senator john mccain joins us. let's stipulate. you've been saying since the 2000 debate again in 2008 when georgia pulled away, you've said most recently when this crisis first erupted that we have to keep crimea together with ukraine and we have to deal with this issue. what should the administration do going forward? >> i think many things and i'll try to be brief. one is a fundamental understanding of vladimir putin. they have been near delusional in thinking the cold war was over. maybe the president thinks the cold war is over, but vladimir putin doesn't and that's what this is all about. ukraine, the major base which is his access to the mediterranean, russian fleet and so we have to -- excuse me -- understand vladimir putin, what he's about. he's still back in the cold war, kgb colonel that he is. one of the things that we really need to do is consider a very expanded act where we identify these corrupt people that are responsible for the death of math nis xi and cut off trips to london. don't let them send their kids there

so, senator mccain. mr. mccain: i thank my colleague.and i appreciate his long-standing support for freedom and democracy throughout the world but also a very prescient piece that he and senator lieberman wrote six years ago predicting that the likelihood of the events that we have just observed taking place. there's an article in "the washington post" -- "three ways nato can bolster ukraine security" by ian berzynski. i ask unanimous consent it be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: it goes on to say, "the u.s. and alliance actions constitute a red like that depicts kiev on the outside and on its own. this must be deeply disillusioning for ukrainians who in recent months have so courageously expressed their desire for freedom and a place in europe and whose forces participated in a nato collective defense exercise as recently as november. this red line can only reassure vladimir putin and his military planners, whose use of unmarked military personnel and the plausible deniability they provided

john mccain using the words if he canless -- feckless, john mccain even more.d gop senators to tone down their criticism and try to be supportive of the president rather than madder at the president, that this is a time when you need to do that. what do you -- what do you think is going to happen here? >> well, i called bob gates yesterday because i was troubled by the level of intense criticism of the president from senator mccain and senator graham in the middle of what probably is the biggest foreign policy crisis of obama's presidency. i wanted to reach out to somebody who's sort of both republican and democratic administrations, bob gates has been secretary of defense in both, and can him what he thought. and not to my surprise because gates really is at the end of the day a pretty balanced, level-headed person. he said this is a time with which criticism that we've heard from mccain and graham troubles him. he said it shouldn't be speaking with one american voice in a time of crisis these days seems like a quaint idea. >> yeah. >> he said, i find that tru

mccain: i would be glad to. mr. murphy: thank you, senator mccain.enator mccain and i were in ukraine at the end of last year and we had the privilege to speak on the maidan in front of about half a million people, maybe even a million people who were there protesting the current government, the corruption that had reigned free, their decision to move away from an orientation towards europe, and after senator mccain's remarks, the crowd rose up with a chant of thank you, u.s.a., thank you, u.s.a. and wherever we went during that trip they were desperate for the help of the united states. and they are grateful for the fact that both the house and the senate is moving forward on the issue of providing loan guarantees, that aren't nearly enough, that's why we need to have the i.m.f. reform so they can deliver the bulk of the assistance but they feel they are standing virtually alone as russia marchs across their borders and desperately want the united states to lead an international consensus to make it clear to the russians there's a price to be paid.

but john mccain's called the president's foreign policy feckless. lindsey graham went even further, linking the ukraine chris else to benghazi. i just want to play that for our viewers. >> i've never seen an administration so incapable of following through with what they say they will do, and we're all paying a price. don't tell the world you're going to go to the ends of the earth to get the people that killed our folks in libya if you do nothing about it at the end of the day. >> do you agree with this criticism of the president at this time? >> well, i have been critical of the president's policies. i'm reluctant to say in a time of crisis. having said that, as long as the issue is out there, i have in conversations with foreign leaders and diplomats, most of whom are allies with ours, said they're very troubled by the feeling out there, the belief among too many foreign leaders that they can't count on the president to follow through. and syria is an example of that where he basically had countries in the middle east to agree to stand with them

more of my interview with senator john mccain.tells me why he thinks the president is under animate -- underestimating vladimir putin. ♪ >> if we deteriorate and that will have ramifications in terms of economic activity. it getsely hope resolved. >> sergio marchionne, chrysler chairman and ceo. really chairman of fiat. talking about a situation in the ukraine. bad thise question how could be for business. >> he is saying it could be bad. i doubt they sell that many cars in the ukraine. i think the general concern is will it undermine the overall economy? ifi think his point is that it broke into a full-scale world war, it would be very bad but probably not just the auto industry. >> if you are in a situation where he decides to further the influence in ukraine and some at that point things will start boiling down. you are trying to see through it all. we are coming up against a hard right. coming up next, more from geneva and the most auto -- talked about autos. this is made for you. ♪ >> welcome back. the 84th auto show happenin

