i happen to have known a man named an jack kemp.ould not have put forth wild horses to keep jack kemp away from that event or away from that podium. it would have taken a lot more than a simple party coming around him. i think it is a missed opportunity. but i think they've missed many, many opportunities. they missed it on comprehensive immigration reform. they miss it on the affordable health care act. they miss it on every opportunity they have to reach out to black and brown communities across this country and broaden their chances as jack kemp said that they should. instead, they've gone for the smaller tent. that is unfortunate for them. >> of course, goadie's right about jack kemp and the one an deny up i'd add, sca jack kemp exists in a pretea party world where the party is vin dicktive and attacking folks who don't tow the party line. kemp didn't have to worry about the club for growth. great, we're going to have a candidate to your right who bring your down. >> the republican's party been here before. you had the goldwater

of jack kemp foundation, who will come and speak about the legacy of the jack kemp.>> thank you, all. incredible honor to be here. i'm not the c.e.o. of the jack kemp foundation. we're not quite big to need c.e.o. i'm just president of it. thank you, crystal, i will take the promotion. 50 years ago the march on washington for jobs and freedom took place. my father at the time played football for the buffalo bills and two years later he would be named to the american football leeling all-star team. that all-star team went to play a football game in new orleans, louisiana. closer to the mic? i like talking loud. i got my dad's genes for talking loud. can you all hear me? and in 1965 when they went down to new orleans, there was a running back for the buffalo bills named cookie gilchrist. cookie used to drive around the milk truck in the off-season when they had to make money, because football salaries didn't pay enough and his milk truck -- his truck was selling candies and ice cream, who knows what else, but his truck would say looky, looky, here comes cookie. [laught

jack kemp made a big effort to help blacks. that is true. the party as a whole has been timid.an out of greensboro, north carolina, o'reilly, you rightly blacked jay-z for his comments about americans but then you let colmes praise the president who also branded americans. the problem is that there is a reason for income inequality and that's not being dealt with. mr. o., your reporting on race has been powerful. you do not have to walk in black man's shoes to recognize the problems. the facts walk for you. kathleen from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, bill you should apologize for your comments about sylvia's restaurant aunld i believe your talking points will be seen in a more positive light. i will never apologize kathleen. if you don't understand what i said, i can't help you. steve, o'reilly, police stop your cruel bashing of black people, you even look like the people who did the lynchings 100 years ago. you need to get some help, sir, quickly. bill, your tip that ignore a text is rude was spot on. thanks for keeping it real. that's what we try to do. bill, did not like you for

i'm very supportive of a ronald reagan, jack kemp approach -- >> can i tell you? i love it when people talk icons. here's the deal. how about this. in the national interest right now in the 21st century, you talk about the sovereignty of the nation, the national interest, you secure the borr and i don't mean playing rhetorical games with operational control as has this secretary of the department of homeland security who will soon be leading the university of california system -- >> take a look at the proposal that the congressman fm texas has put forward. i think it's a serious grown-up effort that will secure the border. he's put it forward, it's been passed through the republican committee there. i think that that rather than what the senate did is an improvement. we also need have a guest worker program. talk to farmers and dairy men. they're not able to get the workers they need in this country out to the farms which are temporary jobs. >> i heard exactly the same rhetoric, the same reasoning, the same bromides in 2006 and '07 when it went down in defeat. non

it caused it, and let's hope -- you remember the discussion we had right after steve forbes and jack kemp were on you and i was against that stimulus spending. i think i'm right still to this day. neil: the only thing that stared you then i was on the same page questioning the wisdom of that. >> it was fun being on your team then. >> neil: it was. art laffer, always a pressure having on you, i teal people on the left or right, you're leaking at one of the finest economic minds in the century. >> neil: a lot of people equate him with reagan but he voted for bill clinton and is very agnostic when it comes to those who is spouse policies that help the economy. >> tax cuts i vote for. >> neil: thank you, my trend. i learn a lot from you. >>> we didn't get the cost of the solar panels but are getting a clearer picture of the cost of this healthcare law. word today the administration is spending $67 million to so-called navigators. those navigators are supposed to sign up folks for the healthcare exchanges. are they like goodwill officers? good luck getting young people to sign up because milli

