apartheid and could be the most significant black leader in history. so, you think flying around the country in our 747 and charging a mind numbing $38,000 to see your handsome face whining and dining the likes of russell simmons, michael core is gandhi or mandela like? i'm not so sure. can you feel the president's pain, the rough life. poor guy. look what he has to do. >> bob: you have been in the tv business longer than i have. if you notice the edit on that, it was hard to miss. he did not say that, he did not compare himself to mandela or gandhi. he said movements like that are hard to do and he went on to say it requires a lot of presence and people. it's a nice job by whoever edited that. but that's not what he said. >> andrea: what is the movements, by the way? what is the movement exactly? >> bob: movement is away from the right wing -- >> andrea: more pain at the pump? >> bob: i don't think that's what he said. >> eric: bob is accusing us of selective editing. meanwhile we just played obama's words. in a speech. >> bob: go back and looking at that. >> eric: i can go look at i anytime you want. he said things take a lot of time. it will take me more time. look how long it look gandhi and mandela to accomplish what they did. >> bob: he said movements take time. >> eric: what is the difference? >> dana: andrea has the best question, which is to what are we moving to? and that is what maybe that is spelled out more clearly in the speech. some people have a good idea what they think it is. if you are president obama who is, he might not care about the criticism that any of us might deliver regarding a comparison to mandela or gandhi. typically, if you are wanting to be careful, you might then allow somebody else to say that about you. because then did i want sound like you are talking about yourself. you let somebody else say it. yegg >> greg: dana, i am so tired of obama's modesty. mandela, gandhi what have they done? gandhi never golfed. mandela spent decades in jail. but obama knows george clooney. c'mon! he knows george clooney. russell simmons. he knows everything. >> eric: the numbers, last night was the 97th, 98th, 99th and 100th fundraiser since he announced his and dassy for re-election. he golfed 30 times, been to church five times and made, ready for this, three speeches on energy. meanwhile, gasoline prices doubled. >> andrea: his senior advisor valerie jarret said one of his biggest regrets of his first term was not fallen soldiers, it was not getting out of washington enough. i look like he is making good on that regret and getting out of washington more and serving traffic in my neighborhood yesterday. >> bob: i mean i got to listen to this. >> dana: why is it $38,000? why not ram it up to $40,000? >> bob: i don't know. i don't believe any of it. leaving that aside. let me just say this. sorry, are you still talking? >> andrea: i was interrupted because we had to look at your grimace. >> bob: i wasn't grimacing. i was wondering where this came from. >> andrea: i think it's ironic he hangs out with the richest, the 1% he shames are trying to keep everybody else down. so russell similar mon keeping everybody down? >> greg: i got to defind him again. this is making me stick to my stomach. the fight for apartheid, how can you say that is just as important as fighting for free birth control pills? c'mon, people. >> eric: good point. new agenda. this is where they're going for 2012? we're going to make birth control contraceptives -- >> bob: since i made the point this is selective editing of the source, right wing rag out of washington. let me make one other point here about the 100 fundraisers. it may come as a surprise the president running for re-election raise a lot of money in the year out after they announce. he announced about last april, i think, within a month or two of what george bush announced for his re-election. talking about days away, george bush spent all or part of 477 days, that is a year and third at his ranch. >> eric: i didn't say days. 100 rundraisers, 30 golf outings. isn't it a matter of fact at this point in time in george bush's re-election campaign he only had 56 fundraisers? so obama has almost doubled that? >> dana: two things are happening. the campaign, the democrats overspend on their consult tants so they have to spend money to keep up and make their operating net every month. i think also it shows how worried they are about this election. this wedge issue on contraception shows they are looking at the numbers on women and think we have a huge problem. we have to do a lot more fundraising and figure out a way to get him out every day. to be making comments that will get them to squeak by. that is, i think the hope is squeak by in 2012. >> eric: we talk about how they mismanage expectations all the time. they did with the fundraising number. the fundraising number is way down. he set the bar at $1 billion. getting back to the movement question, bob can't articulate what the movement is. >> bob: i didn't get a chance to. >> andrea: we can articulate what the movement is. that is spreading the wealth, demonizing the rich. that is a movement he is referring to. he iser if vently pushing that movement down our throats. >> bob: you said he demonized all the 1%er. classic conservative statement. has he demonized all the 1%? >> andrea: he has. >> bob: show me where he says that. >> eric: now he wants to tax them more. >> bob: good idea. >> eric: greg, isn't it what dana points out, that let's open it up here a little bit. with all you have, $3.74 