look at david brat's victory over eric cantor, you know, the -- >> in the republican primary. >> in therepublican primary. >> he's now in congress, but beating the major leader of the house. >> that's right and what his argument was, is that eric cantor had become a crony capitalist because he spent all of his time sucking up to the wall street bankers rather than advancing conservative causes. now, the conservatives are increasingly getting this, just as the liberals have understood this. and if we can begin to get people to recognize that, look, we can differ on fundamental issues, but this really fundamental issue we don't differ about. we have to find a way to make a democracy responsive to the voters. >> but i want to also talk about the democratic party here though. because there's a real split within the democratic party between the wall street wing and progressive, populist wing and i'm a democrat. and, you may not know this, but in 1924, i believe, a part of the democratic party platform was public financing of elections. >> i didn't, i was just in kindergarten then. >> but i a

you have eric cantor, down in virginia. they shaped his district would even further guaranty his re-election by bringing more republicans in. only found out too late that the more republicans they brought in happened to be more farther to the right than eric cantor and voted for his opponent. eric cantor on election day was sipping coffee at starbucks here in d.c. this is something that happened over democrats as well i need not tell you. so this is why i love it when voters surprise us. for all of our computers around high-priced pundits, et cetera, et cetera, the voters still have the last word. and so when i see a surprise like that then i know, yes, we are not cuba. we are not iraq under saddam hussein. we are indeed responsive to voters. i told the folks in ferguson, missouri that. but i digress but i do a lot. you start talking with people who are pundits which one thought always leads to another thought which leads to a column eventually. in any case i got an example of this new divide today in fact as my readers giv

house majority leader eric cantor lost his seat to this guy in which may be the political upset of the. >> obviously we came up short. >> reporter: number eight, the u.s. does not negotiate with terrorists but we will do a prisoner swap. sergeant bowe bergdahl, the only u.s. prisoner in iraq or afghanistan, the celebration had one huge footnote. not everyone was thrilled with the exchange rate. >> for the president to decide that these five hottest of the hardcore in return for sergeant bergdahl was just wrong. >> reporter: not to mention, the administration broke the law by not giving congress 30 days' notice. and major security breaches with the security service. >> don't let somebody get close to his family or the president. >> reporter: julie pierson, the first female, stepped down. and u.s. veterans died while waiting for treatment at veterans administration hospitals was a national embarrassment. a month-long cnn investigation showed altered death certificates and secret waiting lists. >> i want to know the full scope of this problem. >> reporter: secretary of veterans affairs er

the rationale behind it, is that eric cantor during his time last year took funding away from conventions that actually had been funded by the federal government. the federal government appropriated money for the national convention. he took that money and put it towards pediatric disease research. both parties wanted that money recouped, but they had different ideas of how to go about it. republicans said they would rather have that money come from private donors, hence the change we saw. >> were there items that were part of the debate just because you wanted to show your side that you remembered the things that really animate them, things that you thought weren't really going to happen, weren't going to pass the version that you wanted, but you wanted your side to know that you were thinking? >> i don't think the measures being debated that was in the bill was about your side. if you look at what people who were fighting against things in the bill. for example, elizabeth warren saying this pr provision that effects dodd-frank in the bill, i'm going to fight that part of the bill. there

. >> reporter: these remarks made by former house majority leader eric cantor on "meet the press" mirror a national campaign run by republicans. it's called #stuck in the senate. and it blames democrats for holding up some 300 bills passed by the gop-led house. >> what i have in this stack are bills that could make a difference to a struggling economy today. >> reporter: that number might actually be lowballing it. on house majority leader kevin mccarthys a website you'll fine 387 bills. could what is in there? we pored through the documents to find out what future laws are getting trapped in legislative limbo. let's see. there is this measure to stop the smuggling of contraband cigarettes. a couple of bills to strike commemorative coins, one to award golfer jack nicklaus a gold medal. to be sure, the list contains meaty issues too like requiring a balanced federal budget and a measure to strengthen our cybersecurity. so this 300-bill number, it fair inflated or a little bit of both? >> there are a lot of different kinds of piece of legislation that have been stuck in the senate. some of

