b >> but a huckabee/clinton race or a christie/clinton race would be more personality driven than allmost presidential elections are personality driven. >> but you guys are outsized personalities, pardon. you're big personalities you and christie. in person clinton is very low key. but you guys would have to take her on to mobilize the so-called base. because if you do what john mccain or mitt romney, you lose. neither of those men took on barack obama. they didn't. >> let me be clear. the first thing that has to happen is winning the senate this year. with all the presidential politics going on -- >> so you would run if they won. >> i just won't make the decision until that part has been settled. >> would it be easier if republicans win the senate? >> i think so. as he says with his pen and his phone. >> and also you're taking the side if they had elected a republican senate. that's another thing. but what is going to win the next election is not a horizontal description. it's what i've long said has to happen where the republicans need to up thegame. it's vertical politics. it's mak

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has poured money into climate change issues and is a huge hillary clinton donor as well so a lot of people on staff in the mcauliffe race are people that came from clinton world like go back to clinton world of course having the governorship in a major swing state can be helpful on election day in terms of turnout and having the machine to get your organization going so you know the bigger thing would have been had terry mcauliffe lost it would have been seen as a stand on the clintons probably more than his victory is again but because they had so much at stake and that the victory is something that was important to them and obviously they were heavily involved and promoting in both of them campaigned for him amy what is joe biden going to do do you think. well i think he's definitely keeping his options open we talk a lot about the relationship the biden clinton relationship in the book and one in one scene we have the vice president or senator biden at the time you know hillary clinton had given this great speech at the denver convention she goes back to her holding room and runs joe biden and he drops to his knees a

as for why bill clinton chose this race. he goes way back with the candidate's family. years, in fact. allison grimes father, jerry lundergrand was twice the chairman of the kentucky democratic party and also chaired hillary clinton's campaign in the state and has a catering company called lundy's and catered some of the inaugural events in 1993. i believe we have a picture of allison grimes giving some flowers to bill and hillary clinton from 1993. more recently, he catered chelsea clinton's wedding. there is a lot of loyalty here. >> paul steinhauser, on the subject of going way back, lundergrand grimes and mitch mcconnell. he was a part of the impeachment trial and bill clinton may remember some choice words that the senator had for him. >> you are going way back, 1998 after the house voted to impeach the president. senator mcconnell did speech out in favor of trying and convicting the president in that senate trial. he, along with 45 other republicans, did vote to convict. ten other republicans went with the democrats. the president was acquitted. that is history. th

can clintons sway the race? well, jake, we're still eight months away but he drew 800 democrats to lunch here today. he's popular. democrats need that if they have any chance of beating mitch mcconnell. we should also point out that bill clinton is very close to the candidate and her family. bill clinton's favorite season starting. campaign tame. >> look, i love kentucky. you've been good to me. you've voted for me twice. you've been great to hillary. i love you. >> reporter: he's making his trail debut to help, who else, an old friend. alison grimes. >> it makes a big difference who wins this election and, alison grimes should win it and will with your help. >> reporter: she's the secretary of state who's practiced law and done plenty of politicking with her father. >> the clintons didn't forget. jerry oversaw the landslide over barack obama. the family business catered inaugural events and chelsea's wedding. now clinton is returning favors to the next in line. grimes is just 35 and playing up that she would be

how governor martin o'malley would do in maryland against former secretary of state hillary clinton in a raceor the white house. >>> and the man who made redskins history. i set down with bobby mitchell to talk about the barriers he broke here in washington. >>> first, a look at "what's hot" on nbcwashington.com. 1[ >>> does baby formula need to be changed? researchers at the american association for the advancement of science say, yes. at their annual conference, the group released the results from a recent study showing boys and girls could benefit from different formulas. researchers believe boys need more fat and higher amounts of protein to help them grow, while girls need more calcium to help strengthen their bones. this research is still being tested. >>> and we are hearing about a new treatment for asthma. doctors heat up the inside of your breathing tubes. that can block the contractions and tightening that happen during an asthma attack. one asthma sufferer says it works so well, she's no longer worrying about dying from that disease. doctors say you'll need an inhaler, though, afte

