen next? joining us now is david axelrod, former senior presidential adviser to barack obama and now director of the institute for politics and msnbc senior political analyst. thank you for being here. >> i'm all nostalgic listening to this recounting of the week. i'm missing washington so much. >> i bet. you have known president obama for a long time. you've been with him through a lot of his political career. has he ever been through a very difficult, sort of multi-facetted period like this? either personally or politically? have you seen h...

At the state department. daniel, thanks for joibing us. one of the group's investigators say tamerlan may, may, have had an interest in the caucasus emirates ce. what can you tell us about this group? >> from the primary radical chechen terrorist group since about 2007/2008, it's led by a man named dough co-umarev. it's been responsible for a number of bombings and killings in russia. it was designated under executive order 12334 when i was coordinator as a terrorist group, which mean that's we were eager to help the russians go after its financing. but, other than some harsh rhetor rhetoric, ...