. >>> let me bring in democratic strategist professor bob shrum. bob, good to have you on. what did we learn about the 2016 field at saturday's freedom summit? how insightful. >> first of all, it should be called the fat-free summit. you quoted rand paul as saying the republicans shouldn't be the party of wall street and the wealthy, then he endorses massive tax cuts for wall street and the wealthy, and as senator sanders just said, along with that come these huge cuts in medicare and social security. ted cruz goes up there to a summit that's supposed to focus on economic issues and says he wants the republican party to double down on social issues. rand paul comes back and says oh, we don't want to have a pure litmus test. but he has one for supreme court nominees. he's anti-choice. he's anti-lgbt rights. you listen to the montage of stuff you put together at the beginning of the show, and i am happy to endorse any of these guys, any of these fringe figures, or marsha blackburn for the republican nomination. they get beaten like a drum in 2016. >> huckabee comparing the un

. >> and bob shrum. how do you think she'll handle this in her book?n a very truthful way. it was a terrible tragedy. the conservative columnist is right, the gop ought to get off of this. didn't work in 2012 against obama and won't work in 2016 against clinton. if republicans come after her on that they are speaking to true believes. i think she'll be very forthright about what happened and will say i'm sure that this is not the kind of decision that ever reaches the level of the secretary of state. that is how you're allocating security at embassies and the fact that the congressional republicans cut the budget for security before this happened. >> it's true and she was on the hill warning that there could be security disasters because of those cuts. robert traynam, look the at one of clinton's potential 2016 foes, the "washington post" had an amusing roundup of the history of candidates and people who never end up being candidates. rand paul has said he's seriously thinking about running and even ted nugent said he's thinking about it. does the late

. >> joining me tonight is bob shrum, profess ov at nyu. great to have you with us tonight.se, by the way, on this 20-count indictment from republican leaders. why are they silent? why do they have a hard time with this. this is one of their folks. >> i think as we get down the road, we probably will hear from them. initially they want to draw this technical line, say these charges relate to things that happened before he ran for congress, so i get it's all right to have a guy charged with massive tax fraud, with underreporting income, with mail fraud, as long as he did it before he got to congress. i think the pressure will mount and ultimately i think they will say something. >> he's on the ballot in november, you know. you were going to say? >> that's the problem. the problem is that, as long as he stays alive, the only way they can get him off the ballot is if he's appointed to a judgeship. that would be a real first. i don't think we're going to see somebody until federal indictment appointed to a judgeship. the situation for republicans in that district is grim. i thin