clinton do the victory lap? >> well, look, if they lose those races, i think the current president is probably going to be facing more of the responsibility and the burden from the press and from democrats than president clinton. look, we're going to see bill clinton out on the campaign trail. we're going to see joe biden out on the campaign trail. the question for me is when do we see and how much do we see hillary clinton. is she willing to go out as presidential candidates do in mid terms and campaign? the advantage for her she has as her husband out there reminding people, democrats, but also independents in a lot of the swing states where there are competitive races in the mid terms that the clintons are a team there is some downside to that. but i think we saw today he is still the best in the business when he is into it. and i think coming off 2012 when he was into it, he is going to be into it in 2014 and he'll be very strong. and i think that works to her benefit. and it doesn't help joe biden much at all. >> yeah, i would like to see them campaign together. i think that would be real star quality, both

erin, how significant is president clinton's appearance in this race? ll, wolf, bill clinton won this state in 1992 and 1996. he obviously has those southern roots and appeals to working class voters that allison grimes is going to need if she can possibly pull off this race in a very tight race against mitch mcconnell. >> mitch mcconnell has a tea party challenger in the republican primary going against him. what are the prospects there looking like? >> i spoke actually this morning with one of mcconnell's top advisers, and while they are taking that primary race very seriously, they are not as worried about it as they were before. as you may remember. the big driver behind the tea party were the bank bailouts of 2008, and she has made that big issue in this campaign. but in recent weeks, it's come out, at the time, he supported those bank bailouts, so because of that, he's lost some allure in this state. so it's really the general election that the mccain campaign is a little bit more worried about. >> let's assume he wins that republican primary, and

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and they've been involved, the clintons, in her race even before the beginning. of bill clinton. she was at clinton's first inauguration as a 14-year-old. and clinton can do some very good things for her because if you look at the map of both 92 and 96, bill clinton carried a whole lot of those counties in eastern kentucky. those appalachian counties that barack obama couldn't -- doesn't have much support in. and if you could put together the core obama coalition of african-americans, college-educated middle-class, upper middle-class voters, and then bring in the working-class whites that bill clinton i think can still appeal to and also hillary clinton, you're getting very close to a majority in kentucky. so i think she's going to ignore rand paul and say to bill clinton, please come as often as you can and send your wife here too. >> i want to look at what matt bevin -- talk about why matt bevin isn't getting more traction against mitch mcconnell with all the help he's getting from ted cruz and others in washington. let's look at what matt bevin's problem is he

bill clinton coming here shows people in kentucky and people nationally this is a real race if bill clinton thinks that she can win, maybe she can win. >> it's interesting that you say people have questions about whether or not allison lundergan grimes has a chance. do the polls believe those polls or do they say the polls are outliars? >> reporter: no, they bleeft polls here. more like mcconnell is so strong. he's won so many times. bill clinton compared in 2008. it's more a question, people here, republicans, flustered by mcconnell. people blame mcconnell for the dysfunction for washington. and there are people who want to endorse the republican challenger who are afraid to do because mcconnell is very strong. they're worried if mcconnell wince they dominates state politics so much, people are worried about being on the wrong side of him. >> talk a little bit about grimes. obviously, her family has a story in the state. the people i guess known her. she's a known quantity. is she seen as the kind of the democrat that could beat mcconnell. what is her sort of issue positioning? >> she's be

clinton. if rubio gets in the race he would likely have an edge with two critical groups, first latinos. he gave a separate interview in spanish. and second, he would also have a certain edge with voters in his home state of florida. the mother of all of those presidential battle grounds, florida. president obama carried that state twice. as we dive deeper and deeper into the 2016 campaign we are going to invite all of the major presidential contenders, the possible contenders out there to join us for an in-depth interview in the weeks and months ahead. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. "cross fire" starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire" does religious freedom mean freedom to discriminate against gays? arizona's legislature took its stand. >> all of the pillars of society as we know it today are under attack. >> should the governor sign the controversial bill or veto it? >> i will do the right thing. >> on the left van jones. on the right newt gingrich. in the cross fire, granderson who is against the bill and ken kucuccinelli who is for it. is arizona trying to prot

