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i'm jeanine pirro, which presidential hopeful in cpac stole the show and why bolton told cpac pauk paub is the country's biggest security crisis. first to my open. any first-year law student understands a contract is an agreement, a meeting of the minds between the parties. if fraud is underlying the contract, it is nul and void, invalidated. not enforced. the question. did barak obama lie his way into the white house and, if so, has a fraud been committed against you? and does it even matter? it was during a very heated campaign in 2012 that president obama and his fans sold us that bill of goods about a flash mob and a hateful video, posing a massacre for americans and the president's appointees in benghazi ambassador chris stevens. that was a lie and they knew it was a lie. then another lie, obamacare. the president swears we can keep our doctors and our health care plans if we like them. the fraud continued when obama, president obama, belittled then candidate mitt romney. >> when you were asked, what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing america. you said russia. not kwaechltd y

. >>> and at cpac, rolls on this morning.ne red-blooded reaganite says republicans in washington look like a crime family instead of a party of ideas. yes, he's serious. yes, you can call him "surely." >>> good morning. it's march 7, 2014. we have breaking news at the top. >>> the jobs numbers are out after bumping along with pretty weak growth for the last few months, a little more of a solid number today. the economy added 175,000 jobs in february. it's the best number since last fall. the unemployment rate did tick up to 6.7%, meaning more people are getting back into the labor market. it follows two disappointing months and will certainly fuel hopes that perhaps we'll avoid another spring drop-off that has been -- it seemed like a cyclical thing we've been watching. in addition to the february figure, both the december and january numbers were revised up by a total of 25,000 jobs. by the way, today's number could have been even better -- 600,000 people didn't work because of the weather. now, as far as the sectors -- busi

win at cpac? >> this is sort of a ron paul/rand paul crowd. >> so cruz could win this thing? >> coming up, things go better when you attack. at least that's harry reid's assault on the billionaire koch brothers who are spending tens of millions of ads against democrats. democrats got a villain in the koch brothers, two for the price of one. plus not enough whites for republicans to win the white house. how's that for math? and not enough minority voters in enough places for democrats to win back the congress. why this could be the new normal. also as every day goes by, vladimir putin looms as a major challenge to president obama. and last night, david letterman, and jon stewart had lots of fun at his expense. finally, let me finish tonight with jimmy carter's success. yes the subject of the new play, camp david opening here at arena state in washington on march 21st. ♪ ♪ make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love

cpac has come to town.arch 6th, and this is "now." >>> the largest and most important gathering of conservatives of the year. the first cattle call of the 2016 presidential cycle. >> the 2012 election didn't go exactly as we thought. >> the most conservative of conservatives. >> this president is a smart man. it may be time to revisit that assumption. >> includes senator ted cruz. >> all of us remember president mccain, president romney. >> people didn't like mitt romney that much. they loved ted cruz. >> let's come out of this conference ree sovlted to win elections. >> every poll you end

they're obviously playing to the cpac crowd. be in the party a libertarian lean that starts to develop this year. >> certainly, certainly. the gop has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. what you're seeing here is a very healthy debate about how to move forward. and i think we'll see where it goes. you mentioned libertarianism. i think we're getting some of that. the tea party certainly contributed to that. and we see it reflected in the speakers. rand paul is trying to pull something off here that would be sort of breaking the mold, i think. traditionally, you have this three-legged stool with the fiscal conservatives and social conservatives and then defense hawks. paul is much more libertarian than your typical republican candidate. we'll have to see if he can pull it off. i do think, yes, the libber tainian bent is seen in the speakers at cpac. >> it's interesting that rand paul, i believe he's likely to win the straw poll because cpac's attendance tends to skew so young and he has so much p

