you know we passed a farm bill in the united states senate. it has the support of tom vilsack. the support of senator grassley and harkin. it was one that had the support of representative grayley. we were able to get support across the aisle for a bill. you know what the bill does? it strengthens our safety net for our farmers. it reduces the debt by $24 billion over the last farm bill. why would republicans in the house be against this? that's what it does. it makes sure we have the conservation programs in place. i'm glad to be on the senate side of the conference committee to get the farm bill done. but literally, i keep asking our staff every day, have the republicans in the house called to set up that conference committee, no, they haven't. called today? no, they haven't? you know why that bill isn't going anywhere? because it's in the cutting room floor in the house because tea partiers decided to shred it to pieces because they want to eliminate nutrition programs that for decades have kept millions of kids and seniors and working people from hunger. this is from the far

that is what i want to do in the united states senate. i have a myself on senator lautenberg. think that i can get things done. i willnator lautenberg, never couple mice my principles. i was one of the first -- i will never compromise my principles. i voted against defense of marriage act because i thought it was wrong. i was an early opponent of the iraq war. up for you have to stand your principles. we're all democrats. i believe in the democratic party and i believe that i can make a difference. cleanioned the fight to up toxic websites. the fight for the affordable care act. i can make a difference as the united states senator. i ask for your vote on august 13th. thank you. >> time for the closing statement but -- from mayor booker. minutes -- 40 years of experience between these two congressmen. if you like what you are getting out of washington, you should go for them. to me, we do not need more washington experience. we need a different experience in washington. when washington could not pass a jobs bill, we got to work. we were able to create local loan funds and other

we need republicans in the united states senate. people accountable for what happens to those poor brave americans. [applause] and i can tell you that i am not going to give up this fight for the truth, and to hold people accountable, to make sure this never happens again. the same thing for the irs. that the irs would target americans for their viewpoints -- so absolutely wrong. engaged in, not but here in new hampshire, across the country, to make sure we can win back a majority in the united states senate in 2014, and then go and take on the white house, a republican president in 2016. that will make the difference for this nation. we are the party of opportunity. we are the party of growth, the party that wants to give people the opportunity, the american dream, that you can do anything in this country with personal responsibility, work ethic. nothing can stop you in this country. and i am so proud to be here tonight. i know someone whose family story, and his own personal story, demonstrates what you can do as an american livin

and, yes, after hemming and hawing of almost epic proportions, the united states senate, controlled bycrats, did pass an immigration bill. the senate is controlled by democrats. 14 republican senators crossed over to get it passed. passing in the senate, though, does not mean it has passed into law. and having a vague misty sense that it must pass, that it ought to pass, that it might pass, that surely it's got to pass, right? that vague abstract positive feeling that it should pass is also not the same thing as something actually passing into law. it really does have to go through the house, too, and the house really is controlled by republicans. and whatever funky smelling cloud of smoke has settled over the beltway's reasoning on this subject about how surely it's got to pass, it doesn't seem like the republicans are going to let it pass. the chairman of the house judiciary committee is a key gatekeeper for this thing. if it can't get past him, it can't get past his committee. if it can't get past his committee, it can't get a vote. last night he did a town hall at which he said he

you know we passed a farm bill in the united states senate. it has the support of tom vilsack. the support of senator grassley and harkin. it was one that had the support of representative grayley. we were able to get support across the aisle for a bill. you know what the bill does? it strengthens our safety net for our farmers. it reduces the debt by $ billion over the last farm bill. why would republicans in the house be against this? that's what it does. it makes sure we have the conservation programs in place. i'm glad to be on the senate side of the conference committee to get the farm bill done. but literally, i keep asking our staff every day, have the republicans in the house called to set up that conference committee, no, they haven't. called today? no, they haven't? you know why that bill isn't going anywhere? because it's in the cutting room floor in the house because tea partiers decided to shred it to pieces because they want to eliminate nutrition programs that for decades have kept millions of kids and seniors and working people from hunger. this is from the fargo

a senate ethics committee voted unanimously to expel bob packwood from the united states senate. ay. about three years after the "post" first broke the story of grabby, harassy bob packwood, he finally had to announce his resignation. >> senator bob packwood left the capitol after ending 27 years of service with a rambling resignation speech on senate floor. >> it is my duty to resign. it is the honorable thing to do for this country. for this senate. >> he was run of the most powerful politicians in washington, brought down by 10,000 pages of ethics committee documents supporting allegations of improper sexual advances to women and trying to use his influence to get his former wife a job. >> by any standard, in any workplace in the united states of america, he would have been fired and i voted to fire senator packwood. >> let us not congratulate nor celebrate a thing today. this is a moment for grieving. >> the governor of oregon now must call a special election to fill packwood's seat, but for senate's republican leadership, replacing packwood will be tougher to do. >> senate re

