and then there's joe manchin of west virginia.bout joe manchin. >> so contradict myself about the most -- >> michael: you are not allowed to do that. >> he might be the exception to that rule. but joe manchin is a first termer. he knows his voters just like the other senator. he will probably be okay because he basically holds the right position to most of the social issues as west virginia generally. >> michael: yeah and he is pretty popular in west virginia. >> very popular. >> michael: and itlike looks like your home state, up on mark sanford, tied be curtis bossic was endorsed by rick santorum today, what is going to happen today? >> rick santorum is going to endorse bossic -- that means none. we don't know what is going to happen in that circus. >> michael: donnie fowler thank you so much for being here. up next, sorry to tell you this mary poppins, but far from making everything better that spoonful of sugar is going to give your young charges type ii diabetes. fruit just got cooler. fruit on one side, cool on the other. ice

democrats are not purging senator joe manchin from their ranks. they're counting on joe manchin.unting on him as a key player toward bipartisan reform, a key player who just happens to love his guns, and the democrats value that. >> i want to be very clear and tell you, i'm a proud gun owner. nobody's going to take my guns. and i'm sure as hell not going to let them take your guns. this is a bunch of crap with people talking about things they don't know what they're talking about. the only bill that i have worked on and am working on is one that will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people mentally deranged. and that's a fact. >> democrats are not purging gun-owning democrats and pro gun rights democrats from their ranks. they are counting on them to do the work of gun reform. former congresswoman gabby giffords, proud gun owner, proud supporter of the second amendment. democrats are not purging her either. and not just because she's a victim herself of gun violence. she and her husband mark kelly are touting their status as gun owners every single time they make their

joe manchin, spike lee.posed cost of living adjustments and any means pesting for medicare. do they have means testing. i think it should be done and the president has put on a table. both of them there doesn't could be to be part of the starters. schuman, reed. no messing with ep titlements. >> that's just common sense. colas. there's people basically that depend on those equipment levels and they know. they talk about kman cpai. means test on? did you make more than 200 percent it 00 people. >> so you are owe 30esed to do it? , yit will be a tough pill to swallow. i came here basically too feks generation. that next grun will be saying we didn't either. my sand dpra was to be, to be fines, he could cake a change in the cost benefit and he said he was being in favor of means testing on medicare which means less income for the rich. these are his positions? they they be the crux of a vehicle. >> if he's still in that position, then we do need to inform them. we need to restorm them in order to make them -- >

joe manchin saying this.nd disgusting that president karzai would make such an outrageous and dishonest claim while the military is serving and dieing in the country to give people in afghanistan a better future. he should spend more time address to be widespread corruption in the re sheem rather than make false claims against americans fighting for the people. the despicable comments confirm it's time to bring the troops home and rebuild america, not afghanistan." with that, other lawmakers weighed in. but not that statement. bring in the panel. tucker carlson from daily caller.com. juan williams, with the hill. and sindcated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, the new secretary of defense and his response. >> that wasn't a vigorous defense of the united states. it was adequate. somewhat flat. but in trying to understand karzai, i'm beginning to tend toward accepting the irrationality of the irrational. i'm getting there with kim jong un. we look for rational answers why he did "x" or "y." with karzai, h

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>> well, i certainly believe that joe manchin thinks he is a key, but he is having a hard time not onlyn colleagues, but also other democratic colleagues especially those who are up for election. ted cruz is not going to win any miss congenial ti awards and he is someone who has strong opinion, and it is going to take him a while to understand the bigger senate culture, but he is certainly someone who is not, a little bit of a bull in the china shop is exactly how i'd put it. >> and so not one of the lawmakers here, and perhaps one of the solutions that is talking about, and there are efforts under way in the private sector to try to tackle gun violence, and i will play a clip for you first from the mother of a young sandy hook elementary victim. take a listen to this. >> last friday would have been dylan's birthday. i did not want to wake up on his birthday. that was a hard day for the whole family. >> so jason, some of the ideas here smart gun technology, and they have a couple of ideas out there like magnetic rings or fingerprint devices to only allow the owner to fire the gun, and n

