and try to shackle jeanne shaheen to that. his challenge is going to be that she's a -- you know, she's a three-term governor there. she's the only woman to be elected senator and governor, across the country historically. so, he's got a tough job, but he's going to sort of ride the personality thing and the truck you've seen has 286,000 miles on it now, he'll push that personality thing and try to overwhelm her with that. >> this is the third race in a row that scott brown will be running against a female candidate. folks would argue he did well against coakley, elizabeth warren he did get in trouble with the native american issue as well as calling her professor which some found demeaning. scott brown against jeanne shaheen, could he run into any problems running against a female especially with the democrats championing equal pay legislation this week and really trying to double down the woman's vote? >> i think it's important to note that shaheen is the only female candidate he's picked. he didn't pick martha coakley or el

figuring that jeanne shaheen would probably get reelected. she was beating them all handily in the polls. right now the polls show this race is basically tied between ,cott brown and jeanne shaheen should scott brown become the republican nominee, though you have to give the slight edge right now to jeanne shaheen. i am not sure that these polls mean anything. the campaign has not even begun yet. host: going forward, what group do you see having the most influence in this race? statewide race, or do you see outside groups, outside the state playing a role? no question that outside groups will be playing a huge role here. control of the u.s. senate is what we are talking about here, not just new hampshire. the key dynamic to watch is whether or not the race is simply about the affordable care act. scott brown in his speech tonight will make a lot of points about the affordable care act and say this race is about this one issue and this one issue only. but it is pretty unpopular in new hampshire, about 40% of folks, some less than that, saying

this is jeanne shaheen in a radio news interview.he said, i think there are important things about the affordable care act that are working and working very well. i think we need to fix the things that are not working and that's what i'm committed to. i would have designed it differently if i had been designing it. unfortunately, i wasn't the person who was writing the law. i think hindsight is always 20/20. you always know you could have done better. to me that's not a ringing endorsement to get people out there to vote. >> that's legislation 101. that's how we have handled laws and their evolution throughout american history. the president is right and jeanne shaheen is right. we have a law that is working. 8 million people have gained health care coverage as a result of signing up for the affordable care act plan. 129 people with pre-existing conditions no longer have to be worried about being dropped and denied coverage. i'm one of them as a breast cancer survivor. you have millions of seniors paying lower costs on their prescrip

. >> and let me bring in senator jeanne shaheen from new hampshire. senator, good to see you. >> morning. >> let me pick up on what we were just talking about, and that is the republican pushback about whether or not the pay gap is really 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, because you saw this morning in the "wall street journal," they made the argument that it is a myth. in fact, there is, that's not the right gap. and it argues that the men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and the pay gap widens when marriage and children enter the picture, because they return to the workforce with less experience of men with the same age, and they go on the say that the administration's claims regarding the gender gap pay are faulty and it is making it easier for the women to sue employers for equal play is goi going to create a greater dissensitive for women to be hired. >> well, women make up half of the workforce and the reality is whether it is 77 cents or higher or lower, the fact is that there is a gap between what m

hampshire, though, it did get awkward that all of his tweets about new hampshire and jeanne shaheen were coming from his twitter account which was scott brown massachusetts. so he had to change his twitter account to senator scott brown. that, however, has not stopped a continuing pattern of the former senator getting confused about where he is, where he is running for office now and some of the basics about the state he now wants to call home, which is called new hampshire. democrats have very much enjoyed, for example, circulating pictures of his famous scott brown truck still having massachusetts license plates, even after he claimed to have moved north. the democratic pac american bridge sent a tracker to follow him around so they could get him on tape having signature unforced scott brown moments of confusion about even simple questions like where it is he's running for office. >> when i've heard from the republicans up here is thankful i've been around for a year helping them raise money, helping them raise awareness as to the issues that are affecting not only people here in

the president is right and jeanne shaheen is right.e have a law that is working. 8 million people have gained health care coverage as a result of signing up for the affordable care act plan. 129 people with pre-existing conditions no longer have to be worried about being dropped and denied coverage. i'm one of them as a breast cancer survivor. you have millions of seniors paying lower costs on their prescription drugs, and these are the things that republicans are obsessed with taking away and focused on going everything they can to block president obama at every turn even if it means hurting the middle class while at the same time you have our candidates, our incumbents like jeanne shaheen and mary landrieu who understand this is a law that's working for millions of people and as we discover there are problems, we should work together -- >> but you're making the argument on the merits as the president is doing, but what you've got is something that's opaque, as david shribman was saying, the publisher in pittsburgh, a lot of people si