>> it is my honor to endorse him for the united states senate. >> chris christie's endorsement of steve lonegan. >> i am proud to have him as a candidate for the united states senate. >> lonegan has a chance to win. >> cory booker is way ahead in nearly every poll. >> why can't the republicans all get on the same page. >> we don't speculate on what we might find. >> they say this is a fool's errand. >> i'm proud to have him as a candidate for the united states senate? >> 99 nights ago at this hour, on this program an irs scandal was exposed for the first time. the real scandal is what the irs did in 1959 when it changed the meaning of the english language. when the irs decided that tax-exempt status could be granted even if an organization was not exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. but simply primarily for the social welfare. and that changed from exclusively to primarily, allowing political organizations to buy political advertise not guilty support -- in support of candidates and do so as a tax-exempt provision of the law that was never, never intended for them to hide b

we need more republicans in the united states senate and in congress to keep the majority in the house and the senate to make sure that happens. i know i see it every day. joe is a small business owner. each of you have felt it in your business. republicans have ideas about how we can use market-based principles to drive down health care costs and to make health care better in quality and give people more choice, not less choice, like this president is doing to average americans with obamacare. and finally, the defense of our nation. look at what is happening around the world right now. jennifer talked about benghazi. we need republicans in the united states senate. we need to hold people accountable for what happens to those poor brave americans. [applause] and i can tell you that i am not going to give up this fight for the truth, and to hold people accountable, to make sure this never happens again. we can say the same thing for the irs. that the irs would target americans for their viewpoints so absolutely wrong. despite you are engaged in, not only here in new hampshire, but acros

. >> chris christie endorsed cory booker's republican opponent for the united states senate. >> wait see steve lon gan on the floor of the united states senate. >> new jersey hasn't elected a republican to the senate since 1972. >> steve and i have believed and still believe in so many of the same things. >> this guy is really right wing and extreme. >> because we do share the most important issues of the republican party. >> in new jersey, at the opposed family medical leave funding. okay? >> i'll be as callus and uncaring as you can imagine. >> we believe in limited government. >> i have no interest in paying four your health care. i'd hate to see you get cancer. >> we believe in small business, not big government. >> people are going to say, doesn't this mean a tax increase for the poor? and the answer is yes, it does. >> we embrace free enterprise, not more entitlement states. >> i can only wish that that school principal was armed. she may have at least slowed him down. we believe in the bill of rights and not going to allow it to be undermined. >> president obama, don't tread on

[laughter] >> senator dodd served in the united states congress representing connecticut for 36 years. thirty years in the united states senate. he is also the co-author in areas of education and financial services and foreign policy and election reform. he played a decisive role in writing the health care reform bill and he was co-author of the dodd-frank wall street act, which is what we are talking about today. he is a senior fellow in government studies at the brookings brookings institute and he is director of government studies between 1987 and 1999, before that he was executive director of the american political science association. he is the perfect commentator today because his most recent book is called it is even worse than it looks, how the american constitutional system collided with extremists. and i cannot wait for him to bring that to bear on us. he and or more recently named among the 100 top global thinkers of 2012. he earned his ba from the university of florida and his phd at the university of michigan. i am utterly biased as a moderator. tom mann is something like