concept of smartphones to some attendees and then in between bloviating about ronald reagan and jack kemphe kept returning to a theme that like smartphones republicans probably should have figured out a very long time ago. >> part of what we have to do in the era of obama's disaster is we have to get beyond being anti-obama and we very to reconvince people you can have hope in america. >> joining us now is krystle ball my colleague and co-host of the "cycle" and brad wood house, a former dnc communications director now president of americans united for change. welcome to you both. krystle, let me repeat that line from mr. gingrich in case you didn't hear it. if the era of obama's disaster, we have to get beyond being anti-obama. so he's terrible and we have to stop saying he's terrible. can this guy hear what he's saying? >> it is amazing that he has to start out by bashing the president before he dk even begin to make a point what the future might hold. but newt might have one important message for them which is how disastrous it was for him and was for republicans in the '90s when he ma

we used to have, you look at individuals that have paved the way for the republican party, like jack kemp. you know, ronald reagan, abe lincoln, teddy roosevelt, imagine them in the meeting this morning when they voted not to have these debates. what would they have said? they probably would have said, what are we doing, guys? what are we doing? why are we tasting time talking about hillary clinton when we have to rebuild our party, when we really need to focus on our own message. so this is one wing of the party that you're talking about that the media is focusing on, but then there is another part that i feel like i'm part of and many other republicans are part of. and we're watching this play out and we're saying, this is not where we need to be. >> but that is what i thought, until there was a unanimous vote at the rnc today to say nbc and cnn can't host republican debates. and there is, i mean, there is a power when it comes to the democratic election and it's the democratic nominee versus the trm nominee. but at the republican primary level, if nbc is going to host a debate or cnn i

too bad jack kemp -- >> but the organizers also dropped the ball here. >> why do you say that? >> because the only african-american united states senator was not invited to speak. >> that's actually not true. in today's news proves that. actually, in fact -- >> ted scott's office said -- >> no, they declined it. >> their office -- >> we'll check that. >> their office and every report i've seen -- >> we've been spending the day trying to figure out who was invited. >> everyone was invited. >> but they were not invited. he was not invited to speak. and there you're right. no, let me make this point. because i get there are two sides of this coin here. >> roll call says he wasn't invited. >> there are two sides of this coin. yes, he was invited like every member of the united states congress house and senate. but if you have the only african-american sitting in the united states senate and you do not ask him to speak at that event, then there is something wrong. >> let try another way. why not the george romney -- can i ask you something? why didn't the party of lincoln ask to com

the president of the jack kemp foundation.f thender and president center for neighborhood enterprises, who who is doing great work all across communities and all across our country. runnersman james since a james of wisconsin's fifth district. not loud enough? there we go. of the oklahoma house of representatives and one of our resume -- are recently- announced republican rising stars. you will see a lot more of him around the country and on television. the frederick douglass foundation. and it is an honor to have numbers of the king family and members of the big five here today. say thank you to the staff of the capitol hill club and everyone at the rnc who made this luncheon possible. especially our own national director for him -- for african- american strategic initiatives, who has done a strategic -- a fantastic job. thank you. our world is better today. i can remember watching with my march the coverage of the and when i was a child i did not fully understand the importance of what i was seeing. i was experiencing someth

my friend the late great jack kemp used to call it helping the lost lambs. >> yeah. >> now, does thatodel work for you in wisconsin? >> 100%. every state's a little different. so what he did in ohio's different than what we're doing in wisconsin but i would totally agree with the premise of that. i want to move people from government dependence to true independence. give you a couple examples of that. what we did under even our medicaid without taking the expansion i took everyone living in poverty in my state for the first time in history, never been done before under democrats, everyone in my state living in poverty going forward will be covered under medicaid. that's ensuring that people truly living in poverty are covered. now, people living above that, above the poverty level, will be transitioned into the marketplace. but everyone living in poverty will be covered. one more good example. in the past people living on food stamps, wisconsin was one of 46 states that had a waiver that didn't require work or employment training to get food stamps. i invested about $17 million in my

