correspondent. john, let's start with the r repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." >> i think there are republicans who would like to vote for it, but i'm going to be surprised if actually any of those three get done before the end of the year. there's a difference between having support that is there at some point for these measures and whether or not it's going to get moved through in this lame duck session. i think the lame discussion sessi duck session, the likelihood is you'll get only stop gap government funding and maybe some taxes. >> so walk me through the specificses of that. why does it get blocked, when "don't ask, don't tell" or the dream act, is it going to take too long and why? >> you've got conservative opposition to both and in this political environment in washington, even before the election, republicans in the senate have tremendous ability

to slow things down because democrats need 60 votes to proceed. they've only got 58 votes. and they would need to get some republicans. but now that republicans are invigorated certainly in the house but also in the senate, they gain six seats in this election. they're not in any hurry to do president obama's bidding. they're trying to slow things down as much as possible. and so on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, for example, you would have the votes if could you get that up for a vote on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, but john kyle, the lead republican negotiator, doesn't want that to happen. i think his colleagues will back him up. >> so let's talk about that. conventional political wisdom is that that is a loss for barack obama if he can't get that passed. but he's done all he can from my read of it. he wented a g ed awent a and go. isn't that a loss for the republicans if they block it? >> it depends who wins the communications battle. that's part of the positioning

that the white house has chosen. they had jim baker, they had henry kissinger and others talking up that treaty, trying to put pressure on republicans. and doing it on an issue of national security where you would think there isn't much natural public on that position to this arms control treaty. so part of the maneuvering is who takes the hit when a priority for the president that some republicans share goes down. republicans are betting that the guy in charge will take the hit. but if democrats and president obama play their cards right, they may be able to get some advantage out of it. >> and then finally, are we going to get votes on all these? is harry reid going to put them up and we'll see which side both sides are on? >> there's a chance of that. the question is whether they get beyond procedural votes, whether you can move beyond simply a motion to proceed to a bill and get an actual vote on the underlying bill. that's what advocates want because in all these case, there are generally who are votes for the underlying bill than you can

get to stop a filibuster, but we've known for some time that filibusters are more the rule than the exception in the senate. >> that's certainly been the case for the last many years. but it wansn't always that way. thanks, john harwood. there's been political strive among the gop and a lot of republicans have been taking shots at sarah palin in particular. but this one, it will leave a mark. >> i sat for example her once, thought she was beautiful. and i think she's very happy in alaska. and i hope she'll stay there. >> ouch! when george w. bush's mom thinks you're not qualified to be president, that's got to hurt. now let's bring in senior fellow for the campaign for america's future, and also founder of the liberal blog fire dog lake. all right. let's start with sarah palin. a lot of people taking shots at

her. we've got a former reagan speechwriter also taking a shot at her, of course karl rove has been against her for quite some time now. what's going on here? richard respect let me start with you. why do you think all of a sudden there seems to be almost a concerted attack on sarah palin within the republican party? >> well, there are probably a couple reasons and i had think the first would be that they've seen what happened in states like delaware when a candidate that's just disliked or whose views seem too much on the fringe for a majority of voters gets nominated. i think they see it as a disaster for their party and i also ussuspect with someone lik barbara bush, she feels like an inent interhope interho because she sees a

certain group of people entitled to take over the party and sarah palin is not one of them. >> so matter who hits her or how hard they hit her, it almost seems like to help her. and frank rich over the weekend said that what might bring that other politicians only seems to make her stronger. you get enough of a sense of the quote from there. so, jane, why is that? >> i don't quite know why they're doing this because sarah palin's base is a very populous base. they're the base of the republican party and they thrive on feeling like she's been made a victim. coming to her aid. and she plays that for all these worth. so you're seeing republican elites sort of turning up their nose and saying we don't position she's all that. and i think probably very concerned that she could have the popular support to win the republican nomination. and that would be the worst thing in the world as far as they're concerned. so they're trying to do what they did to sharron angle and to

other tea party candidates and kind of say, you know, ew, but it does solidify sarah palin support. >> let's go on to admiral mull will not was on t vcv and had strong supports. >> you assumed repeal of don't ask don't tell obecause i think it be lies us as an institution. we value integrity as an institution. >> you mean forcing them to lie about what they are. >> and asking individuals to come in and lie about who they are every day goes counter to who we are as an institution. >> richard, is this going to make a difference with the republicans or are they still a hell, no, on this? >> i think they're still a hell, no. and i think it's interesting to watch because you have a party that claims to admire the military and admire the private sector, and you have most military personnel, most military leaders saying "don't

