me that the goldwater who came back to washington after 1969 was far different than the goldwater who had been the crusading conservative senator and presidential candidate. he said he was once the most partisan of men, but he said after 1964, something happened, and he simply became different. that is probably, maybe where goldwater would differ with things today because he wanted to get things done when he went back to washington for his last three terms. today, he would say they not getting anything done. >> dig deeper on that. the common wisdom is carl hayden was the workhorse, barry goldwater was the show horse. i did not see too many legislative accomplishments you could link to very well -- barry goldwater. i could be wrong. correct me. what was it that changed him -- the loss, the defeat, or something else going on, and what about the legislative piece? >> goldwater biographer's, and a number of them, lee edwards, john judas, richard goldberg, they have noticed the presidential campaign where people trashed him beyond belief , where he said if everyone had said these things to

he first interviewed barry goldwater as a little boy back in january 1969 when goldwater was resuminghis senate career in washington. they met several more times over the years including for one of the final interviews the senator granted before his retirement in 1986. michael rubinoff. [applause] >> so before i ask thes ask of e custom questions i've a few questions for you folks. how many people in the audience voted for barry goldwater at least once? [laughter] >> did anybody vote for him in 1964? two in the back. any gold -- goldwater from the members in the audience tonight? i heard barry junior is out of town. he was yesterday. good, so we can say whatever we want. [laughter] it seems were having a libertarian moment here in the united states. senator rand paul is being taken seriously as a potential candidate for president after his dad ron paul qaeda clear some of the way for his son. libertarians on the right and liberals on the left say i taught on protecting privacy and legalizing marijuana. it's a very appealing mix for younger voters and many others. this is the moment ar

goldwater have come down on that? >> again, the immigration issue developed in the 1990's and in the 2000's, there was bipartisan support for the 1986 immigration reform led by ronald reagan. alan simpson was one of the co-authors of it. i do not think you can project where goldwater would have been on it. my suspicion is he would be on the side of arizona as a welcoming place, embracing its latino heritage, and would be troubled about that, but on the other hand, i do not know that he would be indifferent to the effects of illegal immigration on local governments, and his strong sense of federalism would have rejected, or at least argued against, the notion that this is exclusively a federal problem which local governments are powerless to do anything about. i think there are crosscurrents. >> michael, what you think about that? >> i would have to agree. i think barry goldwater would have said we should be welcoming, but he also would have said the state has its own rights, which i think he felt very deeply about. i

goldwater have come down on that? >> again, the immigration issue developed in the 1990's and in the 2000's there was bipartisan support for the 1986 immigration reform led by ronald reagan. alan simpson was one of the co-authors of it. i do not enqueue can project where goldwater would have -- i do not think you can project where goldwater would have been on it. my suspicion is he would have been on the side of arizona as a welcoming place, embracing its latino heritage and would be troubled about that, but on the other hand i do not know that he he would be indifferent to the effects of illegal immigration on local governments, and his strong sense of federalism would have rejected, or at least argued against the notion that this is exclusively a federal problem, which local governments are powerless to do anything about. i think there are crosscurrents. >> michael, what you think about that? >> i would have to agree. i think barry goldwater would have said we should be welcoming, but he also would have said the sta

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my father, he ran against barry goldwater many years ago, and one of the most striking things about goldwater was how amazing he could be so accepting of someone with opposite political views. my father was way to the left, he was way to the right. and yet they had this amiable, wonderful discussions. he was really a terrific man even though views were different. when he ran for the senate, arizona -- are you had to be at that time was a republican. i don't know why my father decided to run. [laughter] >> that is one of the more interesting parts of the run in he was hoping to run against 1964. jack kennedy. >> goldwater and kennedy knew each other very well and they were friends. friendly rivals and they respected each other. what you are speaking to was a different time in arizona. it was like an extended family. the one thing that united all of -- goldwater knew that he was from a long time arizona family in the same thing with morris udall. the one thing that united all of these folks was the central arizona project, which was the major activity of a bipartisan nature, and this is where g

