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The attorney general said he was concerned about what the nypd was doing which was clearly within the law and the department of justice has backed off on that, wisely. but you look at the context. and then the definitional aspect. the definition is the problem. i don't believe, and i agree the president can get away with this because, number one, you have a congress, you have an active media, that's why we are here tonight. but you have to ask yourself why this overly broad definition of national defense? why incorporate the stafford act, which talks about foreign and national interests and ts...

The attorney general said he was concerned about what the nypd was doing which was clearly within the law and the department of justice has backed off on that, wisely. but you look at the context. and then the definitional aspect. the definition is the problem. i don't believe, and i agree the president can get away with this because, number one, you have a congress, you have an active media, that's why we are here tonight. but you have to ask yourself why this overly broad definition of national defense? why incorporate the stafford act, which talks about foreign and national interests and ts...

Be clean, meaning simply, dealing solely with numbers. the defense issue was not the issue. the issue was the riders. mitch daniels, the governor of indiana, republican, former chair of the former head of the omb, said look, these riders ought to be for other bills. you want to solve the financial issues confronting the country. we've come 70% of the way towards what republicans wanted to do. i think anybody that goes 70% of the way, thinks they've gone a pretty far way towards reaching reasonable agreement on restraining spending and the campaign. i never heard anybody say you're going to res...

Atmosphere on the house floor. the politics is there, but there's a frenzied nature to it because there are so many votes that will have to be taken, if they were to go with all 500. people are getting a chance to put their ideas in the suggestion box. >> part of this is the immediate response to republican demands, tea party demands, for more openness in the process, not the closed rule where things would be on the floor for an up or down vote. this is really sort of the ebb and flow, though they have control over the final issue. this was also the big defense issue with secretary gates and c...

Huge defense issue from 50 years ago and how it inspired american innovation. >> and half a century ago when the soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. the science wasn't even there yet. nasa didn't exist. but after investing in better research and education, we didn't just surpass the soviets, we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. this is our generation's sputnik moment. >> the president invoking the cold war. as i mentioned earlier, the president outlined an...