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mccain, who has had a tough relationship with cruz says he went up to him on the senate floor thursday to say that he and romney are fair game, but told cruz not to go after dole. >> i hope that ted cruz will apologize to bob dole. >> reporter: but senator cruz did not apologize. today his office released a statement saying cruz greatly respects the heroic military service of senators dole and john mccain, suggesting anything otherwise is just an unnecessary distraction. but added that cruz will not back down on matters of conservative principle. even if others may disagree. fuelling a battle that cuts across generations in a party struggling to find its future voice. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. >>> and about that contentious house hearing we aired two nights ago here involving two members of congress who got pretty heated. there has now been an apology, you will recall the chairman of the oversight committee, republican darrell issa of california, cut off the microphone, refused to let his colleague, maryland democrat elijah cummings ask questions after an irs official invo

versus john mccain.n senator has been flipping and flopping all over the place when it comes to russia's invasion of ukraine. last week he called for sanctions. >> well, i think economic sanctions are a very important step. identify these kleptcrats. russia is a gas station ma maskrading as country. sanctions are important. >> the next day senator mccain blasted sanctions saying putin wouldn't be encouraged by the president's quote timidity. mccain was for sanctions before he was against them. then he went on to offer this advice to president obama. >> i would look at other areas, throw them out of the g-8. should be the g-7. >> you are in luck, senator mccain. that is the plan. the g-7 leaders decided to kick russia out until it changes courses. so i'm sure cane will want to applaud this latest move, right? wrong. >> i'm sure that that has got to reduce vladimir to tears that he is not going to be able to be in the g-8. take over part of the country and you don't get to go to the next meeting in some wo

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is one of the things senator mccain put on the table. we should be willing to back it up. >> am anxious to see what center mccain said. it could mean everything from meals ready to eat to medications cure. one i have heard so far in the u.s. congress is really talking about that at this point. they're not talking but u.s. boots on the ground. we're talking about different grades of military aid. >> it is a lot of fun to be alarmist and sensationalist. lord knows i enjoy that myself as well. to say putin is trying to build a new ussr, john mccain still sees him as a cold war enemy. the crimean people want to be part of russia. who is to tell them when they say they can't? he did not take over the southern part of georgia. they still have troops in there. are0% of the population crimean or tartars. 25aine government itself for years without violence, without secessionist movement. huge years is not a record. >> i would add some of the original polling data showed 51% of that want to become part of russia. it was split evenly. >> if you bel

joining me now is senator john mccain. welcome to you, senator.t is your view of where the crisis currently is? >> well, i think it's a situation where the crimea is clearly in russian hands and as i predicted that would probably be the case. the question now is what about eastern ukraine as to how serious the problem will be there with quote spontaneous demonstrations and requirements that vladimir putin protect the russian-speaking people there? i'm not sure. i think it depends on what vladimir putin thinks our response will be. >> i want to play two clips, one is from putin today and followed by another one from president obama. listen to this. >> translator: no sh i'm worried because we are not going to go to war with ukraine but ukraine has the army. i want you to understand clearly. if we do this, it will only be to protect local people. >> i don't think that's fooling anybody. i think everybody recognizes that although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in the neighboring state, that does not give it the right to use force as a

