i think you will see more of an on message john boehner. he said he had not been talking to romney and his campaign, but at some point they will need a more consistent and consolidated message to appear to be a united front. >> governor, when you look at the ryan plan that has been endorsed by mr. romney, it not only slashes programs for the poor, but it actually raises taxes on poor people. and it gives a huge tax break to the rich. looking at that plan, those making less than $10,000, $112 a year. those making more than a million you see a $265,000 tax break. we're talking about policy, if it became what we do, that it would dramatically impact the people he is now trying to say he is concerned about. >> reverend al, there is an inconsistency with what he is saying and what he is proposing. the ryan budget would cut pell grants. president obama has doubled investments in pell grants. the brian budget would cut medicare severely. president obama is committed to this social safety net. it helps our senior citizens in need of nursing home ca

clearly boehner is frustrated here. will he succeed or have a tough time getting his own caucus together vote on this? >> he doesn't sound good, does he? i don't know. those sound bites were pretty interesting. i don't think he can believe in what he's saying. i have been a little bit worried about youth turnout and really hoping that young people turn out for the president in the fall. it's not a slam-dunk. but speaker boehner is helping democrats. he is -- it's not just taking the money, it's actually saying that these students don't deserve the president coming to their campus. that this issue is ginned up and it's not a real issue. it's so outrageous. i also have to say, as you said, they did vote for the ryan budget. they don't care about this and now they claim to be the party of family values. what they're saying to students, okay, we'll subsidize your loan for a little longer but your little brother can't get his immunizations and your mom can't get her breast cancer screening. >> the latest gallup poll shows th

>> no. >> speaker boehner, i've got the same question. what happened, if you would let us know, about the need for hearings on capitol hill and how much responsibility needs to be taken? >> well, i think we need to get to the bottom of it. again, from all of the reports that i've read, it certainly sounds like behavior that was inappropriate. again, let's deal with what the facts are. i'm interested in getting to the bottom of this and if there are changes that need to be made, we certainly will do that. >> speaker boehner, the white house won't issue an executive order and discrimination policies in place, preventing legislati legislation. >> i haven't seen it either. i heard heard that much about it. no one should face discrimination in the workforce and there are ample laws, already in place to deal with this. having been the chairman of the education workforce committee, i'm quite familiar with the employment law. >> when you were last here before the recess, what went wrong and what's the future of the highway legislation? >> well, i

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that must be part of what john boehner is really objecting to.hard wolfe, great to have you with us tonight for the discussion. >> my pleasure. >> facts are facts. will it stick with the american people? what do you think? >> well, i think it's very hard for the republicans to do what they're doing right now, which is to say, who are you going to believe? me or your lying eyes? you know, the economy is moving in a very different direction from where they want it to be. so they have two choices. they can try and say, the economy could've, should've, would've better if a republican would have been there. kind of what mitt romney is trying to say. that kind of conditional argument is very hard to pull off. or they can do what john boehner is doing and say, you know what, it's actually terrible. no matter what you're hearing in the news, no matter what you're seeing, it's all bad. you can fool some of the people all the time, and some of the people are not ever going to work for this president. >> you've got 450 right-wing talkers across america who

but speaker boehner is helping democrats.st taking the money, it's actually saying that these students don't deserve the president coming to their campus. that this issue is ginned up and it's not a real issue. it's so outrageous. i also have to say, as you said, they did vote for the ryan budget. they don't care about this and now they claim to be the party of family values. what they're saying to students, okay, we'll subsidize your loan for a little longer but your little brother can't get his immunizations and your mom can't get her breast cancer screening. >> the latest gallup poll shows the president has a 35 point lead with voters under 30 years old. you bring up a great point. are they going to be motivated and come out and support president obama. how do republicans narrow the gap with the very thing you're talking about. here's boehner going out there sticking it to the young people and trying to pin it on the president. what is their plan to narrow the gap, do you think? >> i'm speechless because they don't have on

ba boehner, romney. our team points out that mitt romney's biggest ral eye on capitol hill is house speaker john boehner. when asked about a coordinated attack on the president this week, on various topics, let's me play what speaker boehner had to say. >> i think this is beneath the dignity of the white house. this is biggest job in the world. and i've never seen a president make it smaller. the emperor has no clothes. i think the president's economic policies have failed. i would argue they have made things worse. and as a result, the president has turned to the politics of envy and division. >> when is the last time you spoke to anyone in the romney campaign? >> it's been a while. >> i've talk to the candidates or their campaigns during this process. >> there is no coordination with the recent attacks. almost like you're doing romney's bidding. >> i'm doing my own. >> he is doing his own. the eyebrow. >> well, it is true with john boehner that since the debt deal fell apart last summer, he's been pret

