eric cantor is lending help.e house leader about this effort and the becoming a movement in the country. >> first of all, i think so much what our lives are about, is premised on the sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make for us and their families go through for us. and this parade, that is enrichmond today is a welcome home hero's parade is a fitting celebration of that sacrifice . there is a in richmond who was a vet herself. she actually works for the richmond newspaper, and it was her idea to replicate what was going on in st. luse in the beginning and make it an event for us in richmond and common wettle of virginia. i think it is a tremendous event for all of us to honor the individuals who really have begin everything for our country. >> there are going to be a number of resources there to help the veterans reaclimate in the count community once they have left overseas. >>> and there is a village. veterans resource village in the end of the parade. and it brings together all kinds of services for

this two-month period as described by eric cantor is important for house republicans. two things they're pry trooig do. some of which mr. cantor describes. one, finish up as much business as they before we get to the conventions and then the campaign. so there are various bills out there. spending bills they'd like to pass as many as possible. also there are bills that there are varying differences between the house and senate that need to be resolved. frankly, that's not the primary focus from the republican message. the republican message, instead, wants to focus on the second area and kind of what are the issues where republicans want to take to the country to show how the election, of keeping a republican house, adding a republican senate, electing a republican president. republicans are describing in the house in the next two months areas like tax cuts and tax reform. areas like what happens to president obama's health care reform package after the supreme court rules, leader care prescribed in the memo or prepare house republican members more what lies ahead in th

eric cantor was offended at that too. funny come at your question, west played a role, and surprising even himself, convincing freshman but there is no point for 100% of a solution, that 70% is better than nothing, and he was instrumental in bringing freshmen on board for this among others. if for nothing else, for military. he was a lieutenant colonel. he was discharged after a harsh interrogation that nearly led to a court marshaling and imprisonment. in fact, noted in the book at the time that he was sworn into office, he had -- had fortune turned a different way, he was just winding down a prison term in fort leavenworth. allen west is in most intriguing guy. for all the outlandish thing on 10 things he said, he still walked around with all this information in all of his books, reading books in a bag -- a bad that so has the bearing of a guy from the army. when he has had qualms with leadership, has often compared them, one timely to the military leadership that he himself experienced. >> why did you devote a chapter

they actually were exclusively comparing eric cantor to someone like john kasich. who back then was a republican senate of newt gingrich is. they compared him to john kasich. behind closed doors he would be reasonable. the problem was twofold. the first was these guys may have been personally reasonable, but the republican pockets in the house of representatives were much more conservative than they were in the mid- 1990s. it was a completely different -- not completely, but a different ideological orientation. the analogy was incorrect, even though that was the analogy be approached in the negotiation. the second was, even in theory, you could spend two or three years negotiating and eventually striking a deal. we were very close to a second recession, the unemployment rate was above 9%. they could have benefited from additional support. there were a lot of good reasons to take a harder, a harder look what these guys, but obama's negotiators came back with the evidence that they had from the first couple of meanings or the republicans, they really pleaded with the

i thought it was great when the president was signing the jobs act and eric cantor was standing behind him. i think that was a signal not just for entrepreneurship but people who want to come together and get stuff done. >> let me ask your nobel economist, what is it the government needs to do to get job growth going again? >> i think it -- it needs to do everything we can think of that will stimulate creativity and acceptance of uncertainty and adventuresome spirit in the business world. there's just nothing that -- anything that looks halfway promising, we should go for that. but specifically, i think of a couple of things. one is that corporate governance in this country seems to me to have gotten so bad in recent decades. it was bad already in 1932, w n when -- at columbia it was gardner mains or -- somebody have it? famous book, 1932 -- wrote about the divorce of ownership and control. the managers had seized control of the ship. the owners were not able to defend their interest. it's much worse now it seems to me. then we have the problem of mutual funds who threaten ceos with du

