talk about all of this i'm joined here in studio by austin peterson director of production at freedom works also reason prized by this decision today oh yeah actually i was a little bit surprised but not totally surprised because i knew that they were spending a lot of time and money in the primary states primary states are different from caucus states primary states are where a majority of people come in they pull a lever and they go home caucus states or where people stay they stay all day and they fight for the delegates so it makes sense that he wouldn't be spending money in primary states because you have to spend a lot of money and most people who come in they are really committed in the caucus states where ron paul supporters are committed that's where he's focusing his strategy to take on delegates we see in some of the other candidates who have dropped out of the race kind of start their post run in a lot of debt so i he maybe just not wanting to spend money that he doesn't have want to be part of the statement that was made today by the ron paul campaign said this campaign fought

freedom works was, too. but freedom works has an awful lot of boots on the ground. if you understand indiana law, one of the challenges we had with the obama care repeal pledge and letting people know it is obama has -- indiana has a rule that you cannot do a robo call there. it has to be a live caller. if you are genuine tea party group, you can actually get your message out. so the murdock campaign, freedom works, various other tea party groups that were indigenous to ib, worked their tails off on this one and it really showed. >> tony katz, i want to ask you, is there going to be a throw the bums out mentality because the economy stinks, is that going to happen? >> it's not even a question of is it going to happen. nothing has changed between 2010 and now. you don't see them on the street corner, but you see the effect of what they do. they're poll watching. they're precinct watching. they're working for ted cruz down in texas. they're working for karen harrington in florida to take out debbie wasser man schultz. kathleen falk. she lost dane county by 30 points.

joining us now to talk more about this is austin peterson he is the director of production for freedom works welcome to the show. so what do you make of this ron paul victory rumors of ron paul's death have been greatly exaggerated you know that he won twelve of thirteen of the state delegates and as you said he actually has thirty three out of forty so that's a grand majority of the state of minnesota that will be going to the national convention to support ron paul i think thirty people is enough by itself to make a little bit of noise not to mention all the delegates that could exist from other states that he's won i believe it's five states colorado maine minnesota and some other states as well louisiana that he's won in but it does prove that there will be a sizable contingent of ron paul supporters of the tampa convention certainly that seems to be this seems to indicate that but you know a lot of people right now are saying given the fact that ron paul looks like he won't win the nomination they're saying that it's romney who has secured this at this point they're asking what are thes

reckoned with so let's talk about this i've got austin petersen director of interactive media of freedom works here. in talk about this i mean on one hand ron paul has said this is his strategy from day one keep it grassroots take advantage of some of these you know arcane delegate selection rules and make this work for him what's going on here well you know we started this campaign for liberty back in two thousand and eight really and we understand that the democratic process works a very complex matter these these rules are very arcane so we were very inexperienced in two thousand and eight with the take over the g.o.p. so we were unsuccessful but at the time we were able to take over some leadership positions in the g.o.p. at the time which has given us power in this election because. the thing that only matters is the selection of delegates not much of the straw polls that you saw which gave santorum or romney a victory really didn't mean anything because what mattered was that you stay to become elect or the electoral college is the system that the founding fathers gave the americans and

things like americans for prosperity, freedom works, the cato and heritage institutes in washington, we find them mentioned on websites and we tallied that, but it used was just a link, not a presence. i think there's a lot of variety in this. i have to say that i believe americans for prosperity has been outreach organizers and has established a presence in the midwest. in wisconsin and we found survey that groups are trying to send speakers out and that's a big mechanism because the local groups wanted to bring in speakers. so if free speakers are offered they will because they don't see that as control. so have a whole place where we talk about how that works as sort of leverage. the one final thing i will say is that we looked for signs of federation from below. that is, groups forming a state federation. as you know they did in virginia, and that's quite remarkable. there may be some signs of that in michigan, but i think on the whole the local groups often do go their own weight and don't even perceive when they're being influenced from outside. >> i would just add a tiny point

sewn up a door spins from koch brothers funded club for growth multimillionaire dick armey is freedom works and even kingmaker and multimillionaire senator jim de mint's senate conservatives fund it's what they didn't figure on was the power of the supreme court has given individual billionaires like the founder of t.d. ameritrade joe ricketts to walk into a race at the last minute and drop enough speech excuse me cash. to buy tons of t.v. time and blow up favorite candidate and put his own favorite into the big run for the pivotal senate seat that is exactly what joe ricketts did with a pile of money at the last minute ricketts flooded the airwaves in nebraska and move dead fisher from being an obscure hard right candidate that nobody took seriously to be seen both of the more established hard right candidates that have been supported by other millionaires and billionaires and now the plan to drop last minute cash on a low blow was presented to billionaire joe ricketts as part of a similar strategy to destroy president obama's reelection chances documents leaked to a new york times reporte

