this is why i'm a jack kemp ronald reagan conservative. >> you can see more with my interview on our web site, meetthepressnbc.com.

the speaker: jack kemp was my mentor. he along with many other house republicans pushed a progrowth economic agenda that was the right and it out -- right antidote for the years. that and wed up on got reaganomics, we got huge tax relief, we got great taxi warm, we had incredible prosperity in addition to stronger military. i think that kind of combination we as a party -- that is what i'm looking forward to assembling. house republicans helping a nominees -- helping nominees you the last thing we do is sit around and wait until then. know we want to go after the cronyism. we know we want faster economic growth. we want to get at the root cause of the military. wewe know these things, so should tell people what it looks like, how we get those things. these are unifying things within our party and the conservative movement. we believe that will help propel the nominee, whoever it is going to be, but help us win in the final election. >> the possibility of a july nominee, how worried are you about a deadlocked convention? >

marco rubio read a biography of jack kemp. what's the latest book hillary clinton read? "rogue lawyer" and donald trump is reading "killing reagan" and also said he read killing patton as well. >> ash carter defending president obama's strategy against isis while admitting that the strategy at the same time i don't know how he does this, its failed to contain isis. but he did say he thinks we're building momentum against the islamic terror group. that didn't sit too well with chairman john mccain. >> we're not winning this war and the time is not on our side. americans have never been more worried about being attacked than any time since the months that followed september 11th, 2001. >> what is carter doing to turn the tide? listen to this. >> i personally reached out to my counterparts in 40 countries around the world in the coalition and asked them to contribute more, in many cases contribute much more to enhancing the fight against isil. >> monica for the washington times and fox news contributor, ash carter saying he defends president obama's strategy to take out isi

the hawkeye marching band is practicing here at jack kemp stadium on the campus of occidental college and for these nearly 250 hawkeyes, a trip to the rose bowl is a dream come true. "it's, it's surreal." in less than 48 hours matt reiland and the rest of the hawkeye marching band will live out a fantasy most musicians can only dream of, marching in the tournament of roses parade in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators and a tv audience of millions. "if you told me i'd be in the rose bowl when i joined the university of iowa as a freshman i wouldn't have believed you at all." the junior from solon says it's an honor to wear iowa across his chest and fellow band member ben hicklan took his hawkeye pride to a whole new level. "i started off last year with just the tigerhawk and i've done it for other occasions. i'm like, i got hair on my chest, why not embrace it." while there's plenty of fun to be had, this is serious business. the band puts in throughout the year and is spending a ton of time this week trying to make their performance on friday as perfect as possible. "represe

i used to work for jack kemp, who talks about compassion in conservatism. do you think we as a party has become too angry and have lost compassion? gov. christie: no, i just think we don't talk about it enough. we have not lost it. it is in the heart of every person i know who works hard for the party. the compassion is there. we need to talk about it. sometimes we are ashamed to talk about it. i'm not. i'm pro-life. we i think as a party, should start talking a lot more about that time after that first nine months. edb to be pro-life when they are in the womb. -- it is easy to be pro-life when they are in the womb. they have done nothing to disappoint as yet. [laughter] when they come out, a gets a lot more complicated. i want to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addicted girl in lockup. her life is a gift from god. i want to be pro-life for the 42-year-old lawyer, who got killers to pain and alcohol, and lost his law license, lost his family, lost is a preciouslife gift from god. being pro-life is the most compassionate thing you can be, but we allow o

in any case, i would like to see a paul ryan or somebody else, i was hoping jack kemp could do this in6 as a running mate, unfortunately, the way our campaigns are set up now if you've got a good idea as a vice president who cares. you're just supposed to be over there to fill in on the engagements where the top of the ticket can't appear. there's sort of a suppression of possible ideas that are outside of the normal matrixes that we set up on the political right and political left. so i would like to see some way that -- well, this is constantly a task that i have to deal with as a journalist trying to put a spot light on good stories out there and generate some public conversation anti-about them. it would be so much easier if we had -- if civil society had ts donald trump, its candidate who is out to promote not just themselves but actually to promote some real ideas that need to be talked about. buddy chuck my todd said love him or hate him he's got us talking about immigration. we say editorial in the newspaper where i work said the same thing. others don't want to talk about it.

