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Clinton's family foundation the clinton foundation was receiving tens of millions of dollars from shareholders in uranium 1 who wanted the russian government to acquire them because it would be a financial landfall. >> tonight, democratic veteran strategist robert zimmerman is here. also mark thissen, writer for george w. bush and fellow with aei. we begin tonight with mark. mark it's hard to digest. they're talking about a lot of foreign countries, and i don't want to dive too deep because it's going to make my viewers' eyes glaze over. but at base, she accused of helping approve a deal that ...

For if you're on that side. >> and you know, mike, to that point, as you do point out, from aei, there are a couple of people who sound thoughtful and rational and maybe these are good ideas, but at the same time you know as you read that that can't possibly go anywhere. it feels like once you attach president obama to it, even though there may be an empirical reality as you point out it falls dead on its face. >> karen, i bet you that if mitt romney had won the election and he were the president of the united states right now and were proposing some of these same things, these guys would be f...

But they passed 67 laws by this point. that's the last congress. harry truman's notorious do-nothing congress of 1947 and '48 passed more than 1,700 bills through the house. according to vital statistics on congress, a joint effort by brookings and the aei, but the numbers have been sliding ever since p in the late '60s, just about 1,200 bills got through the house. by the end of the '70s, the number was around a thousand. fell to 968 in the 101st. from 1989 to 1990, ten years ago congress passed just 801 bills through the house and the number for the 112th congress was 561. tough to do your j...

Country. to continue to send checks, are we doing what we need to help folks get jobs? and that is there something that we could be doing? for instance, there are economists at aei, who have advocated instead of sending folks checks, you can offer to subsidize the wages of folks who have been long term unemployed who take a job. you could actually do direct government hiring. they note, they say this is kind of odd for somebody from the right to be suggesting. instead of mailing folks checks and saying we wish you the best of luck in getting a job, what if the government was helping to find th...

I want to emphasize that this is about so much more than just a website. in many respects, i think this administration would like us to focus more on the website because the website is the thing that can perhaps most easily be fixed even though it's apparently very difficult to do. the bigger problems relate to the fundamental unfairness of the law. the fundamental unworkability of this law. it's what's behind the website that's most troubling. what's behind the website that's causing millions to lose their health coverage. others to lose their job and have wages cut and hours slashed. >> we h...