most recently with bill pascrell on tuesday. he joins us right now.man, and congratulations, sir. i used to root for jack merth in these fights, they're the toughest fights you have. it's so fascinating to watch carr lie in a cain and, let's see critz in pennsylvania, where ever bill clinton came, his guy or woman won. and here he is again in new jersey. is his power across the country or in the northeast? >> he is an energizing gorilla. he keeps moving and was excellent last friday. he was on his game and we both want the president to be reelected. re-elected. we are confident that that's going to happen he's certainly helped me in my campaign. we were the underdog. we were 14 points down two or three months ago and we finished strong, we had the momentum. and for a district that was 60 the other way and 40 my way, i think we did a pretty good job. >> tough a sense that bill clinton is hoping that senator clinton, now secretary of state clinton, is going to run for president in 2016? do you have a sense he wants that to happen? >> we never discussed

congressman steve rothman and congressman bill pascrell. it is because it is a proxy fight between barack obama and bill clinton. this is a very interesting race for that reason. rothman is supported by obama. why? well he backed obama over hillary clinton in 2008. bill clinton is backing bill pascrell, why? because he backed hillary clinton over barack obama in 2008. you know the obama-clinton relationship is getting more and more interesting. they claim they're friends. others say they might be frenimies we'll see how do night how it works out. jon: it will be really interesting. that race in new jersey because of the shrinking population of that state and congressional redistricting, combining a couple of districts into one. two sitting members of congress have to fight for one job. musical chairs. we'll talk about that bill clinton, barack obama thing next hour. larry sab toe. thanks for joining us. jenna: are you going to use the word french my. jon: i like -- that word. jenna: the frenemy segment in ex-hour. the presidential campaign c

chairman, i'd like to ask, as i think you know, congressman bill pascrell, has been a leader on this whole issue and i know he's not a member of the committee and he asked if i could by unanimous consent to include his statement into the record? >> without object. so ordered. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to your testimony and i appreciate the fact that you held this hearing today. thank you. >> chair thanks the gentleman and i recognize mr. upton for five minutes for opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. according to a recent report from the cdc, at least 1.7 million folks sustain a traumatic brain injury every year. we don't have to look very far to see the profound effects of the tbi. children injured by care takers, and athletes by multiple concussions and soldiers disabled from war and one of our colleagues wounded at a constituent event in arizona last year. with efforts undertaken at the department of veterans affairs and the department of defense and several agencies at the department of hhs it is

bill pascrell beats rothman and howard burman versus brad sherman in one race and another, laura richardson faces janice haun. let's get to analysis here, karl rove and joe trippi, gentlemen, welcome. karl let's start with you. how did walker pull this off? as the raw total came in, it was evident he was going to have a big night. >> republican get out the vote machinery worked and worked in fine style. three keys to winning wisconsin for republicans. one, a combination of milwaukee, which is heavily democrat in big suburban counties of the west. the object there is to keep the margin republican. come out about 20,000 votes down for rinz. right now looks like walker is winning the combination of milwaukee, the city of milwaukee and waukesha county. he won the green bay area running between four and eight points ahead of his 2010 performance then in the counties outside of milwaukee he's running ahead of his performance, then a surprise for me tonight is far western wisconsin he got a lot of democrat rural territory, walk jer winning most of those counties in doing so by margins above what h

bill pascrell beats rothman and howard burman versus brad sherman in one race and another, laura richardson faces janice haun. let's get to analysis here, karl rove and joe trippi, gentlemen, welcome. karl let's start with you. how did walker pull this off? as the raw total came in, it was evident he was going to have a big night. >> republican get out the vote machinery worked and worked in fine style. three keys to winning wisconsin for republicans. one, a combination of milwaukee, which is heavily democrat in big suburban counties of the west. the object there is to keep the margin republican. come out about 20,000 votes down for rinz. right now looks like walker is winning the combination of milwaukee, the city of milwaukee and waukesha county. he won the green bay area running between four and eight points ahead of his 2010 performance then in the counties outside of milwaukee he's running ahead of his performance, then a surprise for me tonight is far western wisconsin he got a lot of democrat rural territory, walk jer winning most of those counties in doing so by margins above what h

bill pascrell beats rothman and howard burman versus brad sherman in one race and another, laura richardson faces janice haun. let's get to analysis here, karl rove and joe trippi, gentlemen, welcome. karl let's start with you. how did walker pull this off? as the raw total came in, it was evident he was going to have a big night. >> republican get out the vote machinery worked and worked in fine style. three keys to winning wisconsin for republicans. one, a combination of milwaukee, which is heavily democrat in big suburban counties of the west. the object there is to keep the margin republican. come out about 20,000 votes down for rinz. right now looks like walker is winning the combination of milwaukee, the city of milwaukee and waukesha county. he won the green bay area running between four and eight points ahead of his 2010 performance then in the counties outside of milwaukee he's running ahead of his performance, then a surprise for me tonight is far western wisconsin he got a lot of democrat rural territory, walk jer winning most of those counties in doing so by margins above what h

