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I love, by the way, donald has been a presidential candidate for just about a month now. and he's already learned how to do the lowered expectations game the rose garden strategy. he's the front runner. he's trying to hunker down. let the other people take the risk. and it's probably -- it's probably the right thing for him to do on thursday night. >> why? >> because the others have much more need to do something. when you're way ahead, you can afford -- he would be perfectly fine if the evening passed without any of us watching. because he's ahead the others are struggling and gasping for air...

Good to see you steven. what is the strategy if there is a strategy of being the first to officially announce? >> he gets the buzz to be the first candidate to announce that he's running for president. he released it on a saturday night, so he has all the media speaking about it all day sunday. and he's chosen a moment in the 2016 race where there's a little bit of a lull in the excitement. we know that hillary clinton is likely to announce her candidacy on the democratic side in april. so he's chosen a window where there's a little bit of space for somebody to capture some attention, i think....

Killing meant to embarrass president putin. what it will do is send another chill through russia's opposition saying that even one of these officials, these former officials who had a high profile in the west who was willing to speak out, not even he is safe. now nemtsov wasn't very popular with a lot of younger russians he was seen as kind of an old fogie, as one of the old guards putin. most russians are backing putin, according to the popularity polls and really are buying into the russian government's narrative right now, that the west is against russia especially over to the ukraine, and ...

Like mitch mcconnell trying to do the heisman on this. it's always better to be on offense than it is on defense and i think you are going see democrats getting on offense. uma: what about the fact there are those saying in terms of the sense of disconnect with the white house and the public, the president has more than two years to go in his presidency that he's saying i'm not going worry about the popularity polls. i have some work to do and i promised i was going get done. i'm going go forward and do whatever i want and forget everything else. >> the affordable care act has never been more ...

The affordable care act. that was -- >> are you surprised? yeah. leland: 26% said that was the biggest story. the next biggest story of death of nelson mandela. that was only got 8%. what is interesting how unpopular it was as a story. latest popularity polls for obamacare, only 35% approve of it. what can this do to the national psyche in terms of something that is so big but yet so unpopular? i was trying to think last time there was a law like this with this much discontent. you probably have to go back to prohibition. >> probably go back to prohibition but here's the rub. congress and the ...