that came together with leadership from the white house, strong leadership from the house with eric cantor and, you know, president obama and rick cantor don't seem to agree on a lot of thing, but they did agree this was an important thing to focus on, passed the house and the senate with overwhelming support. it was signed by the president a few weeks ago. it's called jump-starting our start-ups act. particularly focused on access to capital. so something got done, and it was important. but there are other things that still need to get done. i think the most important one, there was an interesting editorial of your competitor, the "wall street journal," this morning, that i think is worth looking at, is winning the global battle on talent, which gets to this issue of high-skill immigration. anything about immigration is sensitive, particularly in an election year, but almost half of the high-growth companies are started by first- or second-generation immigrants. if you want to see a job creation movement going, you have to be a magnet for talent. we are, getting from people all around the

and they compared eric cantor to someone like john kasich, but back then was a republican lieutenant of newt gingrich. they explicitly compared cantor to kasich as a guy who would belt out -- say a lot of crazy stuff in the public but when she got in behind closed doors he would be real reasonable. the problem, one, these guys may have been personally reasonable, but the republican caucus in the house of representatives was much more conservative than it was in the mid '90s. it was just a completely different ideological, not completely, but different ideological orientation. so the analogy i've said was a correct even though that was the analogy that they approached. the second was economy was much weaker of time. so even in theory, you could spend two or three years negotiating over the deficit and eventually strike a deal, the economy didn't have that kind of time. we were very close to a second recession. the unemployment rate was above 9%. the economy could have benefited from additional support. all that is to say that there were a lot of good reasons to take a harder, more part

and the well reported rivalry and ambition of eric cantor. >> speaker boehner recognizes that majorityeader cantor is an ambition guy. there was a moment during the debt ceiling stand-off when some of boehner's allies in the house came to him, had a meeting with him, and had said to him, john, you know, if you cut a deal with obama, that fails to get the majority of house republican support, there's going to be a mutiny and cantor's going to benefit, and you know because you were there during the newt gingrich days, it only takes a dozen or so upstarts to start a mutiny. speaker boehner internalized. at this immediate moment there's no daylight between cantor and and boehner, cantor's ambitions are there, boehner. watchful. >> we read the personal kaem e. chemistry, the president and boehner got along, played golf, tried to do the big dial we thought both sides wanted to and there was the back and forth over who was responsible for upping the ante, from your perspective, being inside, how much friction is there between boehner and the white house? >> well, it's -- there's no particular

president obama wins by a larger margin if romney selects eric cantor, only a 27% favor ability compared to 41% unfavor ability. >>> romney will spend today in virginia. he'll start this chantilly, holding a joint event with congressman frank wolfe. then he'll go to a private dinner for donors in pentagon city with governor mcdonnell. romney has a campaign event scheduled for tomorrow in virginia, but details haven't been released yet. >>> also in virginia today, newt gingrich expected to suspend his presidential campaign and endorse mitt romney. gingrich called romney a tough kpaend and said re-electing president obama would be a disaster. >>> maryland's attorney general wants the state's court of appeals to reconsider or suspend a ruling that struck down part of the state's dna collection law. that ruling prohibits officers from taking dna samples from people charged but not convicted of crimes. the court ruled the practice is a violation of their constitution rights. attorney general doug gansler filed a motion to stay the court's decision. a spokesman says he will file an appeal to t

we'll have eric cantor speaking out in the national defense authorization act.hat and more coming up. i hope you will join us. state governments are diverting cash with the banks and use to fill budget gaps. that's why government rescues never work. states are getting 34 percent federal transfer and big brother and federal government and not balancing their budget. stimulus you had to buy american bond and going to funding things and they don't have to worry about manage keeping their house in order. this is another example of that going on . somewhere it has to stop. you think it is fair and should it go to struggling homeowners? >> and that was what it was alicated for. governments don't keep agreementings. goodbye usa and hello greece. they are all doing the same thing and copying the federal government. spending money they don't have and sooner or later we'll file for bankruptcy. >> is anybody surprised by this? this is giving a crack head mon yesaying go buy carrots and lettuce u. really? you thought that the government would spend it. >> or cupcakings. >>