wins well if they pick a more moderate jeb bush that would be a tough race that would be tougher and so we could go back to clinton bush again but it wouldn't jeb bush hillary race be kind of a race on issues and probably not go into the gutter and what it would be eternally would be a cleaner race absolutely the tea party was very own. it was that it would be an independent here in the be a third party candidate i think that's probably right i think that's probably right i would think as of today it will raise the next president but you know. we've both seen a lot in our lifestyle all we have is that no i don't have the tabloid. that's a show on the investigation discovery channel one of the discovery channel network part of the discovery network it's a crime show weekly crime show where once a week we take a major crime that was a major headline over the last twenty thirty years and look at it and i was shall we look at the whole background of of the story because normally with the headlines you get just that the headline a few sentences and then they were off to the next story this is really reenacting this cri

i wanted to build off something robert said which is in terms of clinton going into these races in 2014nt which is a cultural affinity that not only can they point to, hey, bill clinton was a good democrat, look at the '90s. look at the economics of the '90s, but there's something about that sweet southern draw that brings people in and that, again, pumps up that base, what we saw with the convention speech. >> i think there's actually something that republicans have to kind of keep an eye be on going into actually 2016 if hillary is the nominee because they've been focusing on the problem with minority voters and things like that. hillary, along with bill, has an ability to reach out to sort of the white working class in a way that barack obama never did and that's something that the republicans can't ignore. >> this is something i've read, a "new york times" article about arkansas. arkansas like every other southern state has been trending from a traditionally democratic state to a republican bastion about bill clinton being really personally invested in trying to reverse that tide bo

this time i'm not referring to hillary clinton and a certain presidential race. i'm referring to this woman, instead. jan brewer. the republican governor of arizona. who is believed to right now be signalling possibly a veto of the latest legislation from the state to set off a firestorm. as we first reported on cnn, sources are saying that brewer is likely to veto the bill. it's a senate bill called 1062, sb 1062, better known as maybe the religious freedom restoration act. it is an act that would shield arizona businesses and the owners of those businesses from lawsuits, if they decide to deny service to certain people based on their own, their business owners' own religious beliefs. the governor, jan brewer, spoke exclusively with cnn's dana bash. >> i have a history of deliberating and having an open dialogue on bills that are, controversial to listen to both sides of the issues. i have to look at what it says and what the law says and take that information and do the right thing. >> so dana bash joins me live with more on this. dana, what does that mean, do

if he gets in that race with hillary clinton here are two people who are both in the obama administration. one is vice president, the other is secretary of state. what are the issues that he is going to raise aside from personality and experience? what type of candidate -- >> you know what he'll do. secretary clinton will probably edge a little bit to the right on foreign policy from where obama is. >> right. >> a little more middle eastern get involve kind of thing. we know that. she voted for the iraq war. he'll sneak in right behind her and say i'm on the left. that's one move he makes. >> that's true. and on foreign policy -- >> now backs the president a thousand%. >> the former defense secretary bob gates scorches biden in the book partly because biden was not about to cede control of foreign policy to bob gates. >> gates is a good guy, but he is republican. >> exactly. >> and biden's policy has been validated this week. we're pulling out of afghanistan because of the conflict. >> he said i want to go any terrorist route not a counter insurgency. i know this is nuanced, but the presi

race. >>> hillary clinton is on the road. she is giving a speech about health care in orlando. she is off to the university of miami for another address. >> last month she said she is not thinking about 2016. she told her supporters they shouldn't think about it either. >> back in little rock, about 33,000 pages of documents from bill clinton's white house years are supposed to be available for the public to see. for whatever reason, they are still under wraps. the documents are at the clinton presidential library. they include communications offer all kinds including between bill and hillary clinton during his eight years in the white house. this is obviously a huge deal for a ton of reasons. there is a new poll out that speaks about just how badly democrats would like to see hillary clinton run. 82% say, yes, get in the game. >>> the white house reporter for politico. good to see you. thanks for joining us. the documents were supposed to be made available more than a year ago. what's the holdup here? >> it is not entirely clear. there is a three-stage review for the documents

race. barack obama wins but hillary clinton suggests women win, too. >> although we weren't able to shatterest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> more recently neither end of her tenure as secretary of state, defending herself and her department, after the deaths of four americans in benghazi. >> was it because of a protest, or because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they would go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> many looks, many roles for hillary clinton over the year so perhaps no surprise. she's had a bit of a roller coaster when it comes to public opinion. let's look at some highs and lows. one early high, look right here. bill clinton just inaugurated as president, the country warming to its new president and its first lady. look, she's near 80% right there, but didn't take too long. here's the low, 1996. the rose law firm where she worked in arkansas, some of her law records mysteriously disappeared and suddenly showed up at the white house. immediately under subpoena by the indepen

