congressional district. and miss usa is going to be here tomorrow. i learned that. >> well, baby! >> i learned that. >> though i was here today and i don't usually like to be here two days in a row, i will hereby tomorrow. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." chuck todd is next. >> a new brat pack. the perfect storm and timing knocks out eric cantor. the surprise winner, first-time politician dave brat will face me in a minute. the shock waves extend far beyond washington. immigration reform is probably dead for the remainder of the obama presidency. and why is jeb bush potentially feeling some heat this morning? plus, remember that infamous 3:00 a.m. ad? what does hillary clinton say now keeps her up at night.

what you haven't heard from her interview with cynthia mcfadden. this is "the daily rundown," your 2014 election headquarters. after another school shooting, president obama lashes out about guns in america. my first read of the morning, in one of the most stunning electoral upsets in history, eric cantor, who helped boost tea party candidates in 2010 lost his primary tuesday to someone backed locally by tea party folks, an economics professor named dave brat, and he lost by double digits. >> obviously we came up short. i know there's lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure, but i believe in this country, i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. >> the reason we won this campaign, there's just one reason and that's because

dollars do not vote. you do. the miracle that just happened, this is a miracle from god that just happened. >> it was a history-making shock are, including cantor. there have been 24 house majority leaders since the position was created in 1899 and cantor is the first one to ever lose his job in a primary. cantor's team was clearly caught a bit unprepared. they released an internal poll late last month that claimed he was 34 points ahead. he spent tuesday in washington, d.c., not 90 miles away in his actual district. he was attend being house gop leadership meetings in the morning, voting in the afternoon, speaking on the floor in the veterans bill. cantor outraised brat by more than 26-1. cantor's campaign spent more at steak houses than brat spent on his entire campaign, but brat, who teaches third world economics and randolph macon

issue successfully ran a one-issue campaign and this campaign was all about immigration. >> tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are pouring across the border on the promise of eric cantor's amnesty. >> now he's working behind the scene to push through amnesty. he's another power hungry washington insider. 14 years in washington is too many. >> three things came together in what you could call a perfect storm to pull out brat's victory offer cantor. nuch number one, virginia is notorio notoriously not known for primaries winning campaigns. number two, immigration has been the go-to issue in republican primaries. mark murray has dubbed it the "a bomb," accusing each other of amnesty.

cantor's dream-like support to create a pathway for children brought to the united states illegally gave brat some credibility for his attacks and then throw in the current crisis on the border. tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors entering the u.s. illegally gave urgency to brat's message in the campaign's closing days. cantor's response to the attacks with a bit ham-handed, boasting he killed legislation to give illegal aliens a free ride. and the anti-cantor campaign caught fire in the radio wing of the campaign, particularly with laura ingram. >> maybe instead of getting imagine bergdahl out, instead of sending five taliban mvps over there, we could have sent one eric cantor.

>> he has been pushing amnesty yet he has the impertinence to tell his constituents that he's standing up to obama. he's lying through his teeth. >> this is the ultimate establishment gop against the tea party candidate. if eric cantor gets in and is re-elected, we are going to have amnesty. do you believe that? >> i don't believe it. i know it as a fact. >> national tea party groups who spent no money opposing cantor had nothing to do with this victory. it was truly driven by grass roots, by talk radio and spurred on by angst at the local level. what does this mean, though, nationally? number one, immigration reform dead and it's probably dead for the rest of the obama presidency. even if plenty of national republicans wish that wasn't the case, want to point to lindsey graham, republicans will not touch it. chuck schumer tried to argue all

is well, remain calm saying that the election shows the republican has two paths that it can take on immigration, the grand path of showing leadership and solving a problem in a mainstream way which leads to victory or the cantor path of trying to play both sides, which is a path to defeat. graham won his primary with more than 64% of the vote and avoided a runoff. but protesters erunned after his acceptance speech. >> what do we want? >> cantor's defeat won't just stop house gop leaders from touching on immigration. jeb bush sees how powerful of an issue this is in a republican

