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for the republican perspective on today's big races and what to expect this fall, i talk to haley barbour and republican chairman haley, great to see you. let's talk about what's happening with mitch mcconnell in kentucky. he's run a very good race against this challenger. do you expect he's pulling this one out? >> well, nothing is for sure in politics, but it looks like mitch mcconnell will win by a pretty good margin. he not only has run a good campaign but been an outstanding senator and mitch is worked hard at it like he's supposed to. i think this is a good race for mitch, but it's also a reminder, a lot of this tea party versus establishment is very overblown. a lot of it is being driven by political consultants in washington making a fortune off of this. a handful of national groups are pouring in all the money. you mentioned the mississippi race a while ago. two out of state special groups in washington have spent five times as much on chris mcdaniel's campaign as the chris mcdaniel campaign has spent. all of this money and much he has raised in spending his own campaign is comin

have establishment republican figures like haley barbour saying you need to pick the candidate most likely to win even if that candidate is more moderate than other conservatives? on the flip side of that, texas senator ted cruz who spoke this afternoon who said the way to win is for republican candidates to stand on conservative principles and not listen to the establishment. >> there are washington consultants that want '14 and '16 to go back to the losing models of don't stand for anything. i don't think that makes any sense. the way you win elections is making this election -- i think it will be in 2014 -- a referendum number one on obamacare, two organization on the failed obama economic agenda, three, on the assault on our constitutional rights. we need to defend those rights. >> senator ted cruise is one of several presidential candidates speaking to the conference. in fact, it was announced moments ago he is the winner of the straw poll today narrowly followed by dr. ben carson. there's a wig movement to draft him into the race. and rand paul was third. rick perry is coming up in a

to do that but the way we came up with the principles as we went through all the 17 people from haley barbour, from michael brown to donald rumsfeld and we found that these principles flowed through all of them can even ron kirk who heads up the society foundation i think it is called come of these core principles resonate and i think we get too caught up in trying to find each other over policy differences. >> you said that the american revolution was more of an evolution than a revolution. i was wondering what are the thoughts on the ideas to the language that we interpret and decidis that something that conservatives should be united on? >> that's a really good question. my wife is a attorney and she believes in black letter law and other people believe in using the declaration. that is a question beyond my ability but i was argued that we live in two nations almost and i saw something in the research which has an excellent organization that is a piece of work recently and they asked people what they thought about abortion 75% of people in the northeast said that it should be available in

former mississippi governor haley barbour, who got toyota to build a manufacturing plant in state years is no stranger to the business investment debate. >> it's a heck of a lot harder to get direct investment from overseas companies in america when america has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. i mean, that is something you have to really get over. >> reporter: and, yes, tax reform was at the top of the list of incentives from the 11 executive from american and overseas companies who met with the president today. >> every angle that we can muster on our side to bring business back to the u.s., you know, tax benefits, any kind of corporate benefits to have the company stay and do business in the u.s., that's a huge advantage for us. >> the next select usa business roundtable will take place next march at the white house. for "nightly business report" i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> still ahead on the program, gopro, famous for its action cameras, gets ready to go public. what are the possible risks and rewards for investors? that's coming up. >>> obviously when consumer

you mentioned haley barbour, henry barbour, very strongly behind cochran.the mississippi republican establishment fighting back against sort of the tea party uprising. we saw earlier this week in texas, the texas republican establishment represented by david dewhurst beaten badly. i'm not sure we should draw the who won, who loss, this nursing home issue so dominated the race and so out of bounds. you and i spent a lot of time in many races and talked about it many times covering this stuff. this is so outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior. if thad cochran wins, it seems to me that this controversy played a big role in it. >> gives dirty tricks a whole new -- >> oh, my gosh. it's appalling. appalling. >> chris cillizza, you're not appalling. >> i do my best. >> great to see you. in one of her last public appearances maya angelou came to the smithsonian for the national portrait gallery, she shared what she considered her greatest achievement over eight decades as a writer and poet and civil rights lieder. her answer, patience, you can only have pati

but at the time former mississippi governor haley barbour thought that kind of announcement was a big enough deal that it was worth suspecting there might be an ulterior motive for it. >> obama is trying to do it behind the congress' back with executive action. he has no authority to set the tax laws. >> why is he doing it? >> he wants to take people's eye off obamacare. >> republicans have accused president obama of using everything from shopping for his daughters on vacation to the war in syria to the minimum wage to everything else as a means of trying to distract republicans from talking about obamacare. nice try with inventing this retirement account thing, obama. we won't be distracted from obamacare. obamacare. we are focused on obamacare, no matter what. republicans are as of today officially distracted from obamacare. do you want to know how the obama administration did it? that's coming up. [ aniston ] we what i'm wearing, i tell them aveeno®. because beautiful skin goes with everything. [ female announcer ] aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion has active naturals® oat with fiv

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haley barbour i believe, when he was chair of the republican party made a decision that democrats didn'tpay enough attention to, which was, invest electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but one was so that when reapportionment comes up we can redraw lines in congress and have a bunch of people believe what we believe, which happens to be tea party in haley barbour's case, govern america or at least be obstructionist to american progress. they did it and did it pretty well 20 years ago. that's why we're in the mess that we're in. one of the points i make to democrats, listen, i'm just speculating here but one of the challenges to taking back congress might be that gerrymandered these districts so effectively after they did that, that it is really tough to win. and so, if you elect democratic governors and democratic legislators, going forward, going towards reapportion mane, maybe we would have the opportunity to at least make the districts fair again. so i do think that democrats historically didn't look carefully enough at ele

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the line, but here he is again going up against the establishment forces, jeb bush, mitt romney, haley barbourhe big gop honchos on one side, and rand paul on the other, and if till or if brannon gets into a runoff, that is a win for rand paul. >> and fascinating race, and we e will be watching it. thank you both for being with us. >>> let me send out the tweet of the day, because the president said that george w. bush insp inspired him to take up painting but then a slide did not come up, and alexander gave a punchline of what is supposed to be the joke that america missed. finally, the e collusive work of art showing off obama's work of art. me we don't have to do this alone. it's so much better to have some backup and to do it together because we all face similar challenges. the meetings keep me focused and motivated. and i have a newfound determination that i'm really proud of. i've never been happier. [ female announcer ] jumpstart your summer and start losing weight right away. join for free. try meetings, do it online or both. weight watchers. because it works. try meetings, do it onlin

i had haley barbour, grover norquist, calling me to appear on a panel later this week on immigrationecause they believe the republicans are going over a cliff and they want to bring it around. it is not just boehner. there are many other leader in the gop that think this is crazy but they're not strong enough even in the aggregate to deal with the tea party control over this issue. >> i just find that so shocking because who isn't strong enough? who are these people? you have -- to steve's point, you are hearing republicans talk about it as a pro-growth strategy. right? that seems to be the new spin. maybe that's the way they are trying to appeal of the tea partiers. what is it now, ten people that's holding this up? what's going on? >> i think the longer this goes on, the harder it will get for republicans and they dig themselves deeper. this is beginning to kree meant their image as anti-latino, anti-immigrant. the longer they wait an the harder ss going to become. 016 is around the corner. we saw in 2012 a record number 11 million latinos turned out for the election. 2016 is going