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We are back with the roundtable. this is willie brown, former speaker of the assembly in california. cover of time magazine shows reagan and obama's admiration for him. why obama loves reagan. is this aspirational? is this a president after a tough midterm election who wants to match the success of reagan or is there more? >> no, no. in reality barack obama has always been an admirer of reagan. many of the qualities he exhibits are reflective of what ronald reagan was all about. he has not been able to demonstrate those in the first 18 months or so of his administration simply because he had s...

So they rebranded as the tea party. why don't you give equal time to the democratic response, and then have representative anthony weiner, who is from the more progressive wing of the democratic party, why doesn't he -- >> i'm sure he'll get plenty of opportunities. we would love to have him in "the situation room." i will point out. the president will speak for an hour. paul ryan will speak maybe for 10 or 15 minutes. michele bachmann's team will be very short. the amount of response is nothing compared to what the president of the united states will have in declaring his message. as it shoul...

Pictures with president bush and sarah palin just campaigning, you know, a few years ago. remember, going to the polls tuesday in pennsylvania, these are act riss, longtime democrats not a general election crowd that shows up in november. these are people not very familiar with pulling that ballot lever for arlen spector and people believe he will lose this race tuesday. >> i think this is a fascinating race. as we move from pennsylvania to arkansas where senate democrat blanche lincoln is fighting for her political life. the progressive wing is lined up against her. do you think democrats ris...

President biden is rattling senate benefit with massive spending program calling it human infrastructure and the price tagged in the trillions. that is despite inflation and warnings from the right and actually the people on the left. what can you tell us about those? >> democrats are inching closer but not quite there and spin and possibly $3.5 trillion on a package that is loosely being described as infrastructure, however, shannon, progressive wing wants to spend more. we are talking $6 trillion all of which g.o.p. senators that you pointed out, frankly up in arms. they pointed rising cost ...

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