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been accepted by his band of brothers. >>nobody here from 20, right? >>yes sir. >>remember that. >>yes sir. >>what's this, 13? >>the other guys, they rip on me a lot, and they might make fun of me, but i know deep down that if they didn't like me, they probably wouldn't even talk to me whatsoever. so that just, it actually builds a lot of camaraderie, it builds a lot more trust, and i'm sure as my tenure starts to grow here, i'll be able to, to hit back a little bit too. it's a great feeling to know that, when you come to work, you're not really going to work, you're going to go hang out with a bunch of your buddies, and that's just something that i really appreciate.

>> michael: this is "the war room." i'm michael shure. coming up tonight a full slate of politics on the domestic front and a stunner internationally. venezuelan president hugo chavez has died. we'll bring you the latest. >> michael: all ice are on venezuela when for the first time the socialist country is without its combattive leader hugo chavez. he died at 58 after a two year battle with cancer. he was first elected in 1998 and followed that up with two re-elections. he relished antagonizeing the

united states. even today his government ex-pedal airexpelled u.s. air force there. what this do have is oil. let's turn to michael moynahan, who has been following chavez's rain. he joins us in boston where he is cultural news editor. welcome in the war room. >> thank you for having me. >> michael: what do you think the short term consequences of hugo chavez's death is going to be. >> well, slight chaos but venezuela has been in slight chaos for 50 years now so no change there. right now the opposition, which has been fractured and splintered since 19 8 98 is trying

to regroup and bring in chavez's hand-picked successor. right now in venezuela the status is as natural, but everyone is trying to clamor for power at the moment. >> michael: you think this chavezism or the chavezimo, as they say will continue on even though he has been ill. >> well, he has not been leader, and they've continued on the same path. basically a more boring version of hugo chavez, no charisma but same language. he's accusing the obama administration trying to prevent a coup in caracas. by the way we told you earlier

today that the empire up north is attempting a coup so it's the exact same tactic as 1998. >> michael: let's talk about what it will do with his relations with the united states. are they likely to change? >> not really. again, all we have to do is look at earlier today when he was throwing down the gauntlet saying medora was throwing down the gauntlet and saying the empire and they ridiculed obama and it basically changed nothing. the oil exports for venezuela the biggest customers are the united states. they are aware of that. they need us, so it's always this sort of outstretched hands and clenched fist in it some combination with the two but as

long as the oil flows they're fine to having an antagonistic relationship with the u.s. >> michael: that sounds about right. we're also watching how the stock market is reacting to the budget battle in washington. it remains to be seen if president obama likes what he hears. when the closing bell range the dow finished as an all-time high that should be welcome news to the white house but it has not led to a rosy employment picture. now the economy and americans are bracing for the latest cuts in government spending that was left in the mess behind by president bush and his wall street cronies. john boehner made it clear where he stands on the budget. boehner and his team stood under

a boehner that said "spending is the problem and then "#cut waists. waists--wastes. >> we have been caught in this battle of having clips and having deadlines. this is no way to run a government. until the president is serious about the serious structural spending problem that we have, we'll have to deal with it. >> michael: boehner is promoting a republican plan that would continue funding the government through september. president obama is staying out of the spotlight and calling members of congress reforming entitlement programs and cutting spending. today congressional offices received a note from the white house saying all tours will be canceled beginning on saturday. the tours are arranged by

congressional office. one hill staffer told "abc news" said the move was vindictive and designed to make congress look back. i say who says the white house isn't playing hard ball. former congresswoman gabby giffords is taking her battle for common sense reform to the airwaves. her group americans for responsible solutions, is airing new tv ads in iowa and arizona promoting the need for better background checks. here it is. >> there are solutions we can agree on, even gun owners like us. take it from me, congress must act. let's get this done. >> michael: that arizona ad asked viewers to call john mccain and jeff flake. why iowa? that's home to senator chuck grassley, and grassley is the ranking republican on the

all-important judiciary committee. there is a bit of progress to report from that committee chairman pat strike leahy said bipartisan senators will support legislation. we'll watch how robert me menendez is handleing the mess, conservative website the daily caller started this whole mess back in november when it posted this video of two women making the claims. daily caller standing by his reporting saying the posts have alleged prostitutes all mixed up. senator menendez said he's the victim of a smear campaign but his problems don't stop there. this is all connected to the senator's dealing with dr. solomon melgen.

