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Go ahead. >> i was going to say, i gave him enormous credit for doing that entire speech in english. >> my jaw was on the ground. i thought to myself, how -- you know, it is difficult to give a speech to anyone in any environment in your first language. or your second or your third. this is down the line of the languages the pope has command of. and for him to stand up there and also as an act of welcoming grace and humbling grace to as a guest speak in the native tongue with tremendous self-possession. >> let me just pick up on a point charlie made about independence hall. one of the other th...

Presidency and getting the grass roots active and passing this agenda, that they can extend the period before he becomes a lame duck. they actually believe they can give-- you know, can get more action done, more of the agenda done prior to the 2014 mid terms and even think that they might be able to win those mid terms in a way that gives him more power in the last two years. very, very ambitious and, well, audacious, words the president used in the past plan. >> if you don't think that those character race particular, assertiveness, self-possession, cockiness are new. some used to describe h...

Anti-abortion movement will force republicans to take that position, knowing that it's too extreme for them, knowing that it may even cost them the vice presidency for bob mcdonnell, it may cost them individual elections, but those casualties will be on your way toward your incrementally moving what seems like the center further and further and further to the right. >> right, and that's the other broad question about this. does this move the center further and further to the right, because it is constant -- and you've made this point before. it's constantly anchoring the discussion in more and...

The republican party, that pushes the party into untenable electoral positions. i mean, nobody within the republican party would say, let's push mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds. but the absolutely doctrinaire anti-abortion movement will force republicans to take that position, knowing that it's too extreme for them, knowing that it may even cost them the vice presidency for bob mcdonnell, it may cost them individual elections, but those casualties will be on your way toward your incrementally moving what seems like the center further and further and further to the right. >> right, and that'...

Position, knowing that it's too extreme for them, knowing that it may even cost them the vice presidency for bob mcdonnell, it may cost them individual elections, but those casualties will be on your way toward your incrementally moving what seems like the center further and further and further to the right. >> right, and that's the other broad question about this. does this move the center further and further to the right, because it is constant -- and you've made this point before. it's constantly anchoring the discussion in more and more extreme places. or the does the backlash actually inv...