carl cameron live at cpac in maryland. carl. >> reporter: hi, gregg. these are among the nation's most conservative grass roots activis activists. and they are a big representative sample of the seriously conservative voters who can often decide the first primaries and caucuses ever 2016 in the presidential race. they have been voting for 2 1/2 days in the annual straw poll. last year it won by rand paul, something of a favorite. well received. the balloting ended at 1:30. the votes will be public in the next hour or so. it could be a boost for a number of candidates looking to get a stamp of approval from conservatives. one of the candidates who was particularly tough not just on the obama campaign, ageneral ga, also on the leadership in washington. mitch mcconnell, john boehner, the leader of the house republicans and others, rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator who briefly won the iowa caucuses. listen to this. >> let's face it. we have a bunch of leaders in this country who don't believe conservative policies can be the basis of a winning

carl cameron mentioned it at the very end of his report. you have a fascinating dynamic taking place there, three republicans running, three who are already in the house of representatives, running now to be the senate nominee. you have jack kingston, phil gingrey and paul brown and brown is the one who is leading at the moment but from the democrats' perspective he's the guy given to making extreme statements. i think he said evolution is a lie straight from the pit of hell and that kind of stuff so in some ways the republicans are again finding themselves in the same box that led them not to capture the senate last time when i thought they were going to get a majority which is that they nominate candidates that don't have a great deal of appeal to independents and democrats. >> because while people would look at georgia and say that's a -- probably a republican-leaning place, sam nunn's daughter is positioned on the democratic side to be a formidable democratic candidate potentially. >> yes, and you should say that sam nunn is a moderate

carl cameron is live at cpac in maryland right now. we are watching dr. ben carson there. what can you tell us? >> dr. ben carson is one of the three or four speakers throughout the course of this three-day conservative political action conference who has packed the halls. it's standing-room only. there is a big draft dr. ben carson president for movement around the country. he's been coy saying he doesn't think that is a great idea and not interested in 2 running for president. he's one of the world's leading pediatric heart surgeons and very conservative and much becpac. he is not one of the 2016 presidential contenders. we had a steady stream of would-be white house candidates for 2016. it began with ted cruz, senator from texas on thursday morning. he lit it up although it was an early morning conference speech and there weren't a lot of people here. the enthusiasm was palable. chris christie had the first bit of good press in the wake of the george washington bridge scandal back in his new jersey. the governor is chairman of the governors association. by far and away

carl cameron on whether congress will define president obama and build up the military in the face of russian threat. that report moments away. >>> washington beat segment tonight, if anyone can solve the mystery of the malaysian jetliner it's the fbi. >> i get briefed on it every morning, i have teams working literally around the clock to try and exploit that. i don't want it say more about that in an open setting but i expect it to be done fairly shortly. within a day or two to finish that work. >> joining us now from washington ace correspondent carl cameron and james rosen that work, that's the breaking down of the pilot similarity and i assume cell phone calls and stuff like that. is that what director comey is talking about, rosen? >> that's right, bill. is he talking about the flight similarity that the lead co-pilot on malaysian airlines flight 370 o, a 3-year-old smarry had installed in his home, a hard drive from that similarity was delivered to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia. and the technicians are trying to see if they can recover files that were cleated from that hard

. >> now bringing in carl cameron who is there in the room as we await for them to get to the results's the feeling like there, carl? >> reporter: , well, we can tell you that when they read the results, rand paul, the senator from kentucky, will be the winner with what i'm told is 31% of the cpac ballots cast. there were more than 20 candidates on the ballot. there were nine focus 2016 potential candidates on it. i can get to you 14 or 16 potentially viable contenders who may run. how you get to 20 puts in vice presidential candidates. they're announcing the winners of journalistic contests. in just a minute, they'll run off the roster of who came in second and third and fourth and fifth. it's important to know rand paul won in 2013 and back then, the number two, runner up number two was florida senator marco rubio. a lot of folks have suggested that he may slip in the standings a little bit because there was a strong speech delivered by texas senator ted cruz to launch the cpac conference this year on thursday morning that another texan, governor rick perry, gave a stem winding spee

but we do have fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron from washington.unks out on us and the reason he did it is because kerry is running him all around. let's just deal with kerry first. secretary of state, he goes to kiev, to ukraine, he says we'll give you a billion dollars in loan guarantees, we'll take care of you guys. you know, and then he says bad things about putin. then he hops on a plane with rosen. rosen and kerry are buddies. and they fly to paris, three hours, and they get off. now kerry's in paris. what is he supposed to do there? >> well, he's doing a lot of talking and james has been doing a lot of talking about that, obsessively keeping us up to date on all this stuff. kerr ji meeting with his allies and counterparts from the uk as well as the new ukrainian foreign minister and the french foreign minister and he's going to meet with russian foreign minister sergi lavrov who has been pretty tough on american secretaries of state over the last few decades. there is virtually nothing expected to get accomplished here. and according to jame

