again, i just came up short and the voters elected another candidate. >> what's your next move? what do you think you'll be doing after you leave congress? >> that is probably between my wife and me. i will be looking to see how i can best serve, how i can be a part of what we've been about here with the agenda called an america that works. remember what its premise on. the notion that the conservative solution, personal responsibility, limited government, more liberty, can produce the results and solve so many of the problems that the american people have been facing in an obama economy under the obama administration. so thank you all very much.

>> more now on the primary defeat of house majority leader eric cantor and some of the other issues that were front and center on capitol hill past week. from "washington journal." id

>> i wanten to direct the answer to -- george h. w. bush making his way to the persian golf. can you explain? >> no question about it, whens. you look at ukraine, syria, afghanistan, they're just lot of foreign policy complications for the president that don't have any solutions. you keep hearing that up. see a political debate over and over again. the democrats in the middle of l this midterm run and the president again having to deal with something that doesn't havt a clear solution. the other complicating fact is a distrust. this is one the key factor the.i i read the "new york times" story about many of the people who fled and decided to go back. because they felt like the isis

group in there that was better and the marine. you realize, you have a very complicated situation here and what does the president do? does he back the mosulelf government and someone align themselves with iran. when you have that as your issue, you're the president, yov sit there in the white house, you think what do you do hereint up. saw john mccain say there aren't really good options but then blame the president in 2011 for leaving. >> senator mccain comments onho the floor, saying it's time for the president to completely change his national security leadership team. >> i think there's going to be a lot of criticism over what the obama administration has doner h going forward here. this is a chance for people who said very clearly at that pointw

you need to have an agreement with the government of iraq to have a deal. to be able to keep people there, have some additional security, president of iraq was not ready at this point, you have to a very serious question about what you do now.t it's all fine so say that we don't like what's going on but to advance another option, comes with its own set of risks and problems. quite frankly, the american family are not happy. the american people are sick and tired of being in protracted conflicts. we see poll and poll that say they don't want forces on ground.ho >> the otherst issue is eric

cantor losing in the seventh district. the big question is immigration. here is what the current housewt republican leader had to say as he was announcing he was stepping down at the end of a july.ace >> my position on immigration has not changed. it didn't change from before the election during the election or the way it is today. i have always said the system is broken and it needs reformed.poi i think it is much moreoken desirable and doable if we did it one step at a time. working towards where we have common ground. i don't believe in this my way or the highway approach that the president laid out. i will continue to take that the position.ha i said there's common ground at the border. there's common ground. i like to see the issue addressed about the those who didn't break any laws and come here unbeknownst to them.

i said there should be and is common ground if we allow t ourselves to work together. >> derek wallbank, what's that congressman cantor said. >> the sad reality, if you're looking to see immigrationty o reform pass, the time crunch that s we have now is very acut. congress will be off all of august. they will bess campaigning for l of october.au it leaves very little time to get something done. immigration was not looking very good to happen anyways. withhi cantor going, it has fron a lot of republicans on the topic. democrats say, still, if you bring immigration forward, it would probably pass. that hasn't been something congressional republicans willing to do before. what we are hearing from republicans, this is thetima ultimate wait and see message. w

>> i have one leadership aid tell me, the night when cantor went down, immigration was deadt it wasn't going to happen. g the president was sort of waiting to see -- i think there's more pressure from advocacy groups for the president to do something. some kind ofid executive action. we'll see what happens with the d.h.s. review. potential 20 16 candidates, including senator rand paul from kentucky. again he went after the clintons, calling bill clinton on this network a sexual predator. in his remarks yesterday he had this to say about hillary clinton. [video clip] >> i got her in front of my committee on the way out, finally, and i told her look, if i had been president i would

have asked for your resignation. [applause] i asked her a question. i asked her -- did you read the cables from the ambassador? she never read them. it is a dereliction of duty and something that should preclude her from ever being considered as commander-in-chief. guest: there is a reason republicans have been going after every clinton since after she was elected, democrats don't have a bench. she is really the only one who seems to have the strongest chance of beating the republican field or the presidency in 2016 and if the republicans take back the senate, they need a republican president to get something done so that you do not have a lame-duck mitch mcconnell majority leader just before the democratic president winds up coming in.

