. >> paul: welcome to journ"the journal editorial report", i'm paul bgigot. that's president obama in israel and the first thawing the often frosty relationship with benjamin netanyahu. is it a turning point in the region? let's ask dan henninger and global view columnist bret stevens. so, bret, the big news out of this, or at least at the surface, that a new good feeling between prime minister y netanyahu and president obama. real or does it makes a difference? >> real, and it's definitely good in terms of the optics, president obama spent the first four years trying to put as much distance between him avenue sn the israelis as he could. it didn't serve american interests or anyone's interest. now he's there and talking about my friend bb. maybe it's not sincere, but it's creating a perception of greater closeness. that's a good thing. israelis respond better when they're being held than when they're being scolded. no question, the speech went over well. the real question is whether the president has a realistic vision for-- >> well, he raised the prospects

it isn't, paul. and with gerrymandering, creating seats in congress, that's what the left wants to preserve by continuing section 5, no longer anything to do with black voters disenfranchised. >> paul: and you were reporting that the conservative justices were very critical, skeptical and maybe near to overturning it. how did you see it? >> yeah, i think that's right. dan mentioned obviously that justice roberts questioned very closely whether or not that racism still exists in the south, but also, notable was that justice kennedy said at one point that these fa formulas may have been appropriate at one time, but times have changed and that's the key take away was the justice's awareness that those formulas bye no longer be appropriate. >> paul: do you think this decision will hang on justice kennedy as so often many of these cases do? >> i think so, i think the justices pretty much stay true to character pretty much across the board. so people will be watching justice kennedy, but he indicated in 20

i'm paul gigot.he supreme court wrapped up two days of oral arguments, setting the stage for a contentious ruling this june. they considered a challenge to proposition 8 california's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and the defense of marriage act known as doma defines marriage as between one man and one woman, survivors berths and tax deductions. joining us dan henninger, editorial board member, joe ragle, and opinion editor. and are we going to get a supreme court decision that says that gay marriage is a right imposed on 50 states? >> i don't think so. you saw disquiet left to right with even the liberal justices realizes this would be an especially radical step to say that the marriage arrangements that have prevailed for millennia are unconstitutional and as a result of bigotry. >> let's listen so sonya sotomayor. >> if you say-- what state restrictions to the number of people, with respect to -- that could get married, the incest laws that mother and child, assuming that they're the age. i ca

paul has varied track record. we know he voted against the violence against women act signed into law today. appears to support the use of transvaginal probes, and would like to repeal the 1964 civil rights act. but compared with messrs. rubio and bush, rand paul has just delivered a seamless 13-hour long promotion of himself without even resorting to a cathet catheter. for that he's probably improved his odds on a run for 2016, and that's probably the reason why he did it. thanks so much for watching this afternoon. chris matthews and "hardball" is next. >>> drone ranger. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. america is the land of liberty. people born here get the greatest most well-guarded rights in the world and there's nothing i'm prouder of. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is what america is all about. so we have debates, debates about the most central questions, these questions, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. an

then lunch with paul ryan. now john boehner is getting crabby. >> so no more big top-down deals? no more obama-boehner top-down deals or -- >> those haven't worked very well. >> the super panel weighs in on the president's new outreach to republicans. >>> the push for a minimum wage hike gets a major boost from a big-time name. that story ahead. >>> and later, michael kelly, the star of the netflix political thriller "house of cards" on the future of his hit series. >> you seem far too relaxed. you should be. because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. ah beautiful. work the camera... work it...work it! those hands. oooh la la! magnifique! what's your secret? what? huh? dawn? how can this be? [ female announcer ] dawn hand renewal with olay beauty helps lock in skin's natural moisture to improve the look and feel of hands in 5 uses. [ sponge ] gotta hand it to your beautiful hands, huh

paul: mr. president, i'd like to thank the senator from utah for his expert constitutional analysis, and i rely on his advice and analysis of legislation and want to thank him very much for being part of this debate. we are in contact with the white house and we've told the white house that we will allow debate on brennan as soon as they'll give a clarification of what their opinion is on drone strikes in america. i think really that after holder's cross-examination that his opinion may not be too far off from what we're asking for but we want it clarified in writing because we think this is an important battle for the american public and an important battle for the constitution, and so if the president or the attorney general will promise to give us something, even give us something by morning, we're more than willing to go ahead with the vote in the morning with that information. and at this time, mr. president, without yielding the field i'd like to entertain a question from the senator from