look at a joe manchin, say, in virginia. harry reid is nervous, about half a dozen or so of his member, seven members or so -- >> if they vote against cloture, if they vote -- this is how it's asymmetric. if you're a conservative, you're protected from voting maybe too far right. if you're a moderate democrat worried about your red state constituency, you're protected by this. this is good for you, right? >> no, i think, yeah -- >> you can't vote for it. the irony is you can't vote for the right wing filibuster position. >> right. you can't vote for that. you might be able to vote for universal background checks. you probably vote against any amendments involving assault weapons ban. i think the problem is we haven't heard any new voice from any of these discussions. you haven't had a rubio-like figure who is a sort of gateway to the right in terms of immigration. you haven't had that figure around this debate. so it's been very hard for democrats. not only to keep their caucus together, but to get anyone on the republican s

senator joe manchin, one of the most conservative democrats. could defect on any vote out there. but the president called manchin two years ago when he was first elected and not again until a few months ago to talk to the pro-gun democrat to talk to him about gun control. i talked to senator manchin about what the president should be doing now. >> lack of energy policy. >> he doesn't pick up the phone and call you. >> no, we haven't had that. >> does that surprise you? >> no. everyone has a different style. i wear them out morning, noon, and night. that's my style. president clinton did the same. >> what is the benefit? >> you build relationships. you know what, you have a comfort level where could you say i really want to help, and here is what i think would help. i hope you would consider it. you follow me? and i hope he takes it as cob strucktive criticism. never been against something nor i would vote against something unless i thought there was a better way of doing it. >> manchin, chief executive himself, governor of west virginia. his style was to reach out all the time, e

. >> joe manchin, my old boss, a very strong new voice.ave senator, up for re-election but a very powerful new voice. warner, not necessarily new, he's been there for a little bit. >> michael bennet. >> elizabeth warren was -- >> let's go back. i want to circle back because number seven on our list was ted cruz. i called it the ted cruz experience. let's play a little something that ted cruz had to say at the conservative political action conference. >> we did have a certain of the republican party described rand paul and me as whacko birds. if standing for liberty and standing for the constitution then count me a proud whack-a bird. >> sarah, he was talking about john mccain's criticism. the sort of mccain wing and the cruise wing. wrong or right? >> i think you have the old guard and the new guard and they have different styles. the thing about ted cruz is having work with them, in any given room, probably the smartest person in the room but he would be wise, i think, personally to take a longer view. the politics of today is not going t

you always get the fake democrat american with hay in his hair and shooting the gun like joe manchin,e dances. screw you, you democrats. >> sean: right. what do you make anything of the government buying all of the ammunition they're buying, including hallow point bullets? >> it's very strange that they will not answer questions. i mean, given what we know about fast and furious and how they will create, they will create incidents in that case allowing innocent people to be murdered by giving criminals guns in order to have a stronger anti-gun argument, you do sort of wonder are they just refuse to go answer questions about these gun buys, some of which we know are happening, why aren't they explaining it, to reduce responses from right wingers, look at the gun crowd. no, we only bought a million rounds not two million. >> if he we bought a billion rounds, that's the points. >> please note again, they can have guns, we can't. that's the only question with gun control, should the government and bloomberg, feinstein and jim carrey have a monopoly on force. that's the question. >> sean:

joe manchin not only opposes same-sex marriage, he backs doma. is there anyone you can think of who has been politically grave on this situation? i guess maybe rob portman. >> yes, from the other party. >> yeah. >> look, it is -- senator portman, by the way, deserves an enormous amount of credit. his son will wrote a terrific op-ed for the yale daily news about his father and the announcement. it's remarkable that eight years ago it was unthinkable for the democratic presidential candidates to come now the favor of gay marriage. now it will be a democratic presidential candidate litmus test. at the same time senators are elected by their states, there is a huge regional difference in support for same-sex marriage. so i don't think we can expect a ton of political bravery on this, but i think that from my point of view we should celebrate the enormous transformation in the political landscape and the fact that i think now people are coming out in support of same-sex marriage, because they don't want to be asked why they were so late to the game. t

