mitch mcconnell gives a voice to kentucky's working families. i know firsthand he cares. one else can. that's why i like to raise my voice, because we're represented by a man who's fought hard for us. and always will. >> i'm mitch mcconnell and i approve this message. >> what a tragic story. how could you not feel sorry for the fellow in that ad. and what it comes down to is if you worked in a plant in kentucky that mitch mcconnell allowed to operate unsafely for decades and you get cancer, mitch mcconnell is there for you. in 1999 after a scathing washington post expose of the conditions at that plant, mitch mcconnell helped push a bill that provided $150,000 lump sum payment to workers at that plant who developed cancer. so he actually flew to kentucky to provide the very first check to the family of a man who had already died of cancer. the money did not come close to covering the man's medical bills, but his family appreciated mcconnell's public gesture. the man's daughter said, it was recognition that daddy had done good. the health care entitlement, which is what it

we are represented by a man who has worked hard for us and always will. >> i am mitch mcconnell and i approved this message. host: is this effective? different.s it is not the full be role. -role.l b he pushes back against the democratic argument that he has done nothing for the state. i thought it was interesting that one of the first press releases attacking this ad was from the same conservatives who accused him of running your marks, which i thought was a little far field of a point. it shows you that he gets squeezed by the right. overall it is a fairly effective at. guest: this is january of the election year. this is an early ad but it shows how much money is going to be spent. it was a one minute at in january. it shows you we are on pace for an election that is going to be millions of dollars. not onlya primary challenge, wt -- matt? >> he is not a kentucky native, something we are going to hear a lot more about. he believes that mcconnell is part of the problem here. he is not a conservative. i think the mcconnell com ampaign has done very well in not giving him too much roo

even mitch mcconnell said you can get the president's attention to start trying to talk about, cutting here, cutting there, tackling some of our deficit and debt issues. do you think that argument is going to work? >> i wouldn't hold your breath on it. here's why. paul ryan and mitch mcconnell are saying we'll fight over the debt ceiling basically as a way to coral conservatives to support the budget deal that just happened. here's the problem. where's the leverage? the president said he's no longer going to play this game. >> so does he just inherently end this fight when you're talking about holding something up, he has the upper hand? >> yes. politically if republicans want to run towards this clip, the problem is we're all hanging in the balance. the president says he's not

audiences know, the mitch mcconnell you haven't seen will surprise you up next. >> do you ever look inion mcconnell, watch him give a speech and wonder how is this guy a successful politician? he doesn't have much in the way of charisma, that guy is a natural. we only know the republican senate leader if you know a creature of walk a. huge reason mitch mcconnell has been so successful is he truly understands his home state of kentucky. he know what is his state voters want to hear. which is why a new ad mcconnell is running is to fight against his life against the tea party challenger is so interesting. it's an ad from a liberal democrat, a tone miles away from a slash an burn tea party style of mcconnell, perhaps reluctantly rejects on the national stage. >> i work at a nuclear facility that has been vying for national security. like many, i was exposed to radiation. i got cancer. but mitch mcconnell not for us, creating cancer screening programs and providing compensation for sick workers. mitch mcconnell is a caring and powerful voice for kentucky's working families and having a s

>> it's funny because mitch mcconnell brought up the health care issue again.he offered to pass the law in exchange of pulling back on the main date for a year. we saw a bit of bipartisanship heading into the holiday, but the question is will that last or was it only skin deep. there are expected battles to come, so it was a bit of a break, a much calmer holiday recess than sometimes we see. often it goes right to the brink of christmas. the ones working over the holiday, the politicians, strategists, but also those who are working out how to pay for everything, so we're watching for those numbers to come out this week. >> mike viqueira at the white house, the holiday recess good for congress, the white house or both? >> i think we can call it a christmas trust, dell. i don't think anybody was going out of their way to score any points unless some of those who were particularly vulnerable who are up for reelection this year. from now to the state of the union through november when the house is up for grabs, and the senate as well, and everything is going to be