but it's really actually the clintons that i'm looking at. kentucky and senate racesare really up in the air, where is clinton going to go? where is hillary clinton going to go ahead? the president holds back and he is responsible to the democrats. >> dana bash, bob, thank you. look who just walked in. wolf blitzer. you're going to be on air in 21 minutes. who do you have? >> well, we've commissioned a test. we've heard a lot about these toothpaste explosive devices. what kind of damage could it really do? we've commissioned a test to find out how potentially deadly it could be. we put it inside of a car. wait until you see the destructive power of explosives in a toothpaste -- >> that small amount? >> yes. it's really pretty shocking. we're going to show our videos what we have found out. >> the intelligence committee chair woman dianne feinstein was on and she said be careful in the crowds. >>> coming up on "the lead," subway makes some major changes. the blogger who exposed the real ingredient, including a plastic additive found in yoga mats. amazon announces sever

bill clinton went in and campaigned against some of these democrats in primary races.e had dinner with hillary in september after the primary season was over. and it was an off the record dinner and it will remain that way. i do feel free in saying this, there was no word of animosity toward barack obama. she was campaigning at that point. nor was there any mention of anybody that she was angry with. she had put it behind her. it is typical for staff members to be list keepers. one of the things i think is so unfortunate about this round of stories because it hurts staffers that wouldn't hurt a candidate. we do have to consider that in that context. >> do you think hillary clinton should address this down the road? >> i think there's a lot she has to address. just last week, i wrote that i'm tired of all this fundraising that's going on her behalf, which she could stop in a heart beat because it could hurt midterm campaigns right now. i think it's a really bad idea to admit publicly you haven't driven a car since 1996. i would like to see her hit the road quite literal

race. and bill clinton out there campaigning for the democrat. alison grimes. clinton and his role in these places especially where president obama cannot go? >> well, president obama is very unpopular in kentucky. and in a lot of other states that democrats are running for tough re-election campaigns in. but, president clinton is particularly popular in kentucky. it's no small thing he won it twice when he was a candidate. and he, his wife did obviously very well against president obama in the primaries in kentucky. and he is very close to grimes and is a very good surrogate for her and it's going to help her an enormous amount. bill clinton is the most popular politician on the planet. and unless that changes, it's going to help her this fall and it's going to help his wife in two years if she runs. >> in the meantime. he had senator rand paul also of kentucky following him around, essentially, saying that anybody would fire their president if their executive did what he did to a young intern look i think it's legitimate but might actually back fire. when the

and hey, let's throw one more hillary clinton number out there, the race for the democratic nomination decides to run. our poll, like every other one, indicates she would be the overwhelming front-runner. look at that, 7 in 10 say she would be their choice for the nominee. >> you know, we're spending a lot of time talking about who the next president might be. there is actually someone who has that job now, paul. >> reporter: yeah, yeah, there is. >> what is our poll saying about his standing right now? >> reporter: you know, we talked a lot about president barack obama's poll numbers at the end of last year, and they were at or near all-time lows in a bunch of polls, including ours. a slight rebound. check this out. here's our brand-new numbers, up to 45%. you can see he was down to 41% in our november and december numbers. one more figure, though. i guess that's the slight good news, but the bad news from our poll is this, this is for the first time -- we've asked this question a lot over the years. our polling director. for the first time, a majority said they think it's more likely

. >> one of the interesting things about the hillary clinton eligibility factor is this is affecting a lot of raceswe get to 2016, the early drive for clinton unsettles democrats. some worry it will siphon money from candidates in midterm elections. do you think that either of these super pacs for hillary clinton, ready for hillary or priorities usa are going to hurt democrats? >> i don't think that. because one thing about hillary clinton, she has a lot of supporters but a few weeks ago i was in iowa. there's also not this real grassroots energy, enthusiasm. i don't think there are a ton of people clamoring to give to a hillary clinton super pac. i don't think bruce brailly and mark warner are going to have problems raising money because of the super pacs that are out there ringing the bell for hillary. >> peter, ashley, thank you. appreciate it. >>> coming up, whether he was playing a cia operative, a baseball manager, a nurse, he was the type of actor who never really seemed to be acting. we'll take a look at the diverse career of philip seymour hoffman. that's next. there's nothing like being y