versus -- very goldwater versus nelson rockefeller? >> many african-americans respected rockefeller. he had given some of the money from his own family fortune to the civil rights activist. he helped martin luther king financially. jackie robinson and others worked with him and saw him as a progressive force and a potential force on the national scene if you were to ever win the presidency. there was a strong support among some civil rights leaders for rockefeller, certainly compared to goldwater. >> didn't jackie robinson campaign for richard nixon in 1960? >> robinson had a relationship with richard nixon and he expressed some admiration. as did many civil rights leaders. our memory of nixon has been shaped by watergate. in the 1950's and 1960's, civil rights leaders spoke very highly of richard nixon for his work on behalf of civil rights and equal employment opportunities. >> you write about the 1988 campaign and one of the most famous ads that year, the so-called willie horton ad, that african-americans and democrats claim that it

party. >> can you contrast very goldwater versus -- very goldwater versus nelson rockefeller? >> many african-americans respected rockefeller. he had given some of the money from his own family fortune to the civil rights activist. he helped martin luther king financially. jackie robinson and others worked with him and saw him as a progressive force and a potential force on the national scene if you were to ever win the presidency. support amongrong leaders forights rockefeller, certainly compared to goldwater. >> didn't jackie robinson campaign for richard nixon in 1960? >> robinson had a relationship with richard nixon and he expressed some admiration. as did many civil rights leaders. our memory of nixon has been shaped by watergate. in the 1950's and 1960's, civil rights leaders spoke very highly of richard nixon for his work on behalf of civil rights and equal employment leaders for rockefeller, certainly compared to goldwater. >> didn't jackie robinson campaign opportunities. you write about the 1988 campaign and one of the most famous ads that year, the so-called willie

is that a tension with goldwater, libertarianism? is there some way goldwater speaks to how the two w will get through those conflicts? >> i think it represents a losing argument by libertarians. the point of view that goldwater expressed, which is there is nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government the authority to tell someone who owns a private business whom he has to serve, and prevent him from making decisions as to whom he serves is a purebred libertarian point of view. it gets lost. the field of commerce is universally regarded, in some respects, as public space, and that government can, indeed, regulate the kind of interactions people have in that public space, including prohibiting what is considered invidious discrimination in commerce, and the reaction to senate bill 1062 reflects the fact that the libertarians have simply lost that argument. >> next question in the front. >> my name is albert. there are two big trend in the 21st century -- i think one of them is, of course, terrorism, and the other one

my father, he ran against barry goldwater many years ago, and one of the most striking things about goldwater was how amazing he could be so accepting of someone with opposite political views. my father was way to the left, he was way to the right. yet they had these wonderful discussions. he was really a terrific man even my views and his were different. when he ran for, all you had to do was be a republican, so i not know why my father decided to run. >> that is one of the more interesting parts of goldwater running in 1964. he was hoping to run against jack kennedy. >> goldwater and kennedy knew each other very well and they were friends. it was a different time. it was like an extended family. people knew each other. one thing that united all of these folks was the central arizona project, which was the major activity of a bipartisan nature, and this is where goldwater was effective. he might have been a showhorse but you needed that showhorse. goldwater was helping to make that thing work, and that is exactly the type of culture from which your father -- that you were describing. >> next

not until mid-may did the tide finally turning goldwater's favor. the california primary made his nomination all but certain. the primary season highlighted deep divisions in the republican party and in dirksen's senate caucus. it also proved to be a major headache for civil rights proponents with senators dispersed around the country and republicans preoccupied with presidential politics, it was difficult to maintain an accurate vote count. even more troublesome was the fact that barry goldwater was among those who opposed cloture in all situations. in the wake of his primary win in california, five gop senators defected to support his stand on the gag rule. dirksent turks and -- short of his necessary 25 votes. there was one other contextual item i will mention only in passing. this could be a whole talk in itself. at the same time the senate was locked and contentious argument aer the bobby baker affair, high-profile investigation of a former democratic party secretary charged with fraud and bribery, civil rights proponents worried this partisan

