it's pretty dramatic. that i'm speechless. the e-mails, the tweets, the texts, people in the rank and file of the republican party in the house, completely shocked. just to give you a sense of how

little anybody expected this, eric cantor's own staff was very sure that they were going to be fine, saying that this is just a press story, that this is just ginned up by people who want to make the tea party still have a life. well, guess what, they have a life, a big life. and all of those stories that we have all done through the primary season so far, talking about the fact that the tea party may be losing life because they haven't been able to beat an incumbent, that's over. it's a wrap for that, because they have gotten the biggest head that they could possibly get at this point. and that is the number two republican in the house. >> isn't it the first rule in politics to never underestimate your opponent? and let me show you what some of the early polls show that cantor had this locked up, a poll within the cantor camp had cantor at 62% to 28%. how could that poll have been so

wrong? >> well, you know, it's interesting. i've been on the phone all night talking to political operatives and really they're laying the blame not only at eric cantor but his political consultant. eric cantor wasn't tending to business back home. and as one operative said to me a short time ago, it's very difficult to be in the leadership at the same time representing your district. and i think that's kind of what we saw with eric cantor. he was trying to have it both ways. it was only just a couple years ago that eric cantor was seen as the voice so to speak for the tea party within the leadership. he seemed to have been mod rating his views a little bit. and as someone said tonight, you can't have it both ways. live by the sword, die by the sword. tonight he died by the sword. >> listen to what eric cantor had to say tonight after his loss. and then we'll talk. >> sure. but i believe in this country. i believe there's opportunity

around the next corner for all of us. so i look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in, for the conservative cause, because those solutions of ours are the answer to the problems that so many people are facing today. thank you all very, very much. [ applause ] >> what's your reaction? what did he do wrong? >> well, there are lots of things he did wrong. first, in talking to republicans tonight who say to me to a person that this was a repudiation of eric cantor personally, that he failed politics 101, which is to keep in touch with your district. they point out that lindsey graham in south carolina won a primary tonight with 60% of the vote. and one republican said to me, i'm going to quote it here, measuring the drapes is never a good strategy, which means that he was next in line to become speaker, was seen as very ambitious. somebody who spent a lot of time fund-raising for the republican

party, and it's one of the perils of leadership, technically since the republican leadership is unpopular with the base of the republican party. >> brian, conservative media. can the opponent, can they thank them for this victory? >> i think that has something to do with it. it was under the radar. that's why so many reporters, so many analysts were shocked topd. but laura ingram was very supportive. even held a rally for brat in virginia. the top of her website said vote brat today. ann coulter supported him. and i think they are going to be getting credit in the days to come. tonight on fox news, megyn mentioned it. >> maybe they overestimated the power of the kind of republican that would go out and vote for

eric cantor in a primary that people aren't used to being a part of in his district. primaries aren't very common in his district. i know it sounds like we're getting to the weeds here, but the weeds matter in grassroots politics. technically on this huge story. and i described a little bit, perhaps, how over confident the cantor people were. that clearly translated into what you have to do on election day, which is get your voters out, and they didn't, clearly didn't do that enough. and that is absolutely critical of another just anecdote i will tell you is that i'm told that the chamber of commerce, which is a big establishment group so to speak that has gone in to have a lot of incumbent this is year with a lot of money and ads and so forth, they went to the cantor people not too long ago and said do you need us? and they were waved off by the cantor people. they simply didn't see this coming. >> that's because the cantor people had $5 million. and brat had what, $200,000 or

