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Boehner's power is diminished. >> they lost one presidential race, another presidential race. they lost senate races. >> looks to me everybody could use a little pain relief. >> now there's paxil republican strength. for tea party related depression. >> that's amazing. let's spin. i do think, we have such short memory, it was only recently it was the gop civil war and end of the republican party and they were going to become regional party and relegated to the best men of history and now obama's presidency is over and democrats will lose the house and senate. everyone should just calm down a l...

You mentioned "breaking bad" and the finale had 53 million watching. why have we seen this transition and walk us through what both industries will look like longer term? >> i think they are all going to blend into each other. part of what happened is producers and show writers got real power on the cable shows, an absolute power, david chase. in the past nobody would have been able to say, well, we're not going to put the sopranos back on for a year and a half. because a network would have said, no, you're coming back in the fall. none of this stuff. and so they all created power. the social ...

>> a long history of this, people who are civil libertarian liberals concerned about police conduct and brutality and skeptical of power. and bring some of that hearty american excepticiskepticism to programs. another big bill being talked about in the senate is al franken's transparency act. what would that do? >> it's a fascinating approach. the franken bill among other things would say that companies may disclose the number of people that have -- that the government is asked them to reveal -- i'm not saying that very well, the point is right now, companies are being told by the government, ...

Football program. your thoughts. >> well, that's the problem not just at penn state but at so many schools, where football is bigger than school. joe paterno is penn state. for a lot of very positive reasons. not only because he won more games than any division one coach but also because his players did graduate and he did do right by them and he did care about them. but he didn't care enough about these children who were victimized by his former coach, who was also a close friend of his. >> the grand jury report is graphic and it's gut-wrenching. and another part of the grand jury report also...

Investigation, by the way, for whatever reason, that is what the president's constitutional authority. even the doj admits they cannot charge a sitting president with obstruction. why are we talking about it? also, the president's power to pardon, even himself, absolute power. over the weekend, that is clinton sycophant turned so-called journalists george stephanopoulos, you can see them whispering in clinton abbas risk years. he asked rudy giuliani, donald trump's attorney, former new york city mayor, what is a completely nonsensical totally hypothetical and, frankly, ridiculous question abou...