susan page great to see you, chris cillizza and kasie hunt, thank you so much.ver overseas, shiite rebels battle the ousted sunni government in what is becoming a proxy war between iran and neighboring saudi arabia. all of this creating an opening for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis. richard engel on home base joining me from new york. you know yemen, been there so often. this is the worst we have seen in a number of years. >> yemen has been a fragile country for the 20 years or so i've been talking about yemen. but i've never seen yemen like it is right now. you said it's on the brink of a civil war, maybe it's even in a civil war. you have the u.s. backed government, which the u.s. is backing financially and militarily for several years. you have the government now operating as a government in exile in a small portion of the country. and these shiite rebel groups known as the houthis, allegedly backed by iran if you ask other people in the region they'll all say it is a direct iranian proxy, fighting it out for control of this country and tip of the

hugh hewitt, helene cooper, maria hinojosa and chris cillizza. did the republicans create this cliff or not? i understand what mccarthy is saying putting the blame on the president. this is a tactic that house republicans chose to do. did they set their own trap? >> no i've been a critic of the leadership a lot. this is not an immigration issue. this is about the scope of the president's aggressiveness on the use of his authority. they didn't create the cliff. the president created the cliff. the leader made that point. he also made the point too, i tried to make some news saying it is not in the constitution that was sort of let's go to the nuclear option. i thought wow, my eyebrows went up i had not heard a member of the house leadership say it go that way. >> maria, we're talking about homeland security. the backdrop is immigration. i guess we're not going to see a bill about immigration reform. that's not going to happen. but should it be congress that decides this or should we allow judicial review at this point? are we getting our branches

chris cillizza the speaker just could not control the caucus and what does he do now? five days left until they run out of money again at midnight on friday night. >> meet the new boss same as the old boss. i feel like i've written basically the same analysis for two straight years which is john boehner proposes fill in the blank and house conservatives tank that proposal. what you heard a lot of whether it was kevin mccarthy on "meet the press" or john boehner, the republican leadership is saying it's a difference in tactics or strategy i would quibble -- i think -- they do have a strategy and some tactics. the problem is the rum p caucus there within the republican party, their strategy such as it is is to say, we're not going to do anything unless we get everything we want. that's not really a strategy or really a tactic and it's hard for john boehner to find a way in with those people to find a way to say hey, look we need to row the boat in the right direction. get us 80% there, as opposed to 5%. >> this is the wall street journal today, republicans need to do sou

let me bring in the panel, chris cillizza, cpac, what did you learn? >> i thought that jeb bush, granted he was coming off extremely low expectations, which was essential, will he be booed off the stage or not. there were boos, some catcalls. i thought he was quite good. not just because the audience didn't boo him off the stage, but also because to his credit, he stood strong, sort of political hill he's willing to die on will be immigration. he didn't back down from his position. yes, we need to enforce the borders, but we also need to do something about the people here illegally. jeb bush is smart enough to understand that's not a policy that is going to go over well there. he took the boos, understanding that the cpac audience is not the whole republican party, we'll see how big a part of the republican party agrees with him, but i give him credit for that. i thought he was much better than he's been and his speeches -- i thought he looked listless and off. i thought he was on and revved up to address the audience. >> i got to play a quick little -

this including how potential 2016 candidates are reacting joining us now for our daily fix is chris cillizza. and out of the gates to you, this is the first cultural fight of this early presidential contest with all republicans backing the religious liberty law but there have been divisions among several of them. how have they handled this and what do they do now? >> what you've seen is everyone see religious liberty is important in this law, that's what the intent of the law is. you've seen some folks ted cruzes saying that nothing should be amended or changed here which is not the position of mike pence, that he would like to see the law amended to say, that this does not condone discrimination in any way, shape or form. look religious liberty remains something that is very very important to the republican base. this idea that the federal government or even state government cannot pass laws that infringe or force them to go against the religious beliefs. so you even tell someone like jeb bush hit for being too moderate come out and say, i support this my guess is everyone in the republican

there are a lot of questions they should have seen in advance. >> chris cillizza and ruth marcus, before a statement from nick for hillary clinton, like secretaries of state before her she used her own e-mail account when engaging with department officials and every expectation they would be retained. both the letter and spirit of the rules permitted state department officials to use nongovernment e-mail as long as appropriate records were preserved. more of course will emerge on all of this. more ahead here on quts"andrea mitchell reports". we'll be right back. with this idea that people were making money off my illness and i wanted to do something different and so i finally made that change. [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] so when my husband started getting better dental checkups than me i decided to go pro... with crest pro-health advanced. my mouth is getting healthier. my teeth are getting stronger. this crest toothpaste is superior in five areas. great checkup. sunday dinners at my house... it's a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having ba

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. >> joining me now, julie pace white house correspondent for the associated press and chris cillizzapost" newsroom managing editor of post politics.com. we'll start with you, chris, lynch's nomination to replace eric holder has become a good example of partisan politics these days but do lynch's defenders have a good argument here or some simply how business for good or better or worse gets done? >> peter, i think the answer is it's how business in the senate gets done, probably more accurate how business doesn't really get done. all of this is backed up -- you would think a bill on human trafficking to limit human trafficking would be the sort of thing that would roll through congress but there's a fight over the hyde amendment about funds not being used in any way shape or form for abortions, that's become the nub of this big fight. compromise have been attempted and mitch mcconnell wants to move to the budget. if he does that and don't get the human trafficking bill loretta lynch is pushed further down the road. it reminds everyone of one thing, we do not have a government current

joining me now, chris cillizza and founder of "washington post" fix blog and ruth marcus here in personn, yeah. >> it's nice. >> chuck schumer, harry reid endorses chuck schumer and the democratic senator from new york who put up with a lot of slings and arrows with hillary clinton's election and having to defer to the junior senator and all of the other things chuck schumer has gone through over the years, suddenly if the caucus goes along and it is a secret ballot he'll become the democratic leader. >> you do think about all of the deferring does not come naturally to chuck schumer and all of the years he has had to defer and be asked about hillary clinton's presidential ambitions and take a back seat to harry reid, he must be like chomping at the bit, 22 months can't come soon enough. i expect it will though that he won't have a lot of obstacles on his way to the leadership. >> i remember standing on the camera platform and interviewing him in 2000 that hillary clinton's election victory celebration in new york when she was elected as the junior senator from new york and it was clear

. >> joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and jonathan capehart.n a lot of criticism back and forth when these laws took effect. is there a political effect here as she prepares to roll out her campaign in april? >> so i'm 100% prepared to let people debate the legal implications here and was the flaw place, it was not was something violated. i believe the original story said it may have been a violation. that said, i'm not really prepared to debate people on the political implications, which seem to me it just reinforces a lot of things that people who might not be favorably inclined to the clintons, maybe they've come around in the last decade or so reminds them of things they don't like. the secrecy, the traditional rules that most people use aren't for them. she's the first person to exclusively use an e-mail -- a private e-mail server. the fact it was set up at their home, what are the security concerns that raises? disclosure and transparency there are just many questions here. i'm not saying that there's any fire where all that smoke is. i d