$300,000? >> $300,000. >> they ran negative ads against someone that lots of people had never heard of. >> by putting his name in those negative ads they made him popular. >> until those ads appeared. so there were issues. there were issues like immigration. there were issues like the government shutdown. cantor was one of those who wanted to end the government shutdown which was popular with the conservative base and the republican party. so there were issues. and then there was, you know, a little political malpractice perhaps going on. >> that's one of the story lines tonight, about money. usually money wins races. a study came out in april, said 91% of the time, the better financed candidate wins, but then there's the other 9%. >> what do we know about brat and about the challenger he will face? >> well, here's the situation. we don't know very much about him. i think at the top that was the

longest biography we could give on a candidate. he is a college professor. he is going to win in november. democrats were hoping that cantor would win as a write-in candidate. that's not going to happen. this is a very republican seat. let's take a step back and look at the national implications about their. we're talking about the majority leader of the house of representatives being taken out. there is going to be a void in the house leadership. which means you have an emboldened tea party. will we have a tea party candidate try to run. and what does that mean for any kind of cooperation moving forward in the final two years of president obama's term? so there's a lot of national implications. and we talk about implications for republicans and how they will aeb pushed to the right. there are also democrats running in the senate in a lot of red states right now. they have got to be concerned that there is potentially a tea party base, a conservative base that will be energized by this.

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how did this all happen? could it have all come down to immigration? joining me is ben ferguson and host of the ben ferguson show. russell berman, congressional reporter for the hill.com. and jeffrey toobin and leslie sanchez. unbelievable. came as a shock to just about everyone. first, ben ferguson. did anyone predict this loss? >> i don't think anyone definitely predicted it, but there were indications this was very possible in the last several weeks. when you saw ralph hall lose in a seat in texas. he was the oldest sitting seat in texas. they didn't they he was leading enough in congress. and he lost to, a lot of people said it was a no-name. and that's when a lot of people

were like, holy cow, if that guy can lose after 30-plus years in congress, eric cantor can sure be the possibility of a loss. and i think he took his seat for granted. he did not do what he needed to do in his district. he cared too much about being a gop established republican. >> ann coulter had this to say about how immigration will affect the republicans going forward. take a listen. >> i wish it would have the effect of republicans waking up and seeing that this is a winning issue for the republicans. and not just with the republican base. we're talking about african-americans being hurt the most by illegal immigration and just legal immigration, dumping 1.2 million low-wageworkers on the country every year. democrats love to talk about economic inequality. this is the reason for it.

since 1970. and we need to care about americans first. >> so russell, i probably should have introduced that better because brat ran campaign ads talking about cantor's willingness to work across the aisle on immigration. how bad did his position on immigration hurt him? >> it was very interesting because cantor was getting it from both sides on immigration. gutierrez was in his district criticizing him for not bringing up immigration. then we have dave brat. and it's important to know. this is the issue that people like lauw ink -- laura ink grahm brought up.

and eric cantor was faced to go really negative on immigration. he was adopting the language in the late days of the race that we morariu teenly hear from steve king, referring to illegal aliens and saying he would not pour obama's amnesty plan. >> i think it was eric cantor forgot that his job was to go to washington and fight for conservative ideas, and that's what got him in trouble. he went there, and all of a sudden he started wanting to be the speaker of the house. and his base, he left them behind. he did not take care of them. and when you're hanging out with john boehner and losing to barack obama who let's be honest, is not at his political prime right now, this is what happens when you don't pay attention at home. >> can 2003 discuss what alternative universe we are in where eric cantor is not conservative enough? this is the guy who helped shut

down the government. i think what this really illustrates is just how conservative the contemporary republican party is. this is, frankly, the happiest person in america tonight is hillary clinton, because this is who she's going to be running against in 2016. >> i disagree. >> and this is not america. >> i totally disagree. >> i bet you do. >> the reason why i disagree is simply this. you're implying that eric cantor was being beaten by some crazy tonight. he wasn't. he was beat by a principal conservative that did not have even close the amount of money he had from big gop establishment which is boring and dull and uninspiring and that's why he lost. that's not scary. that's good for republicans. >> okay. everybody stand by. i have somebody i want to bring in now. and that is none other than ann coulter. this is said to be one of the big issues here is what they're calling a crisis along the southern border. all of these children that are coming in from honduras and other countries on the border,

and they're saying it's at a crisis level. they're there, and they're not being taken care of. and they're living in facilities that they believe are sub par. how much does that have to do with this if anything at all? >> i think it has a lot to do with it, but not just today's story or yesterday's story. it's been going on for a while. and i mean, a lot of these, these not very bright republicans seem to think they sound compassionate by acting like we can take the entire world in. well, you know, if you look at the people of the world living in countries poorer than mexico, we're talking about 5 billion people. where do they draw the line? and, and i think it just comes down to who's going to speak for the american worker? there is income inequality and it has gone through the roof since 1970s because of immigration, both legal and illegal. it's the american worker who's suffering, as i've pointed out a million times since the last