injuries. >>> let's talk about a big day in what many see as the most closely watched senate race in kentucky. bill clintonuch more on this race. he's first got to get through his primary. >> reporter: it's gridlock in washington that has made him so unpopular here in kentucky in recent years. that's giving democrats this rare pickup opportunity down south. rich mcconnell leading the pack. >> these people need to be stopped. and a good way to stop them is to make me the majority leader of the united states senate this november. >> reporter: but he has to win reelection first. >> kentucky now is thought of maybe not a deep red state, but reddish. >> reporter: now remember him, bill clinton carried the typically red blue grass state in both of his presidential elections in the '90s. he campaigned against mcconnell in 2008. today he's making his first big stop on the 2014 trail. >> we have on got to have more people willing to reach across the aisle. >> reporter: campaigning for their star recruit. >> with your help i will be the next senator from kentucky. >> reporter: grimes was an attorney in electioning s

clinton. if rubio gets in the race he would likely have an edge with two critical groups, first latinos.also have a certain edge with voters in his home state of florida. the mother of all of those presidential battle grounds, florida. president obama carried that state twice. as we dive deeper and deeper into the 2016 campaign we are going to invite all of the major presidential contenders, the possible contenders out there to join us for an in-depth interview in the weeks and months ahead. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. "cross fire" starts right now. >>> tonight on

clinton is become to speak any moment. bringing a new profile and already has national implications, we take you behind the headlineses to players and issues on ground. and today we're going behind that raceucky. who are the players? first, we have alson grimes, a lawyer and kentucky's current secretary of state and also a family friend of the clintons. her father in fact ran hillary clinton's presidential campaign in kentucky in 2008. grimes' signature issue, her jobs plan. she's kg on the details including the number of jobs it would create. second up, we have the opponent trying to dethrone, senator minority leader mitch mcconnell. he is very important to the republican party. he's actually the seventh most senior member of the senate. having spent nearly 30 years in office. his job approval rating in kentucky is flagging. right now it's actually lower than president obama's. third, up against mcconnell in the republican primary is a tea party candidate, matt bevan has been dogged by controversy by comparing same-sex marriage to incest and lags behind mcconnell in the polls. joining us is james carroll. >> con grats on your new gig. >> appreciate it. >> clinton is a big deal in kentuck

races of 2014. that's why bill clinton is there today. >> rand paul has been a vocal critic lately against clinton. >> right. and so we're not only seeing bill clinton on the campaign trail but all of a sudden the next indication that hillary clinton may be running for presidency in 2016, rand paul, another person who might be running for president on the republican side, reviving a lot of the monica lewinsky attacks saying bill clinton doesn't represent kentucky values, kentucky families. this seems to be a tactic republicans are going after. we'll see if that somehow sticks if hillary clinton runs. >> do you think the republican candidates for the presidency see themselves running against hillary and bill together? >> if you're a republican and you want to get the base behind you, throwing some very good red meat, anti-clinton, whether it's directed at bill or hillary clinton is very good for your base. >> thanks so much. for more from mark and the rest of the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbc news.com. >>> and chuck joins us now with a look at that forecast. let's look behind

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it's kind of a no brainer to have bill clinton here at this point in the race, andrea, it's more about raising money. that's the point of the luncheon that's happening in a half hour from now. behind me here on the banks of the ohio river, and i'm sure the clintons certainly bill clinton perhaps hillary clinton will come back later this fall to do some sort of grass roots stumping here in the blue grass state. >> and chuck todd, the president himself not that popular there. >> no, he's not. look, i'm told that democratic strategists went to the president to talk about campaign 2016 and that the president is clear eyed about this. he was quoted to u.s. senators saying if you want me to campaign, i'll be there. if you don't, i won't be there. don't worry, i'll stay away. he's very clear eyed. they had a tough conversation with him and essentially presenting him -- he's not immune and not in a bubble. he knows in a place like kentucky he doesn't work. he won two counties out of 100 plus counties in kentucky in the primary against hillary clinton. when they vote democratic these are bill c

