case,, separation of powers, they are hard to find at cpac. a man who may help us discover what the play is, cpac chairman matt slap. >> great to be back with you. we are getting some ambient sound. let's do a little plus and minus. make the pitch about the socialism thing. is his hyperbole or are you going to make a real case? it's a little shocking for some of us. the same is what makes america great, going back to some foundational principles. as a result of a result of the 2018 election there is a new strategy. bernie is not standing alone. electing democrats who are embracing socialism. socialism has failed so extravagantly all over the globe. think thean people idea of the embracing socialism is can provisional -- controversial. worry -- when a lot of election. they are going to run it from if you goe left to >> all in and calling it socialism ,re you vote -- vulnerable people saying we want to get health care to more people and jobs to more people in the lower income brexit -- bracket. there is something enticing about telling people yo

bush, who was reluctant to go to cpac. you look back to the reagan years. reagan loved cpac.hink president trump loves being in that atmosphere. he walked in there, gave a two-hour stem-winder, where he basically made fun of democrats, talked about some of his policies, really got comfortable, really enjoyed himself, and it did show, that is a preview to what we're going to see going forward with the campaign. him making fun of democrats for being socialists, for supporting the green new deal, him making fun of individual candidates on the democrat side. i think it was a glimpse. and if you just read the speech, you can see that is a roadmap that president trump will use going into 2020. >> yeah. bishop, have democrats given the president an easy target with their push for things like the green new deal, like medicare for all? i mean, are you worried at all that his use of the word socialist could really hurt democrats, particularly with moderate voters? >> good morning, alex. not at all. let's be honest, what we saw yesterday at cpac was an absolute was an absolute as far fa

this morning as the american conservative union hosts the annual political action conference known as cpac. vice president mike pence along with governor scott walker and iowa senator "leaving home: short pieces" teen -- joni ernst. live coverage on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> once again we are live at the american conservative union gathering to host the annual conservative political action conference, cpac. mike pence will be speaking this morning and we will hear from governor scott walker of wisconsin and i was senator joni ernst. live coverage on c-span2. we expect it to start in just a moment. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversati

tom one appeared at cpac with congressman devin nunes.things you said that got my attention was this justice department has no business writing a report on the president's conduct. >> the president has the right to fire people like james comey and communicate with the russian ambassador and run the government. the idea that the justice department is writing a report on the president's conduct as president is ridiculous. the attorney general barr should be asking that. we understand you indicted all these people and prosecuted them. but your opinion about the president's conduct as president is about as worthy as anyone else's opinion and the justice department isn't paying you to give us another dossier on president trump. we already have one dossier and the idea his activist attorneys working for mueller will be writing the dossier on president trump as something that need to be rejected. his number two, andrew wise man is an anti-trumper. we found an email to sally yates saying i'm in awe of you after she did something outside the law i

that is the scene at cpac. that is the republican party. on capitol hill a few miles away often tell me they want to ignore this reality, accept a bargain on a tax cut, and some of them like that bargain, they say they can swallow it, they don't like this base but they do acknowledge that is the reality. >> and bringing it back to the death of american student otto warmbier, here is president trump talking about that at the vietnam summit and followed by the president trying to walk it back at cpac and john bolton trying to wangle his way through it at the sunday shows. take a listen. >> i did speak about it. i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just want to his advantage to allow that to happen. those prisons are rough. they're rough places and bad things happened, but i really don't believe that he was -- i don't believe he knew about it. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. but he tells me he didn't know about it and i will take him at his word. >> otto warmbier, whose parents i've gotten to know, wh

cpac used to be opposed to tariffs. cpac used to understand only americans pay american tariffs. are not paid in foreign countries by foreign countries. the trump tariffs are paid in america by american consumers. the trump tariffs are taxes, something that cpac has always opposed. donald trump's tariffs are increases, in effect, in sales taxes on products sold in america. cpac used to oppose that vehemently. >> and everyone said, oh, it's a tax on our -- it's not really. >> yes, donald trump wouldn't dare finish that sentence. you know everyone said, oh, it's a tax on our -- and then he stopped. our what? our people, our consumers. that's who's paying the trump tax in the form of trump's tariffs. president trump is so confident in the stupidity of his cpac audience that he said this. >> you know i'm building the wall, we're finishing the wall. we've got a lot of money. >> everyone who can read facts knows that donald trump is not building the wall. there will never be a trump wall, but donald trump can still reduce a cpac audience to mindless chanters about building a wall that