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senator mccain. >> i have an amendment, number one. first of all, i would like to thank you and senator corker for the hard work and other members for the hard work you have done on this legislation. obviously there are issues that may be controversial, but the amendment i believe that is the support of our offices and the american people, and i want to thank or competent staff for the effort they made on this legislation. i thank you. the amendment i'm proposing would give the president authority on targeted sanctions. that would be asset freezes and visa bans on the most corrupt officials in russia. it would be permissive and not mandatory. it gives the president discussion. it includes a waiver. what the magnitsky act did for human rights in russia this would do for corruption. it would not attack russian's financial institutions, it would focus squarely on the most corrupt officials in the russian government and their close associates. the sanctions we have in this legislation are good, but we should not only focus on russian corru

mccain in the ukraine. mccain in ukraine. >> mccain in the ukraine. >> mccain insane.4 1/2 hours, three separate conversations with vladimir putin. we have not seen any progress at all and now they're mocking each other through a series of sanctions. here an expert mocker himself, chris wallace. welcome. i know you're getting set for fox news sunday. usually picking out an outfit at this time. thank you for joining us this morning. how are the sanctions going over in russia? >> well, what's interesting is if you want a sense of how our sanctions are hitting them, just look at how we reacted when mccain was told that he couldn't go visit russia. he said that means my spring break in siberia is gone and my moscow stock tanked. so, we're -- the u.s. and the west have not gotten really serious and gone after them. there are things you can do. russia is a military super power, but it's an economic basket case and there are things that the u.s. and the e.u. could do. they haven't chosen to do them yet and you kind of wonder, what are they waiting for? >> why do you think a i

let's go to mccain and the statements. realistic do you think the plan of more military support to this opposition will be? >> he placed that in a broader context in an op-ed as he framed this as a choice for a great nation, ours, in dealing with a gas station run by essentially thugs. i think the larger context of offering military reinforcement and support is to put ukraine on the offense. right now they are quite obviously on the defensive against russia and against putin specifically, who is obviously seeking to capture the glory and restructure the old soviet union. mccain's point in the sound bite is part of a broader strategy for bolstering ukraine and other countries in the region. >> do you see this as anni existent shal dilemma, mccain is not in a fringe position, saying that if president obama is showing a lack of leadership and for democrats this flies in the face of a longer term effort to have a smaller footprint and not do this military -- >> i can't believe i'm citing "new york times" twice in one interview

she comes from the john mccain camp.onder if democrats will be really thrilled about nominating an neocon in 2016? >> she gets it from both sides essentially but she is no shr k shrinking violet and she will get it from the progressive wing of the democratic party and also from republicans who say she is not tough enough and wanted to reset with russia. this is the problem with having a record in washington. so if you want to be elected president, don't have a record, i think, these days, because it's just going to follow you around. you're being criticized on it. >> politico's mike allen with a look at the playbook. thanks. >> have a great national pancake day. >> we will. we are going to get some short stacks after the show. >>> dr. emanuel is standing by in the green room with a look at his new book. >>> first, a career might for lebron james who went off last night. the huge numbers he put up against the bob casts. "morning joe" sports is next. ♪ people people throw your love around ♪ and the light comes on. it's our

then you're sending john mccain to ukraine. mccain in the ukraine. mccain in the ukraine.ain's insane. got no brain. >> finally, with russia in the news, louie gohmert set the record straight on the issue that's been bothering him for a while. sarah palin and what she really said he said about being able to see russia from his home in 2008. here's what he said versus what tina fey said on saturday night live. >> they're our next door neighbors, and you can actually see russia from land here in alaska. proximity can be a important matter. but here's the text of what saturday night live did. tina fey, acting as sarah palin said. i can see russia from my house. that is where the line came from. >> that's helpful. >> up next, rand paul was in berkeley selling his libertarianism to a college crowd, and they ate it up. as he gave it to them. will republicans support a dove for their nominee? you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new 2014 lexus is. this is your move. if you own a cell phone, you're under surveillance. what you do o

senator john mccain says it did. he's here live with me this hour. >>> and right now, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu is on his way over to the white house to meet with president obama, where he may be receiving a blunt warning about receiving a blunt warning about israel's future. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. there is a lot to tell you over the next hour. on the deepening crisis in ukraine. at the center of the conflict, the peninsula seen here in red. there you see it in the middle of the screen. ukraine's defense minister says they have warned officials to swear allegiance to the new crimean authorities, surrender, or face an attack. but russian media now saying reports of a russian ultimatum are, quote, utter rubbish. what we know right now is about 6,000 russian troops are in control of crimea. the european union demanding an immediate russian withdrawal. the secretary of state, john kerry, he's due to fly out tonight, to go to kiev i