congressman bratt defeated eric cantor. he was sworn into office on november 12th after mr. ntor resigned mid-term following his defeat. the event should get under way shortly. live coverage here on c-span3. >>> good afternoon, i'm michelle easton president of the clare booth luce policy institute. i want to give a thanks to our special co-host. heritage today is here with laura truman, director of strategic operations for hair tan. i want to thank each of you for joining us here today. those of you here in washington, those watching on c-span all over america and all over the world. i want to welcome you to this special december edition of the conservative women's network. as most of you know cwn usually features top women's speakers in the conservative movement but every december it is our tradition to feature a special gentleman speaker. this year we're so mrised to have david bratt, new united states congressman from virginia. as much of you know, congressman bratt defeated former majority leader eric cantor in the primary last summer for virginia's seventh congressional

eric cantor had a spectacular fall this year ignoring his home district the seventh of virginia and settinging a speaker and replacing john boehner. and in doing so, his ambition and lack of caution took him out. and so it's an interesting tie between the three of them. >> charles, your loser? >> losers. it was a tie. this is a dead heat. how you can choose between harry reid and jonathan gruber? reid not only lost the senate. lost nine of his colleagues but also will now go down in history as the worst steward of the senate. the institution of the senate of any majority leader anywhere. we essentially shut it down for a couple of years. and then arbitrarily changed the rules and the way that had never been done before. as for jonathan gruber, i mean the man has become an adjective. gruberian, deliberate brant arrogant too clever by half deceptiveness. gruberian i hope it enters the national spelling bee. >> let's say something good. what in your life this year animated you made you happy to be an american? >> the fact that every day when i drive to my office i pass the zoo and i know that

they a complete shakeup after eric cantor ran for election.uess that's why boehner did it. he wants to end the controversy before the new conference starts. the caucus is going to pay a price for this and the party generally will pay a price for this. >> you know one of the things one of the aspects of the story that folks outside are not familiar with louisiana politics much might not understand how influential david duke was in louisiana politics. his views, of course are not abhorrent. i'm not excusing him. but when he won for governor in 2001, he won 55% of the white vote. duke told republicans, quote, if -- a lot of them better be looking over their shoulders. what do you think about that? >> well you're absolutely right about duke. going back to the 1990s. this is someone who was actually elected to the state legislature as the imperial wizard of the ku klux klan and a neo-nazi. he defeated the incumbent governor of louisiana got into the runoff and amazingly re-elected edwin edwards whose slogan was, vote for the crook. it's important.

the vote switcher steve stockman of texas, kerry of michigans, michele bachmann of minnesota, or eric cantor unless i am wrong, it's kerry of michigans, the reindeer person. >> steve, did james get that right? >> yes, indeed. it was the reindeer herder himself. and martin of indiana wishes he could switch his vote today. but in either case, james is one for one. >> we thought last night when kerry was the switcher, and i love these guys. you have to get two right to win the prize. we have to go to question two. this is from monday's show, and on monday's show we reported about the ceremony that marked the end of operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. the war in afghanistan is not over but it has a new name now. what is the name of the new operation to replace operation enduring freedom? this is the one that is going to keep more than 10,000 u.s. soldiers for years to come. is the name operation rez ahraout support, or operation enduring alliance, or operation steady hand, or operation firm buttress. >> not d. this one slipped my mind, but looking through the answers, i would have to say

house majority leader eric cantor lost his primary to this guy, economics professor david brat in what be the political upset of the decade. >> obviously we came up short. >> number eight, the u.s. does not negotiate with terrorists but we will do a prisoner swap. sergeant bowe bergdahl the only u.s. prisoner of war in afghanistan or iraq was brought home after the u.s. traded five taliban fighters from guantanamo bay for his release. celebration had one huge footnote. not everyone was thrilled with the exchange rate. >> for the president to decide that these five hardest of the hardcore in return for sergeant bergdahl at this stage was just wrong. >> not to mention the administration broke the law by not giving congress 30 days notice. number seven, a fence jumper who sprinted across the white house lawn and let himself into the front door exposed major security breaches with the secret service. >> don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody get close to his family. >> i take full responsibility. >> those security gaps led the first female director of the secret

house majority leader eric cantor lost to this guy, economics professor david brat has in what may beolitical upset of the decade. >> obviously we came up short. >> reporter: number eight, the u.s. does not negotiate with terrorists but we will do a prisoner swap. sergeant bowe bergdahl, the only u.s. prisoner of war in afghanistan or iraq was brought home after the u.s. traded five taliban fighters from guantanamo bay for his release. the celebration had one huge footnote. not everyone was thrilled with the exchange rate. >> for the president to decide that these five hottest of the hard core in return for sergeant bergdahl at this stage i think was wrong. >> reporter: not to mention the administration broke the law by not giving congress 30 days' notice. >>> number seven, a fence jumper who sprinted across the white house lawn and let himself into the front door, exposed major security breaches with the secret service. >> don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody get close to his family. >> i take full responsibility. >> reporter: the security gaps led julia

