personal staffer for congressman john kasich. then as a staffer for the budget committee, the house budget committee when he was chairman. i was the analyst for national security affairs. in 2005, i moved on to the senate and work at the budget committee there in the same capacity. >> what do you think of that statement? up close it is truly ugly. >> it generally is. i would want to temper that. it has been a long-time habit of everyone to criticize congress because they think that resonates with the public. it truly has become to some degree a horror show because of the increased partisanship and polarization. however, it is an institution that is as tab list by the first article in the constitution. if we don't nurture it, if good people do not go there, if good staffers do not go there, what we will have is the reichstag or one of those chamber of the utes situations in the french third republic. i don't want that. i won young people instead of going to wall street to go to congress or to go to the executive branch. >> we invi

after you left working for john kasich on capitol hill, who did you work for after that?owa on thee of house budget committee. years, i moved to the senate and work for senator judd gregg. nussle happens -- jim moved onto the house -- head of the budget. we are now $17 trillion in debt. does anybody ever say, stop? do they ever say stop when you were there? >> they weren't too concerned with the bush tax cuts. they weren't too concerned with an unpaid for trillion dollar war. i guess the answer is no. >> what is going to be the answer in the future? be shortlly, it will and people hocism, will somehow figure out how to get around it. >> do you get the sense that somewhere back in one of these offices, there is somebody sitting there saying, none of this matters? >> i think there are. policy, by default, is in thebeing made unelected federal reserve board. so many of our economic policies , simply because congress can do anything, obama cannot drive his agenda through. it was the faulting the ben bernanke and then janet yellen. know many people have severe doubts about the

because you have stood up to the big banks, you've got legislation to break up the banks, john kasichneeds wall street to go further politically. they don't want you back in the senate. i do believe that restricting the vote with these laws are going to certainly hurt the democratic base across the board. senator, congratulations. >> what an honor. >> the bad news is it's going to hurt a lot of folks, isn't it? >> it's been -- this has been across the country. ohio is sort of always the epicenter because of the presidential race and sort of the premiere swing state. but they went after collective bargaining rights. that's why you spent so much time no ohio in 2011. they went after women's rights in one of the middle of the night insertion of the budget bill. some of the most anti-women health care rules and regulations. and now they're going after voting rights, which they've also tried to do before. fundamentally, they talk -- say they want to do something about jobs but they spend their time on this stuff and it's all a question, you know, they know they're losing the battle. they'r

the three appearing on stage monday night with governor john kasich.id the three extraordinary women, despite having the worst in this world thrown at them, rose above it and emerged not as victims but as victors. lovely words. >>> all right, federal marshals joining the man@hunt for a convicted child rapist who cut off his ankle monitor and fled a group home in colorado. there he is. police say 51-year-old eric hartwell is a sexually violent predator. he had been living at independence house in denver since december and police say this is not the first time he has escaped. >> he has a history of this. he served his time in the correctional facilities, and then gets released under supervised release, cuts off a bracelet or a monitoring device and is gone. >> hartwell was convicted of raping a 6-year-old and trying to rape a pregnant teenager. he was paroled to the denver facility under lifetime supervision because he failed to register as a sex offender. >>> we have some stunning video to show you of a deck collapse in indiana. look at that. 24 people

last week governor john kasich signed two bills, including one cutting six days out of early voting.w rules matter, because as ohio goes, so goes the nation. president george w. bush ron reelection in 2004 in part because of hi narrow victory in the buckeye state. then senator barack obama carried the state by five points in 2008 and won the presidency. in 2012, the president won it again and won another term in the white house. the state hasn't voted with the losing presidential candidate since 1960. voting matters. ohio matters. voting in ohio matters. and nina turner is a democratic state turner from ohio, also a candidate for secretary of state, and also my friend. nina, thanks so much for being here. welcome to the show. >> thanks, joy. congratulations to you. >> thank you. i should mention we also reached out to governor kasich, to the secretary of state john huston, and several other officials. they either said no thank you, or didn't get back to us. so you'll be here on your own, senator turner. why do you think there's such a strong push for these pretty far-reaching restric