clinton represents kentucky values or kentucky families. >> well, tamron, that's one of the more other great angles of this whole race, the 2016 overtones. ikely hillary clinton, bill's spouse, ends up running for the presidency in 2016. rand paul, the republican senator from kentucky is also someone who's on our 2016 radar, and rand paul has been making shots at bill clinton, reviving a lot of those 1990s monica lewinsky scandals. in some ways i think to beef up his own conservative credentials as he might be preparing for a 2016 bid, but that's all a backdrop today and as we mentioned this morning, tamron, bill clinton, 22 years after first winning election 1992 is still on the campaign trail, putting that in perspective, 22 years, he's had such a staying power as somebody who goes and stumps for democrats and campaigns and that's something that's pretty unusual in american politics. >> well, it's so amazing, you put it in perspective this way, this would be the equivalent of ronald reagan being able to stump for republicans through 2002 and obama campaigning for democrats 2030. that's the extent of length of time we're looking at. >> a

and he said clinton's entry into the race will not affect his decision. >> last night in honoring blackbe a white boy but he can jump. in context, i get it. we all remember the movie, "white men can't jump." >> i would like to see that one-on-one. >>> wichita state doesn't need any help from the vice president. the team is having the best regular season in college basketball history. they are the first division 1 team to have a perfect record in 31 games. they beat bradley last night for their 30th win, and they have one more regular season game at home this weekend against missouri state. it has been a decade since any team finished the regular season unbeaten. >>> a duke university freshman is breaking her science about working as a porn star to pay for school. the woman called "lauren" rights, what i did not expect was that i would be bullied and harassed online. i did not expect that my intelligence and workic would be questioned and scrutinized. and in a tv interview she says she regrets nothing. >> in the end it came down to my choice, my willingness to jump into the situation and

clinton. what if she says, i'm not getting in this race? nly potential disadvantage that hillary clinton has is that she is this used front-runner. people continue to go after front-runners. it's a huge advantage but also a huge disadvantage. i think that should she decide not to run, there are plenty of other democrats who could step in. i think we have -- we believe we have a much deeper bench than the republicans. >> a much deeper bench. who else have you got? >> right here in new york, we've got andrew cuomo. joe biden would be an excellent candidate. a bunch of younger people. kirsten gillibrand might be a good vp choice. i'll predict that i think the top of the democratic ticket will be someone from new york. >> at the top of the ticket? >> yep. >> you have to acknowledge the reality that at this moment, hillary clinton is sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the group when it comes to potential support. >> yes. >> so the clock is ticking. and so every moment that she waits, every moment that she's weighing a potential run but doesn't ru

clintons. more so than to really effect the senate race. >> let me jump in there. >> sure. >> there's no question when it comes to your own race in these kind of political games, if senator mcconnell wanted senator paul to back off this trip down intern memory lane, they could have that conversation. >> they could. >> they're not having it. your point, though, is that it's not necessarily only about the local race. it may be a net even thing, but it helps rand paul nationally? >> i think this is what rand's about. yeah. i think this is really to show the republicans throughout the country that he's willing to stand up and fight against any democrats. the most powerful and most popular democrats. i don't really think it's about the senate race. rand was on glenn beck's show a couple weeks ago. they asked him why he endorsed senator mcconnell. he said, well, he asked me and, well, he was the only person in the race at the time. so, i mean, if there was ever a more lukewarm reason for endorsing senator mcconnell, he gave it. again, i don't think there's really a lot of love lost. this is an associat

clinton 43. look at this. and against ted cruz, hillary leads, but barely. it's a one point race against her over ted cruz. certainly a strange candidate to be running for president. finally, against chris christie, it's again clinton by one, 43-42. back in november, christie led by eight. colorado leaning right. and we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." in politics, it's one thing to spin, but it's another thing to do what the right wing has been doing where it seems that each day they need a new permission slip to hate president obama. we've seen it time and again from the far right. they hate first, then they come up with a way to rationalize their hatred. we're seeing it right now. they say that a new cbo report proves that the president's health care law will kill jobs. speaker boehner blasted out this message to constituents. cbo report confirms devastating impact of obama on jobs. and the senate republican campaign committee followed suit. obama care to print even more pink slips. well, the rnc twisted things even further. cbo, obamacare is bad for the economy. well, the truth is exact