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Super quick? >> winners wendy davis because despite having problems with her biothere has been such conservative overreach and making all these sexist attacks about her as a mother, i think she is going to come out of this unscathe if not in a better position. and loser is obamacare for hitting a record low in the fox news poll. >> loser is policy establishment. the same people who told us hasan rouhani was going to be a moderate and iranian deal was going to be a big step forward. the winner is the operator of the dallas stars jumbotron at the game last night who used justin bieber mugshot to...

Judicial review when it searches that massive phone metadata. that's a big change, a big step forward. but as far as that mass of metadata, it's still going to exist somewhere, and the government will still want to search that to try to find patterns to prevent terror attacks. he left open a very big question as to where that data will live. he said he doesn't want it to live in government hands, it creates the potential for abuse. but hasn't figured out where it's going to be. could be with the telephone companies, with a third party. they even raised the possibility as they develop new capab...

Bright light. congress is very close to passing a budget bill. that may seem ordinary to some people around the world. for us it's a big step forward. let's hope we can have more bipartisanship. 2014. >> let's talk winners from 2013. the nuclear deal and let's see how that unfolds but the deal that's been done with iran. that could be a big winner. >> if it's possible to negotiate a final agreement sometime in the first half of 2014 between iran, the united states, the eu, china and russia, it will be historic. it will mean we don't have to see another war in the middle east, that this great c...

It's a major marker. it's progress. and that's something that we shut look forward to. now, implementation is a separate issue. i hope they can get it right. but the bottom line, this is a big step forward. and i think a bigger thing would be on this medicaid expansion. that is not a bad thing. a three to one match, the first three years and after that, the feds pay 100%. why in god's name these states not taking this on is beyond me. that is a win-win. they can hit obama all day long but for the federal government to pay 100% of your medicaid recipients, that to me sounds like a huge massive ...

Extremely short-sighted. we are not going to be a military super power if we are no longer an economic super power. so you have to restrain the size of government, the overall cost, and i would say, yes, this is a big reform, a big step forward to get democrats on board even though it's modest. i think as a moment, that part of it is helpful, but this really should have been a better deal. >> kim, were you surprised by the number of republicans who voted for this, 169 to 62 in the end? that was surprising. also got a lot of -- 162 i think democrats, but that was a big margin for republicans co...