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joining me is former pennsylvania ed rendell and michelle bernard, president of the bernard center forand public policy. governor rendell, these statements out there do remind me of the hillary clinton who ran against barack obama in '08. i'd say several notches to his right on foreign policy. >> yeah. i think so. but i don't think that's faked or insincere. i think that's where she is. she's always been fairly strong on foreign policy, more towards the hawk side than the dove side. i don't think there's any real change in that, chris. >> do you make -- do you have a sense that -- wait a minute, i fwesz that begs the question, is that politically astute or is that just the nature of who she is? >> i think it's the nature of who she is and it also happens to be fairly astute. i think the american people are very wary about the negotiations with iran. they're willing to see how they go but they're absolutely adamant about the fact that if they fail we should come down hard on iran. >> where do you think the democratic party is in light of the last five years of obama? do you think it sen

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michelle bernard, thank you so much.n walsh, thank you so much. >> thanks. >>> the republic roar over president obama's interview with zach galifianakis. you have to think the presidents have done all this stuff before and they never did comedy? well that. >> actually did, and we're going to prove it. this is hardball, the place for politics. >>> looks like putin believes the president is a lightweight. will a comedy video counter that? i'm just asking. all i can say is abe lincoln would not have done it. >> time pour the sideshow. bill o'reilly criticizing president obama for appearing with zach galifianakis in the now famous "between two ferns" video earlier this week. but o'reilly's conjecture that lincoln wouldn't have done it is being challenged on the daily beast. greenfield points out that lincoln's sharp sense of humor was a political asset, and one that his foes also criticized him for during the civil war. but critics of the president's interview should take a long look through history. many presidents have eng

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here joining from is michelle d. bernard and adele cooper. go back to the national numbers and national picture. i think we have a graphic that shows -- we're talking about mental health. a 2009 survey, 60% of black girls in high school reporting feeling sad or hopeless for two or more weeks in a row, teen pregnancy rates, unemployment rates, black women are incarcerated at nearly three times the rate of white women. these statistics are staggering and are just as staggering for men of color. >> absolutely. i applaud the president for bringing the attention to the plight of black men and we need to see this in the african-american community and latino community. i talk about a woman i met here in d.c. at a low-income housing development in one of the poorest neighborhoods in washington. i was talking to her. she had four children, special needs kids, abject poverty in her neighborhood and she asked me a very poignant question. she said to me one day have you ever heard the stories about the women who kill all of their children? and i was stun