but i want to go to bill kristol with something else.aw rand paul get into this fight with marco rubio this week. he seems to be the newest kind of republican candidate this time around who certainly seems to have the ambition and the drive to go all the way. >> he's certainly going to run. i don't think he'll make it all the way, not because of anything personal become rand paul. i just think the views he has on foreign policy are the views 15%, 20% of the party. i mean just think on the cuba issue. marco rubio has probably 40 senators who agree with him of the entire leadership and all the presidential candidates and rand paul is by himself. he can get on more media attention than christie and rubio and walker and jindal and all the guys fighting for -- they're hawkish -- the republicans are going to nominate a hawkish presidential candidate, i think. >> but if it's consistent with what rand paul has done all along, he picks fights, and it's a way for -- it's a vehicle to -- >> to get attention. >> to get attention. >> after jeb bush,

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. >> bill kristol. you write a lot about bill kristol. but you've had kind of a falling out. this is a very complicated story, but one of the leading neocons, david frum, wrote an attack on me in the "national review," listed me and pat buchanan and other people as hating america, which is just ridiculous, an assault, because i was not in favor of the intervention in iraq. and frum had some grievances against me, and he wrote this piece. and when i heard this was running in the "national review," i just called up bill kristol, who was a great neocon, and i asked him what he knew about this. and he said he never heard of the story. i couldn't believe that he didn't know about it. he never called me back, never returned the call -- never had another conversation with him. i used to talk to him once a week. he was the only conservative journalist i know who attacked me for the cia leak case, the valerie plame case, in which he referred to my action on c-span as reprehensible. and i believe that it had nothing to do with valerie plame. but i believe that there was a resentment on

bill kristol earlier.as wondering if he was willing to accept any blame or can you name one out of the iraq war. guest: well, i will pass it along to him. host: he is no longer with the spirit on ohio, the republican slime. caller: -- republican line. caller: yes, do you republican line. caller: yes, do you think actually born in canada? guest: i think he is right, but his mother was american. so he is eligible. as for john boehner, a lot of speculation was whipping around some months ago about whether he would throw in the towel and whether he would outlast the obama presidency. that speculation seems to have died down. i think he is probably in there for a little while. the conventional wisdom is maybe he is not interested in being the speaker and being in congress for the rest of his life, but there are not any real serious challenges to him right now. >> given the wide republican margins we have talked about right now, how relevant are democratic leaders in the house and senate now? >> they are leaders

bill kristol and jay carney, thank you so much. >>> with an ease on travel restrictions, is it time toflight to havana? why making the trip might be much easier said than done. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to "the lead." our "money lead." forget cancun and south padre island. cuba, come for the rum and cigar and stay for the human rights abuses. it may be a tourist hot spot now that the u.s. is reducing travel restrictions. rene marsh is joining me. how soon could we see a travel boom to cuba? >> the demand is there. the travel industry is salivating at the idea and someone watching us today took some time to daydream about sipping that rum cocktail on a cuban beach. but, not so fast. havana, once dubbed the latin las vegas. ♪ images of carmen singing with fruit in her hair and movie stars dancing their night away at the tropicana nightclub. exotic caribbean flavor and distinct culture made americans fall in love with cuba before the revolution. caught in a time warp, it still loo looks strikingly similar to when lucy and ricky visited when the cars were new. >> it's only 90 miles from u.s. sh

ted cruz today, i think maybe tomorrow, he's doing a forum with bill kristol. >> it's bringing -- >>and the rand paul. >> i like it. and you like it, too. >> fun fight. >> april, let's talk about today's story and the horror up in new york with that -- look at the reaction we're watching. totally nonviolent as we speak at 8:00 eastern. your view of the whole situation? >> it's a painful situation for minorities in america that have a reality that many americans, mainstream americans don't have if you have young men in your family, you pray for them and make sure they come home safe. a man or a woman, you have a run-in with a police officer, you never know what can result. but the bottom line is, the president and eric holder, the attorney general, hit the right core by saying the issue of trust. now beyond the trust, what is the endgame? stop the talk, stop the protests -- not stop the protests, but beyond the protests and the talk, what's the endgame? what is going to result? and what we understand -- and i talked to chris darden, former l.a. prosecutor. he said, you know, he said t

bill kristol earlier. i was wondering if he was willing to accept any blame or can you name one out of the iraq war. guest: well, i will pass it along to him. host: he is no longer with the spirit on ohio, the republican slime. caller: -- republican line. caller: yes, do you republican line. caller: yes, do you think actually born in canada? guest: i think he is right, but his mother was american. so he is eligible. as for john boehner, a lot of speculation was whipping around some months ago about whether he would throw in the towel and whether he would outlast the obama presidency. that speculation seems to have died down. i think he is probably in there for a little while. the conventional wisdom is maybe he is not interested in being the speaker and being in congress for the rest of his life, but there are not any real serious challenges to him right now. >> given the wide republican margins we have talked about right now, how relevant are democratic leaders in the house and senate now? >> they are lea