>> that's what you do at cpac. it's more, frankly, about your pitch being seen on television by people who are not in the room, having been on a panel at cpac a few years ago, it's a lot of retirees and college students there, but it does matter for positioning, but i think the problem is going to be finding somebody who can thread the needle between activating that base and the sort of people who attend cpac and connecting with moderate general election voters. that was supposed to be what chris christie's strength was. he's not in a position to do that and it's not clear who else can do both of those things. >> we have talked so much about the difference between winning the nomination and being able to get elected during the general. talk to me about somebody who can get elected, who can win over moderates, that's sort of one end of the party, the other end of the party is ted cruz. here's what he said yesterday. >> and they say if you stand for principle, you lose elections. the way to do it, the smart way, the

she said the cpac attendance is down this year. they raised prices for tickets to attend cpac.hat rumor is because they wanted to keep the paul followers, mostly college kids, from flooding the straw poll. how accurate is that assessment is? >> i think the cpac blessing for senator paul is a curse for him as he looks toward 2016. in gatherings like this, with the raised ticket prices, you have a large contingent of college students and libertarians in that direction. in this group, he is that most popular figure. when you look at the 2016 map, does that libertarian block give him that? doubtful. he is trying to build momentum, but he is one of many candidates for the 2016 that has a real shot. >> i guess you were forced to be further to the right than you would want to be. a mini version of the republican primary. >> sure. >> you know, issues like immigration or foreign policy, which we just talked about, immigration is where the republican party has a lot of thinking to do and moving to do. it was barely brought up. how does the party begin to reconcile concerns on big ticket

coming up, today's greatest hits from cpac. sam stein was there all day. the rest of today's actionses at cpac. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ i'm a messy person. i don't like cleaning. i love my son, but he never cleans up. always leaves a trail of crumbs behind. you're going to have a problem with getting a wife. uh, yeah, i guess. [ laughs ] this is ridiculous. christopher glenn! [ doorbell rings ] what is that? swiffer sweep & trap. i think i can use this. it picks up everything. i like this. that's a lot of dirt. it's that easy! good job chris! i think a woman will probably come your way. [ both laugh ] >> god bless cpac. ronald reagan. we need to stand for the second amendment rights to keep and bear arms. >> we need to abolish the irs. we need to audit the federal reserve. we need to repeal every single word of obamacare. >> yes, we can. >> i th

in terms of what drives people who attend cpac -- now let's understand, the cpac straw poll is not athe real sense of what you may read about in newspapers. this is a sampling of people from all 50 states who are at the forefront, at the forefront of the conservative movement. they're the people who go knock on doors. you're the people that make the phone calls. you're the people that go stand in shopping centers and hand out brochures and literature for candidates and causes. so this is representative of what you, the front line think. not every conservative, but the activist, the ones at the front line. and here you see that more than three in four of you say that the most important, your ideology is driven by individual free doom and reducing the size and scope of government and its intrusion into individual citizens' lives. by the way, that number has been consistent now for the past several years. when we look at one of our favorite people in washington, only kidding -- you can see we did a little time chart here and went back and looked at how president obama had faired with cp

god bless cpac. i do have to start with a bit of bad news this morning. sorry to tell you that by virtue of your being here today and tomorrow morning each and everyone of you will be audited by the irs. [laughter] so i appreciate the courage of your convictions. yesterday, lois lerner went before congress and yet again pleaded the fifth. of course, president obama told bill o'reilly during the super bowl there is not a smidgen of corruption with the irs. it reminded me of one of my favorite movies. you keep on using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means. [laughter] somehow my understanding of smidgen was a little different than his. i want to thank you all for being here. you are here today at cpac because you understand the stakes in this country have never been higher. you are here because you understand our country is at a crisis point. we are at the edge of a cliff. liberty is under assault. and what i want to talk to you all about this morning is how we win. there are a lot of d.c. consultants who say there is a choice for repub

