without further delay i would like to welcome my colleague jake sherman who will introduce our first panel. thank you all. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i am thrilled to be joined on this early post state of the union morning by susan brooks, congressman from indiana, james lankford from oklahoma and mike pompeo, three house republicans who are obviously at the event we held last night. our mobile polling question for this conversation is displayed on the tvs above is so weight in and participate in this event. so let's get started, guys. this is the question that we are asking everybody today so you'll hear it throughout the presentation, but the biggest thing i learned about president obama last night was that he was -- i'll start with you. >> in charge for five years but responsible for nothing. >> and carbon lankford? >> i'm not sure i learned that. i think that i need outside of it, i think i learned he finds a very important that you call your mother. >> obvious reference to his urging the american people to sign up for health care. >> call your mom. >> congresswoman?

we'll get more into hillary in our second segment later, but we have jake sherman. it is so great to have you on the show. i hope you came ready to play. >> i'm always ready to play. >> right out of the gate. so two months from now, will christie still be talked fwhout the same breath as hillary clinton? >> here's the thing. voters get tired of this. the super committees will be all over this. they have a great attorney who's looking into this. somebody who's going to dig everything up, if there's anything there. but if time goes by and nothing comes out, people are going to look at this and get tired of it. saw a congressman on capitol hill bought cocaine from an undercover fbi agent, was arrested, went to rehab and is still in office and people aren't etch talking about it anymore. >> you're talking about it right now. >> he's not running for president, though, is he? >> he's not running for president. i am. it's a comparison. >> oh. >> i got another problem with your analogy, not to pile on. but the tray raidle issue is closed. the one question for christie is ho

jake tapper. >>> plus, what was it that set richard sherman off during the championship game? audio of what he said during the game. >>> justin bieber busted for drag racing and dui. is he the new thug on the block? let's go outfront. >>> good evening, everyone.

jake tapper. >>> plus, what was it that set richard sherman off during the championship game? we have the audio of what he said during the game. >>> justin bieber busted for drag racing and dui. is he the new thug on the block? let's go outfront. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm don lemon in for erin burnett. breaking news, edward snowden tells our very own jake tapper he will not return to the u.s. because it's not possible for him to have a fair trial. that's after the attorney general eric holder said the u.s. is willing to discuss snowden's return to the country, if he pleads guilty first. cnn's jake tapper had an exchange with snowden today and joins me now live from washington. jake, what did he have to say? >> well, what i wanted to know was because the attorney general had suggested earlier in the day that if snowden pleaded guilty, the government would be willing to talk to his attorneys about figuring out how to bring him back to the u.s. i wondered how much that was something that snowden would entertain. i asked him to respond to that and i as

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