rnc chairman reince priebus welcome mr. chairman. let me ask you about this comment made by former utah governor jon huntsman yesterday. he tweeted quote, to be clear i believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. call me crazy. that's a sar kisic comment. is he is odd man out in your party now? >> i don't know m i'm not doing a poll of all the candidates. this is what's going to happen. we have a rigorous debate. we've got as you've pointed out, we've got a lot of different folks many the field. i happen to believe, chris, that having a lot of candidates in the field, having a big primary is good for our party. it gets a lot of people out there. it gets a lot of earned media, a lot of tv time. a lot of print media. all the horsepower i think is on our side of the aisle right now. >> aren't you worried in a world where we have to compete with science and science and technology we're competing in a world of science and technology. the country might be led by somebody who doesn't believe in evolution, climate change, wh

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we're going to hear from reince priebus and the republican party later in the program, but what about his own problem with the democratic base because he's getting a lot of push back along the way from disappointmented democrats? >> well, i think we've wanted to see him more engaged. he has tried to bring people together. some people just don't want to be brought together. i wish lyndon johnson's come let us reason together worked. these people who are elected to be disagreeable, don't want to agree. we'd like to see the president be a little more assertive. stand firmly between medicare and social security and promote an active jobs agenda. that takes money. it takes spending. it can be fully paid for without worsening the deficit by closing some international corporate tax leap holes that have led to the export of american jobs. i'm pleased to see the president talk about jobs. i'd like to see some leadership when we're back in set forcefully pushing a jobs agenda that is fully paid for. and we need with all the kind of cut backs rick perry has made in texas to our public schools an

and chairman priebus has done a great job working with other states to move them back. i'm cautiously optimistic. >> bigger picture, your job isn't just to see the caucuses through. your job is to do something the republicans haven't done since 1984, that is see iowa go -- twice, why is it, though, that it is being harder for republicans to move iowa in the midwest versus some of these other states? >> i think 2000 and 2004 is a good example. al gore won by 2,000 votes and george bush in 2004 by 10,000. going into the general next year, there is two data points that show how competitive iowa will be. one is, since barack obama was elected president, iowa democrats have lost 10% of their registered voters in this state and iowa republicans have increased. we have had 29 straight months of republican republican stragi gains. i think we can whittle the rest of it down to near parody with the caucus process. i think today i saw numbers out that 61% of the independent voters in iowa disapprove of the president's handling of the economy. >> what is your base line turnout goal

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reince priebus, to what do we attribute this? the fallout from the debt ceiling debacle?well, first of all, i don't know -- i haven't really seen the poll or looked at it too deeply other than the fact that i think it's true. i think people are frustrated with a lot of what goes on in washington. i think most of all, people are frustrated with a president who continues not to lead in a most important debate in our country. it's not a matter of leadership, brooke, it's a matter of what this president put in place when he's had the opportunities to lead. he's put a budget in place that increased -- that proposed the biggest structural deficit in the history of america. he put in obama care, like $2.5 trillion. >> reince priebus, let's put up the numbers again. you haven't seen the poll. let's pause, you can see them. you can see the numbers here. >> sure. >> do you think the american public is beginning to hold your party accountable? talk about malaise and frustration in some measure here for the state of the economy. you see the numbers there. now versus july. >> okay, br

megyn: reince priebus, thanks so much for coming on.yn. megyn: this downgrade is having a ripple effect, and while the president is speaking -- can we get this news on, actually? we didn't get to this. something happened on wall street that hasn't happened in the better part of ten months, and that is the dow dipped below 11,000. that's, well, there it's at 11,025. but it was down as low as 10, 994 at one point while the president was speaking. and the last time the dow has fallen below the 11,000 mark was about ten months ago, october 19th of 2010. what is the significance of that? you heard the president citing numerous factors globally, nationally, pretty create and so on to explain some of what we're seeing, not just from standard & poor's, but on wall street with respect to our 401(k)s and so on. but we're going to have more on exactly what we're seeing and how it effects you and your wallet in about 20 minutes at the bottom of the hour, our power panel on the fallout for main street. >>> and, folks, we'd love to hear from you on t

