cook political report. and charliest, we'll get chris to chime in on this. i was taken aback that rand paul went out on this limb to a degree, because he was really setting himself up as the right-wing presidential candidate. this separate 0ing up a flag on the immigration front. that someone like a tom tancredo did in 2008, could exploit rand paul if they wanted to. >> it could, but i'm looking at it on the first level, is that this is a remarkable speech. here we have the person who has become pretty much the most important tea party figure in the entire country. embracing immigration reform. which many republican establishment figures, republican strategists and independent analysts believe the single most, the single-most important thing for the republicans to do, he embraced it. you can imagine that john boehner, mitch mcconnell and other party leaders are really happy with this. >> it gives him good cover. >> absolutely and a lot of members good cover. to your point, does it open up some room to the right? you kn

the national journal's charlie cook asking, by joining themselves into safe lily white strongholds, have republicans inadvertently boxed themselves into an alternate universe that bears little resemiblanks to the rest of the country? how does redistricting, how does it hurt the gop's ability to reach minority voters? >> well, first it helped in the short term by allowing them to hold on to the house in 2012 despite losing the popular house vote across the country. but what it did was put more whites into white districts and put minorities in the democratic districts all in an effort to protect republican incouple benlts. as charlie cook lays out there, we need to have a better effort to reach out to latinos, to african-americans. when you have republican who are just representing white americans, it is very hard to speak to that. >> how can you reach out and talk to folks if none of them live near you? >> precisely. >> really quickly before i let you go, a lot of these issues played out over the weekend. there was some disagreement over how much the gop needs to change its message or the

that is from charlie cook. sounds like a joke.. $277,000 a year for the white house this three calligraphers. $100,000 for the executive chef. $700 a year for the first family's health care costs. i cannot believe that. that one hawaiian vacation, $4 million. again, those numbers are from charlie cook. white house tours cost $18,000 a week. he canceled just one golf trip. no, paying for the public may be seen and felt. the president political maneuvering became apparent. make the cuts hurt and blame the republicans. we can now see that policy for what it is. ridiculous. ♪ ♪ stuart: check the big board. half-hour into the trading session this half-hour. following three records in a row. we were well above 14400. we are now back to 14340. nicole: we saw strength in the u.s. there is still weakness for customer traffic in europe and japan. they did see a u.s. recovery. they had been boosting the dollar menu advertising. they shifted that. obviously, they have done well here in the states. the numbers, the prior year, it actually incl

charlie cook of turning point usa joins us now.t's always good to see you, thank you for coming on the show. you know, i am looking at these deals and thinking, is colleges are just trying to get people to take on more debt. it is an idea to fall for one of these deals, good or bad? >> they need to recognize they are trying to attract more students. but it doesn't solve the problem. it does not mean that they will get employment. the price is going up, but the valley was not there for some of these liberal arts degrees. the kids will not necessarily find employment. >> that is true. gerri: last year, and nebraska wesleyan university said that they will get a free year, 50 are free of school they can't find a job and have a 3.5 gpa. why are they making these appeals? >> somebody has to pay for it. the taxpayer is sometimes the person it does. a lot of federal subsidies going to these things. it is dangerous to call it a free year. if the students are not succeeding, it is the txpayer that pays for that. gerri: isn't that what has sp

charlie cook, the politico handicapper said every couple of years jeb bush takes his name out of theand holds a geiger up to it and if it's still radiating puts it back in the drawer another two years. . it is certainly something that is on his mind but we see with this book tour that jeb bush is doing he does want to get back in the game. whether he is going to run or not. the way people close to him describe it as he is thinking about thinking about it. one more step to go. definitely signaling to donors and operative supporters he might jump in. >> mark halpern, what did the last week mean to jeb bush in terms of his political future? did we see a man who is preparing himself to run for president? some say he did damage to 4his prospects by running for his stance on immigration. >> i'm surprised he didn't think how the immigration thing would play better than it did because i don't think it was a necessary plus for him on in terms of the switch to path for citizenship. i think what he showed he is like hillary clinton which is a lot of things you need to run for president. he's go

cooked. feeling well done? how about just done. charles, and dagen and adam and charlie, all right. charles, yeah, yeah. great job . anyway, i told them that you were me. see how that goes. nyeah, okay. i can handle that. all right. what do you make of this and all of the sudden, you can deny the problem and then the problem i guess goes away? i don't think in this case it goes away. >> when i saw that george stephanopoulos interview imented to scream and cry and i wasn't -- >> at george stephanopoulos or the president. >> i am not sure. i feltment say way with dennis rodman's interview. the idea there is no crisis there is obviously a disconnect. the there is a crisis. the president keeps saying if we don't figure out how to shuffle outut trillion necessary u.s. economy and fight global warming because it gets one degrees warmer in the next hundred yearings. the clock never stops moving and it is an immediate crisis and high should be honest about that. >> dagen, he saying in and of itself, the balanced budget is not the goal. it is getting to that, but not at the expense of bla, blarks. >> and in sayi