now it will be left to democrats chuck schumer and joe manchin and lone republican mark kirk of illinoisre. and yes, senator mark kirk is himself a republican, but his "f" rating from the nra may not make him the best pitchman for recruiting more republican support to this bill. and they will need that if they're going to pass this bill over an all but certain republican filibuster. is it really possible that the congress is so far to the right of the people of oklahoma that this kind of thing is impossible now? this one straight forward fix, background checks, is something that people in super gun-friendly states and republican congressional districts support by a low of 79% and a maximum of 100%. literally in one new jersey republican district, support for background checks clocked in at 100%. is it possible that something with this much popular support can attract the support in the senate of only one republican? one. that's how far the republican party is from public opinion right now? this seems to be not sustainable. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a haw

look at a joe manchin, say, in virginia. harry reid is nervous, about half a dozen or so of his member, seven members or so -- >> if they vote against cloture, if they vote -- this is how it's s asymmetric. if you're a conservative, you're protected from voting maybe too far right. if you're a moderate democrat worried about your red state constituency, you're protected by this. this is good for you, right? >> no, i think, yeah -- >> you can't vote for it. the irony is you can't vote for the right wing filibuster position. >> right. you can't vote for that. you might be able to vote for universal background checks. you probably vote against any amendments involving assault weapons ban. i think the problem is we haven't heard any new voice from any of these discussions. you haven't had a rubio-like figure who is a sort of gateway to the right in terms of immigration. you haven't had that figure around this debate. so it's been very hard for democrats. not only to keep their caucus together, but to get anyone on the republican

from "politico," senator joe manchin is key to the gun control talks. the story points out that he could be president obama's best joke for a bipartisan and packaged this year. there is this from blumberg's business week -- carol is joining us from riverside, california, democrat. caller: good morning. i remember a few years ago catching cpac and one of the republicans said they accomplished one of their goals getting rid of keith olbermann off of tv. i thought that was weird. getting to the point, the way i see it is as long as all these big interests are going to have all the money, like 33% of the money and the havele on the bottom, 60% - 3% of the money. , long as that is going on they're going to stick to that, nobody is going to get anywhere. it is either going to take all the people in america coming together against them or it will only get worse, like the bible prophecy end of days. god bless all the hard working people who deserve better than this. host: thank you. the front page of the washington times this morning -- a photograph of senator

that is why joe manchin is a player.so explains why the democrats in the senate have gone after tom coburn, a republican from oklahoma, who has been most open to a background check bill and he has been negotiating with chuck schumer from new york. it is not clear if he will actually end up supporting what comes to the floor from senator reed in a couple of weeks, but he is very open to it and his approval would mean a lot geographically and also because he is a republican. host: illinois. republican caller. brad. caller: thank you for having c- span. it is great. in canada, they have gun registration. they put it in, 10, 20 years ago. the problem now is that a bureaucrat has said you cannot own this type of gun. now, the individual is being sued because he owns that type of gun, and they are trying to forcibly taken away from him. not an elected official, but a bureaucrat doing this. this is the problem and the concern i have for the future of the usa and i do not own a gun. thank you. g: i mean, that is a valid point. i

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. >> reporter: joe manchin, a conservative democrat is reportedly in talks with the nra about expandingra could prevent a republican filibuster in the senate. john, diana. >> such a contentious issue. tahman, thank you very much. the gun lobby essentially already won, big time, the fact that assault weapons -- i mean, we've pretty much moved on from this. even mayor bloomberg, who has become sort of this new advocate for making tougher laws, it's basically come down to background checks the focus now >> a lot of the lawmakers by the way who are losing ground in a lot of states where bloomberg introduced these ads are, you know, lawmakers who have an "a" grade with the nra. that is no longer a good thing to have. before everybody wanted you to be on board with the nra. that didn't register. and then all the mass shootings. then newton happened. that's when everything took a turn and almost unanimously around the country people are clamoring for something to be done. >> well, i don't know about unanimously, but certainly a lot of people are. i will say one thing, mayor bloomberg sort of t