he succeeded jack kemp. newt gingrich seceded him as the house republican whip.ved among giants in american politics. he is one himself. he left the house to become our defense secretary. he went on to serve as the president of the upper chamber which we and has prefer to call, that other chamber. then he was never heard from again. i think one thing people forget about vice president cheney is that he is a funny guy. i study the debates because i had my on presidential debate and if you remember, the 2000 vice presidential debate, he is up against joe lieberman peerage joe lieberman is talking over the boom times under president clinton and he says, i am pleased to see dick that you are better off than you were eight years ago. i can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it. joe lieberman continues, i can see my wife and i think she is thinking, gee, i wish we could go into the private sector without missing a beat -- dick cheney says, i'm going to try to help you do that, joe. this runs in the family. years later, when the vice presiden

i was raised by jack kemp. he was my political mentor, the best happy warrior i knew.hat is what i think inspires the country. my whole message was we as conservatives should not go down the path of playing identity politics. we should practice unifying politics, inclusive politics, inspirational politics. that means an optimistic agenda. we believe in our principles that make this country great. it just goes to say that if we take these principles we believe in, liberty, freedom, free enterprise self-determination, , the bill of rights, apply those principles to offer innovative solutions that fix problems that people are confronting every day, that our country is facing, so we can make the country better and restore confidence in this nation. that's something to be happy about and something to unify and win converts to this cause, and win an election and get this done. we need a mandate election to break us out of the slog and it can only be won if you present an agenda to the country, straightforward, honest and if you win that election, then you have the moral auth

and that surprised a lot of people in the day and this is certainly the kind of thing my old boss jack kemp would do. so the fact that donald trump is doing this i think is a very good thing? charles, a, do you think this is good and there is this disconnect between trump saying a few days ago maybe a black lives matter protester deserved to get roughed up and trying to do a cell on this or saying he has wide spread support. >> i don't know what this is to be honest about it because i think that any person regardless of kind of religious affiliation or race has a right to endorse whoever they want, however, to come to a person like, you know, mr. trump who has said some incredibly negative, even vile things not only about african americans but about immigrants and about muslims, about women and this is not just about this cycle. anybody who has any kind of historical memory or a search engine can find all of the things that mr. trump has said about people who -- kind of ways to marginalize people and disappoi disappoidi disappoi disappoidi disappoint soesuate is a level i have not achieved

jack kemp, ronald reagan, that's a personal view, i take a look at things. >> do you wish the campaignwere more optimistic? >> i think that happens after the primary. i think these people are trying to distinguish themselves. remember the obama primary, that was pretty rough. you're a student of this. i think that phase will change in the general election. but in the meantime, those of us in congress, those of us deeply worried about the direction of our country, but who are excited about our ideas, and the potential we have for our country, are happy about moving on with the kind of conversation we need to have with our fellow citizens about how to fix problems, real solutions and that's what i'm looking forward to. and that's why we're happy and optimistic. >> and still ahead on "mtp daily," donald trump demands an apology from hillary clinton after she calls him isis's best recruiter. see how clinton is responding today. but first, jane wells as the cnbc market wrap. >> hi, steve, thanks. stocks beginning the short trading week higher. the dow climbing 123. the s&p adds 15 and the n

is about ideas-- ryan is a student of political philosophy-- influenced by his mentor, the late jack kempw free markets and tax cuts as the best antidotes to poverty; and ayn rand-- the divisive author who stressed individualism. ryan is an admirer but has been careful to say he doesn't fully embrace her philosophy. he is a boot-straps conservative setting out to retool not just the republican house, but the republican agenda itself. >> put together a positive agenda, and take it to the american people. give the people the choice they are yearning for. >> reporter: but as ryan aims to win american's confidence, democrats say he is dangerous. >> ...he is more hard-edged, ideologically, than speaker boehner was. speaker boehner was a rock-red conservative. paul ryan had sharper ideological edges. >> reporter: congressman chris van hollen may be the democrat who knows ryan the best-- after four years of working as his democratic counterpart on the houseudget committee. van hollen says ryan's agenda is extreme, including a medicare plan that would end the senior health care program as it exis

