congressman paul ryan is here with the answer. all that plus an exclusive announcement right here on this program regarding the 43rd president of the united states. "hannity" starts right here right now. and the momentum belongs to the republican party according to a brand new "washington post"/abc news poll, 46% of adults believe na the gop will take back control of the u.s. senate. 33% believe it will not. joining me now at the "hannity" billboard, the comprehensive update on the state of the, bill hemmer. >> slight changes out there today. let's go through it again. on the what if scenario for what we think may happen. this is based on the polling again, okay? you're at 55-45, that's your baseline foundation for where you start in the u.s. senate. we do believe that west virginia is likely republican. so too is south dakota and likewise for -- >> you're taking away my -- i like conservatives to take over a little more of the country. >> you have three on the board right now. that's where republicans believe they'll have, 52-48.

paul ryan was the weakest of the three.eb bush in spanish awesome. >> it almost seemed like it was overdubbed. >> paul ryan was fine. the rand thing in alaska, you go on bloomberg. com/politics, and it is intense. they are all out there trying to make their mark, and part of it is on the fundraising and the other part is with ads like that. they are all pretty good. >> and number of guys were in new york city yesterday. talk about that. >> coming up this event that was posted by mitt romney, after doing the show. my sense, from talking to people who were at the event was that no one round the ground -- wowed the crowd. jeb bush was not there and he was the favorite of a lot of guys around the country. rupert murdoch was there, and they had a bit of a huddle, so people are wondering what they talked about. >> moving on to the election that is actually happening right now, 2014 not 2016. there are debates tonight in the colorado, georgia, and north carolina races. we will take a look at where that stands. the way we look at i

back now with congressman paul ryan. congressman, what are the priorities from your standpoint if in fact we were to see the gop take the senate, what's first on your agenda? >> i can tell you the only thing that harry reid let's move through the senate is bean soup right now. nothing is getting passed in the senate. job legislation number one. we'll pass bills to help create jobs and give people certainty. we need certainty on taxes and certainty that our fiscal house is being put back in order and there are a lot of things on energy front we think we can do to create jobs. we'll focus on jobs number one. getting people out of this malaise economy and getting people back to work. a whole list of issues narrowing the skills gap and getting people back to work that reid is sitting on and if we get the senate, we can put these bills on the president's desk and have him make a decision on something that harry reid prevented him from doing for some time now. >> practically speaking, what's the low hanging fruit in terms of j

paul ryan will be ways and means committee chair.paul does better than all the other and he is in the margin of error. that is not worthy. -- noteworthy. >> rand paul, he is ahead of jeb bush and chris christie your presumed favorites. does that surprise you is much as it surprises me? >> the line from republicans is we need chris christie your jeb bush because they can win in general. rand paul does better than they do. and well will be a contested general election state. >> let's look at the result of the senate poll. and -- what do you see beyond the top line number? >> she is doing better with men. i think the thing that jumped out at me is there is -- she doesn't better with younger voters. >> i am not sure of the answer but if raley wants to win he has to close that gap. >> the current governor will cruise to reelection. what is it about iowans that they like those guys? >> they like chuck grassley. they are authentic figures to iowans. and authentic political figures. bill clinton comes across as someone who identifies with th

earlier i asked congressman paul ryan what happened. >> we basically decided to measure poverty based on inputs. how much money are we spending? how many people are we putting on these programs? we're basically managing poverty. and as a result we're perpetuating poverty. and so many of these programs end up disinsent viesing work. they say it pays not to go to work. you'll lose more in benefits than you will in wage. >> encouraging people to be dependent. >> it's a realistic assumption which if you lose more in benefits by taking the risk of going to work and not seeing kids, having a babysitter, the rational person says it doesn't work. stossel: congressman ryan came out with a new book it expands on the antipoverty thing he released months ago. what's your way forward? >> getting to work. you're implying republicans cut them off and then they'll go to work. we have programs that are going unreformed. so what we're saying is stop this bureaucracy one-size-fits-all alphabet soup of agencies trying to dictate this. bring resources back to communities and focus on the individuals -- st

