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But also some republicans have kind of reluctantly gotten on this. and this could be the thing that ends up really biting take two at a big legislative achievement. >> yeah, and i think it creates a vulnerability for him around what you're talking about, the specific question of tax policy on his efforts on tax reform. i think during the campaign it was mark sanford who wrote an open ed and called for him to release his taxes. there's always been a bipartisan group who thought this was a vulnerability for him. going back to the last point that we were making, the reversals that go to the heart...

Here? >> absolutely. it's very difficult to go in on your own and we certainly -- why the united states can do that and not other countries, we've signed the same treaty as others, it's our law, national law under article 6 of our constitution. i think he's got some wobbly legs on that framework of legality. >> thank you so much. let me bring in our special panel, ian her, a associate professor of political science at northwestern university and wrote a "new york times" open-ed, bomb syria, even if it is illegal. and a fellow at the institute for policy studies in washington and wrote "strikin...

the olympics. that's right. a 16-year-old chinese swimmer wins the gold medal and denies that she is doping. ye shiwen set a record yesterday. on saturday, she won gold in the 400 meter individual medley. yesterday, the head of the world swimming association called her swim unbelievable. and suggested she may be doping. the young swimmer, she told reporters late last night and we are quoting here, my achievements derive from diligence and hard work. i will never use drugs. the chinese team is extremely strict on doping control. so i can assure you that it is not an issue with us. and...

Was pretty much as you said, the case, would never have been possible. in other words a bankruptcy filing alone, these guys still who is been in deep trouble. do you agree? >>guest: well, what i said at the time, in that open ed i said if government support is needed in the bankruptcy, and the government has to provide guarantees, that is something i would be open to. obviously we do not want the auto industry go out of business and i was on fox and also on the "meet the press," talking about this. we would not have the industry go out of business but it needed to go through bankruptcy to get ...

The goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now in our reach. >> welcome, that was president obama tuesday marking the one year and was of the death of osama bin laden. in a surprise trip to afghanistan. it is just one of the ways that the president and his re-election campaign have commemorated the killing. also, releasing an ad suggesting mom may not have done the same. in a "wall street journal" open ed it is said that it is hard to imagine eisenhower doing the same thing or lincoln. >> presidents advertise their accomplishments when they run for election, that...