pat buchanan. >> accept the free market. fairly compensated. >> they're mostly exploited or we wouldn't be talking about this. >> i would say a. i would say the free market is not operating as a free market because the regulations in terms of students supposed to be doing academics are being broken blanket across the nation so that reality does not conform with the stated reality. >> what do you think? >> i think it's not at all free market. you have a captured market. with a monopoly by the ncaa. >> go somewhere else. >> i see reason here to believe it's overcompensated. if our colleges and universities put the same $3 billion into academic scholarships it would give the country a competitive edge on much more -- on much more than the sports field. you understand that? >> issue through. carly fiorina, u.s. president? >> like mrs. clinton, i, too, have traveled the globe. unlike mrs. clinton, i know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment. i have met vladimir putin and i know that his ambition will not be deterred

pat buchanan? pat: no, i don't think so, john. you certainly should review it but i don't think reform it necessarily. look, these drones are really indispensable weapons in a war against terror, especially in a war in which the enemy yupes no no-man's land. this war has less collateral damage than any war we've ever had. john, when you were a young man we took out dresden took out 250,000 people, american p.o.w.'s were right there in dresden. we didn't know about it. kurt vonnegut wrote "slaughterhouse-five" about it. whether you agree or disagree with the war this is an indispensable weapon and you can't give it up. john: senator dianne feinstein wants the whole program stem to stern to be analyzed. pat: well, you can never stop doing that, but the idea of giving it up is why not -- an impossibility if you are going to fight terrorism. john: mccain would like to give it up, too. eleanor: i agree with pat they're not going to give up the drone program. the think the president is ambivalent about these so-called signature drone st

no i vividly remember being in new hampshire when pat buchanan was talking to one poor soul on a freezing street, somewhere in manchester, surrounded by maybe a hundred reporters. it is inevitably inevitably, i think phoney. >> you know, there's also the question of, who controls the message. if reporters had had a crack at hillary, certainly someone who you have said she had declined to answer back in 2012 when a congressional committee asked her about did you use a private e-mail everybodier is when you were secretary of state? at the same time you say candidates -- a lot of candidates have done this, but not usually in the first week of a rollout, when you say hey, folks, here i am running for president. >> look i think the campaign was trying to figure out a way not to make her seem like the kate mckinnon caricature on "saturday night live," which, by the way, is far less friendly as amy poehler's was, as this power-driven person. >> devastating. >> yeah, but i still want to make this point that two things. one depending on where you are politically, people can either look like they'r

like pat buchanan, for instance. karen: i heard both jim webb and martin o'malley were appearing in iowa friday. i think, before either of them have the potential to cause problems for her, she has to make a few more mistakes, as she did on the level of the e-mail controversy. al: so are most formidable rival may be hillary clinton? karen: right. al: you don't see a o'malley or web gaining traction in new hampshire? jerry: i think politics is a vacuum. it is never as easy as it looks. there will be a moment in which somebody will look like a plausible alternative to hillary. we will explore that possibility, but it is hard to see right now. i think, if there is a stumble there is the jill biden question him horizon. is he preparing to save the party from its self if something terrible happens? probably. al: probably. and don't forget, john kerry. he is a septuagenarian. if she should stumble for whatever reason, or have health problems, that bench is pretty weak. jerry: that is the most striking thing about this camp

pat buchanan. langston hughes. kurt vonnegut. gore vidal.my: we will speak the nation's editor and publisher katrina vanden heuvel. we will speak about the hundred 50 year history, to politics today, from elizabeth warren, to ted cruz, to arming ukraine. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. former military ruler muhammadu buhari has defeated incumbent goodluck jonathan in nigeria's presidential elections. jonathan conceded after results showed him losing by some 2.7 million votes. it's the first time a nigerian opposition party has risen to power through a democratic vote. a spokesperson for buhari's all progressives congress party hailed the landmark result. >> we are all happy because we are witnessing history. this is the first time in nigeria that in -- a sitting government will be voted out of power using purely democratic means. before now, when governments are not popular, they are sit tight or removed by the military. amy: buhari's democratic victory marks

for the republican party but not talking economy, not talking jobs they are back to the party of pat buchanane 1990s and 1980s and that is a losing strategy for november. >> hurt the republican party, joy. you know, "the washington post" reports, quote, some republicans also fear that indiana is only the first in a series of brush fires that could engulf the party as it struggles to adapt to the nation's rapidly changing demographics and social morals. is the 2016 campaign going to present the gop with lots of issues like the one that sprang up in indiana? >> you have to head to south carolina and for a republican to not be right and jeb bush cannot afford to do a rudy giuliani and wait for florida to come to life. i think it's going to be really hard particularly for ted cruz as you just showed is willing to occupy that far right space and say i'm the guy that is going to do what george w. bush promised to do in 2000 which is to be the person that stands forthrightly for christian conservatives to get them to come out and vote and join the coalition. it was george w. bush who largely awakene

which one of those could say this could cause some trouble, pat buchanan trouble for instance. >> i heard webb and martin o'malley appearing but i think before either of them has cause problems she's got to make a few more mistakes as she did on the level of the e-mail controversy. >> her most formidable rival may be hillary clinton. >> totally. >> you don't see o'malley or webb gaining tractions even a contrarian state like new hampshire. >> i think politics affords a vacuum. i don't think it's as easy as it looks at a time like this. there will be a moment which somebody will look as if they're a plausible alternative and we will all explore that possibility but it's hard to see right now. i do !.jnñ though if there's some serious stump knowledge there's still the joe biden question on the horizon. is the vice president preparing himself to step in and save the party from itself if somebody terrible happens? probably. >> don't forget john kerry. >> how about al gore. >> he may be too young. but iany reason have a health problem boy that bench is pretty weak though. >> i think that's the