ukraine mccain in ukraine mccain in the ukraine ♪ >> mccain's insane got no brain ♪ [ laughter and applause. anyways, look, look, look, i know you really want crimea. okay? but i've got some advice for you, okay? just let it go. >> let go? >> let it go. let it go. can't hold it back. anymore. more. >> let go. let go. turn away and slam door! [ laughter ] ♪ i don't care what they're going to say ♪ let storm rage on ♪ the cold war never bothered me anyway ♪ [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> so look, vlad, just to recap our call, no progress was made here, right? >> none at all. >> okay. take care. >> bye. >> buh-bye. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's a pretty productive phone call. stick around. we'll be right back with greg kinnear, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ male announcer ] hey, look at you! you're an emailing, texting, master of the digital universe. but do you protect yourself? ♪ apparently not. when you access everything, you give everyone access to everything about you. but that's ok. while you do your thing... [ alert rings ] we'll be here at lifelock, doing o

mccain: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: mr. president, i thank my colleague from connecticut for his thoughtful remarks on the events taking place, the tragedies taking place in ukraine as we speak today. i appreciate his commitment to trying to find a way through this very difficult situation. the senator is dead wrong when he says this is like georgia. in fact, this senator wanted to do a lot more than we did. in fact, we did a lot more. the fundamental problem here i say to my friend from connecticut is that this president doe sglp at this >> this president doesn't understand putinrr that he is on old kbj colonel build on restoring the russian empire.n n the 20th century was the downfall of the soviet union. this president is the one that ridiculed mitt romney when he said the greatest enemy is russia and when he said the cold war has been over for 20 years. vladimer putin doesn't believe the cold war is over. and when the president is overheard saying to mr. putin's puppet, tell vladimer putin after i am reelected i will be

cindy mccain, wife of senator john mccain, and she spent a decade trying to stop sex trafficking. welcome back. what do you make of the report? >> the mccain institute fund the the report, because we had no real data. we found what you said, but more. the sex trafficking adds and the folks involved are organised. it has a web of links that go all the way across the country, as well as offshore. it was fascinating and frightening to read the data. >> you used former army intelligence officers to track the folks. how did it work? >> these guys are fresh out of the field in afghanistan and iraq. this is what they were doing. it was - what they did was intricate and good. it would be helpful in the long run as we do this. >> online sex adds outside of nevada are illegal. where is law enforcement on this? >> law enforcement agrees with us. this is a difficult and illegal entity that the people are promoting online. >> organizations like backpage.com - we are not trying to shut them down, we are trying to encourage them to stop the adult services adds. >> what has been the response to t

john mccain asked whether u.s.nce indicated russia would would invade before the invasion. play some of that. >> the fact is, mr. secretary, it was not predicted by our intelligence and that's already been well-known, which is another massive failure because of our misreading, total misreading of the intentions of vladimir putin. >> i guess intelligence missed the entire collapse of the soviet union. missing this isn't that big a deal in comparison. but how could u.s. intelligence not see this coming? >> well, i think the issue became tactical warning. that's not kind of an arcane topic. >> what does that mean? >> that means the russians had forces that were exercising north of ukraine, and this was a very large exercise, but it was declared and we were watching it. suddenly you have forces that come across and they're now in crimea. they did it by way of air assault. that means helicopter assault. those are airborne troops. and they did it by land, just kind of drove through there, because there is routine passage

neil: where would john mccain get the money for that? >> i would reform entitlement.hey came out together, the two old irishman 70 fix social security and it will be tough. they raised taxes, they raise retirement age. they made concessions. i think we should be willing to come up with a package that puts social security and medicare back on the path. look, you have to put everything on the table, if you don't put everything on the table the auction site says we will not agree to raising retirement. neil: have adduced in the new style. is all about being honest. that kind of strategy has gotten us nowhere. ted cruz. >> of course all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. those are good men, decent man, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principal, emma craddick celebrate. neil: what you think of that? >> it is all fare in politics and senator cruz who i have a cordial relationship with. neil: cordial means cool. >> we are okay. only to be from the after that. >> i see what do that to me, fi