maybe george will said it, but goldwater was the most, senator goldwater running for president in 1964 was the most consequential loser in american political history. and george also said barry goldwater won the 1964 election. it just took 16 years to count the ballots. >> before hanging chad. any other questions from the audience? morton? >> i'm supposed to wait until i have the microphone. >> if you don't raise your hand, you won't get it. and knowing you will have a statement anyway. >> no. i'm going to ask the question but i'm going to lay the groundwork. in 1980 when reagan showed up the nomination, george herbert walker bush was the last surviving serious opponent to him and reagan so did a. if you defined everybody who supported reagan at the time that he sewed it up, and you call them reaganites, and those who are not supporting reagan at that point, don't qualify as reaganites even though many of them did support him when he became the nominee. since reagan, the republican party has nominated a number of other candidates for president of the united states. it happens that none

remember, hillary rotten lydon was a goldwater girl 1964. by the late '60s -- hilary rodham clinton. she didn't do by just going from goldwater girl to the democratic national committee. she got involved in a single issue group. anti-vietnam war. decade for the transition to all things liberal. so if people are not interested in your concerted organization or cause, think about what are the top issues in your community that you can get people involved in, many opportunities to get people involved in, something dealing with public policy other than just the next election. i don't want to a very, very optimistic about talk about that in just a minute here, but we should not be under any illusion as to the challenge that we have in front of us. the leadership of every major institution in america, save possibly military, is a rant against the views and values of big business, wall street, unions, hollywood, media, nonprofit or decisions, it goes on and on, all of these institutions is against us. read the ruling class. we were with this weekend

you had people around barry goldwater, the answers to the third party. there were people talking about starting a third party. that talk was very much there. ultimately when it was, what happened in 1952 was grist for the rise of the goldwater movement in 1964. i think what happened in mississippi is grist for the tea party movement. >> it's a galvanizing thing, it's a different metaphor, having a bloody shirt to waive at that point could be something that would move your movement to a place -- >> never forget what they did to us here. >> i wanted to quote the democratic party -- the democratic chairman from mississippi in his very detailed and specific advice. i think it's funny, the democrats obviously watt to give this disingenuous advice for how much they feel for chris mcdaniel. he's also being an astute observer about how this works. in 30 years, he said this will -- what has happened last night in many is miss will be the sort of thing that every political operative in mississippi, he was old enough to have been alive when this happened, will defi

john mccain does not have and has never had the kind of following among conservatives that barry goldwater had and so if he in and lindsey graham his many meet want to want to go down this route that's fine but barry goldwater didn't have had x. news i didn't well that's true but that they don't have the kind of political constituency the problem here is that obama came into office with the intention of getting out of iraq without worrying too much about what kind of a situation we were going to leave behind so we got out a vacuum was created now we're dealing with this terrorist group that nobody had heard about until they started moving on iraq like nobody heard about al qaeda until you up your call aiming this on obama well noting i i did without dick cheney and george bush linus in this war we never would have been there for a while you could make that argument a lot of times tom that if we just hadn't done this then this wouldn't happen but the fact is that the press pretty of president obama president obama we wouldn't we would have had different problems president obama had an oblig

with the fact that barry goldwater was running around doing a john mccain here's all the g.o.p. . our leave an impression on the background of the people we talked to here it was our beef aramis fail without saying something what do you think people are calling me a new york banker i just hope the fall in texas they are they will maybe respond that want to play that's good but they want to be damn sure i don't pull him out of iran and i want to be damn sure that we have firm that's what all the country wants because the water's rising so much hail about i want to blow him off alone and i say that we are doing it back at the actual answers that require but we sure ought always leave the impression that the shooter she's going to get hit. so are we seeing history repeat itself is is john mccain the barry goldwater and brock obama the l.b.j. and if he takes this bait and he makes the same mistake that l.b.j. made that day on that recording is he going to end up with the kind of legacy that l.b.j. i'm hopefully when i first heard about it actually i didn't think l.b.j. i was actually

