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>> republicans need six seats. what's the projection? how many are they going to pick up? >> i'd say exactly six. that's probably six plus or minus five. that could be -- >> they could pick up 11 seats? >> they could. >> the dems have fallen out of love with their guy. the democratic senate campaign committee put out a rebuttal saying silver's forecast in 2012 was wrong. also issuing a fundraising alert based on silver's scary and shocking predictions about this year's term. silver called that hypocritical. it didn't take long for the party's argument to pop up on msnbc. >> you may recall silv...

>> i was really impressed. i didn't know that cats could do that. of course, now, remember, i might be eating these words. i could be wrong. >> well, in this case, you are 100% correct. kiddo is the real deal. >> of course, if i were doing it with a cat, i would have pawed the hell out of the cat. no cat is going to outsmart me. >> in august 2012 this new yorker visits a animal shelter hoping to adopt a cat. there she meets 6-month-old kiddo who has been abandoned twice and put to sleep if no one rescues him. >> i was holding him, he was so

And some argue it might have been the most action-packed part of the game. here's abc's aditi roy. >> reporter: 24 miles above earth, felix baumgartner is about to make history. new video of baumgartner catapulting from a space capsule in august 2012. the death-defying space jump featured in a red bull super bowl commercial, free falling for a record 4:19. >> can anybody understand him? >> reporter: 1:30 into the fall, he begins to spin. >> i'm about to pass out. >> reporter: his heart racing at close to 200 beats per second, but soon he stabilizes. >> in a stable descent. >> reporter: baumgar...

Witnessed one of their topless protests in paris. >> femin uses the nudity in another context, not a seductive context where we're supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we don't sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half naked but not an object. i'm not here for your pleasure. i'm here to deliver my own message. >> in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina in very hot water. a protest dense the trial of the band pussy riot, arrested earlier that year. >> they did an action in the church. they were dancing and...

Benefits, too. the a.p. reports the standoff infuriates people, such as lita nest who lost her job as a civilian contractor at peterson air force base in august 2012 and just received her final check from the unemployment office. i'm registered as a republican, but if they continue to use this not extending our aid, i'm probably changing to democrat she said as she took a break from a computer training class at the pikes peak work force center. people in our district who vote no on this, i'm not going to support them. joining me now, "the washington post's" ezra klein. so it turns out, republi...