boehner is not. boehner took note of the tea party wave, and knew that he could be crushed by a or service. serve it, he did. but the freshmen are well aware he is not of that movement and the tension has been present throughout the legislative session. host: we will put the numbers back on the screen. we are talking to robert draper, and this is his new book "do not ask what good we do -- inside the u.s. house of representatives." what is the role that allen west plays in the freshman class? guest: equal opportunity offender, i think, more than anything. west is, without question, the most famous of the 87 freshmen. he was a tea party sensation before he was ever elected because in 2009 he gave this so- called bail net speech in which he did -- bayonet speech in which he exhorted his audience to pick up the bayonets and charge the enemy to victory but i think you opportunity offender because although qwest is a reluctant tea party freshman, i should mention he is from the fort lauderdale area of flo

almost home to new york city. >>> as you've heard, speaker boehner.he president's veto power. >> we sent a letter last week to congressional appropriators saying it is the top line agreed to -- >> blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. >> a group that does not blah blah blah, msnbc contributor perry macon, alicia menendez, and frank lavin, former u.s. ambassador to singapore. don't throw gum on the street in singapore, as we all know. welcome, guys. fascinating developments on capitol hill this week. perry, you spent a lot of time out there. john boehner becoming mitt romney's chief attack dog and today actually using the house floor to assist mitt romney. >> he claimed that he hadn't talk to the romney campaign which i'm sure -- >>? inn quite a while. >> -- in quite a while. whatever that means. boehner being laid back, little sharper this weekend, very sharp about the agreement, they've all argued obama's made up his student loans argument, yeah, boehner definitely helping romney as a speaker of the house should for the republican presidential candidate. >>

john boehner was coming in as speaker. the bank terminus announces in the -- advances in the senate. people were starting to write off the obama president the bush presidency after what seemed to be a promising start. i was lucky enough to talk to people in the white house, obama's inner circle, and sort of chronicle what came after that. in the lame-duck session, then the very up and down year we had in 2011 with the budget fight and the debt ceiling fights, but of course things like egypt, libya, bin laden raid, which i think set up the campaign. this is sort of a pre-campaign book in ways that examines the with the president was thinking and how he was seeing his own presidency and how he was seeing things as he was trying to tee up is very decisive 2012 election. host: the book "showdown." you brought that bill clinton. this morning, the was a biography back in the 1990's, has the roots of two presidents, born on august 15 years apart at opposite ends of the baby boom generation. bill clinton in 1946. barack obama, 196

so i do think boehner is a hypocrite for making a complaint about this. real issue is what's happening with the student loan bill. you do have some house republicans saying we're happy to support this bill. that is if you take money away from the obama care provisions that fund health care for women. so we're getting right back to the same sort of fight and boehner doesn't want that. he is making the issue about wheels up. what the republicans want to do to policy. >> it remarkable that mr. boehner finds so many words to ache the president for his use of air force one. when it come to bombeding to a question about federal funding, sorry, funding of the federal government, this is how he responds. listen to this. >> bla bla bla bla bla. all right? so? yes. >> incredible, isn't it? >> yeah. the over articulateness of the leader is remarkable. t.s. elliott is in the grave. the reality is this is all the republicans say is when the speaker is bla bla bla. the bad news of the ability to identify with the average american. here they are remonday straighting aga

. >> the republican house speaker john boehner who has publicly expressed concerns about holding his majority in the house decided to take his first compromised step toward the president today on student loans. >> today i'm pleased to announce that on friday the house will vote on a bill to extend the current interest rate on federal student loans for one year. >> but boehner is going to try to turn this republican surrender to the president into at least some kind of partial victory. >> we will pay for this by taking money from one of the slush funds in the president's health care law. you know, this week, the president's traveling the country on the taxpayer's dime, campaigning and trying to invent a fight where in isn't one, and there never has been one, on these student loans. >> harry reid's democratic senate plan for the student loan fix is to pay for it by closing a corporate tax loophole. now that the president has forced the republicans to agree in principal on the student loan fix, we will no doubt have a few weeks of interparty wrangling of exactly how to pay for it. we no

it's a deal. >> boehner's response was blah, blah, blah.s represents a new low in terms of relationships between democrats and republicans in both the white house and congress. >> boehner has some housekeeping to do internally as usual. when john boehner is making a speech and he's getting emotional and talking about barack obama, three-quarters of the time it has to do with him doing internal housekeeping. he's still -- particularly if he loses -- kasie probably knows better than me -- eight to 12 seats is probably the estimate. he's back in the business he's been in for a year and a half of proving himself to the right in his own house. this has to do with internal politics. >> we look at the to-do list which is massive in terms of the significance of the legislation and complexity around it. we have the push tax cuts expiring. the payroll tax holiday ends, expanded unemployment insurance benefits and, of course, the triggers go into place. >> and the debt ceiling. >> and the debt ceiling. this really means -- you look at the tenor now, i