primary. is he ready for that fight? and it leaves a vacuum in the gop leadership. boehner called cantor a good friend and good leader and someone i've come to rely on on a daily bases as we make tough choices in government. boehner, in the minds of many, was supposedly thinking about leaving the speaker's job at some point, perhaps in 2015. cantor was widely seen as the next in line. now will there be a huge amount of pressure for bone e boehner resign? as for eric cantor's political future, cantor's name cannot be on the ballot, cannot be an independent. some are saying it doesn't prevent a write-in bid but given how democrats have a candidate by the name of jack trammell, do

they really want to do write-in bid? so randolph macon college is where the home of this virginia campaign will be in september. what does eric cantor's defeat mean for leadership of the gop? we bring in bill crystal. we're all very rarely shocked by actual losses. as you and i were discussing, none of us would have been surprised if cantor won only by single digits but losing, shocking. >> i spoke to a lot of people last night and they were excited and energized, especially if they were on the populous side. and especially people like me who like and respect eric cantor. >> i'm stunned at the people who are glad he's gone, even supposely people who liked and feared him. is he not well liked? >> i think he was liked. i think there was a sense he

wasn't doing much, was playing is safe and people who want a more aggressive, more populous agenda. he was an example or exemplar, whatever the word is -- it was an economic attack. >> by an economics professor. >> by an economics professor, who knows how to make those arguments. i talked to eric cantor, i was on "morning joe "and apparently eric cantor watches morning joe and he didn't like something i said, which is i didn't think the leadership was being aggressive enough. he called and detailed all the things they were doing. i said you're not really fighting, take on the insurance companies, take on the big banks, exempt the smaller banks

from sallie mae. >> you're saying you want an elizabeth warren on the conservative side. >> parts of it sound like elizabeth warren. i got a call last night saying they thought eric cantor not as the congressman from their district but as the congressman from wall street. that might not be fair but it was the perception. even the conservative establishment didn't come in for him. it's hear the people rule. >> every once in a while elections and campaigns matter. let's go through the vacuum in the house in republican leadership. boehner -- i heard boehner will not even run for reelection as

speaker. that i don't buy. does boehner end up staying longer now that he wanted to? >> i think he'll stay, especially if republicans win the senate, which i think they will. this will be good for the republican party. this increases the chance of a wave election in november, the energy it produces will be strong and the candidates are a good field of candidates. i think this is a good day for the republicans. if republicans win the majority in the senate, it hard to believe boehner doesn't -- with a republican majority. i think a very well respected conservative from texas -- there's a group of very influential conservatives in the house, paul ryan, who will become chairman of ways and means, tom price, who will become chairman of the budget committee, economic conservative, tea party friend lifriendly but also can work the system. >> those are the new young gun, right? >> it's interesting, you didn't

mention kevin mccarthy. he doesn't move up, does he? >> no. everybody likes him and he's a good whip but -- >> he's not frank underwood. is that what you're saying? so if boehner leaves, who is the next person to become speaker? >> i think the energy comes from the tea party, from the populous side. the trick is turning populous protest into a forward looking, reformed, conservative agenda. that's what the leadership will have to do in 2015 and what a presidential candidate will have to do in 2016. >> immigration basically killed mccain's campaign once in '07. he resurrected it because there was nobody to pick up the pieces in '08. it is the real reason perry lost the initial momentum. we see it here in cantor. what happens in 2016 with this issue? >> i think the republicans say

no chuck schumer gang of eight. i love that clip you had -- >> remain calm. >> i was with ted cruz who had a case to make he's not against legal immigration, and he's not against reforming the system but no compromise with big government, democratic types of immigration reform. it's tricky. the candidates will have to articulate on immigration but on a bench of issues, tax reform, what to replace obamacare with, a populous inclined but serious government agenda in 2016. that is the trick. >> this is tough for him, isn't if. >> i think a lot of people will have to move in that direction. not only cruz but marco rubio. the clifford case was a four-term senator in new jersey. bell ran as a supply sider, no one heard of it. >> precursor to reagan. >> reagan took that up.