paul ryan on how republicans can tackle poverty. cianci's bid to come back as mayor of providence, rhode island after spending time in prison. and, a renowned poet remembers the wild energy of his departed son. >> sreenivasan: we further explore the efforts to contain and deal with the first case of ebola diagnosed in the u.s. officials sought to reassure americans there are systems in place to control its spread even as dallas braced itself for the possibility of a second case and the fact that more people could have been exposed. the ebola patient at texas presybterian hospital in dallas was identified today as thomas eric duncan, a liberian visiting the u.s. officials also announced that five schoolchildren are among 12 to 18 people who came in contact with duncan, and they are now being closely watched. texas governor rick perry. >> these children have been identified and they are being monitored. the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms. >> sreenivasan: not much is known about duncan, except that he traveled

i'm just going to pick one item from paul ryan's cuts, and that's the legal services corporation. it's a $420 million government program. for all i know, it may -- well, they want to, he cut the whole thing. i don't know. does it do no good? you couldn't, you couldn't argue this out in a political debate. you don't have time. you've got on the presidential debates what do they have, three minutes? three minutes. what is the legal services corporation? it's a government program to provide lawyers for impoverished people who need them. so paul ryan has made enemies of poor people, he's made enemies of advocates for the poor, and much more important, he's made enemies of middle class americans who are charitable people who want to help the unfortunate. that's all he's done with his budget. i mean, i'm all for outreach and saying, you know, look, we're not really so bad, we don't hate black people and so forth, but nothing is going to happen until the republican party stands up for the inner cities of america which are under the boot heels of the democratic party. one other thing that

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the paul ryan budget my opponent praised -- >> costello: that is not true. >> moderator: your view? >> costello: happy to address the subject. what i think we need to focus on is balancing a budget within a concern number of years. my opponent has offered nothing. >> trivedi: i will tell you what i support. >> moderator: how about the paul ryan budget? >> costello: what i do is have budget meetings and look at what is coming in and going out. i will pass another budget in chester county with 0 percent tax increase. i am not going back in time and looking at budget that made it's way through the house and not being taken up by the senate that offers nothing. that is just silly political stuff. let's look at folks that work in a bipartisan manner and have an independent streak and work to find common solutions to get things done. that is what i did at everything single level. and my opponent, this is his third run for candidate, and he trumps out more and more of the far left talking points that is criticism upon criticism but isn't focused on the problem. i am willing to look at the

when she supported the paul ryan budget, that would have voucherized medicare and changed the system forever. she supported the budget that would have slashed pell grant in our state. 23,000 arizona students would not have gotten the pell grant under that. from 2012.position as we get close to the election, she wants to be a moderate and independent. you cannot have it both ways. she needs to be able to stand up and be truthful with the voters of southern arizona, then we will have a much better competition here, because that kind of slipping and sliding -- you cannot fool the voters. i've been cosponsoring bills and advancing bills that are independent and bipartisant. he a-10 victory -- and bip artisan. a-10 victory does an example of that. >> your website says job growth is a top priority. you say one solution is eliminating regulation. give a specific example of eliminating a regulation that you have sponsored or that you will be sponsoring if elected to the 114th congress and how many jobs it would create? issue isgulatory across many committees, but the one that is most in focu

stay with us. ♪ x paul ryan is here.e is house budget committee chairman and also ran as republican vice presidential candidate alongside mitt romney in 2012. he has new thoughts on poverty, conservatism, and renewing the american idea. he explains them in a new book, "the way forward to go where does this come from? >> this comes from my own experiences growing up, it is part memoir, part why i am who i am, why think the way i think, and the environment i grew up in and how it shakes me and gave you real appreciation for the american idea. and then it's also a description of two different governing philosophies, liberal progressivism and founding governing the loss of the. and how if you don't like to track the country is on right now, which i don't, and a lot of people agree with that, how we should do things differently. we need to offer alternatives as , that is able to get a majority of americans to support. >> my impression is that you've gotten smarter in the last several years. >> i have learned a lot. that's one

