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The first one yesterday. the justice department saying it will ask for a stay on that order until it can be appealed. let's bring in chris hayes. the washington editor of "the nation" magazine. good evening, chris. >> good evening, keith. >> mr. king said he agreed this was a shakedown but he did not necessarily agree that barton should have apologized for it. so shakedowns are okay? >> yeah. steve king comes out strong pro-shakedown. i mean, look, i think you can get tangled up trying to thread through the logic of this entire episode. the fact of the matter is the story is pretty simple. bar...

Whose compensation escrow fund from the bp, mr. barton opposed. barton's apology in hand let the gop let barton keep his position in the committee declaring the matter over. the party is still spewing out both side of blowout preventers including the congressional office of barton. he was telling republican congressional leaders sorry behind closed doors his press office was tweeting a different tune saying joe barton was right, linking to an article reiterating the gop argument that president obama shook down bp and deleted the tweet when he got caught. not just that he agrees with barton's c...

He's sorry now to just about everybody except the gulf coast whose compensation escrow fund from the bp, mr. barton opposed. barton's apology in hand let the gop let barton keep his position in the committee declaring the matter over. the party, however, still spewing out both sides of their blowout preventers including the congressional office of joe barton. he was telling republican congressional leaders sorry behind closed doors his press office was tweeting a different tune saying joe barton was right, linking to an article reiterating the gop argument that president obama shook down bp an...

There's a lot -- one of the things that dick armey and the people that stand at the nexus between the party establishment and the base have to constantly do is figure out how to translate, tamp down or hide the remarkably unpopular ideas that are sort of bubbling up through the tea party movement. >> how is this balanced? i'm trying to understand who they think would vote. i know who they think will help fund the campaigns for this. the tradeoff for being on the record, as mr. barton is, as mr. king is, as this fellow that won, mr. lee, in utah, to essentially be saying, no, screw the people i...

Moratorium that interior secretary salazar repeated today he will revise and restore after a new orleans judge overturned the first one yesterday. the justice department saying it will ask for a stay on that order until it can be appealed. let's bring in chris hayes. the washington editor of "the nation" magazine. good evening, chris. >> good evening, keith. >> mr. king said he agreed this was a shakedown but he did not necessarily agree that barton should have apologized for it. so shakedowns are okay? >> yeah. steve king comes out strong pro-shakedown. i mean, look, i think you can get tangl...