election. mitt romney got an astonishingly high percentage of black male voters. 20%. for a republican, that is amazing. and i think it's because mitt romney was the only one speaking for the american worker and saying no to amnesty. >> i think it's very interesting that you say that, because for many african-americans, they are very conservative when it comes to immigration, because they believe it takes jobs away from african-americans. this is a place, ann, where conservatives and african-americans typically vote democrat, where they can actually meet, where they actually agree on something. >> caller: i totally agree. and i think republicans are fool hardy to keep listening to the chamber of commerce. being against amnesty is a winning issue with leading hispanic voters. >> really, we have to take a very strong position. and i have to disagree with ann, very much so on that. if republicans walk away from

this and think that being pro immigration reform is a way to win a campaign, then we're going to see many more defeats along the lines of eric cantor. if you just look to the south. if you look to the south, senator lindsey graham who ran very pro immigration, took bold leadership in this stance and defeated many tea party interests with 59%, the logic doesn't make sense. it's not just the issue of immigration reform. it's that people are very frustrated with the establishment and many other things that are going on. but i think we are fool hardy to look just at that issue. >> how big of an issue will amnesty be in the upcoming election? >> well, it will be important in some places and not others. and by the way, don, it's a great oversimplification to say that what happened tonight is because of immigration or even primarily because of immigration. cantor did lose touch with his district. this has been building for

years. he has a machine with operatives that are very tough and step on toes. and, you know, after a while, the human beings attached to the toes often will vote against you. and let me mention one other thing that no one's brought up and i don't think many people know. there was a strong outreach from the dave brat campaign to democrats. brat spokesman came to the largest counties -- >> larry, we lost larry there, but. >> can i follow up on that? >> plit facts says that was false. go ahead quickly. >> i was at the texas republican convention last week. and the hostility to washington among the republican base is really astonishing. i mean, ted cruz who i think is also a big winner tonight, he is defining himself as the non-washington candidate, the one that the chamber of commerce, the insiders, the john

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all right. so tonight's breaking news, a stunning upset in virginia by a steppingstone for the tea party. it's a, is it panic time for the gop establishment when it comes to number two man in the house that loses to an economic professor.

i'm back now with my guests. ann coulter's with me, jeffrey toobin, leslie sanchez and larry sab toe is back with me as well. not too long ago, everyone was touting the death of the tea party, that the tea party had run its course. >> caller: well, it pea well have. the tea party didn't have much to do with this election. the tea party express is in favor of amnesty. they're just shysters and conmen now. i don't think this is anti-establishment at all. this is 100% about amnesty. somebody was talking about the tea party in texas and ted cruz is the winner here. well, ted cruz is from washington. whatever his -- and i love him, but that is technically part of the establishment. what was his speech at the texas tea party about? it was a fiery speech denouncing amnesty.

that's what people don't like about the establishment. it's this cozy relationship with the chamber of commerce to the detriment of the american worker. >> but ann, what are you saying, you're saying peep don't like amnesty. you can't round up millions of people and send them back, you're not suggesting that, are you? >> caller: no, but no one's suggesting that. all these polls showing that people are supposedly supporting a pathway to citizenship. they're always completely phony polls. they ask two things and on both sides no one is proposinproposi. they want employer sanctions, we didn't round up 11 million to get them here. we're not going to have to round them up to get them home. but you cut off the employer, and they're the ones pushing for amnesty. it is big business, the agri business. >> you're saying amen, who's saying amen there? >> that was me. and the reason why i said amen