senator me then menendez denies that he was part of the patronage. david schuster joins us from new york. hi david. >> great to be with you again. >> michael: tell us what you're learning about the menendez controversy. >> the menendez camp is overjoyed that the "washington post" put out this story suggesting that the daily caller got it completely wrong even though the daily caller is suggesting that the washington post has the wrong caller. and menendez said he was victimize and right wings are out to get him and they're hoping this will take the sting off involving the allegations allegations involving his

contributers. >> michael: although he did pay back the $58,000 right? >> yes and his contributers are still under investigation and possible federal indictments. they just conducted a raid on the guy's office a couple of weeks ago, so that's still hanging out there but menendez menendez's camp is satisfied that this moves things in their direction, even know even though me mendez is not up for re-election for a couple of years. >> michael: now, david he just won re-election. is he benefiting now this has become a story about the "w" post versus the daily caller rather than a bob menendez story is that the not really so? >> keep in mind either the "washington post" or the daily caller is going to get egg on his face. both want be right the way

they're reporting the story. as long as it's a battle of the media menendez is less distracted from his duties as chairman of the foreign relations committee. a lot of members of the senate have been reluctant to pose and photograph with menendez the last couple of weeks. some senate offices have been cool because they don't want to be linked with menendez while this is hanging over him. that may begin to change with this story of the prostitution if it is proven to be false. >> michael: would you pose in a photograph with menendez. >> i would pose with menendez, a good guy. >> michael: funding everything that they want and nothing that progressives want, we are of course shocked. plus chris christie's crush on the president takes on a very new meaning. his sandy serenade has turned into a sequester pile-on.

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>>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> michael: congress and the president are barely done wrangling over the sequester cuts and already there is another budget showdown on the horizon. that's right, on march 27th, three weeks from now congress will vote on funding the federal government to the end of the year to avoid yet another shutdown. this is how our government operates, the perpetual groundhog day grandstanding without the grand bargain. republicans made it clear where their priorities lie. they don't want to restore fund to go social programs that got axed by the sequester but they do want to fund the military. they'll move $10 billion to the pentagon to train troops,

maintain weapons and operations. from this there it would go back to the house where the republican majority will have to decide whether to accept it. and there they would go again coming out of their hole to see their shadow for six more weeks of nonsense. joining me now to dissect the nonsense steve cohen from washington, d.c. congress cohen, so great to have you back in the war room. >> it's interesting you mentioned the six weeks. we had a hearing in judiciary and i mentioned i felt like bill murray. it's groundhog's day in washington. the republicans come up with the same problem and regurgitate it over and over and over. >> michael: yes, it seems totally endless and now top house democrats caucus will vote against the republicans' short-term plan to fix this or their short-term budget bill.

will any republicans come on board? >> some democrats will get on board, mostly blue dogs, but they cut so much in promise that are important to people and our constituents, and as you said it gives the defense department money they haven't even asked for. the defense department saw the cut and the deletion of certain weapons that they want to fund. that's really government waste. they are insistent in doing it in the name of defense. it's probably going to be something that the republicans will finally pass the bill in the congress and the house with republican votes not democrat votes whether it be getting off the fiscal cliff funding the victims of hurricane sandy and the communities of hurricane sandy or democrat votes predominantly or minority of republican votes. boehner has had to do that to get them off a tenable position.