they never closed the divide in 1964 as a result barry goldwater got beat and beat badly in that presidential election. >> pelley: john dickerson, i wonder, how do you see this? did brat beat cantor or did cantor beat himself? >> reporter: well, one republican strategist said the cantor campaign was guilty of political malpractice. majority leader traveled a lot raising money for his party but but that meant he wasn't home defending his turf. that's perhaps because his pollster said he was well ahead in this race. cantor's numerous attack ads introduced voters to his relatively unknown opponent david brat without harming him. and then cantor took positions, particularly on immigrants, a hot-button issue that were at odds with his record. and brat seized on that and said cantor was soft on illegal immigrants. and said this proves republican leaders in washington had lost touch with their voters. >> pelley: nancy, here is one of the things strange about this, cantor was an early supporter of tea party candidates. he went around the country and raised money for them. what changed? >> reporter: w

those two factions never came together and goldwater lost the election in historic landslide.ow do you prevent that from happening? >> you do what we're doing at the national level. you become a four-year period. get in communities nonstop much. but the fact is, where are we not winning, bob? what state governor's race are we not winning? what house race are we not winning? incumbent president with a country that is in 50-50 right track, wrong track. that is not shocking that incumbent president didn't win. the fact is we're now running with a lot of great people that have vision for this country like jeb bush, chris christie, rand paul and others, my own state of wisconsin. that are there are dynamic it look like hillary clinton is getting ready. went from 70% approval rating down to 58 in -- 52 in 18 months. >> schieffer: she just opened her book tour, she has her book out, some said she kind of stumbled a bit when she started talking about being dead broke when she and her husband left the white house. what is your -- give me your review of her book tour so far? >> if you j

the goldwater institute lent its support to the right to try movement, even helping lawmakers like jim neely draft legislation. >> the decision to use safe new medications out of the hands of bureaucrats. >> while the fda doesn't take a position on right to try laws, the the agency says it already has at least three pathways to allow patients access to experimentals. there are clinical trials, of course. those are run by drug companies and overseen by federal regulators. but if the patient doesn't qualify, the fda allows individuals and even groups of patients to apply for access to experimental meds outside a trial. since 2009, the fda says it has green lit 99% of those individual and group applications. >> the agency has a pathway. it seems to work quite well. and i'm not sure what the state right to try bills really add to that. in fact, i think might take away some of the safety advantages people have where you have unusual review boards, somebody checking to make sure the patients fully are aware of what they are getting into and what's the balance we know about this particular pr

but at the same time with goldwater announcing his opposition to the bill and johnson pushing the bill forward, you added something unprecedent in history, which is that the parties reversed abruptly their 100-year-old position on race, which has always been the litmus test of democracy in america. and it switched. nothing but race -- try to imagine something today that could happen in politics that next year would have republicans voting democrat and democrats voting republican. i grew up in atlanta. we didn't even know any republicans. [laughter] they were polar bears, they were yanks. >> not true. >> there was black and tan. >> actually, when i went to georgia in 1954 they asked me to run a voter registration drive to support eisenhauer. and i said, but i'm a stephenson supporter. they said not here. [laughter]. they said in georgia if stephenson wins, richard russell appoints the federal judges. if eisenhauer wins, we get to nominate the judges. and the whole bevy of southern judges that really saved the nation were all republican appointees. >> but what i'm saying is that there's

numerous occasions but this has to be repeated and i think i can't remember the exact quote berry goldwater said if you're hesitant in deliver it's not good. those closed sessions are all the time their appearing your withholding stuff it's coke to say we have the documents related to the case and the public has to figure out which documents. i think this case has hundreds of documents are you going to look at it and did you get hundreds of documents or thirty and what specific documents did you get in those matters i'll be willing to bet you've been given documents the public hadn't seen and we're supposed to guess we're said in the navy a wild hairy guess. you don't tell us anything you say we're going into closed session owe talk about x. what about x when we look at what happened in the last case there's a good argument the city attorney said the bulk of what we had should have seen and you all sit there and act like the city attorn city attorneys issue the staff are the ones who pick and choose what you the he the public deserves the same right to know what you're going to did you say