is there are a couple things to simplify this and this is it. what people seem to miss is this is grassroots. the people want job security. and they want you to take care of americans first. and that was an issue. but when you start having your operatives deal with the little people in your district, like oh, you take their phone calls. oh, you e-mail them back. i'm too busy for that. i'm this big dog in the gop. the way that eric cantor, john boehner, john mccain have acted, you get your rear end kicked eventually. john mccain got his kicked for the presidency. he got his brains beat in because he was the establishment guy, even though he got the nomination, and that's what hurt him here. so when people say the tea party may be dead, the tea party is only as powerful with the group in the district that's upset with the establishment. they become the tea party, and that's how they win on the local level. it's not national tea party that's getting this done. >> what does it tell us that

most republicans view cantor as the most conservative member in the house leadership in the lineup, and yet, he was ousted. >> i think this goes to a specific issue, which is there's always been questions about his a authenticity. and i think there's questions about that. if you compare his position in the conference to boehner, you would not consider to be necessarily as conservative. boehner is a guy who's a backslapper. he has a lot of close friends in the conference, and i think that probably translates into loyalty among his constituents. whereas eric cantor has never been that type of politician. he's always been seen as somewhat calculating. can you see it in talking about immigration in the latter stages of his campaign. he totally changed his tone if not his position just in the last few days, and i think it probably spoke to a larger disenchantment that voters had with him that larry said

probably developed over a number of years. >> larry, should we expect a radical change in the gop leadership because of this? >> well, there's going to be a different speaker after john boehner, that's for sure. i think, you know, there's a lot of politicking going on in washington as far as that's concerned. but look, you know, so many of the things that have been said are accurate, but they're only part of the picture. it was partly immigration. it was partly the disconnect that cantor had developed with his own district. it was, it was partly the fact that he was identified and kred when i as a moderate. i think jeff mentioned that he's considered very conservative by any normal measure. but there was another factor i was trying to point out. no one knows about this, but there was a major outreach to democrats in that district, 43% of that district is democratic. you have brat on rattives going to democratic party committees,

even asking them to go to the polls to get rid of eric cantor. had nothing to do with dave brat. there were robo calls to democrats in that district wanting to get, telling democrats come out to the polls. can you vote, which is true. we have an open primary. get rid of eric cantor. so you see, it's always more complicated once you go beneath the surface. >> that's a key point, because the, there was talk about that. i was in the district last week. and there was talk about well, maybe there's going to be this organized effort to get democrats because democrats, remember, did not field a candidate in this race. and that's why in all likelihood, dave brat will be a congressman come november. >> there is a democrat. >> there is a democrat. >> oh, okay. >> yeah. there's a democrat. randolph macon college is the nominee. >> there's one issue here. the democrats knew they weren't going to win this district. that's the reason why we're talking about is there even a democratic candidate or not, which tells you how conservative

this was. make no mistake about it, the democrats did not length him tonight and beat eric cantor. the republicans on the grassroots level did this because they wanted a change. and eric cantor was on the list, just like boehner was on the list. >> we'll get to leslie and jeffrey on the other side. i want you to hear what the democrats are saying tonight. larry, thank you very much. make sure you stay with me. we'll be coming right back. another deadly shooting and an angry president obama calls out congress. all stations come over to mission a for a final go.

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the gop has redefined far right. >> it's certainly going to be the case that immigration reform is dead for this congress. after, you know, we can argue about how much of a factor it was in cantor's defeat, but it was clearly part of the story here. so we're going to head into the 2014 election and very likely into the 2016 election with 60% plus of the american people supporting immigration reform and the house and senate blocking it. that's not a good political position to be in for the republicans. >> what do you make of debbie wasserman schultz' statement? >> yes, immigration reform was an issue. but the bigger take away is that eric cantor had two sides on this issue, and the voters are smarter than that. he was pro immigration reform. and as we heard from our guest he moved against it, was saying

he's against amnesty, and was sending out many of these mailing pieces talking about illegal aliens and against amnesty. you can't talk from both sides of your mouth and expect voters to take you seriously. it had a significant impact. republicans cannot walk -- let me finish my point. republicans cannot walk away from this and think oh, we have to champion any idea that push, you know, prevents amnesty, and that's our winning ticket, when we can see consistently across the country, there are other races that proves to be wrong. >> jeffrey, go ahead. >> leslie, how can you -- you are support immigration reform. your party has been stopping it for years. it's going to stop it even more. how can you live like that? >> thank you for asking me. i'm very -- what a nice question. i would say there is tremendous frustration in republican circles. republicans are not advancing