i think it it goes beyond that, paul. i think there's much to be said about this pope that resembles pope john paul, carol wotilla. both are astute and morally astute and given the fact that the pope is responsible not only for the abuses in europe and the united states, but africa, china, middle east where religious freedom is not just an idea, it's a public policy and from the days of the catacombs in the earliest years of the church, it's his responsibility to protect the people and suggest that this pope's background will be good at dealing with this. >> it's interesting, the argentina background. and with the center left government of the kerschners there. and there are italians who speak spanish and think they're british. one of the things, the pope brings sort of a bridge between argentina being the most european of latin american countries and latin america itself and the developing world, as dan says. and i think what he -- what he's learned there is that the threats to the church are not just evangelical. they'r

and that's not what paul ryan has been proposing. what he's been proposing is a radical change, such a radical change that members of his own caucus get terrified when he talks about tinkering with the age at which he implement it. >> john: we learned during the campaign last year with governor romney, they're fond of saying things like no seniors will have their medicare taken away from them. of course, anybody under age 55 would have been hurt by the voucher plan. his budget is scheduled for release next wednesday. he said we shouldn't expect any surprises. so john, could that mean he is going to try again to turn medicare into a voucher program like he floated with governor romney last campaign season? >> i think that there's very little question that he is going to propose a radical change in medicare for people under a certain age be it 55, 56. that radical change, sometimes referred to as premium support and other names is really a voucher program. and it is a program where you say to people we're going to give you a chunk of m

says rand paul.re the ones who ought to be telling the white house congress, which has the congressional authority only congress to declare war. congress should be telling the white house when they can use drones and when they can't. >> we shouldn't be asking him for drone memos. we should be giving him drone memos. we shouldn't be asking him how he's going to run the drone program. we should be telling him how he's to run the drone program. that is our authority. he -- >> bill: he is so right about that. i gotta tell you rand paul, double win yesterday for the american people and for the constitution of the united states. and for the united states senate. he conducts a real filibuster and a real filibuster on an issue where we should be up in arms over this expanded use of drones without knowing what the legal authority, what the moral authority regarding its use and without having any idea of there any limits on the use of drones. good for rand paul. what do you think? 1-866-55-press. i'm not going

-- rand paul, excuse me.f this was happening while george bush was in office he would have been impeached by those being silent now. former governor, former ambassador to the u.n., bill richardson. >> nice to see you. >> sean: let's go back to barack obama, enhanced interrogation was called torture again and again and the president apologized. let's go back. >> under my administration does not torture, my administration is going to operate in a way that leaves no doubt that we do not torture, that we abide by the geneva conventions. waterboarding is torture, it's contrary to america's traditions. it's contrary to our ideals. that's not who we are, that's not how we operate and anybody who has actually read about and understands the practice of waterboarding would say that that is torture. and that's not something we do, period. >> sean: how does somebody, explain this to me, that was so against enhanced interrogation, i don't believe it's torture, but somebody that calls it torture, how could they then suppor

rand paul or john mccain? ♪ who are you, who, who, who >> if you're sitting in a cafe and somebody thinks you e-mailed your cousin in the middle east -- >> to say we would hit them in a cafe with a hell fire missile. president obama started this. president obama is expanding this. >> as much as i disagree with president obama, i think you have been responsible in the use of the drone program. >> no one will ever forget jane fonda. >> the use of jane fonda's name does evoke certain memories with me. >> that's one thing if you want to try her for treason, but are you going to just drop a drone hell fire missile on jane fonda. >> to somehow allege or infer that the president of the united states is going to kill somebody like jane fonda is, frankly, ridiculous. >> there are some limits to filibustering, and i'm going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here. ♪ i really want to know ♪ who are you, who, who, who ♪ who are you, who, who, who >> it is a very busy day in washington. john brennan,

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we should all thank rand paul.e in civil liberties and the constitution of the united states then thank rand paul for the issues that he raised on the floor. for that issue, he's right on. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ out for us. that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and

then lunch with paul ryan.nd now john boehner is getting crabby. >> so no more big top-down deals? no more obama-boehner top-down deals or -- >> those haven't worked very well. >> the super panel weighs in on the president's new outreach to republicans. >>> the push for a minimum wage hike gets a major boost from a big-time name. that story ahead. >>> and later, michael kelly, the star of the netflix political thriller "house of cards" on the future of his hit series. >> you seem far too relaxed. you should be. >>> senator, how'd the meeting go? >> just fine. fine. great. wonderful. >> well, last night the president broke bread with a dozen republican senators over a two-hour dinner at the jefferson hotel in washington. the reviews, while lacking specifics, pretty positive. >> it was very respectful. i think people -- i think the president probably walked away saying that it was one of the best meetings he had been involved in probably since he's been here. and i think people on our side, the 12 senators that w