>> jeff bell never was a u.s. senator. >> but i think brat will win in this district in november. i think the key is will someone be imaginative enough to turn populous discontent into a serious, aggressive, populous reform agenda to run on. >> bill kristol, we're going to be talking about so many other things today but this is a wow. still ahead, i'll have the winner of that primary. dave brat joins me right after the break. and we'll talk to former governor george allen. i had him here to talk about virginia's quirky one-and-done rule, since it is the subject of our quirky things of what's going on in virginia. defense secretary chuck hagel testifies on the bergdahl prisoner swap. and secretary japanese testifies before the senate on what's going on on the border. chuck hagel, a lot of pressure

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back now with more on eric cantor's defeat. i'm here now with the man who defeated him. professor brat, good morning to you. congratulations. >> thank you so much, chuck. appreciate it. >> do you believe your victory is all the immigration issue? do you say -- if people say, well, you won this on immigration, you would say yes or you would say, well, it's more than that? >> no, i think it's more than that. i've been trying to get it through to my local press. i give a stump speech that goes about 20 minutes, and immigration is a part of that

aspect but i ran on the fiscal issues and the republican creed, which starts off with the main thing i'm interested in and that's a commitment to free markets. so then i went through them yesterday in the speech in brief, but the six planks in the republican creed are commitment to free markets, equal treatment of. >> -- of everyone under the law, fiscal responsibility, adherence to the constitution, and a strong defense and faith in god and strong moral character. that's what i ran on. amnesty at the end of a clear differentiator between myself and eric cantor. so it fits into the whole narrative and it also fits into the narrative that eric has not been present in the district and he was out of touch in supporting the chamber agenda on that one. i was door knocking. i know what's on the mind of the folks. >> would you call yourself an

anti-wall street republican? >> i'm not anti-wall street, i'm anti-distortions to free markets. anything that distorts the free market i'm against. so when wall street goes astray, which they often do, i'm completely professional business but adam smith, the founder of premarket economics, when two or three business men get together, look out because collusion is right around the corners. until our founders were smart enough to know that. i'm not anti, but james madison knew that when we want, a lot of competing factions, many people competing against each other so that no one becomes a monopoly and has power. right now we have too many many princes up there in d.c. we need more competition, not less. >> let me ask you a few other issue questions. where are you on the minimum wage? do you believe in it and would you raise it? >> minimum wage, no, i'm a free market guy.

our labor markets right now are already distorted from too many regulations. i think cato estimates there's $2 trillion of regulatory problems and then throw obamacare on top of that, the work hours is 30 hours a week. you can only hire 50 people. there's just distortion after distortion after distortion and we wonder why our labor markets are broken. >> so should there be a minimum wage in your opinion? >> say it again. >> should there be a minimum wage in your opinion? >> um, i don't have a well-crafted response on that one. all i know is if you take the long-run graph over 200 years of the wage rate, it cannot differ from your nation's productivity. right? so you can't make up wage rates. i would love for. >> in sub a -- sub saharan

africa -- you cannot artificially make up wage rates. >> assuming you do get elected to congress in november, there's a big vote with europe and asia. are you open to big free trade agreements or not? >> yeah, i'm a free trader. i mean, after world war ii, the free trade gaat association brought free trade down and that's been good for european trade with us.

we set up our arch enemies, japan and germany after the war and it enriched all of us. i have a view that respects the rule of law. we have to move forward on that as well. >> on a foreign policy issue, arming the syrian rebels. would you be in favor of that? >> hey, chuck, i thought we were just going to chat today about the celebratory aspects. i'd love to go through all of this but my mind is -- i love all the policy questions but i just wanted to talk about the victory ahead and i wanted to thank everybody that worked so hard on my campaign. i'm happy to take policy issues at any time, i just wanted to call out a thanks to everybody today. >> i understand that. quickly on something on national security. do you consider yourself an interventionist or an isolationist?