paul ryan wants to throw granny over the cliff. this sexist war on women. et cetera that is brought up now every election cycle. is it desperation? does it need to be answered? do you want to address any of the issues brought up in that ad about the woman with the artificial limb or the rape victim or the doctor paralyzing people? >> well, sean the irony of it is that all of those things are equally false because there's no one who has a stronger track record for protecting victims of rape than i do. i created an entire new unit at the office of attorney general where i have arrested more than 4,500 sex offenders and put them behind bars. so i had been fighting for texans. and i have focused my campaign on ensuring that the future of texas will be even better while my opponent does nothing more than lodge attacks at me. >> and you -- for those that don't know, you are in a wheelchair. >> i'm in a wheelchair -- >> go ahead. >> yeah. what happened is i was out jogging and a big tree crashed down on me fractured my vertebrae leaving me paralyzed. but it was af

bost say i lied when i said he endorsed the paul ryan budget but i was in my barbershop on east mainn belleville a couple of weeks ago and they handed me a brochure. one of my campaign staff have the brochure and on the back page, the back of that folder it says number one that i would vote for the paul ryan budget and number two it says i would vote to repeal the aca or obamacare. let me tell you i was not in congress when obamacare or the aca was adopted. however we have taken, think its 56 votes but virtually all of those votes were worked to repeal obamacare in one way or another were the aca in one way or another. when the administration was wrong in the aca needed to be corrected by a voter to correct the nasa would need to do. first of all there are some revisions in there that are beneficial to folks. for example you can keep your child on your health insurance until that child is 26. i have got a very good friend whose wife had cancer about 10 years ago and nearly died but she recovered. she would not be insurable today if it weren't for that obamacare. how about a child who

paul ryan has been a bit reticent saying, his future is going to be in the congress. so this is a significant shift for him. this republican field is very crowded and it doesn't really have any sort of a dominant figure. you can sort of picture the seven dwarves scenario here, although it seems like we're going to get rather more than that. >> jason, let's get away from the smoke and the tv ads. look at six gop candidates in key races. let's deal with real policy since they're just five days away. look at these positions. all of them oppose raising the federal minimum wage. all of them support repealing the affordable care act. all of them support banning abortion or placing strict limits on it. these are all candidates for the u.s. senate, all six of them. is this an agenda that can win in a national election? >> reverend, you're exactly right. i don't think this is an agenda that can win in a national election. it only wins in a local election when you don't talk about what you actually stand for. i think a lot of these republican candidates have managed to do the l

we did so well we even had paul ryan now talking about poverty -- [laughter] and i believe it's because of your consistent work and the ma'amic of a bus -- magic of a bus and our engagement on challenging, challenging issue. at least he's talking about it. but what i want to raise up for us today are some of wrestling that we must do in order to create the next 50 years of engagement. because things are different than they were 50 years ago in 1964 when we started this work. things are better. some want to say, oh, yes, we had a war on poverty, and poverty won. no. we've made huge strides and that's what we need to lift up. we've got trouble still, that's true. we've got things that are not working well many our nation. but -- in our nation. but we have made a difference. you need to celebrate, i need to celebrate, we together need to celebrate the accomplishments that we have achieved and commit ourselves to the hard road ahead. one of the things that we make a mistake doing is saying that it's just about our community action project, just about us, just about what we're doing. we're t

there is no better person to be vice president then paul ryan. [applause] and if you are going to take a shot at me, you wouldn't be a bad president yourself. we have an interesting -- yeah. [applause] but we have some questions about it folks that you have written this year, paul. and i would note that i have read it and i hope some of you have as well so your questions can reflect that. but also, i know paul pretty well and as a writer, i recognize he actually wrote it. most of the books you read that are written by politicians were not actually written by politicians. they would life on trend for politicians by professional writers. but i can tell this is his voice you do this with mikey speaks and that makes it even more touching and personal. i want to begin by asking, the american idea, the subtitle are the main title of the book is the american idea. we bring down for us what does it mean to you, the american idea? >> it is a way of life and it's a way of life that has been brought to life by some critical ideas and principles that founded

