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There's been a lot of news outside of washington recently. and one of the under-reported stories is how the president is charging ahead with his agenda. "the new york times" today calling it a go it alone push. and reporting that after the gop's midterm victories, president obama has declined to humble himself. instead, following through on, quote, his determination to focus tenaciously on his governing objectives. and on issue after issue, the president's agenda is taking hold. on the economy, 56 straight months on private sector job growth. on track for the best year since

Arrival as a world economic power. and as they get wealthier, they'll become more friendly with the u.s. so i think it's one of the most important stories of 2014. >> do you think that no matter what, people will be disappointed as they are every year, liz? >> of course. >> that's the american way. >> exactly. >> someone's going to be disappointed. >> we weren't disappointed when we all won person of the year back in 2006. maybe they could do that again. you know, i'm ready to repeat. >> i missed that issue. [ laughter ] when we come back, eaten alive? or should i say, nibbles alive? a major...

The last few election cycles is, by having billionaires on either side come into the electorate, be able to spend unregulated amounts of money of, you know, quite frankly unregulated size, has changed in many ways the dynamics. it really isn't state and national parties anymore. a lot of these elections are being determined by outside money that's not going through the party apparatus. >> yeah. >> robert gibbs and ezra klein, thank you both very much. >> thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> coming up, the president's top economic adviser, gene's here. >> he is here. >> gene sperling joins the conver...

Jurisdictional threshold is so high, that it usually isn't state prosecuted. should a special prosecutor handle shootings and allegations of misconduct? >> yes. based on the number of cases we've seen recently and every day across the country, we have a system in place. any time you have a system in place that doesn't have an adequate check on the power, or an adequate check on accountability of the system, you're creating an atmosphere that's ripe for abuse. we have government inspectors for restaurants, for food. it's not because we don't like restaurants. it's because we want a check for th...