cory booker seems well on his way to being the fourth african-american to be elected to the united states senate. >> the voters are heading to the polls today. >> voting to fill new jersey's senate seat? the seat vacated by the death of frank lautenberg. >> there is no vacation from the cross hairs of the gop. >> there are going to be a handful of senate republicans who want to defund obama care. >> that is what everybody wants. >> the rhetoric has already started. >> nobody disagrees with the goal, just the tactics. >> their colleagues can't seem to find unity. >> sometimes they get a bit frustrated. >> the press loves to say there is a division. >> they're shouting about this. >> sometimes they get a bit frustrated. >> and that is the situation right now. >> i worry for my kids and i worry for your kids. >> michael bloomberg, not a happy man. >> when did he last speak to hillary clinton? >> a new poll for anthony weiner. >> i have a lot to prove to them as well. >> the law belongs to the people. >> hillary clinton now on the record about the defensive voting rights. >> the epidemic of election

didn't come from edward snowden but instead came from a sitting united states senator imagine if it or if it all came from ron wyden well it almost did it in interview released yesterday senator wyden who as a member of the senate intelligence committee was privy to much of the n.s.a. secrets so he considered spilling those secrets on the floor of the senate so that americans can know what's really going on and members of congress have what's called parliamentarian immunity a somewhat arcane rule that gives lawmakers complete immunity from prosecution for anything they submit to the congressional record and wyden told rolling stone quote this is a sensitive subject a lot of people have just said to me well you feel so strongly about these issues when you knew this why didn't you just go to the floor of the united states senate and just you know read it all into the record and of course anybody who does this kind of work thinks a lot about that you think about it all the time i can see why plenty of people would criticize me progressives and others recently ron wyden talked about the ef

primary. >> it is such an honor to be your nominee, to be your democratic nominee for the united states senateere's the thing. between swearing in and cory booker's campaign it's been 143 years. in that time, the grand total of african-americans to serve in the united states senate is eight. and of those eight, only three have actually been elected by popular vote. ed brook from massachusetts, carol moseley braun from illinois and someone named barack obama. the others were appointed and served briefly. when it comes to governors, the same story. just four african-americans ever have served as state governors and only two of them, doug wilder from virginia and deval patrick were popularly elected. the other glass ceiling in politics. barack obama broke a massive barrier when he won the presidency and dozens of african-americans currently serve in the house of representatives, but when it comes to statewide office, the feeder system for national office. cory booker's story remains the exception. want to try to understand why this is and what could change it. joined now by charlie rangel, a 42-y

also looking at the possibility of pot you know slim but the possibility of taking over the united states senate having control of both chambers i don't think they want to blow it on something that in the end is not going to fund obamacare. now that mr snowden published kind of divided if you talk to a lot of people though say they admire what mr snowden did in the what the government did invading privacy is reprehensible on the other side people say well these are interesting times and they call for interesting actions where you stand then well you know i have some real sympathy for both snowden and also for chelsea manning you know these are tough times and you know all of us have been on a job where something shady was going on something was happening and we didn't think was right and then what do you do that you tell the boss to get the equipment to get fired and you've got a little young people all across this country on these contracts and they're trying to figure out what to do i think the obama administration has to be faulted here for not creating a better pathway for whistleblowers it'

then i agree with you james clapper saying that he told our sitting representatives united states senators that he gave the least untruthful answer that is outrageous but when we're talking about whistleblowers there were proper channels for them to go through and i you know i've i've read about where is who represent whistleblowers and they have different different steps they take long before they go public with national security secrets let me just have been guys when van jones was just a little lad he and his father used to watch crossfire it's source for you still leading to me every night on c.n.n. i love that i disagreed when c.n.n. that time to get off i'm happy they're bringing it back and have been jones will be part of it along with newt gingrich stephanie cutter. van what it was what do you make of this well i mean it's amazing we just talking about speaker gingrich and the lessons that people learned when he was running congress and you don't shut the government down and cetera et cetera he's a living legend. i went to law school how can we quote you on the living. at a living.

you have literally control of the united states senate hanging and balancing on this issue. the party goes over the next six months we will decide if we get control over the united states senate based on obama care or not. that depend on who we elect if the pry primary, can they beat dem krts krats -- >> yeah, but will that help the republicans in 2014 or hurt them? >> i think it cuts both ways. helps people run in primaries in senate races but hurts candidates and maybe our strongest in the general. >> this is the entire problem they've had for 2010 and 2012. the republicans should have the u.s. senate. they should have gained it in 2010 and doubled up on it in 2012 but because they have this fight and vote on shutting down the government could end up again nominating people like sharron angle sharron angle and why they nominated her in nevada. looks like 2014, republicans should have a great shot at senate. may not happen. >> okay, let's talk about that. let's look at landscape for 2014 after a special election in new jersey, which the democrats are expected to win in octo

in 2007 there were 3 united states senators then senators hillary clinton, ted kennedy and barack obama that proposed in congress a flexible work environment. they having asked for changes in job shifts and to tell commute or share a job. this came from other countries like great britain and ireland and new zealand where this policy has been an excellent one.