leadership means eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, john bandar knew this was a problem. they knew whether they would say so publicly or not been as boehner said in a republican conference, a closer conference of the armageddon if economically speaking they fail to raise the debt ceiling. and so it he came a great exertion on the part they had these listening session in which they would try to explain to the freshmen republicans with the debt ceiling was and what concessions perhaps they could extract from democrat to pay in return for voting to raise the debt ceiling, despina carrots along with the state. it still didn't take them two weeks before the august 2nd deadline, the republican leadership was sufficiently to earn that a lot of the freshmen as well as senior conservatives were getting the message they brought in a former treasury official in the third george herbert bush with jay powell and heidi exclaimed passionately what would happen, august 2nd if they fail to raise the dead feeling and sort of took them through the narrative of all the federal prisons would

i have to tell you, the last week has shaken my ability to look obol sides in that eric cantor made some comments saying, 45% of americans do not pay income tax. maybes they should pay so everybody has a skin in the game. this is the last straw, for me. my suggestion is a look at what the group holds sacred and you will find them circling. on the rights, taxes, they are evil, we cannot raise them. you cannot close loopholes. there are in an obsessive circle around heating taxes. then they propose raising taxes on the poor? they are not going to raise taxes on millionaires? my view is walleye have agreed to deal of respect for conservatism, not for the republican party. they have shown themselves to be not a party fighting for freedom against government but for tax cuts for the rich. tavis: you said a lot that i agree with but i particularly love, about the notion that morality lines and lines. i appreciate you sharing that along with a wonderful ?. it is called "the righteous mind why good people are divided by politics and religion." by jonathan haidt, thank you for your time. up next,

week to reauthorization the export-import bank that was an agreement struck by majority leader eric cantor and the minority whip steny hoyer. >> and quickly, a lot of people watching the transportation debate on capitol hill. any movement on funding for transportation? >> well, we're going to see the first meeting of the conference committee between the senate and the house on a two-year extension of -- a two-year highway bill. the house has only passed a short-term extension, the senate has pass add two-year extension and they are going to start their conference committee this week. >> russell berman from the hill newspaper thanks for joining us to talk about what's going on on the hill this week. >> thank you. >> we're waiting for house budget committee chairman paul ryan to gavel this meeting into session. we see there are a number of congressmen have arrived. congress shefetz. so far seated at the table only republicans. >> among the programs that would be reduced under the bill that the budget committee is considering today, food stamps, medicaid, child tax credit, meals on wheels, ad

. >>> heading into the memorial day weekend, house majority leader eric cantor released a memo to republican members detailing the house summer agenda. bernie becker of "the hill," what's the purpose of laying the schedule out in detail so far in advance? >> well, you know, it's -- they are trying to push continuing taxes where they are right now, easing regulations, opening up lands for more ail and gas, that sort of thing, so they are just trying to get out there what they are going to be wanting to do over the next -- >> you know, i don't know. it is sort of a curious choice the friday of a holiday weekend. i think perhaps they are trying to build a little momentum for when they do come back next week when the senate will be out, but i don't know exactly why they chose this day. >> the coming week alone will see a significant amount of work what. will top the house agenda next week? >> they do have a lot going on, so have a lot going on, so in the senate this week they passed an fda bill. there's also a defense bill going, and they're also going to start appropriations bills, spending bil

introducing him, eric cantor. you can see it live on book tv's website. booktv.org. >> when people are saying to him, don't take the vice presidency, right now you are the most, you are a powerful majority leader. don't take the vice presidency. you won't have any power. johnson says, power is where power goes. meaning, i can make power in any situation. his whole life, nothing in his life previously makes that seem like he's -- that's exactly what he had done. all his life. >> sunday night, the conclusion of our conversation with robert caro on the passage of power. volume four in the years of lyndon johnson. his biography of the 36th president, sunday night on c-span's q&a. >>> this memorial day weekend on c-span we'll take to you colleges and universities around country to hear commencement address frgs members of congress and the president's cabinet. state and local leaders and business executives. and we also want to hear from you about your commencement experience. did you graduate from college this year or attend the ceremony for a friend or family