the most interesting event i thought at cpac today wasn't at cpac but a companion conference on foreignunning along the same side. where ted cruz talked about his own foreign policy views as being not with john mccain on one hand and not with rand paul on the other but in the middle and of course there you have the reagan sighting again. i think that's one of these -- >> i call that the goldilocks foreign policy. >> it's interesting in the sense it preludes the conversations from the right leading up to 2016. >> this tweet, got re-tweeted a ton, it's the minority outreach panel at cpac. big problem, most important panel, minority outreach, largely empty room. >> yeah. i mean, you know, they offer these panels and the conversation is we're going to do outreach and things like that. but it comes back, again, to more and more the red meat. it's more and more the echo chamber. we've talked before about how the republican party establishment doesn't really exist anymore. there's a media echo chamber that runs the conservative movement. so we see it again and again. and we saw benghazi, saw t

they had left him off the guest list for cpac. they invited marco rubio and scott walker and rick santorum and jeb bush. invited paul ryan. even invited mitt romney. not chris christie. he was snubbed by cpac. supposedly this was a disaster for chris christie. he wanted to run for president in 2016 but just cozied up to barack obama. he'd snubbed mitt romney a week before the election. now his party's base was getting its revenge. telling them they didn't want him at his big annual gathering. the reality, though, that supposed disaster was actually a gift to christie. because christie had almost nothing to gain and had a lot to lose if he'd been anywhere near cpac last year. that's because last year was an election year in new jersey. christie's re-election year. his goal wasn't just to win re-election but his own admission to run up a score in a deeply blue state that voted for obama by 17 points over mitt romney. chris christie wanted, chris christie needed a big chunk of those obama voters. moderates and liberals in new jersey

cpac is base firing, right? i think one of the things people -- everybody sees the speeches and they look for who is going to get a slot, who will get invited, who will speak, but the speeches were good this year. the most interesting stuff happens in the breakout sessions. that's where you learn new tactics for get out the vote, different types of tools to get out the message, and other debates like mentioned on mandatory minminimums, things happening all throughout the conference that don't happen on stage in the speeches. >> people talk about how conservatives all think alike. here it's evidence that it's fractious, people argue. what's wrong with that? >> it's interesting. first of all, i want to congratulate rand paul and ted cruz, my man coming in second. that tick would be a phenomenal ticket. there's a study out by a republican political analyst that's very revealing. something i have been saying for a long time. the tea party and that group is not the base, in your monologue you suggested this was a vas

win at cpac? >> this is sort of a ron paul-rand paul crap. >> so cruz could win this thing? >> cruz could win many a presidential primary. >> anyway, yesterday cruz told conservatives if they don't stand for principle as he defines it, they will lose. cruz made his point by attacking the last three unsuccessful republican nominees for president by mockingly referring to them as president romney, president mccain and president dole. well, today mccain, no surprise here. did you think there would be a problem here? he fired back. >> he can say what he wants to about me, and he can say anything he wants to i think about mitt. mitt's capable of taking it. but when he throws bob dole in there, i wonder if he thinks that bob dole stood for principle on that hilltop in italy when he was so gravely wounded and left part of his body there fighting for our country. bob dole is such a man of honor and integrity and principle. i hope that ted cruz will apologize to bob dole because that's -- that has cross ad

now. >> let's dip into cpac for a few moments. senator ted cruz speaking right now. tea party favorite. let's take a quick listen. >> -- fire everybody. number one. defend the constitution. all of it. defend the first amendment, the right to free speech, the right to a free press, for all of our friends in the media, free press means not having government monitors sitting in your newsroom! the right to freedom of religion, and that means, among other things, not having the irs ask citizens, "tell me the content of your prayers." we need to stand for the second amendment right to keep and bear arms. [ cheers and applause ] we need to stand for -- >> mark, your quick reaction. lotting of red meat there, going after the media, the irs, second amendment rights. is this basically what we're going to hear from him, a stump speech? >> absolutely. you'll hear this kind of rhetoric from republican speak after republican speaker here, and in a lot of ways, ted cruz -- and he isn't necessarily seen as the rock star in the republican party he

all the cpac crowd and one of them stealing the show.d" takes to you cpac. >> our ideas are better than their ideas. and that's when we have to stand up for. >> we will bring back morning in america. >> our best days as a country are ahead of us, not behind us. and on elections day. we're going to win. >> we have such unbelievable potential. we have to use it. we need the right leaders. >> greta, we're at cpac, the conservative political action conference. it's the largest gathering of conservatives in the country. >> i always love coming to cpac. it's one of the highlights of the year. >> today a han