our constitution in washington, and that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy to be your united states senator>> reporter: before cotton joined the race, pryor aired an ad about wanteding to go to senate before he finished a term in the house. >> tom cotton is now running for united states senate. running for another office just seven months after being sworn into congress. john cotton should be running, not for higher office, running from his own record of hurting the people of arkansas. >> reporter: pryor is a loyal obama backer. he lost the state to mitt romney, and the gop won every arkansas congressional seat. and lincoln was ousted by 21 points. every two years, a third of the senate seats are up for grabs. senate seats are vulnerable, 21 seats compared to 14 for the gop. arkansas is crucial. they're confident of pickups in montana, south dakota, west virginia where they're retiring in red states where romney trounced obama by double digits last year. republicans target three other states obama lost, mark begich, kay hagan, pose freshman, most vulnerable, and mary landrieu, someone they

that is what i want to do in the united states senate. i have a myself on senator lautenberg. people think that i can get things done. like senator lautenberg, i will never compromise my principles. i voted against the defense of marriage act because i thought it was wrong. i was an early opponent of the iraq war. i think you have to stand up for your principles. we're all democrats. i believe in the democratic party and i believe that i can make a difference. i mentioned the fight to clean up toxic websites. toxic waste sites the fight for the affordable care act. i can make a difference as the united states senator. i ask for your vote on august 13th. thank you. >> time for the closing statement from mayor booker. you have 40 years of experience between these two congressmen. if you like what you are getting out of washington, you should go for them. to me, we do not need more washington experience. we need a different experience in washington. when washington could not pass a jobs bill, we got to work. we were able to create local loan funds and other programs that created

in 2007 there were 3 united states senators then senators hillary clinton, ted kennedy and barack obama that proposed in congress a flexible work environment. they having asked for changes in job shifts and to tell commute or share a job. this came from other countries like great britain and ireland and new zealand where this policy has been an excellent one. it adds a penny to the expense of an employer if the employer is unable to make clients services or other good faith services they're able to deny the requests. it would be enforced and it will apply to all caregivers. but based on

yes, he was invited like every member of the united states congress house and senate. but if you have the only african-american sitting in the united states senate and you do not ask him to speak at that event, then there is something wrong. >> let try another way. why not the george romney -- can i ask you something? why didn't the party of lincoln ask to come? >> i get that. chris, i'm with you on that. but remember, there are two sides of this coin. >> sure. >> he was not invited by the people who put it together to speak. he was invited to attend and not speak. and that was bullheaded. >> i think it's so interesting about the celebrities that were there. forrest whittaker. by the way, does he come off younger in person than the parts he plays? he plays idi amin and the old guy. looks like he is 30. >> he was so gentle and moving. it brought tears to my eyes. i'll tell you that. >> 50 years ago, charlton heston, who has identified so much with the right. and begun rights. yet he was a big civil rights guy. >> huge civil rights guy. >> and a lot of those voices are mi

>> well, it will change reality because it might change the numbers in the united states senate. u change the numbers in the united states senate and you can change health care forever in this country, particularly kill a bill that republicans feel is going to kill jobs -- >> a law, not a bill, it's a law. it's the law of the land. you guys keep calling it a bill as if it wasn't enacted by the congress and signed by the president. it was. why do you keep calling it a bill, john? >> you can change bills. you can change laws. >> of course, you can. it takes two congress -- two houses of congress and the president. is that what they're talking about doing here or some sort of pr move to appeal to the hard right? >> i don't really -- i believe this is their beliefs. >> okay fine. let me go to steve on this. it seems to me what we see is a take-over bid by the hard right republican party. if you don't play their game and stop government and defund obama care, if you don't do that, it seems to me you're in big trouble. i agree with john. it's an ultimatum, a take-over bid. if you're not