ask, don't tell" needs to be repealed. you have a private sector that couldn't careless what your sexual orientation is. yet on this one, they have no interest in what either the military or private sector does. so i kind of agree with the cop collusion john harwood had that really it's a communication battle to make that clear to the public, that they're out of step with both the people and the military in the private sector on this one. >> jane, is the handwriting on the wall eventually for this? i mean, the report will come out from the pentagon as we've already seen from some of the earlier reporting on it, it's going to say that it's not going tomorale, almost all the top commanders saying they're in favor of the repeal. is there any chance that eventually it does not get repealed, that the are nots somehsom republicans somehow win? >> i wish i thought it was going to end through conscience gress action, but i don't think the votes are in the senate. so they may try to bring it up, go through some came bookie, but

i think people could rather that the president use his authority that he does have to put an end to this. the country is ready for it. let's have some real action instead of theatrics. >> the report gets released on december 1st telling us what the military thought of repealing it. if it comes out and says it's okay, it's not going to hurt morale, everything will be fine, do you think obama will pull the trigger and say if they lose the vote, i don't care, we'll go ahead and repeal it? >> i sure hope so, because the country is ready for it. and he does have the power to do it. so in the lame duck session, there are things they really need to get to. they really do need to try to address the possibility of extending unemployment benefits. 800,000 people will lose their benefits at the end of november if we don't. two million people at the end of december. so if they can cut a deal on tax cuts in order to take care of these people, that's a real priority. and obama could free up that time by saying, look, we don't need to waste it on don't a"don

don't tell", i'm just going to take action as president. that would a be a great way to show leadership. one more issue, social security. we are a quote here from rick perry, the governor of texas. let's watch that. >> my children who are in their 20s know that social security is a ponzi scheme. it probably is a program that even makes mr. ponzi feel pretty bad if he were still alive. the fact is our children know that the money that they're putting into medicaid they'll never see. >> are the republicans really serious about this, are they really going to go after the heart of social security? >> well, it certainly looks like it. and the question is whether the democrats will put up enough resistance to this. this is the trend du jour in washington is deficit cutting that involves social security. and texas is the last place on

earth swwe should look for defit cutting guidance. and as far as it being a ponzi scheme, this so-called ponzi scheme has been vetted by actuaries as financially sound for the next 100 years. so i think that's an absolutely absurd statement. it does seem like the republicans are targeting it and sadly, even though the vast majority of the public opposes that kind of cut, it looks like that's a kind of idea that washington may try to form a consensus around, which would be disastrous for democrats even more than republicans. >> then finally, jane, i have to go to you on that. here it seems like you've got the best winning issue of all time handed on a silver platter to the democrats, protecting social security. but it looks like, for example, when perry says it's a ponzi scheme, democrats should be screaming and saying it's got a $2.5 trillion surplus, but yet you don't see that.

why do you think that's the case? >> you got me. you've got jim dement and others saying we want to be the party that protects social security because the democrats now want to cut it. the democrats say they want to cut it in order to save it wheres as the republicans say, no, no, no, we'll preserve your benefits, we'll just invest them all in the market. that's where the sort of ponzi scheme stuff is going. so neither option seems to be anywhere near where what the public is. and, yes, i wish the democrats would stand up and say we want to preserve social security. we do not need to cut it, but unfortunately, the report and rhetoric coming out of the white house is that we need to cut to save it. >> all right, thank you both. we appreciate it. now shoot sin should the since of the parent be passed on? and up next, an inside look at the obama white house and the battles within. who are the real progressives and who sided with the establish

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another seen is that people are not happy with the direction of the country and still commanding change, a quinnipiac poll shows 49% of voters say obama should be a one term president while just 43% believe he deserves another chance. that's got to hurt the big guy, too. what led to that result? how did president obama make decisions that brought us to this place? a newly released book begins to shed light on that with a closer look on the president and his inner circle. what really happened inside the white house? well, richard wolffe joins us to help us answer that question. he's also of course author of the new book "revival, the struggle inside the obama white

house oig o house." tell us about the different camps. >> what i wanted to do here is look at how they got into this kind of mess and how can they get out. and as you say, it took me to this point of looking at these two camp tsz, this big divide in the white house, about for a start how to revive, how to deal with the campaign spirit and the brand, the identity they built up over two long years in the 2008 campaign. these are guys who wanted to go back to reform and change and transparen transparency. and then there is this survivalist camp that really wants to get along, do the deals in washington and get by. and the difference between the two has been a running theme. it started before the election was over in a debate about whether to have lobbyists inside administration or not. and it's to some degree still unvee ou unresolv unresolved. >> so the survivalists would call themselves realists, we