doubling gas prices and 8% unemployment, you might as well do something like contraceptives to change the dialogue a little bit. take america's eye off the real ball and look over here. >> greg: the thing is, in a way, the republicans are helping him by focusing on the same issues when they should be really, really focusing on the economy. we talk what is the movement for? what does the second term look like? romney has to talk about, he has to envision the nightmare scenario. you know how they improve a serial adding extra raisins or nuts? >> dana: whole grains. >> greg: obama's second term is like the first term but with 50% more nuts. >> bob: you are right about the republicans stepped in the contraceptive thing. where i disagree on this is interimly the poll number what is they see is what i expect they would see is the republicans moving back to things like contraception and values is driving women back to the democratic party. >> greg: it's not about contraception. it's about the government overreach. every time they get in that debate it becomes about contraceptive. >> andrea: today republicans are forced to defend comments of radio talk show host and put on the defensive rather than going on the offensive about the economy. republicans make a great point. they can't take the bait on this one and be distracted. >> bob: he made this a big deal because he was a front runner. >> andrea: he's asked about it at every -- >> dana: not only that, the obama healthcare bill mandates after the religious institutions and cross the line on religious freedom is what started it. >> eric: which was januar january 20. this is new a mandate that sebelius said this is how we'll interpret obamacare. every institution has to provide contraception. >> dana: i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's strange, george stephanopoulos asked a question about contraception that i thought mitt romney answered well in the debate. i thought what are you talking about? then there was a contraceptive in january. santorum, you're right, he has to defend what he said in the past about it. how did we get to this point? >> greg: you have to understand what is more important than apartheid is making sure that people can have recreationm sex and we subsidize it. >> eric: how does mitt romney get around the mandate of the contraception in the healthcare plan? >> andrea: i don't know the details are about that. >> andrea: i don't care what they do in the state. >> bob: we agree the massachusetts thing he signed is a problem for him. a problem that planned parenthood was on the board. >> bob: but i'm saying he is slightly pregnant on this issue. borrow a phrase. >> andrea: he gave birth to that baby. it's out and screaming and crying and driving him nuts. every day. >> eric: do we have time? i want to know bob's opinion on this 30-year-old georgetown lawyer who testified seems like a plant to me. 30 years old. doesn't seem like she will have a hard time finding contraception. what i also heard and we did research is she went to georgetown with the expressed purpose of exposing an issue ideological issue of hers. >> bob: i thought that was in another block. >> it's not. >> dana: it's eric's birthday, we talk about that. >> bob: it's eric's birthday so talk about that. i don't think it's a setup. it worked out perfectly well. i wish someone would think of it as a setup. i love that they did the mock theory on capitol hill after the republicans decided that the white guys should decide women's personal issues. >> greg: i agree but i want the dinner subsidized and the flowers and dessert. before the act. everything should be subsidized. >> bob: one thing we can't afford is subsidizing that. >> eric: coming up, president obama doesn't want oil panes to keep $4 billion of their own money. but he will force miles per hour taxpayers to bail out fannie yet get to $4 billion. what is wrong with all of this? 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in exxon 2007, they paid more taxes than the bottom 50% of individual taxpayers. >> bob: they made $55 billion. >> greg: what is wrong with -- >> bob: it's great. >> dana: how many people did they hire? a lot of people if they could get a job at exxon they'd take it in a second. >> bob: i've been paid before by exxon as a consultant so i want to make it clear. i'm going to bash them -- >> eric: did you ever -- >> bob: i just find it different. they may have had a tax break when it was needed in the '90s as they told me the break. why you take as profitable an operation of the oil company is beyond me. >> andrea: they are going to pass any tax increase to the consumer. if not the consumer it's shareholders. >> bob: they pass it on to you -- [ overtalk ] >> dana: they are going to take the tax credit away from one industry, then they should take them away for all. because if you go to the apple store this weekend and you buy an iphone, guess what? they are making money. as we said yesterday, now apple's profits are, the value of the company is worth more than the country of poland. >> greg: i have to ask -- >> dana: that's true. >> bob: i know. >> greg: i have to ask you a serious question. you were a consultant at exxon, why at the exxon bathroom do they have a big giant key chain to go with the bathroom key? it drives me crazy. >> dana: he will ask about that. >> andrea: is that your idea? made millions on that one? >> bob: i was there to talk about the valdez when they ran it in the ground and -- >> greg: my issue is more important. >> bob: i know it is. i