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Look, i'm against the fairness doctrine. one o i'm one of the few liberals that thinks the fcc shouldn't be involved in content. even though they call it voluntary there's pressure to participate pit. there's no need for the fcc to go to news broadcast corporations. >> why did not one democrat apparently sign this letter that went to the fcc chair? why was it brought up by republicans? if you feel that way, isn't this a bipartisan issue? >> it should be. i don't speak for all democrats. i'm a liberal. i don't agree with a lot of things democrats do. i think the democrats should be very outspok...

Because of a proposed study by the fcc. that agency wants to send researchers into newsrooms to study why journalists cover the stories that they end up doing that day, but in an apparent bow now to a big backlash, the fcc's chairman now says some of the more controversial questions will be dropped from the survey. should the president weigh in on this issue? let's go to our political panel right now. we have alan combs and chris plante. chris, so it looks as if there was blowback from house republicans who sent a letter to the fcc chair wheeler. now it looks like some of the more controversia...

Against each other. >> mike acknowledged that's -- >> that's what's going to happen. >> hillary, she's got to try to run from benghazi. that will be tough. >> benghazi, bring up benghazi every minute of every day. >> biden has to run from the fact he didn't want to go after osama bin laden that night. >> where does house speaker nancy pelosi get into all this. >> she's saying president obama's low approval ratings won't drag down democrats up for re-election. i thought we were going to hear her say it. >> i was hoping. >> you were going to pray for that. >> i'll pray again. >> that's what she ...

I truly believe that the day i'm inaugurated that the country looks at itself differently and the world looks at america differently. >> that was candidate obama on the campaign trail in 2007. today a poll suggests the country is looking at itself differently but perhaps not in the way he anticipated. it is reported that 53% say the u.s. is global ly less importan and less powerful than ten years ago. these are the worst numbers on this question in 40 years. when they asked in 2004 when president george bush was in office only 20% felt the u.s. was less powerful than a decade earlier. joining ...

I can't think of -- the only precedent that i can think of in terms of the previous administration is where we have taken it steps to be more transparent. >> alan combs is the host of "the alan combs show" and mike gallagh gallagher. is this another promise broken by this administration? >> no, no, no. >> they claim they were going to be the most transparent administration in history. and now actually they're not allowing photographers to come to some of the monumental moments. >> he had a great idea. social media is more -- excuse me. excuse me. do you have a cold? sneezing? >> a stroke is wh...