boss, has endorsed a paul ryan budget which slashes funding for the cdc, slashes sunday for researchelop. so i think he owes an explanation to the citizen as to why he wants to slash medical research and development, slash the budget of the centers for disease control when we have viruses like the ebola virus running rampant in our world. as -- i have the red card, so thank you. bost: in the words of ronald reagan, there you go again. you did the same thing to jason kilmer but you're not going to do to me. i've never said i supported the ryan budget, and that is a lie. now, back to the question. let me take that that is an issue i've been very much paying attention to. my brother-in-law is a missionary that just came home. thank heaven everything checked out with he, his wife and his daughters. but as paula mentioned, the real problem is that you're the one country in liberia that the centers for disease control does need to be involved with so to try to fight this there. but yes, the president has the power to control our borders and to stop the influx of anyone from those countries

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. >>> then there's paul ryan. here's what he had to say in a debate last night when asked if humans are warming the planet. i don't know the answer to that question. i don't think science does either. he added we've had climate change forever. >>> for those who still don't believe humans are contributing to rising tempts, perhaps there is this useful animated last six months of global temperatures. those six months were the warmest ever recorded. more carbon die ox id in april than at any time in the past 800,000 years. how is that paul ryan for an answer? just ahead we watched the senate debates last night so you would not have to. you will probably thank us. the highlights are next on "now." ♪ the most amazing thing about the ford fusion isn't the way it looks. ♪ the most amazing thing? is the way it sees. ♪ with blind spot technology, a lane-keeping system and a standard rearview camera, the fusion is ready for whatever comes your way. ♪ go prepared. go further. ♪ it's eb. want to give your family the very best

carson and paul ryan around lower single digits. i'm thinking, my theory is, i'll just test it. mitt romney is the guy you didn't vote for when you voted for obama. he was the alternative. through some interesting logic in the head of an average person, oh, i now got a chance to say in a poll, i made a mistake, i should vote for him. so he wins now because he's the guy that ran against obama. i don't know if he's the alternative to hillary clinton when the time comes, but right now -- >> it's either that. when you break up with somebody, your ex looks better in the rearview mirror than when -- [ laughter ] >> i think 21% is not a good number for mitt romney. everybody knows who he is. what you're saying, 4 out of 5 republicans don't want the last guy who ran, who is now seen as the leader of their party. >> he wasn't near 21 a year ago. >> but now everyone knows who he is. >> why is it growing? can you ever say a good word about a republican? >> you want me to? >> he's going up, stating the obvious. >> i'd rather be paul ryan at this stage of the game, than mitt romney. >> some

there is no better than to be vice president of the united states ben paul ryan. and if you're going to take a shot at me, you wouldn't be a bad president yourself. so we have an interesting -- [applause] yeah. but we have some questions about it look to you a written this year, paul. i would note that i've read it and i hope some of you have as well so your questions and reflect that. also, i know paul pretty well and as i read it i recognize he actually wrote it. [laughter] most of the books you read that are written by politicians were not asked about by politicians. they're written for politicians by professional writers. paul wrote this book i can tell because it is his voice. it is written like he speaks and that makes it even more touching and personal. i want to begin by just asking, the american idea, the subtitle for the main title of the book is the american idea. brood down for us what does it mean to you, the american idea. >> a way of life and it's a way of life that has been brought to life by some critical ideas and principles founded this country.

she loses to mitt romney and barely beats paul ryan.urprised are you that in a state that president obama carried handily that hillary clinton is net connect with those three republicans? rex she is not going to scare anyone off with those numbers but let's not forget obama did kerry by six points last time. this is a purple state. they elect as many republicans as direct routes and why look at that field against her mitt romney says he is not going to run but we will see. how brian will be ways and means committee chair. rand paul does better than all the other and he is in the margin of error. that is not worthy. >> rand paul, he is ahead of jeb bush and chris christie your presumed favorites. does that surprise you is much as it surprises me? >> the line from republicans is we need chris christie your jeb bush because they can win in general. rand paul does better than they do. and well will be a contested general election state. >> let's look at the result of the senate poll. and -- what do you see himbeond -- beyond the top line nu

