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Will be. two top vote getters will move on to a general election. there's a lot of weird scenarios that come up when you've got lots of candidates on the same ballot. you can someone with 17%, 18%, being the next congress person. >> jane harman a force for cent trifts democratic policies. you lose another centrist democrat as part of the caucus. >> absolutely. >> as well as someone who has been a strong voice on foreign poll policy. >> the centrists, jane harman of the blue dogs. this is a group that was literally almost decimated by the 2010 election, so many blue dog democrats lost in the so...

Politics involved in judgeships? >> you know, john, i don't think that's undue cynicism. i think these are mixed political and legal judgments. and there is no point in pretending otherwise, and i think to look at the political profile, to look at the previous decisions of the judges who decide these cases is entirely appropriate and very revealing. and we have a united states supreme court that is essentially divided 4-4, liberals and conservatives, with anthony kennedy in the middle. and i think anthony kennedy's going to have a lot to say about whether this law survives. >> jeff toobin, app...

>> bill: is there any way that republican senators or some independent senators can get an up or down vote on obamacare? can they go around harry reid? >> there are a lot of ways that you in the senate as long as germane to the matter discussed before the senate. they have been pouring water on this. i said in my column on this, democrats have been pouring water on this idea of having to vote with the hope of two things. minimize defections from their own ranks in the house and senate and trying to did i courage the republicans from bringing it up. we call it a political grandstanding. the rea...

Trying to do far more than that, that's when you begin to lose people here. we are going to spend over a hundred billion dollars again this year in afghanistan, all of the problems we've talked about. the patience of the american public, i think, is running out on this. there are better ways of dealing in the longer term with al qaeda and the taliban having a long-term on the ground boots ground commitment in that country. >> before we get to financial reform, real quick, has the wikileaks document dump had any impact on the conversation on capitol hill? you talk about public impatience with t...

The complaint from republicans is no promise here. this will add to the deficit. why was it important then to make sure it was paid for then but not now? >> this is a responsible way to do it. my job is to help make sure we can borrow to finance the obligations congress gives us. it's a prudent, responsible way given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing america, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed and the support for small business. we want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. as you know the president proposed a series of measure...