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>> i don't think you can make it argument president obama has been politically disadvantaged. the broader issue of healthcare reform has hurt him, but cutting medicare so deeply for years to come has not hurt him. bill: thank you, carl, we'll talk again. alisyn: two air traffic controllers fired for sleeping on the job. now the obama administration saying it seize no need for an faa review. bill: baby joseph, the terminally ill baby was treated at hospitals in london and the u.s. now his family is getting what they so desperately wanted. >> reporters said who is baby joseph and why should we c...

Vancouver olympics. what's the case that there was discrimination at work here? it was partly that men have been ski jumping in the olympics since 1924. women were ski jumping in international competitions and doing so very well, but they were not doing it at the olympics. the president of the international ski federation felt comfortable saying this out loud. >> don't forget, it's like jumping down from two meters, on the ground about 1,000 times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies, from a medical point of view. >> those delicate lady parts. see, they don't like the jumping. ...

Happily a current msnbc contributor. welcome to you all. i know you're not the parliamentary but it argument seems to be this is a kind of not fully sanctioned subgroup of this larger committee. working on a politically motivated issue perhaps with powers of investigation. >> it's quite murky. it's quite unusual. it's a big of a rogue operation, you might say and it certainly is not one including democrats. you would like to think they're bipartisan and both parties are -- they may disagree but they at least know what the other one is doing. in this case the democrats seem to have been shut ou...

Republican voters going to be open to somebody who says i want to raise the retirement age a couple more years and i'm willing to means test benefits -- entitlement benefits based on income is that going to play? >> look i think that this election this primary, that's going to be more of a possibility that republicans are open to that than ever before. they want a debate on reform and forward-looking policies so they're going to be open to it. the bigger question for christie is are they going to believe he's the guy to do it? and this gets to his liabilities, which is a lot of people, you kno...

Made me do it argument. i don't think they're going to feel any sympathy at all in the penalty phase. >> you sound skeptical that his life will be spared. >> i think his life will be spared. i think the jury is going to say if he gets the death penalty, he's going to get the platform he wants, he's going to be viewed as a martyr. i think the jury will say if he put him away for the rest of his life it will be a much more severe punishment for this guy in the long run and we'll never hear from him again. >> same outcome, but a very different strategy. the defense says the devil made me do it. h...