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Plan to the public betting he would put pressure on those democrats. >> one of the most uttered phrases in washington, d.c. these days is social security reform. >> reforming social security will be a priority in my administration. this is going to be hard work to bring people together. and to make, to convince the congress to move forward. >> president bush is starting the new year and his second term with an admittedly ambitious goal. reforming social security. >> for younger workers, the social security system has serious problems that will grow worse with time. >> that was the argument. th...

On a base that makes more and more zelous demands, we're talking about older whites, especially working class whites. and the pressure they put on members who fear primary challenges have caused them to say things and advocate things that don't have popular support and don't have legislative support. so the promise of an easy and fast repeal and replacement for obamacare, that was not born out because there wasn't public support for it. the same is true of the president's plan to immediately roll back daca. he delayed that until now. and then when he rolled it out and there was tremendous push...

Control. the reason why the background check legislation that was pushed specifically by my old boss didn't fail because it wasn't public support. it failed because basically you had the republicans and a few democrats, mind you, that just didn't want to get behind it for their own state political reasons. i'm not sure how that changes because there's a lot of factors here that are kind of feeding this. it's not simply about the gun control issue. it's about their, you know, dislike of the federal government. it's ideological. it's political. whatever it might be. >> but chris -- >> so it help...

Assad's interview that we have seen clips of, what i'm struck by is quite different from saddam hussein or many arab leaders. assad is not engaging in a lot of bravado, kind of crazy talk if you think of gadhafi's interview on the eve of that campaign. assad has been cool, very calculating, very clever in what arguments he uses. in the interview he talked about how there wasn't public support for this. he reminded people pooh of the colin powell speech at the u.n. and talked about the fact that the rebels are linked to al qaeda. this was not a bizarre rantings about american imperialism and is...

Congress was to figure out if they had enough public support to survive through an intervention. if anything went wrong would require a greater level of public commitment given the u.n. and other potential allies were not along. if they cannot count on congress to support them if things go wrong, that is very valuable information for them to have. if you believe they went to congress at all in good faith, it was to learn whether or not striking syria would be unwise because there wasn't public support. they learned yes indeed it would be unwise. >> thank you very much, ezra. we'll talk with bi...