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>> no, the same old noise that we expect from mitch mcconnell.e slash and burn approach. it's the way he's always gone about things. i'm not too concerned about it. most of his allegations in his ads against me have been absolutely outright lies. he knows them to be. but as you know in the world of politics, that's considered fair game. so i expect there will be more of the same. i think when we're done, he will stoop to levels the likes will make aqua buddha look like a warmup act. >> what do you mean? the primary is at the end of the may. what does that mean? give me another example. >> i think that we'll continue to see increasingly desperate ads from him. my job in this campaign is to focus on the issues, to focus on the economy, to focus on the issues of debt in this nation, to focus on issues like amnesty. his attack seems to take the lowest common denominator, slash and burn, both with myself and with the democrat contender. kind of rhymes with people's names and silly little videos and things that frankly are demeaning to the office itsel

republican leader mitch mcconnell talked sunday about what he believes the party needs to do between and november. >> in order to win november, you have to have an electable candidate, and i'm very confident that in every single police where we have an opportunity for a pickup, we're going to have a very electable candidate, not just in the primary, but in the general, as well. in west virginia, north carolina, louisiana, arkansas, south dakota, alaska, montana, michigan, all of those states we have very good candidates who can win elections. >> joining me now is the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus. mr. chairman, good morning to you, sir. >> thank you, good morning, chuck. >> well, let me pick up on the mitch mcconnell comments. >> sure. >> he's obviously facing his own primary. he put emphasis on the electable candidates. one of the things that jumped out at me, a resolution passed in the winter meeting, abortion, a voice vote, we don't have a roll call, but the idea unanimously accepted, was it said this, the rnc urges all republican pro-life candidate

and mitch mcconnell made a last ditch effort to push back. >> yes, we should work on solutions to support those who are out of work through no fault of their own, but there is literally no excuse to pass unemployment insurance legislation without also finding ways to create good, stable, high-paying jobs and also trying to find the money to pay for it. >> at the last minute, mitch mcconnell put forth a proposal, he said republicans might support this if the delay the obamacare affordable care act, individual mandate for a year. and of course we know that's a non-starter. >> people are unemployed, can't find a job. it's a tough deal. listen to this picture, mr. president, no one can in anyway dispute my facts. for every dollar spent on this we get a dollar back. >> so we'll know in a few moments, dell. >> libby has been white house weighed in on this argument? >> definitely. making calls and the president used his address over the weekend to push for this issue. president obama will be talking about unemployment insurance benefits later on this morning from the white house, and he'll be jo

we are seeing mitch mcconnell now grappling with a challenge from his right-flank. senator lindsay grahm is being challenged on the right. and many more races to come. just before i came on, i was reading in the washington times where pat roberts from kansas is being challenged from the right. this is a huge fight within the party. in the book, we talk about, you know, what is going on within this fight within the party, and it is real, and i think until the party can grapple with its direction, i think they are going to struggle to win the whitehouse for quite some time to come. there are a number of issues where the party is fighting and there is a chapter in the book called going out of power where i talk about the national security implications of the civil war within the party. in 2012, there was no discussion on national security as we would expect to see from the republican party. this has been an issue that the party has owned since vietnam. this is one of the main stays of the republican party. it is surprising obama has been able to move this issue from th

mitch mcconnell is after you.y cannot just sit there to say i am righteous to be all-american pile you have to have a response? >> we do. unfortunately or fortunately they don't vote for us. the people we stay connected to are the ones that will determine who will be there. a perfect example is the moneyayor bloomberg and bill gates spent in colorado , a $10 mlion to get about the initiative. lou: but to the point lead influence the way you think your vote? part you concerned about your party? you have the chamber of commerce and mitch mcconnell and john boehner and others involved with the sam efforts so what about the republican party? >> they need to come together. with the infighting and the fractions is from lack of a common vision and a goal for america. not a republican and democratic idea but the american idea that we can rally around. kennedy did that and reagan did that. lou: hallelujah but what you seem to be missing is that it is about your party right now the way you were led and what is going on. we