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and rand paul is fearless.mike lee of utah, like some of these other younger republican senators, ted cruz now, they're not afraid of older senators. they're willing to kind of break some china and mccain and lindsey graham are coming right back at them. as you said, in support of a democratic president. >> john, what did you see yesterday? >> well, i think it's interesting. "time" says in its headline, the drone debate scrambles both left and right. there are a set of issues, and particularly issues that resolve around civil iberties that standard partisan categories don't work very well. it's not only that there's fractures, fissures, you have pat leahy, totally respectable democratic senator who voted no on the brennan confirmation. you have ron wyden, the senator from oregon, who's very much on rand paul's side on this issue of drones. so you have these civil libertarian questions. you have the libertarian impulse that lives on the left and the right. you see suddenly the even weirder bedfellows and the not

. >>> coming up, after weeks of standing with rand paul, paul dynasty scion rand paul is reminding the republican party that he is still, in fact, his father's son. we'll get into the particular policies of paul, next. >>> proposition 8 and doma are about to have their day in court. but can the gop unstick itself and its platform from the 1950s? >>> and a former president is channeling bob ross by spending his time painting happy little dogs. "new york" magazine art critic jerry saltz will tell us why this may be the best thing george w. bush has ever done. hang around. ys into school break and they're already bored. hmm, we need a new game. ♪ that'll save the day. ♪ so will bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet. the only one with trap + lock technology. look! one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less. with the small but powerful picker upper, bounty select-a-size. >>> it's been an exhilarating month for senator rand paul. his 13-hour filibuster inspired the hashtag, stand with rand, and trende

in fact, the first papal visit took place in october of 1965 when pope paul vi visited. he gave a mass and visited with children. >> i thank you for the flowers all your presents and i know that you are good children. are you good? certainly. and i give you my best wishes and my blessing. >> reporter: it would be 14 years before another pope visited the united states when john paul ii made the first of seven trips here. anchor dennis richmond began our coverage of the pope's arrival in the united states on october 1, 1979. >> reporter: several hundred dignitaries are at hand with a mass that over 1 million people are supposed to attend. porter attended for president carter. tip o'neil bowed to kiss the pope's king as did ted kennedy. after mr. carter's brief welcome, the pope ended with an apology for not being able to greet with everyone. and ended with the singing of the national anthem. >> it is not possible for me to enter into every home. to greet personally every man and woman, to caress every child in who's eyes is reflected the innocence of life, still i feel clo

paul's been allowed to talk an awful lot. >> rose: fair enough. >> paul a k call it ad hominem attacks all he wants but what we believe is that what paul once believed and that is -- well, it's not even a matter of belief it's reality. we have a generational crisis. in 1933, 1934 when f.d.r. created social security, life expectancy was 62. you got your first check at 62. that's a pretty good deal. even a small government conservative liked that type of deal. we're growing -- we're living -- you know, if you can just stop from saying wow. >> sorry. i've stopped so many times. >> let me just finish -- >> i'm sorry, that was an involuntary reaction. >> you and al gore need to talk about it because, again, this is a real problem. if people don't agree with you 100% of the time, talk about add hopl them attacks, you feel like you have to take the cheap shop. sol if i could just finish. >> go ahead. >> we've got a generational crisis. americans are living longer than they did in 1933, 1934. and paul has written about this. you can see this coming. as my torts professor said, like a freight t

>> well, i will say this about ron paul and i think rand paul is a more realistic version of ron paul draw very enthusiastic crowds, very diverse crowds and young crowds, and i think a rand paul will be able to tap into some of that. i do think there is this deep distrust of the government that borders on conspiracy theories, but in a lot of ways i think there's this deep distrust and misgivings around a lot of the big institutions that people think have failed them. and in many ways i think that rand paul will be able to tap into that successfully. moderate republicans are a little afraid of rand paul because they feel like -- >> who, who? moderate republicans? who are -- i'm sorry, who are they? i'm not sure -- who are they? do they exist? i didn't know they existed. >> nia-malika henderson and toure, obviously one hour is not enough for toure. coming up, russell simmons says the nra can keep their yankee hat wearing spokesman and their african-american campaigns for themselves. stay with us. >> any male catholic can be elected pope. >> any male catholic, huh? i already know a male

