something bad, but a fraction -- a fraction of the republican party is a good thing for him, a united democratic party is a good thing for him. but he also has time to build a general election strategy. >> he has time and he has the advantage of the oval office. he can generate regulations on housing. his housing policy hasn't worked until now, but he's thrown out the blizzard of clintonesque ideas to help veterans in the military. he can do things on immigration so that when his opponents on the republican side are competing with each other on those rough and tumble debates on who can be tougher on immigration, he can do something nice for latinos. >> i thought it was interesting what you wrote about deep in the bowels of the actual campaign they are leaving nothing to chance. >> leaving nothing to chance. i took a visit to head quarters, and i was stunned by the size of it. 300 people working in chicago, a lot more than that working across the country, and they are using every tool at their disposal, and the campaign has a cleave scientist. -- has a chief scientist. he's sort of private. what it mea

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we have had, you know, the democratic party here in the united states a party of slavery and jim crowism and i think today we have an african-american president. so i think historically we have evidence that groups can change. and i think that's the case with regards to the wasatia tendency. >> can i expand generally and ask brian. your more recent data shows perhaps you're seeing more repression. right? more restrictions and in particular in the arab world? correct? the data from -- most recent data, 2008, 2009. why do you think that is? we are talking about it understanding that religious freedom needs to be protected and that is one of the most basic freedoms. why are we seeing that, you know, generally speaking, globally speaking? >> well, you're right. reducing -- we do see a decrease in restrictions in the middle east and africa both from the government and social hostilities as well. some of the factors are very complex. in what's going on. but maybe to simplify a few, many of the governments in the region were suppressing -- political groups, religious groups like the brotherhood

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anything for her and also the three leaders of the political parties represented in the dumont community unite isn't gonna leave iraq the liberal democratic party of ideas you know ski and soon gave me room of ok russia on to the election was preceded by bates and containing and we had biggest problem one and two governments rallies the country has seen since the time of year what provoked a heated political debate where the results of december's parliamentary vote which handed a majority of seats to the ruling united. party leading into fruity accusations and mass protests in response to government promised the most transparent presidential election in russia's history nearly two hundred thousand cameras were installed polling stations across the crown tree the online monitoring system which cost over three hundred million dollars allowed anyone anywhere in the world to log on to our website showing a live broadcast of russians cast in. hello gentlemen tim lee only thank you very much for joining us on the show well first of all human the the the front upshift in there many of the public opinion poll company had published preliminary res

democratic party. it exacerbates the party. the number of competitive districts is minuscule because they are drawn to be compact units, singularly democratic or republican districts. the fight is only which one gets elected in the primary. >> american military presence in the middle east. are we getting out or in more detail? >> in one of our longest wars, he wrote one of the most extraordinary chapters in american military history. now the iraqi people have a chance to forge their own destiny. everyone of you can take pride in knowing you gave the iraqis that opportunity. use succeeded in your mission. -- he is succeeded in your mission. >> it remains to be seen what the iraqis will do with that opportunity. we're still very much in afghanistan. the people our military have been training are now killing our troops. is it time to get out. >> there is already a plan to disengage. the question is whether we step up the timetable. there is the big question around afghanistan, the future of iraq, the middle east with syria, and the larger question about iran and what will happen there with respect to whether israel feels the need to

people understood putin is not very much like the main us particularly not in the united states and even our most democratic party has a lot of money deputies in its ranks in each city do not really approve of mr putin so even if obama would want to improve relations bilateral relations with russia i think they'll be enormous pressure on him not to deal with a country that is and seen by many in the rest as another three tier in one trip there or has been a vocal supporter of iran and syria two countries controversial to say the least recently especially and in terms that are specially of keeping out foreign interference with these nations or with our such strong foreign opposition to these countries and you see with president putin now russia's position changing in this regard russia is in a difficult position on the one hand it's fully understandable it's after the experience russia many of its acceptance of the libya resolution in the security council. of the united nations march last year and this is a sentence because it was literally a rest of the nations who said it would just want to protect of civilians