. >> eric cantor had been trying to do this earlier in the year.id it takes ten times as long to become a cosmetologist in some states than a real estate agent. >>> 71 days and counting. what are we talking about? we are telling you the one thing that has not happened in that time span that should have you jumping for joy. >> and later the baby indicator. the big stat that could be a red flag for the economy. stick with us. we'll be back in just a few minutes mp . >>> more good news, america, especially before you hit the roads for the weekend. pump prices continue to fall. aaa quotes the average price of a gallon of regular gas at $2.71. gasoline prices have fallen for 71 straight days without breaking. it's amazing. >> they are continuing to slide today. let's get to jackie deangelis frst latest. >> reporter: we are seeing oil prices depressed but rebounding from lows of the session. crude down 62 cents. we are watching brent under the key technical level of $70 a barrel. steeper selling action after the jobs report sent the dollar higher. the do

eric cantor.eated this so far beyond him they wouldn't elect him anymore. >> great for re-election but not for governance. >> they are sending these people to washington. everyone knew who cruz was. they wanted him to say no, no, no and rally smaller people to his campaign, his cause. >> this is the internal tension that the right has to deal with. and with the moderates on the issue of immigration when you have business interests in the chamber of commerce who want immigration reform that doesn't go well with the tea party right. >> is this like the french needed the iroquois to win? you know they aren't that different ideologically. just tactics. >> cruz has a real strategy here. not for governing. it's about ted cruz. it's about 2016. he's got a real flank in the republican party that really like him. he's good on television. certainly gets you going. >> i have a long memory more than all you. he's so much like joe mccarthy in the way he makes his indictments and sweats and makes these argument

was the vote switcher statistic stockman of texas, michele bachmann of minnesota, or eric cantor of virginiarong,s can kerry bentynolio. >> yes, it was indeed. but it's worth note 245g sessman of indiana wishes he could switch his vote. he said the party leadership tricked him for voting for it. in any case, james is 1-1. >> we thought last night that he was the one guy -- it turns out it was also marlon stutzman, but he thinks he was tricked. okay, i love it. we're going to question two. this is from monday's show. by reported about the ceremony that marked the end of operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. the war in afghanistan is not over. it just has a new name now. what is the name of the new operation to replace operation enduring freedom. this is the one that's going to keep more than 10,000 u.s. soldiers in afghanistan for years to come. is the new name operation resolute support? is it operation enduring alliance? is it operation steady hand? or operation firm buttress? >> i'm going to say maybe not d. this one slipped my mind, but if i'm looking through the answers i'm going to

. >> in june, house republican leader eric cantor lost his primary race to conservative david brat bringingnt tonight can tore's 13-year political career. basketball star lebron james left the heat in miami to return to his home state cleveland cavaliers in july. in august the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown by a white police officer in ferguson missouri, led to protests that continue to this day. george clean he knee said yes to amal alamuddin in venice in september. while scotland said no to independence in britain. october brought the first death from ebola in the united states when liberian thomas duncan died at a dallas hospital. >> voters have given republicans control of both houses of congress. >> republicans will remember november as the month mid term elections game them control of both the house and the senate. >> today the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. >> this is the month president obama announced re-establishment of diplomatic relationw with cuba after more than 50 years. >> osgood: coming up. how sweet it is. especi

named after now-former house majority leader eric cantor who lost his republican primary in virginia back in june 2014, and is we have several others that relate to the 2014 election cycle and going into the 2016 presidential race. >> dog whistle book.com. gentlemen, thank you. >> here's a look at "the chicago tribune"'s list of their best of 2014 books.

