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There's a fundamental way in which the filibuster as currently constituted makes the government dysfunctional and does violence to the mechanisms of democratic feedback in which you vote for a party on an agenda and you judge it based on how it's been implemented. >> a terrible strategy for the democrats. playing defense when they should be playing offense. and when you think about it, the senate's already not democratic. two senators from every state. montana gets two, california gets two, but now it takes 60 senators to get anything done. >> barry friedman and rick hertzberg. thank you, gent...

Veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. the president playing offense this week as he continues his push to sell the new health care law to the president. >> health care costs have slowed trafficly in a lot of areas since we passed the affordable care act. we have a lot more work to do but health care inflation is not skyrocketing the way it was. >> nbc/wall street journal poll found only 37% believe the affordable care act is a good idea. 49% believe it's a bad idea.

It's designed to put people on the spot. playing offense. the nra fights back against the president. >> he's more than willing to demonize his opponents, silence his critics, and slur the nra. >> our special guest, susan o z eisenhower taking on the web ad about the obama daughters. and surprise, even bo obama gets into the act as the first family greets unsuspecting tourists at the white house. with, in fact, a fist bump from the commander in chief. and good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. a busy day here, secretary clinton final facing tough questions from senate republica...

The same thing could happen with these attacks in the embassies. the trick right now is to keep them from going viral. i think that was probably the motivating factor of the statement that was issued in the embassy in cairo yesterday, to try and keep this from spreading the way the arab spring did. this is going to be a problem throughout the arab spring events as they unfold. in each of these countries, you have a group that wants to reintegrate with the world and focus on markets and focus on prosperity, and focus on good governor nuns, and then you have a group that sees an opportunity to h...

Of the economy and that's exactly what's happened. we haven't talked about the economy. i would argue in a coordinated way from the romney campaign since before the london -- >> you're totally right. what's so fascinating is the push back you get up when we bring it to the romney people we're playing offense -- >> it's built in. >> and may be playing offense but the economy still hasn't gotten increasingly or measurably better and we now have five days in which we haven't talked at all about it and people say, five days, whatever no one is paying attention, only 82 or 81 days nis election so f...