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any northerner so that steven douglas, who has sort of seen the like ly democratic nominee who could unite north and south, the party is split. douglas is one nominee, and then a whole other party forum. when you have the november election, no for candidates in the field and lincoln wins with less than 40% of the vote. if i had to guess i would say if you hadn't had the raid, probably douglas would have become president who was a northerner very con sill to her towards the south and this whole war would have been deferred for at least another four years. who knows? i mean, then any number of other scenarios could have unfolded. so that's just a guess. i mean, but it's a significant -- >> it's more than significant, and it's so compelling. because that, of course, you just unrolled that a little bit further, and suddenly you don't have an emancipation proclamation. you don't have, you know, exactly. what we're talking about here is so fascinating. >> you have no hallowed grounds. >> or different hallowed grounds. >> or different. we'd be in a different country. we would be in a literally different country. so in that

party system. and the state has improved not just because of republicans, but democrats got better as well. i ran as a republican for the nomination of my party for president of the united states. there have been 23 nationally televised debates, and i have not been included in a single one. maybe that's a smart idea, but i'm the only person running for president who has been a governor and congressman, and the only person running for president who never took pac money, won't allow a super pac to be picked for me, and limit my contributions to $100 or less. here's my dream, matt. i dream that we can have a president, a woman or a man, who is free to lead. who doesn't worry about building a party. but worries about building a nation. and can call on democrats and republicans to join him or her and let's get this country right again. >> now governor, as you seek the nomination, which is going to involve 50-state ballot acts that americans will have later in the year, the voting starts in may. right now, there's still not very broad awareness of this among the american public. how do you think this is going do you plan to court supporters for this vote? >> we had a rally to

parties. we're americans first. there's something more important even though i'm a democrat, there's something more important to me than the democratic party or the republican party. it's the united states of america. >> reporter: let me ask you both a few more questions. governor whitman again, the same question, you are a long- time republican. why walk away from your party, potentially your nominee whether it's romney or somebody else. >> i'm fighting for the republican party i knew when i was growing up. i want to see the kind of change in washington that will get us to the point where we start making the big... taking on the big challenges and making the important decisions that we stop looking at every issue through that partisan political prism saying what's going to get me another vote in caucus? what's going to get me another percentage point on my re-elect and start saying what's going to solve the problems? when david boren was in the senate people came together. they could stand up for their parties and they did. they objected to one another. they went on the floor of the senate. they talked about the issues that were important. then they went... got together afterwar

have called it a two party dictatorship in the united states because marginally what it is i think that is very accurate representation because the money behind the republican and democrat. anything they could get behind a third party candidate let me let me stop you there madison let's talk about the money you know people complain about candidates and about congress but the two party system now seems more than ever it will stay in place because of you say like you say the money and of course the supreme court decision on citizens united. got a good candidate it's going to take a lot of resources money i mean don't you think the chances have now diminished. fortunately i think that is an accurate representation. but i believe that it's partially ron paul has decided on running as a republican because i think he is well aware of the fact that he probably would be included in a single poll if you was running as a third party candidate and he's not included in a lot of the polls running as a republican so i think realized and been a lot of people realize that running as a third in a third party is a political best wishes of sorts because you're just not going to get the mo

but what we are seeing, if you look at the party break down, there are more democratic women running than republican women. right now, in the united states house of roan sentives, democratic women make up 32% of the democratic caucus. part of what's happened is they tend to be a bit more moderate and have a very tough time making it through primaries. and i think for me, watching, a real training day has hatched this year. a moderate republican woman, one of the few voices that was really capable of of working across party lines and trying to seek some places of compromise. we would all agree that we soarly need. there are an array of women, more democrats than republicans. so that's up to you to take a look and see which other women. but they are out there and find the women that you can support and that you believe them if you're not going to run yourself. >> one more question? >> oh, would you like to go? >> i'm sorry. >> oh, okay. two thievings. one, i just want to encourage the younger women in this audience to reach out to older women to get them social media culturally limit. there is a divide in age of the social media whi

within congress this cbc use its influence as a growing unit within the democratic caucus to push party leaders to appoint african-americans to better committees and more leadership positions and this generation of african-americans in congress held positions on a full cross-section of committees for the first time. including some of the most coveted committees. appropriations, ways and means, shirley chisholm went on to rule and she was the first african-american on rules. another influential panel like judiciary and the armed service and i know mr. dellum has an interesting story about getting on to that committee which i will let him tell. mr. dellum chair that committee and it made him one of 16 african-americans who served -- chaired a congressional committee in the post 1971 period. to give you a little perspect e perspective, between 1870 and 1971 there were three african-americans who chaired panels and for the first time black members in congress rose party leadership ranks during this visible your. bill gray bleached will democratic majority whip in the 80s, j.c. watts who bec