he succeeded jack kemp. newt gingrich seceded him as the house republican whip. he moved among giants in american politics. he is one himself. he left the house to become our defense secretary. he went on to serve as the president of the upper chamber which we and has prefer to call, that other chamber. then he was never heard from again. think one thing people forget about vice president cheney is that he is a funny guy. i study the debates because i had my on presidential debate and if you remember, the 2000 vice presidential debate, he is up against joe lieberman peerage joe lieberman is talking over the boom times under president clinton and he says, i am pleased to see dick that you are better off than you were eight years ago you canada january's, i can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it. continues, i can see my wife and i think she is thinking, g, i wish we could go into the private sector without missing a beat -- dick cheney says, i'm going to try to help you do that, joe. runs in the family. years later, when the vice crit

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this is why i'm a jack kemp ronald reagan conservative. >> you can see more with my interview on ourite, meetthepressnbc.com. when we come back, the big battle that emerged in the republican party this week, marco rubio versus ted cruz. is it >>> what a show! nbc and telemundo jose diaz-balart, maggie haberman, doris kearns goodwin and hugh hewitt, who has been the must-do for every presidential contender. doris, i want to go to this marco rubio/ted cruz fight because i'm -- i want you to go to teddy roosevelt for me a bit. are we seeing a splintering of what conservatism is when you're watching rubio beat cruz or this just a personal spat? >> i mean, there's something that's personal in terms of two sons of immigrants the same age, the jealousy, that visceral sense, i'm the one, not you the one. but clearly there's a big difference between their views on interventionism and nativism, their views on immigration. i mean, the thing you realize when you look at where we were right after romney lost and the republican party was talking about how are we going to get the hispanics back? ru

i used to work for jack kemp who talked about compassionate conservati conservatism. do you think we as a party have become too angry and have lost the compassion? >> no. i just don't think we talk about our compassion enough. we haven't lost it. the compassion's in the heart of every person that i know who works hard for this party. the compassion is there. we need to talk about it. sometimes we're ashamed to talk about it. i'm not. see, i'm pro-life. but i think as a party we should start talking a heck of a lot more about that period of time after that first nine months. see, it's easy to be pro-life when they're in the womb. they've done nothing to disappoint us yet. when they come out, when they come out, it gets a lot more complicated, doesn't it? see, i want to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addicted teenage girl on the floor of the county lockup. her life is an individual gift from god. i want to be pro-life for the 42-year-old lawyer who got addicted to painkillers and alcohol. and lost his law license, lost his family, lost his job, lost his home. his

stay with local 5 for the latest in kemp's death. jack: in spencer, the high school wrestling team there is still dealing with a teammate who tragically passed away last weekend. austin roberts collapsed during a wrestling tournament and died at a hospital. some of austin's teammates took time to share their memories and to celebrate a young man who they describe as their brother. coaches say it hasn't been easy for the boys emotionally, but they're depending on one another to help get through it. ""they're together in this and nobody else knows what they're going through other than each other. and it's created a little bit of a bond in our already tight family." jack: a kind soul, willing to help others and able to get along with just about anyone. robert's autopsy just started earlier today, so it's not clear yet what caused his death. jack: still to come on local 5 news at 10. woman says, " greatful, very greatful. we have four kids here and jeez, this is wonerful, guys, thank you." jack: a secret santa drops off a bunch of money and a