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now get a free lg g2, with a 13-megapixel camera. >>> another conservative group has endorsed mitch mcconnell's primary challenger. a political article notes freedom works praises matt bevan as the more fiscally sound choice. also criticizes senator mcconnell for "helping the democrats fund the president's health care law during the fall." mcconnell's campaign quickly blasted freedom works, saying "internal problems unfortunately have changed their focus from conservative reform to conservative cannibalism." joining me live now, nbc news deputy political editor dominico. mcconnell swings hard with the conservative cannibalism, speaks to the infighting. >> there is no question. mitch mcconnell, unlike harry reid on the other side with democrats, is a tough fighter. e wi he is not going to go down without a fight. everyone expects him to get through this primary. it's may 20th, that primary. it's going to give us an early indicator of where this tea party versus establishment story line is heading. we're going to get another example of that march 4th in texas when john cornyn goes up against stev

senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was asked than last night. this. >> you as a lawmaker really have two meaningful options. and the main one that has been used historically is try to impeach him. i mean, is that -- is that ever considered as opposed to running into the courts and trying to get them to do it? the other is try to defund the president's legislation, which you guys have tried before. >> yeah, defunding is a less dramatic response. the challenge there is the u.s. senate is in democratic hands, and they basically, you know, enable the president to do all of these things. >> now, we've heard others bring up impeachment. but she brought to it mcconnell. and if you notice, he didn't dismiss it. he just talked around it. what do you make of, that goldie? >> well, that's because no one, not mitch mcconnell, not megyn kelly, no one, not even on the right believes that there is something that this president has done that really warrants impeachment, or that they can, you know, get an impeachment, bill of impeachment through the house and th

mitch mcconnell and rand paul are republican senators from kentucky. all of them - rand paul, paul rip, marco rubio, all proposing their own version. it perhaps stands a chance of getting somewhere in congress, but there are no promises, safe bets. interesting that some republicans are supporting. others are not supporting the idea. what is the politics selected. >> everyone looking under the stones to determine whether there was a pattern. there was a democrat in every state within prochl imenty to the zone. i don't think you can draw a line. mitch mcconnell said that he wrote to the president asking that eastern kentucky be included in the initial five promise zones. the criteria, where they had to have average poverty of 20% in the region affected, the zone selected. there can be variant ranges in terms of population, 6,000 on the low, 200,000 on the top. they have to have a job-creating institution. the mayor in west philadelphia, they have a university pushing to cooperate, bringing in the education aspect. thanks for clearing that up. mike viquei

mitch mcconnell said today that he actually wrote to the president asking that'sern kentucky be includedng this initial five promise zones, but some of the criteria were they had to have average poverty of at least 20%. there can be vary in range in terms of population, 6,000 on the lowen, 200,000 on the top end. they have to have some sort of job-creating institution. for instance, the major in philadelphia has drexel university. >> mike thanks for clearing that up. good to see you. as mike just mentioned philadelphia is one of the first five promise zones, specifically west philadelphia. the poverty rate in that community is 51%. unemployment is at 13.6%. and philadelphia major was at the white house earlier today and joins us now live from philly. good to see you, some of my viewers don't know i split my life between new york city and philadelphia. philadelphia is a great city, but it is a bifurcated city. a rich wonderful philadelphia, and a poor philadelphia. >> one, thanks for having me on, and congratulations on the new show. philadelphia is a dynamic diverse city, and we have a w

the ad makers are going to look for those stories like mitch mcconnell. that makes for better ads, then just saying that so-and-so voted for it. talk about the real impact on people's lives. host: republican line, good morning. caller: good morning. they are swimming upstream because of the mainstream media. exampleive you a good -- this chris christie thing. -- would think he that think that he planted roadside bombs if you read the newspaper. compared to hillary clinton who brought -- failed to provide security to our messenger in benghazi, it was on page seven of the new york times. if i were republican running for , i would compare the states run by democrats and republicans. i would look at the unemployment figures, and the abstract property, and all of that. you'll find that this date one by democrats -- in these states that are run by democrats, the unemployment is much higher and poverty is much worse. host: let's talk about the economy because we have seen enough taken the market -- we have seen an uptick in the market, except for last week. gues