i mean, you see john boehner on there, but you also see nancy pelosi and eric cantor and dianne feinsteinnd mcconnell. and so they're spreading the money around, not an outrageous amount compared to some political action committees, but they're sort of beginning to dip their toe into the water there. >> so you see about 74,000 so far in 2012, very balanced, rs and ds. and you see about 650,000 spent in lobbying. russ choma, can you compare that to a non-tech company, maybe an established company, a phone company or a car company and what they spend? so we get an idea what this means. >> sure. if you take a phone company like at&t, for example, they're a huge company. they've got lots of interests. and they are sort of much, much, much larger than what facebook would be spending. but you also look at their history and how many different interests at&t might have. just pulling up the figures right now. i think in -- >> didn't mean to catch you off guard here. >> no, i'm sorry. i think so far this year at&t has spent about 6 or 7 million dollars lobbying. so -- and that's just in the first t

in the campaign but through the actions of government so that on tuesday i was majority leader eric cantor went on fox so-called news and had this little discussion among capitals. to denigrate success in business to denigrate the launching of a new business or the turnaround of existing business is i think just absolutely reflects a disconnect with what america is about but why why would representative clive and the president do this why would they attack capitalism as you said america is a free enterprise country always has been that is the american tradition but it's big capitalism seems to be attacked by the president so since republicans are quick to defend private equity or pirate equity firms like bank capital even going so far as to argue that an attack on bain is an attack on capitalism maybe we should take a step back and explain what it is that a pyre equity firm like bain capital does and then ask the question whether or not this is really american capitalism at its finest by the way you can find a great explanation of what private equity or pirate equity is that former labor s

in those places it was the phrase that was a phrase that was actually the buzzword but this was eric cantor he said exactly in in two thousand and ten in the lead up to the elections that they would keep the i guess i won't call children but people on health care you're going to hear this it doesn't make any sense i mean this is the problem with obamacare it's a piecemeal piece of legislation not with obamacare at all works with you know way and over the whole i don't remember the rationale i got like you should be for single payer health care actually i have always worked my alley with all this is this is the it won't break even we're still going to be running the deficit in either another way and howls but most people pay their taxes. everyone is paying their taxes i see it all the other every other every other developed country in the world that has a national health care system is managing to pay for it none of them are in the red right now much smaller countries much much you know the bigger european union eight hundred twenty eight hundred million people but we only have you know it's

republican majority leader eric cantor sent out a memo listing the g.o.p. agenda on the summer and "no child left behind" was not on it. it still could come up but may not be a top priority on the schedule. bret? >> bret: molly, thank you. a senate candidate changes her story concerning her family history. that is next in the grapevine. big apple tries to change the rules for big soda drinkers. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, vit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the jeep grand cherokee has won more than just respect. ♪ and also to build my career. so i'm not about to always let my frequent bladder urges, or the worry my pipes might leak get in the way of my busy lifestyle. that's why i take care, with vesicare. once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with sympts of frequent urges and

that is our big story tonight at 6:00 eric cantor one of the deceased was driving howard county utilityther was driving a truck. >> two others are listed in stable condition tonight at shock trauma. >>

john boehner doesn't want to see it, eric cantor doesn't want it.e on behalf of the american people. fair discovery and accountability. in case of gsa we were ten months late. american people saw reaction a few weeks ago. in this case it's an older situation, been on the subject scene for a longtime, we are running out of patience but we are not beyond the point of saying, if you'll just give us what we should have, that the american people should have, if they don't i have the supportive leadership some do what i have to do. we are not doing because we want to, we are doing it because congress has a role. martha: we are getting information that the doj has come forward with some kind of response to this. bill has it in front of him now. we'll get your reaction from that. bill: taking this from washington from the department of justice it says the department continues to comply with committee requests. we know the attorney general has testified no lens tefpb times in the last year and a half. keep in mind too it writes the type of information not re

eric cantor did the same thing in the illinois race, very close going after the tea party candidate.on john boehner inside of that caucus, he wants to be speaker. this is the republican -- really they won't compromise on anything, they owe pose everything what we are seeing in -- oppose everything. what we are seeing, it is a mistake for the party. you have academics writing about how the republican party is damaging the country by not being pragmatic and doing anything. cantor is part of that group. this, murdoch said i am not going to deal with these people. i am not going to compromise i am not going back there to get things done. i am going back there to make a statement. >> there is no question about it. i think he will have a tougher time than you formally would have, had it been dick lugger but you are trying to create tension peter, you've got problems in the democratic party. look at the president. >> oh, really? >> what happened to north carolina my friend. >> again -- >> let's move on and talk about another interesting headline out of yesterday's primaries, north carolina,

