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>> ezra klein, david axelrod. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> calling up, the sea party is against the tea party. later, the good night polling news for house and senate democrats and very bad news for the republicans in the election. and in the rewrite, 50 years ago today, here in washington, president kennedy gave a speech. it was about a topic that was not then controversial in the least. but is now. so toxic from republicans. that they don't even want to talk about it. later, we'll have the latest on the problems with the federal website for the affordable care...

This is the poster child for that. >> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isn't driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and it's similar in illinois. if it is the case that citizens aren't calling up, there are probably a few. but i agree. there's not a mass movement for this. yet it's taken over state houses. i remember as a kid. whenever you drive across the country doing reporting anywhere, i'm always astous ast....

>> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isn't driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and it's similar in illinois. if it is the case that citizens aren't calling up, there are probably a few. but i agree. there's not a mass movement for this. yet it's taken over state houses. i remember as a kid. whenever you drive across the country doing reporting anywhere, i'm always astounded. there's a casino in downtown detroi...

With government. we can't open up our own casino. we talk about the solution between government and powerful corporate interests against the common good. this is the poster child for that. >> why? >> because citizens of new york skpels where, they are not calling up legislators saying i want more people to lose money. this isn't driven by public demand. this is driven by public interest. >> what drives the politics of this? you watch this in new york and it's similar in illinois. if it is the case that citizens aren't calling up, there are probably a few. but i agree. there's not a mass moveme...

One of two agencies he only gets to appoint the top two people in the entire agency and a reason for that. you don't want the president calling up, you know, the i.g. in that office and saying what is going on with your investigation? how is it going? what you want him to say here is what is happening and be told what is happening and perhaps be ready for it but it's not meant to be a political agency and it shouldn't be a political agency. >> right. >> we have so many agencies involved. you're talking about the irs? >> the irs, yeah. what i'm talking about. i think with the a.p. you think if ...