party to unite around romney? >> you know, it's strange yet. democrats fight and fight and then they get together and go win.k at obama and hillary clinton. so i don't think we should get too worried about this. the process will play out. these candidates will continue on for a while. and ultimately what we have to do is unite behind whoever our nominee is and beat barack obama. so much is at stake for this country. >> quickly, do you want to see santorum or gingrich drop out? >> the sooner we unite the better. the sooner we can get together with one candidate the better and the more the delegates start to add up, hopefully the others, whoever that is, drops out and we can get to a point where we unite, move forward to defeat barack obama. >> three buckeyes and three different areas for me tonight. two time zones. you guy, great. mike, jim, bob, thanks for coming on. >>> will it be a super tuesday on wall street? the market rundown is next, plus the beginning of the end. what romney has to do tonight to actually wrap up this race. that's coming up in our "deep talk." first today's trivia question. how many s

democratic party. exacerbates the problem. the number of competitive districts in the house is minuscule because they are drawn to the compact -- be compact units, a singularly demratic or repblican. the fight is only which one gets elected in the primary. >> the military presence in the middle east. are we getting out or oever said that "less is more" is more or less mathematically challenged. less isn't more, it's less. and the only thing more than n more is a lot more. which is exactly what i ge at embassy suites. more space... more down time. more family time. more me time. more me time. more me time. because the more more i have, the more i have to have... more. [ female announcer ] more room. complimentary drinks. free breakfast. embassy suites. get more. >> in one of our longest wars, euro one of the most extraordinary chapters in american military history. now the iraqi people a chance to foforge their own destiny. everyone of you catake pride in knowing you gave the iraqis that opportunity. you succeeded in your mission. >>t remains to be seen what thee iraqis wl do with the opportunity. president obama hosting a dinner at the white ho

party system it's called the business party and we have two factions the democrats and the republicans and you know everything everything comes and all the nice united made up that are they what happened happened ok charles what i mean i wonder i was brings up a good point i don't go i just respond i even here let's then i don't know i just respond because i was a very interesting point go ahead ok let's suppose for the sake of argument this is not true for me but let's just suppose for the sake of argument that in that you're right and it's a one party system with two wings called the business party why is it how can these two statements both be true there is one party for which almost everyone votes and the ninety nine percent are unhappy with it bernie don't you want to reply i think i think people feel like. i i i this well i have come to understand in this way i felt like we really don't have a choice because on an individual basis we can't really change a system but as a group as people coming together as we the people we can make change and we can make a difference that's right when you know we don't hey i was really a choice we don't have a

america's commitment to israel has endured under democratic and republican presidents and congressional leaders of both parties. [applause] in the unitedtates, our support for israel is bipartisan and that is how it should stay. [applause] aipac's work continually nurtures this bond. you can expect that over the next several days you will hear many fine words from elected officials describing their commitment to the u.s.-israel relationship. as you examine my commitment, you do not just have to count on my words. you can look at my deeds. over the last three years as president of united states, i have kept my commitment to the state of israel. at every crucial juncture and at every port in the road, we have been there for israel every single time. [applause] as the book for you and i said israel's security is sacrosanct. it is non-negotiable. my administration's commitment to israeli security has never been closer. our joint exercises and training has never been more robust. this has increased every single year. we are investing in new capabilities. we are providing israel with more technology, products, and systems that only goes to o

democratic leaning one, same deal. there's a broader political point. citizens united is not a republican will continue to have severe impacts on both major political parties. it is changing what the political party is. it has to. because it changes what kind of funding they're going to get. and actually, amazingly, politicians are accountable to their funders. so, more corporate money comes into the democratic party, it's going to be more pro-corporate. as more of that money comes in, it will be a more pro-corporate republican party. so, the decision is a bipart san, trans-part san disaster. we're going to take it on as it relates to all the different parties. >> i'd like to follow up on her question. how do you pressure, not -- we've been talking about the corporations, how do you pressure people like the koch brothers, this guy pleiss, the big individual givers who are accountable only to themselves? >> you know, i think even the koch brothers, they are probably the best example, because they have made their decisions and are very comfortable throwing their wealth around. but their companies do have direct consumer relationships, omni low itemhotels, fo

