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>> and maybe it's the tenth anniversary of the iraq war, but i closed it and said, this is like a shock and awe attack against the american government, right? you're bringing four departments, decimating them to rubble. a flat tax that would basically bring the level of spending in this country back to sort of pre-depression days. who cares about financial rules. we'll do the roll it back to the housing bubble and days of secret trades. it's as if they didn't open a newspaper. they don't recognize that there's anything going on with, i don't know, joblessness, right? because if you actually cu...

President's approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that the people of kentucky know exactly how mitch mcconnell and rand paul voted. >> michael, let's talk about the progressive community. because, on some level, the republicans have really won the ideological battle insofar as, this is all washington talks abou about, which is deficits and budgets. and you could argue that, in terms of the goalposts, we're arguing in and around the rand paul budget or paul ryan budget. and there was very little news of the house caucus ...

Reporting the set, the motivation of the war hawks. the faults in the intelligence, the alternative paths that the leaders have failed to explore and, of course, a reasonable estimate of the horrors to come. well, tonight we discussed the good journalism that was done during the iraq war buildup and the bad decisions to bury so much of it. coming up next, "now with alex wagner." in the great gun safety debate, michael bloomber prefers data and wayne lapierre prefers wayne lapierre's opinion. it's monday, march 25th, and this is "now." >> the whole thing, universal checks, is a dishonest pr...

We begin tonight with two men on opposite sides of gun safety reform. both claiming they represent the will of the people. new york city mayor michael bloomberg expressed confidence on "meet the press" that meaningful reform is on the horizon. >> i am cautiously optimistic. i think, when you have an issue where 90% of the public, 80% of nra members, even, say that they think we should have reasonable checks before people are allowed to buy guns, they all support the second amendment, as i do. but there are an awful lot of people that think that this is one of the great issues of our times. we ...

Speedometers. that's why i support comprehensive background checks, so criminals and dangerously mentally ill can't buy guns. that protects my rights and my family. >> as "the new york times" put it, this ad blitz represents, by far, the biggest escalation of mr. bloomberg's attempts to become a one-man counterweight in the political clash over guns. yet in the 100 day since sandy hook, despite the polling, despite the public support, despite the crusade of mayors, governors, and the white house, there hasn't been much progress coming from capitol hill. harry reid admitted he didn't have the v...