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and the results from this year's straw poll, chief political correspondent carl cameron live at cpac. carl. >> reporter: good morning. we should make the disclosure that the straw poll is very unofficial. politically not that meaningful in the long term. but it is a snapshot of how these very conservative members like who they have heard from. there have been nine would-be presidential candidates to speak to the organization over the last two days. and the ballot of the cpac straw poll which will be the results of which will be announced later this afternoon has 30 plus candidates on it. is that right, 30 -- 26, i'm sorry. 26 candidates. gets lost in the numbers. this reporter could get you up to 16 republicans who might make viable potential candidates which is kind of night in the terms of 16 for 2016. but to get to more than 20 is pretty astounding. who gets selected here? if the past is an indication, rand paul won it in 2016 and he gave a stem liner of speech yesterday. it's largely focused on beating up on president obama, but there is a tremendous amount of dissent. republicans

. >> carl cameron was. there a clear winner this year?anybody who was not first will argue it is that that important. rand paul won second year in a row that the tea party faf ret pulled it off. he had more than the next three competitor combined. ted cruz and tea party darling had 11 percent. shocker and big surprise, ben carson famous when he took on president obama came in with nine percent and not considered a contender and chris kroifty who needed good nows came in fourth with eight percent and scott walker who didn't attend the conference came in fifth. rick sanatorium seven and marco rubio 6 percent. he was second place last year. and paul ryan and airplane of the house bottoming committee in throw percent. and rick perry came in second. and he trying to rehab his image and come back from 2012. and his showing up this week. 4krhetoric. >> and i love to ask you questions like. that and you have a great answer about history. when you look at the straw poll, what does it tell us? >> it is put on a cu. and that you are one of the group

and joining me now, carl cameron. hey, carl?yn, this is a big event for chris christie, he has not gotten a lot of relief from the press, he has been beaten up because of the bridgegate scandal. he started out. it was a little tepid in the response. there are a lot of conservatives that are skeptical about a governor from a state as blue as new jersey. yet he hit all the right tones of attacking the liberal media. accusing the left of stereotyping the republicans and demonizing them. here is a little how he put it. >> we need leaders now who say not only we are against obamacare, which we are. we need leaders that are not only going to say we're against higher taxes, which we are, we're against a bigger government, we're against more intrusion to our constitutional rights. >> christie has been criticized for being too hot with his rhetoric. he may have toned it down a little bit. but there was a big contrast from senator ted cruz, a tea party darling who went right at the obama administration and right at the establishment who s

carl cameron is at work this week. carl cameron in d.c. hey, carl. >> reporter: hi, martha.k's day. it has been raining since sunday evening, shutting down d.c. on mondays last few weekend. a number of records broken as well. last night the storm started around 7:00 in the d.c. area. by midnight, six inches of snow had fallen. that is record. reagan airport was closed considerable amount of time. they have opened up one runway in national here in d.c. dulles is only three. there are flights being canceled all up and down the east coast. a number of problems, d.c. government is closed. federal government is closed. schools are closed across the region. there was a pretty major accident on i-95 about four a.m. on the interstate. a bus flipped over on its side. 54 passengers were taken to the hospital. three ad serious injuries but not life-threatening. this is exhausting school days because so many schools had cancellations this part of winter and spring and budgets are wrecked too. it has begun to lighten up. roads are clear. house and senate were off. they didn't have any wo