the person speaking before me was the honorable jack kemp. and jack was on fire that day. he said, our kids, our kids, and he was talking about the kids in the neighborhood. and an older black woman standing next to me, waiting to go out, just after me, and she iaid, ben, where's he from? said, ma'am, that is jack kemp. i said, where is he from? i know what he did. answer my question. where is he from? i said, ma'am, i do not know, but i do not think it is south- central if that is your question. she said, yeah, i did not think so. she said, whose kids is he i said, i think his point is is that they are all our children because we are all americans, and they are all american children. and she said, huh, and she thought about it. and that is what we need to think about. try it, try it for a week. describing a child you read about in the newspaper, or you wrote about, just to your family, without using all the adjectives, and just say this american kid, our kid, see how hard it is, see how ingrained it is to dehumanize someone who has come into the world perfect, a child, be

jimmy who will speak about the legacy of his father, jack kemp. as a great football quarterback and a hall of fame are. off the field as secretary of hud under president reagan and champion federal urban policies. mp we will have the founder and president of the center for neighborhood enterprises. and also he continues to advocate for the least of these, showing that circumstances at birth do not determine one's destiny. mr. brown, if you will please join us here. thank you. .> thank you, crystal she is a wonderful person and has done a great job. i also appreciate all the work that my colleague rayna jackson, who has been involved in all the this, has done. he is all over the place. 50 years ago, i was here in washington with martin luther king jr., with walker and all the rest of them. clc,s involved in in the s and i did some marching, and i did a lot of other things during that time, during those two or three days we spent here. it was a revelation, and just like 50 years now, it is a revelation all over again. we have so much to thank god fo

thing for us to talk about a .ising tide lifting all boats i am an advocate and was a friend of jack kemp, who very much believed that functional capitalism, creating an enterprise system that raises every boat is vitally important to sustaining, growing, and expanding the opportunities, particularly for minorities in this country. i am an advocate of that. i am prepared, and i think the party needs to be prepared to take it to the next level, and that is actually a new starting point. it is one thing to say a rising tide lifts all boats, you have to have a vote first and if you do not have a boat, when the tide comes in, you drown. that is what we have seen time after time, economic recovery after economic recovery. i think the party has a unique opportunity to talk about how it would create the --ortunity to get the boat to have something that you own, creating ownership society that is built around some core, free principles of how you will invest, how you save, how you spend, how you earn, and how you grow your own personal economy, which feeds into a broader economy. you talk about r

mindsetgot to get to a -- i saw jack kemp so emphatically the tray one day in south-central los angeles he was just saying, all of our children, all of our children, all of our children. clearly talking about the crisis he felt of the young people down the street in a public school in south-central. a black woman said, where is he from? where is he from? i said, ma'am, i don't think he is from south-central, if that is what you're saying. she said, i don't think so, so whose gift is he talking about? i said, ma'am, i think his point is there all our children because we are all citizens of country.t they ultimately belong to all of us. you onnt to hear from this topic as well. jobs? >> is a small example, which is a study was done recently that said if all of the retailers, the big-box retailers, simply waged or raised the lowest wages to the point where a family of three would be over the poverty line, which is about $12 25 cents an hour, in just doing that, it would have taken 1.5 million families out of poverty, created 130,000 new jobs, and cost them one percent of their cost. the id

i saw jack kemp so emphatically portray one day in self central los angeles she was saying all of our children, clearly talking about the crisis of the young people down the street at a school in south-central. another next to me said where is he from? i know who she is. where is he from? i said i don't think he's from self central if that's what you're saying. so his kids -- whose kids are talking about? they are all our children because we are all citizens of this great country and they belong to all of us and that is the place we have to go to. >> i do want to hear from you, delia on this topic as >> most of the study said that if all of the retailer's, big box retailers simply raise the lowest wages to the point a family of three would be over the poverty line which is about $12.25 per hour. just doing that it would take 1.5 million americans out of poverty, created 100,000 new jobs and cost 1% of their cost. so the idea that we are in a permanent low opportunity letter economy is the most devastating thing and it hurts a reasonable person. people of color absolutely is the most b