have to play and win within system. who is in that camp? >> rahm emanuel was chief proponent. current chief of staff. a whole range of people through there who say, look, sign the earmarks, do the deals, whether with ben nelson or mary landrieu and it's okay that's what washington does to get by. and that governing and campaigning, and they have to strike a different kind of balance. >> who were the ones that pushed for change? >> the revival side you're looking at david plouffe, the former campaign manager coming back into the white house, the communication side of things, a knee a dunn, dan phifer. and whether they were drifting too far away from that reformist

transparent spirit that this guy ran on in the first place. >> when you look at the results, though, it seems that they cut a lot of deals. you can say the deals were good deals or bad deals, for example, the drug industry deal in health care reform is the best example probably. does that mean in the end especially with the chief of staff now being rouse that president obama largely came out on the survivalist side? >> i think he has a foot in both camps. if you ask them now, frankly, did did those deals hurt them, they'll say, well, yeah, they did. but they thought that's what was necessary to get by. the problem is that they faced -- this is the third change election in a row. voters are hungry for more change. even something small like the pledge to have health care debates on c-span turned out to be a big problem. and people confused a lot of the deals together. they didn't know who started t.a.r.p., where it's gone with

the auto companies and the recovery act. there was too much inside dealing. and as long as this president looks like the inside washington guy, he's gone a long way from where he was in 2008. >> that naturally leads into the next question which is do they get it yet. because as you talk about in your book, in the beginning when they did stimulus, they were surpriseded at how much the republicans were against it. and then by the end, they were like, oh, okay, i get it and they had a respect for how much these guys wanted to block them and how well they played the politics of it. at this point do they get these guys aren't going play nice with them and have they gotten past that naivety? >> rahm emanuel who was often accused of being the guy looking for compromise told me that there's no bob dole in this republican party anymore. ronald reagan couldn't get the nomination for the presidency in this republican party. so there is a realization there. the problem they've had is that they've just been looking for the other side among a handful of republican votes as opposed to independent voters.

in 2008, they were looking to a much broader audience for that validation and support. and it wasn't just republican members of congress. they have to spread wider. >> i remember the guy who originally said that ronald reagan couldn't get elected as a republican today. that would be me. >> he's channeling you. >> i'm glad to see that, but what eat practical effect of this? what's their new strategy knowing the republicans aren't going to go for bipartisanship in the next two years? >> i think we're seeing some of that now on the national security questions. why is the president being so much more robust when it comes to this obscure nuclear treaty that no one knows the terms of. in part because he cares about nukes, but also because the republicans here are not being serious about one of their core values here, which is apparently protecting america. if you're going to may poll tick with nuclear security, then you're saying essentially there's nothing more important than unseating the president

even when it comes to the security of this country. this is a chance for the president to say i'm the guy in the middle here, i'm the reasonable one and the serious one. because if you just plays one party all the time, then those independent voters won't come back. that's the big group he's lost. >> well, he could also play list own side every once in a while and see how that turns out. richard wolffe, thank you as always. >> thank you. now those security pat downs by the tsa are getting the attention of millions of americans as they start to fly home for holiday travel. what's the personal price for that security? and is the price way too personal? [ spongecaster ] we're here at the winter dishwashing championship, a challenge to hands this time of year. what's this? she's hurtling down that sink with no protective gear.

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it it is a short trading week on wall street. let's take a look at how stocks are doing today. off their low, but still in the red. the nasdaq has now turned positive. there is fresh concern about the european financial crisis. on sunday ireland requested a bailout from the european union and the international monetary fund. the second time the eu has come to the rescue of one of it 16 countries. the euro is down 0.7% against the dollar. the new harry potter movie conjures up a franchise record.