he's in a tenable situation he'll get what he wants, but i don't think the senate will play ball with him and who knows after that. >> michael: congressman, i want to ask you is there anything to the point that john boehner is winning now. the sequester happened. he was able to hold his coalition which people thought he was not going to be able to do in the house. has this been a good run for him inin a strange way. >> the republicans can't get together in an unified group. will rogers, i'm not a member of an organized party i'm a democrat. his statement would have applied more to the republicans. boehner got the sequester but not getting a vote, not bringing his troops together to get the 218. i don't know if he could get 218 on anything that is reasonable and appropriate, and the american public on social issues and fiscal issues that they don't agree with the republican party. they showed it at the ballot box

in 2012 electing president obama, and having more votes for the democrats than republicans in the house and only gerrymandering gave them the house. the republicans--they're in trouble, and boehner is in trouble, but he's keeping eric cantor at bay and having to keep his tea party folks who don't understand compromise who don't understand government, and who are the problem. i said it first on current tv two years ago. >> michael: you did indeed. do they have--before we let boehner go, do the republicans have anything to lose if they continue to governor in this way, taking the government hostage essentially. >> they know they lose on social issues. that's why they went along with the women's violence bill. but this is a place they can keep their coalition together on fiscal discipline. now fiscal discipline touches

military defense. now they're trying to gut the 47%. romney was making a speech the other night about how he didn't mean to speak about the 47%. hooey. that's the republicans. they don't care about it and their budget shows they don't care about the 27% those 47% those who knead helpneed help up, and those who need ladders of opportunity. >> michael: the president's approval rating has plummeted. he's now at 48% down from 54%. congressman, should he have acted differently throughout this whole period. >> i was trying to appeal to the american people and knew there was no way he could work with congress. when john boehner and the republicans say it's a no starter when you talk about revenue, and simpson-bowles was about revenue.

the president has always been about revenue. he agreed to 1 trillion-dollar in revenue at one time. it needs to be fair. 31 out of 33 economists, it's at a higher ratio that agree you need a combination of revenue and cuts. you need to get the economy moving, and get this country out of the recession and you grow out of it. it's the republicans who don't agree with that. i don't think the president saw there was any way in working with boehner and getting a compromise. i'm sure the sequester has hurt him but it has hurt the republicans more because they have less room to give up because they're bordering on single digits. >> michael: his hands were tied. the president went to the people because he could not get it done in congress. today you issued a statement about former dea chiefs who are calling on president to nullify state laws. you said it's arrogant that these former dea chiefs

encourage the president to full my state marijuana laws. the fact that these former dea chiefs are so focused on marijuana possession is why we have lost the war on drugs. congressman, if we lost the war on drugs what should federal policy be going forward? >> where states have legalized we ought to see how it works. how does possession, legalization work and what happens. then the other states can learn from it. you shouldn't nullify the people's voice. the people are the ultimate powers. when you have a referendum, i think it's wrong for these former dea heads to not realize that they were fighting a losing war. it's against crack heroin and cocaine, not marijuana. we spent too much time and money on marijuana, ruined too many lives who can't get jobs, couldn't get scholarships, federal housing and have a big

red "m" on their chest for smokerring marijuana. that's not what america is about. those people were out of touch when they were head of the dea. they're out of touch today. they need to come to the 21st century. the laboratories of democracy should be maintain. the laboratories of methamphetamine should be destroyed. >> michael: well put congressman cohen. clearly the people of your district are well represented. we thank you for coming to "the war room." two g.o.p. outsidessers cock back in line. much like unicorns and light beer, moderate republicans are just figments of our imagination. we'll be right back.

>> michael: you're back inside "the war room"." i'm michael shure. it was nice while it lasted. do you remember when governor chris christie was singing the responses of president obama's to hurricane sandy?

check out yesterday. >> real leadership would get in fixed. you get in a room and you fix it, and you don't let them leave until you fix it. that's what real leadership is, not calling a meet two hours before it's going to hit have a photo-op in the driveway of the white house. >> michael: it appears that the blooming relationship between the garden state governor and the president were over. the terse words may get him back in the good old boys conservative club where he has been non grata. will lambasting the president bring him back in the fold? only time and the rush limbaugh's of the world will tell. here to discuss this with me is northeastern political writer karla marinucci is this

christie being christie or is he changing his stripes a little. >> it's christie being christie. he cut the approval rating. he's doing something that the right wing and left wing don't like so the bromance may be over but the love for chris christie in new jersey is not over. >> michael: christie slammed the federal government. if he wants to be president he has to embrace the federal government a little bit. i love histoney soprano style keep them in a room, if that doesn't work, i don't know with a does. christie was out here and got the red carpet rolled out for him at facebook. he is a social media giant as we know. he is a guy who has a message