house majority leader eric cantor was there. so was the mayor of richmond, dwight jones.on saturday, kansas city, missouri, people turned out for that city's welcome home parade. the mayor declared it welcome home heroes day. >> richmond, virginia, just the -- figuring out how they and their cities want to mark theend of the iraq war. this upcoming monday is not just a day off, it's the first memorial day since the end of the war. it's time to get going. to get your feet moving to the beat. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's and feel the energy from your feet up. thanks to the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles, you'll want to get up and go. >>> best new thing in the world. this is the u.s. coast guard cutter eagle. it's what they call tall ships. ginormous sailing ships. the coast guard cutter eagle normally lives at the coast guard academy in new york. this week it's in new york for fleet week. they parade their ships up the hudson river and all week long, if you happen to find yourself in a new york city bar, there's a pre

the young guns is associated with house majority leader eric cantor. young guns for gal. they're calling it yg woman up. it's supposed to be like man up but for woman. the idea here is that the republicans can't be anti-woman because they started this young guns group for ladies so they can work to elect all of these women to congress. the list of candidates the young guns have endorsed is even less female than the house of representatives already is right now. if you don't think there are enough women in congress now, then woman up and we'll make that even worse. today, house republicans are doing the same thing that the young guns did but doing it for the whole republican caucus. they have announced the formation of something called a womens policy committee. that's a committee for women in congress that are interested in policies that affect womens issues. do not be fooled. of course it's not that. it's a committee for house of representatives who are female and who are republican. house republicans have also shown a light on the fact that of their

controversy when eric cantor endorsed freshman kinsinger over ten-term manzoulo. >> i equate it to twobeing locked in a room and saying only one can walk out. i didn't enjoy the process. >> in iowa, steve king's reliably red district eliminated. now 45% the former constituents and 55% new people in the new four congressional district. he faces well-known advantageer vilsak wife of the former governor in what is expected to be a tough challenge. >> i'll spend more time in the new district, less time at home. it's grassroot and getting the know people in the community to build that network. where you just are to know people. >> states like illinois were redrawn, to benefit the democrats, the north carolina is expected to benefit republicans which leads the experts to believe this fall redistricting will likely end up being awash. >> it is going to more or less lockdown many of the republican gains of the big sweep election of two years ago. many of the maps were drawn to bolster chances that some of these tea party freshmen and bigger surprise winners can stick around. >> because of rest

house majority leader eric cantor was there. so was the mayor of richmond, dwight jones., missouri, people turned out for that city's welcome home parade. the mayor declared it welcome home heroes day. >> richmond, virginia, just the -- figuring out how they and their cities want to mark the end of the iraq war. this upcoming monday is not just a day off, it's the first memorial day since the end of the war. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. those surprising little still make you take notice. there are a million reasons why. but your erectile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is

i think the leadership, i'm talking about mitch mcconnell, john boehner, eric cantor, karl rove. decided that mitt romney needs a whole phalanx of people, kind of like "the avengers," although romney's the one avenger who has no special powers. they all think they do and they're going to use the congress and the independent spending and they're going to push a very hard line, a no-new-taxes, cut-spending, tea party line. even if mitt romney wanted to carve out an independent third way, if he wanted to triangulate between those two, there's no chance that he can. they're the only energy that mitt romney's got. >> doesn't this debt ceiling conversation and this looming fight over what to do about spending cuts feed right into what these tea partyers are doing out in the heartland and this is why they're getting the victories. >> ed, this is what they want. this is the strategy that they -- and i'm talking about the whole republican party. there's hardly anything left of the old republican party. as you pointed out, the victor in indiana, that was a three-way tea party race in nebra