. >> jeanne shaheen. jeanne shaheen. wow.e shaheen talks about how much she supports our veterans. any veterans in the room? can you stand up for me, please? ladies and gentlemen, our veterans. [applause] thank youegularly, for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. i appreciate it. version ofshaheen's helping veterans as the votes that takes their support away. if you know a veteran, you need to have that conversation with them. you know as a business owner, i see the struggles our state continues to have. our economy is still stuck in the mud. and i submit to you this is something we can change. facingllenges we are in the state of the have today are legislatively controlled. that is my mom. tell her i said hi. virginiaee states like , tennessee had a great congressman from tennessee -- wyoming, texas, northern south dakota -- north and south dakota. we see some states where the economy is growing and thriving and doing well. in new hampshire, solely as a result of legislative action, we continue to be challenged. but

jeanne shaheen challenged him to take that pledge.ally laughed it off when he's been asked about it. it looks like he has no intention of following that same pledge. do you think he attributes his loss in 2012 in massachusetts to not having that outside republican money? and if he does, is that a fair interpretation of why he lost in 2012? >> no, that's not a fair interpretation. he had plenty of money. huge amounts of money. more money was spent in that race by multiples than we have ever seen in massachusetts. it was incredible what warren and brown were able to bring in. and they didn't need super pacs up there. and i think he's not going to have that much problems raising his own money. he's got a national network. he's still a political rock star in some circles nationally, but having super pacs come in will help him. it will be effective and it's going to wash all over massachusetts again because they are going to be using the boston media market and we'll be watching it a great race up there. >> the bst on to tv stations are pr

let me just assure you, jeanne shaheen will make short work of that. [applause] i can imagine no voters in the country, live free or die, you're going to come into our state, tell us you're going to represent us, and i thought, really interesting. really interesting. so i don't know what it is -- [inaudible] >> i feel like the one thing you want to watch about that move is, who is behind it and for what reason related to the presidential election coming up. so i think that is an important thing to watch for. my crystal ball stops there. the d.c. mayor's race, where the mayor -- and it's unclear to me from the left coast what exactly was underneath this. it always troubles me when law enforcement officers bring charges so close to an election, and most wisely don't. i think a lot of information came out late in that election, and a woman council member beat a sitting mayor running for reelection. there have been in the last months in various pockets of our country romanelli in my own, unfortunate scandals. not really scandals, just crimes, people charge

jeanne shaheen world. this is the hillary clinton world. it secretary clinton decided she was going to run, she will be the leading example of a prison guard of the past rapidly protecting every element of her system. that is what they build up. you come in with a brand-new idea. think about this. current model that we have accepted at every level of government of the civil service bureaucratic system was invented about the same time as a manual typewriter. around 1870 or 1880. people will tell you they will reform the pentagon or the department of labor. what they actually mean is they will get a slightly better manual typewriter. said. there is a remarkable passage in november. the president was trying to explain why the website didn't work. all these people ask me why we could do such a great job in the campaign but not the government. i don't did you listen to his own answer. the wealthiest and most successful entrepreneurs in america. he could have said would you form an advisory group so we do not look like total idiots? what he would

scott brown is now running for senate in new hampshire, of course, against incumbent democrat jeanne shaheenis campaign is turning the fact that he's a carpet bagger around own shaheen. >> she represents the ideology and the policies of the radical left wing of the democratic party. that's how she votes. she votes with elizabeth warren. she votes with markey. she is the third senator from massachusetts. >> smart line and real hardball by mark sununu. we'll see if that one works. i think it's going to be a close race up there. brown shales shaheen but only by half a dozen points. >> welcome back to "hardball." republicans are fighting back against one of the democrats' perceived advantages politically, support among women voter ps president obama had an 11-point lead over mitt romney in 2012 and their last 2012 election autopsy -- that was a bad word -- republicans called it an imperative fact to reverse that. now they say they have a plan. the national committee plans a new initiative. 14 and 14 to recruit and train rim under age 40 in the final 14 weeks of the campaign. they are encouraging

if he wins the republican primary, he would face incumbent democrat jeanne shaheen in the fall. >>> tennesseehe united nations to stay away. and what's wrong with the cover of the rolling stone? we'll tell you next in the grapevine. 25 gigabytes of cloud storage to connect all the content you love. unlimited talk. and unlimited international messaging. all so your family can do more-- for less. our best plans. on the best network. for best results, use verizon. >>> march madness ended monday with connecticut winning the ncaa championship, but one senator staged his own tournament. arizona republican jeff flake created the elite eight of government waste competition where voters advance the best of the worst through the bracket. the winner of being the biggest loser of taxpayer money? this command and control facility in afghanistan, a waste of $34 million according to an ig report, military commanders said they did not need the facility before it was even built. it has never and will never be used by the u.s. some other less than honorable mentions are $5 million on state department glass ste