. >> joe manchin. bob casey from pennsylvania. they also had kay hagan on the list.ce they wrote it, she's come out in support of gay american. >> bill: what's wrong with the other senators? come on, get on board. even republican senators ought to get on board here if for no other reason, they ought to leave it up to states. but the real reason they ought to get on board is because the 14th amendment of the constitution says you can't deny any american equal protection under the laws and that includes the right to get married. i don't get it. where are -- we need to found the nine democrats and then start working on the republicans. your take on the big day yesterday in the supreme court. 1-866-55-press. marriage equality. defense of marriage act. california's proposition 8. and those lame senators who won't get on board. >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audienc

senator joe manchin. >> thank you. thank you for being here. congratulations on your retirement. i know there was a lot going back and forth. if you knew you had flexibility and had to do the cuts, would you been able to deploy the harry s. truman on time? >> i would have to know better what the navy confronts. >> so much said about the amount of money that we spend in the department of defense versus other countries. a quick scenario on the difference of our cost? they say the next 10 or 15 developing nations did not spend as much as we do. >> part of it is we are the gold standard. we set the standard from weaponry to the training and to the coherence of our force, the cohesion of our force that believes they are the best of the world because of the support of the hill. we also have a global responsibilities. i was born into this time. i'm often impressed and i say, sir or your highness or mr. president, how much other countries look to us to reassure them that they can follow their better instincts and not have to accommodate some pretty ugly situations in their region. >> i f

senator joe manchin. >> thank you. thank you for being here. congratulations on your retirement. i know there was a lot going back and forth. if you knew you had flexibility and had to do the cuts, would you been able to deploy the harry s. truman on time? >> i would have to know better what the navy confronts. >> so much said about the amount of money that we spend in the department of defense versus other countries. a quick scenario on the difference of our cost? they say the next 10 or 15 developing nations did not spend as much as we do. >> part of it is we are the gold standard. we set the standard from weaponry to the training and to the coherence of our force, the cohesion of our force that believes they are the best of the world because of the support of the hill. we also have a global responsibilities. i was born into this time. i'm often impressed and i say, sir or your highness or mr. president, how much other countries look to us to reassure them that they can follow their better instincts and not have to accommodate some pretty ugly situations in their region. >> i f

senator joe manchin. >> thank you. thank you for being here. congratulations on your retirement. i know there was a lot going back and forth. if you knew you had flexibility and had to do the cuts, would you been able to deploy the harry s. truman on time? >> i would have to know better what the navy confronts. >> so much said about the amount of money that we spend in the department of defense versus other countries. a quick scenario on the difference of our cost? they say the next 10 or 15 developing nations did not spend as much as we do. >> part of it is we are the gold standard. we set the standard from weaponry to the training and to the coherence of our force, the cohesion of our force that believes they are the best of the world because of the support of the hill. we also have a global responsibilities. i was born into this time. i'm often impressed and i say, sir or your highness or mr. president, how much other countries look to us to reassure them that they can follow their better instincts and not have to accommodate some pretty ugly situations in their region. >> i f

joe manchin. i should have brought my list with me. >> brian: but there are some?there are democrats and republicans. there are a lot of republicans who don't like it. they say north texas you got to cut all these things. well, yeah. we can use discretion and cut those areas where we shouldn't be -- why do we have the defense budget paying for the green agenda in this administration and then gut these little kids? it's something that really bothers me when you sit and you're talking to them and they made a career decision and now we come along and say no, we changed our mind. you can't do that. >> brian: at least give the pentagon the freedom to cut to cause the least amount of damage with their own discretion, which right now it doesn't do. >> no. i have another amendment that does that. let's see how this plays out. i'm glad you care about this. i can assure you there are 400,000 troops who care that you care. >> brian: senator, thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: coming up, the tsa says sorry, we let the bombs pass security. it was just too hard to sp

. >> senator joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia is here in the situation"the situa" that'sthe recovery that she's made. here's the question, are you going to be bold in terms of dealing with the issue of background checks? >> we're working strongly and very much in a bipartisan manner, wolf. we're looking at all of the rights of people that have guns, people that come from a gun culture, people that don't come from a gun culture and i think we've got a working group that's moving favorably forward. >> so walk me through where we stand right now in terms of expanding background checks because right now private sales you don't need a background check. you go to a gun show you don't need a background check. if you're giving it away, you don't need background checks. where do you want to tighten it up? >> nobody is going to take anyone's guns away and no one is going to take your second amendment rights away. that's not happening at all. we're not asking on any of those infringements. what we're saying is if you buy a gun, transfer a gun there should be a criminal and a mental