and hello, cpac.se] it is great for us to be back at cpac 2019, the largest gathering of conservatives anywhere in america. [applause] vp pence: thanks for coming out. i'm honored to be joined here by thousands of conservatives in our nation's capital, but i also want to give a shout out to all those great conservatives watching across this country, especially all of our friends joining us live from lynchburg, virginia, at liberty university. i'll see you in may. [applause] vp pence: and to all of them and to all of you, i bring greetings from a friend of mine. [laughter] restored a man who american leadership at home and abroad, and the man who can't wait to be with you tomorrow. i bring you greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] vp pence: you know, it's the greatest honor of my life to serve as vice president. 28 president who gets up every day and fights to keep the promises that he made to the american people. [applause] i mean, think

he cancelled his cpac speech and trump was, by and large, the most hated figure at cpac. to see this unifying force behind trump in 2019, every time trump speaks, everybody wants to be there. this idea that cpac, you know, they wanted to reduce reliance on government, trump hasn't really done a whole lot to reduce the size of government. the trade war i should say has, obviously, kind of offset the net benefit of the tax cut and jobs act. so, you know, there are a numbers things he wants to hit on but, you know, come the 2020 election, these are things he has to say he delivered on. >> does that mean seeing the reaction to trump at cpac waiting there two-hour plus speech, have we finally seen the finish of the republican party becoming the trump party? >> here is the thing. and this relies heavily on his campaign message of building the wall. the wall isn't built. this of trump loyalists who are actually holding the trump administration's feet to the fire will acknowledge that the wall has not been built. come 2020, they are going to have to, you know, demand answers from

bigger picture, flight cpac if you look at the history of cpac, it is a reflection of where the conservativech is given. cpac speeches from 2004 -- >> back when it was at the omni. >> it's all about the -- we are under siege from osama bin laden and we as conservatives can keep you safe. in '98 bill clinton is -- >> but they still talked about it. >> they might still think he's lush, but bill clinton, we need to restore dignity. right now donald trump has hijacked conservatism. the values that conservatives once previously held are all what conservatives think. republicans are in the tend for donald trump because he's taken the message over. is alexandria ocasio cortez going to be at the center of the debate in the democratic party? that's where he's done. >> i'm waiting for nick sweeney's piece. >>> the trump administration has another possible make or break week ahead for more michael cohen revelations to the jared kushner controversy. we have it all covered for you as we look at the week ahead next. ahead next (vo) we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a

cpac is in full swing.t looks like this here seen at cpac is crunch that four syllable word socialism. doug mccollum is live at cpac. >> cpac is oftentimes a test and were issues coming up in the following campaign. if that holds true socialism within the democratic party will be target number one for republicans in the 2020 campaign a standing room only speech this morning vice president mike pence called socialism the single greatest threat to american democracy. the only thing green about the green new deal is how much it will cost taxpayers. he recorded margaret thatcher's running out of money and he brought down the house with this comment from his boss. >> democrats are bracing the same tired economic theories that have impoverished nations and stifle the liberties of millions over the past century. that system is socialism. >> corralling existing troops may not be enough for the cpac crowd to senator ted cruz told us for example better works campaign outspent his campaign pre-went to democrats monito

good morning, cpac.vinced that it will never happen to them that they mock the old person who the one person in town who saw it first hand, they call him crazy,