that in many ways is appealing to the kind of republicans future. they're going to vote in the next election. >> michael: i'll ask you he has that message but it doesn't appeal to enough republicans to get him the nomination because getting out of that primary we're talking about 2016 now but getting out of that primary is hard. >> this is the problem for republicans right now. they're not looking ahead. the cpac, look who is on the list donald trump, sarah palin. >> rick santorum, pick a winner. learn how to do it right. >> michael: that's exactly right. well, it's clear who was trying to take up the right mantle. jeb bush released a book. let's listen to the former governor of florida. >> i was supported both, both the path legalization or path to citizenship with the under lie principle being there should be no incentive for people to come illegally at the expense of coming legally.

>> michael: all right, he seems to be setting himself up donnie, i was for it before i was against it situation here. tell me about the marco rubio here with jeb bush on immigration. >> i don't think there is a marco rubio playbook. if jeb bush is running for president, he may be running from marco rubio. he spoke too soon. he thought the republican party would be behind where he was let's allow the illegals to stay here. now they've leapfrogged him and saying let's make them citizens. he now becomes the guy who was out in front saying, o shoot i said the same thing. >> michael: is there anything to the theory that jeb bush didn't going to run. he wants to see marco rubio succeed, so he goes to the right of rubio. >> jeb bush doesn't seem to know where he's the at. he said last year my time has passed. that was the moment.

i could have run then. now it's maybe i'll think about it for the next time. >> he's hoping that america will forget that his brother george bush was president. >> michael: you know who has not forgotten cpac. you're talking about all the clowns going to cpac, jeb bush is going to cpac, and that's a problem. >> daddy bush. >> michael: i think it was poppy bush. >> only went to cpac once. so did brother it's not like the bush versus any lovefest going on with cpac. >> why is that? >> because they're too liberal for cpac. >> michael: that's amazing. donnie, when you look at bush, you look at rubio let's just have some fun here. if they run against each other in 2016, tell me about florida. >> well, it's who is in control

of the butterfly ballot. i can't imagine that both of those men will run against each other. there is a generational difference and maybe even a temperamental difference. i can't imagine they'll run against each other. jeb bush has always been a promoter of marco rubio to begin with. >> michael: that's why he's wonder. >> well, governor, you endorsed me before you ran against me. >> michael: another flip flop. before we let you go, we'll stay on cpac, bob mcdonald governor of virginia. >> he worked with democrats to repair the roads in virginia, that gets you kicked off the cpac official, but then necessary he's in an unofficial event with rob reed. he was the transadvantagal transvaginal

ultrasound governor. >> michael: that makes sense. that's exactly right. donnie fowler and karla marinucci. thank you for being her. up next, calling for plans for gun reform that is pretty straightforward. say the right thing buy some time and wait for the media to move on and then forget about the whole damn thing. it's working pretty well. we'll get to that after the break. now, luxury stuff. make your seats like that. that thing has wifi, why doesn't your car? you can't do that. ignore that guy. give it wifi. yes! make it fit 5 people. no, 5 actual sized people. give them leg room, good. destroy boring car interiors forever. and that's how you do it. easy. ♪ ♪

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>> michael: the nra leadership looked a lot like the republican party, old and white. but now the gun group is making something that the republicans haven't, a concerted effort to reach minorities. the face of those efforts is a young handsome african-american and self-described gun enthuses. he uses african history to make

his case for more guns on the streets. >> no one wants to fight for their protection. they want the government to do it. the same government who attacked us with dogs and wouldn't let us eat at their restaurants and would not help us when we had bumbling fools with sheets on their heads and they were murdering. >> michael: this is just one more way for the gun industry to lure in more customers. for years gun manufacturers have pushed saturday night specials in low income communities. their low-quality handguns that are cheap, easy to conceal and likely to misfire. back in 2003 the naacp sued gun manufacturers for targeting minority communities with these guns and now they're banned in eight states. luis gutierrez introduced a federal ban. >> when we regulate standards for cars, cribs and a whole host of products to make sure