and yes these changes in ohio matter for ohio, john kasich after all is up for re-election himself thisovember, and more people voting would presumably help his democratic opponent and fitzgerald, and fewer people voting would help him. ohio republicans making these decisions to make voting harder, the tide of decisions since the last election, yeah, ohio republicans are helping themselves. they're making decisions that will affect their own elections, their own ability to hold on to their jobs. this is ohio. and when they change the rules by which people vote in that state, it does not end up just affecting ohio. it aends up affecting all of us. >>> we should be making it easier for people to vote not then don't miss sleep train's wbest rest event.st ever? you'll find sleep train's very best mattresses at the guaranteed lowest price. plus, pay no interest for 3 years on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. and rest even better with sleep train's risk-free 100-day money back guarantee. get your best rest ever from sleep train. superior service, best sel

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kasich. >> kasich, rob portman. >> yes. >> he is the senatorial committee right now. he is raising tons of money. it's all about at the end of the day who is going to have the big money. you know why george bush beat john mccain? because he had the money. that's the most interesting thing about this. who are the big money guys and who do they support. >> let's go to chris christie. i know he is in the spotlight. i'll admit. i put the spotlight on him. i think he is a spotlight story. i think he is the best story in the country right now because he is smart, he is a big, he is a smart lawyer. he's got the good lawyers on his side and he's got great lawyers against him, and he's got people all around him who are fighting for their own lives to keep out of prison. and that is going to be a big story in the law, in the courts and in the legislature for months to come. it's a huge story about the biggest guy. by the way, new york is news, by the way. have you noticed? if you're near new york or play for a new york team, it's news. >> of course. >> by the way, how come the

the three women held captive for a decade in a cleveland house were honored by ohio governor john kasiche them the annual courage award in an emotional ceremony. >> they rescued themselves, first by staying strong and by sticking together and then by literally breaking out into freedom. [applause] amandaberry, gina, and michelle, three extraordinary women rose above. when onemen were freed of them was able to push through a door and go for help. an incredible story. a new five-year pentagon audit is out of many in congress are not happy. defense secretary chuck hagel's plan cuts army forces to fewer than before the terrorist attacks in 2011. 01. congressionalwith limits -- these are the numbers. also proposed is the benefit changes for current and retired members of the military. secretary hagel defended the budget yesterday at the pentagon. >> these recommendations will adapt our defense enterprise a we can continue to protect this nation's security in an era of unprecedented uncertainty and change. if we continue on the current course without making his modest adjustments now, the choi

point, do you think you would support governor kasich for reelection? whoer: it would depend on gave him a challenge in the primary. i would rather see somebody more constitutional. i'm not interested in the party anymore. host: thanks for calling in. here are three final tweets on this question -- more hours in this morning's "washington journal." we will look at the issue of patient privacy laws and health information in a minute with dr. deborah peel and then we will look at hunger in the u.s. and what the usda, the department of agriculture, calls food security. those are the two segments coming up. this weekend is a three day weekend on booktv and on american history tv. one of the features of this three-day weekend is a visit to macon, georgia by our local content vehicles. here is just a preview. macon is located right in the middle of the state of georgia. one of our claims to fame is that we are about six miles from being geographically center so we are real easy to find. i would say that macon's location and participation in the civil war are

governor john kasich had a hard time being heard over the applause, as he honored amanda berry, gina de jesus and michelle knight. all three were kidnapped and held in a home in cleveland until their rescue last year. their captor, ariel castro, pled guilty to hundreds of felony charges, and later killed himself in prison. a mystery illness has sickened dozens of kids in california -- evening paralyzing at least five -- and doctors say the symptoms appear to be similar to polio. two bullets aimed at an ohio bus driver's chest were stopped -- by the bible in his shirt pocket. police say 49-year-old rickey waggoner was trying to repair the bus, when a group of guys walked up to him and shot him three times and stabbed him in the arm. one bullet struck him in the right leg and two were fired into his chest. but police say the other two shots jammed into the dayton bus driver's bible and did not penetrate his chest. waggoner was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. >> is that why keep farmers almanac in your pocket at all times? that was a good one. >> after last week ... th

