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Only time will tell. democratic leaders in congress but this is a welcome tone.  qyou know, four years ago on to say it's time to work on night of the inauguration, 15 republican leaders, mostly in bipartisan solutions. the house, got together to talk so will republicans be open to about how they cld bng down the administration and deat that dreaded word "compromise"? the prt.esiden if they start this new joining me now is congressman administration wh a different emanuel cleveland, democrat from attitude, i think that would be very, very positive because ultimately the american people will ...

Out. >> my pension is bigger than yours. >> some of the women senators get together for dinner every once in a while because they need a break from all the testosterone and try to just sit around the table and say, okay, i need to get this bill through, how do i -- how can you help me? >> this is not a small point. in the same year we see a decrease in the number of women 30rk 30-year low, not a 30-year low but moving backward, we see the hyper partisanship. when we have seen folks coming together it was often moderate women or women who at least on certain kinds of issues were able to find co...

Has taken aggressive steps including drone strikes and so forth to combat terrorism and yet there's very little debate about the civil liberties aspect to all of this. from the aclu's perspective here, how do you grade the administration thus far? >> well, alex, of course we start with the aclu by joining all americans today in remembering the unspeakable losses of 11 years ago, and as we reflect back on the lost turbulent decade i think we have to acknowledge and grapple with the fact that the post-9/11 era was a path that we took -- we took a wrong turn in this path. we turned to policies of...

This is going to be hard for you. it was all about the iraq war injure. i believed that american security interests were on the line there and i felt if we withdrew in defeat it would have a terrible consequence not only on iraq but american credibility throughout the world so i stuck with it. i remember them saying to me the numbers show this is going be a tough primary campaign you should think about running as an independent and i remember saying i'm a democrat and if the democrats don't want to nominate me that is their choice. i will stay and fight for what i think is right within the dem...

Party, that works? >> look, i commend -- mark and i talked about this, i commend what they tried do with americans elect but it speaks to the difficulty of a third party you have a group that smartly, rather than saying we're going to find a candidate, we're going to start from the bottom up and get ballot access, because everybody who knows the difficulty of third party that's the hardest thing to do, but ballot access in more than half states and yet the person who gets the most votes of the on-line convention to nominate a candidate is a candidate not trying to get the nomination namely ron...