>> i think why mitch mcconnell is m.i.a.years because he is worried about the tee party challenge. a great piece on this guy and the challenge of going against minimumship mitch mcconnell who has a lot of money and ruthless campaigner. he talks about when he goes to church people say you're going to be shunned at church and friends who say i want to give you money but i'm told i'll never have a job in kentucky politics again. that is what happens when you take on the big dog. he is probably too far down to catch up but getting backing of the tea party groups and giving headaches to mitch mcconnell and making it hard for mcconnell to do his job in washington and get ready for a election campaign which isn't a walk in the park either. >> it points to the war within the republican party continues. you're going after the top republican in the senate. there are a lot of other senior republicans that are going after him. this is not like utah. my attitude on this stuff if you want to have an intramural fight in utah or alabama whe

he can make it difficult for mitch mcconnell to make a deal. issue.d complicate he host: john from atlanta. caller: how are you doing? they should call the pinocchio awards. nancy and harry sing a song. it may be -- i think the mentor could do the carlos sr. and jr. performance and that should be transparent. thank you. guest: umm -- jokey and sarcastic, i guess. i think he was referring to the nancy pelosi and harry reid. if they all got on stage together, something i would watch. caller: hi. yes. i do not care -- the woman called and said barack obama is half white. maybe she needs to go down to the senate floor and let them know that. they fight this man on anything he has to do. for all the good he has done, does he get credit for any of those things? no. but for any new thing, social security, some moment in cincinnati, barack obama. they are going to fault him and are not going to work with him unless he signs his executive order. those congressmen that are collecting funds on that, they should not be allowed to. is serving in the congres

senators, mitch mcconnell and rand paul, are vocal and vehement about their opposition to the affordable care act, to medicaid expansion, to government spending, and about anything related to president obama. they feel comfortable doing that because our electorate in kentucky has been somewhat cool to president obama through two elections, coming out against him by about a 2-1 majority in 2012. so classic red-state persona, right? wrong. as you know, kentucky has been the only southern state to both expand medicaid and develop its own state-based exchange. [applause] and today, today every time the topic of reform comes up, both pundits and the president of the united states himself say look at what kentucky is doing. in fact, i have been invited to tell our story on programs like "meet the press," c-span, cnn, bbc, npr, "cbs evening news," in "the wall street journal," and "the new york times." i have been asked again and again, governor, how are you doing this? and also, governor, why are you doing this? [laughter] first let me talk about the how, because that is an easy conversation.

nomination to be the governor of california. >>> next up, number one in kentucky, senate republican mitch mcconnelleleased his first campaign ad of 2014, possibly an attempt to humanize the leader, features a cancer survivor praising mcconnell for helping him recover. >> he knocked down walls for us. he helped save people's lives. mitch mcconnell gives a voice to kentucky's working families. >> trivia time. it has been more than 100 years since a u.s. senator became governor of louisiana. that person was democrat newton blanchard. he did it in 1904. congratulations to today's winner. the other number, the damn yankees signed tanaka. puddy, we'll be right back. [ sneezes ] [ coughs ] i've got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it's time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won't relieve all your symptoms. hmm? [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. thanks for the tip. [ male announcer ] no problem. oh...and hair products. aisle 9. [ inhales deeply ] oh what a relief it is. ♪ oh what a relief it is.

mitch mcconnell hearts rand paul, at least during this election season.edfellows in this moment, especially relating to issues of defense and national security. it is -- goes without saying thgs not your father's gop, a group that will not extend unemployment assistance for -- without pay fors for first time in a very long time. but it is also a party that is split on the issue of defense spending as per the sequester and where you see in very clear evidence a real chief on the issue of nsa. what is the legacy of this going forward do you think? >> i think the operative phrase there is at least during this election season because there are clear differences between the position of rand paul and many others within the republican party. if you go back to the attacks of 9/11, rand paul was as far as i can recall, the only republican voice who came out and said maybe america should examine its foreign policy if it wanted to get to the roots of why al kid was so hateful of what america was doing around the world. he got slammed for saying that. when he comes o