i think that undercuts the attacks on john boehner.nk the public gets that. >> i don't think the public separates the senate from the house. congress's approval rating is 19% or is it 9%? i can't remember what. >> one republican. >> it's a pox on both their houses. the senate doesn't get anything accomplished, in part because of the rules of the senate. you to have 60 votes before you can accomplish anything. >> they're avoiding budgeting. >> that's the thing. the budget includes taxes. the budget includes entitlements. the budget includes spending. the budget includes debt. they won't even take it up. aren't they a target, bob costas? >> you know what is really bigger target, if people say they don't care about the budget, they do care about the scandal like the gsa scandal. when they see government out of control, that's a real tangible example people can say we want to get government, rein it in and pass some better budgets. that's what people really pay attention to. >> this is one of the most tenuous connections i've ever heard be

candy crowley's exclusive interview with speaker john boehner begins right now. we'll begin in just a moment. thank you. >>> listen. if the election were today, i'd be very optimistic. >> you're looking at the view from the best seat in the house. the question is whether speaker boehner can keep it. >>> also today, the death of bin laden as a political talking point with the president top counterterrorism adviser john brennan. >>> and then the view from out there with two governors montana governor brian schweitzer and virginia republican bob mcdonnell. >>> plus the president's club with nancy gibbs and michael duffy and our exclusive guest house speaker john boehner. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> mr. speaker, primeau view, great digs. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> how many days have you thought, did i actually want this job? >> a lot. >> big headaches. mr. speaker, thank you for joining us. let me start right out with the week's story, which is the student loans. the president has issued a veto threat and said if this keeping

the inside story how obama fought back against boehner, canter. >> we don't need another president that'srying to one up his daddy. it seems likeç romney wants toe president because he father couldn't. it's bad when they want to run for office because they want to be something, not because they want to do something. he was born with a silver spoon in his or afice and he was not able to get it out. he is a out of touch rich person who cannot relate to people who are suffering. if america was all million airs and billion airs, he might be the ideal president, but that's not where america is for today, and for the rest of us, he is a horror. >> david, let's dig a little deeper in this. this is not just sloganeering. when you look at his foreign policy advisors, let me give you some examples. black, hayden, designed bush's spying programs from the nsa. kagan rallied conservatives for the iraq invasion. these are specific, clear persons who played key roles in the foreign policy of bush administration. >> i think if you ask americans if the foreign policy for the bush administration was a suc

boehner knows he's on the wrong side of the fight and so does mitt romney.itt romney was in ohio today trying to sound very concerned about education. instead, he sounded once again like he's seriously out of touch. >> this kind of divisiveness, this attack of success is very different than what we have seen in our country's history. we have always encouraged young people, take a shot, go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money from your parents. >> someone needs to held him not every kid in america has parents whoare millionaires. was it just last week that in pennsylvania the republican de facto nominee was sitting down with middle classers talking about education. they were telling him we're concerned about our local schools. we're concerned about education. we're concerned about our kids futures. there's been a lot of budget cuts. why did he just say you got to suck it up. you got to send your kid to college. you got to just borrow your kid some money. this is about the dumbest thing he's said on the campaign trial. this is proof positive h

hour politicians are eternally optimistic about their reelection hopes but speaker of the house john boehner isn't so optimistic this year for some reason just a moment we'll break down exactly what the odds are of republicans keeping power in the house of representatives after november and austerity continues to run amuck across the globe and it's claimed another victim and eventually take i'll tell you about that victim intolerable breakdown who is driving this austerity and who stands to benefit the most from it. all right in the best of the rest of the news is the republican majority in the house of representatives in danger speaker of the house john boehner seems to think so in an interview with fox news speaker boehner said this about the republican prospects of holding the house after november i said there's a two in three chance that we win. control of the house. but there's a one of three chance i'll be the loser but i feel myself frank. we've got a big challenge and we've got work to do. a lot of work to do indeed but just what kind of work is the question republicans came to power

even speaker boehner just now with you saying he is a very likable guy.p waiting for one of them to say he will be a great president. he is a very likable guy. >> we trade phone messages. >> that was quite remarkable. he told you that they traded e-mail messages. it's phone messages. >> phone messages back and forth. and honestly, he is now is not romney now the head of the republican party? should this not be the time that they're gathering around him and, by the way, isn't some -- aren't some of the fights that they're going to have on capitol hill going reflect on his campaign and vice versa? >> normally the republican party is excellent at coalessing at this stage around their guy, but this is not a normal time for the republican party. it is because of people like all the folks who ran in the campaign still very fractured, still divided, and even in boehner's remarks, you could hear when he talked to you -- you could hear a kind of subtext of the problems the gop was having. he talked in there about making government -- he complained that president o