i want to thank senator mccain for leading this delegation. i want to thank my colleagues were standing together. the main reason we're here is to show that strong unified support for the courageous people of ukraine. unfortunately, i was not here for senator mccain and senator murphy when they stood with the ukrainians on the maidan, but we did walk down to the maidan. it was a moving experience. incredibly moving experience to understand what has happened, and i tell you what, my standpoint, there is one person i hold accountable for this aggression, and it is vladimir putin. and if there is further bloodshed, there is also one person i will hold responsible. there is one person that can stop it, that can prevent it, and that is vladimir putin. now, senator mccain and senator murphy mentions the brave members of the ukrainian military now garrisoned in crimea and those stationed along the border. i have seen moving pictures of journalists that have real courage throughout this process. i want to thank all of you, and i want to ask you to mai

and president mccain. and president romney. look, those are good men, they're decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> don't stand for principle. well, today bob dole, a 90-year-old war hero from the greatest generation who fought and blood for our country in world war ii fired back. he said this. cruz should check my voting record before making comments. i was one of president reagan's strongest supporters. he is right. and mr. bossie don't you agree with john mccain that ted should apologize to bob dole? >> no, not at all. >> you don't agree with -- you did not stand by principle. >> i didn't hear in that clip senator cruz say anything about bob dole or john mccain a's service. i heard him talk about political campaigns, the presidential campaigns. i think he was right. the reason that guys, that those men lost is they tried to be too much in the middle. that is where they lost the base and that's where they lost the election. >> music to my

>> senator mccain. [inaudible] >> i said are there any member who now, legislation is open to amendment, any member wishes to offer an amendment? senator mccain spent i have an amendment number one. first of all i would come if i could, mr. chairman i would like to thank you in senator corker for the hard work and other members, for the hard work you've done on this legislation. obviously, there are issues still that may be controversial but associate with the legislation, but the legislation itself i am confident has the support of the majority of our colleagues in the american people. and want to thank in senator corker and our incompetent staff for the effort they made on this legislation to i think you. the amendment that i was would get the present us authority on proposed target sanctions that would be asset freezes and visa bans on the most corrupt officials in russia. they would be permissive and not mandatory. it gives the president the discretion, includes a waiver. what the magnitsky acted di

and president mccain and president romney. those are good men, decent man, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, you don't stand for principal, democrats celebrate. neil: what do you think about that? >> looks, all is fair in politics and senator cruz can say what he wants about me. we are friendly, we really are. neil: there is no way you can be friendly after that. >> i went up to him on the floor and said if he wants to do that to me, that is fine, but bob dole worked hand in glove with ronald reagan. all these people will claim they are regular republicans. they forget ronald reagan gave amnesty to 3 million americans? do they forget he did raise taxes and made an agreement with o'neill on social security, that ronald reagan said 11th commandment is you don't speak ill of your fellow republicans. i don't think, i think he would recognize the party by don't think he would be in lockstep with what is being advocated here. that is if you're not with me 100% of the time, you are against me. he said if somebody

john mccain is always going to be looking for the military option. that's who john mccain is.e's sort of the bad cop in the american routine. he always has been. john bolton, at least in theory, is a diplomat. he was ambassador to the united nations. now, i know they didn't care about or believe in the united nations when he was there, that is the administration that sent him, but he should know better. that was one of the purest, rankest pieces of destructive speculation i've heard in a long time, and if you watch a lot of tv, you hear a lot. >> yeah. and this also the guy who said the united nations could lose several floors and wouldn't be a problem. >> the ambassador. >> indeed. thank you, howard fineman, david corn. appreciate it. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight, ten days after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370, investigators say it was taken off course deliberately. exactly where it was taken and where it is right now is still the grea

third, john mccain believes that the u.s.immediately move to increase -- to speed up the process to bring ukraine and also russian neighbor georgia which it invaded in 2008 into nato by speeding them towards something called map status. a precursor to membership in nato. fourth he believes that the united states should reverse its decision which it made unilaterally two years ago to halt missile defense plans in eastern europe. that was largely seen as a concession to the russians while the u.s.-russian reset was ongoing. and that's a decision that mccain thinks was wrong headed, has always thought was wrong headed. now a clear signal could be sent to the russians if the u.s. went forward with those missile defense plans in europe which vladimir putin is strenuously objecting to. >> two specific recommendations from john mccain. he told me he thought the president was in his words a bit naive when it comes to putin and what he's up to. thanks very much for that. the situation in ukraine is clearly a very dangerous situation r

