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Fundamental essence of the bill and it was an unexpected and significant setback. specter, arlen specter called the white house proposed changes totally unacceptable and they would gut meaningful judicial review. the point of this is, three, four years ago when the prous was presented with a strong bill, they pushed back. >> given their outrageous behavior in the a.p. case and the fox news case, and given their pitiful responses since then, there's no reason to think that the media shield law is going to be anything other than a figure leaf. they have no credibility on this issue. >> so what, ...

$563 in tax hikes for wealthy americans and $78 billion in new cigarette taxes. exciting new twist the president has managed to annoy both the right and left with this plan. i'm here to talk about it with jessica yellin, nancy cook from the national journey and jim from "the washington post". jessica. here's the big question. >> read it. >> i know. because you took the evelyn wood speed reading course. the aarp and progressive groups are mad about the changes, the adjustments, the cuts to social security in here. president obama has talked in the past he wants to be somebody who responsibly de...

Because you've been far too naughty! >> white house congressional aides got an earful from democrats on the hill yesterday about this so-called chained cpi which would reduce benefits for some social security recipients. oregon senator jeff merckley called it a fantasy. arizona congressman raul g. rijalva said it is a beltway figure leaf that i will never support. pelosi's line in the sand was on raising the age on medicare eligibility. that's something she couldn't help do so that's what she took off the table, meaning social security politically in this day and age is easier to touch these

Time. you had eight years of an administration that really gave up on trying to play the arbiter role, at which point the figure leaf kind of came away. the administration did a great job actually tactically, playing both of those roles in a way that they hadn't done at all during the first term, sending the secretary of state out to be the arbiter while the president could give the defender of israel speeches like that that's a tactical solution that doesn't get anywhere near the long-term structural problem that it isn't the same middle east that it was five years ago. what do you do instead...

Allow abortion for rape victims, even though that's plainly in contradiction from their previous stances. >> and they don't believe it. they would never enforce it. it's the same thing as when romney said, rush limbaugh had a bad choice of words. >> i wouldn't have said slut. >> i wouldn't have said slut. it's a figure leaf that they hope will, you know, fool these mythical i think largely, independents that are so easily fooled. i don't think people are so easily fooled. i don't think they're fooling republicans, democrats, independents, or anybody. it's a desperate attempt to put this back o...