very quickly, under the radar, besides the emptying of notebooks, going back and forth and all of it is moot if it gets upheld. there was a ton of bean respecting. clear the ork bama campaign lost the debate inside. washington and new york, the bane debate, however the campaign keeps using it and they wouldn t because they are trying to prove it. it seems to work. it works and that has been the broader argument. they would like to have the ecochamber supporting the officials. they are pitching beyond the belt. how important are articles like this? you can visualize that in about a month or sore. you can see the headlines are coming. absolutely. i think they are doing everything they can to encourage
lot of votes. in the electoral system, particularly, how is this guy going to win? we calculated in 2008 he wouldn t win a single state and he s probably made the same calculation. not that he wouldn t be a great candidate. he s been a great mayor in my view, but the math doesn t work. you ve got to have a somewhat different system. and if you re going to change the system, start with four years out, not 14 months. it s an ecochamber thing. you can affect the election. if bloomberg wins, obama loses, if tea party wins, republican loses. howard dean says never. what do you say? i think there s no doubt it s very much stacked against it. at some point i think either this election or in 2016, somebody is going to test that proposition and do sort of what howard dean is the godfather of, which is using technology as a great equalizer. being able to organize people much more quickly than you could in the past. and the question is, does anyone come in? particularly if they had money beca
from haiti with nbc that the nation s heated political climate must change after this shooting. on the anniversary of oklahoma city last april, i published an article in which i just tried to reiterate i don t blame anybody. everybody s responsible for their own conduct. but we know that in a huge ecochamber, and that s what the internet is today, you know, that you just have to know whatever you say, if it s hopeful, inspirational, or if it can be misread as heavy and divisive, that you have no way in the world of knowing who will hear that and how they ll react to it. the president made similar comments when he was president after the oklahoma city bombing in 1995. meanwhile, a new cbs news poll finds a majority of americans, 57%, believe the harsh political tone in the u.s. had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32% who felt it did.
the murrah federal building. a long list, obviously of speakers and guests today. we ll continue to monitor that. they are scheduled to take a 168 second moment of silence, one second for every victim of that bombing and we will bring you that moment when it happens. meantime bill clinton who was president when the oklahoma city bombing occurred says he sees startling similarities in 1995 and the recent rise of anti-government extremism. in an op-ed in the new york times, president clinton writing, quote, as we exercise the right to advocate our views and animate our supporters, we must also assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast ecochamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged. let s bring in international consultant evan colton. i want to talk to you about president clinton s remarks but we are following breaking news out of iraq with the leader of al qaeda iraq al masri, now we know he s been killed.