it's a great pleasure to welcome senator ted cruz for a conversation moderated by bill kristol bill kristol a search on the foreign-policy initiative's board of directors. in addition bill has served previously in the executive branch as a chief of staff to secretary of education william bennett during the reagan administration of former vice president dan quayle. in 1995 he founded "the weekly standard" magazine of which he is still the editor and a thank you so much built for joining us again and for moderating this conversation. >> thanks chris sands thank senator cruz for joining us. a very busy time on the hill. even as our god knows what his colleagues are doing in a lame-duck session so so we will have to end this very probably seat and go back and keep an eye on the mischief. i don't think ted cruz needs much introduction. elected two years ago very consequent to the first two years in the senate as a foreigner -- princeton college harvard law school and it's a real pleasure to have senator cruz with us. a very active member of the senate armed services committee and i will also say

great pleasure to welcome senator ted cruz for a conversation moderated by bill kristol who of course serves on foreign policy initiatives board of directors. in addition bill served previously in the executive branch as chief of staff to secretary of education william bennett, during the rage ban administration and to former vice president dan quayle. in 1995 he founded "the weekly standard," a magazine of which he is still the editor and i thank you so much, bill, for joining us again and for moderating this conversation. >> thanks, chris. thanks senator cruz for joining us. very busy time on the hill. managed to get away for an hour. even in this hour god knows what his colleagues are doing up there in the lame-duck session. we'll have to end this very promptly so you can go back and keep an eye on the mischief. i don't think ted cruz needs much introduction. elected two years ago, very consequential first two years in the senate. before that attorney general of the state of texas. princeton college, harvard law school. won't hold those against him. and it is real pleasure to have

nor -- bill kristol was on television during the balkan crisis and was asked -- they put a board up. here are 23 places in the world were civil wars are raging. there are as many being killed there as in the balkans. do you think, why should we send people to the balkans? bill said, we should go to all of them because we have the power to do that. we are the super power. that is also insane. >> if you do get a job as a pundit, the good news is -- you can never be fired. >> that is right. but the threat that the president has to see -- like the supreme court on pornography said we will know it when we see it. you elect a leader because you have faith that when he sees it, he will know it. >> i am ivana. my question is about this divide between ideology and party. it seems like that has been intertwined in my generation. can we ever restore the ideological progressivism or do we want to? do you see the future of conservatism being intertwined with a strong ideological foundation? >> and what was your question, sir? >> [inaudible] >> gentlemen? >> david said earlier that conservatism is

this will be moderated by bill kristol who serves on the board of directors and the foreign-policy initiative and we are highlighting as we celebrate our fifth anniversary this year. bill is the founder and editor of "the weekly standard" and he served in the executive branch to the secretary of education and vice president dan quayle. so thank you so much for joining us in this conversation. >> thank you. i would like to thank the staff for their hard work for what is already a very good session. and i would like to just think everyone is well. let me introduce senator congressman cotton, as well as congressman pompeo [inaudible] these guys go to the senate and they forget. [laughter] and i get to see tom for 30 more days. he will take your calls. [laughter] and so okay. the representative is a constant wichita, kansas, he graduated from west point from the u.s. army. and of course he is a successful businessman and a prominent spokesman and a key member of the house subcommittee. senator elect tom cotton was elected in 2012. he graduated from harvard and harvard law school. and i can't real

this "the washington post," not "the national review," not bill kristol at the weekly standard but "thegton post" themselves said today they were on the ropes and they got a bail out of it all from none other than barack obama. let's go andrea mitchell. here's nbc news chief florida affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports." andrea, when we have -- can we get a shot of richard haas looking disgusted. when we have harold here we know he'll talk energy. he'll talk keystone and energy and we can figure out why. we're trying to figure out exactly what stock richard haas has in the new casino going up in cuba because he's all in for this, andrea. talk about what happened yesterday. it's historic and then richard we'll let you talk and i'll be quiet. >> reporter: it's clearly hiftdic. this is a president who is not giving up on his second term hardly. interestingly, john kerry, when he first talked to barack obama about becoming secretary of state this was the one issue that he raised, that he had been, obviously, deeply engaged in as a senator, he was one of the leading sen

host: we are talking with bill kristol, the editor of weekly standard.e republican line in texas. caller: good morning. just to add a fairly simple question, i do not understand why the republican party and the conservatives have not been able to frame the concept and educate the american people of the concept that you simply do not have a nation if you cannot fundamentally define and secure and control your borders. if you cannot fundamentally define and secure and control your borders. that does not mean just your physical border at mexico. it means immigration as a whole. new not have a nation. you'd -- you do not have a nation, you do not have a country if you do not do that. why the immigration debate ends up degrading into a tit-for-tat in -- as opposed to a need to define your borders as a nation, which every nation in the world doesn't have that right and obligation to do. we know to some degree, the census works or we would be able to take down the fence from the white house. in order to identify where people should and should not go there it an