cooked. feeling well done? how about just done. charles, and dagen and adam and charlie, all right. charles, yeah, yeah. great job . anyway, i told them that you were me. see how that goes. nyeah, okay. i can handle that. all right. what do you make of this and all of the sudden, you can deny the problem and then the problem i guess goes away? i don't think in this case it goes away. >> when i saw that george stephanopoulos interview imented to scream and cry and i wasn't -- at george stephanopr the president. >> i am not sure. i feltment say way with dennis rodman's interview. the idea there is no crisis there is obviously a disconnect. the there is a crisis. the president keeps saying if we don't figure out how to shuffle out trillion necessary u.s. economy and fight global warming because it gets one degrees warmer in the next hundred yearings. the clock never stops moving and it is an immediate crisis and high should be honest about that. >> dagen, he saying in and of itself, the balanced budget is not the goal. it is getting to that, but not at the expense of bla, blarks. >> and in saying that and

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cooked, try $2 trillion in more debt over the next ten years. feeling kind of well done? how about just done? charles payne and dagen and adam and charlie gasparino. first, charles payne -- he has to wake up. [ laughter ] >> neil: all right. what do you make of this and all of a sudden, you can do this thing, divide the problem and the problem goes away. i don't think in this case it goes away. >> i have to tell you, when george stephanopolous interview, i wanted to scream. i wanted to cry and i -- i wasn't. >> neil: it was it george stephanopolous. >> i'm not sure because i was the same way with dennis rodman. [ laughter ] >> but there is obviously a disconnect. the disingenuous of the whole thing. keep saying, if we don't figure out a way to shuffle out trillions of dollars in economy to fight global warming because it's going to get one degree warmer in the hundred years, we shouldn't worry about the deficit that never stops. it is a crisis and immediate crisis and should be honest about that. >> neil: dagen, he was saying in and of itself a balanced budget isn't the goal. it's getting to that but not at the expense of blah, blah. bu

charlie." no pain. then put the lobster on a stove. last time, i--that's the way i cook lobsters, i do it that way.u put the lobster on the stove. room temperature water. then turn on the heat-- [makes sounds] --bring it to a boil, your lobster's cooking, your lobster, your lobster's-- [laughter] --a lot better. you're eating a happy lobster. i'm telling you, yeah. i don't understand that. i don't understand that. why freak out the lobster like that. what if there's a lobster heaven and you go, "oh, what did you do to my kinfolk." yeah. so cook your lobster on room temperature water and bring it gradually to boil. a lobster won't feel a thing. they'd be okay. eat a happy lobsters. lee, did you have a question? in cases like this, wouldn't it be wiser to kind of check your environment every once in a while just to make sure that you're right? or maybe death or something like if you're in hot tub or anything. it's always good to check your environment to see what the delta t is. and the delta t could stand for so many things. true? yeah. hey, here's an easy question to answer, gang. no, no. here's an

charlie and sophie. >> it's interesting. >> have you also picked out a name? >> i'm going to wait. our moms are coming tomorrow to cook and my niece, so i want her to weigh in, to make sure -- that the name is the one we've chosen. >> she wanted a couple weird ones. bibbles. and meatball. >>> if you were up last night "the voice" is huge. >> it's hot. >> great numbers. >> thank you, lord. >>> one of the great rock stars was sarah simmons from memphis, tennessee, 21 years old. they say she'll be the next big thing. i didn't get to see it last night. >> do we get to hear? >> um-hmm. ♪ if god was one of us ♪ just a slob like one of us ♪ just a stranger >> oh, listen to her. ♪ trying to make his way home ♪ just trying to make his way home ♪ >> wow. >> wow. she's like a cross between -- first i thought it was kelly clarkson, but then she gets that growl thing in there which reminds you of janice joplin. she looks 12 years old. >> she picked adam. >> perfect. >> blake said he thought she had one of the top voices so far of the blind auditions. >> yeah. >> that will be interesting. >> a good competition. >>> what is going on

, it looks like we are the hardworking charlie browns in this country, because we are going to end up on our butts. with me is amy walter, senior editor of the cookolitical report, and tom shapiro, director of the institute of assets and social policy at brandeis university, and heather mcgee, advicer of public policy and demos.com. and ed ppakskey, because he brings doughnuts and is our favorite mayor. >> yes. >> and we are talking about everything across the board and every single thing is going to be cut and not with any reason, but just because we manufactured a crisis. amy? >> yes, we are good alt manufacturing the crisis. >> why? why? >> i appreciate when the president came out to say, there is a silent caucus of reasonable people up here. actually, there aren't. there are not reasonable people. >> they are not just silent, they are just not there. >> they are gone. they used to exist ten years ago and there were democrats who would vote who were moderates, and there were republicans who were moderate and over the last few years starting in 2006 and then going through the redistricting of 2011, they are gone. 96% of democrats sit in distric