President Obama says Chrysler and Fiat will form a partnership following Chrysler bankruptcy reorganization. RAW STORY has more details here. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast Apr. 30, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com…

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A group of students at Stanford confronted former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice about her role in authorizing the waterboarding of detainees. Rice said that she didn’t authorize torture. Rather, she just “conveyed the authorization” to the CIA. Rice also contended that waterboarding wasn’t illegal because it had been authorized…

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Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that President Obama’s suggestion that waterboarding yielded valuable information was “disturbing.” The President told reporters that he thought “waterboarding was torture” during a Wednesday news conference but also implied that reliable intelligence was gained from the interrogation technique. “It is obviously…

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The Daily Show featured a “ceremonial changing of the party designation” to celebrate Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic Party. Jon Stewart questioned Specter’s principles in making the party switch. “Senator, people are saying you made the switch just to win reelection. That can’t be true, right?” The Daily…

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The White House has backtracked over comments Vice President Joe Biden said this morning on The Today Show in which he remarked that he’d told his family to avoid subways, trains and “confined places” over the recent scare of swine flu. A White House source purportedly called Biden’s remarks “imprecise”…

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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) read a very long list of sex acts not covered by the hate crimes bill on the House floor Wednesday. The Huffington Post speculated that he “likely set a congressional record” for citing the most sex acts of any speech in Congress. “I apologize to our…

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President Obama responded to criticism that his administration has overused “state secrets” claims. “I think the state secret doctrine should be modified. I think right now it’s overbroad,” said Obama. “Keep in mind what happens is we come into office, we’re in for a week, and suddenly we’ve got a…

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President Obama indicated that he thinks the Bush administration may have sanction torture by allowing waterboarding of detainees. “What I’ve said and I will repeat is that waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. I do believe that it is torture,” he said during a press conference Wednesday night. This…

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President Obama alluded to tea party protests promoted by Fox News while speaking at a town hall event in Arnold, Mo. “When you see, you know, those of you who are watching certain news channels that on on which I’m not very popular and you see folks waving tea bags…

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Sen. Arlen Specter joined President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday morning. This video is from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, broadcast Apr. 29, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com…

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