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Trouble. the poor chinese. who has done more than me? i've marked for identification tens of thousands of people over my life. it is hard to believe i'm second to bush. bush won't get us to the promise land, folks. we're stupid. our leaders are stupid people. did you know i had an uncle who went to m.i.t. he was a top professor, he's a genius. it's in my blood. i'm smart. i see people at nbc and other networks that are so bad, i would be a great programmer. i know what sells. sleepy eyes chuck todd, "meet the press" dying, going down the tubes. they won't say what a big crowd this was. this wa...

>> let me say this. what he said about mexican immigrants was pretty owed just. what he is saying about the border and illegal aliens pouring into the country, that is a fairly standard view among a lot of people in the republican party. a view that is a big obstacle to getting immigration reform through. the belief that there is an influx. that it is fundamentally a kind of invasion. that people bring crime with them. i've had republican principals like jan brewer say precisely that. this is not a crazy view. in that respect he does have tangible effects in terms of how immigration policy goe...

He was actually doing really really well much better and was going to win pretty easily and as we know, karl rove among others was shocked on election night when he didn't do as well as expected. >> circling back to the point i made in the beginning about the debate rules, do you think the debate rules where only the top ten contenders will be allowed on stage does that help the republican party or hurt the republican party? >> well i don't know it depends, i suppose, on who gets left off the list. certain candidates have broad but not deep support. others have very deep but not broad support ...

Medicare, all of that was crystalized in one person. and he picked him to be his running mate. i was very surprised. >> ari, biggest surprise of 2012. >> the biggest surprise to me was something that was way behind the scenes. the debate commission makes these rules and usually secret. this year they leaked, first on time and goinger.com. you can read these rules. turns out the debate rules restrict the moderator from doing any fact checking or any commenting or response to the answers the candidates give. we never knew that before because it's the between the candidates and the commission. it...

But as a democrat i was secretly like please pick ryan. >> thereto were so many reasons not to pick him. >>s a democrat it was the perfect thing because it crystallized all the things that democrats didn't like about mitt romney and the case they wanted to make about him, this sort of distaste for the ordinary person, for the 47%, the idea of voucherizing medicare, all of that was crystallized in one person and he picked him to be his running mate. i was very surprised. >> ari, biggest surprise of 2012? >> the biggest spris to me was something that was way behind the scenes. the debate commiss...