i say "work ballet" is that there's the contradiction that i'm always trying to vibrate, or bring the vibration between sort of one thing that looks this way with its opposite. it's like freedomnd work, or maintenance and art. work. ballet. you usually think of these things as being separate from each other. so what i want to do is, like, jam them together, and say, "can you have -- can work be art?" in 1993, i was asked to explore the relevance of contemporary art for an ancient town struggling to survive -- givors, france. i worked with city workers, as well as 100 kids, to create a parade down national route 86 and a ballet mechanique on the banks of the rhone river. twenty-seven city vehicles performed movements, such as "snake" and "spider," choreographed by the drivers and me. feldman: that's what artists do. they take the commonplace, and they transform them into the miraculous. so a ballet makes every bit of sense. ukeles: gradually, a 100-ton diamond of recycled cobalt blue glass from the local glass factory was revealed. the piece was called "re-spect for givors" with a hyphen after the "re" of "respect" to look again. this one-hour performance showed us that there

freedom doesn't work and they are smart enough to make money. but idiots to know what to do with it. they talk about promise of guarantee. that is a state run program. the left just love it >> is she right? >> no. you can guarantee you will not have money in retirement. tut-- put the government in charge. and we talked about states can't manage money y. would i want my retirement money with them? >> sally, look at the pension plans and there is a lot of bail out of pension plans. and 249, are taken over by the government. >> look. what the official is saying in essence that we have taken retirement securities which is part of the way we prevent -- social security has done a darn good job to keep them from being poor. it is giving all of the money to the people and the backs. and if the banks fail people lose their retirement. that is a good idea. >> wayne rogers look. this is what you did. you had a mention plan and savings. s -- does that work anymore. >> sally's remark about the banks and professional money people. those are the same people ru

. >> your campaign is backed by freedom works which is a tea party activist roots and not all tea partyrassers are supporting you. and others are supporting hatch. and what does it say about the division in the tea party in your state. >> the divisions of the tea party they have tried to take it one direction or the other. debt and spending matter. orin hatch has a record of expanding entitlement programs and third higher earmarker in congress and expand increasing his own perks and benefits and to my record, it is the opposite. i cut spending and dressed entitlements and spending in utah . my serve in the legislature and we cut pensions for legislators. we have a stark contrast of what his vision is for the federal government and what mine is. we think it is resonating well. >> does that talk about how fluid the whole situation is and that people are not polarized as one might think? >> i yeah, look, i think people, reality is not negotiable uma. we have a reality of debt and spending. when people look at those issues. whether you associate yourself with the tea party or not. they are

>> well, i think indiana was unique in the sense that the outside groups, whether it was freedom worksor club for growth or grover nordquist group or what had you had no other playgrounds, indiana was it because this was a place where there was a incumbent republican senator, not many running in fact so they are able to come in early on with hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars with negative ads which turned around what usually was an approval that i had from 60 to 70 percent for all of these years, and it went down real fast in the last two or three weeks under that barrage. >> schieffer: so do you see that as the reason you got beat, these outside groups that came in, these super pacs? i guess what i am driving at, and because we are seeing what appears to be a very negative campaign shaping up for the presidency right now, do you think it is possible to be re-elected running -- or be elected running a positive campaign anymore? >> i think it is very difficult, if my example is any solace to anybody. obviously i still think it is possible and there is a lot to be done. in ot

the tea party moment was an astroturf moment, but there is huge money coming from groups like freedom worksh is organized by dick army but funded by the koch brothers and others, if that is not stoking the cannibalism, if that's not a cause of what is going on, i don't know what is. >> well, i wrote that there was substance to the tea party because i saw them. i made it a practice of going to virtually every county virtually every year. and my first town meeting in august of 2009 was in lebanon where i usually drew about 80, 90 people. on this occasion 1200 people came out, and they were pushed by the tea party and they were madder than hell. and one of the guys stormed me. stuck his fist in my face about an inch away, and they were all riled up, and now as you say, the big money as come in, the supreme court of the united states has really wrecked the american political process, in allowing corporations and unions to have unlimited anonymous expenditures, and if you add that -- if you fund the tea party, all hell breaks lose -- >> well, do you believe we ought to have a constitutional amen

