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It used to be a political cohesion when we needed one, how concerned are you with the state of politics in the body we used to serve in. >> we talked about threat to our national security, one of the worst threat is the disfunction that we see in washington in terps of the inability of both parties to be willing to work together and try to resolve the issues that face our nation, i have said in my 50 years in public life, i have seen washington at its best and washington at its worst, i have seen washington work, i have seen republicans and democrats willing to work together on issues. we have...

Chee chiefs of staff. powell smiled and said it's great country, sam, it's a great country. he symbolized the best in america. >> would you say to some degree sadly he's a man from a different time, someone who was able to garner the respect and friendship of people on the left and right but also who commented, who lamented the country's drift into deep partisanship and his own party's drift to the deep right? is there his equal really today? >> well, i don't know. there are a lot of great americans today i think still. colin powell, i want him to run, jim, i wanted him to run in 1996 for pres...

Of this in less than a year. i really think he's the guy to do that. >> erin -- >> that's the point, obviously, his deep familiarity with the fbi. i think there's something else. in the clinton years, that was tainted by a deep partisanship. here you have an appointee who was appointed by a republican, who has deep credibility on both sides of the aisle. whatever controversy will inevitably swirl around this b special counsel is going to be undercut that will be positive for unity, something that was not present during the clinton investigation. >> gloria. >> what this also means is that the p...

Multiple miles if you are in first class. that means the rich get richer and the jump across the divide gets more difficult. it's happening at the exact time we're riing that in our society. >> jeremy peters right this john boehner doesn't want to be remember as the shutdown speaker. his majority will be the largest any republican speaker has had since 1929, so large that it is approaching the size that democrats had in the 1960s when they solidified control of the house that endured for decades. what he's able to do with that power will determine whether he's remembered something more than th...

Say, i don't quite remember it as like some big kumbaya happiness of bipartisan behavior. there was the whole shutting down of government thing and the small matter of impeaching the president. politics hard, but does it have to be difficult? what makes it tough is when certain politicians would rather stand in the way of progress for people, rather than trying to help it along. if president obama able to win a second term in november, maybe it will send a message to obstructionists that their behavior was not rewarded. but maybe it won't. if mitt romney wins it will be interesting to see if h...