at the top of the list, states like kentucky whereby mitch mcconnell has to find a way and tea partyatt k kivy free of freedom works says, grimes will pose a formidable challenge. >> if mitch mcconnell wins the primary, he's highly vulnerable in the general. if you're worried about saving that seat, you may need to reconsider your premises. >> in georgia, there are eight republicans, including three house members, that are battling it out in a race that's seen some fiscal and social conservative pushing the entire group to the right. democrats believe that could help michelle nunn in the general. and places like alaska where failed 2010 candidate joe miller is back. in a state where the gop believes it has a golden opportunity to knock off democrat mark begich. ken buck, he ran and lost in 2010, and he would carry that baggage into a race against mark udall if he can get out of the primary. north carolina, greg brannan has been a thorn in the side of the republican front-runner tom tillis. louisiana, bill cassidy has been pushed to the right by tea party favorite, rob manus. and as w

>>> and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is also on interview as well making predictions for the fall in the senate and the elections. thanks for watching fox news where more news is always on the way. >>> imhe's chris wallace. president obama gives his state of the union address tuesday hoping to jump-start his second term. >>> i want to work with congress whenever and wherever i can, but the one thing i'm emphasizing to all my cabinet members is we're not going to wait. >>> we'll discuss the president's agenda, obamacare and more with white house senior advisor dan pfeiffer. >>> then republicans set their sights on retaking the senate this november hoping to overcome the in-fighting that's plagued their party. >> we don't. need more class warfare and we don't need more interference from washington. >> we'll talk about the gop's plan for 2014 with a top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. it's a fox news sunday exclusive. >>> plus, growing signs hillary clinton plans to run for president. our sunday panel handicaps her chances. all right now on "fox news sunday." >>> and

. >> we'll talk about the gop's plan for 2014 with a top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. plus, growing signs hillary clinton plans to run for president. our sunday panel handicaps her chances all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. president obama says 2014 must be a year of action for the country. but that follows a year when his agenda went nowhere on capitol hill. here to preview tuesday's state of the union address is white house senior adviser dan pfeifer. welcome back to "fox news sunday." we hear that tuesday night for the third straight year the president's main theme is going to be income inequality and building ladders of opportunity. here's what he had to say about that last year. >> it is our generation's task to reignite the true engine of american economic growth. a rising, thriving middle class. >> what new or different ideas will the president offer this year to achieve? >> i think what you're going to hear from the president on tuesday night is a series of con crea concrete propo

joining us now to talk about the gop plan for country, the senate's top republican, mitch mcconnell of kentucky. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> glad to be here, chris. >> you just heard the president's senior advisor, dan pfeiffer, talk about the president's agenda, what he wants to accomplish through congress, or as you says, increasingly through executive order working around congress. your reaction? >> well, now we're in the sixth year of the obama economy. more spending, more borrowing, more debt, more regulation. as was pointed out in your first segment, median house hole income down $2,300 a year during this period. family poverty statistics at the highest level since the statistics have been kept. i think it is time to go in a different direction and there are some job creating steps that he can take right now. he can approve the keystone pipeline. can he work with us on trade agreements. my party is much more interested in global trade than the democrats are. if he would convince his own members, we can do some business on trade. he ought to stop things like the w

. >> and mitch mcconnell reacts. millions of credit cards hacked. and who pays the bill? jerry wulis has the advice. plus, she had a choice, keep her unborn baby or her eye sight. her decision on huckabee tonight. >> ladies and gentlemen. governor mike huckabee. (applause) >> thank you very much. thank you. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. this week, a couple hundred thousand people will descend on washington d.c. in the annual march for life. if i hadn't just told you about it, you probably wouldn't have heard approximate. it you know, let a dozen or so occupy wall street protestors set up camp on the washington mall it will get attention on the nightly news and make the front page of the new york types and washington post. 250,000 pro-life advocates, will at best get a brief mention. implying that right- wing nuts are engaged on a war on women. and a better than even chance, the group will be labelled 18- abortion throw it deserves the moniker of pro-life. if they are anti- abortion, does that make the opposition pro abortion instead o

