Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.