political correspondent carl cameron live. for us. >> reporter: started last night. jeb bush honored at a private dinner last night in the personal las vegas airport hanger that belongs to sheldon adelson. the event close to the press and public as much of what will happen this weekend. a casino magnet and gop mega donner. owns resort and casino hosting this weekend's off the record retreat for republican jewish coalition. jeb bush and others invited to meet and speak. in 2012 adelson donated $15 million to newt gingrich's republican presidential primary campaign and another $30 million to mitt romney. that was only a slice of the more than $92 million he spent in the overall effort to beat democrats and president obama. that number doesn't include money he gave to super pax that don't have to disclose where it comes from. big, big bucks. who he backs is a big deal. the chance jeb bush got vetted last night, the spotlight heat is going to get much bigger. >> other than dinner in the airplane hangar, has adelson indicated who h

chief political correspondent carl cameron is live at the conference in maryland. carl. >> reporter: hi, gregg. there's going to be a lot of political beauty contests over the course of the next two years, but cpac is always the biggest one of any particular year. and today rick perry was sort of trying ore juvenate his -- rejuvenate his presentation. he is eyeing a presidential run, and he sort of aligned himself with the rebels in the republican party, suggesting not only should the gop be increasingly oppose today the obama agenda, but conservatives ought to be willing to revolt against the status quo and try to shake it up a little bit. fiery rick perry for the first speech of the day to wake up the conference goers. watch. >> this economic recovery is absolutely stagnant. our place in the world is weakened. so i have a simple solution: it's time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas! [cheers and applause] >> reporter: yesterday a couple of republican wannabes for 2016 sort of sparred back and forth. you had chris christie saying the republican par

carl cameron looks at that question tonight. >> as president obama's first secretary of state, hillary clinton pushed the administration's foreign policy agenda. russia was big, and from the get-go, had a rocky start. she presented russian foreign minister lavrov with a gift wrapped reset button, meant to emphasis the commitment to improve relations with russia. instead, it caused an international embarrassment. >> we worked hard to get the right russian word. do you think we got it? >> you got it wrong. >> we got it wrong. >> this says -- means overcharged. >> clinton's attempt at humor was not enough. >> we won't let you do that to us, i promise. >> the secretary of state in the obama administration were scorned as amateurish by the international press. a new book out about clinton recalled her inner circle saying no one asked for the meaning of the word, and it was emergency stop button that had been pilfered from a swimming pool or jacuzzi at the hotel. clinton has a new book of her own coming out in which many expect her to give her own versions of the controversies. >> she was th

ace correspondence carl cameron in washington.state john kerry not looking too strong these days with putin running wild. what's the latest. >> the latest, bill, we have learned that u.s. and great britain are going to be conducting joint military exercises with the ukrainian forces taking the diplomatic lead for the obama administration was vice president biden he wrapped up a tour of capitols. he said that nato will under article a respond to any active aggression against any member. president obama will use upcoming nato summit to be held in south wales to rally the nato countries to take collective action. the only problem with that is that summit in wales isn't until september six months away. that shows the administration is preparing for long crisis in ukraine. gives vladimir putin a signal how much time he has. >> we have meeting next week in the hague in netherlands with the g-7 supposed to get together without putin. now putin, i don't know if is he going but his people will be there because it's a nuclear proliferation

carl cameron on making deportation humane. >> it was supposed to be all about the irish with st.patrick's day looming, but the president had undocumented immigrants from south of the border on his mind. >> there's no reason why we can't do for this generation of immigrants what was done for a previous generation, to give them that chance. >> under intense pressure from hispanics to relax the deportation of undocumented immigrants, the president has ordered the department of homeland security to study ways to do so. >> what the president has asked secretary johnson to do is conduct a review of practices to insure that within the confines of the law, we are carrying out the policies in the most humane way possible. >> mr. obama met privately with members of the hispanic confr conference, including ruben hinojosa, and they issued a statement saying the president hoped to, quote, reduce the pain of the current enforcement escalation. the administration says nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants have been deported since 2009, but that include those apprehended at the border and qui

carl cameron tonight on the controversial charter schools. >> new york city's democrat mayor bill de blasio is making waves in the big apple with a series of education reforms that could divide his party ahead of the midterms and ripple to the 2016 presidential race. >> i didn't come here to leave a generation of children behind. i came here to uplift a generation of children. >> de blasio is pushing pre-k and after school programs while under fire from critics who say he's denying charter schools space to operate, closing one school in harlem where fifth graders have the highest math scores in the state. eva runs a new york charter school system. >> it's unfathomable, unconscionable. i cannot explain the decision. >> as public schools struggle nationwide to meet their students' needs, centrist democrats and independents are increasingly supportive of charter schools. >> andrew cuomo, a liberal who is considering a 2016 presidential run and would need to appeal to moderates and swing voters nationwide to have a chance promised a crowd of several thousand infuriated parents he would b