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but if you go back to the 1952 race between robert taft and eisenhower, then you go to goldwater in 64 and then reagan in 68 and especially 76 and 0 you've always had this tension in the republican party between what conservatives have labeled e eastern establishment that gave us dueie and rock feller and folks like that. and the grassroots. and as the center of gravity in post world war ii period and particularly since the 1960s has shifted to the south and the west, so in 1946, when you had a republican majority in the house, 25% of the members of that caucus came from each of the major regions of the country. the west, the midwest, the northeast/flim and the south. -- mid-atlantic and the south. today you look and overwhelmingly it's midwest, west, and south. and those members tend to be more conservative. candidly more of them tend to be evangelical protestants or faithful catholics. i think there is no question that there is a much greater sort of evangelical flavor into the party by which i don't mean evangelical protestants but also a much greater percentage of faithful catholic

the peace candidate supposedly against goldwater the republican warmonger. and l.b.j. was closing as a peace candidate and the slogan on the left was part of the way when o.b.j. . and i believe it i had inklings that l.b.j. was going to escalate as he had done work there were people about that and sure enough right after i got elected he said one hundred thousand troops if you're not in the paper or you know got bigger and bigger. and the pentagon papers revealed later. l.b.j. was planning to escalate the war even as it was running as a peace candidate is sixty four so he was it was a total lie democratic party was a trap. for the left it's a trap today obama functions in the same fashion as open aged in his posturing in the when he first got elected people can hold sort of him as the if he wore a candidate and it would clean up those flying and all that stuff it is music it's collated the war it continued to spying it kept the same you know running the program defense robert gates and it continued bush's policies and they actually expanded the so people got fooled bec

goldwater is another extraction of natural resources.or a healthy purpose and good benefit. this is something we have been interested in. >> you mentioned oil and gas exploration. you make the point that the land on which this spring has been suched is untouched by kinds of activity. >> exactly. we are at the base of the flat tops national wilderness so there is 240,000 acres of wilderness are pretty that is federally -- property that is protected federally. have oil and gas drilling and no motorized vehicles. ofa lot of the popularity bottled water comes from the way that it is bottled. the marketing, the branding, the actual bottled. how much effort has gone into that? >> we have spent several years coming up with our brand name and package. one of the things we want to do is as a new entry into the field and want to attract attention without having to buy out market share like the big companies can. fiji did it that way and we are emulating the prior reckoning efforts. part of that is to come up with a great package, great bottle and

but if you go back to the 1952 race between robert taft and eisenhower, then you go to goldwater in 64 and then reagan in 68 and especially 76 and 0 you've always had this tension in the republican party between what conservatives have labeled e eastern establishment that gave us dueie and rock feller and folks like that. and the grassroots. and as the center of gravity in post world war ii period and particularly since the 1960s has shifted to the south and the west, so in 1946, when you had a republican majority in the house, 25% of the members of that caucus came from each of the major regions of the country. the west, the midwest, the northeast/flim and the south. -- mid-atlantic and the south. today you look and overwhelmingly it's midwest, west, and south. and those members tend to be more conservative. candidly more of them tend to be evangelical protestants or faithful catholics. i think there is no question that there is a much greater sort of evangelical flavor into the party by which i don't mean evangelical protestants but also a much greater percentage of faithful catholic

