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>> instead of the traditional laundry lit of policy proposals, the president's speech was crammed with anecdotes. it was also modest with no mention of entitlement reform, no big challenge of his party's ideology. the white house argues that last year the president did deliver a traditional speech with a host of policy ideas, some of which were bold ant went nowhere. so white house aides argued, if the white house can accomplish the realistic ideas. president obama gave frankly what i would call a political speech that wasn't partisan. it was designed to keep the democratic party united, give ...

I have never seen people come on senate hearings and say yes or no, yes or no, yes or no. you don't talk -- >> mccain used to do the same thing to rumsfeld when rumsfeld -- >> your point being -- >> i'm saying mccain is always combative. to say it's a partisan thing -- >> it wasn't partisan. it was personal and strange. i'll go into it later in the show. thank you, robert costa, for defending the indefensible. it's true. sam stein, thank you. this is "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ ooh baby, can i do for you today? ♪ [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? alig...

Chuck hagel is extraordinary in senate history. i have never seen people come on senate hearings and say yes or no, yes or no, yes or no. you don't talk -- >> mccain used to do the same thing to rumsfeld when rumsfeld -- >> your point being -- >> i'm saying mccain is always combative. to say it's a partisan thing -- >> it wasn't partisan. it was personal and strange. i'll go into it later in the show. thank you, robert costa, for defending the indefensible. it's true. sam stein, thank you. this is "hardball," the place for politics. black on is that these will come together. delicious and whol...

That the republican party ran into this big problem in 2012 where that message alienated people. >> let me show you what he said in 2005 about social security. now he's talking about how people paid in and it's earned. but he said -- let me quote it. it says -- this is a quote. social security right now is a collectivist system. it's a welfare transfer system. this is paul ryan. so if ryan called it a welfare transfer system, now all of a sudden no we weren't calling them takers. and the president, krystal, stepped right in and attacked that. now, in my opinion that wasn't partisan. it was his...

Times". how can you say they're left? that's mainstream paper. that's not left, all right. >> that's absolutely correct. >> bill: therefore, they don't have any baseline to say this is the left wing media because they don't think it's left wing. >> i wrote about this in bias, and this was like 11 years ago. i said that these people see everything to the left of center and middle of the road, as moderate, as reasonable. >> bill: regular folks. >> everything to the right of center as conservative. everything to the left of center is just middle of the road. >> bill: i remember a conversation i h...