ambassador james nicholson is currently senior counsel at brownstein hyatt farber schreck counseling clients in health care, regulatory law international relations, oil and gas, and alternative energy. from 2005 before this appointment he was u.s. ambassador to the holy seat during which he was knighted by john paul ii for his human rights. ambassador nichols has been the director of the new community development corporation commissioner and the commissioner on the defense advisory on women services. he was the chairman of the national committee from 2007 to 2001. lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adju

bill: it looks like scandal and indictment and facing jail time agrees with david brownstein. >> the guy who was a bloviating blogger's. really covering politics in new jersey. i get gas at a gas station. does that make me a mechanic? ♪ >> thank you for joining us. a clinical psychologist. his incredible physical transformation. some have said that the scandal agrees with them. but ultimately there is no denying that the scandal has changed him. give us give us insight into how something like this can have a physical manifestation. >> certainly what we do know is when someone is going through a crisis situation and not talking about what they are experiencing angst, depression, rage's and so we swallow that kind of emotion and the becomes a manifestation of physical presence. for some for some people they get stomachaches, headaches, they may have to be hospitalized. in in this case it may be a situation where you lose a lot of weight. we have been doing is keeping those feelings inside. hormones don't stop flowing. >> it appears there could be something on his psyche. >> in some way

from midvale, utah please welcome jan brownstein. [cheers and applause] hi, jan. how are you?okay. okay. okay, what was the-- where is the-- i'm nervous. i mean, what happened to the greeting--unusual way of-- >> well, you have to wait for it. >> okay. what--what-- >> okay, so you know in the world of germs and sanitation and all those things... >> okay. >> i have a new way of saying "hello," and every single time i win money, you're gonna bow-bump me. and i made this one up just for you. are you ready? >> a bow bump? >> get them out. we're gonna go boom, boom, boom. >> [laughs] i like that. you know what-- so you get no germs. you get nothing. it's just all-- but what if my elbows are ashy? they get ashy really bad. >> you put lotion on them. >> a little lotion on them. >> there you go. >> b-b--[laughs]

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ron brownstein and larry sabatos, director of politics at the university of virginia. obama/warren spat? >> it's one of the lungongest running divides. this is almost the exact replay the battle bill clinton had of dick gephardt over the north america free trade agreement as what was known as fast track. there are two ironies in this fight. in 2008 as a candidate originally barack obama was more on the elizabeth warren side. he said he would renegotiate nafta as president. once he got in office like most presidents he found expanding trade is in the economic and geopolitical interest of the country. the other irony is that the democratic base has been growing generally more expertive ivesupportive. while institutions are more with elizabeth warren generally speaking opinion within the party has been slowing more to where president obama ended up. >> larry, ron said the president has flip-flopped over the years. the president we heard during this discussion said he has no more elections so he has nothing to lose and this is not about politics to him. do you think warren

we want to go on the phone to sally brownstein. an msnbc reporter on the train. and i understand you were on one of the train cars that was near where these six cars were able to derail somehow off the tracks. >> reporter: hi, betty, yeah. i was on the train that left the, the amtrak train northbound that left washington, d.c. around 9:00. so we were on our train when news reports started coming in about this other train derailment outside philadelphia. we didn't hear any updates from the couldn't ductor until we were stopped in wilmington. at that point we were told that the train service would terminate at the 30th street station in philadelphia. we were given the opportunity to get off in wilmington or we could continue on to 30th street station in philadelphia. that's where the rest of the passengers got off the train. it was a pretty hectic scene here a couple hours ago when we first got off the train. it was already 11:15 at that point. there weren't that. amtrak workers working so they were trying to deal with a lot of people trying to figure out how they

we want to go on the phone to sally brownstein. an msnbc reporter on the train. and i understand you were on one of the train cars that was near where these six cars were able to derail somehow off the tracks. >> reporter: hi, betty, yeah. i was on the train that left the, the amtrak train northbound that left washington, d.c. around 9:00. so we were on our train when news reports started coming in about this other train derailment outside philadelphia. we didn't hear any updates from the couldn't ductor until we were stopped in wilmington. at that point we were told that the train service would terminate at the 30th street station in philadelphia. we were given the opportunity to get off in wilmington or we could continue on to 30th street station in philadelphia. that's where the rest of the passengers got off the train. it was a pretty hectic scene here a couple hours ago when we first got off the train. it was already 11:15 at that point. there weren't that. amtrak workers working so they were trying to deal with a lot of people trying to figure out how they

ambassador james nicholson is currently senior counsel at brownstein hyatt farber schreck counseling clients in health care, regulatory law international relations, oil and gas, and alternative energy. from 2005 before this appointment he was u.s. ambassador to the holy seat during which he was knighted by john paul ii for his human rights. ambassador nichols has been the director of the new community development corporation commissioner and the commissioner on the defense advisory on women services. he was the chairman of the national committee from 2007 to 2001. lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adjunct profess or at the college of limb and mary. he served in the u.s. army from 1966 until 1997 excuse me. while in uniform. he was a member of the faculty of the u.s. naval war college, special assistant to general colin powell when colonel powell was chiefs of staff. from 2001 until 2002 he was associate director of the state department policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson's last position was chief of staff for u.s. secretary of state co len powell from 2002 to 2005. so the jour

join us gloria borger dana beige, and our senior political analyst, ron brownstein of the national journald, sounds like a little dig at him. >> a little dag. it's like he's obtuse. didn't answer the question directly. i'm direct and by the way, i live in the present. i'm not a part of the past and then hillary clinton, whack. pandering. you know i'm the truth teller here. and by the way, john mccain had some success in new hampshire. he calls it the tell it like it is. remember the straight talk express with john mkccain? that kind of works in new hampshire hampshire. >> jake mentioned 50% of the new poll of republicans said they didn't want to vote for him. he pooh-poohed that. >> i wood too. i think one thing christie said that is absolutely true is what all the candidates are saying, even those who are haiyan the polls right now, which is they are not indicative of where the polls will be. we learned that in 2012. everything was up and down. the truth is that chris christy, if he does follow the strategy his advisers say he will keep going to new hampshire, the most accepting of a chri

let's bring in cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein and cnn legal analyst paul callan to talkron, to you first, done this threaten to destroy hastert's legacy? >> sure. i mean this is just an extraordinary story, especially when you consider the way hastert was introduced to the country. i mean he really was for house republicans a return to normalcy. he became speaker after newt gingrich stepped aside following the republican losses in 1998 and the backlash against the impeachment of bill clinton and then when bob livingston was forced to step aside because of his own allegations of sexual misconduct. hastert seemed to be smoothing the waters and for the story to end, for his story to end with these revelations is an extraordinarily revessel of fate. >> let me follow up with you here because hastert was instrumental instrumental in passing the patriot act and it was the provision of that act that actually tightened restrictions on the cash withdrawals which, in the end, helped the feds build the case against him. how ironic is that? >> yeah that's just adding more irony. we t