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>> absolutely, for interesting reason, it's the 051-c-4 category, the social welfare group category, where most conservative organizations have swelled into in the past couple of years, and it's what democrats are most concerned about in terms of elections. so they're focusing all their efforts on that category, because they know it will do the most damage to president obama's political opponent. >> dan, what's the larger political context here for these new irs rules? you would think there would be some political cost here for the administration to do this, given the uproar in the spring and ...

Our curious. we're still on a course for disaster. >> we're back. james freeman also joins us. dan, is rand paul right or is paul ryan, the architect of this deal, right when he says it's a small step in the right direction? >> i think congressman ryan has the better of this. it's a small step in the right direction, especially with the fact they've now got federal workers paying more into their pensions. this kind of corresponds with what republican governors have been doing in states. it makes it seem as if the republican governors at least have a strategy. as to rand paul, senator paul, dur...

Things happen to the party. and had this deal not happened, had paul ryan not done it for all kinds of reasons, that was where they were headed again. a lot of people didn't do that. that argument was made to them. what you're seeing is a little diminishing of the power of some of these outside groups which, you know, john boehner took a whack at him this week. who had come out and criticized this paul ryan deal before they'd even seen the details of it. i think there's a growing feeling among some republicans that these groups seem more interested in highlighting gop divides, fund-raising off...

Such as the governor cuccinelli in virginia. this november, all those suburbs in northern virginia, a lot of federal workers, so, you know, virginia could go democratic. let's not doubt the fact democrats are being hurt as well. nobody in these polls is above 50%. the american people are pretty disgusted with washington generally. it's hard to predict where there's's going play out over the next three years. >> how do you see the blame game here in terms of who's taking most of the hits for the shutdown? which is not popular with the american people. >> right, look, this is the hatfields versu...

Bombings of kenya and tanzania. he was transferred to a u.s. navy ship for integration. a move criticized by some republicans including south carolina senator lindsey graham. >> in al libi's case, he is on an american warship somewhere in the mediterranean. because the administration refuses to use guantanamo bay. putting him on a navy vessel for a matter of days or weeks is not a proper way to gather intelligence on the wore ar on terror. >> dan, let's go to you first. how big a capture is this? >> i think he's thought of as an enormously important capture. a specialist calls him a jackpot in...