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They were the recent past, things that had already happened in the pentagon papers case and the vietnam war here and the afghan war, but they have both seemed to serve to undermine confidence in current strategy, because we find exaggerations, we find the military exaggerating in the past about certain success rates for certain exercises, and that is the kind of thing that undermines strategy going forward, isn't it? >> well, it does, but you have a president who actually has also questioned his leadership. now we have the second new leader coming in to run this war. the guy who promised that ...

>> i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> wow. well, that is simply unacceptable, and ms. sherri must resign immediately, so i owe ms. sherrod an apology for not doing my home world war i. >> i did take a banned substance, and, you know, for that i'm very sorry. >> a fist bump, a pound, a terrorist fist jab. i reyet that. it was not my intention, and i certainly didn't mean to associate the word terrorist with senator obama. >> the past two years have been hard on all parties involved. again, i offer my deepest apology, and i challenge you to read a book. >> if you agree with ...

Former lieutenant governor jane norton. ms. norton once leading by double digits now finds herself trailing mr. buck despite support from national gop leaders. that is all subject to change because of recently leaked audio. at a campaign event last month mr. buck was pressed on the validity of president obama's birth certificate by tea party birthers. afterwards he vented his frustration to another person at the event, a democratic party tracker, who happened to be carrying a small tape-recorder. >> will you tell those dumb asses at the tea party to stop asking questions about birth derts whil...

Texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave wiegel. you have ken buck. i've got to think he is voicing john mccain's private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans' private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? >> cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty -- that's pretty widespread. i've heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republic...

As he was. you know, what buck was saying here, i think, is legitimate, and they really do -- republicans really do believe the media and the obama administration are letting this hang on and throwing these questions out there at their rallies in order to slip them up. they're wrong. polls show that there's a big chunk of this base that believes this stuff, but they really do mean this. they want to talk about the deficit. now, the second part is they don't have a lot to say about how we can cut spending while cutting taxes, but they definitely want to stop talking about the birth certificate....