this year's paul ryan budget exact copy of the last two paul ryan budgets. it guts medicaid turns medicare into a voucher program. it gives the wealthiest of americans yet another tax break and it repeals obamacare. it will get passed by the house. it will go nowhere in the senate. it is dead on arrival. but the republicans keep putting this out there. we will tell you about that and, of course, take your calls and get you a chance to get involved in the conversation. give us a call on our toll-free line at 866-557-7377. did we tell you? it looks like there was life on mars. whoa! coming up on current tv. [ music ] (vo) current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. this show is about ana

we all know rand paul aids drones but it turns out he hates workers' rights too why is paul outraged by drones but fine with letting businesses exploit workers does lawyer in the middle class the process happen tony are going to have a moment also milk president obama has his way u.s. dairy farms may soon be running dry even americans to drink the milk of foreign. prevent this from happening and ensure that the milk we drink is one hundred percent made in america and later in the show is a your take my take live segment your chance to call in and ask a question and make a comment line on here. you need to know this rand paul made drawings that he hates workers' rights even more the junior senator from kentucky stole that actual spotlight wednesday when a filibuster john brennan's nomination as cia chief over concerns with the obama administration's drone assassination program national media celebrated his twelve hour speech as a throwback to the glory days of the senate with balls epic rant was a blast of the past in more ways than one buried deep in the senator's call for transparen

we all know rand paul aids drones but it turns out he hates workers' rights too why is paul outraged by drones but fine with letting businesses exploit workers to lawyer in the middle class the process happen tony coming up in a moment also milk president obama has his way u.s. dairy farms may soon be running dry even americans to drink the milk of foreign. prevent this from happening and ensure that the milk we drink is one hundred percent made in america and later in the show is a your take my take live segment your chance to call in and ask a question make a comment line on here. you need to know this rand paul made drawings that he hates workers' rights even more the junior senator from kentucky stole that actual spotlight wednesday when a filibuster john brennan's nomination as cia chief over concerns with the obama administration's drone assassination program national media celebrated his twelve hour speech as a throwback to the glory days of the senate but balls epic rant was a blast of the past in more ways than one buried deep in the senator's call for transparency was a cal

and rand paul has them even more backwards than paul ryan does.ut, you know, there's no, you know, it's like talking to a brick wall. there's nothing that can be done and there's no negotiation that can be made with such people. >> i wonder, heather, how much of a liability this is going to be in 2014. you now have mitch mcconnell and john cornyn and ted cruz on record supporting turning the social -- basically tearing the social safety net asunder. and the question is, are they going to be held accountable for those positions? >> here's the question, you have the base of the republican party completely still supporting a balanced approach to the budget mess. actually raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires. adamantly opposed to raising the social security age. so, actually, the sort of rank and file republican members, even in these districts and states we're talking about, are actually really in step with the president's approach. so, it depends. it depends on how much the sort of progressive movement really gets behind making sure that t

of all people, rand paul stands up.y now have been doing a filibuster led by rand paul as you see there for eight hours joined by eight different senators to help them along by asking questions of. of those eight senators only one is a democrat, and he deserves a lot of credit. there he is. where are the other senators? where are the other democrats? where are the so-called progressives? where are the so-called liberals of the senate. where is elizabeth warren, where is burnie sanders. i'll talk to you in a second about what he thinks about this. there he is live, rand paul still going. i disagree with rand paul in a hundred different ways but god bless him for standing up on this. >> it's equivalent to making war on the country than the johnson and nixon administrations should have bombed every elite college in america in the early 1960s. >> cenk: now, look he mentioned nixon there. do you remember what nixon famously said and got in a world of trouble for basically if the president does it then it is legal. eric holde

and then hillary against paul ryan, 50% to 38%.s has to be encouraging on the up front, if you were to just talk strictly as, you know, from the dnc position if hillary were to say i'm going to throw my hat in the ring. >> as a woman, those numbers are very exciting, and the prospect of hillary clinton getting elected president of the united states is something that i have embraced for many years now, but it is march 7th, 2013. what i can assure you is the dnc is gearing up and preparing to build off the success we had with the obama campaign in the last two election cycles, to make sure that our outreach to the hispanic community and women and the lb gmt t community and the asian-american community, that the more than 70% margin of victory we had in those communities is built off of and solidified, and over the next few years we're going to be in the strongest possibility position to make sure when president obama's term is over, he's ability to hand off the baton. i'm grad to see the numbers, but we have a lot of problems to focu

