i'm joined by bill kristol. congressman keith ellison is back. chozick from "the new york times" political beat, and joe klein, from "time." welcome back to all of you. and bill, let me begin with you. rudy giuliani stirring things up. questions the president's love country. doubles down on that. what is he up to? >> i think he's driving the liberal media into a frenzy. i don't know. i think he said what he believes. he decided he believed it so he wasn't going apologize. >> and joe klein, we saw scott walker trying to make the point that all the republican candidates shouldn't have to be asked this question on principle. then saying he doesn't know whether president obama is a christian. is he trying to play a double game here? >> i think he's trying to send two messages. i think with rudy and the other wild statements we've been seeing, it think it works for the disadvantage. one thing i know after 11 presidential campaigns. people don't like to elect an angry president or an angry party. they sound very angry. >> they do sound angry, keith elli

bill kristol? >> to her question? her question the advisers were -- >> i'm my own man. >> when you talk privately to the bush people, this is what you do. you roll out a list of the great and the good in your own party and by definition most of them will have served in a previous administration. if clinton rolled out a list -- >> look. i'm a bush skeptic. i'd like to see scott walker or marco rubio or somebody else roll out a list of 48 or 35-year-old people who didn't serve in previous administrations. i like personally a lot of people on that list but some of them are not going to serve in a jeb bush administration. >> uh-huh. >> on the other hand -- someone like me bush skeptic, watching maureen dodd launch will an attack on jeb -- now i'm going to rally the rememberjeb. he's no rudy giuliani. >> i think they sum up the issue you're dealing with when you're dealing with jeb bush. you're dealing with the bush family, the bush legacy. he cannot separate himself for it. he supported his father. he supported his brothe

if you enjoyed this one, here are some others you might like, laura ingram, bill kristol and ingrid ferguson, former speechwriter for george h.w. bush. you can watch them all at www.c-span.org. >> monday night on the communicators, special counsel for the fcc on chairman tom wheeler's proposal for net neutrality, including her -- regulating the internet like a utility. >> i do not know what the next fcc chairman will do. he may try to throb this whole regime and do something that is less regulatory. i do not really by the next chairman argument. the rules are only as good as the guy or gal on the eighth floor in forcing them. so we have to do our best in setting up an infrastructure that will protect consumers, preserve and over -- and open internet, the greatest driver of innovation this world has ever known. >> wednesday night on c-span2. >> coming up, prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. former florida governor jeb bush talked about the economy and other issues. dr. jill stein announces an exploratory bid for the presidential election. >> brew

this was about ten years ago and bill kristol and several others. stewart took us all apart. and he was dead serious. this is a very smart guy. this is a real loss you know just in terms of fun. >> yeah, i've interviewed him enough times to agree that he's not only smart, but he is very cutting -- i don't mean cutting in the sarcastic sense, but in his analysis of what's wrong with the media what's wrong with politicians. let me play the classic ten-second jon stewart clip. this one occurring a decade ago at cnn. >> here's what i wanted to tell you guys. >> yeah. >> stop. stop. stop hurting america. >> so he basically single-handedly got "crossfire" cancelled. news anchors and shows began copying "the daily show" technique by using videotape to call out hypocrisy and inconsistencies. >> well, i think he had a real impact on the political class too, because he could use the same videotape to expose them. and they all still came on his show because his view was they were just -- politicians are just inherently narcissistic so they come on. but i think the media watched him and

bill kristol wrote something interesting, upset about the way the campaign started. are we the only ones, referring to the weekly standard that are struck that they seem to be planning stale and tired campaigns. he goes on to say hillary will run a stale campaign, he believes with tired themes but polls suggest she would prevail in a conventional matchup of boring campaigns. is he on to something or do you think he's overpanicking? >> i thought there was a little bit of overpanicking here. we have 600 plus days before the election gets into -- >> we have 300 days until -- 350 days until iowa. >> 350 days, come on. i'll give you that. we have a long time for the candidates to actually grow as candidates and start talking about issues. we spent a whole lot of time and done it today talking about lots of things that really don't matter in a conventional sense of politics and policy. but i think you have people that are running this year on the republican side, who have a lot to bring to the table, the question is whether they do it or not. i think you have marco rubio a

she and bill kristol spend so much time in france they sort of slip into french. >> i am not going toump on your bandwagon because i was invited to the first "be your best self conference." >> we're going to stone him. >> any way, this proposal would postpone the deadline to march 9th. >> earlier on thursday before stop gap proposal was introduced speaker john boehner was again pressed by reporters whether the house with a is take up the senate's clean bill to fund the department for the rest of the year. his performance was anything but dull. what's going on here? >> i just think it is outrageous that senate democrats are using homeland security funding for blackmail to protect actions of the president where the president himself said he didn't have the authority to do this. yesterday the white house press secretary said that this is a fight amongst republicans. it is not a fight amongst republicans. all republicans agree that we want to fund the department of homeland security and we want to stop the president's executive actions with regard to immigration. >> homeland security fund

kind of like bill kristol who accuses me of being elitist and then reeled off french. >> we still don'tnow what that one phrase. >> said it so quickly. that's elites. >> fancy. >> over to netanyahu invites arab diplomats to big speech and gets rejected. this is from jfry goldberg rumor has it jeffrey is writing the next cover story in "the atlantic." they are on a winning streak. here's jeffrey goldberg. israeli sources tell me that netanyahu's ambassador to the united states in recent days has e-mailed at least two arab ambassadors, those of kuwait and of the united arab emirates. it would have been quite a powerful image. the ambassadors of the gulf war, they're not about to publicly stipulate what they privately say. that they agree with netanyahu's understanding of iran's intentions and of the potential pitfalls of a nuclear agreement and disagree with the obamas and they are too smart to involve themselves in the partisan mess that this netanyahu speech has become. howard dean let's get your take on this. obviously there are a lot of arab states that are just concerned about what's