and that is when you have fewer moderate republicans, when you have folks -- when you have freedom worksdo not work with the other side. all you're simply asking for is more contention, more drama in the senate and what you actually need is you need people who do know how to reach across the aisle. to his point about senator john mccain. he was perceived as the guy who can reach across -- who's left? lindsey graham? >> look at olympia snowe. and you would have thought maine would have been much easier place. but the point i wrote a piece. the obama people are very smug. what incumbent would be very smug right now? nobody. >> the title of your piece is "wake up, democrats, you could lose." you think that democrats around the country are going to win as i hear time and time again from the people on the street. democratic fundraisers, activists, and supporters alike collectively lapsed into the sentiment that the president is going to be reelected and we have a good shot to take back the house and hold the senate. i ask, what are you smoking, drinking, snorting, or just what the are you thi

we stand for freedom and for the institutions and habits that make freedom work for everyone. >> formerirst lady laura bush also addressed the group. she spoke of the inspiration she has gained from her meetings with dissidents from around the world. >>> coming up on news 4, a look at what cats really do when you let them out to play. >>> a 12-year-old called a hero for what he did when he was left alone to care for his younger siblings. >>> doug, what's up with the weather? >> we're watching a line of storms moving to the north of the i'll let you know where they're going next and how >>> a report released today on high-end spending by the metropolitan washington airport's authority. that's the organization in charge of our two major airports and a huge silver line metro project. tonight, the board is under intense scrutiny. the news 4 i team tisch a thompson with more. >> the airport authority has been battling with local and state governments over the exploding budget for the new silver line which would link metro to dulles airport. this new inspector general's report says the 13-mem

win due to outside help. 50-plus hoosier tea party groups work a ground game to coordinate with freedom workse club for growth spent $1.7 million on direct mail, radio and tv ads, many pummeling lugar senate vote. >> he has a 65% of lifetime score with the club for growth. he voted for every bail-out he had an opportunitybe to. he voteded for tarp. he voted to keep earmarks. >> they're trying to prove their clout, their ability to move hoosiers around and manipulate our election. it resent them. >> but lugar's missteps have been costly. his home in virginia. and he want days of campaigning to opt to stay in d.c. and main tin his perfect voting -- maintain his perfect voting record. lugar warned that this is what the democrats would like because traditionally lugar friendly moderate and independents would be in play so national democrats agree preferring a donnelly-mourdock matchup in the fall. >> bret: the next? step to try to recall scott walker is taking place today. correspondent mike tobin reports on the search for an opponent. >> wisconsin republicans have been operating on the assumptio

of right-wing money against the establishment front-runner, money from the club for growth and freedom works and jim demint's pac thing, an avalanche of right-wing money destroyed the front running senate republican candidate in nebraska, the state attorney general. had the front-runner won, democrats were frankly all but writing off any chance of keeping senator been nelson's seat in the democratic party. but since that tide of right-wing money took out the guy that everybody expected to win, the race is now going to be former democratic senator and governor bob kerry against a republican state senator nobody's ever heard of that's never won a statewide race. and that nebraska senate seat staying democratic is now much, much, much more plausible than it was even 24 hours ago. the same thing happened in indiana a new days ago, with senator dick lugar running for re-election in indiana. that seat was with essentially a 100% sure bet to remain republican. but dick lugar will not be on the ballot this fall. instead, the republican line will be held down by a hard-core tea party challenger who b

for tea party leaders in d.c., whether it's senator jim demint or freedom works, they're hoping to recreated a number of really solid tea party candidates rise up in a sense out of nowhere and they're now in the united states senate and many are in the house. i think one thing we need to understand with indiana is that lugar ran an awful, awful race. so richard murdoch should get the edge when we think about who's going to win the general election, at least at this point. but dick lugar was seen as out of touch. it really wasn't necessarily the tea party winning this race alone as much as it was also dick lugar losing it. >> let's talk more about the tea party. you said there was a lot of excitement after 2010. it had a wind at its back, so to speak, the tea party but it's lost that head of steam in such a short period of time. why? >> well, i don't know that they have really lost their head of steam per se. i think it's just a matter of where a maturing activist movement goes after having so much success. when everything is new and fresh, you almost -- you can't go wrong because the expect

in the area of human freedom itself, the centerpiece of the work is called the freedom collection living archive that documents the global struggle for democracy and human freedom. the freedom collection features video interviews and compelling writings and artifacts that tell the stories of dissidents and freedom advocates. i'd like to acknowledge the architect of the freedom collection, joseph rees, lindsey lead who's the director of the freedom collection a and the president of the push foundation. i'd also like to thank april and kristen for organizing this event. on march 28 in dallas the president and mrs. bush launched www.freedomcollectionorg for online portal to the collection. to date we've interviewed approximately 60 leading freedom advocates from around the world including nobel laureates, a senior statesman and women, cyber dissidents, religious leaders and others we will do hundreds of interviews and these are the non-violent troops of liberty. portions are available on the web site. www.freedomcollection.org features sections on particular countries to help provide backgr