, cpac style. we'll discuss. >>> and happening now after being dised last year, chris christie welcomed back to the cpac podium. we'll share a remarkable moment of prayer at the senate namaste. >> we make our word. our mind is center and proceeds, speak or act with your pure mind and happiness will follow you. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the state department today imposed a ban on visas for uk crane yan officials and business leaders. this on top of an executive order from president obama that would allow the public naming of these parties and the seizing of their assets. these penalties did little to stop the russian authorities in crimea who today moved a referendum that gives citizens a choice of remaining part of the ukraine or becoming part of the russian federation. joining me now is ian williams. the situation seems to be dialed up, not dialed down. we talked to the ambassador there and we'll have that interview coming up. it seems as if russia is ignoring all threats an

the rest of today's actionses at cpac. >> god bless cpac. ronald reagan.cond amendment rights to keep and bear arms. >> we need to abolish the irs. we need to audit the federal reserve. we need to repeal every single word of obamacare. >> yes, we can. >> i think the left is exhausted. they have spent five long years in power and all they have to show for it is this lousy website. the left isn't just out of ideas. they're out of touch. >> the president of the united states is creting our constitution worse than a place mat at denny's. >> i want to talk about this president's assault on the american dream and his assault on religious liberty. >> we have everything we need to succeed economically except the leadership in the white house. >> the nra will not go quietly into the night. we will fight. they need to hear you all the way to the green rooms of msnbc and all the way over to the white house. >> thank you. you look so nice. >>> joining me now, the two intrepid reporters who have been at cpac all day. the national reporter with "the washington post" and

what would you like to ask the panel about cpac. go to facebook or twitter at fox news sunday and we may use your question on the air. comcast brought millions of people closer to nbcuniversal's coverage of the biggest olympic winter games ever, with the most coverage of the most events on every device. and the most hours of streaming video on the nbc sports live extra app, including the x1 platform from xfinity. comcast was honored to bring every minute of every medal of nbcuniversal's coverage to every screen. so what's next? rio 2016. welcome to what's next. comcast nbcuniversal. >>> they say if you stand for principle you lose elections. the way to do it, the smart way, the washington way is don't stand against obamacare, don't stand against the debt ceiling, don't stand against nothing. >> chris christie and ted cruz with a taste of the differing visions of the gop on display at this year's cpac conference. time for our sunday group. syndicated columnist george will, former democratic congresswoman jane harmon, former republica

cpac and the media's mockery of cpac. >> do you remember the bar scene in star wars with all those wildy part of the solar system? today, here in washington, the whole tapestry of weirdness was re-enacted at the annual convention, something called cpac, and cpac is the far out sharing space with the even further out. a place for the crazy car to fill up with the usual suspects,

all the cpac crowd and one of them stealing the show.akes to you cpac. >> our ideas are better than their ideas. and that's when we have to stand up for. >> we will bring back morning in america. >> our best days as a country are ahead of us, not behind us. and on elections day. we're going to win. >> we have such unbelievable potential. we have to use it. we need the right leaders. >> greta, we're at cpac, the conservative political action conference. it's the largest gathering of conservatives in the country. >> i always love coming to cpac. it's one of the highlights of the year. >> today a handful of