this. every major immigration rae form that's happened has been because republicans have managed to do so. there are many elements of rae form that republicans and democrats, conservative democrat, latino voters agree on, including border enforcement, including penalizing employers who are hiring undocumented workers. but is the issue of citizenship of the and once you get into those dirty details is when it all unravels. i don't think there's a lot of faith that the president's going to move and use political capital. no one's talking about the high 2 million that are deported under this presidency. so there's so much inconsistency on the right and left people are frustrated. >> how can you live with yourself. >> it's easy. i sleep well every night. this is what i call semantics and political bfrngts s. to be blunt. you have democrats that want to bring in all these new voters, and they do that by giving them amnesty. you have republicans that say

it's pointless to do anything if we're not going to secure the border because we're going to have the same issue, because people keep coming across the border. we've seen that play out in arizona with all these illegal children coming across the border without parents, and they get dropped off at a bus stop? i mean, really. hey, go wherever you want to go. we're doing it every day. so the issue is not that republicans are against having a deal. they're just not dumb enough to say, let's give amnesty without fixing the border, because we're going to be right back here in another decade with more people always coming across the border, and we didn't fix anything except make ourselves feel better about it. >> stand by. more of eric cantor coming in. let's listen. >> obviously we came up short. and there's so many people in here i want to thank. first of all, i want to thank my wife, diana -- [ applause ] >> who's --

[ applause ] who's put up with me and elected politics now for 20-some years. and in the process raised our kids, one of whom is here tonight. the other two are off working. my mother-in-law, my mother, brothers, thank -- because it all starts with family. we know that. >> whoo! >> i want to thank them. [ applause ] >> and then to all of you, so many of you who not only today spent endless hours in the heat with your undying loyalty and effort, i want to thank you for that as well. and i tell you, absolutely. [ applause ] it's not only the hundreds of volunteers here, it's also my team, both my team that have served the constituents of the

seventh district, both here in the district office, having continue to serve the seventh district constituency in washington and culpepper, but also my political team. they have put in so much extraordinary work to try and win this campaign. but have done so for the last decade or more. so i want to thank them and -- [ applause ] -- now serving as a seventh district congressman and then having the privilege to be majority leader, has been one of the highest honors of my life. and what i set out to do and what the agenda that i have always said we're about is we want to create a virginia and america that works for everybody. and we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth

our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle class families that may not have the opportunity that we have. we can also put our solutions to work -- >> eric cantor speaking earlier tonight. so russell, obviously, you know, sort of stock concession speech, but it sounded to me, and maybe i'm wrong, like i'm done with this. is he done? or can he run as a solo candidate coming up? or is it over for him? >> i think it's a shock for him and he's going to have to take some time to digest this. they were very confident at least outwardly in their chances for victory. he's a young guy in politics. he's 51 years old. if he wants to continue in politics, you know, there's a come back to be had at some point down the line. you know, it will be interesting to see, does he try, you know,

to run a write-in campaign in this election? he didn't mention that. he didn't give any indication that he was leaning that way. but certainly, i think there will be more to say in the days to come. >> virginia has a sore loser rule. he can't write anything except a write-in candidate and the two professors will probably take up the vote. it doesn't seem like a write-in possibility. >> how can you live with yourself? thank you. appreciate all of you. up next, more on the stunning upset in the primary season so far. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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immigration shaping up to the primary issue this primary season. gary, what's happening on the border right now? who's coming across? >> what we're seeing is an influx of children and mothers and babies. there are always a lot of people legally crossing the border, but what we've seen since memorial day over the past two weeks is a huge increase of teenagers

