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all right. there is a political scientist named heath poole who has devised a metric for measuring polarization called dw nominate, a way of scoring votes to sort of figure out how polarized a legislative body is. in the house of representatives just to give a sense of what this looks like over time, what you see there is that we are extremely polarized. about the most we ve been since 1879. what is interesting there is it s a symmetrical polarization. the democrats have moved left and republicans right. the slope of the line is much higher than the democrats so there s been a sharper veering up from the republicans to the right. also interestingly, congressman nolan, is that you see it begins right when you were in congress. you know, everyone can draw
plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women s gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? reporter: morning. i ll tell you, there s no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the olympics last night. but it s a really difficult question to answer that. it is the topic of conversation across breakfast
dysfunctional government in washington, particularly the extremism of the republican party and how the party has evolved in such an extreme fashion, it s made governance extremely difficult, if not impossible in washington. i want to give a little empirical grounding to this. because there s one of these arguments you can have that can begin to sound very abstract about who is more extreme than whom. politicians have come up, keith poole, political scientist keith poole and howard rosenthal have come up with this now famous index, a way of analyzing where parties are in their ideological extremism and here s a graph showing house polarization 1879 to 2011. what you see is the upwards tick of the 90% republican and 10% republican, the ends of the party, they shoot up much faster than the bottom two lines. which means they re veering off to the right much faster than the democrats are veering off to the left and the same thing more
fighters stick to the cease fire agreement. the american ambassador to the united nations says so far, syria is not holding up its end of the bargain. the regime has unleashed yet another wave of horrific violation against its own people. resulting in the deaths of scores of syrians daily. the government s use of shelling and heavy weaponry in particular in homs has reached levels that surpass those before the cease-fire. syrian government troops in armor have not been withdrawn from cities and returns to barracks. protesters are still being intimidated and murdered by government forces. the status of thousands of detainees remains unclear. and pressures little progress has been made on the issue of human terrier access with an estimated 1 million civilians still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. the united nations security counsel has called upon the government to take concrete action. the syrian government has ignored this counsel. in the united states, our patie
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