mitt romney, chris christie, newt gingrich, and bill pascrell. >> republicans had great ideas.iked some of their ideas. >> especially if you're wealthy. >> boy, what a cheap shot. what a distortion. they had you hanging around with the rich people and all you were saying is, let's try to find a compromise on health care to get something done. >> certainly, that's not my record, chris. my record is what other people decide it to be, of course. but third parties have said this was not only disingenuous, it was deceitful, because we were talking about health care. if we couldn't get the whole bill passed, let's put it -- let them vote against doing away with preconditions. let them vote against people getting a break on the prescription drugs. i wanted to put them to the test, the same way, chris, if you remember, i asked in 2010 a vote on the ryan budget. >> you won! and "hardball th jersey. >>> when we return, let me finish with a bad precedent set this a )93g >>> let me finish tonight with this dirty, angry money, that's begun polluting american politics. does it matter t

bill pascrell beats rothman and howard burman versus brad sherman in one race and another, laura richardson faces janice haun. let's get to analysis here, karl rove and joe trippi, gentlemen, welcome. karl let's start with you. how did walker pull this off? as the raw total came in, it was evident he was going to have a big night. >> republican get out the vote machinery worked and worked in fine style. three keys to winning wisconsin for republicans. one, a combination of milwaukee, which is heavily democrat in big suburban counties of the west. the object there is to keep the margin republican. come out about 20,000 votes down for rinz. right now looks like walker is winning the combination of milwaukee, the city of milwaukee and waukesha county. he won the green bay area running between four and eight points ahead of his 2010 performance then in the counties outside of milwaukee he's running ahead of his performance, then a surprise for me tonight is far western wisconsin he got a lot of democrat rural territory, walk jer winning most of those counties in doing so by margins above what h

in new jersey, another member-member race, longtime congressman bill pascrell wiped the floor with weirothbarth, for the congressional seat and he lost by 44 points and he will have a tough fight against republican christy nome. those are a few of the races and ter o'donnell, what jumped out at you in those races. >> i was amazed by the pas pascrell margin. >> california has to get some seats. >> absolutely. i'll get the full hump day political panel including hearing from my friend hunt. soup of the day, this is the soup they should be serving to w wiscons wisconsin democrats. you can watch "the daily rundown" on msnbc. it doesn't leave room for much else. there's no room left for deadlines or conference calls. not a single pocket to hold the stress of the day, or the to-do list of tomorrow. only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. pull on those gardening gloves. and let's see how colorful an afternoon can be. with the home depot certified advice to help us expand our palette... ...and prices that keep our b

in new jersey, congressman bill pascrell bested fellow democratic incumbent steve rothman after redrawn district lines pitted them against one another. and in keeping with the anti- union mood on view in wisconsin, voters in san jose and san diego approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers. so will the wisconsin story ange the cpaign, the untr for more, we turn to craig gilbert of the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today." so craig gilbert, we've talked about this before, now you can tell us the answer. how did scott walker do it? >> well, ironically, as polarized as wisconsin, is i think charles franklin is right. there is a middle, there are ticket-splitters, there are swing voters. those obama/walker supporters we see in the exit polls, which is about 10% of the people that voted tuesday really symbolize that group and scott walker w that battle. so it's... everybody is not in one of these two armed camps. not to down play it at all. but this will come into play in november in the battle for wisconsin in the presidential race.

and former president bill clinton is backing bill pascrell who endorsed hillary clinton in 2008. behrman former president clinton going with brad sherman. right now voters in california with deciding whether to hike the price of a pack of cigarettes by one dollar. that's on top of the 87 cents they already pay there champion cyclist and cancer survivor lance armstrong is the driving force at least publicly behind this initiative. he and other supporters say the extra dollar would raise more than $700 million a year for the state. arched three quarters of that would go to cancer research. critics, including tobacco companies say the new tax would hurt the state's economy. even if the measure does pass, california would have only the 16th highest tobacco tax in the nation. california's battle over gay marriage is now heading to the nation's top court. you'll see what that could mean. not only for california but really for the entire nation. plus, new reports of evidence in the abuse trial of the former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky. including love letters. that he has s

