and in the last poll we've seen, mark sanford is leading curtis bostic 53-40%. d ana marie, i am not sure anything happened to change that around for bostic. >> no, i don't think it did. mark sanford is probably going to walk away from this. i would like to point out as far as making noise on the hill, he didn't co-sponsor a single piece of legislation in three terms he represented congress ten years ago. >> details, details. come on. >> these days, people make their mark on fox news, it isn't necessarily doing the work of legislation. it is making noise and, you know, crafting sound bites on fox news. >> that's what you call nitpicking in south carolina, isn't it? >> that's right. >> nia malika-henderson, ana marie cox, thank you for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >>> why the war on drugs never worked, never will work, and has only made things worse. i don't like to golf. i love to golf. ♪ [ grunts ] yowza! that's why i eat belvita at breakfast. it's made with delicious ingredients and carefully baked to release steady energy that lasts... we are golfing now,

he defeated curtis bostic. the biggest, most significant surprise of the evening, the person standing next to him on stage, his former mistress and now fiance was there with him along with his mother and their sons. he spoke of forgiveness on his road to redemption. >> i want to thank my god. you know, i used to cringe when somebody said i want to thank my god. it was getting uncomfortable. once you really receive god's grace and seen it reflected in others, you cannot stop and stop for a moment and publicliage knowledge that grace and the difference he's made in my life and the difference he making in so many lives across this state and that nation and this campaign. god may be a god of second chances, voters are a little less forgiving. >>> coming up on "morning joe," a live interview with mark sanford. with us right now, the chief white house correspondent from politico, mike allen. thanks for getting up early today. as we look ahead to the showdown with elisabeth colbert, it could be a close contest. >> mar

he's facing curtis bostic in the first congressional district.received the often covet coveted rick santorum endorsement. elizabeth colbert busch to take over the seat of scott. she's the sister of stephen colbert. she has taken the colbert to the bank. steve will host a fundraiser for his sister. here with me donnie fowler, welcome back in "the war room"." >> i'm glad to be from columbia and not charleston today. >> michael: because mark sanford would not part. your cabash. >> so colb ert busch campaign said she had a small lead over bostic. could she actually win. >> there are a lot of mixed numbers here. barack obama last this district by six points to mitt romney. that is working against her. there is more republicans in this district. it was drawn by the republican legislature to be a republican district. but we've got a really unpopular republican party nationally. we have a governor who is not very popular and we have two candidates who are less than ideal. >> so the governor is not popular. how has her popularity dipped. >> she's mixed ab

they'll choose mark sanford or curtis bostic, because they know elizabeth colbert busch will out of touche values. cenk: he's running on not spending too much, but then look at the unbelievable hypocrisy that he used a government funded trip to go down to argentina to have sex with his mistress. i don't want to spend money on you, i just want to spend money on me. >> like i said, i think his record speaks for itself object spending. that was a huge issue. i think he's answered those and he's had a lot of personal time to reflect on that that, and he's asked the voters for forgiveness. cenk: i'm not asking just about governor son ford. i get what you're saying. i'm asking about the republican party. you guys get that you've got an issue here that you're always talking about family values and it turns out there's the cheating and you're always talking about the spending and reagan and bush spent like drunk sailors, never balanced the budget. you understand that it's an issue for the party overall. >> i think the party's message is good, the messaging needs to be perfected. i don't think dem

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i think that it's going to be a lot tighter than people think and i think curtis bostic is getting evangelicalsut. that's where his ground game is. outside of charleston county, where sanford would probably have more strength and because of the money he's had, been on tv more, i think it's going to be neck and neck and i think that's good for elizabeth colbert bush because i think it's going to show that mark sanford while he may come back in a very conservative -- more conservative than the district at whole consistency and i think she can take either one of them in november -- actually may 7th. >> there is a new poll out, chad, an internal poll, democratic pool from her campaign. it shows her slightly ahead, 47% to 44% in a matchup against sanford. larger lead against bostic, 9 points. but this has been a reliably republican district. is it your sense that this seat is in danger? >> no, we're going to win this. this was an 18-point victory for governor romney in november. we're going to hold on to the seat no matter who the can't is. we'll be able to beat lulu busch no problem. >> stephen col

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sanford faces charleston county councilman curtis bostic in the republican runoff for his old congressional seat. sanford finished with 37% of the vote to bostic's 13%. he has all the name and i.d. a candidate could ask for. he's favored to win today. he'll never count out surprises in american politics. bostic, counting on the support of evangelical voters in this district, is doing his best to capitalize on sanford's past sins. and while sanford runs on his fiscally conservative credentials and tries to explain them away, they met in a debate on thursday. >> the events of 2009 absolutely represent a failure on my part for which there were and will always be at some level consequences. but this does not mean because you've had a failure in your personal life that you cannot step back into life again. >> the whole show that should governor be the candidate facing the democrat we'll lose this seat and lose it needlessly because of this issue of trust. a compromised candidate is not what we need. >> while sanford's former english teacher gives his character a stamp of approval in a new ad, bo

he easily defeated curtis bostic by claiming 57% of the vote.ide of charleston. >> i want to thank my god. you know, i used to cringe when somebody would say, okay, i want to thank my god. it was at that point, this is getting uncomfortable. but once you've really received god's grace and seen it reflected in others, you cannot stop and stop for a moment and publicly acknowledge that grace and the difference he has made in my life and he is making in so many lives across this state, across this nation and certainly in this campaign. and while god may be a god of second chances, at times, voters are a little bit less forgiving. >> sanford now faces democrat elizabeth coburn bush in the general election that takes place on may 7th. we will speak with mark sanford coming up in a few minutes and be sending an invitation out to elizabeth colbert bush. >> she has her own show. >> he is campaigning for her, right? he is holding fund-raisers for her. it's going to be a tight race. >> it's going to be "morning joe" versus colbert report. hey, let's talk,

sanford beat charleston city councilman curtis bostic last night in a republican runoff.lebrated the victory with his fiancee. the first time he's been seen with her, and, together in public he'll take on the democrat elizabeth colbert busch in the may 7th special election. here's what he said to supporters last night. >> incredibly humbled, incredibly gratified, incredibly thankful for this night, for what it means at many different levels. and i just want to thank every one of you for your part in making it possible. thank you very much. >> sanford admitted he was having an affair in 2009, and divorced his wife jenny in 2010. he's now engaged to the woman who he was having the affair with. >>> okay only on cnn the nra's asa hutchinson telling our wolf blitzer the expansion of background checks for gun sales is on the table. hutchinson is a former congressman who's heading up the nra's national school shield task force. while his new position on background checks appears to be softening, it comes with one significant caveat. >> i'm open to expanding background checks. yo

affair in 2009 he's in a republican runoff election with former charleston county council member curtis bosticopen congressional seat in south carolina's first district. she is the sister of tv personality stephen colbert. minding your business new signs the recession in europe is getting worse, but the recovery in the u.s. is picking up. unemployment in the eurozone hitting a record high of 12%. the debt crisis there still hitting the european economy. 12%. here in the u.s., though, features point to a 60-point increase in the dow with the opening bell follows a strong first quarter for stocks and comes ahead of auto sales today. edmunds.com forecasts march to be the strongest month for car and truck sales in almost six years. sign again things are going in the right direction in the united states. and the wrong direction in europe. >>> an exciting new show is airing all this week on cnn and it gets right to "the point." one of the hot topics on last night's debut broadcast, devastating leg injury suffered by louisville guard kevin ware. jason taylor understands what ware's going through afte

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