and in new hampshire, jeanne shaheen is a differentincumbentn the democratic side and she is separating from the issue, and she over 50%, and by right now she is leading by a comfortable margin. >> and david, tell us about the importance of the independent vote especially in the midterm. >> in this election it is going to be huge. it is going to be minus 18 among republicans, and when you look at the states that president obama won by less than 10%, colorado, pennsylvania, virginia and florida and where the margins were less than 6%, it is a huge issue, because you don't have that personal popularity, and the job approval where barack obama can kind of eke his own favorability and translate it to democratic candidates, and right now, what we are seeing is the democratic candidates separating themselves from the president on this issue. >> all right. we will leave it right there. thank you very much, david. >>> and the surge in the obamacare enrollments may have a reason, because tax preparers were paid a bounty to sign them up, and guess where it comes from? you and me. california recei

jeanne shaheen, by the way, was born in missouri. scott brown was virtually born in new hampshire?like he virtually knows how to relate to new mexico voters? -- new hampshire voters? >> what i heard from prups is they're thankful i've been around to help them raise money, helping them raise awareness for issues for people of massachusetts -- i mean new hampshire. >> uh-oh. he virtually doesn't know what state he's in. scott brown may have virtually been born in new hampshire, but he was literally born in maine. oops! did john sununu and scott brown wouldn't think they're living in a virtual reality? nice try, but we gotcha. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? cut! [bell ri

the issue has already cropped up in the senate campaign for incumbents kay haguen and jeanne shaheen as well as challengers in georgia and kentucky. lily ledbetter, the name sake of the women's rights bill the president signed back in 2009 has endorsed grimes and put her name on e-mails to donors. ledbetter will be on hand today, boy the way, at the white house as the president signs those executive orders. now, back in washington, the dsec is launching a gop pay gap campaign to attack republicans over the wage issue. make no mistake, the white house is fully involved in this campaign as well. the president has held about half a dozen events focused on women and girls this year. there are several more on economic opportunity. even mentioning equal pay in his state of the union address. all of this is a clear sign the administration is going all in on this issue of closing the wage gap in an attempt to gain some traction before the midterms. the effort hit a bit of a bump on monday when critics brought up a study by a conservative group claiming that the white house had its own wage g

scott brown is now running for senate in new hampshire, of course, against incumbent democrat jeanne shaheenis campaign is turning the fact that he's a carpet bagger around own shaheen. >> she represents the ideology and the policies of the radical left wing of the democratic party. that's how she votes. she votes with elizabeth warren. she votes with markey. she is the third senator from massachusetts. >> smart line and real hardball by mark sununu. we'll see if that one works. i think it's going to be a close race up there. brown shales shaheen but only by half a dozen points. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the nissan altima with nasa inspired zero gravity seats. ♪ let it take the weight off your drive. ♪ ♪ nissan. innovation that excites. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you! unh! it's so beautiful! man: should we call security? no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progress

she has pulled in $40 million, and by the way, she is helping jeanne shaheen raise money in new hampshire there against her former rival scott brown there, and not bad to get support for a future run, right? >> and it is clear that she has strong ties particularly to donor classes and liberal enclaves, and for example hillary clinton is going to be making a stop in boston to give a speech, and media reports that people are not necessarily excited to see her on the democratic side, because they are so loyal to elizabeth warren, and it is interesting, because she has donated so much money to the vulnerable democratic incumbents, mary landrieu, and mark begich, and it is clear that the democratic party is counting on her to be in the weeds not only making strong arguments against republican policy positions, and republican figures like paul ryan, but also speeding up that donation process and making sure that the donors are excited about the races. >> but can she raise $1 billion? >> well, it is a good question. i don't know about that, and so far the numbers are not there for her, but as ma

>> you know, all i can say is he's gog have his hands full with jeanne shaheen. she's good. she's good. >> rose: it is also said you have become the great hero of the left in american politics. is that accurate? >> you know, i think that's-- that's pundit talk. what i do believe is true, though -- >> regardless of where it comes from, is it true? >> what i believe is true is that there are a set of issues we have to stand up and fight now. this goes back to this core notion of the rich and powerful are calling the shots in washington. they've got money. they've got power. all we've got on our side is our voices and our votes. and so it's time to level that playing field. consumer agency. good first start. but there's a whole lot more we need to do. in fact, let me tell you a key one. colleges. it starts with me. my $50 college. today, most kids who are going off to college do not come from family where's somebody can just write a check and pay for college. so the united states government comes in and says we'll send you the money. i think that's great. i think that's what th

