what happened was there was a conservative effort on the part of the haley barbour political machine.haley barbour is the former rnc chair one of the most successful lobbyists in the united states represented a number of dictatorships as a lobbyist. i've i've published all this on twitter. i'm not trying to sell you anything. you can see the documents for yourselves. he's the former governor of mississippi. as ned rollins another political consultant put it on charlie rose this week haley barbour owns mississippi and he used the own statement. this offends me as a human being and an american that one man can own the state. that seems wrong so i decided to do as i decided to see what was going on mississippi. i like to bus corruption and if you are the most corrupt state in the union like the journalist who likes to bust corruption should go to the most corrupt state. i got this invitation by the tea party expressed to go and talk about my book on coolidge. i had never met chris mcdaniel before. someone identified me as an mcdaniel supporter. i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against t

and as ed rollins, you know, another political consultant once put it, haley barbour owns mississippi, and he used that owns statement. now, this offends me just as a human being and as an american that one man can own a state. i mean, after all, these are our fellow citizens, and that seems wrong. so what i decided to do was i decided to see what was going on in mississippi. after all, i like to bust corruption, and if you're the most corrupt state in the union, then the journalist who likes to bust corruption should go to the most corrupt state. it seemed logical to me. so i got this invitation by the tea party express to go and talk about my book on coolidge. i had never met chris mcdaniel before. certain press reports have identified me as a mcdaniel supporter. i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against him, but i'm not for him. i'm not even registered to vote because, frankly, like, i live in california, and it doesn't really matter, and it seems like a lot of work just to get up and vote. maybe that'll change, but i'm not even registered to vote. what really interests me is busti

the haley barbour side is like 8-0.his campaign year, and we heard that john cornyn was going lose. lamar alexander would lose. they have, they've struck out in every single race. >> lost almost all the big races. had inferior candidates. voters are discerning. a marco rubio, they decide to elect him. mcdaniel in mississippi, almost elect him. my message would be the opposite. respected republican incumbents never challenged ever in a primary elected three, four, five times staid wide in their states losing 40% of votes. pat roberts, lamar alexander. ed that cochran, 55%. a lot of unhappiness with republican leadership among republican voter at the grass roots. unhappiness in washington among voters of both parties of the grass roots. if republicans want to do well in 2014, especially 2016. grass roots, forget about them. we're the party of dole, mccai mccain,ed that cochran, that's not going to win in 2016. a healthy dose of intelligent tea party activism remains the way to go. >> i'll say to bill's point. talking earl

it's a very poor state these days and republicans -- governor haley barbour has been supportive of things like that. does that make him less of a republican? you can't be republican and support welfare? >> you're making quite -- well, you can't be a republican and support growing it to one-sixth of the country, which is what has happened under senate pat roberts, under senator thad cochran. and they seem to be proud of this. by the way, since kansas is today, right after the mcdaniel/cochran second round -- >> right. >> -- in both rounds mcdaniel got more republican votes. even the cochran people can see that. roberts folks retweeted out a racist assault on milton wolf. they retracted it quickly but people had already seen it. this inside the beltway -- i would like to think inside the beltway because i would like to think that most of america don't think and act like this and want to make decisions and political campaigns like this. they tried to retract it in the roberts campaign but it was already out there. and it was one more stumble for them. you know, it would really be myself to b

countries not to lure their best and brightest through increasing visa cap as heritage suggests, or as haley barbour suggests, handing out green cards at graduation ceremonies? >> the one thing i'm really excited about this panel and the great thing that has been the strength of the immigration debate is when you get people on the panel who don't absolutely agree on everything, that is how you have dialogue. everybodyrtant that -- i don't think it is important that everybody agree. a policying from perspective, because i don't do politics. if the notion of the immigration debate is the key to unlocking the human capital potential of america, i don't think that is exactly right here in -- right. if you take the chains that limit the opportunities for economic growth and freedom, if you focus on education reforms that give people the skills they need to be successful rather than throw money at it, if you have welfare programs that encourage people to get into the workplace and work rather than make them dependent, and if you encourage families to create the environment that create people who want to b

. >> i remember having haley barbour about olympia snowe when they said they wanted her out of the republicanhe said he wanted her in the party. jim geoffjeffords was probably republican's last chance. >> all right. as we continue to cover the situation in ferguson, i want to bring in your piece in "the washington post." joining us from kansas city, congressman e manual cleaver, a democrat from missouri. good to have you on board, sir. >> good morning. >> gene, you write this in "the post." in ferguson a sense of being left behind, millions of african-americans took advantage of the opportunities created by the civil rights movement to climb into the middle class. yet millions of other black americans did not reach the middle class. ferguson and other such pockets across the nation, millions of young black men and women growing up knowing that the deck is stacked against them. did michael brown have a chip on his shoulder? not according to his friends and family. although the convenience store video suggests otherwise. would it be understandable if he did? might he have wondered if white kids