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He's requiring more trust in government than at times in the past. and now there are a series of stories raising people's concerns or at least fed the perception that government can't function properly. so we have to answer the questions under his watch can government function properly? he has also insisted that his is the most transparent administration in history, but his administration has prosecuted more reporters for leaks -- i'm sorry, more government officials for leaks than every other president combined. so he has a lot of questions to answer. and what he did last night certainly does...

Preparation for armed battle against its citizens? friends believing in this stuff, that would be one thing, but congress has held a hearing to investigate those claims and a bill has been introduced to the house and senate to limit the ability of government agencies to buy ammunition. how can government function properly when a large portion of one of the major parties believes government is the enemy, an armeded battle is in the near future and congress has to respond to those beliefs and take them seriously? yes, preppers ready for life after the government collapse, they'll be eating from ...

Sequester. they didn't feel that way, they were scared. in fact, john boehner called the cuts devastating. so they were never going to be allowed to happen. that was also the republican line during the election. romney saying that it would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. no way we would let that happen. since then, though, the republicans have had a sequester eepipha eepiphany. the sequester, not so bad, full of useless stuff the government does, and the republicans love spending cuts, except one, they don't love it so much they are willing to dig deep into their own pockets to cover the c...

From the budget control act of last year. and how did we get to that? well, the republicans said they were going to throw the country into default unless the democrats agreed to certain cuts. and if the super committee didn't reach a deal, they had to agree to these automatic cuts. the reason they're in place is because the republicans held the country hostage last year. >> right. so romney and his prendes in congress want to increase defense spending by more than $2 trillion. but he also wants to cut taxes on individuals and large corporations. has he even explained where the money would come...

Richard kim, executive editor of thenation.com. richard, i just got to say, i really only ever want the other guys to be moderate. i don't want our guys to be moderate. i want to be really honest about that. i really just want the republicans to be moderate. >> you are seeing a-similar et rick polarization. we were talking in the green room. i'm wondering why we necessarily link the question of congressional productivity to the lack of moderates. or why we link polarization to the lack of productivity. you have countries in europe where there's incredible polarization. there are socialist/comm...