so far probably one of the most of popular speakers at cpac.by the way, they are charming women and smart as heck. lou: i never noticed that. they are sitting right here. i never noticed that. no, they are wonderful, wonderful people. so tell us where you are. going after socialists? the success in venezuela? is that threatening the republican party? is that what's going on here? >> larry kudlow served it up with an indictment and conviction of socialism. then the vice president showed up and he gave a blockbuster about what america stands for and how the mass media gets this wrong a lot. they think we lost all the kids. they turned into bernie lovers. half this crowd that's here, the largest political conference of the year, they are college and high school kids. lou: i'm not too worried about bernie sanders taking over the democratic party. they still have much the same apparatus so somebody will be stealing delegates from him once again like they did in 2016. the fella goes around, he was asked if he wanted to take some advice from hillary c

what's the mission of the president while at cpac? >> hey there, fred, he is giving us free-wheeling speech, certainly, in his bag, talking to a very receptive audience of a fired up crowd and the president appears to still be going during the speech, keep in mind he is well over an hour. as you noted the president went over democrats calling them socialists, talking about the potential for him to declare a national emergency over the issue of immigration and saying that quote i'm finding loopholes to get around the loon holes because congress can't act. and the president also talking about the size of the crowd at his inauguration, also talking about members, current and former, of his own administration, joking about the former attorney general jeff sessions, sort of jabbing at his deputy rod rosenstein. and as you noted, talking about the russia probe, the president here, notably, in an upbeat mood, especially considering the past week that he's had, with testimony from his former fixer, michael cohen, before the house oversight co

i want to thank cpac, what a job they've done. what a job matt shlapp and his family have done in such a short period of time in bringing this to a level like never before. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. [ cheering and applause ] arthel: president trump capping off a jam-packed week with a speech that lasted two hours, two minutes at one of the biggest conservative gatherings of the year. the president just wrapping up his speech at the conservative political action conference, otherwise known as cpac, just outside washington, touching on a variety of topics as he addressed enthusiastic audience that he says did not leave the room. hello, welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. eric: i'm eric shawn. the president defending the emergency declaration on the southern border, warning about crimes from i'l illegal immigra, ridiculed the mueller investigation, defended the economy, talked about otto warmbier and talked about democratic policies, among the targets, the gree

today's theme at cpac may be america first. they won was about conservatives making the case against the liberal move toward socialism. >> a young bernie sanders that was talking about it's good to be in line to wait for food? give me a break. we have to celebrate capitalism. if we start this socialism, you know, i guess ocasio-cortez is doing it in her office. >> to pay for the green deal keep borrowing and borrowing. naive thought in the world of debt. >> i want you to put socialism on trial. i want it debated. i want it rebutted and i want to convict socialism. >> sandra: joining us now is matt schlapp, former white house political director and chairman of the american conservative union. you were one of the first folks on stage yesterday. we saw you walk out with jim jordan. you didn't have to watch long to see a theme quickly emerge and the target has certainly been socialism on that stage there. >> yeah, there is no question. i think what we're seeing at cpac this year, sandra, are the emerging themes of what the presiden

and i do think at cpac we saw the racket in full display. along with a few true believers and then some decent people who just thought this is a place to discuss conservative ideas. but that was about 10% of cpac. used to be maybe 60 or 70%. heath mayo, a young guy. i talked on the phone once, met in d.c. just tweeted a couple weeks ago saying, hey, this cpac thing is ridiculous. let's discuss ideas, see if we can get some people together to do that. out of this one tweet came i think 12 gatherings the last couple days, a couple more tonight. in 12 different cities. about 1,000 people in total. he thinks -- i went to one in d.c. for half an hour, a little early to come to cnn which i suppose shows my misplaced priorities. it's a wonderful group of people. a lot of young people. it's interesting. i mean, a lot of young professionals, as heath is. 30, 35, 40. getting together. they -- everyone paid for his own beer. or whatever. and, you know, they get to know people and have some discussion about conservative principles. some people were quit

and hello, cpac.se] it is great for us to be back cpac 2019, the largest gathering of conservatives anywhere in america. [applause] thanks for coming out. i'm honored to be joined here by thousands of conservatives in our nation's capital, but i also want to give a shout out to all those great conservatives watching across this country, especially all of our friends joining us live from lynchburg, virginia, at liberty university. i'll see you in may. [applause] and to all of them and to all of you, i bring greetings from a friend of mine. a man who restores american leadership at home and abroad and the man who can't wait to be with you tomorrow. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] you know, it's the greatest honor of my life to serve as vice president. your president who gets up every day and fights to keep the promises they made to the american people. i mean think about it. this president promised to get this economy moving a