where rand paul and all the republicans are basically together is sort of small government although paul ryan, he is moving to reform the welfare state and change it to a degree, portman and some other folks. you know what it goes back to, john? you see lou rock well's website. russell kirk is the traditionalist conservative. >> who did murky rockbod train? was it hilary? >> no, no. he is a libertarian. >> whom am i thinking of? >> i don't know. when he ran for president it wasn't as a libertarian. >> they both come up -- traditionalism. look at scotland and other places. libertarian is one force but communitariansm, liberalism, tribism, are some of the most forceful ones in the world. >> when you realize it means cutting off wonderful services from government, people back off. >> don't forget you can watch this program on the web at any time at mclaughlin.com. could anything be simpler or more character building? when we come back is the united states congress a plutocracy? s, washington, dc based cq roll call has calculated net worth of every member of the united states congress. 435 repres

let's talk about the paul ryan budget one more time. they are guaranteed by the federal government. buy a house house and borrow money for between three or 4%. i saw that the credit union had an ad on their website the other day where you could borrow money for 1.8% while why should students -- >> moderator: representative. bost: can you repeat the question? >> moderator: according to the bureau be a 1.2 trillion which is an 84% increase since 2008. the report says 40 million americans have one open student loan and on average $029,000 it may influence the decision. does the federal government have any responsibility to address this or the rising cost of college tuition. bost: the bill makes sense. something that will allow them the opportunity and we will agree on that issue to make sure that they can afford these loans and continue to work and take a longer time to payback or whatever so that they can have the opportunity to continue to work. >> i was interested in meeting with your constituents in these town hall meetings is that like when you demanded the 12 debates and said he

another is when paul ryan passipassed five or six budgets. they're tough but they're real.en they didn't do anything or go anywhere five straight years the president was in charge of this country as the ceo and didn't pass a budget in five years. that stifles job creation in this country. obama care is another example of people losing jobs, small businesses closing up because they don't want to pay the premiums. there are three examples of where a republican controlled senate can make the difference. i think it's important that we do that. not because of our party but because of our country. >> okay. well thank you for your time here. >> you bet. thank you everybody. i appreciate that. >> thank you for sharing perspectives. certainly there are plenty of students here who will be excited to say hello to you if you have a minute to shake hands. thank you again for coming. >> thank you. this is the fifth year in a row the president has spoken at the event. it gets underway at 7:50 p.m. eastern. you can see it live here on cspan 3. after the president's remarks, a conversation

just got on instagram, first picture with paul ryan, congressman paul ryan.ure, believe it or into the. this is so interesting about danica. she is a brand. she own as business and she herself a brand. she has several sponsors, godaddy being main sponsor. they have been together eight years or some i asked her about women and business especially women and sports. we know that's a big topic right now. i asked her what she foresees women in business in the future? here is what she told me. >> more and more all the time you're seeing women in powerful positions and being comfortable to be in that position you know? i think that culture has evolved to allow that, embrace that, celebrate that. and, there are tons of small business owners that are women. >> and as you can see from the video, she and i are definitely a little bit different when it comes to the height department. she is tiny. she is tiny. man, i tell you, i would never mess around with her on a racetrack. liz: big force in business. she pick ad good partner with godaddy. maybe years ago they were sma

. >> reporter: with the stakes so high big parties names like congressman paul ryan and sarah palin arehe campaign trail. he's lost in a tight race with greg orman. he previously challenged robert as a democrat. >> he's not an independent. he will be a stamp of approval for harry reid and a continuation on the vote for the agenda. >> reporter: they have been sending republicans to the senate since 1932 but dissatisfaction in washington has been at an all-time high. >> there's too much partisanship. >> reporter: he's voting for orman saying roberts has gone too far to the right. >> he no longer represents mainstream kansans and it's time for a change. >> he says he'll work across the aisle, i hope he does when he wins. >> i like the liberty and the freedom of being able to go to washington and only represent the voters of kansas. >> reporter: if orman wins and the senate is divided the party he chooses could tip the balance of power. marlie hall, cbs news, overton park, kansas. >>> coming up on the "cbs this morning." we'll get the reaction on the exploding rocket. plus tobacco's sales.

