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We think about our public service. megyn: he says it can t be the measure of what it means to be a democrat to have purity of position but nothing gets done for the american people. that is what he said. megyn: your response to that. he s speaking to the left wing of his base. i m sure if he had to say it again he wouldn t say it that way. we would have the public option today if he made a tougher fight for it. that s the bottom line. 100%. the american people supported it. megyn: i have got to go. but you mentioned the estate tax twice. the argument from the other side is that it s a morally corrupt tax. that if i i don t have a $5 million estate. if i work all my life and pay my taxes on my income, then i die and i want to pass on what would be great if it were a $5 million ....
The latino vote. there was a similar case in nevada where senate majority leader harry reid beat sar on annle with the help of the hispanic vote. megyn: at times in the past republicans have supported this. it is not expected to pass today. we ll see. doug mcelway will let us know if the prediction is dead wrong. we look forward to hearing from you. fox news alert we are getting details on an online attack targeting mastercard. hackers reportedly taking down the credit card company s website in retal kwrags for mastercard pulling the plug on funding to wikileaks. wikileaks gets a lot of its funding online from donations. mastercard and visa yesterday said not through us you won t. according to the reports hackers are calling this operation pay back announcing on twitter that they successfully brought down mastercard s online fight. we are working on this breaking news, we will have an update ....
Not fight a vigorous enough battle for this not just in the last week or month. but in the entire last year. that s one of the reasons we are having a failure. the president likened this to a fight over the public option. i agree with him. megyn: i want you to respond to his sound bite on that of which many people made a lot over the last 24 hours. listen to this. people will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victories for the american people and we ll be able to feel good about ourselves and how pure our intentions are and how tough we are. and in the mean type the american people are still saying to themselves, not able to get health insurance because of preexisting conditions, or not being able to pay their bills because their unemployment insurance ran out. that can t be the measure of how ....
Placate his base which he also bashed in that press conference. megyn: we are going to talk what he said about the left. reporter: that phrase, though, megyn that caught my ear yesterday when he said, i m itching for a fight because it sounded so george w bush. megyn: it sounded a little. reporter: sounded a little bush cowboy, yes. megyn: there s also been criticism of the president that he may have actually inadvertently or perhaps intentionally said a little too much about his own feelings on our national security policy when it comes to negotiating with hostage, actual hostage takers because the u.s. policy is not to do that. he sort of announced an exemption there. are people being too tough on the president holding him to the actual language, saying well if you re hurting the hostage it s a different story or does this not bode well for us? if you re al-qaida over there do you actually take a message from what he said. reporter: i m a very strong critic of this president as ....
the republicans did. megyn: the republicans wanted to strike a deal and so did the president. you are saying he punted on third down. he should have kept fighting. he tried to fight, he tried a vote. you wanted him to keep fighting until when. he tried to fight and lost? when was that fight? i don t remember i don t remember the president going out and traveling the country saying we need a middle class tax cut that we can t afford anywhere more debt. or we ll raise the number to a million dollars and put the rest of the money going to small businesses. megyn: that was his proposal. you are having a difficult time differentiating between chuck shoer and the president of the united states. it s not about a fight. it s about american lives. about the people of this country and how they are going to be impacted. that s what the president is ....