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Welcome back, everyone. it's time now for "the skinny." we start with ben affleck. he's been in the news lately because his movie "argo" won big at the academy awards. won big. now he's in the news again because he's been accused of kicking the paparazzi. >> with good reason. >> with good reason. i believe him. he was picking up his daughter, who is 4 years old, from school. she was getting scared because they were so close. you know they get right up in here. and so he put his legs up and now the paps are saying he kicked them and was being aggressive. but in his defense, he did say, you're s...

Outright concession that obama really wound up making? >> i agree. i think part of it is putting on the table that was attempted before. in other words, if he's got leverage on taxes and i think he does, then he's got to get democrats right with the idea of we're going to do more cuts on medicare beyond the $250 billion that he proposed before. there's got to be other spending cuts that are part of this to make it easier for republicans to come along. and again, i still think he uses the leverage that he has overall on tax rates. you know, to drive that piece of it. >> you know, we've got to l...

Than me, i'm half asleep. >> mark haleprin has the first question. >> all right. a lot of questions about nancy pelosi and whether she will continue on as your leader. will she or won't she? >> you know, i think that's probably the hottest question in the capitol right now. but personally if you ask me, i would be shocked if she left. you know, would really surprise me if she stepped aside. nancy pelosi is someone who absolutely loves to be part of the architecture of big major decisions, the big issues. we wouldn't have health care reform without barack obama and nancy pelosi. and with the fi...

News? >> other than the marriage and marijuana initiatives and the health care initiatives, i think that can be taken as a sign that there are a lot of libertarian leaning voters, libertarian instincts in the public so maybe it's not that just they left obama, but republicans drove away independents and suburbans with a lot of the social policies. in the house of representatives -- >> there's interesting people not house of representatives, people from the ron paul movement, rand paul's state of kentucky -- john: won 62%. >> a big area, and won the first re-election in michigan, which was good...

News? >> other than the marriage and marijuana initiatives and the health care initiatives, i think that can be taken as a sign that there are a lot of libertarian leaning voters, libertarian instincts in the public so maybe it's not that just they left obama, but republicans drove away independents and suburbans with a lot of the social policies. in the house of representatives -- >> there's interesting people not house of representatives, people from the ron paul movement, rand paul's state of kentucky -- john: won 62%. >> a big area, and won the first re-election in michigan, which was good...