at the same time, with goldwater announcing his opposition to the bill and johnson pushing the bill forward, you had something unprecedented in history. the parties reversed abruptly their 100-year-old position on race. it switched. nothing but race. try to imagine something today that could happen in politics that next year would have republicans voting democrat and democrats voting republican. i grew up in atlanta. we didn't even know any republicans. [laughter] >> there was the black and tan. >> when i went to georgia in 1954, they asked me to run a voter registration drive to support eisenhower. i said, but i am a stevenson supporter. they said, not here. [laughter] winsorgia, if stevenson richard russell appoints the federal judges. if eisenhower wins, we get to nominate the judges. bevy of southern judges that really saved the nation were all republican appointees. -- as a is this historian, i am so glad that lbj has all those amazing tapes. if those tapes didn't exist, people would be pushing a consensus that johnson never had his heart in any of those things. if there is one thing t

and a conservative base, william howard taft, robert taft, goldwater, onto ronald reagan, although he govern our more as an establishment pragmatist than anything else. when hillary clinton talks about herself as a progressive in the early of -- early 20th century, it is or more along the -- those lines. progressives on the republican side. the struggle is between those who would be the old conservative route that i think are more radical, and on the immigration front, i think smitty reflects what is the in the tension here now republican party. on the issue. a lot of people who see immigration -- the immigration system, by every standard, is broken. it is not working. a lot of people basically want to shut off the borders and others see it in a different way and navigate through that. it is one of the great challenges. not the only, but of the great challenges both artie's in the country have. i think we are moving toward a crisis point. the other thing to keep in mind is we now have this surge in children coming over the southern border, from central america, from countries that hav

whether it's in goldwater or whenever, when religious and mysticism was taken out and perry puts it front and center, that's why he's a no-show for any election. >> does it erase the good work? it will if the left meade why picks up on this and runs with it. neil: they already are. >> they want any reason they can. >> and they should. >> to go after him on the right. did he misspeak? we hope he did. if he didn't, that's a whole other issue. >> likened homosexuality to alcoholism. i think that is a real denigration of a whole portion of americans who should be here for the votes. neil: nixon famously told david frost i gave my enemies a sword and they stuck it in him. when you have a crowded potential field of contenders, doesn't take much for those other contenders and the media to check you off, right? >> especially about a topic this hot. you got to be really careful what you say about homosexuality, and this is going to bite him. you can't say, you know, rick perry reminds me of joe biden. he's fun to watch because you don't know what's going to come out of his mouth next. this is goin

he based that on the same grounds initially that senator goldwater did when he wrote against the bill and against cloture. he said it was unconstitutional. there was an 1875 decision by ,he supreme court that reversed excuse me, 1883 decision that reversed the 1875 reconstruction era bill that created the public accommodations. cleverly, the managers of the bill did not hang this on the 14th amendment, which was the way it had been declared unconstitutional. but they said it was the commerce clause. people were traveling all the time. they were in this restaurant, crossing a state line, another restaurant. the irony is if you look at that bill today, you look at education, look at voting rights. but the most controversial section of that bill was the one that was most clearly and quickly accepted, the identity hotels, restaurants, other places of public accommodation were open to blacks and that was it. >> one of the critical senators in that was george aiken of vermont. i was not caught up so much personally in the sole rights movement. did not know much about it. i was isolated on t

have to go back to the '50s, 1952, when a democratic leader in the senate lost his seat to barry goldwater in the general election in arizona. members of the leadership in congress losing their seats in the general election, losing their seats to the other party, that is a rare thing. but it is a thing for which we do have some modern examples in history. also run of the mill incumbents losing their primary races. we have modern examples of that in recent years, but a leader in congress? one of the top members of congress, one of the most powerful leaders of the majority party in a chamber of congress failing to win his party's nomination for another term, what happened tonight seems to us so far in reading history an unprecedented thing, at least as far as we can tell in the midst of this news story. this is the biggest thing that has happened in modern times. joining us now, steve kornacki. thanks for coming in. i really appreciate it. you said this was the largest political upset in your political lifetime when we spoke earlier. upon reflection, does it feel that way and how consequenti

