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Himself as a philosopher king. it wouldn't surprise me if he had ideas. but if it is tort reform and shopping for insurance across state lines we've heard it before. >> what is left in the policy menu that republicans could conceivably advance as some kind of health care reform plan in? >> i think richard's point is well taken. the problem is that obama stole the republican plan. mitt romney's plan five years ago in massachusetts, which has 98.5% of massachusetts people are health insurance is the plan that the president is now using for the whole country. it's pretty hard when the president c...

It seemed to me there was no other way this would come out, there have been other trials that have seemed that way to the public. whether it be o.j. simpson or casey anthony that did not end this way. was there any document in your mind that this ever could have gone another way? a lesser charge, for example? >> no. but i have 25 years of experience in the business. which means -- and i prosecuted homicide cases. i've seen seemingly nice people who look good on the outside, dastardly on the inside. i think the thing she had going for her is that she doesn't look like a monster and she's cute f...

Philosopher king. he thinks he's a philosopher. seriously, so unwed from the realities of washington d.c. which again there are things to respect about this unless you want a properly functioning washington. >> tell me about the rattles of washington d.c. where a republican leader doesn't go to state dinners when he's invited, where a republican leader maybe goes to one but doesn't shake the president's hand. tell me about those realities and tell me how he's supposed to function in that reality. that has happened, few. not just this guy is not calling any, he has been treated with great disre...

Tough thing and sent the troops in, and we had the first modern civil rights act. it wasn't great, it wasn't what lbj gave us, but it was something. not one republican voted against that bill. think about it, what's happened. i'll tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosoph...

Something. not one republican voted against that bill. think about it, what's happened. i'll tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosopher king of that argument? john c. calhoun. what happened? two things. first of all, the party which could have led the way on civil rights...