it seemed like richard mourdock subcontracted his campaign out to the n.r.a., freedom works and they did a lot of bundling, direct mail, a lot of t.v. purchases. i'm not sure richard mourdock could have pulled this off if he didn't have the outside money coming in. and that concerns me. on one hand we have incumbents who seem impervious to defeat yet on the other hand we seem to be replacing it with a citizens united decision in which a certain opaqueness has come over the process. and i think it's going to really cause some problems down the road as this trend spreads to more states and senate seats. >> ifill: mr. fettig, as a beneficiary of some of that money, what do you think? >> well, i'm going to disagree because senator lugar had a lot of outside money, fund-raisers in washington and new york city. he did have super pacs outside our border. as a senator, his votes don't just affect the citizens of all citizens of indiana but across the whole united states. all of the taxpayers across the united states are liable so to say nobody outside indiana should have influence whatsoever

in the area of human freedom itself, the centerpiece of the work is called the freedom collection, the living archive that documents the global struggle for democracy and human freedom. the freedom collection features video interviews and compelling writings and artifacts that tell the stories of dissidents and that freedom advocates i'd like to acknowledge the architects of the collection, ambassador kristen silverberg who led the project from its inception, and thus avert gross read, lindsey lloyd who's now the director of the freedom collection and mark, the president of the bush foundation. i also like to thank april and kristen for organizing this event. march 28 in dallas the president and mrs. bush launched www.freddomcollection.org the online portal deals to the collection. today we have interviewed approximately 60 leading freedom advocates from are not of the world including the nobel laureates, senior statesman and women, cyber dissidents, religious leaders and many others. we will do hundreds of these interviews coming and these are the non-violent troops of liberty. portio

in the area of human freedom itself, the center piece of our work is called the freedom collection, aliving archive that documents the global struggle for democracy and human freedom. the freedom collection features video interviews and compelling writings and artifacts that tell the stories of dissidents and freedom advocates. i'd like to acknowledge the architects of the freedom collection, will, who conceived it, ambassador kristin silverberg who led the project from its inception, ambassador grover joseph reese, lindsay who's now the director -- lynn day lloyd -- lindsay lloyd. on march 28th in dallas, president and mrs. bush launched www.freedomcollection.org, the online portal to the collection. to date, we have interviewed approximately 60 leading freedom advocates from around the world including nobel laureates, senior statesmen and women, cyber dissidents, religious leaders and many others. we will do hundreds of these interviews, and these are the nonviolent troops of liberty. portions of each interview are available on the web site. freedomcollection.org features sections o

. >> just today, freedom to work asked exxon mobil to adopt the golden rules that we treat lbgt workersondiscrimination rules, which most leaders in corporate america have already adopted because they know that workplace discrimination is morally wrong and it decreases worker productivity, profits and it's just a bad way to run a business. exxon is out of line and strayed far from the pack and its time for exxon to rejoin the leadership of corporate america by signing this. >> eliot: if i hear you, they're alone even within the energy pack as it were other major oil companies moving ahead of them in terms of protecting the rights of gay, lesbian transgender what explains their hesitancy here? >> it's hard to imagine why they would clutch so desperately to the policies of 1983 or 1984 1985. they are decades behind in adopting the principles of corporate leadership that so many fortune 500 companies have adopted because it's the right thing to do for which is business. i can't explain the mentality. i can't explain why they're being such neanderthals in fighting this so hard, but so many

the reasons we picked those states is because there is so much pent-up interest in religious freedom and workingious freedom. there is great motivation. there was a limitation in the previous panel to the extent of how there is a partisan divide among capitol hill on the issue of religious freedom. the good news is that the american people still believe in religious freedom, deep down in their court. although there may be divides when we come to the partisan venue of congress, the reality is that americans still believe that this core american value, it belongs to everyone, it is still to be defended. for that reason, it is no surprise that tim and others have found that there is interest on the part of legislators to form religious freedom caucuses in those states to focus on religious freedom issues. the caucuses are not an end in themselves. they are a means to an end. they are an opportunity for a focal point for those who are working on religious freedom in the states to direct and generate their efforts, to make sure they are connected with different organizations, whatever organization th

