of name recognition from her father, former senator sam nunn. >> so let me bring in karl again if ian, because you have been very concentrated on exactly this point. you, quite frankly, and other members of the gop establishment and the idea is to try to make sure that you get the strongest possible candidate winning the republican primary, some would say that means feeding the tea party candidate so that you have a good candidate for the general election. how is that going? >> i think it's going very well. first of all it's not about beating the tea party. it's about keeping us from having todd akins and paul brown for example. there are other tea party supporters, tea party members supporting other candidates. it's that he went out and said todd akin was right. we've got to avoid situations like that. if you take a look at the republicans candidates, whether tomcaten in arkansas whom all the groups are supporting or dan sullivan in alaska who this week won the club for growth endorsement or bill cassidy in louisiana or tom phillips in north carolina we have a very good cast of cha

whoever rins faces democrat michelle nun, daughter of georgia's respected senator sam nunn. the left thinks this is one of their best chances for a pickup. in kentucky republican senator mitch mcconnell faces a tea party rival but has a commanding lead in the polls. democrats think alison grimes whose father was a state party boss has a chance to knock off mcconnell in the fall. pennsylvania's gop could have tom corbett is not. he's expected to win his primary but five democrats are running to face him in the fall and he trails all of them in the polls. on the left democrats this year tried to minimize tough primaries against their incumbents while on the right there are some but the gop's house majority is generally considered pretty safe and there's a real chance the republicans can pick up the six seats in the senate for the majority there as well. bret? >> carl, thank you. >>> let's bring in our panel early now to talk about 2014. syndicated columnist george will, juan williams, columnist with "the hill" and judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior judicial analyst. we'v

, daughter of form senator sam nunn and has centrist credentials and his name. and georgia is a tough state for democrats. they think over time it's becoming a more -- a better opportunity. that's the other way on the board where they might do a pickup. >> allison grimes in kentucky, a state where the president is extremely unpopular. but she's -- she's really latched on to the minimum wage issue. she's not trying to defend obamacare. she doesn't want the election to be about obamacare. and polls show the minimum wage is very popular. especially among women. are -- our most recent "wall street journal"-nbc poll showed women were 65% more likely to vote for a candidate who supports a minimum wage increase. so it's interesting to see how democrats like her are trying to steer the conversation away from obamacare. into more friendly terrain. gwen: how much of a drag or bonus is it for the president to be as unpopular as he is right now for these two parties? >> it's definitely a bonus for the republicans. i mean, virtually every democratic candidate in the competit

in georgia, michelle nunn wants to win the senate seat once held by her father sam nunn. jason carter, grand son of jimmy is running for governor in that state. governor andrew cuomo in new york, holds the job his father had for three terms. he's running for re-election this year, and so is governor jerry brown, whose dad was also governor of california. senators pat roberts and mary landrieu have family connections in politics, so does senator mark begich, there is the udall cousins, mark of colorado, and tom of new mexico, both running for re-election this year. in the house, there are more candidates of political dine nasties that we have time to tell you about. most notable of them is debby dingle, wife of the longest serving congressman john dingle who is leaving a seat who is held by someone in the ding m family since 1933. debbie hopes to keep that seat dinging. of course having familial connections in politics isn't always a recipe for success. that somebody was not ben quayle, son of dan. he announced he wouldn't run this cycle, joining a lobbying firm instead. l

who has recognition from her father, sam nunn. >> you have been concentrated on exactly this point. idea is to try to make sure you get the strongest possible candidate winning the republican primary, some would say that means beating the tea party candidate. how is that going? >> i think it's going very well. first of all, it's not about beating tea party. it's about beating paul and i can todd akin. we have to avoid situations like that. and if you take a look at the republic republican candidates, bill cassidy or tom tillis, we have a good cast of characters. >> we have less than a minute left. is mr. rogue involved in some irrational exuberance some. >> one thing works against this being a wave election where republicans should sweep all the difficult seats is that like the last two off year elections, '06 and 2010, the republican brand name is unpopular out there. a poll out there week, republicans 26-45 negative, 7 or 8 points worse than december. doesn't mean that's dispositive, but it's not a good sign. >> but not being reflected in the head to head numbers. >> glad to see w

and i realized this when i was working for senator nunn.we always kept running into the same problem of lack of cooperation between law enforcement agencies. that was always the finding in every one of our reports. there wasn't coordination and cooperation between law enforcement agencies. did anybody ever change the personnel rules? did anybody ever change the performance standards, the am performance standards for the employees to make certain that cooperation was something they got graded on? i never really thought of that until i worked for the commerce departme department. and secretary of commerce made affirmative, a priority. so every senior executive got rated on what he did about affirmative action. and i tell you, you want to grab the attention of a bureaucrat? hold up his pay rise, hold up his performance review. and all of a sudden you see change. but when i talk about that on the hill and i talk about that to bureaucrats, they all say, that won't make a difference. but we've never tried. so this isn't rocket science. we just ne

fracking. [ laughter ] but tune ins says the last thing -- but nunn says the last thing they need --anies are good at self policing because when there are bad actors it hurts everybody. >> is there a way oil and gas companies could be better than they are? >> i would say no. the oil and gas producers that are there care about the community. >> see they care about the communities and there's no way they could be better corporate citizens? despite one or two teeny, tiny snafus. >> a drilling crew punctured the pipeline located south of dallas. >> a dozen small earthquakes over the past few years were an indirect result of fracking. >> an explosion at the chevron in mississippi. >> if a well explodes, the companies should at least alert the land owner. >> what is more direct than the smoke signal and the smell of sul fer? >> the oil and gas industry is not responsible to the people around here. >> actually they couldn't be more responsible like what a gas well exploded in green county pennsylvania chevron came to the rescue with immediate compensation. >> chevron came in. they ordered 1

