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In approving the pipeline did not take politics into account. take a listen. >> are you worried as the party chair this shouldn't be resolved before the election because of the potential impacts it could have? >> as a member of congress, i want to make sure the right decision is arrived at and that the president makes that decision carefully and doesn't factor politics into his decision. which i don't think he is. >> but nbc's political director chuck todd had a different tennessee opinion on "morning joe." >> it is only politics that has been involved in every part of this process. it's only ...

Gun control, you couldn't even deliver the democrats in the senate. that strikes me as troublesome. the other thing that strikes me is that it's so small bore, where we are right now. with this president and going into a second term. i mean, you -- you look at this fight over sequestration with republicans. where is entitlement reform to save medicare and medicaid and social security? where's corporate tax reform. we were reminded this week that apple has $145 billion sitting overseas, largely because we have high corporate tax rates. why aren't we doing something to bring that money home and ...

Threats, intimidation, and threats of retaliation. so let's discuss that. this week, a lawyer for one of the witnesses said that the state department has threatened officials who wanted to testify. state responded anticipate said, they don't know of anybody who has requested to testify. let's watch that exchange. >> i'm not talking generally. i'm talking specifically about benghazi. that people have been threatened, not just the state department. the people have been threatened at the cia. >> repe petedly have this person saying they had a whistleblower who has been held back from telling thei...

Threats of retaliation. so let's discuss that. this week, a lawyer for one of the witnesses said that the state department has threatened officials who wanted to testify. state responded anticipate said, they don't know of anybody who has requested to testify. let's watch that exchange. >> i'm not talking generally. i'm talking specifically about benghazi. that people have been threatened, not just the state department. the people have been threatened at the cia. >> repe petedly have this person saying they had a whistleblower who has been held back from telling their story. and we're not awar...

in november. roll it. >> he wasn't want to share his real plans before the election, either with the public or the press. by flexibility, he means what the american public won't know won't hurt him. his intent is on hiding. you and i are going to have to do the seeking. >> what did i count, twice that reference to the speech? >> yes. and in many ways what we saw from mitt romney is he's really trying to go to these journalists and look at his promises and his policies and see what they match up. you know what else is interesting? i'm sure the blog sphere is going to blow up, he took ...