don't have the answer, except for when little people take big keys we can find them. >> andrea: we have to get in, he want to cut $4 billion of subsidy to oil company, the president. frefreddie and fannie, it's actually fannie asking for $4 billion after losses in the fourth quarter. i look at the numbers and they received the largest bail-out out of anybody in the economic downturn. $150 billion we have given them. >> eric: we have given them quarter of a trillion dollars and $300 billion because number one, they decided to make fannie and freddie government sponsored entity. you can't go after them. they are hands off. they drew every bad mortgage in the country in that. >> andrea: isn't that why it shouldn't be the government getting involved in business? it wasn't looked at. it wasn't capitalized. >> dana: a well worn phrase is i didn't start this thing. i inherited this thing. going back several generations when it was started. now you're in a pickle because you have to let it all go and take as will on it or keep on funding it. what is interesting on both of these things is that it's the same policy answer over and over. on the oil issue, the policy that president obama talked about on th yesterday, it was brought up in the senate. they said the policy would decrease reduction and lead to increase in prices. why can't we come up with anything new. >> bob: the democratic senators are from oil producing states. >> dana: do you not want them? >> bob: i think giving the oil companies a tax break. >> andrea: can i ask you something, bob? >> bob: you can't compare exxon with fannie and freddie. i'm old but not old enough to remember when they were started. the idea when they was to subsidize housing for middle class americans. if you have don't like it. vote it down. get rid of it. don't compare it to other corporations, there is no comparison. >> andrea: if you look at the tax benefit the president is looking to take away, why in his "state of the union" did he praise the benefits? these are the same benefits of domestic manufacturers get. the ones he wants to take away. >> bob: he praised the taxpayers -- >> andrea: the oil and gas industry receives the same tax benefit of domestic manufacturers. he praised these in the "state of the union." why is he now just taking them away? >> bob: manufacturing is the highest point under obama than the last three presidents. there you go. >> andrea: that doesn't answer the question. [ laughter ] >> eric: pull the numbers out right when we are going. tease. and get out of this. >> bob: it's true. >> eric: you lob grenades in here that go off. there is no way right now that -- >> andrea: all right. okay. >> eric: manufacturing, what are you talking about? i love you. you're wrong. >> bob: okay. >> andrea: we'll call the beckel institute in the commercial break and look at those numbers that bob was talking about. coming up, moderate republican olympia snowe says she is retiring from the senate. why? because it's too polarizing like she says? greg isn't buying it. >> greg: i'm not buying it. >> andrea: she tel he tells us y next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this is lawn ranger -- eden prairie, minnesota. in here, the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter job on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting, initiate, bill, and track work in real time. you can't live under a dome in minnesota, that's why there's guys like me. 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[ laughter ] narrative. >> greg: we're going to start this again. olympia snowe says politicians spend more time fighting than solving problems. that's why she is leaving. for this divisiveness makes her wonder if she will be productive in the future. to which i say c'ya. you have been in politic since when? 19 #. 30, 40, years is a long time on our dime. if you think i am buying your exodus is due to polarization, i could say the same thing as every bar i'm at, at 2:00 a.m. the polarization between myself and the bartender can get extreme. especially if he wants me gone and i'm making out with a barstool. are we really to believe you discovered polarization now? i guess you missed the iraq war. and the clin top years and the clarence thomas hearings and robert bjork. that was a lovefest. to blame anything on polarization is to blame everything on principle. defending disguiseed liberals like snow is only protecting a lack of principle. which raises an interesting point. why is it when a republican moves to the left it's commandable but when a democrat moves to the right like joseph lieberman it's antisocial? either way, snowe is the media's favorite republican. liberal one. she is like arlen specter in a dress. which is kind of hot when you think about it. she is a very classy lady. i wasn't talking about her looks, i was talk about her principles being like arlen specter. but the fact is no one ever talks, dana, they never talk about wouldn't it be great if ted kennedy became more moderate? if you are liberal, you are always heroic. if you're very conservative, you're a nut. >> dana: starting to feel that a lot lately. because sometimes in d.c., especially like on the cocktail circuit, to get invite to the parties, you're the only conservative that anybody can stand. they invite you to the party. then it's like see how balanced we are? they make a point to the one person they have. but let me say this about olympia snowe. i think she has been a great leader. she has been someone that is a reliable person who for maine