>> well, priebus, who is head of the rnc put out a complaint. to complain about because that's his job. you'll hear something similar from the dnc, just filling in the blanks. but the reason senator patty murray is in charge of fund-raising for senate campaigns, and so he doesn't think she should be on that. they'll criticize whatever choices they make for these 12 senators, the super committee, or as i'm referring to them, the dirty dozen. it's not only republicans that complain. there's plenty of campaign advocates that want to take the money out of campaigns from other organizations that are also complaining that patty murray is on here because they think her big concern will be fund-raising. there's a lot to complain about. whoever they choose, they'll all be put under a microscope. this committee of 12 people will be lobbied harder than any other 12 or any one person on any committee ever by the lobbyists. take the money out. that's what people are saying. >> well, i don't think that's possible, sadly. i understand where they're coming from

rnc chairman priebus said the president has been on vacations and golfing and campaigning nonstop.arah palin and donald trump also got into the act today. >> you know, i wouldn't if i were he. especially to martha's vineyard. i fear what our president will do, and do i predict that he will not be gone the full ten days. i think he will hear from enough americans that he'll come back early. i fear he will keep his head in the sand. >> he takes more vacations than any human being i've ever seen them used to complain about george bush. but i understand he's already exceeded george bush and we're not even through the year. so he likes vacation. and we have a president is constantly, whether it is martha's vineyard or someplace else, constantly on vacation. all the time on. vacation. >> once again, donald trump proving there ain't a whole lot of brain underneath the hair do. of course the trumpster, flat out wrong again. now look at this. president obama has taken, if we can score at home, 38 vacation days away from the white house and 32 days at camp david. folks, that's a total of 70

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reince priebus said i suppose the white house thinks he should stick to the job he really likes, raisingt cat donors while the rest of america struggles with trying to make ends meet. mitt romney who hopes to beat mr. obama in 2012, put out a campaign add complete with abock liptic music. >> yes, we can. thank you. if i don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition. >> and this from a candidate who politico accuses of being in the midness protection program because mr. romney didn't take a stand on the debt deal until the debt deal was done. not to be outdone, democrats are hopping mad at lawmakers. senators left for a five-week paid vacation without funding for the federal aviation administration. doesn't sound like a big deal until you hear that 4,000 federal employees, along with thousands of construction and support workers are out of work with no paycheck. one furloughed faa engineer, he's had it. >> the debt ceiling argument ended on monday and tuesday. well, where are you at on wednesday? you don't have to go on vacation. take another day. ge

and one day after my interview with the president, reinc reince priebus will be joining us.ed a better deal for simply political reasons. you're in "the situation room." . >>less than a week after rick perry formally ran into the race for the white house. we're joined by wane slagter from the dallas morning news. thanks for coming in. >> great to be with you, bofl. >> let me play the clip of what president obama told me yesterday responding to some of the recent comments from rick perry and how rick perry responded today in new hampshire. listen to this. >> mr. perry just gt into the presidential race. i think everybody who runs for president, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing this isn't like running for governor or senator or congress. you've got to be a little more careful about what you say. but i'll cut him some slack. he's only been at it for a few days now. >> the president said i needed to watch what i say. i just want to respond back, if i may. mr. president, x as speak louder than words. my actions as governor are helping create

the chairman of the republican party reince priebus. >> i liked how you invited him into your situationinvited you into his but just without the cameras. >> although he did say to me off camera, he thought we had fancier technological stuff than his. they've got some pretty impressive things in their situation room. have you been to the one at the white house? >> i've been outside the door. i wasn't allowed to look in. but i've been in yours. yours is mighty nice. see you in a couple of minutes. still to come here, stephen colbert and his pac just lost a major player. its money man. but can you guess which republican candidate stole him away? joe johns has "the political pop" next. that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. with aveeno nourish plus moisturize. active naturals w

reince priebus, thank you for joining us.lk back. the question is president obama neglecting the black community? congresswoman maxine waters says yes. >> he went with the plan and that plan was to invest money in those rural communities in order to develop jobs. we like that and we want the rural poor to be attended to but we also want the urban poor to be attended to. >> it is true that the president did not visit black majorities on his three-day bus tour. it means he doesn't care but he has the black vote and while he doesn't need a majority of white votes to win re-election he does need some. according to exit polls president obama won 43% of the white vote in 2008 which is pretty good for a democrat. still some ominous signs for the president. according to the latest cnn/orc poll 34% of whites approve of how the president is handling his job. some say so what? democrats haven't won a majority of white since 1964. mr. obama should at least show some love to his most loyal constituency. 95% of african-american voters cast

president spoke the associated press reports the chair of the republican national committee reince priebused a few dozen tea party members and the college republicans. he also spoke with reporters today on a conference call along with the chair of the iowa rnc. here is that conversation. >> to launch a campaign of our own called obama's dead end to war, to remind the american people of this president that a failure to create jobs, failed policies that have only made things worse. so, what we are doing is we are what -- launching web ads, radio ads, text messaging campaign, making calls to independent voters, holding press conferences, ministate where president obama will visit, because we will not stand idly by while this president perpetrates this fraud of a bus tour while using taxpayer dollars to spin his failure to put america back to work. if it was just a few days ago, you might recall, where he said he would renew his focus on creating jobs. of course, he can't help himself because he is the campaigner in chief. so we would rather be out campaigning than in washington leading our co