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Once today, we've heard that more than once in the last few minutes. joining us is ann ravel, the outgoing democratic member of the federal election commission who has just resigned. commissioner ravel, thank you for joining us, appreciate you being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i will not ask you about vestigial organs or anything about nipples. >> i don't have much more to say about them. >> we've covered that material, very good. >> right. >> you're close to finishing your official term, as far as i could tell it would wrap up at the end of april this year. why quit now? why take t...

>> i am bob beckel. >> i am your hobbit sized host. >> the best part of your day? >> i hope it's the best part of a lot of people's days. it is where all of my skills come together everything that i have learned and everything i am still trying to learn. at first it wasn't easy for me to get out of michelle because i had only spoken for other people, including the president of the united states. i was very comfortable doing that. you ask me my personal opinion about something it took me a while to get comfortable to express it. >> i would say six months and even to this day there are things i ...

Seemed far more scripted and staged than what you usually see in terms of retail politics in that date. >> i want to be the champion who goes to bat for americans. we need to build the economy of tomorrow not yesterday. we need to build families and communities that's where it all starts. we need to fix the dysfunction al system and get money out of it once and for all. >> the fact is she doesn't want the publicity. this is the big thing a lot of the mainstream media is missing. this is the only strategy they could employ. >> day one on the campaign trail in iowa left a lot more questions than...

The communications strategist. so i look at it differently. the numbers don't tell you if you can have a wave elections. the numbers don't tell you could there be enough of a backlash and anger about what's happening with the voting rights act that you would see the same obama electorate come out in the midterm election, which you don't usually, african-american, latino, young voters, and women. women in texas are angry. women in north carolina are angry. if you can turn out those voters, i actually think that nate -- i shudder to say it. i think nate could be very wrong. but i think that trad...

Cuts to them so they can turn around and run against democrats for entitlements. this is what they did in 2012. the president came up with ways of cutting medicare and then what did romney do? they said look at their white house. this is what they have done every single time. and what they are trying to do is with their strategy of gridlock convince them that they are so dysfunction al that they get rid of it. >> they said the president won't tackle the entitlement program and he wants to cut medicare. >> and here is harry reid sniffing out the same logic that we saw in the republican alternat...