we stand for freedom and for the institutions and habits that make freedom work for everyone. >> anddent bill clinton assesses the political clanned scape. he talked about the primary defeat of veteran republican senator richard lugar in indiana who lost to richard murdoch. murdoch is turning his back on compromise saying one side has to winner and that doesn't sit well with mr. clinton. >> the gentleman who just defeated senator lugar said something they found disturbing although i kind of like him personally. he's a very appealing sort of person, but he said i am totally against any compromise, the views are reconcilable. we just have to keep fighting if somebody wins. if that was the view, there never would have been a constitution and bill of rights, the federal government would not have assumed the debts of the colony from the revolutionary war and nothing else would have happened, but as soon as this election is over i think the incentives will be for both parties to make more compromising than they have in the past. >> and i suspect as we get closer to the election, wolf, we'l

we stand for freedom and for the institutions and habits that make freedom work for everyone. >> yes,ng that event. rebekah brooks once a key player in rupert murdoch's empire is a i accused of hiding evidence from police. the former has been lloyd evidence and her husband are among the first people charged in britain's phone hacking scandal. here's one for you. a registered sexual offender elected to office. he nabbed a city council spot way, way up in the texas been a handle. got a two-year term. he is a former mayor who had to step down over sexual indecency with two minors including an 8-year-old girl. that said, he got more votes than any other city council candidate. that's all i've got for you, folks. but i'll move on. what does rush lind baugh have in kbhon walt disney and roy rogers? they are in the hall of fame of famous missourians. ♪ she's a superstar. but lady gaga's indonesia concert got the ax by the government there. her permit to perform next month's born this way show has been denied. and the reason sdsh security concerns. turns out all that dancing around in your bi

wife shout out to my wife clara guerrero the song is called occupation freedom and it's basically a call for people to start to work for freedom when i check on my job applications i aspire to check when it says occupation freedom we're hoping to inspire the next generation of freedom workers. i believe we have a clip of at to share with everyone take a lesson. with . the. history. of the old. carriage tell us about the mass said in your lyrics well my wife and i wrote a song that again it was the inspired next generation of freedom workers but what we're really saying is that it's about work we describe an assault different ways that people can occupy we say occupy all airwaves and spaces in between but we also see a lyric that says. occupy our government we are the ones we've been waiting for and the chorus is especially important because we're singing about freedom and we're declaring that as free. people and as citizens of the great united states of america that we can and we must use our talents and we're declaring that loud and free loud and clear on this song. and this question might be for. music often time

. >> tico almeida, founder of freedom to work. that's viewpoint tonight. stay right here to enter the war room.with jennifer granholm. thanks for watching. have a great weekend. >>> i'm jennifer grandholm, and it is friday inside "the war room." so the kentucky derby is tomorrow, but tonight we're handicapping ardifferent kind of race. ♪ >> and they are off. the presidential horse race breaks out of the starting gate. both candidates head to virginia to stake their claim on the mother of all swing states. obama leads by a length but poll numbers aren't what is keeping him up at night. a new jobs report shows an economy that is not quite ready to enter the home stretch. it is still a long way to the finish line, but the race starts now. ♪ >>> president obama heads to virginia tomorrow to officially kickoff the recollection campaign. it will be his 46th trip to virginia. it's a crucial swing state. that's more than double and plus the number of stops that he has made in the next-most visited state of ohio, 21 there, and then florida is next followed by penns

we stand for freedom and for the institutions and habits that make freedom work for everyone.tha: interesting comments there by the former president. joined by john bolton, who was appointed by president george w. bush as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and now of course a fox news contributor. good morning. good to have you here today, sir. >> glad to be here. martha: there are mixed reviews how the outcome has been from the arab spring particularly in the case of egypt where there are a lot of concerns that the muslim brotherhood may have too much power after mubarak's ouster. what do you think of president bush's comments? >> well what he's say something obviously a further elaboration of the principles that he set out in his second inaugural address and i think as a matter of high level abstraction it is hard to debate with that. the united states will not come out in favor of forms of government other than representative government and other than individual freedom but as the president himself said in the remarks you just showed how you handle that tactically will vary from c

other panelists include state officials and religious freedom advocates working in the state legislatures to promote laws on religious freedom. >> provided at your tables and then pass them, hopefully, there'll be somebody circling who will be looking for those questions probably during, right towards the end of the last speak beer. so we have a excellent panel that we're very excited about focusing on the states, and it's called legislative action to constrain overreaching officials. and we have a very distinguished panel and are very grateful that in addition to having these panelists here today, we have a number of state legislators from, representing about 15 different states, state legislators and policy experts. we have about two dozen. we're very grateful they could join us today because as a key focus that the american religious freedom program is doing, um, that last panel to me was the extremely inspiring because anytime religious leaders work together and decide that they are going to take a stand for a core american value and decide that they are willing to make sacrifices, to