plus, what would you like to ask the panel with cpac. just go to facebook or twitter at fox news sunday, and we may use your question on the air. >>> we've got to start talking about what we're for and not what we're against. >> they say if you stand for principle, you lose election. the way to do it, the smart way, the washington way, is don't stand against obamacare, don't stand against the debt ceiling, don't stand against nothing. >> chris christie and ted cruz were the taste of the differing visions for the gop on display at this year's cpac conference, and it's time now for our sunday group, syndicated columnist george will, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, former republican senator rick san strum and "time" magazine's rana foroohar. the two wings of the republican party were on full display at cpac. on the one hand you had chris christie saying we can't govern if we -- if we don't win. opened, you had ted cruz and rick santorum talking about sticking to conservative principle on the side of the size of government. is t

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and cpac is a demonstration of the extremism.here was a very telling picture that was tweeted out of a panel about minority engagement and minority outreach and the room was literally empty. it's not like they have moved forward since 2012. >> i want to move to the politics of the ukraine crisis. and you brought that up, jeff. there is this clear division over foreign policy. i want to read something that senator lindsey graham tweeted. he said "it started with benghazi. when you kill americans and nobody pays a price, you invite this type of aggression". another said putin came to this decision, everything obama has been engaged in, he's a weak, indecisive leader. pretty incredible tweets there. >> it is. and it signals a break that the old adage that the politics stops at the water's edge is out the window. but we did see sort of a difference in who was willing to criticize the president. i thought senator rubio distinguished himself by saying now is not the time to criticize president obama. you can dislike his foreign policy,

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from the floor of cpac the signs are clear that they have formed a friendship.the sponsors, mpaa, hollywood's most powerful lobbying group. >> everybody thinks of hollywood has being closely aligned with liberal causes, and it's more complicated that this. >> reporter: a report was released that shows the mpaa is giving more and more money to conservatives. >> hollywood has seen many of its interests not being promoted in the way it would like. >> reporter: the mpaa declined our request for an interview. it still gives millions to democratic causes, but in the 2012 election cycle they contributed $2.4 million to organizations that include conservative dark money groups. >> i think senator chris dodd came in and assessed the situation and realized if the mpaa wanted to be a major player it had to shore up its credentials with conservatives. >> reporter: the former leader was known as a washington lobbyist who was the public face of hollywood for nearly four decades. but often forgotten hollywood heavyweights who are anything but liberal, ronald reagan, and many m

the cpac clown car.n senator from texas gave kudos to the establishment. >> all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. those are good men. they are decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> embattled new jersey governor chris christie had a turn at the microphone thursday. he was snubbed at the event last year. this year, he had something to prove after the recent public scrutiny over bridgegate. >> i will remind you. we don't get to govern if we don't win. it is not only bad when we don't get to govern because we don't get to mold and change our society. what's worse is they do. they are doing it to us right now. so please, let us come out here and resolve not only to stand for our principles, but come out of the conference to resolve to win elections again. that is what i intend to do for the next year and i hope you join me. thank you. >> a number of gaffes made. one from p-90x poster

cpac wasn't ted cruz's only stop. a group further to the right set up their own shadow conference dubbed, the uninvited. steve king, the cantaloupe guy of iowa. he says immigrants have cabs as big as cantaloupe. they are carrying 150 pounds full of marijuana. gomer of texas, mo brooks of alabama who said this on the topic of undocuments immigrants. i will do anything short of shooting them. that's kind. franks referred to president obama as an enemy of humanity and jim bridenstine refused to attend a town hall when they said president obama should be executed. the far right is now the far out. then this group of full mooners. here is more color from the conference. a non-profit called empact schooled attendees about the threat of a terrorist attack by way of an electromagnetic post. they articulated the view that antitax activists and a board member grover nordquist is with the muslim brotherhood. the wife of supreme court justin clarence thomas said president obama may be providing material support for terrorism. at

