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>> well, lawrence, the person to look at on that stage is not donald trump and not mitt romney, but look at the expression on anne romney's face. she looks like she's come down with some terrible affliction. he can barely keep a straight face. she looks pained to be there. and your description is very apt. they all but ran out of there, wouldn't take questions at all. whether it's a defensive move or a desperate move to try not to get the tea partiers going for gingrich or some other place, it still is a demonstration of mitt romney's character to some extent that he's willing to sink to the l...

Intelluct. why have you waited your life in the business of journalism when you could have been receiving $57,000 a day for doing nothing but watching your investments. >> i wish i could get mother jones to pay me with carried interest. i can't get the folks to swing it. i was about to say newt romney which works. mitt romney is playing by the rules. he wants to keep the rules, the carried interest provision and other measures pertaining to capital gains are one of the things we have been fighting about in the last couple of years in policy terms. he's come on to the scene says he wants low ca...

Except an extension at the debt ceiling. for political and economic reasons, that's the win. it's the one thing he wanted that he got. on the other front, he did not get anything. every stage of the negotiation, republicans got more in policy terms than they started out with in the beginning. >> charles said the tea party won, they should take it and go. do you agree? >> i think it's basically right. i think it's basically right, yes. the debate was largely on con republican grounds. they got more every time they pushed it further. it's true, if you look at the deal they have cut that some rep...

Find a way to beat up on the president and that's the dynamic of the primaries for them. in policy terms, what the president has described is pretty much what president bush described. you know, it is 67 borders with land swaps. the land swaps are significant. but on top of that, you're looking at israeli opposition being to american support for the changes, the democracy sweeping through the arab countries. honestly, republican candidates support that too. >> okay. want to ask you about sort of the gop buzz here. we have tim pawlenty who will now officially declare his candidacy monday, despi...

Parties right now is not about president obama versus house speaker john boehner or even if you want to get really geeky between senator harry reid and congressman paul ryan. we tend to talk about politics in those terms, in terms of personalities, obviously, or the radical budget proposal of the week that's never going anywhere, but will drag the whole country to the right in policy terms anyway while it's trying. we tend to talk act politics in america like that. frankly, those are stand-ins for the real debate between the two parties' visions of what government ought to do, of what politics...