one is that the stimulus created no new jobs, which eric cantor and others were saying. this by how they get away with this and why they get away with it. we were just watching mark halperin's interview with mitt romney mp in that interview, romney said once again barack obama promised he would keep the stimulus below 8%. he never made that promise. others have said that's a lie. and yet mitt romney keeps saying it again and again and again. i was just wishing for mark to stop the interview just there and say, wait a second, that's really not true, is it? can you defend this comment bp but as long as mitt romney and others can keep saying things like that and feed an impression out there, even if it has no basis, they will keep doing it. the fact checking doesn't stop them. >> the word whole, by the way, is dishonest. spiking up to double digits the minute he got into office and he was trying to get it down to 8 and it is down to 8.1. christine roman, economics person, said it was 8. but the word hold it, as if it was way down below 8% and he was keeping it from going up

people came in, moderate republicans who wanted to go ahead and said eric cantor and others are plotting can't go further. >> might not survive depending what happens. >> we talked about the purge of the moderates, are you bullish or bearish in terms of the direction of the u.s. congress and what may get accomplished in 2013 and beyond? >> probably doesn't matter so much whether i'm bullish or bearish. what matters is are the american people going to insist that congress behave responsibly and reasonably and come together around a true compromise. one in which yes, the entitlement programs are reformed but also the tax system is reformed to generate additional revenue to help reduce this deficit. we've got a situation in which revenue is almost at a 60-year low in this country as a share of the economy. and our republican friends say don't touch revenue. really? we're going to leave revenue at a 60-year low. that's just not plausible. it's not serious. so there has to be the kind of compromise that i think richard wolffe described. >> senator kent conrad, that sounds hedgingly bearish. o

the parade ended at a resource village of state agencies and house majority leader eric cantor was thered on saturday, kansas city, missouri, people turned out for that city's welcome home parade. the mayor declared it welcome home heroes day. >> richmond, virginia, just the -- figuring out how they and their cities want to mark theend of the iraq war. this upcoming monday is not just a day off, it's the first memorial day since the end of the war. ♪ [ male announcer ] american innovation. 29 years ago, it helped us invent the minivan. ♪ today dodge grand caravan is the most awarded minivan ever. ♪ who knows where innovation can take us next? ♪ directions to the moon. ♪ the day starts with arthritis pain... a load of new listings... and two pills. after a morning of walk-ups, it's back to more pain, back to more pills. the evening showings bring more pain and more pills. sealing the deal... when, hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. it can relieve pain all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lois... who chose two aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all da

eric cantor said the main thing he wanted to do was a defeat president obama.e did not say he wants to create jobs or anything. they said, no. it is not leadership. if i was running a company and my workers said no to everything i did, i would get new workers. is that correct? guest: in fairness, when kantor put forth his business and jobs bill, democrats were not in support rent of the bill. he started with a good idea. when he got involved with the deficit reduction, the president and the leadership on the republican side crossed the aisle to support it. there have been instances where they have worked together. obviously, eric cantor believes they want to defeat the president and get the white house. in the end, we want to believe that they put the interests in what is best for the american people. even the president said sometimes you have to put politics aside and do what is best for this country. host: on twister, a question. guest: of course. they all say this. that is politics. it does not mean they do not work with the president in the best interest of

nothing but retard american enterprise so from our perspective, we need to reform it and i think eric cantor it this summer in the house. >> jamie: marjorie? >> i think the danger in the pledge is the absolutes and i think mitt romney has signed on to the mrenl. as my grandfather has said, there's nothing certain in life except death and taxes. i think it's problematic to make absolute statements about anything. >> jamie: reform the tax code, though, marjorie? >> well, that remains in question. i think until we get a congress that's willing to come to the table, that's willing to have a conversation and right now, with this pledge in place, it's making it impossible. >> jamie: an answer sort of, not answer. i don't have a clear picture of whether or not democrats are committed to the tax code that's this big maybe bringing it down. but thanks so much to both of you. >> remains to be told. >> jamie: we'll keep an eye on for folks. it's a lot of pages, kelly! >> kelly: it's a lot. lots to read through. embarrassing scandal rock being the vatican. some of the pope's private letters suddenly tur