we are talking a lot about cpac. ahead of the speech we have a radio

[applause] >> hello, cpac. >> ok, we can do better than that. hello, cpac! that is more like that. >> into republicans out there today? in the daily caller readers? get started there. i want to get a show of hands in the room, how many people consider themselves politically independent, not a member of either political party? a couple? increasingly, we see a lot of will who identify as independent although they are conservative. how do you get those people to join the republican party? >> i think you -- as you see 5 million new jobs come into this country, as they have seen wage growth, as they've seen a president who has brought manufacturing jobs back unintentionally help your cause in the last few months. this is not a good exhaustive list. coming to catholic haskell, jussie smollett, the green new deal. conservatives being assaulted on campus. aggressive late-term abortion bills, democrats openly discussing letting babies die shortly after birth will stop anti-semitism, democrats calling border wall of moral, calling them to be torn down. why do they pay

it's interesting about cpac.e con fab of conservatives who would get together wince a year and it's not cpac anymore. it hasn't been since 2016. it's now trump pac and should be tpac because the people there talk about pro tariffs, anti-justice, anti-law enforcement, anti-immigrant, anti-muslim. pro-russia, pro autocrat. it's unrecognizable what donald trump has done to the party and what he's done to the conservative movement and cpac which used to be the flagship of the conservative media. it's a shame. >> can i ask you, what can be done to resurrect the republican party as it was? or is that gone? >> you're asking me? >> yeah. >> rest in peace. no, it's over. the problem is that the republican party has no grounding governing philosophy anymore because they've signed on to all these things as i just mentioned that were antithetical to the conservative movement. so it's the trump party. when trump passes on one way or the other, ha party will no longer exist and the republican party will have -- it has no funda

the president's speech at cpac looks pretty fun.cous time with president trump's speech. it's really taken by bernie saying that the president is dangerous. i'll tell you what's dangerous is peddling socialism. and he's actually talked about transforming america. we all know exactly what socialists, self described socialist bernie sanders want to transfrrm that from the most prosperous capitalist country in the world into socialism. bernie sanders is the same guy who cheered the socialist revolution in venezuela, saying you were more likely to find the american dream in venezuela and now he's not talking about venezuela. i wouldn't talk about what to do with your economy from this guy. >> a button from griff says hindsight is 2020 with a picture of bernie on it. thank you were griff. griff brought me a t-shirt from the rally. now it says future supporters of trump. i believe is what it's supposed to say. these are all young kids who go there and get t-shirts with slogans on them and they don't know anything about they're young kids

guys, let's get right into this here, the president's address to cpac. kevin, you first. how do you describe this speech? what do you think was the motivation behind it? >> look, i think we always say this in the media as almost a cliche, but i was thinking about it coming in here. this was without question the start of the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, that off-the-record, off-the-cusp style is something that, quite frankly, when you talk to aides connected to this white house, the president has been feeling for quite some time that he wanted to get out there, to push back, to bulldoze through when his back is up against the political wall. he did that last night. it played very well to the base. he shattered through a host of criticisms. and look, this is the president that is going to be campaigning between now and next november. >> what about your take on the speech, david, and the impact of it overall? do you agree this was the ultimate kickoff to the 2020 presidential campaign for trump? >> remember, alex, that state of the union address where donald trump calle

that's for sure. >> let's talk about cpac. you and i know it well. >> you weren't there this year >> no. my invitation was lost in the mail, i'm sure. it's always been a little fringy, even a little nerdy. i left cpac years ago. what i've seen over the past few days was just mean-spirited. showcasing the worst of the movement not the best of the movement. do you think cpac has lost its importance and relevance or have you and i? >> well, what i was about to say is how much of the movement has become mean-spirited and intolerant and ridiculous in its adulation as a result for trump. it's not a conservative movement. not interested in discussing conservative policy. i just came from an event a young man where he tweeted about ten days ago. let's get-together real conservative, moderates who care about ideas let's have a beer and have kind of a mini counter cpac. in a week over 1,000 people signed up and have come to these little get-togethers buying their own beers in many cities across the country. that gives me hope. i've been