there is a huge difference between ron widen and rand paul. rand paul is stark raving mad. perfectly reasonable to give a standing ovation to ron widen and to sit on your hands when the crazy man speaks. stand up for rand. stand with rand. perfectly reasonable not to stand with rand and to give a standing ovation with him. >> but then again, if ron widen isn't standing to his credit he was on the floor. one second the guy talked for 13 hours. do you think there is more than 14 minutes of actual contact in that that psychopath said on the senate floor. if you want to stand with rand, do you want to stand with all of the vile spewing madness that came out of that crazy person's mouth or do you want to stand with 15 minutes of it. that is your choice. so it is -- if you want to choose the 15 minutes that is fine. you are standing with a crazy person. >> the other choice would have been with ron widen to have taken the floor. >> why 12 or 13 hours. >> we are talking about it. >> that is what it accomplished. >> the vote passed with 63 votes. and look what it did. it brought a l

and the raven paul days are kind of gone. >> what did that mean, curt?hey are not minority dominated. and therefore a vote for comprehensive reform may be against their own sort of base. >> yes, but you saw as soon as the last election was over this exterior come to jesus moment on all sorts of republicans. they're not stupid in the majority, i assume, i hope, or crazy, the republicans, and they're going to see this isn't on the wrong side of history, but on the wrong side of near-term electoral strategy. what rand paul is saying, essentially, is what the president said, you know, they have to give -- they they have to be at the back of the line, which is all the president said. >> the devil is in the details. i think republicans and democrats agree there needs to be comprehensive reform, but what do you do in terms of granting citizenship? i think that's where the strong opposition is really bubbling over in the house and at the state level. you go to arizona, to the rural districts, people are saying begrudgingly, okay, we'll so something, but hell no,

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i give rand paul credit for this.re always has been isolationist wing of the republican party that i think has been right. they are reluctant to commit american forces overseas. the neokahns are willing to go and commit troops overseas. you are seeing the emergence of once again, i don't mean isolation in a bad way. i think it's a good reason. >> eric: the problem mitch mcconnell the other senator didn't show up to the senate floor until 11:17 p.m. which is 11-1/2 hours in to rand paul's filibuster. where was he? ted cruz was there helping out. marco rubio was there helping out. wouldn't you think the others, the senior senator from the same state would show up to help the fellow senator out? >> kimberly: team spirit? >> greg: he was at my place. >> eric: that explains it. >> kimberly: different kind of holdup. >> greg: a big story here is about the media. the fact that if you are a liberal president, popular president you can do almost anything because the media generally shares your assumptions. it took somebody lik

the paul ryan budget.here's one thing they want you to know about it. >> our balanced budget plan balances the budget without raising taxes. >> a plan to balance the budget. this budget will, in fact, balance in ten years. >> our balanced budget -- our budget balances in ten years. their budget never balances. which budget helps those who are in need? >> i'm feeling off balance. that's a very good question. which does? joining us now from washington, msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein of the "washington post," and congressman john yarmuth, democrat of kentucky. good afternoon, gentlemen. ezra, if i might start with the majority leader's question, because republicans claim that bringing the budget into balance in ten years will be a boone to the wealthy, the needy, and everyone in between. is that right? >> slices, it dices, it cleans up the kitchen. the way they get to balance, i mean, we get into a bad spot in the budget debate when we let the entire question become have you balanced the budget or not? the

rand paul is doing that now. they brought action to a assault over an issue that needs more scrutiny. can the government use drones to kill potentially an american citizen on american soil. something that as you point out is hypothetical and what disturbed rand paul and others is that the attorney general sort of left wiggle room. not absolutely ruleing it out and sort of setting up a scenario where there might be in fact a battlefield on american soil. that's something that rand paul said is not a part of what the constitution provides. not part of what the oath of the president or the attorney general provides. he wants to shine a light on that. he said he expect that is the president will speak to this more for the american public and senator who is have these concerns to get an idea of what the policy is. it has been controversial all along and thought to have been very effective by being able to kill terrorists that were suspected outside the u.s. and even some who might have been american citizens who had g