chief political correspondent carl cameron sells us there has not been anything like it in decades. > republicans are targeting 14 states in their quest for six more seats in the senate majority this year. now a new hampshire transplant from south of the border, former massachusetts u.s. senator, scott brown, is putting the state in play. outside groups are helping jeanne shaheen for broken promises. >> you can keep your insurance if you like it. >> the facts, more than 20,000 new hampshire patients have had their coverage canceled. >> the gop has also added colorado to its list. mark udall was safe until cory gardner challenged udall, who now faces a similar barrage of health care attacks. >> obamacare doesn't work. it just doesn't work. tell senator udall to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> the gop's 2014 road map includes three must-win states where democrats are retiring. south dakota where mike brown leads rick weiland. west virginia, where shelly more capito leads natalie tenant, and montana, where steve danes has a double digit lead over former l

chief political correspondent carl cameron is in national harbor, narland, for cpac again tonight. >>r and tea party darling rand paul hit the

chief political correspondent carl cameron is in national harbor, narland, for cpac again tonight. >> kentucky senator and tea party darling rand paul hit the stage to huge applause. >> you may think i'm talking about electing republicans. i'm not. i'm talking about electing lovers of liberty. >> the libertarian leaning conservative won cpac's presidential straw poll last year with strong support from young conservatives who get bussed in from colleges around the country by cpac every year, and today, he ripped into the federal government for eavesdropping on american phone calls. >> i believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business. >> paul boasted about his federal lawsuit against this president and railed against past democrats, politicians, and preside presidents, he said violated the rights of americans. >> progressives believe a majority may separate you from your rights. jim crow, the japanese internment, today's indefinite detention without trial. only occur when we allow our god-given rights to be abridged by majority vote. >> with more standing ovations

tonight chief political correspondent carl cameron explains how paul's popularity ties in with concernsgovernment surveillance of american citizens. a tea party darling with a libertarian flair, kentucky u.s. senator rand paul is emerging as a leading candidate among republican presidential hopefuls with his criticism of government surveillance programs. >> what you read or what you send in your e-mail or your text messages is none of their damn business. >> reporter: but the head of the national security agency says paul fails to understand what's really happening. >> if you talk to other members of congress, they will tell you that we're doing the right thing here. from my perspective we aren't doing anything illegal. >> reporter: paul is suing the president, challenging the constitutionality of the surveillance and data collection. national security hawks worry he would scale back the worldwide u.s. leadership role and calls himself a realist, not an isolationist and has won fans outside of the gop's usual circles. >> it's an interesting nexus, republican, democrat, right, left, youn

chief political correspondent carl cameron has tonight's top story from national harbor, maryland >> reporter: annual political action conference known as cpac drew nine potential 2016 presidential candidates, none faced more scrutiny than new jersey governor chris christie who drew the biggest crowd and got a lukewarm response when he aligned with pragmatists in the gop who say sometimes ideology must take a back seat for election victories. >> we don't get to govern if we don't win. >> christie got snubbed last year as insufficiently covertive and got invited this year. he said republicans shouldn't led the media brand them as on trucksists and that republicans need solutions to get things done. >> we need leaders now who are willing to say not only that we are against obamacare, which we are. we need leaders that are not only going to say we're against higher taxes, which we are. we're against a bigger government. we're against more intrusion into our constitutional rights. we're against all those things, but we need to also talk about what we're for. >> christie got a standing ov

carl cameron on the high stakes in politics in sin city. >> jeb bush was honored at an exclusive galaa private las vegas hangar last night of sheldon adelson. he's on the board of the republican jewish coalition, which is holding its off the record retreat at the venetian resort and casino. wisconsin governor scott walker, john casech, and chris christie are taking part in the retreat behind closed doors. for bush, it's a particularly big moment. by this point in past presidential cycles, this son of one president and brother of another had taken himself out of the meeting. he knows this will fire up speculation about his decision, expected by the end of the year, to run or not. >> this is some real sign, some real smoke signal that he may well get in it. >> in 2012, the newt gingrich campaign got $50 million from adelson. mitt romney got $30 million. overall, adelson spent more than $90 million in 2012 trying to defeat democrats and president obama. this time, he wants las vegas to host the republican convention. and more than anything, a mainstream economic and foreign policy conser