the leaders of the democratic party and the republican party in congress with the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. john boehner said following the meeting that the united states congress won't allow israel to stand alone. the prime minister had a lot of praise for both parties and this, of course, follows this meeting yesterday with the president. you know, we also heard from nancy pelosi who echoed what the speaker of the house john boehner said in terms of standing -- the united states standing with israel. >> let's stay focused on the middle east for a moment. senator john mccain made news as he called for air strikes to call for civilians in the government crackdown in syria. what news came out of speaker boehner's comments today? >> john boehner is not on board with this at this point. he said at this point of time with a lack of clarity, exactly what is going on in syria that it would be premature for the u.s. military to get involved. so he is -- he is keeping his distance from the call from john mccain yesterday for air strikes. >> in your opinion will senator mccain's comments resonate? will others get on board to support this type of military

democratic party, it took a different democratic party. if more corporate money comes into the republican party it will be different. the citizens unitedcision is a bipartisan, trans-partisan disaster. that relates to all the different parties. >> i would like to follow up on her question. how do you pressure -- we've been talking of the corporations. how the pressure people like the brothers. the big individual givers were basically accountable only to themselves. >> i think even the koch brothers, and they're probably the best example. they have made their decisions and are comfortable throwing their wealth around. but their companies do have direct consumer relationships. omni hotels, for example. i think, in the end, even the super rich and the ideologically motivated are affected when they see their companies get in trouble because the public is unhappy with them. i think, in the end, we're also trying to say, and it comes to a lot of a people are saying here, there are a lot of people sitting on the fence and corporate america. there are a lot of people in corporate america trying to decide what to do. i think every time they see

$700 billion a year was the subject of political debate in the united states when reagan point of defense budgets were a major democratic party platform. now things are more like where you are saying because of the fiscal crisis. we are capable as a nation, because we have done it in the past, of over-cutting our defense capabilities, and getting to the point where we have weakened our ability to shape the international system, and brought ourselves to a potentially perilous point in the conflicts that we might get ourselves into, because we have a way of getting ourselves into conflict even when we do not think we are going to do that again. if history is a guide, and that is always a good question, is history a good guide? if history is a guide, something will happen that will lead us to another direction. the trend in the 1990's was declining defense budgets. it was not dramatic. we were only spending $400 billion a year, or whatever the number was at the time. then something happened in 2001 that led to this explosion. that is not the first time that has happened. there is a cyclical quality to this. it is an interesting

democratic party. that shows me that he is not putting his country first. that he is putting his political fortunes before the welfare of the united states. and i don't think there is any question about that i agree is he smart. your diagnosis this is a problem. i think he thinks we can solve this by simply raising taxes. >> bill: come on. even if you raise taxes, the cbo's revenue prediction don't come close to covering. nobody on earth will say raise taxes and you can cover. you can't cover. >> right. we have got to restrain discretionary spending. but we have to do something which is very tough for this president to do and that is restrain entitlement spending over the medium and long term which means we need to act and act now. now, i do disagree with you on a couple of points. karzai i have a slightly different view. you can call him inept and say it's a corrupt regime. i don't think is he personally corrupt. >> bill: hold on. let me stop you. explain then the afghan bank run by his cronies. >> brother. i don't think he has a bank account set aside. >> bill: i don't think he knows what his brother is doing with the afghan ban

america's commitment to israel has endured under democratic and republican presidents and congressional leaders of both parties. [applause] in the unitedtates, our support for israel is bipartisan and that is how it should stay. [applause] aipac's work continually nurtures this bond. you can expect that over the next several days you will hear many fine words from elected officials describing their commitment to the u.s.-israel relationship. as you examine my commitment, you do not just have to count on my words. you can look at my deeds. over the last three years as president of united states, i have kept my commitment to the state of israel. at every crucial juncture and at every port in the road, we have been there for israel every single time. [applause] as the book for you and i said israel's security is sacrosanct. it is non-negotiable. my administration's commitment to israeli security has never been closer. our joint exercises and training has never been more robust. this has increased every single year. we are investing in new capabilities. we are providing israel with more technology, products, and systems that only goes to o