sen nunn said the wins were consistent with the story estate. instead he shot his girlfriend through the bathrooms door. legal experts say the case is going well for the prosecution about the decisive stage of the trial will come into stories himself is called the witness box. oh and a movie. it gains and losses the next leg of the fun the weakening the phone today the story is the first amputee to run in the olympics is charged with premeditated murder. he says he mistook saying come from intruders the chances for its fortune is now at the paralympic games in sochi german among those here on the slot vancouver has won her second gold medal on the twenty one year old athlete already won gold in the downhill event on saturday. today she took first in the super g but her victory was overshadowed by the serious collision of two american owners. here's a llama nichols and stephanie victor crashed into each other on the slope. to be evacuated to hospital by helicopter. the statement from the us team said but the athletes are conscious and on their wa

and i realized this when i was working for senator nunn. we always kept running into the same problem of lack of cooperation between law enforcement agencies. that was always the finding in every one of our reports. there wasn't coordination and cooperation between law enforcement agencies. did anybody ever change the personnel rules? did anybody ever change the performance standards, the am performance standards for the employees to make certain that cooperation was something they got graded on? i never really thought of that until i worked for the commerce departme department. and secretary of commerce made affirmative, a priority. so every senior executive got rated on what he did about affirmative action. and i tell you, you want to grab the attention of a bureaucrat? hold up his pay rise, hold up his performance review. and all of a sudden you see change. but when i talk about that on the hill and i talk about that to bureaucrats, they all say, that won't make a difference. but we've never tried. so this isn't rocket science. we just n

the aussie shows from the pro russian government in crimea they were no irregularities i doubt sen nunn and thanks for joining us from sin temple. well it has been two weeks since progress in force to seize control of crimea ukraine now says russia has also taken control of the key natural gas distribution right next to crimea according to kiev western troops who in the village of stroke called on the crimean border yesterday and took over the plant that has ratcheted up tensions even further. ukraine's calling it an invasion and says it has the right to do whatever it needs to. ukrainian tv says these the russian helicopters circling the extreme cold beer. ukraine's foreign ministry says that iran ap russian soldiers moved in and took control of the vintage early yesterday afternoon the ukrainian border service the number of troops higher around one hundred and twenty. colby has about ten km north of the border with crimea it over to a gas distribution list. these are indeed russian soldiers. this could be russia's military intervention in ukraine upset of crimea. local residents told

we have two chances, michelle nunn and you've got longer gan grimes in kentucky, they look to be twos right now. >> i think they are. they are both incredibly competitive candidates sean again, those are states where issues for women's health basic rights for women are going to be issues. certainly -- i'm glad you mentioned kay hagen, she's been an incredible champion and great senator for north carolina. these are issues that are going to be important in her race. kentucky for sure and georgia. look, this is -- these are putting races on the map that i think folks thought were probably not going to be competitive. in all of the races again, women voters, when women turn out to vote and they know where the candidates stand, they are determined and particularly in close elections. >> where do the republicans find these crazy people, we call the clown car on "hardball." they seem four or five guys running and one is say bit screwy on women's issues. are any of them, watching wolf in connecticut but that's a hard grab for the democrats anyway. >> chris, you look at tom corbett running f

when president clinton was in office, he authorized me and sam nunn and colin powell to be to haiti and also authorized me to go to north korea. we've had good relationships, sometimes not personal in political areas but every time we meet at an international event or opening of a new library or funeral or something like that, we are always very harmonious, our wives and all of us, presidents always drop anything that might be divisive between us and we are like a fraternity with a very small membership and shared a lot of problems. and that greatly respect each other and that's the way i feel about all the presidents that have succeeded me. >> rose: there are those who say the following. that you -- >> go ahead. >> rose: you bristle at the idea of people always saying he's the most popular post president. >> i don't object to that at all. >> rose: it's nice to be the most popular president but you think it minimizes or deminimizes the things that i said. >> it does. >> camp david. >> nobody remembers how much challenge there was around the world. we were in the depth of the cold war an

sam nunn good morning. i'm james fletcher what turnip street over to america for our forecast. >>erica: started off from the james lick freeway to read the problems with all out there. when the really not a factor we are certain the morning off with temperatures of the 40's and santa rosa and livermore. 47 degrees of the door in oakland 3¢ for its fiscal very mild coming out at 53 degrees so although it is called at spots we are looking forward to another day of potentially record- breaking highs plenty of upper 70's and the south bay for to that the aldon valley is 75 degrees expected in mountain view. so another gorgeous day of course the warmest per readings are expected indian lands. vallejo hitting a high of 7375 for walnut creek. i think temperatures will remain in the '60s for the coastline. san francisco job to a high of 70. if you're heading up to one country today it would be nice of there as well. the 7 day around the bay forecast shows that this weather is gwen to stick around a very enjoyable springlike weather over the next couple of days to take a look at next we

and i remember calling up senator nunn and i said, senator, what's going on? and i see a former colleague of mine from senator nunn's office sitting in the audience. and senator typical, and that's why it was so great to work with sam, he said let's get the old gang back together again. so john hamre a bunch of the other people from the armed services and psi, let's get together and talk. so we went over to csis actually and sat down had a nice lunch. and the bottom line was, and i remember he pointed me to talk to a couple of his friends who were former heads of gao, and they reminded me, and the senator reminded me, and head of gao reminded me, defense department procurement has been on the high risk list since 1991. and it's never gotten off. the defense department to this day cannot give you an auditable budget an auditable books and records. you look at all these agencies, i first was exposed to problems in the goverent by so this isn't new. what is unique about afghanistan and what's unique about iraq is when you're in a war and then it sort of like you'