>> i think the press is in the habit of doing juxtapositions like that that don't capture reality well. i'm a ph.d in economics and so you analyze everybody situation uniquely because every international situation is unique. so i don't have a pattern that fits every single incidence, but i think it's absolutely necessary that the u.s. does project its power abroad. i think our defense department is bigger than the next ten combined. without that i think would you have chaos without our commitment to rights abroad and keeping the peace. but that does not mean that we should not ask some of the european countries to pay part of the bill now. they've all become rich and developed and so it's time to share the burden. >> all right. mr. brat, i will let you go. i know you're coach of your debate team there at randolph macon, so i figured you wouldn't

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lame duck just after being sworn in. there's one of a kind law that bars state governors from serving two consecutive terms, meaning mccullough has potentially one shot to get things done. to some people, it's a flaw that keeps the stay from running efficiently but to others it political genius that helps promote balance between the governor and the legislature and keeps the state government open to new blood. many who have held the office are split over whether it's a good idea. ex-governor george allen was fine with leaving the law alone. plenty of other states have tried this brand of term limits over the years. in the 60s more than a dozen states barred governors from

serving successive terms, including pennsylvania and indiana. but over the last years, virginia has been the on one. they've tried dozens of time to pass an amendment to change the law. it's a process that takes years. that hasn't stopped some from trying. the latest attempt got started in the senate just last year. >> it only makes sense to our office if you have long-term challenges confronting the commonwealth of virginia, and certainly we do, we have the continuity of messageship that will do. >> it makes you wonder, maybe it does work.

with me now former republican senator george allen. we're going to talk about this one-term limit. you're somebody of the modern era, one of the few that wants to keep it around but your initial reaction, eric cantor, how did this happen? you went into the primary process in 2012, you ran for the u.s. senate, lost in the general but you dealt with tea party challenges and beat them back rather handily. when you look at what happened to eric cantor, what do you think? >> we had broad-based support from various people. there were obviously some that weren't with us. the key in this is it was obviously surprising to everyone, stunning, shocking, whatever terms you want to use. >> pick your adjective. >> i think this is sending a message to washington, people don't like the status quo. they think washington is out of touch with them. eric cantor is a long-time

friend. >> and he built a political machine. >> he has a machine. he also has responsibilities as a republican leader. some of that takes you a lot of time outside of your district and it's still very important if you can to spend as much time listening to people, looking them eye to eye, hearing their views and just from the comments on my facebook page, this amnesty issue was a big one. the negative comments about eric were overwhelmingly on this amnesty issue and republicans blea believe in the rule of law and that you should not -- >> everything is being called amnesty now. isn't that part of the difficulty for republicans to find this thread, this line to walk? >> here's what's got to be done and this needed to be done even before now and that is secure the borders. that's what they expect the federal government to do. >> the borders seem secure. deportations are up. >> the border is still not secure. we still have people coming into our country illegally or

overstaying visas and so forth. i do think that legal immigration is a good idea. my mother's an immigrant. i think our country has historically been built and improved by legal immigration and will be in the future and there's good ideas as far as attracting the best and brightest of the world. we need to be a magnet for the best minds in the world. those kind of ideas i think on an individual basis can get passed. if you reward illegal behavior, that's where you get a lot of people, not just republicans but democrats and independence as well. >> sometimes the threat of reelection is a tool to govern sometimes. a virginia governor doesn't have that, the threat of political power. it becomes all about this persuasion and the veto pen. it's not an easy task, is it not? >> it gets you focused on your job.

