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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Thompson's Video

By Marc Ambinder
Nov 28 2007, 8:52 PM ET Comment

... is the video of a rotound Mike Huckabee talking about tax cuts... and a young pro-choice Mitt Romney...

"These are their words."

Romney: "I'm not sure who that young guy was at the beginning of that film. I can tell you this: I was wrong. On abortion, I was wrong. And I changed my mind."

Huckabee: "I was governor nearly 11 years and I cut nearly 90 taxes. The sales tax is one penny higher. ... but... When they're kicking you in the rear, it's just proving you're still out front..."

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