they borrowed the design from paul ryan's bedroom.applause) and you know it's a cynical ploy to appeal to republican-leaning swing voters because it was premeditated. right before her baby was born, chelsea clinton conveniently helped launch a line of elephant-themed gifts to benefit groups working to stop the poaching of african elephants. a likely story. no one poaches african elephants. they're so much better fried. (laughter) >> stephen: oh, they are. hear the audience going, ooh! ooh! well, as cute as baby charlotte is, hillary's road to the white house is about to be derailed by the grandmother of all scandals. because freebeacon.com -- yes, "that" freebeacon.com -- has uncovered a single letter hillary sent in 1971 to none other than saul alinsky. yes. saul alinsky. (audience reacts) a name instantly familiar to anyone currently watching this in the middle of a sociology lecture about saul alinsky. alinsky was not only a dangerous far-left social activist known for his book "rules for radicals," he was also the man who framed r

i stood up against my party on the paul ryan budget i will fight to make sure we have a budget that is not balanced on the backs of veterans like my opponent voted for. a i held the small-business roundtable last week because the national federation of independent business represent small businesses came out here to endorse me instead of congressman barber. like many politician he talks a good game about supporting small business but he doesn't actually get things done and help get the government off their backs. we talked about many different regulations but in particular obama carried the affordable care act is hurting them. i had one small-business owners does at least have a 15 employees and now they're down to five. they provided health coverage but now they can do more because the premiums continue to update some of stop hiring people. this is hurting our economy and we need somebody who's going to fight to help small businesses grow because that is where most jobs come from. >> moderator: let me come back to you on something that you said. is it okay for a politician to be an el

the voters won't be fooled. >> the paul ryan budget at the time did you say that you supported that?ord saying that i don't support it. i would ask a question that is being taken out of context when i was a brand-new candidate of these budgets, which one would you have voted for the progressive budget with budget for the ryan budget and i answered well i guess i would have voted on one but here's the problem i have with it and we have a current member of congress who just last year had five budget proposals, and he voted against all five of them. so i was choosing from three very bad choices and i had been repeatedly on the record as saying that i have problems in the budget and i've actually help form the next budget when we get to congress that would address these things. i don't support programs or raising taxes on the middle class. i am the middle class. i have 3 degrees one at the air force academy and two masters. of course i support higher education. i.e. any problems over just trying to figure out how to get things done. i learned along the way. i'm going to read those before

. >> meanwhile, wisconsin congressman paul ryan is opening up about a possible run at the white housein an interview with the washington post, ryan rejected the notion that he's a capitol hill lifer, but said any decision on the presidential run will have to wait. he said, quote, i don't have this insatiable political ambition, but i know how to flip the switch. if you flip the switch, you flip the switch. and right now the switch has tape over it until 2015. i don't feel the need to be out there. putting my toe in the water. i don't see the point in it. it is not fun. and i don't think i need to. i already know a lot of people in the key states well. they call me up, so i don't feel the need to have to chum. ryan said mitt romney encouraged him to run saying the former republican nominee believes it is somebody else's turn and that he won't be running again. new jersey republican governor chris christie is not backing down from criticism about this confrontation with a heckler at an event marking two year since super storm sandy. >> yeah. good. there has been 23 months since then whe

romney's former running mate, paul ryan trailing hillary by one point. ree points separate clinton and rand paul. and she's five points ahead of new jersey chris christie. iowa has not always been kind to clinton. she limped into third place in iowa during the presidential race in 2008. >> john, pretty remarkable that hillary clinton over the past three, four, five, six months has dropped as much as she had. now mitt romney seeing this poll, she's in basically dead lock with rand paul within the margin of error. chris christie, jeb bush don't fare as well. that's news as well. from the establishment said of the ledger. mitt romney has one more reason to listen to the advisors and contributors who are begging him to get in this race. >> you hit a bunch of high points. this is the first time anyone has tested with likely 2016 general election voters in iowa head-to-head match up like this. first time anybody has done it. first time iowa poll is the thing we're partnered with. gold standard out there. the fact that she, she obviously has 100% name recognitio

