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Welcome back to "hardball." remember what the republicans in congress propose, freezing domestic spending, austerity. that was their plan. even conservative columnist david brooks called that plan insane, because it hasn't worked anywhere else in the world. today the same guys whose policy got us into the economic mess of five years ago in the first place and then offered nothing to help us get out of except austerity, now we're getting their verdicts on the president's economic actions of the last five years. john boehner said, quote, the stimulus has turned out to be a classic case of big pr...

According to politico appears to represent a new center of gravity in the world of gop money. singer's cohorts include power players like charles schwab and joe ricketts who infamously supported using reverend jeremiah wright as a centerpiece of a campaign ad in 2012. november midterms approach, we're sure to see the group and others flex political muscle in states with vulnerable candidates. with us now, josh green, senior political ed tore at bloomberg business week, and chris cillizza from the "washington post".com. also an msnbc contributor. gentlemen, thank you. what i watched today in th...

Would say this questionable self-investigation by christie. my question to you. are you getting cooperation from these people, from the mayor of ft. lee, the mayor of hoboken, the people who are holding out against christie? are they holding out for the benefit of you guys on the investigative committee so you guys get the stuff before christie's people get at it? >> i can't speak for the mayor of hoboken because i have not been in contact with her, nor to my knowledge has our committee reached out to her. but certainly bridgegate, which is slightly different from the issues brought up in hobo...

With him and their number ambition would be to destroy his presidency. who was that guy? was that mitch mcconnell? wasn't that the same guy? >> i think it was rush limbaugh also. >> the very same guy who said if he had only cooperated with us. >> absolutely. >> part of the problem is the president is not hitting them with the sort of things you're talking about. he steps back and says well, we've created x million job years. >> i tried to talk him into being me. i'm sure he is watching. do it like i do it. >> it's not just this president. the democrats seem to play by these marquee of queensbu...

And the democratic party has really diminished the influence of the hawks in this party, the democratic party, i believe. do you agree? >> yeah. >> you're fighting this? you're fighting it, aren't you. >> well, look. >> as a democratic party a less hawkish party than it was ten years ago? >> stupid wars, but i think they're very internationalist. >> nothing wrong with being internationalist. the question of why did we go to iraq? >> iraq was idiotic. and every democrat agrees with that. >> they didn't at the time. i think joan and i and barack obama were the ones that didn't. and we were right...