ruth marcus, you're a harvard lawyer.e fact that they did not have people swear oenls and didn't view david sampson, still ahead of the port authority and they trashed bridget kelly. >> that was interesting. >> throwing her personal life out there rather than the man that she was supposedly involved with. it's on on her, she was too emotional and cried and did this and that. why they would go only after the woman involved in this -- not just she about the mayor of ft. lee. by the way, the poll numbers we showed on screen were 17 positive, 32 negative, nbc/wall street journal poll, the numbers among all of those polled, not just republicans. >> this is the first chapter of history and first chapter written by someone, a lawyer, law firm with a particular interest in the matter. this is not an objective inquiry into all of the facts. but i will say, and it was a necessarily incomplete because some of the people involved, the critical people involved, it's not they didn't want to talk to them. they asserted their privileges.

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. >> ruth marcus, haven't seen galifianakis for a while, a lot of facial hair going on there.s is what the president's team did so well, they harnessed the interest of young people, the internet, the timing here is pretty significant, 20 days until the deadline to enroll in obama care. first lady did fallon, president with galifianakis. i guess this is the strategy. >> peter, i think it's definitely a strategy and i think barack obama has been in front of many media types in understanding how this sort of splintering of media and news consumption has sort of fundamentally altered how people get their information. remember, this is a president who sat down with bill simmons, a sports figure, who founded a site and did an interview with him. this is someone who sat down with steve harvey and gone on "the daily show" with jon stewart, six times. this is someone who i think understands that between two ferns, which i guarantee you my two parents have never heard of, is a place where if you're trying to reach the so-called young invincibles, it's a place he can gain credibility and

me now, chris cillizza and managing editor of postpolitics.com and "washington post" columnist ruth marcuss cillizza let's talk first about rand paul and scott brown. you decide do we start with rand paul? >> yeah. >> he's beginning to really spread his wings here in terms of -- >> let's start with him. >> showing the establishment of the party that he's got some legs, mixed metaphor. >> i'll take it, andrea, i've been writing for a while now but i do think people particularly in washington are underestimating rand paul, dismissing him as sort of a younger version of his father, who we know raised a lot of money and got buzz but didn't win anything. i think there's national polling out that shows him at or close to the top of the republican field. new hampshire, iowa are two states where his father has built an organization where there's some evidence already that he's building organizations. i think he's a guy who can raise the money. i think on fiscal issues, he's sort of right where the republican party is. on foreign policy and defense issues, that will be his challenge. though, i do t