president obama has voiced his support for democrat steve rothman and hillary clinton has backed bill pascrellat implications could this have? >> not much. president obama has his views. president clinton has his views. the good thing about these pretty strong personalities, i think they respect that difference. in term of any wider implications, i don't think it will have any. the reality is president clinton is full on in terms of trying to get president obama elected, no one doubts that. no one questions that. going forward you'll see these two real icons in the party fighting, work pretty hard to make sure that happens. >> gentlemen, thanks so much. much appreciated for your time. >>> coming up, george zimmerman goes back to jail after his bond is revoked and we're learning that he won't get a new bond hearing until next week. bring you a live report from florida. plus, the lucky fifth grader who got a school excuse note written by the president himself. he shows it to all of us. he speaks out. what he has to say about that presidential surprise. it is one of the things we thought you shou

bill pascrell, who had been endorsed by team clinton, won handily over the democrat rothman who had beenhe obama squad. what do you think about that, juan? >> goes right back to what i was saying about the 08 campaign, the hillary clinton campaign. the guy that was endorsed by bill clinton, guess who clint clin, the guy endorsed by barack obama, endorsed barack obama. and turns out that the clinton guy wins again. who is the top democrat? who makes the calls? who has influence over democratic voters? i think bill clinton is asserting himself here even if it is not conscious to himself. what is the media making a big fuss about? believe me, there is something here. yeah, he knows. jon: we'll have to leave the discussion there. juan williams -- >> who would have thought i enjoyed bill clinton so much. you told me that in 1999 i wouldn't say that. jon: he always good fodder for television, isn't he, mary katherine? >> indeed? jon: thank you both. jenna: we'll take a step back from politics into a tinderbox out west where wildfires rage out of control, suppressedding across several states. w

and we saw that in new jersey as well last night with bill pascrell defeating congressman rothman. of course bill clinton packed pascrell in that race. a lot of action last night even outside wisconsin. there was a referendum in california for a $1 tobacco tax that produced a pretty divided outcome there. the busiest day we have seen in a while, certainly, electionwise, one of the busier days we'll see until the conventions hit later this summer. host: a story from hotline oncall, democratic primary in new jersey, both candidates sought to portray themselves as the real democrat in what hotline describes as an ill-tempered primary. what's the take away from representative pascrell's win? guest: i think the real take away is he was able to better organize and turn out his support. a lot has been written about bill clinton coming out on his behalf. whereas president obama came out on the other side of this race. but what it comes down to, when he looked at this district it looked like a tough haul initially because not a lot of constituents were there, but he turned out his core suppo

speak about it but one person who is willing to speak about it is the victories -- victorious bill pascrell of new jersey. i'm honored to have him join me. he has worked with me. i yield to the victorious gentleman from new jersey, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. pascrell: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman from texas. i think this is a very important amendment. we've talked about reining in tax cheats. that's what we're talking about here. given the relationship between offshore tax avoidance, and we've seen chapter and verse of how people avoid taxes, i want everybody in this room to understand when they avoid taxes that means those who pay taxes have to pay more. to make up the difference. talk billion dollars to help tack they will nation's deficit and debt. if we follow up on the specifics of this legislation. so we have tax avoidance, i don't think anybody supports tax avoidance unless you like being taxed more yourself. tax evasion. the actual attempts to avoid paying specific taxes. in other words, you know what the l

bill clinton supported big pascrell and as a thank you, president obama in a more low-key way supportedeve rothman smorted president obama in that '08 primary. in new jersey, mr. pascrell ran away with it and steve rothman will lose his seat in congress. but the overall wlakiest and illegal thing going on in electoral politics going on this week is not in wisconsin or any of these other states. it's really been what's happening in california. if wisconsin was not also going on in the same day this would have been the story everybody was fix stated on. >> dianne feinstein's race, as you know she's the senior democratic senator from california and been in the as a matter of fact a long 250i78 and she's the incumbent and running for re-election. all sounds normal, right? look at the ballot that she was running on. these are the names scrolling up here that was on the ballot. for senate. california changed its rule so in a race like this there's no democratic primary and a republican primary and then the winner of each of those primaries runs in the general election in. the new way californ

pascrell: thank you, mr. speaker. ranking member. mr. chairman. this bill repeals the 2.3% excise tax on medical devices used in the united states that was originally enacted as part of the affordable care act. now let's talk straight to the american people. how many bills do we have to go through when you will admit through the chair or the speaker that all you're doing is trying to bleed the legislation, which is now law in the united states, so that the resources are not there to carry out the mandate. no industry gets a free pass when it comes to health care reform. all sectors of the health care industry, from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals to drug manufacturers, and the medical device industry, contributed to the cost of health reform. we're at the table -- and were at the table during these discussions. how different is that? they agreed to this. in a letter to president obecause many in 2009, the medical device industry pledged to do their part in lowering health spending by $2 trillion. what made them change their mind? they committed to mak