>> john mccain is heading this up as well as chris murphy. >> senator mccain and i were in ukraine inecember when the million ukrainians came down to the square to ask for a corruption-free government and orientations towards the european union. now they are getting their wish, but they need support, so we'll be there this weekend to show our support for the ukrainian people, and to also show support for the territorial integrity. >> they will also be there on the eve of this vote. they are watching that closely. both the senators as well as the president say that should not stand or carry any weight or have the potential to divide ukraine. something else the senators are watching. >> libby casey on capitol hill for us today. thank you very much. ukraine's interim prime minister will address the security council this afternoon. over the last few days, prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk has been making the rounds in washington, d.c. meeting with president president d.c. at the white house and also vice president biden. the situation inside ukraine remains tense. russia has posted another

only two were pick up in red states won by john mccain in 2008.arkansas and a democrat seat picked up in north dakota. the republicans picked up open seats in indiana, pennsylvania, wisconsin and illinois. either knocked off democrat incumbents or pick up an open seat in states carried by obama and then obtain four republican seats in ohio, florida, north carolina and iowa. that were states that -- >> i'm asking what time it is and i'm hearing how they built the watch. bottom line and i want to bring in one. do republicans get a net pick-up of six? >> i think so. with 14 seats in play and a couple of seats in play potentially on the republican side. i think it is highly likely a m. >> and i want to get into the second part of that. while republicans are playing offense, there are a couple of places, a complauple of states, where they are plays defense. an open seat in georgia where the republican in-consucumbent retiring. and in kentucky, mitch mcconnell is in a tough race. what do you make of that? >> i think this landscape right now favors the r

but john mccain did it once removed.lly speaking about hills and being a prisoner of war against ted cruz not serving. i don't think ted cruz served, right? >> yeah. >> and he used bob dole for that purpose rather than do it personally. i think the whole thing was a dust-up that didn't need to happen. >> one last thing is that rick santorum took a little bit of a shot at chris christie. chris christie yesterday when he spoke talked about, yes, it's good to have principles, but it's also good to win elections. here's what rick santorum had to say. >> so we're told that we have to put aside what we believe is in the best interest of the country. so republican candidate can win. now, that may result in a win for a republican candidate, but it will be a devastating loss for america. >> obviously santorum is paraphrasing what christie said. >> he really is. >> but this is really the big debate in the republican party right now. >> well, it's a debate in both parties. it's a perennial debate. and i think we hear or see the spe

senator mccain says white house foreign policy is part of the situation. >> the president of the unitedtes clearly has no idea of the kind of person putin is and what his intentions are, which is to rebuild the near brood, to have the old russian empire restored as much as possible, and ukraine is a crown jewel of that, and the president has played right into putin's hands. >> and you can hear more of senator mccain's interview at 9:00 eastern on "america tonight." and let's go to the center of this crisis, nick schifrin is live in crimea with more. nick, what are you hearing there? >> reporter: well, john, the occupation by russian troops is growing, and the existence as far as we can tell is nonexistent. we traveled out there this area today every base we went to had a russian flag flying over it, russian troops were occupying their bases. they were relaxed, eating food in front of us, smiling, and laughing down the road from one of them. they were digging trenches around an armory, and we saw no evidence of any kind of resistance from anyone in the ukrainian military or the ukrainian

so was mccain justified in that anger? >> wow right?ain this is someone who republicans in the far right have criticized. he seems to not care at all. last night giving a remarkable display on the senate floor. saying that republicans should really back this imf package. he's not alone, though, betty. senators bob corker as well as some more senators in the republican party supporting him on this. house speaker john boehner though says, you know, this is not something that the folks in his party want the imf funding should not be wrangled into this ukraine debate. it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out when the senate gets back from recess at the end of march and retakes up this issue. >> it was quite a tongue lashing nonetheless. but democrats want an apology from chairman issa following the microphone cutting incident that we've all been talking about. and there's talk he may have followed some rules. that may not be enough to make this go away. >> now what is interesting is representative issa did apologize to represe