but the governor at the time, jeanne shaheen, vetoed it, left the death penalty in place. the house voted for repeal but the senate wouldn't go along with it. by that time the man who killed michael briggs was on death row in new hampshire. and officer briggs' partner john breckinridge would soon testify to a state panel against getting rid of capital punishment. a few months ago activists in new hampshire started again trying to push for a repeal. the fight was led by a state lawmakers whose own father and brother-in-law had both been murdered. last month the giant new hampshire house voted to repeal the death penalty by more than two to one, democrats control that chamber but the vote in the house was very bipartisan with support from lawmakers who have talked openly about having changed their minds on this issue. explaining how they evolved from supporting the death penalty in the past to now just being unable to justify it any longer. that vote in the house in new hampshire was two to one, never sentenced -- never to sentence anybody to death in new hampshire ever agai

let me assure you, jeanne shaheen will make short work of that. [applause] i can imagine no voters in the -- you, live free or die are going to come into our state, tell us you are going to represent us. i thought, really interesting. is --ot know what it >> i am sorry. it worked for hillary clinton. >> the one thing you want to watch about that move is, who is behind it? and for what reason related to the presidential election coming up? i think that is an important thing to watch for. my crystal ball stops there. , where theyor's race mayor -- it is unclear to me, from the left coast, what exactly was underneath this. it always troubles me when law enforcement officers bring charges so close to an election. i think a lot of information came out late in that election. and a woman councilmember beat the sitting mayor running for reelection. in the lasteen, months, in various pockets of our country, prominently in my own, unfortunate scandals. not really scandals. just crimes. just people charged with crimes. i know the mayor of charlotte was indic

jeanne shaheen says "thoughts are with boston and all those struck by tragedy a year ago today." rennacci.an jim mora >> there is an old saying that victory has 100 fathers. i would not be surprised if information is poured in in regard to the recent activities. >> talking about the facts and the interrogation last week of the committee, senator goldwater asked questions about the use of the carrier aircraft, with the markings painted out. we figure somebody over there told them about the thing wednesday morning. therefore it is going to spring it and they are going to spring it in such a way it looks like it was u.s. air cover and you were wrong and i was wrong in saying there was not. ofaudio from the aftermath the u.s.-backed attempt to overthrow fidel castro. saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span radio. on 90.1 fm,n dc online, and on xm radio 120. day, we hope you got your return and on-time. we spoke with a reporter about efforts in congress to reform the tax code. after which we will take you to the memorial for the boston victims of the bombing. that is coming up at 12:4

jeanne shaheen voted for the affordable care act, and now the exchange -- the insurance policies availablee, the obamacare exchange in the state of new hampshire, do not include most of the hospitals in the state. there's only one hospital in the state out of, i think, 13 or 14 that's covered by that health care policy. jon: yeah. >> so people are having to drive literally hours to get to a hospital that's covered by their insurance policy. they're not happy about that, and they'll express that unhappiness this fall. jon: you just can't use it anywhere nearby. >> right. and we're likely to see a round of premium increases this fall. remember, the people who have signed up are disproportionately older. the administration did not come close at all to the 40% target it had fur enrolling -- for enrolling people in the exchanges under 35. they wanted four out of every ten to be under the age of 35. it looks like it's basically one out of four, not four out of ten, and as a result, the actuaries at those insurance companies are going to be figuring the premiums and deduct deductibles for next ye

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in the latest poll that we came out with from the university of new hampshire chose jeanne shaheen upy six percentage points. fundamentally scott brown is more disliked than likely new hampshire. caller: i guess this is called --host: i guess this is called job security in new hampshire. [laughter] thank you for getting up early i appreciate your being with us. we want your calls and comments on all of this. what does it mean for the republicans and the democrats? we are already getting some of your comments on our twitter page. host: from our facebook page there is this -- host: kevin is joining us from merriam, massachusetts democratic line, good morning. caller: good morning. i think we need some conservative values. some pro-candidates in the republican party. either rubio or, i don't know, any other fiscally conservative to just take us out of this mess . we have had this stagnation for years. people have lost their homes lost jobs. you know, what is the answer? we need a republican candidate to whip us out of this mess we are in right now. i mean, the democratic party in my area

. >> but is this really an uphill battle for him to be able to unseat the democrat jeanne shaheen?race. he's going to spend a lot. he's going to force democrats to spend a lot. but you're setup pointed to his problem. he's officially lived in new hampshire for all of four months. and that's partly why he went through that trip that he did of the sugar house and all the other places he's been in new hampshire. but to them he's a come here. there's a lot of voters in southern new hampshire who work in boston, there are a lot of ex-massachusetts residents themselves. but he has to make this sale. and he's using the truck because the truck worked. the truck was very effective. >> i like the truck. >> and at the very end of that new ad they have someone with a clear new hampshire accent saying go get 'em, scott! >> so, do you think he can overcome the carpetbagger look? he has established, it's true he was born and raised in new hampshire. got his start there obviously traveling into massachusetts. but he does have that local boy connection. >> absolutely. and he's vacationed there. he'