they're safe for public consumption how does it make sense that we do not have basic safety standards for dangerous handguns made right here in america. >> michael: it's a very compelling argument, but given where the gun conservative is conversation is going in washington, no why nowhere fast, it's clear this will get no traction other. coming from los angeles, well inside "the war room." >> thank you very much. >> michael: earl i want to ask you what do you think about the arguments, that african-americans need to arm themselves because of race relations in this country. >> very little. this is the same country that gave us eric holder, president obama, the, so when you look at it from historical standpoint, yeah you can make that argument about repression and how the

government was used in many ways against african-americans again, a historical argument. the reality is quite different. the fact of the matter is last time i looked most of the gun violence in america is in urban communities, and those that are victims of gun violence are not being gunned down by government officials, government agencies or those in uniform. they're gunned down by youth that look like them. >> michael: yeah that's--you know, it's so easy to see that when you look at the statistics and it's so easy to hear that and then wonder what would motivate someone to do something like this. why then on the other side? why are they not making this play for minorities on the nra side? >> two reasons number one politics. every time you talk about the national rifle association you cannot dissociate everything that the nra does. they've been marvelously successful in terms of building

friends, allies, congress and state legislatures and torpedo torpedoing every kind of meaningful responsible gun control measure that has come down the pike. that's number one. the second thing, image. let's face is, the nra have been battered. they've taken a lot of heat. we know about the massacres and the urban violence. every step of the way the nra are back peddling, they have an image problem. why not reach out to a younger more diverse--those are their words----african-americans, latinos, asian, that is window dressing on an organization that has a focused laser-like political agenda. >> michael: yes, one of the producers in the office today wondered whether or not the nra could succeed in reaching minorities in the way that the republican party has failed in

doing so. is there an irony in that? >> one of the things coming out of the 2012 presidential elections that we heard from the g.o.p.--i say heard--a lot of talk, again a lot of talk, we've got to reach out. we've got to broaden, we have got to be more diverse. we've got to reach out to latinos, african-americans, gay so forth. now the nra an extension of the g.o.p. in terms of their political alliance and allegiance essentially they're picking up on that theme. plus with the added thing that the nra once again they're under attack. there may be the possibility, i know that congress person gutierrez has introduced a new bill among many others that have been introduced in congress, there is a possibility given the extreme numbers of folk in this country the percentages are very high that

really do want to see some kind of meaningful gun control measure. there is a possibility that nra just may suffer their first back eye, defeat. >> michael: defeat of the n ra is something that we're hoping for. let's go back to what you said before about gun violence among minorities. gun homicide is the leading cause of death for young blacks 15 to 30, and blackmails are 15 more times more likely to be killed with a firearm than a white male. when you hear these numbers do you think the nra will get the support of the black community. >> those numbers equal war-torn countries. if we were in the middle east, i mean that would be political

headlines. the fact of the matter this happens day in day out. week in week out los angeles new york chicago detroit you name it. with the nra, we have to ask ourselves this question. if they're really ensear, this is a key question that the nra really has to ask themselves, too, if they're really sincere why now? why didn't you do this big outreach campaign to minorities? why didn't do it six months ago one year ago two years ago why now? politics politics, image, image. >> michael: yes, i have to say it does seem it's all about the image. that's probably and hopefully what is going to hurt them in the end. earl hutchins, thank you for coming in. to compare it to a war-torn nation, sometimes i feel like we live in one. since the 81st day since sandy

hook 2474 have died from gun violence. that's more than 95 newtowns since newtown and not a shred of gun safety legislation has been passed.

>> michael: welcome back to the war room. here's something that you may not know. the tension is a multi billion dollar industry, and immigrant detention, the government spends money to house illegal immigrants in facilities. the conditions in these places are often inhumane. prisoners can wait months for medical care, little sunlight or fresh air and denied family visits. a company called corrections corporation of america which now

has 66 locations but cca started small. i want to you check out this video in which cofounder waxes nostalgia on their first contra-tohouseillegal immigrants in a motel. >> we saw this sign, olympic motel. we opened the facility on super bowl sunday in january and so about 10:00 that night we started receiving inmates and i actually took their picture fingerprinted them, and gave vick and several other people, walked them to their rooms if you will, and we got our first day's pay for 87 undocumented aliens. >> michael: what a heart-warming