rand paul was asked about his run for 2016, potential run.said i think our party needs something new, fresh and different. is rand paul something new, fresh and different that can be thrown into the 2016 run with the chris crist yix or jeb bushs? >> he really is. there's been an emerging rift. remember early 2000 you had two wars where pretty much every republican was in support, and now a small group of republicans led by rand paul that's very skeptical of wars in general. very isolationist. so there is room in the republican party. i think most republicans are where lindsey graham and john mccain are, but rand paul will be a new leader in this part of the party, doesn't like a lot of intervention, and i think he's going to be someone a force to be reckoned with,. >> i want to thank our power panel today. thanks, gang. appreciate it. >>> i want to bring along this breaking news we're getting to us out of afghanistan. we're learneding the recently confirmed defense secretary chuck hagel has just roughed in kabul. this is the first trip as def

rand paul has a broad appeal. just from being a reporter here at cpac i think he has a strong chance of winning the straw poll. john mccain has just apologized for that comment. i think mccain realizes that the party is moving in a different direction. the appeal of a nonintervention of foreign policy is picking up speed within the party and rand paul stopped by national review earlier this week. he's a charismatic figure and that matters in politics. this is a guy who resonates with a lot of people and i think he has a bright future in republican politics. >> did john mccain revised his remark? i did not know that. >> he apologized. >> good for him. he was jealous that someone could stand up for 12 hours without urinating. >> rand paul had help with other folks. i agree with the fact that we ought to be putting pressure on the justice department and the administration to come forward with a lot of clearances. what was your take on it? situation he's in, many conservatives -- his father rand walk into a room and i

paul and his son were amazingly not seriously hurt. they were well enough, in fact, just a couple of weeks later to go and meet the paramedics who helped them. paul had thanks to deliver and a question to ask. >> i said, you know, what can somebody like me do to give back to the community like you guys do every day in your jobs? and absolutely in unison they both said, give blood as much as you can, did you bling blood with you today? >> reporter: by now, you figured out paul's definition of "as much as you can," is an awful lot. paul has been organizing two blood drives a year for the stanford blood center every year ever since the accident. >> thanks for coming to our tenth anniversary. >> reporter: his best guess is some 3,000 donors have given at one of his drives. >> just because it was a one-time event for me, hopefully, it doesn't mean that other people aren't going to go through that. so if we can do something to be there to help other people i think it's a wonderful thing. don't worry, you'll get cookies in a while. >> reporte

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where does paul ryan budget fit into that?re are wings of you know, the republican party who say this is needed, this is where we've got to go. this is the future. i wonder how that undermines their branding efforts, if you will? >> i know very little about the budget. whenever budget talk crops up, i have a tendency to want to light what little hair i have left on fire, okay? i'm not a budget guy. but i am sort of a student of the human condition. and having spent many, many nights writing a newspaper column out of a big city hospital emergency room, i can tell you that paul ryan's budget could be, you could phrase it, you could put the title on it, pay now, or pay later. unless we pay for health care now, for poor children and poor families, or people in need, you're going to pay double down the road. because they show up in emergency rooms, gunshot wounds, spousal abuse, the flu, vaccinations, and the costs are enormous. to us. so either pay it now, figure out a way to pay it now or pay it later, double down the road. >> ez

that was, of course, rand paul.ic filibuster, and 12 hours and 50 minutes later there he is, something of a hero. here he is ending it. >> i would go for another 12 hours to try to break strom thurmond's record, but i've discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and i'm going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here. thank you very much for the forbearance, and i yield the floor. >> i don't know why he referenced hitler, now he's referencing strom thurmond. anyway, senator paul's filibuster was old school, the kind of performance people imagine when they hear filibuster and think of jimmy stewart and "mr. smith goes to washington." without having to utter a peep, senate republicans are able to block president obama's nominee to the u.s. court of appeals, caitlin halligan. the practice has been vilified by democrats and republicans. when you're a minority, it's a potent tool. senator tom udall pushed to end the silent filibuster at the end of this congress and is committed to filibuster

eric holder writing to senator paul and while senator paul was talking to our own chief congressionalrespondent, dana bash, he got to read the letter. >> reporter: it's literally three sentences long and he says that the answer to your question about can americans be killed on u.s. soil, the answer is no. are you satisfied? >> i'm quite happy with the answer and i'm disappointed it took a month and a half and root canal to get it and that's what i've been asking all along and it really is what the senate should be about, advise and consent. i have a feeling since this was so difficult i never would have gotten this with routine letters to the white house. >> let's bring back senator ron wyden. quick question, senator. are you satisfied with the explanation of the attorney general, these three sentences? >> i think it's helpful, wolf. and what he said is consistent with what i went in with yesterday. if you're talking about a noncombatant in the united states, you cannot use lethal force. you cannot strike with a drone. what the earlier letter said -- and it was what i went in to yeste