>> when you take your reelection away? >> right. i've seen governors who run for reelection. first year they get going, the second year they do something, third year they're gearing up for reelection, fourth year is all pure politics. we were started at a full gallop and by the end i was like a candle burnt out to the end but keeping the promises we made to virginia. we had welfare reform, academic standard, accountability, schools, the unprecedented investment in virginia with lower taxes and regulatory reforms and a variety of different things. and we did that with the democrats in control of the house and of the senate. so you need to run on an agenda, keep your promises. integrity is important. and work with both people -- people on both sides of the aisle because the donors of the government, the people, said

that's what we sent you to do, not run for reelection. >> no one is going to mistake you for a democrat, i'm not saying you're giving advice to terry mccullough. how does he prevent his term as governor not being sucked into lame duck -- his chief goal, he loses this political power he has, this suddenly puts him in a tough spot. >> it does, there's no question about it. you look at that campaign last year, a lot of what was so negative, who would do the least harm to virginia as governor. this was an issue that terry ran on. what we did with the abolition of parole, which was one key issue, we had a special session on the abolition of appropriation. >> special session, special session, special session. >> this is what he's going to have to do anyway. i think he mistakenly fouled up the whole budget and said we're

going to hold the whole budget hostage unless i get this and you have all the colleges and universities and localities wondering what's going to happen. he's going to have to have a special session and he can make his case. i think he still is going to have a hard time expanding the medicaid rolls. the costs are really high and are outfunding education. >> we need to talk a little redskins but we'll leave that to another day. >> hail to the redskins. >> there were other states that had primaries last night, including maine. that will be next. means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs.

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as we told you, virginia and south carolina weren't the only states with some compelling races last night. we're keeping a close eye on maine. we have a bunch of races going on up there.

there's two gubernatorial candidates. paul lepage faces what likely will be another brutal three-way race against the democratic congressman and an independent who ran last time. congressman mishaud joins me. let me ask you, three-way race, the dynamics of this, it hurt democrats obviously four years ago. how do you unite the left of center coalition in maine to prevail? >> well, i start off with a very good strong base, chuck. i've been representing maine's second congressional district for the last 12 years, which is more conservative than the first congressional districts. i have a very strong base. i feel really good about the enthusiasm out there among not only democrats and independents, but also moderate republicans have just been fantastic. we've been able to get

endorsements that democrats do not traditionally get, such as maine association of police, the maine state troopers association, firefighters. so i feel really good where we're at today. >> what would you tell a voter that says i don't like governor lepage, but i'm going with mr. cutler and not with you because, you know, the two parties really got me upset these days and i think it's time to sort of break the monopoly? >> well, actually, i'm the only candidate in this race that does have a proven track record to work across the aisle to get things done. when i was president of the maine senate, we had 17 republicans, 17 democrats and one independent. a lot of people thought it would be a nightmare. but it worked well because i brought republicans and democrats every morning to my office to go over the calendar. it brought in trust and opened communication. we passed a minimum wage increase not once but a two-teared system that was unanimous. we did bring people together.

we put aside partisan politics and were able to get things done. i have a proven track record and we'll continue to do that throughout the campaign. and i've brought that down here as a members of congress. we've been working very well together on the veterans affairs committee. >> do you think your first name of congressman is an asset or liability in this race? >> people in maine, they know me. unlike some of my colleagues, every week when we're done voting, with the exception of when i've been to iraq or afghanistan, i'm back in maine, getting around the district, talking to the voters in the district. that's what i really love doing, hearing what they have to say. it really kept my grounded. i worked over 29 years in a mill punching a time clock. i know what working people have to go through. >> governor lepage had an odd comment. he can normally have some interesting way of turning a phrase but he was actually oddly complimentary of you sort of. "he has 30 years of history,

he's a likable man, i like him a lot but he also has modest achievements. that means a lot. how do you respond to the modest achievements? >> i received a lifetime achievement award for economic development. when you look at what i've been able to do in maine as far as veterans issues, as far as building new facilities for access to our veterans. so i've got a lot of achievements. not only here as a member of congress but also in maine and will definitely be touting where i want to lead the state. have i a vision and the experience and commitment to put maine back on the right track. >> all right, mike michaud, i will leave it there, the democratic candidate for maine. it will be quite a three-way race there. >> coming up, we'll get the virginia view and the capitol hill internal politics view. that's next. but first, our tdr 50 soup of date comes from arlington

