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Is President Obama’s presidency becoming ‘Nixonian’?

Guest host Mark Thompson, author David Cay Johnston, "The War Room" contributor Brett Erlich, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson discuss whether there's any validity to comparisons between President Obama and former President Nixon in the wake of recent White House [...]

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Jesse Lava on mass incarceration: ‘Fear drives an awful lot of our criminal justice policy’

"Right now, 2.7 million children have a parent behind bars." —Jesse Lava

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Rick Ungar: White House needs to be ‘much more aggressive’ to combat scandal-filled week

"These are not hard ‘scandals’ to do battle with — we’ve seen much worse and we’ve seen presidents come out of them way better." —Rick Ungar

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Attorney General Eric Holder ‘should be out of a job’ for recent US government security scandals

Guest host Mark Thompson, Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and BuzzFeed contributor Michael Hastings discuss the fallout from recent White House security scandals.

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Pat Garofalo: ‘Obama’s tax increases are actually bringing the deficit down’

"The folks pushing austerity are going to push austerity no matter what the numbers say.” —Pat Garofalo

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John Fugelsang asks God to explain John Boehner

"I love it when congressmen with socialized health care warn the rest of us of the evils of socialized health care." —John Fugelsang

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Charles Pierce: The sequester will really hurt ‘people who don’t get noticed on the news very much’

“(The sequester will hurt) the kids who can’t get into Head Start, and the people whose food stamps are going to get cut, and a lot of people who don’t get covered quite as extensively as people who get delayed [...]

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Reports that CIA has been unsuccessfully bribing Afghanistan for years suggests it might be doing US more harm than good

Cenk Uygur, TYT contributor Brian Unger, Yahoo! News reporter Chris Moody and NationBuilder's Lauren Brown Jarvis respond to reports that the CIA has been delivering "ghost money" bribes to the Afghanistan government for several years to try to influence the [...]

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From the show: Is Correspondents’ Association Dinner proof that White House is too friendly with the media?

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Rep. Alan Grayson on why Democrats shouldn’t support Obama’s budget proposal

“The president has offered something up — in return for nothing.” —Rep. Alan Grayson

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John Fugelsang: Let’s call Guantanamo Bay prisoner abuse what it is — American

"Democrats are so weak they'd rather keep innocent men in cages than risk being called weak." —John Fugelsang

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