yesterday hillary clinton was in a costco, hundreds of people signing up for her book. this is the story this morning from inside "the washington post." congressman john lewis greeted her as well. guest: this comes down to i should have renewed my costco membership. she has a popularity that i think a lot of people would kill for, frankly, in this really in theed by met. 52% bloomberg poll, down from where she has been previously, but the president, if you look at his surveys, somewhere in the low 40's. that makes hillary clinton very, very, very appealing. if you see her matched up against possible 2016 republican candidates, she wins in most of not all of the key states. really ahat that is key part of the attack clinton

now, try to soft and that image a little bit, soften that popularity a little bit, because if you go in with her that far ahead into the actual fight after these midterm elections, it is going to be a lot harder. one comment that she made, that they left the white house dead broke. "i was dead broke." that will be $200,000, please." she did get a book advance. guest: this rollout has not been without some problems. when you look at just the houses issue, this is someone who has had secret service protection for 22 years. relate ability factor will always be the thing that most americans will look at. whether or not you are like me. john mccain had to deal with this tom a with how many houses

he had or did not know how many he had. min romney was the same, with having to sell off his houses. he did not have the john mccain issue. on gay marriage you saw a little bit of the -- not so much a policy problem but that prickliness that sometimes when the clintons are pushed you see that style issue and that is some of what potentially could drag down some of those popularity ratings, but right now far and away she beats the republican field and democratic field by a lot. host: the analogy to the disney film "frozen." when will hillary "let it go"? i think on substance, most in the gay community will sit there and look and say, ok, she may have, like a lot of democrats, this position where she was pro-civil union because

it was politically palatable. then she decided to change her mind as the culture and the country has changed. herhe does decide to run, position will be a stark contrast from whoever the republican nominee is. guest: the headline is really appropriate. this is somebody who is most who'sable -- somebody most vulnerable moment was also her strongest moment in the last campaign -- somebody whose most vulnerable moment was also her strongest moment in the last campaign. she is sitting around the table and she breaks a little bit. it was a really humanizing moment for hillary clinton. in that song, "let the storms rage on, the cold never bothered me anyway." there were people who were advising her to please break out, please show your personality, please show you are

human. the country will be fine. part of her problem last time was that she was very guarded. there were a lot of people trying to protect her. let's be fair. she has lived in the sort of security bubble for a while. since she has come out, it is a lot of people telling her how great she is. political campaign, not everyone is going to tell you how great you are. they are going to hit you in the nose. it is what you do next that is important. host: when will hillary let it go? in the frozen kingdoms of two polarizing queens. we appreciate you both being with us. andill get to your calls comments in just a moment. another issue getting a lot of attention. in just over a week, the runoff will be taking place in mississippi between chris mcdaniel and thad cochran. we want to get your reaction to

the latest round of ads from that race. >> this is trent lott. over the years, we had to fight for funds and contracts and to maintain programs -- on june 24, we have a critical election about our future. without thad cochran, we could lose some of these important facilities. ins is really about jobs south mississippi and security of our country. senator cochran has the experience and the power to protect the gulf coast. >> i'm thad cochran and i approve this message. >> domenico montanaro, this is in stark contrast to the tea party that said government is too big. you have a veteran republican running for reelection. duringlection was 1978 the carter administration. >> i think this will be a key election to see whether or not that kind of message -- whether you can bring home the bacon -- can still resonate, especially

in a state like mississippi where they rely on a lot of government funding. i talked to haley barbour right after cochran fell behind and wound up going into that runoff. he says we need to remind people that even democrats in the state who can vote, because it is an open primary, that chris mcdaniel, the tea party opponent, is against federal funding for education. the problem for them is, is the republican base, is the republican party at that point right now where they can make this message? , thereama, common core was an article written up about how that is what has been firing up the base there. in virginia --aw those two issues. is this going to be an election where a candidate says i bring home federal funds, you want me to be there -- that's going to be a key question. also whether or not thad cochran