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noon eastern as we wait president trump at the annual cpac conference. they say national harbor maryland, which is just about 10 miles south on the potomac from the capital, the president we understand, is there. at the convention center but has not yet taken the stage. welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington. when we say news, there is a lot of news today and a lot of events today. >> i am molly. nice to be with you in washington on this cloudy day. we are talking a lot about cpac. ahead of the speech we have a radio host with this. talk about this there's a lot of excitement leading up to the speech. know that the president tends to enjoy when he is surrounded by his supporters. what are you expecting? >> here, he is surrounded by all of the people who love him. and the people who are upfront as they were able to get in at 6:30 am this morning. over five hours they been sitting and waiting. right now it is a little candle in the wind playing by elton john. but they have been excited, they been excited since vice president pence gave hi

back to cpac after his trip to asia.called me and said look, i'm going to do everything i can to get back to cpac. that's where i want to be. i think everybody here is going to appreciate this is an extraordinary gesture for a president who has been in the air for about 40 hours to be back talking to the heart and soul of the republican party, the conservative movement. pete: absolutely. rachel: matt, this is rachel, hello. >> hey, rachel, how are you? rachel: good. listen, according to the "new york times," they say that michael cohen's testimony is going to bring him trouble with his voters. now, you are there at cpac with the base, the grassroots. what do you think the interacimpactof this week's tess on his voters? >> i think that for at least half the country, rachel, they are exhausted from this whole topic. they view michael cohen as kind of a sleaze ball who has given different answers to congress on different questions, different answers to federal prosecutors. so, when you are giving different answers to the sa

. ♪ >> hello, cpac. >> we can do better than that. hello, cpac. all right.hat's more like it. >> any republicans out there today? a couple? any daily caller readers? good. making sure you are out there, too. let's get started there. i want to get a show of hands in the room. how many people consider themselves politically independent, not a member of either political party? anybody? a couple. the hands you see -- increasingly, we see people identify as independent. although, they are conservative around the country. how do you get those people to join the republican party? >> i think you tout the results of this administration. as people see 5 million new jobs come to this country, as they have seen wage growth, a president who has brought manufacturing jobs back, unemployment at record lows for the hispanic and african-american communities and you look at why is that. because we cut taxes, regulation. we're making better trade deals. when you make the case -- this isn't just talking points. this is being seen right now in real time and action making our eco

visit ncicap.org] hello, cpac. ok, we do not have a kind of time up here, so this is what i want to do. i want to frame this by keeping on this focus. there is all this big tech out there, social media clearly

president obama was tagged as socialist at cpac.was interesting to me about cpac is how much it's the president's happy place. some people go to a spa. he goes to cpac. >> which was not always the case. >> it used to be, as i'm sure you remember, i was there on thursday. it was striking. used to be this free-wheeling conversation about the dynamics in the republican party and it was a place where activists sort of conveyed their views to the establishment. but now the activists are the establishment. president trump has kong kerred the republican party. there's not -- it's hard to see how a primary challenge against him would be successful, although you constantly hear these rumblings of one that could happen. and he really does have a very firm hold on the party's base. now whether he can expand beyond that is -- the open question. >> i've been around a little. cpac used to be where the republicans or conservatives -- they didn't always consider hems republicans, stood up to dictators, didn't like communism or deficits or big gover

the president igniting cpac with what many conservatives are calling his best speech yet using the sames worked so well in 2016. the collusion delusion, all of a sudden they are trying to take you out with bull shit, okay, we will always defend america's borders. our immigration system is so broken, folks, the new green deal, whatever the hell they call it, we believe in american dream and not in the socialist nightmare. rob: the kinds of speeches worked well getting him elected but will this fiery rhetoric be the key of winning in 2020, can it work for reelection, here to debate senior vice president of america rising alexandria and democratic strategists kevin chÁvez. kevin, i want to start with you. i know you probably hated the speech but it's hard -- to go for 2 hours and keep people into it the way he can, he has something very special when he connects with people that way, what do you think? >> i agree the speech at cpac threw plenty of read meat to the base and got great reviews as you mention and a recent poll shows that president trump is still very strong among his base, but