it pulled in more than $125 million in it u.s. opening weekend. the worldwide ticket stub total is about $330 million. and that is it in cnbc. >> $330 million. i think we're in the wrong billion. >> we are indeed, yes. thanks giving is thursday and that means 24 million americans are traveling all week in anticipation of the long holiday weekend. bound to be even longer for hose travelers who refuse the body scan at the airport and instead opt for a full pat down. today in new jersey, homeland security janet innapolitano tri tried to remind americans about why these measures are needed. >> it was during a busy holiday period last year that he tried to blow up a plane because he smug gell e

mug smuggled on to a flight headed to detroit. so those kinds of threats have not gone away.smuggled on to a to detroit. so those kinds of threats have not gone away. >> just when you think holiday travel can't get any more inconvenient, a protest against the new security measures is planned for airports around the country on wednesday, which is always one of the busiest travel days of the year. so that will be interesting. mike taibbi is live at laguardia airport. i want to ask you about the people who haven't gone through, they might not understand how invasive these pat downs are. where are they going with these pat downs? >> reporter: they're doing what we've seen for several occasions. they're touching between the breasts of a woman, down around the underwear and up close to the crotch, et cetera, et cetera. people who have been through it, some say it's no big deal. i just talked to two guys who travel a lot saying it's no big

deal. sometimes they get too close. this went a little bit closer. no big deal. they've got to do it. on the other hand another guy flew in from ptampa and he said it wasn't a pat down, it was groping. it was horrible, he said. his words. and he hadn't anticipated that he would feel that way. he was clearly authentically genuinely upset about it a day later. so for him the experience was pretty bad. and i think that will fend on how it's done in each individual case. this are people who are upset about it. most people understand it has to be done. they're frustrated by it, but the delays would bother them more than anything else. >> looking at those pictures, that's really invasive. in places i don't know if they should be going. how real is the protest and how

much could that delay things on wednesday? >> in the internet age, real is what the internet says it's going to be. you get on the internet with an idea that catches fire, it goes viral. that's the way things get planned. a guy named james babb is asking everybody do the same thing, refuse to go through the full body scanner and insist on the pat down which would triple or quad troop he will t quadruple the amount of time to get through security. it will certainly make the point and the point that a lot of people are trying to make is that, listen, this is a tough thing. this is going too far. there's been some extreme language used, for example, that instead of an enhanced scanner or full body scanner, they call them radiation strip searcheses. or sexual groping.

that's the reason with the frustration. >> real quick last question. have there been any arrests of people resisting this? >> they 00 one arrest in san diego, john tiner, the guy last week said you touch my junk, i'll have you arrested. that went viral. but another guy named sam walak was selected out to have the additional enhanced pat down. he didn't want to have that done, so he stripped down to his bvds and said here's what i have. and they arrested him because he refused to get dressed. i don't know the status of the charges at this point, but that happened in san diego. >> i would not have gone in that direction. >> i don't think i would either, no. >> mike taibbi, thank you, we appreciate it. now, president obama wants the senate to use the lame duck session of congress to pass the so-called dream act which would

allow assistance for young illegal immigrants who finish two years of college or military service. politico says the president told several dedemocrats he intends to call lawmakers and let them know he's committed to reform, but wants the dream act passed before the new republican controlled house comes back in january. now, national executive director of the lead of latin america citizens and michael cutler, michael, let me start with you. doesn't it seem pretty reasonable to most people, look, if these kids are going to go to chen college or join military, they are 00 and he good functioning part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal. 00 and he g part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal.a 00 and he g part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal.00 and he go part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal. and he good

part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal. and he good part of our society, don't we wanand he good functioning part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal.nd he good ft of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal.d he good fu of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal. he good fun of our society, don't we want good functioning part of our society, don't we want them here and contributing? >> here's the deal. if you look at the law, it allows aliens up to their 35th birthday to participate. both bills have very jen was waiver provisions which means they can ignore any disqualifying fact or. in what world is 34 years of age considered young or a minor? the dream act has the word alien in it. when i talk about illegal alien, people get upset, but i think that this bill is packaged to create the idea about the american dream, but this really isn't about the american dream. it's not about children. it's not about young people. and it's not just about education. >> before i go brent, real quick, 34 years old you're saying that's part of the problem here. what if somebody who is 34 wants to join the military, would you then give them a pathway to citizenship? >> i'll be honest, i don't like the idea of illegal aliens joining the military. >> immigrants. >> sorry. >> go ahead, we disagree on the word. >> the word alien simply means

any person not a citizen or national. it's in the dream act. alien minor. >> go ahead. >> but the idea that we would put people into the military and give them firearms and tactical training, the law says that an illegal immigrant or alien is not allowed to carry a firearm and if they're found with a weapon, it's a ten year felony. so i find it remarkable that we're it talking about putting people into the military who entered our country by violating our borders that we may have a real problem trying to determine what their real identitieses are. >> so mike's not buying it. brent, let's go to you. what about his point on 34 year olds. >> it's unfactual. the fact is you have to be 15 years of age or younger when you came into the united states to be able to apply for legislation. so if you are over the age of 15 when you came into this country, you're not eligible to apply for the dream act. and if you age out, if you're over 35 or in some cases i think 30 is one of the senate bills, you can't apply even if you were under the age of 15 when you