to a very extreme candidate with richard murdoch and we are seeing the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell grappling with a challenge from his right flank. senator lindsey graham is now being challenged on the right and in many more ways it has become and i was reading in the washington times were now senator pat roberts is actually being challenged from the right and this is a huge fight within the party. and within the book we talk about what is going on within this fight within the party and that israel and i think that until the party can grapple with its direction, i think that they are going to struggle to win the white house for quite some time to come. and there are a number of issues where the party is fighting and there is a chapter in the book called going out of power when i talk about the national security implications of the civil war within them party for the first time in 2012. and there was no discussion on national security as we would normally expect it from the republican party. and this has been an issue that the party has owned since vietnam and this is one of the mai

mitch mcconnell has incredible -- a credible challenge from a tea party member. you have the tea party response. rand paul is giving the rand paul response. there is the official republican response. let's start with rogers. not the only woman but the highest ranking. she is from washington state. i think the publicans are open -- i think republicans are hoping she can speak in a real way into the camera and to american people in response about home issues. she just gave birth to her third child as a member of congress, which is a record, i think. she is a mom and a repeated mom as a politician. that is the official response, the one they would like to break through the most. lee especially, and cruise to a lesser extent have been pivoting off of the legal debacle, at least for moderate voters. pivoting off that and starting to talk about other issues besides the affordable care act and obamacare all the time. lee has given a couple of speeches to solving poverty and income levels. most of the nuts and bolts will not surprise you -- low taxes. incentives for hiri

his work and what he has done to help people of kentucky. >> like many others i have cancer but mitch mcconnelln and helped create cancer screening programs and provide compensation for sick workers. he knocked down walls for us. he helped save people's lives. >> that's great news. what senator mcconnell is not saying is that he has also vowed to deny millions of americans health care. >> the single best thing we can do for the american health care system is to get rid of obamacare. >> i would probably be running for the exit, too, if i supported this law. >> i would be looking to change the subject. >> this law is a disease. anybody who thinks we moved beyond it is dead wrong. obamacare should be repealed root and branch. >> but obamacare is already helping millions of americans. just look at the senator's home state. over 130,000 people have signed up. and today we got more great news. nationwide over 6 million people have become medicaid ineligible since obamacare took effect. and another 3 million young americans gained coverage through their parents' plan. that is 9 million people who migh

you have mitch mcconnell and lindsay graham. a pitch for the path forward in the new book, america, hope for change. >> always great news on your show. >> let's talk about this issue. you are a conservative republican who won in a very blue state. >> libertarian influenced. >> the question is how does the republican party get to a point not where they can win senate seats, but the point where you can run statewide in maryland again and not have the r next to your name be your biggest problem? >> you do not allow tactical differences to divide your party. the context is obamacare and it's a good example. do you not allow the tactical differences between the wins of the party. you and i both know with philosophy and positions, most republicans are right of center. pactics divide them. i would add that we are talking about this off air. it comes down to a personality and a person and a leader who can tran cent. barack obama did that. they voted for him. i think that has to do with the individual personality and leadership profile a

and mitch mcconnell of kentucky. senator, good to have you back on the show. which president do you believe is telling us the truth? >> yeah, well, we get, both versions, routinely. i think he would be smart to work with congress. look, everybody is concerned about their privacy. we are also concerned about avoiding another, 9/11 attack. a number of the techniques we developed in the last ten years have prevented those attacks. i think we can meet the balance between americans understandably high concern about their privacy and still protecting us from another terrorist attack. he would be smart, rather than doing it himself. to engage congress. i think we all have the same gel here. how do you, how do you square these two concerns. privacy on the one hand. versus, protecting the public from terrorist attack on the other. there is an article that you wrote this week in politico and challenges in the senate. harry reed's heavy hand approach to cutting off debate is taking away the intent of what our founders meant for the senate. yeah, it can be fixed. one pers