obviously eric cantor is no longer in congress.ave a leadership team that's very unified, and that seems like an obvious thing, but for this conference, that's very, very important. i think the other interesting thing the republican study committee, which is kind of the most conservative block of republicans has new leadership now and what those top members are doing is they have kind of dictated that they will no longer be going public to cause problems with john boehner. they would prefer to work with leadership behind the scenes. that matters. i don't know how long that sticks. we've already seen portions of that group fall out already. but if that continues, that's a big, big win for john boehner. >> all right. we'll look for that vote on immigration -- >> never a dull moment. i thought they were just going to back -- >> no, of course not. no, no, no. phil mattingly joining us from washington. coming up on "bloomberg surveillance" -- students at top m.b.a. programs reap to benefits of their degree. does their investment pay off

eric cantor voted now and the majority whip kevin mccarthy voted no. the entire leadership voted against it. all of the committee chairman -- chairmen that had any jurisdiction over this voted against it. yet we almost got half of the house of representatives to go against all of the leadership on both parties and all of the committee chairmen and ranking members. that gets us to an interesting point -- these folks who voted against that bill, it was like watching them put their hands in a wood chipper because i knew they were voting against the will of their constituents and they went home and did town halls, the ones that would still do them. i watched town halls from other congressmen on youtube for the same reason most people watch nascar. [laughter] it's for the pileups. if you try to convince your constituents you are pro-liberty and you're not and have a voting record that shows you're not, you will have a car wreck. the folks on the wrong side of this vote, they went through the wood chipper back home. this presented an opportunity. it came bac

miller the gabriela research act, a bill i authored with gregg harper and eric cantor at $12.6 billion, shifting those funds from political conventions to research into pediatric diseases. it increases the health care and erical funding to some of our poorest and most needy constituents, native americans, and it provides funding to deal with crisises like those associated with the outbreak of ebola or the militant activity of isil, the islamic state of iraq and levant. i could go on and on with all the good things included in this bill. however, i'm sure others will speak to those items. i believe it's important to take stock in where we've come over the last four years. we've taken an annual budget deficit of $1.4 trillion and lowered it to $468 billion. still too high but one of the most rapid if not the most rapid declines of the deficit in american history. we've prevented additional burdens in regulations from being foisted upon the american people. our work is certainly not done. however, one must always remember appropriations and appropriating is a process. the bureaucratic wel

eric cantor primary race.eople said it was because of immigration and i do not think that was actually the case. that was the claim. we saw the kids come from agile to our border. that was coupled with people going back to the political lastn, they derailed spring and summer. we will have another conversation next year about how we actually get immigration reform done. that bill underscores our frustration and desire to push back on executive action and allows the house and the senate to work its will and find a package that will work with the people. with people who have come here and are working hard. what is the element that is missing that you would include in there? you look at history often times and go back to ronald reagan, you see am this the with the promise of border security later. people will buy into immigration reform, as long as you secure the border and then you can look at expanding our work visa systems for low skill in high skill label -- labor. you can come across to meet the demands of th

as many of you know, congressman brat defeated former majority leader eric cantor in the primary last virginia for the southwest congressional district. he was sworn in last month and he'll be bringing some much needed economic expertise to the national policy discussions. congressman brett is a product of the rural midwest and has long believed in the values of faith, family and a strong work ethic. he obtained a masters in divinity from princeton theological seminary and then earned a phd in economics from american university. in 1996, he began teaching economics and ethics at virginia's randolph macon college where he chaired the -- he served the commonwealth of virginia in a number of capacities also. he served two governors on the joint advisories panel. his peers elected him as president of the virginia association and the governor also appointed him to the virginia board of accountancy, a man of deep faith, dave attends catholic church with his wife laura and his two children. please join me in welcoming congre congressman david brat. >> thank you all for having me, that was a

he didn't know eric cantor just lost in virginia. >> he had a tough race in mississippi.political shot heard around the world for him to say that. maybe he was just more focused on what was going on in mississippi. >> mark pryor also made the list. take a listen. >> in the senate we have all kinds of different people all kinds of different folks that have come from different background. i think that's part of this sense of entitlement that he gives off, almost like i served my country. therefore let me to the senate. >> i don't know care what side of the aisle you're on, this is still the red white and pliew. -- white and blue. stay away from insulting any member. >> in this case president obama made this mistake earlier this year. >> are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? or are we a nation that gives them a chance to make amends? >> talk about a speech writer that needed to be flogged publicly for that one. imagine if a republican had said that. they would