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let's close the gap between people and care. ♪ may we have your thoughts on mr. cantor this morning. >> that's too bad for him but the people have spoken. they're the bosses. they decide. i've never known mr. cantor to be an advocate for immigration reform. so i think this whole thing about it being dead is exaggerated. >> democrats desperately trying to rewrite that play book on immigration. there was warning signs for eric cantor if you chose to see them and believe them in march. it was tea parties and libertarians blocked his supporters from taking control of a delegation to the state party convention. then last month they voted out his hand-picked chairman and replaced him with a tea party

activist in the largest district in his county. we hope to have jeff shapiro, the dean of the political delegation in virginia. he's making his way to studio. but let me start with you. you had folks staking out boehner's restaurant. it was like an episode out of "house of cards." the deck has been scrambled and there's one election everyone is focused on. >> it's like the capital never closed last night and it continues this morning and all through this week as we see what happens in this leadership race. we'll see what cantor does in terms of whether or not he decides to -- >> does he stay now, open it up now? >> exactly. >> you would assume if he decides to go now, does that mean leadership has more power in deciding who it, is the current set of leadership or if he waits until after the election, does it make it wide

open? >> i would say leadership has a little less leeway, if he goes now, which means he's probably inclined to stick it out. just because you don't know what's going to happen in the mid-term election, right, you're taking a chance, the conservatives who probably want one of their own guys in there are also taking a chance. >> who are the players here? who are the players? i mean, what i've been amazed at this morning is the one name i don't hear a lot about is kevin mccarthy. nobody is talking about mccarthy as being the automatic guy that gets the promotion. why is that? >> he's had a difficult job. he's not exactly known for being great at his job. we've had a lot of difficult votes. >> i hear the word is he's fine, he tells you the number. the rap is he's not an arm twister. he simply, well, this is the numbers. >> he's the anti-tom delay. it's just his personality. what happens with john boehner after the cycle, does this

chang? and the whole leadership equation blows up. >> the power of washington, k street is probably sitting here and they had a bad day, didn't they? they lost a guy in eric cantor deal with, and this is going to go right to the populous activist dave brat's campaign and running gamagainst that, to and not just immigration. >> yes, and eric cantor was meeting with the lobbyists on capitol hill, and people heading to the polls in his own district only to lose later. and eric cantor's staff is very valuable right now, and tossing the resumes around, and eric cantor and the staffer will be fetching a high price. >> they won't be hurting financially, and jeff shapiro made it. >> good morning. >> good morning to you, sir, and you have been writing about this for a while that the eric cantor should have to watch his back and you have been writing about this, and is more to come in virginia politics or was eric cantor uniquely vulnerable?

>> well, this brat-like challenge from the right to eric cantor is what is keeping the republican republicans in line here in richmond and perhaps you have been reading of the standoff between terry mcauliff and the house republicans over the additional extension of -- >> well, that is just going to steal that, and you know, is there any state assembly republicans' vote for terry mcauliff right now? >> if you think that the cats were scared, imagine how they are feeling this morning. but as far as cantor is concerned, one of the often hearing that david brat was the strange er stranger in this race, the unknown, and actually, i would argue that it is eric cantor. virginians in the heartland of this state saw very little of eric cantor. his district was drawn to accommodate him and made to ord

order. it allowed him to focus and the pun intended on the primary constituency which is the small number of the fairly conservative votes within the fractious house republican caucus that would determine his fate. so he traveled around the country raising money, and accumulating chips and the virginians only saw him on the sunday talk shows and occasionally on the front page of the national newspapers. >> he is worried about the wrong election, it seems like. jeff shapiro, we will keep it in there, and you have crazy times to cover in virginia. good stuff, and fun to be you. and shirra, and "roll call" don't miss it with the leadership fight. and kentucky is the last state to change the election law in 1992 abolishing the term for one-term the limit, and they are the only state who have done that. and coming up, finding a winner, charles hicks. we will be right back. platinum platinum from philips sonicare and save now.

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