yesterday's event included kentucky senators mitch mcconnell and rand paul who were there because the designated eight kentucky counties and personally decided to attend thursday's event to show that support. pennsylvania congressman said it was a good sign. take a listen. >> the fact that you had mitch mcconnell and rand paul and myself along with president obama here today for these announcements signifies how important this is for the country. this is something that brings all of us together. >> jason furman is the chair of the white house council of economic adviseors. five were unveiled and walk me through how this gets expanded and how does a community get designated if they would like to be. >> there is a process for designating those zones and it is based on what the words say. there places that have been hit hard and are struggling to make it back. there places that we think have potential.assistance, we can catalyze them and help them grow. these are the first five. there's going to be many more designated, and just last night, you know, i was in conversation with a lot of o

we were told that mitch mcconnell will be inside the court.his is one of from one of our viewers, a tweet -- let's go to mike from murphy, north carolina. last call for our roundtable. caller: good morning. i hope that both hillary clinton and chris christie get knocked out of the nominations. if they do not, i will not have a vote. host: why? caller: if christie is not a bully, he is a smart alec. and hillary clinton is another run for barack obama. we are as close to communism as we need to be. think this underscores the dissatisfaction that a lot of people have with washington. terms ofle see in washington's inability to get anything done. this color underscores it by the twolly shunning people who are seen as the front runners in their own parties. i want to go back to something that rich said in terms of the "imperial presidency." it is laughable to me to hear about the imperial presidency when this president has tried to do so much, and has tried to work with republicans in congress. when you have somebody like mitch mcconnell who is say

wake of the extension of unemployment insurance benefits passing a key hurdle in the senate, mitch mcconnellpose that we be allowed, my side be allowed, to offer payment. >> we'll extend unemployment insurance if you kill obamacare. it is cruel and delusional. in mcconnell's world delaying obamacare would pay for the unemployment insurance extension. obamacare doesn't actually add to the deficit. this exposes the true nature of republican opposition to the extension of unemployment insurance. they're not concerned about fiscal responsibility. they are idealogically opposed. that's how rand paul can claim it would be a disservice to workers. this graph tells you everything you need to know why we still need benefits. that's that part there with the little orange dots. long-term unemployment is still higher than at any time since world war i. workers are flocking to every single job opening, even ones that are poorly paid. americans haven't gotten lazier. the long-term unemployed with caught in a vicious cycle. the longer they're unemployed, the harder it is to find a job. their children becom

we will -- we were told that mitch mcconnell will be inside the court. -- from oneof from tweet -- wersi ta last call for our roundtable. good morning. i hope that both heller gotten an chris christie get knocked out of the nominations. if they do not, i will not have vote. guesthost: why? caller: if christie is not a bully, he is a smart alec. and you are good is just another barack obama, and we are as close to communism as we need to be. thet: this is reflective of dissatisfaction of what we have with washington. the inability that we've received to get anything done. cores itler understo with the people who are seen as front runners and their parties. me to hearable to about the bureau presidency when this president has tried to do so much, and has tried to work with republicans in congress. we have some daylight mitch mcconnell saying that his very first priority was to make sure that president obama was a one term president, that is not somebody focused on making sure we actually solve this country's problem's. if you have to look at a way to go around progress, jackson get things

mitch mcconnell is facing a tough campaign this year. julian, new year's resolution for him?d the obstruction. i think now that filibuster has been reformed, move fast and move forward with nominations, judicial nominations and executive nominations. >> amy. >> for mitch mcconnell, he has to get into the pry maury. he has a lot of money, about $7 million in the war chest, and fight to keep his job op. on the democratic side, i would like to see harry reid some calling opponents names on the senate floor. >> nancy pelosi? >> i would suggest she read legislation before she pass it. there was supposed to be a resolution among congress people that they would. hopefully in 2014, they will. >> julian? >> i think she moves forward with the theme of inequality. minimum wage. stick to the economicish ice and push them. that's the best strategy for democrats. >> let's go to house majority leader eric cantor. julian, i'll start you off there. >> i think he needs start governing at some of the same challenge that president obama faces. he need think of himself, not just as opposition fig