he listed dole, mccain and romney and senator mccain, no surprise, he's not had a great relationship with ted cruz, not only took him to task with andrea in the last hour but said and there's footage of this, on the senate floor he approached ted cruz and said you shouldn't be talking about bob dole that way. senator mccain, most important word is honor and ted cruz is not someone who should be criticizing. >> he has an old school sense of loyalty -- >> and loves bob dole. >> loves bob dole. what do you think about the big players about mccain who is rising as one of the big stories of cpac. you have written about who the big guns are. who are the names you see emerging? >> we'll hear rick santorum, he's going to talk about blue collar workers and how the party can reach out to working class blue collar voters. that's something when he was auk sesful as a presidential candidate he talked about. that's going to be a big theme for him. he and mike huckabee are both underrated players in this process. as same with rick perry. all three of them get less talk than ted cruz and marco rubio

mccain. who speaks for the grand old party now? welcome everybody. i'm neil cavuto. and cpac voters letting it be known those reaching across the aisle will be shown the door. so paul ryan, marco rubio, chris christie, all know it now but leave it to me to try to bridge this republican divide, bus here is what republican john mccain is telling me on fox business network about the divide. >> ronald reagan recognize this party today? >> i don't think he could -- he would recognize the party but wouldn't be in lock step with what is being advocated here, and that is if you're not with me 100% of the time you're against me: he said if someone is with me 80% of the time, i'm with him. >> sure. >> well to the guy who plays third in the cpac poll, dr. ben carson, the guy who was speaking about health care, big excess government, with the president of the united states looking at him, as he did so. unmoved then, moving the nation right now. dr. ben carson, good to have you. i in the flesh. >> absolutely. >> i talked to john mccain earlier and he told me that a lot of these a

lawmakers such as senator mccain condemn what he calls the russian intervention in ukraine. do you think this in any way changes the way president obama views this issue? >> i don't think so. i think he's proceeding very carefully to this point. but now the chicken has turned to roost. why are the russians turning this into an american problem rather than an european problem, i think they saw an american hand behind the push for total victory of the opposition over yanukovych to undermine any compromised solution to the political crisis in ukraine that ran from november until february. and now having pushed for this total victory in ukraine, now what are you going to do with it, and what kind of government can you form? how much control can you exercise over ukraineed certificate tore and we're seeing the answer of not very much. >> it's coming into question. just days ago it looked like the opposition protesters in kiev had the upper hand. we had yanukovych. he was running away. we saw tymoshenko come out in her wheelchair to throngs of people who were celebrating her reali

only two were picked up in red states won by john mccain in 2008.ncumbent democrat knocked off in arkansas and a democrat picked up a seat in north dakota. but the republicans picked up open seats in indiana, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and illinois, either knocked off democratic incumbents or picked up an open seat in states carried by obama and then retained three -- excuse me four republican seats in ohio, florida, north carolina, and iowa, that were states that -- >> i'm hearing how they built, bottom line i want to bring in one, do republicans pick up six seats? >> i think so. with 14 seats in play on the democratic side and on the republican side. i think it's highly likely. >> the second part of that which you just sort of slipped in at the end because while the republicans are playing offense in all of these places, there are a couple of places at least a couple of states where they're playing defense where they have seats that could be in trouble. let me put those up on the screen. there's an open seat in georgia, where the republican incumben

it's the exact opposite of what romney and mccain tried to do.much harder to move from the midol the far right and back again than it is to start from the far right and then move to the middle. don't forget support for the tea party among loyal republicans is still high, sitting around 75%. and that's important because it's these same people who are attending cpac today that get out to vote in primaries. i know what you're thinking. it doesn't matter because it doesn't have establishment appeal. but this is where we are all getting played. on paper cruz has everything the establishment would want in a candidate. he's incredibly smart, a graduate from harvard and princeton, was one of the top trade lawyers of the federal trade commission and his wife currently work at goldman sachs. he's got wall street appeal and his message ard spending is is something everybody business-minded republican can rally behind. i'm here to tell you that ted cruz is not a joke. he is far from crazy. in fact, hi think his strategy is brilliant. call it the ted cruz eff