. >> that's the approach heading into 2016, there's the pat buchanan memo he wrote to nixon about "law & order" politics, in which he said, you can cleave the country in half and we'll get the bigger half. like the definition of wedge issues. you see obama pressing on things that he both believes in, but senses are wedge issue for democrats. >> loretta lynch turned out to be one that nobody expected. >> the republicans managed to stumble into making the confirmation of the next attorney general a wedge issue. >> right. >> msnbc contributor, howard dean, always a pleasure. >> thanks for having me on, chris. >>> earth day tends to be an opportunity for appropriate and accurate dire warnings over the state of our planetary stewardship. but there's a very optimistic story to tell about the trajectory of where things are headed right now, both on the politics of climate change and the technological revolution of renewables. for instance, the forecast for power generation for clean energy versus the forecast for fossil fuels has reached an exciting turning point. because, quote, the world is

as pat buchanan would say, his support appears to be a big fat nothing burger.there there was a lot of not anger towards him but not that much interest in him among republican voters. a very small sample but there was literally no one in the room interested. i think that's the big question for people in the party which is jeb has the support of a lot of people in the establishment and a lot of donors. the question that you hear a lot of republican -- even people are generally sympathetic to him is what's his base in the party? who's for him throughout? and now whether it's chris christie or marco rubio or scott walker or even john kasich who's talking about getting in there are a lot of people encroaching on that accomplishment turf and he doesn't have that turf locked down and there's strong people in are going to be making a move on that turf putting aside the anti-establishment bracket. . so i'm not sure i'd bet jeb against the field right now. >> and here's why i would. because it always happens early and i wrote about this i guess in last cycle in a column

only exceptions were john mccain in 2008 and pat buchanan in 1996. -- 2000 i say the exception there. state is so interesting politically, when we look at gallop polls over time you can see how identities of voters are changing. some years lean more republican and other years lean more democratic. past years since 2012 republicans in blue and red chris crossing each other and alternating there. very interesting how politics come into play and why all eyes are there on new hampshire. >> thanks so much. joining us by phone is doug hadaway, former adviser for hillary clinton's 2008 campaign and on the ground with clinton in new hampshire last time around. doug, it's good to have you with me. what do you think how long it's going to take until a primary challenger comes in to take? of the attention off hillary clinton or do you think she's going to be in it by herself through this? >> that's a good question. other people testing water, i don't see them deciding to take another route, i'll bet you some show up in new hampshire because people in new hampshire like a good debate and like a g

. >> joining me with reaction the author of the greatest comeback, patrick j buchanan with us. pat, shouldn't it be a prereck kwi sit that iran stops being the number one state sponsor of terror, stop saying it's nonnegotiable israel's destruction and stop saying death to america before we even sit down at the table with them? >> no no, sean. look in 1956 crew chef says we will bury you americans and three years later he was in the white house with -- the former president of iran said we're going to wipe off the map. he was in office eight years. sean, and he's back teaching in college. >> you don't believe them? wasn't that a mistake we made in world war ii? that the only person that seemed to really understand the nature of hitler's ambitions was a guy by the name of winston churchill? wasn't he one guy that understood -- >> sean, ahmadinejad was in power for eight years. he did nothing. he was a blowhard. are we going to be by words of some character in iran. >> what do you mean blowhard? the blowhard that supplied hezbollah rockets and other terror groups rockets to fight a pro

buchanan. he got big reaction from the crowd, it seemed like he was a real threat, and then somehow ended up being a paper tiger. john: hard to forget that great race. go, pat. market, -- market -- mark, give us the next one. mark: one thing about rand paul, to paraphrase mario, most of his rhetoric is all pros know poetry. he wrote into his announcement speech today a very nice story very well written about helping a couple in guatemala who have failing eyesight. listen to how he tells this story, draining it of all intended effect. rand: one day in guatemala a man arrived and told me that i had operated on his wife the day before. his wife could see clearly for the first time in years, and she begged him to get on the bus and travel the winding roads and come back to our surgery center. he too was nearly blind. from hardened cataracts. after the surgery, the next day his wife sat next to me, as i unveiled the patch from his eyes, it was a harmful emotional moment for me to see them , looking at each other clearly for the first time in years. to see the face they loved again. as i saw the joy in their eyes i thought, this is why i became a doctor. mark: i