kasich is the top governor . he only trails paul ryan. >> senior a >> that contradicts earlier statements from the governor's office. >> it lists odnr allies as various business groups. >> republican governors just can't seem to get a break. here's part of why. unlike their less productive counterparts in congress, some of these governors have tangible records. records that are coming under intense scrutiny as we get close to midterms. john will have to answer for a record that some are calling fracking. here's what you need to know. in 2011, he signed a law that would open up state parks for drilling and fracking. ohio maybe conservative. it turns out voters didn't want their public land spoiled. it didn't help at the time john had received 200 grand in contributions from the oil and gas industry. you can say, that was a pr hurdle. the ten-page memo released on friday reveals a wide ranging 2012 pr campaign. it was developed by john's appointees at the ohio department of natural resources. it was all coordinated

looking forward, john kasich, scott walker, rand paul, these are people not accused of closing lanesn cities where their political opponents are. when you look at the nomination process, they can say they love chris christie while not being president. >> it's interesting because it almost goes to the idea, perry, that's he's doing poor enough that hrivals don't have to pile on as well. >> that's interesting, yes. >> we are being looking at interesting counter points. beth, perry, thank you both for your time. >> thanks. >>> now we're going to turn to some weather. thousands of flights have been canceled. bill karins has the low-down. bill, what can you tell us? >> the denver fans are complaining. that's the way it goes. let me show you what we're dealing with. the pictures around the philadelphia area, it's very blanketed in heavy, heavy snow right now. some of the worst of it is in the new york city area. pavement is kind of warm so you expect the melting and this is a picturesque scene. downtown philadelphia, huge snowflakes coming down. it's a heavy, wet snow. the snowman just bui

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which is filled with republican governors whether it is snyder in michigan or pants in indiana or kasich in ohio or scott walker in wisconsin. you are seeing republican governors presiding over a recovery that the national party almost refuses to acknowledge. if anyone has been in san francisco recently -- i was talking to stewart and others -- in san francisco, the bay area's on fire. it is almost a bubble out there in silicon valley yet the republican still have a narrative of how terrible things are. my republican friends, why don't you guys take some credit for the deficit falling? of it is your insistence on fiscal restraint get the message to the aces that things are out of control and we are profligate. things have gone totally off a cliff in washington on spending when in truth, it's exactly the opposite. this year, we will have spent less on discretionary spending than the last year of the osha administration. -- last year of the georgian w bush administration. ae third area where you see refusal to acknowledge the positive are the democrats. it's almost as if they started to sa

governor kasich and i will fight over that.anufacturing is so much where the jobs are at these days. it's not the idea of backbreaking work and putting aa peg in a hole. this is high-tech stuff. it requires education and training. we are very aggressive in our recruiting efforts, but ceo's everyday tell me that incentives are important, infrastructure is important, all these other things are important. the most important thing is an educated, qualified workforce. that's what they have to have to succeed and that is why we are zeroing in on workforce training and working with the industry and partnering with them to try to tailor our workforce development to what is really needed in this 21st-century economy. >> increasingly what you hear, everything is changing as a result of technology. we're going to get to that. how do you keep that stronghold, the auto sector? >> what steve just said about the skills are very important because we have a unionized workforce at our auto plants. we work with management for developing these ski

john kasich of ohio may be the new rising star when it comes to presidential hopefuls on the right. > all right. final question tonight comes from david -- if you lived in the path of the keystone xl pipeline, would you let it go through your front yard? that's a heck of a question. fehr of all, i don't think these people are going to be able to stop it. they might be able to, so i'll put myself on the front line in nebraska. no, i wouldn't want it coming across, but i would exhaust every angle they would pay me as much as i could possibly get if it did go through, so i could buy a nice place somewhere else. i'm now on the fence on this issue. i think this discovery that we have done on this story in nebraska has changed a lot of folks. it's working on me. >>> a lot more coming up. stick arcin' arrange. around. >>> i'm bertha coombs with your wrap. stocks ending the day in a bit in the red. the s&p was off two, while the nasdaq shedding five. consumer confidence fell this month as expectations about the economy took a hit. mean thyme shares of home depot rose -- it also raids the quar