key state for democrats, and the senator levin seat in michigan, he is retiring, and senator mitch mcconnell, another lean democrat , and then also in tennessee with senator lamar alexander. tossup races. i think we are pretty well also five --ossified. they know where they are and know what they are going to do. they have been pulled and pulled and pulled and micro-targeted. everybody has a really good feel for where they are, and i feel it is not likely, not impossible, but it is not likely that republicans can pick this up. unless democrats find candidates like we are, they would have to find time, and then we would have a better shot. gues i think rich is much more realistic. i've heard republicans talk about this, almost giddy in terms of their chances of taking over the senate. you cannot take anything for granted, but i guarantee you after they changed the senate rules, they're going to do everything they can in order to keep the senate. and i think the trajectory for the affordable care act is going is helping them in that. we have more than 6 million people signed up for it, enrolle

it's john boehner and mitch mcconnell who picked it up. rush limbaugh said i hope he fails.nt him from getting anything done. >> now, joe, you know we also learned that talking about members of congress in the media, louis gohmert is bringing sean. people knew realize it's nato see much republican versus democrat, it's now -- it's the fact that we're all in this beat together. and the president has addressed issues that everybody is concerned about. and i think people are learning that if they keep following the rush limbaughs who are the aristocracy of the far right, these are folk who are trying to divide us. >> before you shut them out, though, bill, flash, news flash, news flash. glenn beck. >> no. >> his eminence glenn beck of the aristocracy of the right wing. he apologized for being divisive while he was on fox. listen to this. >> i remember it as an awful lot of fun and that i made an awful lot of mistakes. and i wish i could go back. and be more uniting in my language, because -- i think i played a role unfortunately in helping tear the country apart. and it's not w

we see more ted cruzes and rick perrys than john boehners and mitch mcconnells.the moderation we used to see is being replaced and as a direct result the middling area become smaller and smaller which impacts republican and national policy. most importantly, the traditionalists and -- have grown closer together. there's more opportunities for this bridge, especially during the reagan administration. that alters not only the political discourse but outcomes, especially for today's modern republican party. with that in mind, there are really four ways that these three groups can cooperate in order to achieve their ultimate goals. the first being the idea of a supremacy-inferiority split. there are not willing to say, you have control over issue. you are in charge. there is much more give-and-take than that. secondly you could have a simple split. the idea of we agree to disagree, something we are not seeing within those two camps. you can leave it ambiguous. this is an argument where activists kind of fudge the differences between themselves and reality it is not t

joining me now, republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. sir, you are getting ready to announce a major pushback on the irs which has been doing what, while we've not exactly been paying attention to it in recent weeks. >> well, while they're not seriously investigating the irs scandal that i first spoke about back in the 2012 campaign, megyn, they're now initiating a new rule through the treasury department in the irs to quiet the voices of outside groups. it is called a c-4, and what they will do is redefine what outside groups can do in a way to silence the voices of conservative critics. a new regulation by the administration. you know how the president has been using regulations to get around congress. they tried to do this through legislation back when they controlled both the house and senate and it did not pass. so now you're looking at an administration trying to silence the voices of their critics going into this important fall election by using the treasury department regulations. >> so they're basically going to try to change th

it's a gop question, a mitch mcconnell question, whether or not they decide to do this and move forwardhe senate, if they do it in the senate, it has to pass john boehner's house. that's going to be a much tougher battle on its own. but this is one of those things where there's not some pledge they've all signed. there's not some sort of law of political physics that is keeping them from doing it. if they just decided to extend jobless benefits to people who had the misfortune to be on the bottom rung of the labor force during the worst financial crisis, which is not caused by ordinary workers in the last generation, if they decide to keep helping those people out, they could just change their vote and keep helping them out. >> let's listen to harry reid and mitch mcconnell describe their standoff. >> we have a filibuster again in front of us. first, republicans claimed they were filibustering these benefits because the extension was not paid for. so reid of rhode island came forward with a pay-for amendment. then republicans explained that they were fill bustering because they have not