ace reporters carl cameron and james rosen. let's start with ukraine, rosen, what happened today?f state kerry just a little while from now is going to be on an airplane heading to london for two days of last ditch meetings with counterpart sergei lavrov. with him kerry spoke today. the goal for terry is to cut some kind of deal with lavrov. crimea result voting overwhelmingly to have their region, the crimea next formally to russia. cards held by the respective party here. the striking deal with sergei lavrov appear to this observer remote. >> if you guys go ahead and do this we are going to do this to you. does he have a stick? >> he claims he does it's not clear that he does. his claim stick is that the eu all the european countries heavily dependent on russia for energy are standing with the united states and ukraine in this situation. but that remains to be seen. >> what are you going to do to putin? you got to put economic sanctions on him and i wonder if kerry -- it's not good to negotiate in the press and we understand that if he is just going to go over there and beg it's

carl cameron is live in washington. arl, why the florida race is so important to keep an eye on. >> greg waldon just said this seconds ago talking to reports: he said these types of special elections are not going to determine what is going to happen on the general election day, but they show which issues are potent and obamacare is playing big. dave jolly and alex sync, have been in a tough battle and the funds spent are well into a millions. next week, there is a governor's race in illinois. pat quinn is one of the most at-risk democrat governors up. and the 13th district, freshman republican congressman rodney davis is facing challenge from erica herald who graduated from harvard law is a peppering the internet with law videos. nothing in april, but heating up in may for the battle of the senate. >> what happens in may? >> they start on the second and third tuesday. west virginia has an open seat. a democrat retired and republicans have targeted that one. that is a big primary and it will set the stage for what could

there will be a long list of speakers on day two and carl cameron back at his post. what do you think was the story that emerged from day one? >> there was a lot of pressure chris christie to perform well. there is scepticism the political action conference for the blue state of new jersey but he got a warm reception ned and he did so in part arguing the republican party need to take a pragmatic attitude to govern. that made a contrast to what ted cruz said yesterday. yesterday you had bobby jindal and paul ryan. it was the setup of nine candidates that will be speak at the political across conference. all of them eyeing the race. paul ryan said he thinks it's type for rebellion on the battle for ideas. conservatives are have much playing out the debate about how best to move forward as a party and a movement and put conservative candidates in elections and win in november as well as 2016. bill: what is expected today? >> reporter: we'll hear from mike huckabee who won the 2008 iowa caucasus. he's a fox news contributor. we'll hear from rick santorum who came close t

jenna: we're showing live pictures of cpac right now, carl cameron reminded us last year he wasn't even to this conference. you mentioned some numbers, so i'm just going to show them to our viewers because these are new numbers we have on chris christie, would he make a good president? yes is at 24%, no is at 52%, but you can see that's a big change from the previous few months. and then this, this is also something that we saw. how much will the bridge scandal hurt chris christie's presidential campaign? and 70% of people said a great deal or somewhat. karl, on what chris christie is doing now, addressing the crowd of conservatives, obviously, he's thought of as somebody for the republican party in 2016. what do you think he needs to do now? >> well, first, he needs to push on through this scandal. that is to say, it needs to come to a closure through the normal investigation that's going to be, the normal timing that's going to be of the investigation and so forth. i think charles krauthammer caught it right a few weeks ago when he said he's one e-mail away from total destruction. i d

paul cameron is in national harbor maryland right in the middle of it all. carl. >> they are the most conservative republicans and many of them don't even call themselves republicans because they don't think that truly expresses the disease of their conservative ideology. many of them will cast their ballots today. there are trinkets, books, speeches, and break out sessions going on all week and these potential 2016 candidates. a total of nine of them have spoken over the course of the last two days out of a field of perhaps as many as 16 republicans in 2016. this has been a particularly combative confidence with all of the speakers hammering president obama aggressively which is standard but much more pronounced expressions of division in the republican party and real descent among conservatives against not only the obama agenda but the republican leadership in the house and senate. downstairs, one of the things that is a big, big popular item is the voter brick specifically made of styrofoam so you can throw it at your tv and not break it. this one is the obama