came into this country 1307 w. t so what we're talking about is people brought into the country very young by their parents. they didn't have any responsibility for that. they've how got nn ten into posn where they graduated, they're ready to go to college. and if we give them opportunity, they will be much better productive citizens. in fact they will probably make about a mill why not dollars more than they would if we don't let them go and paying more in taxes than they would. >> now, mike, on the they have to be here under 15, that seepss like facts. >> we have to verify that. and then they would immediately be able to file if their parents to acquire a pathway to citizenship along with siblings and people who clearly would be older. and why would you want to give in state tuition to illegal aliens when we're not doing it for u.s. citizens? and if we do that, everybody going to college will wind up

paying more in tuition because the money's got to come from somewhere. >> brent, let me ask about that. he says they'll pay more in tuition. i know we've had a similar discussion about this. how do you answer that? >> really that's again not true. if you're a resident of a state that provides special break to the in-state recent departments , then, yes, you can participate, but the vast majority aren't going to the expensive college, they're going to two xhun colleges. they're unlikely to be adding to the cost of in-state tuition. it's a negligible impact. but they will be making more money, they will be contributing more to our tax system. in essence we'll benefit. the net plus here is well over $1 million for each one of them that we let go through in earnings over their life time, $9,000 a year more in taxes. it's a win-win.

>> i have to ask about the book door amnesty. you have -- i have sympathy for a 15-year-old brought in here and then he gets to go to college, but once he become as citizen presumably about six years later, he can then turn around and make his parents citizens and other family members. isn't that kind of back door amnesty? >> well, it's not true again. the pact is if their parents have been out of status all this time, they won't be eligible to get sponsored by their children because of a bar to admissibility. so no chance for that to happen. it's possible maybe some of their siblings, but cousinses, no. it's already not allowed by the law. this is all just stuff thrown at to keep us from doing the right thing and the right thing is to -- >> that's not the case. >> -- provide these young folks an opportunity to be full americans. it will benefit us and them. these kids aren't to blame for being out of status. if we can't help these folks, we don't have any -- there's no open for any other immigrants in

the country. >> let's give mike a chance. >> here's the deal. number one, we know that these are, first of all, they came here illegally. second of all, there's a waiver provision that says that the overriding concern is what they call humanitarian purposes and family unity. family unity means just that. allowing the extended family members of these folks to acquire a pathway to sit send ship even though the way they entered the united states was in violation of law. we give out more than 1.1 million green cards every year. that's more than any other country on the planet. these are people that immediately are on the pathway to citizen ship when they get here. the idea that you would -- by the way he, putting those children's lives at risk by running the border, putting them into that kind of a precarious situation makes no sense to keep on encouraging that kind of illegal behavior. >> we got to go. i want to get a sense from both of you, mike, if republicans boat yes on the dream act, are they going to have significant trouble with their base? >> i think that they will.

and this isn't even a republican issue. i'm a registered democrat. this would be a betrayal to the american people. they moou they couldn't fast before the lame duck. lame duck shouldn't be the time to try to get controversial legislation enacted with the last gasp of authority that the democrats have. >> wire oe're out of time. thank you both. i really appreciate it. >> happy thanksgiving. >> you, as well. now, getting ready for a visit with your family later this week? ever wonder how you and your siblings could have turned out so different? i do. a new study has the answers. that when we come back. [ male announcer ] if you think you can only charge your things

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yourself how did i end up in this family? a new study shows that just because you share genes with your siblings doesn't mean you'll share personalities. in fact, researchers say most siblings have opposite personalities. nancy giles is a social commentator and she's joining us now. so why is that? what do they think is the reason? >> can i just say first that it's so funny to hear these different surveys and studies that are done about things that seem to be obvious. when you take you can to your family, do you sometimes think who are these people? i think everybody does, right? >> right. >> it makes senses to me that people in the same family are going to be different because the parents are going to be different people. when parents first get a married, they're younger, maybe less experienced with kids. as they get older and more exhausted, they're maybe going to -- >> i love your assumption. they're exhausted by then. >> go to bed whenever you want, i don't care. >> and then there's divergence where one kid does something

