as a nonpolitician, bill buckley had the opportunity to step back and evaluate the issue on its merits. bill opposed giving back the canal until he went to panama and changed his mind. which is something that he had the independence to do that reagan couldn't. and when you read the book and the letters back and forth, it's obvious that bill takes pleasure in having bested reagan in the famous debate they had on the panama canal and a famous firing line episode, but also realizes reagan had the benefit of becoming president of the united states, which he wouldn't have if he had taken bill's position on the candle. on the inf treaty it was ronald reagan would realized that gorbachev was truly a departure and the time had come for the kind of arms control agreements that reagan criticized, and this was just a great act of intuition and flexibility on reagan's part, which are essential ingredients to statesmanship. so, in this case you had bill buckley, his intellectual friend, not realizing how much the world has changed and rehearsing the right0s old and typical arguments against this ag

adding influence to jeb had to nuss right they actually could have created which according to our bill buckley back that is part and parcel of merely an extension for the walk that's why they played the game into all major all in reviving and ultimately each of an aging and al qaeda in iraq and that's why we've seen that tremendous influence and prowess of iraq which have if you don't attack on a daily basis against the shia a lot of iranian hates of living let me go let me go to hear about it it's only in iraq in syria is this in america's interest in western powers interest to get involved in such a conflict because it's a nexus central conflict between saudi arabia and iran why don't we just kind of stand back from this one because we're getting sucked in or trying to get sucked in into syria people criticize obama but i think he was smart to take putin's idea and back off because western outside influences are not going to resolve this issue in syria and this is why i'm asking you as it is again. i think you have to sort of understand it is multiple levels what the diplomatic route if we c

does boehner or mcconnell ever stood up and said those people are unacceptable in the way that bill buckleyaid anti-semitism is not allowed in the conservative coalition. nobody says it. nobody stands up for the middle right and says we about part of your crowd. you ain't part of ours. your thoughts. >> i agree, chris. i think it's time for the president to go on the offensive. i wouldn't bother with the birther issue, because every time some republican running for office says that the president wasn't born in the united states, all that does is get another independent voter or moderate republican to shake their head and say i can't be with these wackos. >> why do the people who run for office on the republican side never separate themselves from them? because they get their votes. that's why. >> absolutely. they get their votes. but every time a birther's out there, it helps our cause for 2014. what i do think is the president should go on the offensive on voting rights. he should go on the offensive. make them vote on an immigration bill. because that's a bill that really resonates. if th

i words of encouragement always of the bill buckley line nominate the most conservative person that canin in the general election. that is, can critical. focus our attention on beating democrats -- that is critical. focus our attention on beating democrats. that is my view of it. as the caucus moves further and further to the right, making it more difficult for speaker in any to lead it specific direction, is that part of the equation in electing republicans to the house? in the majority, you have the responsibility to govern. we are a center-right majority. we have to be able to govern. many people who come here and will fight as hard and tenaciously and thoughtfully as possible. at the end of the day, we still have the responsibility to govern. >> david. a few race specific question. democrats say they have a great a candidate. a candidate.eat have six all, we retirements on the republican side, including two sophomores on the which is unusual. there are fewer it in the credit retirements and how so far. do anticipate more on your side saying this sucks, i am out of here? [laughter] >

at growing our majority in the house, and so my words of encouragement always are, sort of the bill buckleyte the most conservative person that can win in a general election, and that is, i think, really critical, and focus our attention on defeating democrats who are continents apart philosophically from where we are, and so that is my view of it. the caucus news further and further to the right, making it more and more difficult for speaker boehner to leave it in any specific direction, is that part of the equation in electing republicans to the house? >> when you're in the majority, you have the responsibility to govern, and we are a center- right majority, and we have to be able to govern, and we need people to come here and who will fight as hard and tenaciously and thoughtfully as possible, but at the end of the day, we still have the responsibility to govern. >> david? >> yes, mr. chairman, two very specific questions. first of all, democrats say they ave a great candidate, with special on march 11. do you have a grade a candidate, we have hadf all, six retirements on the republican

my words of encouragement always are, let's, sort of the bill buckley line, nominate the most conservativeperson that can win in the general election. and that is i think really critical. and focus our attention on defeating democrats who are continents apart philosophically from where we are. and so that's my view of it. >> do you suspect as the caucus was further and further to the right making it more and more difficult for speaker boehner to leave it in any specific direction, is that part of the equation in electing republicans to the house? >> when you're in the majority you have the responsibility to govern. and we are a center-right majority. we have to be able to govern, and we need people to come here and will fight as hard and tenacioustenacious ly and thoughtfully as possible. at the end of the day we still have the responsibility to govern. >> david. >> yes. a few race specific question. first of all, democrats say they have a great a candidate in florida 13 special on march 11 to do you have a a candidate in that race as far as you can see and how important is that race to yo

quoting bill buckley who started out as a ideological conservative and said what the republicans alwaysve. not the purest conservative but the most electable conservative. i think it's basically a conservative party. we can argue what the label means. we all know what it means. and that's probably not ted cruz because he's just too divisive. somebody like jeb bush for sure. governors start out with an advantage. the significance much what christie said is he's trying to knock out all of the senate ideological conservatives. rubio, rand paul, like a bowling ball sort of speak. he said it will be a governor. i think history has shown recently that that's the case. governors have a better shot, usually. barack obama was the exception to the rule. the democrats who got elected, bill clinton, jimmy carter governors, et cetera. you have to look at somebody like jeb bush a former governor or somebody like chris christie or scott walker. >> so much of the conservative energy right now going to defeating obama care. under more fire today. new polling shows a majority much voters believe it's not

including the latest bill that would actually constitute a special advocate as anything remotely resembling the supreme court referred to as an officer of the united states in buckleyversus valeo. i think this is a bit of a red herring. the second bucket of issues the report raises i is concerned abt advertisements in the fisa court. of course this has been a structural concern and fisa since long before the current controversies. indeed the judge silberman when he testified raised this concern of a constitutional objection to the fisa. i'm happy to elaborate more on why this is a problem. the only relevant point for now is a special advocate would not exacerbate any advertisement concerns that currently exist. that is to say there may be adverse and concerns under 702 or 215 where fisa is currently constituted having an adverse party only should ameliorate those concerns and not make them worse. instead, the hardest issue raised by the crs report and the one that is the biggest head scratcher for the advocate is the field question. the supreme court just decided this summer in the proposition eight case that a party must have a direct stake in the outcome in order