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>> he wasn't really a politician at all. mario cuomo's politics were more a personal belief system. it was who he was, not what he did. fundamentally my father was a humanist. >> hundreds of mourners gathered to pay tribute, include former president clinton and mayor de blasio. joining muss -- and the daily beast's michael tamaski, who covered new york for many years. hello to both of you. let me start with you mike. you heard the current governor say it there at today's funeral. you wrote about it the idea that mario cuomo touched a lot of people because he was essentially a good guy. >> i ...

Air rage, we're about to go into the fourth of july weekend. what happens someone's southwest flight is overbooked and pulls out a gun? it's going to happen at some point. >> michael, 60 -- 82% of police chiefs favor a background check and yet in 2013 63 laws in 26 states need easier to carry guns in public. why do people want to carry guns in public so badly? >> you're asking the wrong guy that question, but, look, this is absurdity and it's the nra just flexing its muscles and just rubbing dirt in all of our faces and everybody else's faces and picking their spots and picking their states an...

Partisanship. it's extra venom in these attacks on the president and the first lady, jonathan. >> well, it's extra venom, it's extra personal. there is in a lot of those comments, especially rush limbaugh's last comment, there is something really personal, very harsh about the criticism. look, presidents and first ladies are criticized all the time, remember president george w. bush was criticized for being on vacation all the time, a whole lot more often than president obama. he went on vacations, first lady laura bush traveled around the world representing the united states, which is what sh...

Are pushing it, they are going to be against it. now, you know, i thought we all grew up being told by our mothers to eat our greens and try and eat healthy, but apparently, you know, once the obamas latch on to that idea, it becomes a bad idea in republican land, and it's really a terrible thing, because i was having a joke with my headline there, little bit of a joke, "republicans for more fat kids," but that's in essence what it boils down to. >> as a guy that grew up a fat kid in school, i took it personal, your headline. aside from that -- >> sorry. >> -- it is really that bad when you se...

>> here we every with me now to discuss this is eric bowler, and msnbc contributor and washington post opinion writer jonathan kapart. i want to start with you, jonathan, because you did write the piece in the washington post that essentially this is a smart strategy for democrats. flesh that out for us. >> you talked a little bit about it in your setup in talking about how when mitt romney was running for president all the attacks on bain capital and showing how sort of dark ask sinister bain capital was worked in nicking at some of the support that mitt romney could get. when i saw finally r...