i think people like mark warner, joe manchin, claire mccaskill, her ranking member on oversight committeective and efficient. there are people, but we have to begin the process. that's really what the president did last week. he began that process but just a first step. the next step, we have to agree on the facts and figures. i get on these shows, you argue back and forth yoorks want to arguen at facts and figures. you have to first spend a fair amount of time. what i learned in business negotiations, rather than argue about what you disagree on, first, figure out what you agree on, first that process, you develop the relationship, you develop the trust, once you get those disagreements, a lot easier to come to resolutions. >> your fellow home state member of congress, paul ryan, still seems to say we got to get rid of obama care. do you accept that obama care is law of the land, going gorn nah be phased in and whatever deals are struck are with the assumption that it is here to say? >> i'm concerned about it. i think the cost estimate of obama care is grossly understated. i think far mo

former chief of staff for west virginia joe manchin and former aide to president h.w. to see you. >> joe, we'll start with you. it was a week for republican maneuvering, if you will. rand paul and the filibuster, the talk of washington this week. now politico reporting that the senator is seriously considering running for the presidency in 2016. senator paul telling politico that he can broaden the base of the republican party. take a listen. >> there is somehow a middle ground between what is maybe more pure libertarianism and what is more traditional conservatism, and i think somewhere in between there is a role as long as that person can somehow bring about an expansion of the party. >> how could rand paul bring the extreme right and the center of the party together, joe? >> well, i guess for people who have a libertarian bent who are democrats and certainly for those that are republicans, they would want to hear what rand paul had to say he certainly got the attention of lots of americans with the 13-hour filibuster on president obama's drone policy, so he's somebod

pryorprior, tom carper of delaware, joe donnelly in kansah north dakota mary landrieu of louisiana joe manchinia and bill nelson of florida. >> guest: you will see that all of those senators especially tom carper are from solidly republican states. prior and landrieu are the most vulnerable senators out in 2014 and pryor was one of the few senators to respond to "washington post" request for where he stood on gay marriage and he was one of the few that defended the defense of marriage act. a lot of democrats in these red states have declined comment or been much more hesitant to opine on the subject. you are seeing this evolution. in the deep south a look at the the -- in the polls on gay marriage and one of the few holdouts. we have random numbers of evangelical and socially conservative electorate so you are not seeing the south moved with the same speed as other parts of the country. >> host: and mary landrieu up for re-election next year. >> guest: mary landrieu one of the top republican -- >> host: do you think we will see an announcemannouncem ent by mary landrieu in the next year or so?

that is why joe manchin is a player. thelso explains why democrats in the senate have gone after tom coburn, a republican from oklahoma, who has been most open to a background check bill and he has been negotiating with chuck schumer from new york. it is not clear if he will actually end up supporting what comes to the floor from senator reed in a couple of weeks, but he is very open to it and his approval would mean a lot geographically and also because he is a republican. host: illinois. republican caller. brad. caller: thank you for having c- span. it is great. in canada, they have gun registration. they put it in, 10, 20 years ago. the problem now is that a bureaucrat has said you cannot own this type of gun. beinghe individual is sued because he owns that type of gun, and they are trying to forcibly taken away from him. not an elected official, but a bureaucrat doing this. this is the problem and the concern i have for the future of the usa and i do not own a gun. thank you. g: i mean, that is a valid point. it is i

, enzi, flake, graham, grassley, hatch, heightcamp, who'ven, inhofe, ice okayson, joe hance, johnson, king, lee, manchin, mccain, risch, roberts, rubio, shelby, wicker. and we have three late responses of no from landreau, murkowski and murray. those are the 35 senators so far who have told us, no, they oppose senator feinstein's proposed bill to ban assault weapons. 28 senators said yes, they agree with and support it. 34, no responses so far. and three said they had no position. we're going to chase the 34 no responses, and the three who say no position. and we'll come back on friday, give them enough time to think about their response so quick get a very firm idea of why this assault weapons ban has apparently got no chance of getting passed in the senate. you as the american people have a right to know what these senators believe, and i intend to get it out of them. let's turn now to the police chiefs. i can't think of five better people to talk to about what happened. ever since just over three months ago now. let me start with you if i may, chief. because you had the -- i don't even think there ar