in the goldwater nichols act of 1986 was passed and took root so it's useful when you are reviewing to keep that kind of a timeframe in mind if you will in terms of assessments. income pairing this one and the other went to other quadrennial review is coming into there have been five inside of the dod and six if you count the one that wasn't cold the qdr and others are picking up the idea that it is useful to do this. one of the tensions that in place is how much attention do you pay to the funding constraints. the defense department policy that the qdr was informed by the budgetary constraints but not constrained by the budgetary numbers and this becomes difficult. one of my favorite quote is a wall street analyst that said i can't read this report referring to the 2014 qhsr. it doesn't have any numbers in it. i'm an english major, i used to reading things. if it doesn't connect to the budget, then you have to ask what is the impact if you will. but the important question is not whether the revie review ore report is constrained by the budget. but in fact what is the important -- the

we fought over this for years gary goldwater years it goes back. it is no longer honorable to consider america over spolitics. >> it is also full of lies propaganda and misinformation. >> it is profitable. it is profitable. i ran a campaign -- not ran a campaign. i was a candidate against a very unpopular at the time democrat but very powerful democrat. all of my consultants were advising me to attack, attack, attack, attack. i did on the issues but i had to keep this civil because i believe the civil discourse is more important than political exception to the rule. >> republicans want dirty air and dirty water the president said. >> yes ms. liberal. >> proud of it, sean. the problem is that i don't know if you won or not but you don't win. that works with both sides. a quick attack message is what works it is what resinates. it is more difficult for people to get in a real quick add. so when you try to go on the high road a lot of times you lose. >> let me bred to starns in here. paul harvey talked about snug strifing dogs guess what we have in in

in 1964 when the republican establishment had to look on in horror as the right nominated barry goldwaterdent. it's a story that republican establishment might want to keep in mind right now. yes, they found a way to get thad cochran through the mississippi primary. because if they just give the tea party something even more valuable? that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. republicans in congress are taking a victory lap today after the supreme court in a unanimous decision, ruled president obama lacked a constitutional authority to appoint three members to the national labor relations board while congress was effectively, though not officially, in recess back in 2012. the ruling, which puts into question hundreds of decisions the labor board issues after those appointments, was hailed by senate minority leader mitch mcconnell as a rejection of obama's brazen power gra

have to go back to the '50s, 1952, when a democratic leader in the senate lost his seat to barry goldwaterbers of the leadership in congress losing their seats in the general election, losing their seats to the other party, that is a rare thing. but it is a thing for which we do have some modern examples in history. also run of the mill incumbents losing their primary races. we have modern examples of that in recent years, but a leader in congress? one of the top members of congress, one of the most powerful leaders of the majority party in a chamber of congress failing to win his party's nomination for another term, what happened tonight seems to us so far in reading history an unprecedented thing, at least as far as we can tell in the midst of this news story. this is the biggest thing that has happened in modern times. joining us now, steve kornacki. thanks for coming in. i really appreciate it. you said this was the largest political upset in your political lifetime when we spoke earlier. upon reflection, does it feel that way and how consequential is this going to be for what the repu

look on in horror as the right nominated barry goldwater for president. it's a story that republican establishment might want to keep in mind right now. yes, they found a way to get thad cochran through the mississippi primary. because if they just give the tea party something even more valuable? that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. republicans in congress are taking a victory lap today after the supreme court in a unanimous decision, ruled president obama lacked a constitutional authority to appoint three members to the national labor relations board while congress was effectively, though not officially, in recess back in 2012. the ruling, which puts into question hundreds of decisions the labor board issues after those appointments, was hailed by senate minority leader mitch mcconnell as a rejection of obama's brazen power grab. by house speaker john boehner as the victory for the constitution and against president obama's aggressive overreach. n