republican donna brazile also here. was getting a good deal of applause from all the people standing behind us. a celebrity among democrats no doubt. >> they're both celebrities in my mind. >> she's a diva. >> you're a celebrity among republicans and you spent the last few days at the republican house retreat talking to members of the house, the republican members, about minority outreach and the issue of immigration. what was your message to them? >> my message is we need to do better. we're in bad shape, but it is doable to improve and it is something we must do. we cannot give up on hispanic outreach. and immigration is a challenge, it's a complex issue, it's a controversial and divisive, emotional issue. but it's also an opportunity to change the tone, to do something, to come up with a constructive solution, to work in a bipartisan fashion, and show the country what they want to see from republicans, show hispanics that we care, get them back into our fold. we can attract hispanics. you know, eight years ago we were

and last but not least my friend and sometime interim chair of democratic national committee, donna brazilewho is once again going to serve us as vice chair for voter protection and voter enfranchisement. [cheers and applause] thank you. donna is so incredibly special to us that she gets those extra adjectives on the end of her title, and she deserves every one of them because she has been an incredible, passionate advocate for making sure that the voiceless have a voice, for making sure that when it comes to enfranchising as many people as possible, insuring that the fiasco that too many voters experienced in the last election will never again can occur, making sure that even in america has an opportunity to succeed not just the people who are already successful. donna brazile has been a remarkable democratic leader, a remarkable american leader, and i'm proud to know that she's going to continue to serve us. so i look forward to serving with each of you, and please join me in congratulating all of them as we move forward. [applause] i want to also -- thank you very much. i want to also ta

. >> joining us, george will, democratic strategist donna brazile, republican congressman dave schweikertnew republic punisher and facebook co-founder chris hughes and the host of npr's "morning edition," steve inskeep. >>> hello. great to have you with us. george is off this weekend. so much to get to this morning. including that controversy over the oscar-nominated film "zero dark thirty" and so-called intense interrogation. >>> but first front and center this morning washington is set to tackle an immigration overhaul. the president is planning to speak about it on tuesday, and our two headlining senators are working 0en a plan as well of the let's start with ranking of the armed services committee, john mccain. welcome, senator mccain. you have spent a great deal of time working on immigration issues. when do you think you can get this bipartisan plan out and how much can you tell us about what's in it? >> well, we're going to be announcing the principals that will be guiding our translation of it into legislation. we've still got a lot of hard work ahead. but i'm very pleased with th

matthew dowd and donna brazile. and of course, our own cokie roberts. cokie, let me begin with you.talked about the crowds. happy, buoyant crowds. smaller than four years ago. and it gets to the question of the challenge of second inaugurals, always tough. >> yes. the first inaugural, particularly when you had a change of party, is such a symbolic moment. turning over the reins. the helicopter comes and takes the old president away and the new president proceeds. and so, this is very different from that. but it is still a moment when everybody comes together and says, okay. this is america's day. this is not a democratic day. this is not a republican day. this is a day to celebrate the country. and i think the president will play on that. but also, on the fact that this is martin luther king day. and to have an african-american president taking the oath on martin luther king day is very significant. we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. we, 100 years ago, had a chief justice swear in woodrow wilson. that chief justice served in the confederate arm

. >> reporter: no response from the white house, but democratic strategist donna brazile tweeting, "beyonceean and told the truth. god bless america." hip hop icon russell simons simply tweets, "beyonce killed it." she's been preparing for the super bowl for five months and today, she made this promise. >> i will absolutely be singing live. i am well rehearsed. and i will absolutely be singing live. this is what i was born to do. >> reporter: diane, the super bowl typically the most watched television event of the year. 100 million people expected to tune in. that's four times more than watched the inauguration, so, you're talking about a big stage for beyonce. >> that was a nervy performance today. >> reporter: it was. >> it was something else. thank you so much, paula. >>> and still ahead on "world news," we're going to tell you about a new crime spree, revealing crafty new ways thieves know how to target your home when you're away. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally

. >> donna brazile, last year, you were wearing your fleece.miss bing up there. i had a nice seat. yesterday, i was honored to be with the vice president and dr. jill biden, at the naval observatory. we had an incredible morning. sonia sotomayer, justice, gave the oath of office. and it was beautiful. my voice is rather hoarse because i have been out with friends and family. this has been a great weekend of celebration and service. >> there's justice sotomayer right there, as the first daughters walk into the capitol, with their grandmother. >> and we have to stop, again, and talk about their grandmother because she wasn't sure she wanted to be in the white house. but we know, she has been a center of stability for this family in these four years. >> she lives on the third floor. they all live on the second. she is a constant presence, as you say. has become something of a presence in washington, as well. developed a social life. often seen at the kennedy center. i guess she kind of liked, diane. >> yes, after living in the same house for 50 ye

bring in cnn political con trick birts donna brazile and alex castellanos. , alex, this isn't the only negative poll. people hoping and thinking the president's poll slice fail what kind of a start is that to the second term? >> well, look, at this point, people -- we just came through a very contentious election. and there is still americans who perhaps are unhappy the selection of majority by the americans. as you know, on many other issues, country is simply divided. we are divide aid long political lines, cultural lines, ethnic lines, you name the lines, we are divided upon them. i think more americans would like to see this president succeed on those big issue, getting this country back on its feet economically and the think the rest will follow. >> the poll shows it will not be an easy road for the republicans? >> not at all. republicans don't want president obama with the policies they have seen to succeed. they think the policies will hurt country. republicans don't want to do that. that's why republicans just voted against barack obama do they want a

you think donna brazil is a woman who has broken into the boys game at the top.s that a problem of the culture of the boys club or the clubhouse. who was it that called bill clinton's white boys club. it was a problem back then. >> it's always been a problem. you can't except our first black president to solve that problem single handedly in one or two terms. i think there have been other complaints that there's a lot of socializing and bonding that goes on in the basketball court and on the golf course. and that women went to valerie jarrett in the first term and said they felt a little bit left out and sidelined. you can't forget about that. he lost somebody at the caliber of a christina romer who was doing progressive things. his inability to hold on to certain women might be a problem too. so i think it is a culture where you really do have to work at it and not do unconscious things that may sideline women. >> you think the golf thing is -- the golf game stuff. bill clinton played hearts with everybody. you know? you're laughing. anyway, he was not gender sp

