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Time for our hits and misses of the week. james? >> this is a hit to north carolina governor and the legislator there who last year took the politically courageous step of cutting unemployment benefits, reducing them. now this makes them look hard-hearted. they took a lot of grief in the media. the results are in. more jobs. north carolina is one of the country's job creation stars since then. for a lot of reasons including heavy taxes have to pay for these benefits and they discourage people from seeking work. good for them. >> hit for u.n. ambassador samantha power who made a bold statement ...

Time for our hits and misses of the week. james? >> this is a hit to north carolina governor and the legislator there who last year took the politically courageous step of cutting unemployment benefits, reducing them. now this makes them look hard-hearted. they took a lot of grief in the media. the results are in. more jobs. north carolina is one of the country's job creation stars since then. for a lot of reasons including heavy taxes have to pay for these benefits and they discourage people from seeking work. good for them. >> hit for u.n. ambassador samantha power who made a bold statement ...

With president obama. >> so what is the biggest liability for a clinton 2016 campaign? is it benghazi, or is it president obama? joining me now is former adviser to former president bill clinton paul begala and columnist reheim salam. thanks to both of you for joining us. you just heard hillary clinton there. are you surprised that she dressed this issue head on? >> no, that's how she is. she's a completely candid person. and is completely up front and you'd have to be both soft-headed and hard-hearted to not go through what she went through at the state department and not single that out as t...

>> so what is the biggest liability for a clinton 2016 campaign? is it benghazi, or is it president obama? joining me now is former adviser to former president bill clinton paul begala and columnist reheim salam. thanks to both of you for joining us. you just heard hillary clinton there. are you surprised that she dressed this issue head on? >> no, that's how she is. she's a completely candid person. and is completely up front and you'd have to be both soft-headed and hard-hearted to not go through what she went through at the state department and not single that out as the most tragic date sh...

Inequality which has grown, but he thinks it's worthwhile to talk about. my sense about it is, look, the people who are losing unemployment benefits had them for a long time. it is supposed to be a temporary measure. it's been extended repeatedly for a lot of people because the job market has been so slow to recover. i think on balance it's an issue that democrats can make some use of because it portrays the republicans as hard-hearted, which is a theme a lot of people agree with and which is a familiar democrat versus republican theme going back a long ways. there is some political motivation...