. >> mr. walshourself, personally have had the humbling experience of being beaten by around ten points last november, just as republicans lost a second consecutive presidential election. what is your assessment of where the gop has gone wrong? >> i don't know that it's where we've gone wrong, martin. the gop's having a fight. i mean, we're having a bit of a revolution in the party. we're trying to figure out our way. and, look, we got our butts handed to us in november. we did lose. we lost around the country. many republicans like myself fell victim to redistricting, but fair is fair, we lost and there are a lot of republicans, martin, that think the way to be successful and to win is to just sound more like democrats. and if we can do that, maybe just maybe we'll be more successful. i don't think that's the way to go. i think republicans have to take the hard road which is saying that we're over $100 trillion in debt, we can't keep giving the american people all these things. we have to stand for

. >> mr. walsh? >> jonathan, these two guys, jonathan, these two guys weren't just losers. part of radical islam. they were radicalized. >> that's right. >> this is a threat we've known has existed for a number of years. >> it has nothing to do with the immigration bill. it's irrelevant. it's not being rushed through as you said. the bill has been pending for white a whi quite a while. >> jonathan, it's sophisticated mindsets like yours that get americans killed because you don't recognize we're at war. >> joe, i think i can call you joe now since you're not in congress anymore. you know, that's kind of -- that's the kind of level of debate saying it's people like you who cause us to be hit by terrorists. that's what lowers the whole tenner of the conversation. makes it very hard to have reasonable, good policy-making. the emotion you apply to the issue is frankly very harmful to protecting us. >> it's the inability, jonathan, of people like you to recognize that we're at war. >> mr. walsh, thank you so much. i'm afraid we've run out of time. joe walsh, jonathan alter. hope

quickly on yang saber rattling washington sending in a weapons to that area that part of the world mr walsh what exactly is going on here. well in some ways it's a repeat of what we've seen in previous plays you know this is not the first time we've seen brinksmanship provocation on the part of north korea's koreans this is sort of their playbook and we're used to it but i agree things are different in other ways we've seen things that we've never seen before like the u.s. use of b. fifty two b. two bombers symbolically flying over south korea and the thing that i would be watching right now is the case on industrial complex it was south korean workers go there to work and then return to south korea the north koreans have stopped that and so there are about eight hundred workers south koreans in north korea waiting for that to resume so. they they they have in the past when things have gotten bad case on still kept going once in two thousand and nine it was suspended one other time but basically that sort of chugged along if they shut that down permanently that would be a sign that somethin

mr. jim walsh.eryone is asking me, is it that cold in boston? it is. >> you're clearly not a native new englander. you picked a bad spot. >> we're in a wind tunnel. i'll ask you since we are here talking. did the fbi drop the ball in interviewing the older tsarnaev brother? >> i mean at a very simple level, based just on the outcome you would have to say yes. he interviewed him and he went on to commit an act. but i don't think we have the full answer here yet. what was the process that they followed? the fbi interviews a ton of folks every year. only a fraction of which are actually dangerous. they interview me when i go to aroon and north korea and come back. but obviously either they -- he fell through the cracks or at the time that they were interviewing him they weren't giving him anything actionable to continue his case. >> but, lou, he did visit russia, stayed there for six months. you feel the fbi dropped the ball? >> i'm not going to rush to judgment on this. i think we're going to have hea

ken walsh, mr.dent, members of the white house correspondent board, members of the association, tom selleck. hi. how are you? roar. real thrill to be here. i want to say there is actually nothing more inspiring than watching a peaceful transition of power from one whitehouse -- correspondents association president to another. i'm ok now. i'm all right. before i begin i have a few announcements to make. bear with me. the first is for the democratic congressman present. please refrain from switching parties during the dinner. it is a very confusing to your waiter. got thetand mason deal same dinner twice. i have a good news -- tonight's event is sold out. arerding to ken walsh there 2700 people present. i understand michael huffington which is to dispute that number --wishes to dispute that number. quick announcement. will the person with the washington license plate number dornan?ease see bob he has not offended yet. -- you yet. finally, i have an announcement for those of you watching tonight's even

mr. terrorism after his history is really galling. >> krystal ball, joan walsh, thank you both for your time tonight. be sure to catch krystal on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. check out joan's book "what's the matter with white people?" it's out in paperback this week. >>> ahead, the investigation, we're learning what motivated them and how they learned to make bombs. >>> days before the george w. bush library opening, we know what's inside. and how they're rewriting the history books. >>> mark sanford, trespassing. and a full page newspaper ad. it all adds up to problems. we're live in south carolina tonight. stay with us. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. this is awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is, business pro. yes, it is. go national. go like a pro. >>> have you joined the politics nation conversation on facebook

mr. mcconnell: yesterday i was proud to congratulate coach pitino and the louisville men's basketball team for an impressive national championship win, and today i'd like to recognize coach walsh and the lady cardinals for playing their hearts out last night. they were the lowest seeded team to make it all the way to the title game in decades, and that's really quite an achievement. so my sincere congratulations to you, lady cards, keep up the hustle for next year's tournament, and to the connecticut huskies, congratulations on your hard-fought victory last night. you earned it. now, on an entirely different matter, later today everyone everyone -- excuse me. later today, we'll seef he receive the president's budget. like nearly every one of his budgets so far, it's late. really late. the extra two months he's kept the country on hold, both the house and the senate, have actually already passed their own budgets. so it's hard to see what the white house plans to accomplish here. i want to believe the intention is not to purposefully blow up the budget process so the president can campaign against the very budget process he blew up, but from the reports we're seeing, it's getti