coming in by themselves and also mothers with their babies. and the reason they're telling us they're coming is, one, because of increasing violence in guatemala, honduras. very few of these children and mothers are coming from mexico. we're told it's increasing violence in the other countries. and the rule in the united states is if children or mothers of children come they don't automatically get sent back to those countries that are not contiguous to the united states. if it's not connected like mexico, you can't send them right back. they know that. and so they're coming in big numbers. >> it's estimated that what had been an average of an about 6,000 kids, now they're estimating it's going to be thousands more of children coming across because they're trying to beat that amnesty? >> thousands more. but the main reason, don, that's been out there a long time, that

it's easy to get in the country or relatively easy if you're a child or a mother with a child. but what we're being told by these mothers we're talking to is that things are getting so violent in el salvador and these central american countries they don't want their children living there. there's a good chance they can come and stay. they pay coyotes thousands of dollars to cross in to the united states. they want to take the chance to stay here for the rest of their lives. we want to get back to eric cantor trying to come to terms with this stunning defeat. and some in the gop are wondering what this means for next week's runoff in mississippi. good to see both of you gentlemen. pete, where does this lead the republican party? >> talking to me? >> yeah. i think, you know, don't read

too much into this election, other than i think every politician in washington ought to take notice of this. this is me 23 years ago. i beat a candidate in very similar circumstances. number one, i think this is a repudiation of washington. people are frustrated and totally sick of a washington that doesn't work. so republicans and democrats ought to be concerned about that. and the second message that i read into this is eric cantor probably lost touch with the people back home. tonight lindsey graham won with an overwhelming margin. he stayed in touch. eric cantor did not. >> so governor richardson, some are saying that this has everything to do with immigration. others are saying don't overplay that. you're the former governor of new mexico. where does this leave immigration reform you think? >> well, it's certainly a bad day for immigration reform.

because the majority leader, traditionally, is in charge of scheduling legislation. and if the speaker and the majority leader were saying at one point that they were ready to send some piecemeal legislation, this is, i won't say it's a death knell, but it doesn't look good for immigration reform. now it may be a victory for the tea party tonight, but i think for the republican party, long-range, even with the elections this coming fall, 2014, i think the democrats are probably going to keep the senate now, because this is going to be a terrible message to hispanic voters from the republican party. and, you know, these people that are talking about amnesty, first of all, it isn't amnesty. it takes 13 years and a path to citizenship, and you have to pass a background check, learn english. so that's policy number one. number two, there has been increased border security.

there are more border agents, more technology, i was a border governor. there is less illegal immigration coming in. and the reason some of these problems are happening in arizona with these children that are exploited by coyotes and illegal characters is because we have a broken immigration system. now in the republican party there are a lot of evangelicals, business leaders that want to see immigration reform. and i think what the tea party is doing, they're driving a huge wedge within the republican party that is going to cause them to lose seats this coming november, and i think certainly, for a presidential election in 2016, remember, this country is a moderate country. it's a middle of the road country. this was an election in rural virginia, in a district that is very conservative. >> but it was an election that involved, you know, one of the biggest leaders of the gop. and that was eric cantor, one of

the most conservative. and that's why people are paying so much attention and people have all but said the tea party was over. it's a good place when he talked about for immigration, do you think, are the republicans concerned about losing the hispanic vote for generations because of issues like this? >> i don't think so at all. i think the democrats go to bed tonight saying this is the death knell for the republicans taking back the senate. this is the repudiation of the symbol of who's in charge of washington today is harry reid. when i won in 1992, two years later we had the wave of 1994. it wasn't a repudiation of guy vander jack. it was a repudiation of washington. that is the same thing you are seeing tonight. this is a warning to republicans and democrats. get your house in order and start solving problems in washington. if you don't start solving problems in washington, we're

going to take out the leadership, and there are no two stronger symbols of leadership in washington than harry reid and president obama. >> up against the heartbreak, ten seconds, governor. >> harry reed and the president weren't on the ballot. this was a local defeat for a congressman who was moving to the center who probably lost touch with his district. >> that's going to have to be the last word. >> 1994. for you to talk about -- >> i'm up against a hard break. i appreciate both of you. thanks for joining me tonight. when we come back we're going to talk more about eric cantor's primary defeat. ♪ you walked into the hotel as a "5" but when she saw the room... you turned into a weird "7".

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