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we love coming to cpac.ll the young kids and the energy it's great to be here. >> they certainly have their signs i stand with rand. >> that's great. that's good. >> i also talked to your wife she told me she was going to vote for the cutest guy. >> i don't know what to say to that. we are -- i have been lobbying her for her vote so we will see. >> i hope she does at least vote for you. all right. your message is essentially, if i am correct, one of liberty. is that correct? is your message here is. >> my passion is the bill of rights. who wouldn't believe that? but there have been times in our history when we didn't apply the bill of rights very well to everyone. we need to remember that we also need to remember that with current law. currently the law says that an american citizen can be detained without a try. i find that just really completely and utterly unacceptable. that's one of the things i will tell. and it's a message i want the president to listen to. >> let me ask you a question about drones kil

none of this was talked about at cpac.al to conservative women when they see a performance like that at conventions like that? it really is all about just being a token and also entertainment? >> well, i think we talk about this often, right. they are talking to their audience. they know their audience. and the women that are a part of cpac and the gop writ large ignore these issues. these are issues that they divorce themselves from because they say things like sarah palin that they're cheap dates instead of acknowledging the fact that women do have the right to choose, choose jobs, choose their wages to ensure they're fair. the long -- the long-standing battle of women suffrage and all these other things that have ensured women's advancement over time, the fact that the president signed the lilly ledbetter act into law as his first act as president is a major deal that they ignore, largely because they're not ready to talk truth and what it really means to be a woman in america in this day and age, ed. so they're meeting

really what cpac does is who is on the spotlight right now. who are they looking at, who are they focusing on, and don't forget. some of the satellite speakers are really, really important, ben carson, sarah palin. these people -- dave bosse. >> really. >> they are -- mark levin. >> how about donald trump? >> these people -- >> oh, okay. >> donald trump, too. >> he may still run. >> here's my point though, that the conservative movement is -- it's alive. it's kicking. we're covering it. everyone is talking about it. >> alive and kick iing. >> because christie was beat up by the liberal media, the reason he got a standing ovation, that's why they brought him in there to spite the liberal media. >> that's all right. >> for the invitation, i think if you look at one of the people that -- i don't think he got a standing ovation, doesn't matter, got a good reception was mitch mcconnell of the senate. 2014 is so much more important than 2016. the house is probably solid for the republicans, but what matters for the future of the country, if you thin

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two final cpac notes.e on to ukraine now took shots at the president on his handling of ukraine. obviously, there's an ongoing crisis there which is another top story we are talking about. here is what charles krauthammer writes in "the washington post." the wages of weakness. vladimir putin is a lucky man and he's got three more years of luck to come. he takes crimea and president obama says it's not in russia's interests and indeed a sign of weakness. really? crimea belonged to moscow for 200 years. russia annexed 20 years before jaevers acquired louisiana. so there's a mystery there. if he bites off crimea and threatens kiev obama's response will be minimal and ability to lead the europeans less so? would putin have lunged for ukraine if he doesn't have a clueless adversary? no one can say for sure but it made putin's decision easier. >> governor huntsman, i guess call you mr. ambassador. >> your excellency will do. >> that works very well too. what happens now? what is the press's next step? there are

they were focused on washington and the cpac as it is commonly known. >> cpac continues today. they will hear from rand paul, on almost certain presidential candidate. organization turns 50 this year. can you believe that? we caught up with the man behind it all. wheree pictures of cpac texas governor rick perry has just begun to speak. it is the largest gathering of conservative activists. they will talk strategy. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the chairman of the american conservative union. ♪ >> what a week. senator cruz kicked off on thursday. we also heard from congressman paul ryan. we heard from governor christie and governor jindal. we heard from donald trump. yesterday, governor perry started a day with a great speech. to yourl brought you feet. today, we heard from speaker gingrich. we are not even done yet. panels.had some great they have had insightful and diverse opinions on liberty, privacy, the irs, criminal justice performed -- reform. we have also brought you a number of exhilarating exhibits. often lawmakers that we hope you have enjoyed. >> i ho

