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Obama won the state but mark werner has a challenge this year. i watched him campaign at the planking, a famous old tradition of virginia politics. very republican leaning. many people came up to me afterward why did you vote for that bill? warner's response to them was, i did, but i've outlined several fixes to it. he was pretty adept at pivoting and moving away. he talked to reporters afterwards and we asked him, what are you going to run on from your senate record this year? and he brought up a number of things. his work with the gangs, his efforts to pass, you know, legislation on debt, in...

>> got you. >> you're not counting all the billions, tens of billions of dollars state and city bonds issue every year to build inf infrastructure. >> very good point. >> you didn't bring up the fact that we've been talking about an infrastructure prices for the last 30 years. >> yes, i did, you just saw a clip of the interview. i think you're very judgmental. that certainly came up. >> you're all out of your mind. the federal gas tax -- let's talk about one tax. the federal gas tax. it goes to the highway trust fund. it hasn't gone up in 20 years. but the cost of road repair and road construc...

Money. >> and that's often the criticism. these things if you have an inf infrastructure if it becomes political, people will want it in their districts. people are going to tweet me to say that was amazing. and people will say i have nothing to do with new york. i'm never going to use the subway. why is $1.3 billion going into this. how do we decide what we should be funding and shouldn't be? >> part of this at the public level there needs to be a real evaluation of the public benefi benefits. of getting millions of people to work, keeping new york city the world financial center and that's m...

Infrastructure. no electricity. random electricity. no water. no real clean sewage system. folks were -- were trying to get rid of trash in the middle of the streets. it was -- really utter chaos when it came to infrastructure and spent a lot of time looking at our target and making sure we didn't continue to destroy, you know, what was left after -- in 1991 and have to tell you that, you know, there wasn't a lot to protect. and the -- country was in a state of disrepair in terms of inf infrastructure. the fight weaneded up fighting was not against the iraqi army. it was about how to get the l...

to hear what the prime minister has to say. also, why we should stop worrying so much about the stumbling revolutions in egypt, tunisia and around the arab world. but first, here's my take continue now that mitt romney is once again the front-runner, his campaign focus is returning to president obama. and he's probably going to start repeating a line that he's used often in the past. >> this is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-american century. >> now, i leave it to the president to describe what he believes, but as the author of the book ...