. >>> joining us, george will, democratic strategist donna brazile, republican congressman dave schweikerter chris hhe

and publisher of "the new republic" and facebook co-founder chris hughes, democratic strategist donna brazileona republican congressman david schweikert and the host of npr's "morning edition," steve inskeep. welcome, everyone. and i want to start with you, george will, on what you've just heard john mccain talking about saying, i'm going to give you some straight talk, a path to citizenship has to be included in this. >> it does, and i'll tell you why. the interesting thing, martha, is that this debate is coming to a rolling boil and a moment when for almost two years now net immigration from the south of the united states is approximately zero. we sort of solved the problem. you want to stop immigration, have a huge recession. that will take care of it. second, what no one can say has been involved in the process but the rest of us have to say over and over again, the 11 million undocumented immigrants are not going home. the american people would not tolerate the police measures necessary to extract from our community a significant portion of them have been here ten years or more. 5 millio

. >> i remember donna brazile after the -- was it the 2004 election, writing an op-ed and talking aboutcrats were having problems -- she said i went home, very democratic family, never voted republican. and i'm sitting around the kitchen table, and they're all asking me, why are you the party of abortions? >> yeah. >> well, and that really goes to the heart of this, which is it's hard when your mandate is to advocate for something that most people are very uncomfortable with, and that you would never really want to have. >> right. >> amazing. >> i just say -- i know that sounded harsh. donna brazile wrote that, i'm just going back to what bill clinton said, they've got to be more effective. >> you don't want to be the party of abortion on demand. you want to be -- to maintain a broad support for the right to abortion, it makes a lot of political sense to be arguing for let's have as few as possible, because that's where most of the country is. they want it to be a right, but they want it to have as few as possible, because most people regard it as a tragedy and awful thing. >> and talki

donna brazile and matthew dowd.atthew, the unfulfilled promise of president obama bridging our national divisions and divisions here in the capital? >> these speeches, the inaugural speeches are different than the state of the union speeches. where do you define yourself in the country in the arc of history? he has to lay out a broad vision of that. it doesn't need to be long. but it needs to give people a sense of where the country is and where he broadly wants to go. >> and he'll try to keep it short. donna, special resonance, that this is martin luther king day. one of the bibles he'll use is martin luther king's bible. >> it's his dream, the vision he had for this country, of bringing people together, and sharing that brotherhood and sisterhood of love. this is going to be a very special day for those who will return to washington and those who are coming to washington for the first time to see our first biracial, african-american president. i think it's going to be a wonderful day of celebration. if dr. king we

. >>> let's talk about secretary of state with donna brazile and editor-in-chief from redstate.com, erickthe secretary of state. look at these polls. impression of hillary clinton, favorable, ratings, 67%. unfavorable, 28%. that's very, very high. in contrast, joe biden, the vice president, his favorable rate, 48%. unfavorable, 37%. what should these numbers, erick, tell us about 2016 in the time between now and if anything? >> i don't know that they should tell us anything, wolf. i'm always cautious about being that far out. remember, 2006 and 2007 hillary clinton was the shoe-in for the democratic nomination. fast forward, if the angst remains and grows between the republican and democratic party about hostility in washington, which they both share for different reasons, i'm not sure that hillary or joe are going to be the fit that the democrats want. they might want someone from outside washington. >> how important was the hearing for the secretary of state, donna? >> i thought it was very important. mrs. clinton has been admired 11 times since 1993. the only time she's been topped is

joining us is donna brazil and david frum, both cnn contributors.what we know? what do you think? >> i don't think a spokesman denied involvement with prostitutes or underage prostitutes is the thing you want to say of a chairman of the committee that deals with the world. it's a nervous making moment for him and let's hope he has some good answers. he better hope he has some good answers. >> i assume you agree? >> he's about to take on a very important job as chair of the senate foreign relations committee. i know bob menendez. he's a man of incredible and impeccable character and i hope he can get this behind him. >> were you watching the hearing today? >> i was. >> senator mccain, senator lindsey graham, they were pretty rough with him. >> well, it's not so much what the senators that questioned him do but what senator hagel did. i have to imagine a lot of people watching this hearing at the white house looking at each other saying, why did we think this was a good idea? this mans seemses unprepared, he seems not very nimble. the most appalling m

donna brazille, vice chair, congresswoman for vice chair, maria for vice chair, and andrew tibius forreasurer, stephanie rollings-blake for secretary, and henry for national finance chair. the chair understands this is the only slate of officers dually nominated accordingly, and i'd like to move to nominating and seconding the wonderful and group of talented officer candidates and proceed to a single vote. the chair entertains a motion to elect the vice chair and national finance chair on a single vote. the motion made. is there a second? all in favor -- >> question, madam chair -- >> i'm getting there. >> thank you, ma'am. >> is there any discussion? >> yes, madam chair. >> yes? >> larry of california, i want to move to suspend the rules to separate out the election of office of secretary until the next meeting of the dnc. >> second. >> okay. according to our rule, we do not accept nominations from the floor. in order to be nominated, you actually have to have submitted a petition and accomplished 20 petitions which had to be done by sunday at 8 p.m.. our rules do not allow for us to