. >> good morning, cpac. are you having a good cpac? it's great to be with you this morning as we celebrate not only the conservative movement but we celebrate america and what made this country great. my friends, make no mistake about it. what made this country great, what still makes it exceptional and unique today is the fact that the pioneers who were fired by spain and founded this nation crossed oceans, braved dangers and settled a continent to build a nation that honored almighty god. today, the greatness of the nation that they built is in grave danger. it is in grave danger in no small measure because our freedom as americans to practice our religious beliefs and to express our faith in god is under assault as never before. there is in truth a war on religion and a war on religious values. being waged by this administration and by their radical allies. a war that goes between a stubborn, secular insensitivity outat times, all hostility to those in the faith. unless you think that is hyperbole -- let me point out that two years

cpac -- we know who wins cpac.o is not going to get the nomination, that's what's happened the past couple of years, but if the competition for the base is where they are here now is going to be a competition to the right, you're ted cruz, you make everybody else go as far right as you can. when they stop two inches short, you've won. it's a saying, politics is, the bolshevik. your enemy. infantile left wing disorder. somebody who's two steps to the left of you is the enemy. the other thing i'd add to that as well is cpac essentially is a kind of side show and so i wouldn't confuse it too much with some stuff that's fairly interesting that's going on in the conservative movement that policy people are working on that may end up being more important. >> this is a failed long-term strategy, right? the people who are paying attention to cpac are far right wingers and lefties who want to discuss it. they don't represent the bulk of what the larger gop wants and needs them to talk about and understand. the fact that mar

cpac now in full swing in maryland.d paul is the featured speaker this afternoon. >>> a bit of good news on the employment front, the labor department saying more than 175,000 jobs were created in february. >>> the great lakes have frozen over, meaning that thousands of visitors can walk on water, or ice as may be the case, to some stunning ice caves. >> reporter: it's a trek more than a mile long through deep snow across a now frozen lake superior, but for those who make the journey to the national park they say it is worth it. >> it is beautiful out here. >> yeah, even though it is freezing. >> a chance to get in and under and around all of these things it is just tremendous. >> reporter: tucked away is a display of ice formations rarely seen created by the lake's own wave patterns and colored by the miner minerals. it's not just the natural beauty that is attracting so many, it is also accessibility. typically you would only be able to get here by boat, but because of record-cold sub zero temperatures, you can get he

that is what you will notice about the cpac, no anti-amnesty speakers allowed.ing the rebut all, by the way. >> rand paul. >> i didn't see him. >> and marco rubio, same thing. >> marco rubio. >> he wrote the bill and he said -- >> and he pushed it. >> let me finish. he now says he regrets it. do you not believe it? >> a little late now. i don't think christie has become stupid, he came out for amnesty, he did it in a smarter way than those guys did. the reason the truth is he got the standing ovation is that was a screw you to the media. that was not love for chris christie, that is exactly like the republican presidential debates, remember when the moderators like wolf blitzer would ask the questions about the starving puppy and would you be willing to have a government program to save the starving puppy, and there was one guy that yelled out yes, he would allow somebody to die in the street rather than have obamacare, it is always the starving puppy or the save the liberals. that was a screw you to the media in the standing ovation, was a screw you to the medi

. >>> and we'll take you inside cpac. we've heard from ted chris, paul ryan this morning, so who is the brightest star in this lineup. >>> and later this hour, the war of words. elijah cumming has his say at a live news conversation. that's scheduled in just about 15 minutes. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. conservatives for the next three days. there's no shortage of really interesting story lines at cpac. could it launch senator marco rubio's comeback? what will governor chris christie, who wasn't invited last year, saying this year? who will throw out the most red meat to the audience? the kickoff came about an hour ago with senator ted cruz who offered solutions to winning. >> then, of course, all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. now, look, those are good men, they're decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principle, dem