get an ellison barber. oh look, ellison barber. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> it is sports played in boxer shorts. sounds like a -- >> victory for nerds. >> yes, it soms those years -- seems those years spent drinking mountain dew and not getting laid may payoff. they are now offering scholarships for internet gamers. they are entering the world of e sports establishing a team to compete in the on-line game league of legends that is an actual college sport. qualified gamers can receive 50% of tuition and 50% of room and board. the athletic -- the associated athletic director said robert morris university has been at the forefront of providing opportunities for diverse student population with different interests and skills. league of legends is a competitive and challenging game requiring teamwork to be successful. you know who is more deserving of an athletic scholarship? this guy. >> that was amazing. >> that was pretty amazing. >> i was going to start with something else. what do you think? >> i think it is great. here is my problem

joining us is ellison barber, staff writer at the "washington free beacon."hey had this meeting last night and senate armed services meeting that just broke up, doesn't seem to stop. >> they're saying exact same thing what we heard from the house. i spoke to people from the house yesterday and early this morning when they were talking about it. the thing they said what i heard mike emanuel saying they were talking about when leaving the senate briefing. no new information. they didn't understand why the briefing was closed-door. they frustrated a lot of questions they had were not actually answered. they left the meeting wondering why it was closed to begin with and still having unanswered questions. eric: do the senators and congressman feel the administration is backpedaling big-time? >> the way they explained from the house, they felt the administration is circling wagons. that is take way way from house members yesterday. they felt it was backpedaling and term they used was circling the wagons. eric: they are being defensive. they did not expect the outra

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joining us now, ellison barber, staff writer for the "washington free beacon." the tee party versus establishment scenario, you don't necessarily agree with that setup. >> i don't. entire illustration there being this big tea party versus establishment battle tends to annoy me a little bit. i think it is mischaracterization. when we're asking questions is the tea party dead, what we're asking are the national big groups that fund a lost tea party groups, are those groups better, do they still have political clout? look somewhere like nebraska with ben sat where you had a lot of outside groups, freedom initially supported his opponent osborn and switched to ben sasse. eric cantor's race, those outside groups were not actually involved what happened there. a lot of time when we're discussing whether or not there is this big battle of the establishment and tea party i think what we're talking about whether or not big d.c. groups are still important and still relevant and still have clout and do. but i think the tea party movement is about grassroots and activists.

joining me now, ellison barber. ellison, i don't know how you feel about this.ou kind of can't look away when chris christie's out there jiggling around, right? >> you can't. and i was not a fan of this dance. he said he would hypothetically beat hillary clinton. i'm sure she was saying, not after that dancing routine because that is going to be every campaign attack ad i would want to pop that in. it was terrible. it was kind of cringe-worthy. there's a fine line between being light-hearted. he slow jammed to the news with jimmy fallon last year. that was funny and light-hearted. but this is a little too unserious for a presidential candidate. i didn't like it. >> don't you remember when president obama did slow jam also with jimmy fallon? it was april 2012 and it was before when he was already president. and some people make that as a difference when you're running for president -- but isn't this just a sign of the times? this is what we've come to. >> that's the argument some people make. i still think a lot of these things -- while to some degree oates a sig