the governors of kasich in ohio, snyder in michigan, and walker in wisconsin. >> and maybe penson, indiana. >> there's a danger he's out there too early and the novelty will be gone and people say that's an old face. >> it's more than just a bridge lane closures. in "the washington post" christie when u.s. attorney made a deal with bristol squib, bristol myers squib, and instead of charging them with securities fraud, they would do the out-of-court settlement and give $5,000 as a professorship to seton hall law school, which just happens to be his alma mater. what about this whole issue, kirsten, of the whole transactional nature of the way christie does business? >> well, it's obviously a problem. he says that was a deal made by -- wasn't made by him, it was made by the prosecutors and he had nothing to do with it, but it looks pretty bad it's his alma mater. one of the things about christie is he's been seen to a lot of people as the most electable of the republicans, even though he's not beloved by the republican base. and so i think that all of these various heads make him less electab

ohio governor john kasich is the next closest, but he is down 12 points to hillary rand paul trails by38. chris christie is sinking fast. he is down 13 points after trailing by only one point in november. it's clinton, 49, christie, 36. clinton tops marco rubio by 14, 50-36. she beats jeb bush by 15, 51-36. and the republican who fares worst, ted cruz. he is down 17 in ohio, 51-34. and we'll be right back. through sunday, save up to $500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. but hurry, sleep train's presidents' day sale ends sunday. >>> welcome back to "hardball." two years before the iowa caucuses for 2016, the far right is beginning to attack on the clintons. it's called shaping the battlefield, if you will. the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus, started this week with a tweet. remember all the clinton scandals? that's not what america needs again. anyway, today on the mother jones website, david corn, our pal, with help from national memo's some of the tales including

some notable examples, jan brewer, as well as ohio governor john kasich. yes, you can be a republican, yes, you can pretty much disagree with me on most parts of my policy, but if you expand medicaid, you give health insurance coverage and benefits to a lot of people in your state at very, very little cost with the federal government picking up most of the tab going into the future years. and, of course, the majority and the overwhelming number of states who have not expanded medicaid are states with republican governors, and there is a thought as the years go by, that once president obama's out of the white house, if the politics of health care aren't as politically charged as now, a lot of states that are red states will eventually expand medicaid. >> you're looking at states like texas and louisiana, mark, states, our home state of texas, for example, where many and the data would show, overwhelmingly benefit from an expansion of medicaid. >> oh, absolutely. those are the states with some of the biggest people uninsured right now in the country and the

john kasich of ohio. maybe even paul ryan from wisconsin.se names seem to be gaining some momentum. >> i think any of the three is as likely as anyone else to win the nomination as things stand today. but, you know, the republican party has got to decide whether they want to win primaries or win general elections. they have not yet altered the rules sufficiently, i think, to control that fringe factor. and that could be devastating in terms of the nomination. >> what about the democrats holding on to their majority in the senate in november? the republicans need a net gain of six. and it is certainly within reach. >> well, it is within reach. and i don't blame you for not bringing up the house. because i see no possibility that the house is going to change hands. the question on the house side is whether that gop margin creases. i think it's going to be very close. and i think history dictates that that six-year election out for the incumbent's party is a very tough race, a very tough year. so i don't know that the ds are going to be able to

that's why steve basheer in kentucky has been successful and kasich in ohio said no, give me the money signing up for it. "the reid report" starts soon. >> february 24, right here on this very network. >> at 2:00 p.m. >> monday through friday. enough time for people to watch and then get over it in time to really watch the real thing, which is "the last word." >> oh, stop it. at 2:00, the audience is going to be done. they're going to say okay, that's it. >> take a long nap. >> this could be hard for the rest of us. thank you very much, joy. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, france has a new first lady. and that guy with the french sounding name on comedy central could not be happier. that's in "the rewrite." and later, there's little over a week left to get your ballots in for the oscars. and if you're still undecided, steve mcqueen director of "12 years a slave" is here to help you. when you order the works you want everything. an expert ford technician knows your car's health depends on a full, complete checkup. the works. because when it comes to feeling safe behind the wheel, go

the group includes rick snyder in michigan, john kasich in ohio, who was threatened with promises ofenger thanks to his support of the law. susana martinez in new mexico, bill haslem in deep red tennessee, and brian sandoval in nevada, who is the only republican governor to support both the medicaid expansion and a new state-run insurance exchange. it doesn't take a genius to see what is going on here. for all their blind hatred of the law, the health care law, it's not hurting republicans to actually support it. kathleen park is a pulitzer prize winning columnist with "the washington post." and james hohmann. james, i came across this this morning and i was stunned by this sort of mannequinian world in which you love it or hate it. some were quietly in the middle, right on the dmz are practical-minded republican governors who make decisions based on the interests of their states and the finances here who have decided it's smart to take the federal matching money to bring in the money actually they wouldn't otherwise have, to take people who make a bit above the poverty level to get