>> some of the cpac meeting from earlier today. we take you live for remarks by the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> taking advantage of the jet lag. that's not fair. mulvaney, know mick because this guy had a nearly perfect acu congressional voting record. what is it like to have, as the chief of staff to the president, such a strong conservative? i bet it makes us all feel great. i've got the chief in a perfect position, because as you said, you are a bit sleep deprived and jetlagged. you have done it before. how is that? that's pretty cool. he wanted to be here with all of you. she just came back from a pretty important trip. not too many have gone a read out. tilde great conservatives assembled here what happened on this historic trip. >> we flew 42 hours to be on the ground for 39. that is an interesting way to travel. it was a great trip. i was extraordinarily proud of the president. he will be here tomorrow to tell you about it. all i can tell you is he did exactly what you and i would have wanted him to d

stars in cpac. >> we have 20 young men and women that we have brought from across the country to cpac please stand up. there are 20 of them here today. where are you? take a look. these are people that will make a difference in our party. they are leaders and doing and outstanding job. we are giving them the tools to be leaders in our party. like can do so in, charlie kirk. we need more leaders like that. we need more young people. the rnc brought them here. they have little badges on. these rising stars are the future of our party and we need to mentor them and bring them into our fold. we are often told that the democratic party is the party of young people. how does the republican party attract youthful supporters? >> we have to go to college campuses. we have to talk to people that have not heard enough from our party. you have to go to places where you do not think republicans will be like college campuses. tell them about what democrats are going to say. free education. we have kids that cannot read right now in elementary school. we have kids not graduating from high school. le

here's the president as just a part of his two-hour speech at cpac. listen to this. >> unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with [ bleep ], okay. with [ bleep ]. robert mueller never received a vote and neither did the person that appointed him. >> did you expect him to speak for two hours? >> i think it was two hours and 20 minutes. >> how much time did you allot for it? >> i don't even know because maybe 30, 40 minutes. but when i talked to him afterwards, i think he could have gone another hour, alisyn. he was still amped up. we had a long conversation and, you know, i think the thing about cpac, which is probably hard for people who have never gone, is this is not so much a speech that the president gave, it was almost a conversation he's was talking to people in the audience throughout it. it was an extraordinary event. >> well, i mean people also felt that you used their term amped up, we've heard the term s

cpac was a place to hear how hillary was going to pay.nd only sebastian gorka still has the art war mobile, but the time on his parking meter is over.cpac also did get big names including trump, who will speak tomorrow. we already heard from mike pence and ted cruz and senator josh hauly who hilariously was served with a subpoena as he exited the cpac stage. but the biggest star of the conference so far is not any of those people. it is, instead, a certain democratic socialist that the cpac crowd just cannot stop talking about. and that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. seconds. 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. uh uh - i deliverberty the news around here. ♪ sources say liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. over to you, logo. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ guys go through a lot to deal with shave irritation. so, we built the new gillette skinguard with a specialized g

larry kudlow was speaking at cpac.nsportation, airlines, jobs, businesses we would probably lose 10 to 15% of our g.d.p. steve: yeah, but other than that. [laughter] brian: one thing that i think people should understand secretary of energy rick perry has said we are on a fast track to burn clean energy. if people are really serious about the environment. they would go nike larr and they would go natural gas. both we lead the world. in people don't want to do that you can't have both. because even if you go electric. guess what powers those fuel plants that power up the electric car? coal. so you can't have one without the other. and also, to point out, too. there is something else going on. while democrats clearly have momentum in many ways and certainly have the house and certainly like to put the spotlight on their investigations, cpac is going on, which is this enormously successful conservative conference that started yesterday. one of the invitees was van jones. van jones, a famous confidante of barack obama, and

