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About poor people. and some of these programs were never fully funded. had we done what we should have done, making programs like head start fully funded, paying the teachers well, we would be a lot farther along. but even though we fought the battle poorly, michael tomasky is right. a lot of it worked. look at what we did with putting people through college. many of my high school classmates went to college on pell grants. they have middle class lives today because those programs were available to them. so don't tell me the war on poverty was a failure. it wasn't. >> peter, how would you char...

Fatal or there is no recovery. a few weeks ago i said the shutdown means they can't win in 2014. the truth is, we don't know what the heck is going to be deciding the 2014 election and we need to take a chill pill. is that covered by health care? >> peter, the problems the house has, a bunch of democrats seemingly ready to abandon him as far as this health care is concerned. >> right, i think that's the big story over the last couple days, potentially a bigger problem than the website itself because the political move the democrats worry about reelection in 2014 want is to be able to tell peop...

About americans keeping their existing policy, something not even the president fully claims any longer. let's discuss what is going on. i want to bring in a pair of democrats that differ when it comes to the problems of the affordable care act. the city of university professor of journalism and political science peter biner and paul bagola and gloriaborger. these numbers dismal, aren't they? >> they are evidence of a complete failure breakdown of this website. the white house was lowballing us saying you're going to see low figures. they were right. they were lower than we even anticipated. i...

All over the place, he's everywhere, and yet he's wrong a lot. how does he get away with it, sam? >> he's very good at being part of the media conversation. he has a lot of platforms that he can utilize and as you mentioned, he's very charming. his predictions have been wrong a lot of the times but it doesn't seem to stop him from getting a megaphone or an outlet and i think a lot of people like the idea of having debate over these things. be they like the idea of one side and another battle it out over the direction of u.s. engagement overseas. >> i agree with you completely. >> there's anoth...

Essentially deciding how bad war would be so we figure out how much we're willing to push for a deal. that's what a lot of this fight is really about. >> i think that's it. i agree with you completely, peter, and sam you agree it's about weaponization and what stage do you cut off this or what stage the iranians say we're not going to create weapons can you live with it. wrer not going to create weapons. >> but it's also about limiting the domestic political fallout of doing something like that. and, you know, the administration does need cover when they do pursue things like diplomacy with ir...