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the speaker: jack kemp was my mentor. jack was my mentor. lots of books have been written about this. he, along with many other house growthcans, pushed april -- a progrowth agenda that was the right antidote for the malaise. ronald reagan picked up on that agenda, championed that into the general election, and we got reaganomics. we got tax relief, tax so i think that is the kind of combination we as a party hope to build upon. want a house republican for nominee? speaker ryan: i want house republicans helping the nominee before the nominee arrives. the last thing we should do is sit around and wait. we know who we are, we know what we believe in. we know we want to have a solution for the debt. we want faster economic growth. we want to reignite economic growth. we want a stronger national security posture. we know these things. we should tell people what it looks like, how we get those things. these are unifying things within our party. we believe it will help propel not only the nominee but help us win. mike: last question. of a julyilit

he succeeded jack kemp. newt gingrich seceded him as the house republican whip.among giants in american politics. he is one himself. he left the house to become our defense secretary. he went on to serve as the president of the upper chamber which we and has prefer to call, that other chamber. then he was never heard from again. [laughter] i think one thing people forget about vice president cheney is that he is a funny guy. i study the debates because i had my on presidential debate and if you remember, the 2000 vice presidential debate, he is up against joe lieberman peerage joe lieberman is talking over the boom times under president clinton and he says, i am pleased to see dick that you are better off than you were eight years ago. i can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it. joe lieberman continues, i can see my wife and i think she is thinking, gee, i wish we could go into the private sector without missing a beat -- dick cheney says, i'm going to try to help you do that, joe. this runs in the family. years later, when the vice p

bob woodson's guidance doing a great job of going out doing something i missing anybody to since jack kemp and that's go after before he start telling people, what you going to tell them come listen to them. find out what's on their minds. how are they kidding with these problems. going out into real civil society in the old admin burkean consents which is conservatism. but developing civil society, churches, schools and institutions at the grassroots. when i was despairing in chicago of all but insurmountable problems we got out of there. in any case before i go on too long, which may be too late for that already, but one thing about bob, what abraham maslow said, the only tool you have iss a hammer. all the problems look like nails. i am immensely frustrated as a longtime political, social, journalist over how our language fails us or our language fails us in defining problems and diagnosing the problems and coming up with answers. it is essentially two of our political language. i'm of a mind that i think about scaling up and replicating the wonderful programs and policies that i've see

i was raised by jack kemp. he was my political mentor, the best happy warrior i knew. that is what i think inspires the country. my whole message was we as conservatives should not go down the path of playing identity politics. we should practice unifying politics, inclusive politics, inspirational politics. that means an optimistic agenda. we believe in our principles that make this country great. it just goes to say that if we take these principles we believe in, liberty, freedom, free enterprise self-determination, , the bill of rights, apply those principles to offer innovative solutions that fix problems that people are confronting every day, that our country is facing, so we can make the country better and restore confidence in this nation. that's something to be happy about and something to unify and win converts to this cause, and win an election and get this done. we need a mandate election to break us out of the slog and it can only be won if you present an agenda to the country, straightforward, honest and if you win that election, then you have the moral au

enterprise zones natural for the candidates to say look what i have got lower tax rate enterprise zones jack kempectacular, if some candidates would demograpaddrese issues huge amounts of reserves on assets on federal government could reduce national debt dramatically the capital i point to is camp pendleton if you look at camp pendleton 500,000 dollars an acre 60 billion dollars right there one piece of property in, southern california. >> you are sig sell government owned property. >> also the gold reserve non has seen it 30 years why holding that? >> oil reserves get them out of the business, and really reduce that national debt you've got so many things to do, and am necessity attack am necessary thee a new tax plan, tax am necessity program could bresh are bringing in 250, 350 billion dollars. >> we can't get tax reform on docket. >> that is true you can't wul get it on the docket, believe me, these are things that should be done, i mean tort reform do you know how much money can be saved in this economy with tort reform kris cox is master of tort reform programs we could do with tort reform

we win ideas elections. >> the other 1980 parallel, jack jack kemp -- speaker ryan: jack was my mentor. he along with many other house republicans pushed a pro-growth economic agenda. that was the right antidote for the malaise, the stagflation of the carter years. ronald reagan picked up on that agenda and we got reaganomics. we got huge tax relief, tax reform, great prosperity, in addition to a stronger military and winning the cold war. i think that's the kind of combination that we as a party hope to build upon, that's the kind of agenda our members are looking forward to. >> you want house republicans to -- speaker ryan: i want house republicans helping their nominee before their nominee arrives. we may not get a nominee until june or july. we know who we are, we know what we want to do. we want to go after cronyism, go after debt, we want to reignite upward mobility and get at the root cause of povertism we know we want a stonger military and more secure national security posture. we know these things. so we should tell people what it looks like. how we get those things, run thos