i spent 28 years in congress as a staff member, first as a personal staffer for congressman john kasichthen as a staffer for the budget committee, the house budget committee when he was chairman. i was the analyst for national security affairs. in 2005, i moved on to the senate and work at the budget committee there in the same capacity. >> what do you think of that statement? up close it is truly ugly. >> it generally is. i would want to temper that. it has been a long-time habit of everyone to criticize congress because they think that resonates with the public. it truly has become to some degree a horror show because of

i think that it is a hard thing to justify other republican governors, kasich and others have taken aack and christie has taken a different tack on that, but they've been excoriated by people on the right for it. walker i think is trying to walk that line and be acceptable to the right. but mainstream enough as a governor to present himself as a national candidate. it's a tough line to walk. >> new poll in new jersey saying chris christie's approval rating falling a little bit more with registered voters. and there he is unable to even be present at events like this now because there will be reporters there asking questions. i mean, that's it. i mean, that's the only reason he couldn't be there. >> he says that his daughter had a birthday party last night, an 18th birthday party. >> let's give him sunday night, david. let's give him sunday night. but to not participate -- >> no doubt -- >> but to not participate in everything else is -- >> no doubt about it. look, there's no doubt that he is trying to wait out this storm and he's hoping that it will ultimately blow over, that when the

you look at rick scott, you look at john kasich. he will have local and state profile complimented or exacerbated on his national profile and he's in a tough position in both those. >> brian, you know a lot of the players around christie world. is there someone who can say to him the time has come. you've got to let go of this republican governors association. >> we'll find out. i mean, it's not clear to me who -- i think we're at this stage where it's hard to tell whose advice -- >> let me ask you this. has there there ever been in the christie structure who in that difficult moment could really be the one who walks in there and says the thing that that governor absolutely does not want to hear, has to hear, and has to ultimately act on? >> i think so. and that person isn't on his staff. that person is one of his long-time fundraisers, someone who helped him become the united states attorney. but i don't -- >> who is that? >> bill paloticci. >> y. he comes out in these stories. >> i'm not sure anyone work on christie's staff can do

republican controlled house passed the bills along party lines wednesday, and today, governor john kasichem into law. these were bills passed by the senate in november of last year. senate bill 238 eliminates 6 days of early voting to 29 days down from 35. and the significance of that is that those six days are referred to as the golden week. when ohio citizens can both register to vote and cast an in-person absentee ballot. senate bill 205 alters the process by which an tenancy ballots are mailed. more on that in a moment. measures take effect 90 days after the primary election and the timing here is interesting. the last time ohio republicans tried to pull a similar stunt was during the 2012 presidential election. but the obama re-election campaign filed a complaint and a federal judge ordered ohio to allow early voting on the three days prior to the election. the judge ordered republican secretary of state john husted not to enforce a state law republicans pushed to close that anyone but members of the military and their families. having lost that, having been caught red handed in the

governor kasich and i will fight over that varie.anufacturing is so much where the jobs are at these days. it's not the idea of backbreaking work and putting aa peg in a hole. this is high-tech stuff. it requires education and training. we are very aggressive in our recruiting efforts, but ceo's everyday tell me that incentives are important, infrastructure is important, all these other things are important. the most important thing is an educated, qualified workforce. that's what they have to have to succeed and that is why we are zeroing in on workforce training and working with the industry and partnering with them to try to tailor our workforce development to what is really needed in this 21st-century economy. ,> increasingly what you hear everything is changing as a result of technology. we're going to get to that. how do you keep that struggled? sector?onghold, the auto said aboutve just the skills are very important because we have a unionized our auto plants. we work with management for developing these skills for 21st-centur

