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Understandable instinct to be charitable upon someone's death. the death of public figures is an incredibly important occasion to wrestle with their legacy and the wrong message can be destructive. it tends to establish what the consensus position is, what we've all collectively learned from the person's life. president obama's statement read in part the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty. america has lost a true friend. as a grocer's daughter who rose to become print's first female prime minister she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ce...

Pass something while a bunch of conservative republicans will oppose it, because it's raising taxes for one thing. >> the issue of taxes, is this a consequence of really what happens with bush 41? who is recovering in the hospital, by the way, right now and certainly our thoughts are with him. when he broke that pledge, read my lips, no new taxes, that was a real turning point for republic i had dans thought he lost that election because he went back on that pledge and raise taxes. will you get anyone in the house to raise taxes at all? >> you make a great point that republicans have kind of t...

Affects the statewide results. so i've got an idea. why don't we divide it up? so we get a chunk anyway if we lose the cities. >> like michigan, pennsylvania, new york -- at least where you have a large big city and minorities, they like to cut them off. >> the thing is, there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors to the electoral college. every state gets to -- >> why do they -- >> it became the consensus position over time. that winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system, could you make the argument that you should drop off electoral votes by population in every state...

Results. >> it would benefit the republicans. a lot of minorities we like to cut them off. there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors. every state gets to set its own rules. >> there must be a rational. >> it became the consensus position over time. winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system, you could make the argument to divide it up by population in every state. that would be fair if you did that in every state, in which case it would reflect the popular vote. but that's not what they are try doing here. they tried to do this before the election. even a more waited ...

The fact that philadelphia and pittsburgh, large urban population -- minority populations, they just can't stand that fact that that affects the statewide results. so i've got an idea. why don't we divide it up? so we get a chunk anyway if we lose the cities. >> like michigan, pennsylvania, new york -- at least where you have a large big city and minorities, they like to cut them off. >> the thing is, there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors to the electoral college. every state gets to -- >> why do they -- >> it became the consensus position over time. that winner takes a...