claire/bam: jack, the metro star dive team recovered 17 kemps from a pond around afternoon. kemp was a junior at scavo high school here in des moines. yesterday, officials found his cell phone near the water and cadaver dogs also followed a trail that led to the edgeof the pond where kemp was found. "weve been out here every single day. this isnt the outcome we wanted, we still want answers, wanna know how" around 12:15, not even three hours into the expanded search for missing 17 year old sammy kemp- divers discovered his body in a pond outside of granger. police and family say kemp left a party at this duplex off highway 141 on saturday night and hadnt been seen or heard from since. "cadaver dogs and they did indicate positively near the edge of the pond. trainers were confident there were remains in the pond. " 16 departments, cadaver dogs, divers and search planes were part of the search. cell phone wednesday afternoon, just feet from the water. when kemp's body was found, family was seen holing each other. "loved his family, doing things with family. he called himself a

jack miller. stephanie has the night off. tonight, the search is over for missing des moines teenager sam kemp. he was reportemissing sunday morning after he didn't return from a party in granger. this afternoon, a body was found in a pond near the last place he was seen. jack: in tonight's big story, police confirm that body is kemp's. local 5's claire powell reports. "weve been out here every single day. this isnt the outcome we wanted, we still want answers, wanna know how" around 12:15, not even three hours into the expanded search for missing 17 year old sammy kemp- divers discovered his body in granger.

jack: and a memorial will be held tomorrow for des moines teenager sam kemp. he was found dead in a granger pond last night after he disappeared last weekend. the candle light service will be held at 2301 forest avenue at 4:30 p.m. jack: coming up on local 5 news at 10... flooding at water works park shut down the make a wish foundation's jolly holiday santa is stepping in to help. jack: then -- a battle of the state's top teams in girl's basketball tonight. and there could be only one winner. brad: ((ad lib weather toss)) ""monday on good morning iowa... we hit the ground running with only a few days left until christmas...taking a look at some unique and different gift ideas for those last minutes presents. plus... a look at your forecast ((:04 wx ad-lib)) that's tomorrow on the all-new good morning iowa! " angleson, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist brad edwards and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. this is local 5 news at 10. we are iowa." brad: weather adlib: our weekend is going to start off with a real chill i

jack: now to a family still looking for answers into their son's death. the family of des moines teenager sam kemp wants to know how the 17 year old ended up dead in a pond between granger and grimes last week. whether it was his fault or someone else's. kemp was at a party in granger on the weekend of december 12th and ran off when police came. it took 16 local search agencies to find kemp's body in a pond last thursday. an autopsy was done. but kemp's family is asking for another one and for more answers from police, with a protest over at the polk county sheriff's office tonight. jack: two des moines girls got a surprise this afternoon, just in time for christmas. jack: it's the last day of school before the holiday break for des moines students, and elementary students celebrated it with an assembly this afternoon. but for sisters lilly and olivia grubbs, it turned out to be more. take a look. "suprise nats i knew i was going to get them for christmas so it started off i was going to suprise them in their classroom then teacher found out then the principal found out then news found out so it w

jack: the search is over for a missing des moines teenager after police pull his body from a pond in granger this afternoon. police say 17 year old sam kemp left a party in granger on saturday night and was never seen or heard from again. his family reported him missing sunday. and after five days of searching, the metro star dive team found his body in a pond just outside of granger. his family positively identified his body at the scene. " "this familys going to need prayer nad assistance. no mother should have to bury their child, no ones ever prepared for that"" jack: there's a memorial fund you'll find that on our website, we are iwoa dot com jack: a hunter out looking for deer found someone dead in the woods yesterday afternoon just north of oskaloosa officers are now trying to figure out who it is. they sent the body to the state medical examiner's office. stay with local 5 for the latest in this investigation. jack: now to a des moines family we all know well, but just haven't met. until tonight. it's the family that got caught up in an awful double murder two and a half weeks ago. heather belieu and bryon howard were shot inside