john kasich, governor of ohio, doing a great job there. scott walker in wisconsin.e've got a lot of very good people. souzusanna martinez in new mexii understand is potentially looking at the race. i read that in the blogs. so i don't know how it's going to settle down. i didn't mention mike huckabee. of course mike huckabee ran before, did a fine job. he may be coming back and giving another shot. so, you know, we'll let it settle down a bit and then finally coalesce behind the person who we think ought to be the next president. >> the last time you had to make a decision like this, you vetted a whole bunch of republicans, you thought paul ryan after you was most qualified to be president of the united states. do you still believe that? >> well, i think paul ryan was the absolute right person for me to have as the vice president. and i say that because i was governor, i had not had the kind of experience in washington to know who i could trust there, who would get the job done, how the budget process would work most effectively. and paul is not only a man of charac

what will help them is what governor christie is doing in knowledge and governor kasich doing in ohiong governors from both parties address these mandatory sentences that relegate people for drug-oriented crimes to a life of being a convicted felon. martha: tony, you are concerned eric holder may be including some serious felony the in this category. tell me about that. >> as alan indicated. there is a consensus position if you are a non-violent offender you should be put in this category of having voting privileges. eric holder's remarks went beyond that. he didn't get too specific. but he made a blanket case that it's a violation of someone's civil rights that they are a if he wil --they are a felon and ce participating in voting activity. >> we agree on that. martha: that's where we'll leave it. along, we'll see you next time, guys. bill: and i olympic first on the slopes. spoiler alert. if you don't want to know what happened before you see it later on tv. now is a good chance to get another cup of coffee. you have been warned. we have a tie in the women's down hill. it has never

friday, ohio governor john kasich signed into law two bills that could create barriers to the ballotearly voting by six days, prevent ohioans casting a vote the same day. second one will end a program of mailing absentee ballots to all registered voters. meanwhile, african-american lawmakers faced a setback in efforts to put a voter's bill of rights on the ohio ballot this fall. the proposal which would make voting a fundamental right in ohio's constitution was blocked by ohio attorney general mike dewine, who cited misrepresentations in the text of the proposed amendment. joining me from cincinnati, one of the people with the organization fighting for that measure, ohio state representative alicia reese, president of ohio legislative black caucus. thank you for being with us, representative. i want to start by -- >> thank you for having me. >> i want to start by asking you about the second of the restrictive laws, the one that would prevent people from being mailed an absentee ballot, because the key to that is that african-american voters voteless by absentee ballot. this is to try

able to stay at the table through the initial budget agreement that myself and others did with john kasichnd pete domenici and overthrew the final legislative battling over the summer, and i think, and i say this with some sympathy as opposed to accusation, to the speaker come which is that i think it was hard for him to stay at the table. in other words, i think that the fact that there was a significant third faction of his one party and that one house, that has so not wanted to work things out with the president, that it's made it hard for people to stay at the table. i think that's very difficult because when you're in a negotiation, if you can making progress you kind of think, you state that it until things start. to me went to different i'm sure we are very close and we're still making progress and we're still talking and they just left. and i think that that reflects not having enough strength and unity to allow your person to stay at the table. so i think that is been not a good thing for the country because i believe there are things not unlike a budget agreement but like immigra

governor scott walker in wisconsin, governor john kasich, all of the races that we love to talk aboutlly aren't that endangered. >> politico's mike allen, still ahead. >>> matt lauer talks with jay leno and jimmy fallon. hear what jay has planned for his final show and what jimmy has up his sleeve for his debut. >>> plus, my conversation with cindy leive as the magazine turns 75 years old. mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, t

no doubt that two governors from the midwest, mike pence in indiana, and john kasich is someone people is pretty strong for a conservative republican in a swing state. ohio is obviously extremely important. i think that he's interested. he's not done a lot of the things he should be doing if he truly wanted to get in there. he's not out there as a scott walker. but given that state, given his popularity, someone to watch. and mike pence would be in that same category. little more obscure, former congressman, was in leadership for conservatives when he was in the house. but indiana's been a state where his popularity is high, and indiana starting with mitch daniels through him, has done interesting stuff. >> can we put the image up of the five, six, seven contenders? if i'm hillary clinton and i'm eating -- put that up. the group of people -- can we put that up, guys? if i'm hillary clinton, eating fruit loops at home, and i look at this group as the contender, i'm having a second bowl of fruit loops, because i'm feeling pretty good. >> can you not say that, because this -- this country