$700 billion a year was the subject of political debate in the united states, when reagan paused defense budgets were in major democratic party platform for much of those years. now, of course, things are more like what you are saying because of the fiscal crisis, and i think we are capable as a nation, because we have done it in the past, of overcutting our defense capabilities and getting to the point where we have weakened our ability to shake the international system and brought ourselves to a potentially perilous. -- point even in conflicts where we do not think we're going to get into. where capable of doing that. if history is a guide, and that is always the good question, something else will happen in the world which will lead us and send us in another direction. the 1990's trend was toward ever declining defense budgets. we were getting close -- it was not dramatic a cut. it was down 3% of gdp. we were only spending $400 billion a year. then of course something happened in 2001 which then led to this explosion. that is not the first time that happened. there is a cyclical quality to this. it is an interesting questio

democratic party. that shows me that he is not putting his country first. that he is putting his political fortunes before the welfare of the united states. and i don't think there is any question about that i agree is he smart. your diagnosis this is a problem. i think he thinks we can solve this by simply raising taxes. >> bill: come on. even if you raise taxes, the cbo's revenue prediction don't come close to covering. nobody on earth will say raise taxes and you can cover. you can't cover. >> right. we have got to restrain discretionary spending. but we have to do something which is very tough for this president to do and that is restrain entitlement spending over the medium and long term which means we need to act and act now. now, i do disagree with you on a couple of points. karzai i have a slightly different view. you can call him inept and say it's a corrupt regime. i don't think is he personally corrupt. >> bill: hold on. let me stop you. explain then the afghan bank run by his cronies. >> brother. i don't think he has a bank account set aside. >> bill: i don't think he knows what his brother is doing with the afghan ban

barack obama's party and eric hoffer's party that those eric hoffer democrats you have presidents that may not have come from the same place. he said he came from the united states. amen of mystery. he may not have come from the same place but they spoke the same language. you read the new york times a month ago, there was a piece saying that the president's campaign -- go for the white working class, the eric hoffer democrats are not even part of the strategy. say what you might about that as a strategy. but it tells you something about how world has changed. there don't seem to be such an species as an eric hoffer democrat anymore. the last time want to talk about before we open up is a guy who was very like eric hoffer in some ways. didn't own a telephone or television. didn't drive a car and no tie and ray bradbury the science-fiction writer, these sort of like the future status to. he is a strange creature. a technophobia sci-fi writer. ray bradbury when he was growing up didn't have a lot going for him. he was a nerd's nerd and he moved to los angeles when he was 14 or so and used to ride around on roller skates hounding the likes of marlene dietric

americans' commitment to israel has endured under democratic and republican presidents and congress leaders ever both parties. [applause] in the unitedtates, our support for israel is bipartisan and that is how it should stay. [applause] aipac's work continually nurture this is bond. because of its effectiveness in carrying out its mission, you can expect that over the next several days, you will hear many fine words from elected officials describing their commitment to the u.s./israel relationship. but as you examined my commitment, you don't just have to cowp count on my words, you can look at my deeds because over the last 3 years, as president of the united states, i have kept my commitment to the state of israel. at every crucial scbrurveght jurveghture, attar fork in the road, we have been there for israel, every single time. at every crucial juncture, at every fork in the road, we have been there for israel, every single time. four years ago, i stood before you and said that israel's security is sacrosanct, it is not negotiable. that belief has guided my actions as president. my administration's commitment to israel has been u

party. once that ends i think romney will move up smartly. to understand what is really happening in terms of incumbents and democrats in the united states, you look at those senate races. i would expect right n n that an incumbent senator might be under 50. he might be only 8 or 10 ahead of his republican challenger. nelson behind mack in florida. mccaskill behind steelman in missouri. chester behind berg in montana. you have brown behind mandell in ohio and then in open seats in north dakota, nebraska, and wisconsin you -- and virginia you have the republican ahead. this is precedent setting up to be an absolute wipeout for the democratic party and people aren't saying that. but if you look at the data it is showing it. >> greta: dick, thank you. and i will pay more attention to senate races and see, interesting thought, pay more attention to them. thank you, dick. >> thank you. >> greta: straight ahead, what do these men have in common with each other? mean bill maher is fighting for them. why would bill maher do that? greg gutfeld has the answer. something for president obama on the second anniversary of his healthcare law. not exactly a