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Unfolding over the next few days? particularly in my view probably should be getting out in front with you on "meet the press" this weekend to sit down and kind of expose all of this. how do you see this thing playing out over the next few days? do we frame it? do they continue to back off of it? what do you see happening here? >> i don't want to disagree with your media strategy. i think that's the way they ought to approach it. i think seriously, that's it. in a vacuum, there's all this connective tissue here that doesn't need to be there. all of these things are somehow related or go to sim...

And it's just a breadth of what the government seems to be doing here. if they do it, it's supposed to be extraordinary circumstances, it has to be signed off by the attorney general himself and it has to be narrowly limited. there's nothing narrow about the scope of this, about the duration of records that they're seeking. no wonder the "a.p." is outraged. no wonder every reporter is outraged. this is an extraordinary breach of the relationship between government and the media. >> it certainly is. michael steele, too, it is very important politically for the republican party now not to overre...

Described in many of my speeches over the last few years, i talked about that question. i thought that washington and congress specifically was removed from the daily life of the average person. and that's why they weren't galvanized to address some of the key issues with respect to the economy and how we could generate economic growth and provide jobs for the average person and raise the level and the quality of those jobs, as well. and as a result, you've seen this huge divide, i think, between the rest of america and washington, between main street and wall street. and so we had these persi...

Adjudicated and audited if necessary in a completely nonpartisan way. yes, they did have to look and see whether some of these groups were political rather than pro bono. but not in any kind of nonneutral way. the test had to be neutral. the fact they went after the tea party here as david said earlier feeds the republican critics, and this is one of the most outrageous excesses i've seen in all my years in journalism. we knew about the past national security probes, but i think this associated press investigation just rises to that standard, as well. the press is not popular, we are not popul...