well and the other one go, hey, i'm going to take another niche. >> i have to find my own way of doing things. i have an older sister who is really smart and went to m.i. ti and i thought i wanted to do theater. of course she said that's like maining in gym class. nice, right? >> well, my sister's really smart, too. that's why i went the opposite direction. >> see, we're really dumb. ile foul. and you're your own dumb person. >> and then finally, there's the thing about exaggeration like once you go in a certain direction, apparently you amplify it. and so you say, well, if i'm going to do theater that's my expertise and i'm going to go -- >> i'm going to wallow in it, i'm going to so do that whether it's good or bad, but that's my thing and don't anybody say that's not my thing. that's the kind of thing you'll think at christmastime if you don't get those theater presents or whatever. you give them to the other brother who is not doing theater. sorry, talking about my own life. >> and that's why you have the

divergence where they seem opposite. >> yeah. >> now, about kids, now they're photo shopping the year books. to make like the acne go away. is that crazy? >> number one, why should kids now not have to deal with what we had to deal with? should you have those stupid pictures where you have a little acne or you have to have your head tilted or a fake smile.you pictures where you have a little acne or you have to have your head tilted or a fake smile. that's part of childhood. there's plenty of time to not like how you look when you're a grown up. but i think parents getting their kids' pictures photo shopped, that's wrong. >> there's like 3 million parents that are choosing this option. i get it if it's like a scar or something, but all of a sudden you're giving them blue eye, that's crazy. >> even if it's a scar, i want photographic evidence of some roughhousing that happened if i'm a kid. i would think i'd want to be proud of the fact that i fell or whatever.

but it's just -- i think it's the parents that are generating that. i can't imagine a little 7-year-old going, mommy, i really want more contouring in my cheeks or something like that. >> you never know these days. but my hair was greasy back then and i want to remember it as greasy. >> i took my hair out from the way my mother had done it and it came unraveled and i had a look on my face like uh-oh, and i want that picture. >> one more topic. ahmadinejad saying let's get the girls married at 16 because he wants to encourage more population in iran. is that crazy? >> yes, it's crazy, it doesn't make sense. and it's not just that he wants like more population and more national pride. he wants soldiers. that's whaept he said. and this is a guy who says that homosexual itity doesn't exist in iran. so god only knows if any of these kids that are born ends up being gay. so they're in big trouble in his world. >> homosexuality doesn't exist,

but if you want to be with a 16-year-old girl to create soldier that's awesome. >> that's great. that's awesome. oh, no. >> what am i going to do with this character? >> i don't know. >> nancy, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. next, my takeaway on an unbelievable flip-flop by a politician. can you guess which party? we'll come right back. we'll come right back. [ sneezes ] client's here.

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the republican senator from utah just said on friday that a mandate for people to buy health insurance is quote clearly unconstitutional. that's curious because while debating health care, he cosponsored a bill that included a mandate to buy health insurance. lynn nichols of the new america foundation points out that it was originally a republican idea during the days of george bush senior. the bill hatch cosponsored back then had three other republican sponsors, so why the flip-flop?

it's because i don't think they care about the policy, at all. they care about the politics. there are a few exceptions by ron paul, some members seem to be acting -- not solely on democrats that play a lot of politics, but right now, the majority of politicians, the issues are just window dressing. for example, if president clinton is against mandate, they're poor -- at this point, it's obvious. another great example. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. all the former secretaries of state, democrat and republican, are in favor. nearly every expert in the field is in favor of it. early, the republican party seemed in favor of it with senator lugar leading the charge. remember, this series of treaties was started by ronald

reagan p and now, the gop seems ready to block the treaty. why? because they want to deal a loss to the president, but that isn't a loss to the president. it's a loss for the country. we can't verify russia's new nuclear weapons program, their nuclear stockpile, ours, it doesn't help anybody and why would anybody trieat it as a los for obama? he puts it up for vote and republicans block it when they appear they have no reason to block it. some things appear to be beyond politics. now, it looks like this is not longer the case for almost any issue. it looks like this version of the gop will block and obstruct anything for political advantage. we have to stop counting that as a political victory and call them out for what they're doing to the country. the gop obstruction on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty are an

accident place to start. it's not right for even their political party because that's not what their voters voted for. it's not right for the country. all right. that's our show for this tuesday. i'm cenk uygur. "the dylan ratigan show" is excellent and it's up next. o. ♪ now the healing power of touch just got more powerful. introducing precise from the makers of tylenol. precise pain relieving cream works quickly to activate sensory receptors. it helps block pain signals fast for relief you can feel precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol.

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