the most shocking defeat of the 2014 primary election cycle when eric cantor of virginia lost againstirtual unknown. cantor was in as a politician who cared more about national politics than local matters often spending more time in new york for fundraisers or d.c. for partner work working with his richmond area constituents. winter haven, florida. karen on the line for democrats. caller: my top story broke this summer in that the knology meant that the price for solar energy and wind energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels. -- acknowledgment. we will see a real shakeup in our society. nuclear and tar sands have been too expensive to produce. we will see a change in our society. host: a couple of responses on twitter. this first one from mark williams -- let's hear from kevin in seattle, washington on the independents line. caller: good morning. i thought the top story which dovetails all our economics, our institutions and the racial dynamics of this country are so ask you that -- askew that we kill call the murders "killings" when the government does it. we no longer receive the pro

because any hope the house had of passing it died when eric cantor got kicked off the stage in june sopublicans didn't have the courage to stand up to their base on it. >> i'm curious for both of you, hoovalon is very good. president obama respecting on the past year. what do you think he's looking at in terms of regrets, margaret? and what do you think, john, he's looking at and saying we made some headway there. >> i think the president had a tough year. the economy in some ways has gotten better. but most people aren't feeling it. the janet yellen, the head of the federal reserve says middle class americans are feeling wage stagnati stagnation. so even though some of the data shows it's better, people aren't feeling better and there was real confusion in his leadership when it comes to some of the true issues we face abroad, isis, the ebola crisis, that happened around the election and that did end up affecting some of the elections, particularly the governorship in maine. we can talk about that later. >> just to answer your question quickly. robert gibbs referred to his first year

number two republican in the house did not even make it to election day, house majority leader eric cantort, the u.s. does not negotiate with terrorists but we will do a prisoner swap. sergeant bo bergdahl the only u.s. priver of war in afghanistan or iraq was brought home after the u.s. traded five taliban fighters from guantanamo bay for his release. the celebration had one huge footnote not everyone was thrilled with the exchange rate. >> for the the president to decide that these five hardest of the hard-core, in return for sergeant bergdahl i think was wrong. >> the administration broke the law by not giving congress 30 days' notice. >>> number seven, a fence jumper who sprinted across the white house lawn and let himself into the front door exposed major security breaches with the secret service. >> don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody get close to his family. >> i take full responsibility. >> the security gaps led julia pearson, the first me mail director of the secret service, appointed after a prostitution scandal, to step down. >>> number six, accusat

caller: i was going to say that eric cantor probably wound up having the worst year. mitch mcconnell had the best year. but the president like fedor and 2013, he had a bad year but wound up having a great 2014, by -- barack obama's going to do the exact same thing. host: michael, hey there. caller: i think the republicans this year. they were allowed to take the majority in the senate. put more money in their own pockets. host: how about the worst year? caller: the worst year has to be police departments. host: how come? caller: they kill a bunch of people and might have to wear body cameras now. caller: david wrote this year that free speech was the biggest loser --host: david writes that free speech was the biggest loser -- biggest loser. mark pryor, according to this -- host: they also pointed to the washington redskins in this piece. "the team seems more dysfunctional than ever." him and him him himmo --mo is on the line now. caller: good morning. i think the republicans have the worst year this year. host: how come? caller: the views that they left on the america

named after now-former house majority leader eric cantor who lost his republican primary in virginia back in june 2014, and is we have several others that relate to the 2014 election cycle and going into the 2016 presidential race. >> dog whistle book.com. gentlemen, thank you. >> here's a look at "the chicago tribune"'s list of their best of 2014 books. >> and what we're doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. so we're basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. we're taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and we're running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. and if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what we're doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. to see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up i

eric cantor voted now and the majority whip kevin mccarthy voted no. votedtire leadership against it. all of the committee chairman that had any jurisdiction over this voted against it. yet we almost got half of the house of representatives to go against all of the leadership on both parties and all of the committee chairmen and ranking members. that gets us to an interesting point -- these folks who voted against that bill, it was like watching them put their hands in a wood chipper because i knew they were voting against the will of their constituents and they went home and did town halls, the ones that would still do them. town halls from other congressmen on youtube for the same reason most people watch nascar. [laughter] it's for the pileups. if you try to convince your constituents you are pro-liberty and you're not and have a voting record the shows you're not, you will have a car wreck. >> welcome, it's friday and it's nice to see all of you. i don't have anything at the top. i wanted to ask about yesterday developments in the drama -- >> on wh