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world? i'll tell you. then the politics of outer space. america won the race to the moon, but that was 40 years ago. the u.s. is essentially sitting on the bench in the current space race. will that hurt it back here on earth? and is america coming apart? that's what the author of a controversial new book says. i'll ask him about it. first, here's my take. something caught my eye the other day. pat robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling things to say about drugs. i really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol, mr. robertson...

They have him write the cover article for "newsweek," why are obama's critics so dumb? think that might get through to the critics? >> well, i think what he's done has definitely captured our attention, and "newsweek" might, you know, sell some more magazines which is what it's all about. how many people didn't know andrew sullivan's name that didn't know it yesterday? i don't like the use of words, but even i have been called worse. it seems to me he's not just angry with the critics of the right, he's definitely angry with the critics on his left, and it's his right to call them dumb, and it...

Will match whoever has the worst deal. that's the opposite of our original intention i think. it's a weird way to pursue it. congratulations on the cover article. >> thank thank you for educati us. up next, bank sisters and gangsters. the euro zone's a mess, but business is booming for lending in italy. by guess who. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents: the cold truth.

Ways than before. we've become more optimistic than we were in 2006 which i think is fascinating and i think it has to do with inch chaing our expectations. we've become less materialistic. we were this incredibly materialist materialistic. you know what? that has become less important and it pore tends well for what's to come. >> tells me you're a half glass full kind of girl there with new york magazine. thank you very much. it's a great cover article. thanks for sharing. >> thanks for having me. we talk ye olde politics with daryl hanigan. on "weekends with alex witt." and we switched to ...

This isn't house prices, this is the change in house prices year over year. so you can see back in 2004, 2005 home prices were going up 8%, 10%, 12%. 2006 things started to soften. all of a sudden they weren't increasing at all, then they were decreasing down into 2008, back up at the beginning of 2010 and big rebound actually and then look what started to happen. started to go down again. here's where we are today. we have home prices lower than they were a year ago. now, i want to talk to my two friends, christine romans and shawn tully from "fortune" magazine. you got a cover article talkin...