new exclusive interview with speaker of the house john boehner. usually confident speaker boehner sending a very clear message to his colleagues on capitol hill. good morning, i'm bill hemmer. thank you for being here. good to see you. martha: good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. speaker boehner preparing for the very real scenario, he says, that his party may lose the majority in the house. watch this. >> i would say there is two in three chance we win control of the house again but there is a one in three chance we could lose. i'm being myself frank. we have a big challenge. we have got bjork to do. bill: it does not end there. you will hear the full interview. the speaker said 2012 says it is the most important election in his lifetime. that is coming up here. meanwhile start new -- stark new warnings about the future of social security. new reports that the fund could run dry years before it was thought that is word from the trustees keeping tab on the program. medicaid also in danger. stuart varney of the fox business network crunch

that is the charge from house speaker john boehner.how you why he's making that charge, on what basis, in a fair and balanced debate right after this break. >> these are the types of political stunts and, frankly, they aren't worth and worthy of his office. this is the biggest job in the world. and i've never seen a president make it smaller. ♪ ere's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. megyn: some harsh new criticism lesmed against president obama by the speaker of the house, john boehner, mr. boehner accusing the president of inventing a, quote, fake fight with republicans over the issue of student loan rates. so he, president obama, can score political points with voters in an election year. take a listen: >> for the president to make a campaign issue out of this and then to travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try t

mitt romney hooking up with john boehner. a span of three days after this became a national news story. look atç the coordination betwn the gop leadership and mitt romney. >> speaker boehner barely speaks to mitt romney, remember that? >> thanks so much, guys. if you'd like to see those two gentlemen in tuxedos, tune in tomorrow night for special coverage the white house correspondents dinner. that begins here at 10:00 eastern. we'll be right back to clear the air. [ male announcer ] if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control. guys. come here, come here. [ telephone ringing ] i'm calling my old dealer

frosty as boehner said it's just a matter of trust here where boehner and obama were so close to that then they didn't get the deal done, and both sides are still pointing fingers to this day. rick: they didn't get the deal son and now speaker boehner is saying that the president basically checked out on labor day at the end of last summer, checked out, went into his re-election mode and has stopped governing. i wonder when we hear the sort of combative tone of speaker boehner and he's not the only republican saying these kind of this is, not just mitt romney. what kind of a role will speaker boehner play in the upcoming general election? >> president obama has the bully pulpit. republicans know they are at a disadvantage. they need republican surrogates to go up against president obama and the bully pulpit, that's why mitch mcconnell on the senate florida was attacking president obama and democratic policies as a disgrace. that's why mcconnell endorsed romney. that's why boehner was attacking obama. i think congressional leaders will have a big role. mitt romney has run on the anti-w

the boehner i love this. boehner attacks obama then denies it.icans, the vast majority of americans are for. manipulation in the oil markets without one shred of evidence. then they pick the student loan fight. where there is no fight. he didn't pick a fight. he wants the loan rates you know, to not double and mitt romney supports it and then they have to turn around. >> and backtrack. >> stephanie: that was the president picking a fight? okay. all right. let's see. candy crowley asked how many days does boehner wonder if he wanted the job. >> i think she called him boehner. >> stephanie: probably. he probably wishes he could -- >> the tavern. >> stephanie: did you see jimmy kimmel's joke on the feud between boehner and kantor. they couldn't agree on the wording of a ransom note. more from jimmy kimmel. >> president obama wanted to move the dinner to the kennedy center but the republicans wanted to keep it here at the hilton so they compromised and here we are at the hilton. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: let's go to maria in chicago. hi maria welcom

speaker john boehner has enough. take a listen. >> they expect us to come here and be honest with each other, to work out these issues, and pick this big political fight where there is no fight is just silly. give me a break. >> yeah, i'll give him a break. the student loan thing is a big thing in the budget. >>> we sound off on obama's leadership that may be killing the economy. entitlement on student loans, why isn't anyone fighting it besides me. you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade. departure. hertz gold plus rewards also offers ereturn-- our fastest way to return your car. just note your mileage and zap ! you're outta there ! we'll e-ma

you see that in the way he talks about speaker john boehner. not that they were really at odds personally, but he is pretty confident in the speaker's leadership. he would not even venture a guess as to whether the speaker would not be the speaker next year if the republicans hold power. he has confidence for him in that respect. it is interesting what he was saying about the election. he is a hard-core conservative guy who is not ready to endorse romney. marco rubio, as senator from florida, has recently come out and supported romney. he is saying similar what we have heard from jim demint, that he is comfortable with him. >> and that is because republicans are, above all else, desirous of replacing the president. they can work with him to oust barack obama. you can kind of read between the lines and listen between the lines of what these members are saying. even jim demint, the very conservative south carolina senator, is giving a wink and a nod to romney despite the fact that a lot of them have enormous misgivings about his waffling is about