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our wednesday megapanel, msnbc contributor "the washington post" editorial writer jonathan capehart, imogey, and mark tapscott, who imogen is made nervous by. at least mark is on remote. with that said, there any way that the president -- i hate to just make it on the president. the fact of the matter is, is there any way that any politics that continues to deny the underlies policy, its manipulation of the tax code, manipulation of the banking policies, any politician who continues to exist in denial of that obvious problem, how can they credibly lead america. mark? >> well, dylan, you know, i think we've had this discussion on this show many times before, and i've always pointed out what to me is the fundamental fact, the fundamental reality about money and politics. yes, it's corrupting, there's too much of it, et cetera, et cetera, but it's the effect not the cause of the problem. the cause of the problem is the money is going after too many favors from government, basis government is doing too many things. >> i know your argument. i'll disagree with you and let imogen and jonath

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time for the megapanel. "the washington post" writer, j jonathan capehart, and imogen, and rob cox.contributing as we speak, robert. >> absolutely. >> are we too skeptical? is it too skeptical to look at these politicians, whether it's nancy pelosi, the republicans, the president talking blathering jobs, yes, we're in favors of jobs, maybe they'll think we're creating jobs? >> remember, this whole issue we just went through was about trying to reduce the proportion of debt to gdp, but if you think about it, that's a numerical calculation, right? so you can deal with one side of it or deal with the other side. if you deal with the other side, that is growth with gdp, with the economy. you solve all these problems. you diminish the size of the debt. you diminish the deficit, and guess what else happens when the economy grows this people are working. >> really? it's crazy. but nobody has dealt with. now we can talk about it, pivot all you like, but we've done nothing despite this moment when arguably there could having a discussion about the mathematics. >> the rnc says obama pivoted 1

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