tale of pulling yourself up by other people's bootstraps. the chuckling fellow on the left is former chairman of the tennessee republican party. it's a boom due to successful lobbying of state and local lawmakers by people like him. the private prisons and politicians who benefits about it we talk about immigration reform could impact this industry. welcome back to the war room. it's great to have you here. what's at stake. let's talk about the industry itself with immigration reform. this seems like this is an industry that could take a hit. >> if this is an industry that as you saw in that video was born out of detaining immigrants, and that's still a major part of house they collect their revenue. if the 11 undocumented immigrants in america are put on a path to citizenship that simply put that means less companies for companies like cca. on the other hand if right wing

legislators are successful in enforcing mechanisms that criminalize these undocumented immigrants, that means a boon to the industry. >> michael: everything comes back to money, even immigration here. the money that we focus on are the jobs and the wages and whose going to do the work here. but when you think of it in this way, and you think of who is in the back of these private prison owners, it's clear about getting money to them. >> the private prison industry is very good at jumping on right wing political trends. they hopped. on in the 80s and on to the politics of terrorism. in 2005 really harnessed the immigration debate to boost their own industry. >> michael: are there policies still in place to allow these prison to flourish in america?

>> in 2005 president bush took actions to basically consider every immigrant coming from the southern border a felon putting them in the bureau prison system. that put hundreds of thousands of people in prisons giving them jail sentence 6 to 20 years penalties for the second re-entry, and this has gone in affect and still is in effect during the obama administration. the gang of legislators crafting the immigration overhaul would like to turn these policies into statute, and fact expanding them to ports and other areas. >> michael: tell me a little bit more about operation streamline. how did it start? >> well, in 2005 president bush was trying to basically placate his right-wing base as he pushed congress to to enact his own version of reform.

he said certain zones on the southwestern and southern border, anyone who crosses there would be considered as a felon and put in prison. this program has been expanded, and obama is continue to go enforce it. but it's an administrative action. it's not statute. we could see immigration reform law this year that makes it into law. >> michael: which is amazing. that's exactly what these people are trying to work on. marco rubio and jeb bush both have been talking about immigration lately. let's listen to the florida senator marco rubio. take a listen what he had to say about it. >> we're outlining what we're for. what we're for is straightforward. we're for legal immigration and enforcing our laws and having a system of laws that are enforced. we're a sovereign country with a right to enforce it's laws. >> michael: what was your you

thought about his use of enforce, enforce enforce. is he in bed with any of these people? >> marco rubio is interesting. when he was in the state limationture he oversaw a huge expansion of private prisons in florida. many financial ties. one of the things that reporters for my story for the nation was looking at some of these financial disclosures and showing that marco rubio's chief of staff whose reportedly the person who has--the architect of rubio's positioning on reform, he still has--he's still he receiving financial payments from a lobbying firm that the main lobbying firm for the group. >> michael: that's amazing. >> which is probably another story in and of itself. >> michael: you have to write that one now too. it's a whole tale. >> yes, the whole problem of congressional staffers maintaining financial ties to outside special interest groups,

but in this case with private prisons they could win or lose, so to speak hundreds of millions of dollars. this conflict is particularly important. >> michael: what happens to them if they lose? what happens if immigration reform happens. >> if you're an investor you probably should pull out your money. >> michael: i'm not, thank you so much. it's a really interesting story and one that we don't hear too much about especially during the time of immigration reform. we appreciate it. we'll be back with brett erlich. he hits the jackpot in his search for the worst politician in america. >> coming up, bikes prostitutes, and justin bieber. don't go away.

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>> michael: politics has a little something for everyone, though when it comes to the absolutely absurd there is no one more qualified to soak it up than our own brett erlich. everyone, just calm down. brett's call now. >> life's a game and sometimes you with wish you were the coach that have game so you could look the idiots of idiot in the eye of those playing bad sit them down on the bench and say you're done. iowa state university ted gas man. you're done talking about your granddaughter's sexual behavior. in a statement about her parent's divorce you said there is a 16-year-old girl in this whole mix now. guess what? what are the possibilities of her being promiscuous. what are the moss possibilities of all these other things that a 16-year-old girl with hormones