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Watching cable news. we can lose the viewer, that's okay. but next week when he comes back and the reality changes and health care gets brought back up, how dramatic will the shift be next week and what's on the top of the agenda, do you think? >> i think what's on the top of the agenda is making sure that the senate has heard many of these complaints that voters have raised to the house with the health care bill. i mean, since he's left, we've seen the cbo score and people have been quite critical of this plan in ways that they maybe weren't before. and i think he's going to have to respond t...

Unacceptable, it's unamerican, stop talking like that. he says sort of like mao in the old days. let a thousand flowers bloom. anybody has an opinion, they're all valid. let's listen to them. >> i think that's part of the problem. a lot of them is fear of them. they're scared to death of that base. they don't want to get on the wrong side of it. >> these wack jobs waving certificates and flags. >> because when you get back home in that environment and that pressure cooker starts to build around your support of the president or saying something nice about the president which what makes john mcc...

Let's listen to them. >> i think that's part of the problem. a lot of them is fear of them. they're scared to death of that base. they don't want to get on the wrong side of it. >> these whack jobs waving certificates and flags. >> because when you get back home in that environment and that pressure cooker starts to build around your support of the president or saying something nice about the president which what makes john mccain stand oout all the more. in the heat of a presidential debate and battle he was willing to say no, this man is a decent human being who is an american citizen i just...

That was the one paragraph that actually was a strong statement. >> you know, it's so fascinating. you go back and read history. you've lived it. how old were you in 1964? >> 21. >> 21. you remember this very well. goldwater wins a historic landslide. >> loses a landslide. you said won. >> i mean lbj wins historic landslide. greatest landslide since '36 when fdr beat alf landon. boy, if you read pearlstein's books, the reviews were crushing. the republican party is dead and committed suicide and much worse than we were hearing here. two years later the republican party has the best off-year el...

You would hope because of those incidents things were improved. i've been watching these press conferences from the beginning. and they are tight-lipped, they are begrudging. you get conflicting statements, positive statements that are then reversed within an hour. now, you know, let's cut them a break here. i wouldn't want to be in their shoes. these are fast-moving events, and the events themselves change, the reality changes. but they are not helping by not being fully forthcoming. because when they aren't, then people speculate. people offer information because there's a vacuum there. and ...