here it is. >> it's not cpac anymore. it hasn't been since 2016. it's now trump pac. be tpac. the people there they talk about pro tariffs, anti-justice, anti-law enforcement, anti-imgallant, anti-muslim, pro russia, pro autocrat. it's unrecognizable what donald trump has done to the party and what he's done to the conservative movement. >> what do you think about what he said there and how the president portrayed himself yesterday. >> i think rick was absolutely right, alex. i don't think it was lem bearsing, i think it was an embarrassment. i don't think it was a speech. i think it was a rant. a disgraceful way for the president of the united states to handle himself. imagine children not being able to handle president of the united states and watching him get bleeped because of bad language. >> that's the easiest part to take apart and say what he's done to the oval office. rick is right, what he's done to the riff movement is completely hijacked. i blame the people in that crowd because they would rather be entertained than face hard realities and face the fact th

i've been at cpac for the last few years.ere some references to socialism, but it wasn't the dominant theme. and today and yesterday, it was the thing that they were talking about. so it was pretty interesting. >> to talk me about how cpac has changed over the years, daniel. >> well, in various ways. there were times where it was this forum for sort of raucous debate among various elements of the right. in recent years, it became sort of trump pac. i think he joked it would be tpac, thoroughly taken over by trumpian conservatism, which some traditional conservatives say is not conservativism at all. and then this year it was again thoroughly taken over by trump. but, you know, it was less about him and his accomplishments and what he plans to do going forward than about the menace posed by the democrats. so i think that was a shift even from last year. >> anita, a lot of the plans that progressives on the democratic side, democratic socialists are proposing are quite popular when you poll them among everyday americans. broadl

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those are a harder find at cpac or periweren't the same theme.over what the play is the man himself. good to have you on the show, matt. it's been awhile. >> great to be back with you, chris. >> who is that yelling behind you? oh, it's going on. so do me a favor, let's do a little plus minus, matt. make the pitch to the audience about the socialism? is this just hyperbole or are you going to make a real case that that's where we're headed? >> quite honestly it's a little shocking for some of us. the theme this year is what makes america great. the intent is to go back to some foundational principles for why america is exceptional and out of nowhere, as a result of the 2018 election, there's a brand new, bernie is not standing alone, elizabeth warren is not standing alone. you have elected democrats that are embracing socialism. it's a totally legitimate push back after it's failed so extravagantly all over the globe and most specifically right now in venezuela. so i think the american people think the idea of embracing socialism is controversial

more from the c-span -- cpac conference, mike pence.video clip] >> remarkably, a leading candidate is a devout socialist. but it's not just him. bernie has been joined by a chorus of candidates and newly elected officials who have papered over the failed policies of socialism with bumper sticker slogans and slick social media campaigns. what they are actually offering is just more of the same. or taxes, more spending, more government and less freedom. it was freedom, not socialism that gave us the most prosperous economy in the history of the world. it was freedom, not socialism, that ended slavery, 12 world wars, and stands today as the beginning of hope for all the world. it was freedom, not socialism, that is moving us beyond the of the past to create a more perfect union and extend the blessings of liberty to every american regardless of race or reader color. .t was freedom freedom, not socialism, that gave us the highest quality of life, the cleanest quality of life on earth and improve the health and well-being of millions around

hello, cpac.nk that between the four of us were flown something like 24,000 24,000 miles to be here with you and it's wonderful and you're all fantastic and this so much fun and it's been worth every single mile. right? >> amen. >> amen. let's get started. america loves israel and american conservatives a special of israel. [applause] that's right and israel loves america. and as they learned in 2017 the reasons and the expression of this relationship, the reason for the expression of it go much farther than most people realize. american financial and political support and american ideas most important of all have really helped build an exceptional society in the middle east after they were going to look at some of the strategic, cultural and economic contributions that issue makes to the world. so with that i i want to turn o our panelists. eugene, you teach law and you are an expert in geopolitics. could you give us a quick overview of the value of having a western ally in the middle east like i