that is why paul ryan and jim jordan hebrides budgets that would reduce an freespending. businesses run more efficiently. home is run more efficiently. our federal government gets bigger and more expensive. it is a make any sense. let's apply efficiency to the 20th century yurok received. save money. balance the budget. we need to start over with real health care reform that is patients and doctors in charge. let me ask you this. at the most critical moment of your life, when your health and maybe your life hangs in the balance, how do you want decisions made about what kind or how much health care you are going to be allowed to get? we need health care solutions that reduce costs, provide greater access to world-class care, and give americans more control. republicans trust americans to make their own health care decisions. democrats get defensive. their comeback is to ask republicans what is your plan? we are glad they asked. if they will just listen to the answer, here it is. first, the problem with the affordable care act is it didn't make health care more affordable.

romney's former running mate paul ryan is trailing by 1 point. 3 points separate clinton and rand paul. and she is 5 points ahead of new jersey governor chris christie. iowa has not always been that kind to hillary clinton. she limped into third place in iowa during the presidential race back in 2008. even ahead of the caucuses, iowa is already the center of the political universe. the same poll shows republican joni ernest and bradley a point apart. both are bringing in big names. mitt romney drawing major crowds this weekend for ernest. while the first lady campaigned alongside ernest's democratic opponent she struggled to properly remember bradley's name. >> we need to elect leaders like bruce bailey who will do the same. leaders like bruce bailey. just think about how many precincts all of us just in this room right now could swing for bruce bailey if we really rolled up our sleeves and got serious about these issues. we can go to vote.brucebailey.com. or even better, you can -- braley, what did i say? i'm losing it. i'm getting old. >> meanwhile, "the washington post" election lab

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paul ryan was part of the budget before. the senate chose to ignore it.y don't want to talk about the numbers. we have to realize that we have to sit down and work together. because yes, social security is important but it's just as important for the retiree today as it is for my kids as he is paying to for his life to make sure it's there for him. yes, we have to make sure the programs are solvent. today they're struggling for it. when we sit down, we bring solutions to the table. we make sure they work that we negotiate. for the first time and i want to say five, six years, i think the number is two-thirds of the members of congress have never seen appropriations process moved through. now i'm on the appropriations committee. we've passed an appropriations bill and pass an appropriations process so we can fund government the right way with new priorities instead of just the c.r. that has been happening for the last quite a few years. is truly a sad case but it's good that we finally took over and we are now passing that and we have a budget. we have num

elizabeth warren on the campaign trail helping themselves but on the republican side plenty of travel, paul ryanuz, rick perry, mike huckabee out there to help 2014 candidates maybe also to help themselves. molly ball i start with you and elizabeth warren. lot of people think is she maneuvering around for 2016 in she talked to dploria borger, this seems pretty clear. >> i am not running for president. i am not running for president. i am not running for president. >> got it? you got it, right? i am not running for president. pretty clear, end of discussion. file that one away, except, molly ball, here's what she said to "people" magazine. i don't think so. if there's any lesson i learned in the last five years don't be so sure what lies ahead, there are amazing doors that could be opened. ding, ding, ding, ding. >> she keeps saying it and we have to -- she keeps saying she's not. even that quote the earth could cough in and the zombie apocalypse could happen and i could be the only one left so we have to leave that door open. i think she's clear about she's not running at this point. there's a l

although paul ryan, he's moving to reform the welfare state and change it to a degree. so it's -- you know what it goes back to, john? you have two great figures in the conservative movement, libertarian. mary is a libertarian figure. russell kirk is the traditionalist conservative. >> who did mary -- who did he train? who am i thinking of? >> they both come up in-- traditionalism, john, take a look at scotland and all these other places. libertarian is one of the fors but comiewn tearianism, nationalism and tribalism are some of the most powerful forces in the world today and both of them are rising. >> libertarian always sounds good on its face. when you realize it means cutting off all the wonderful services you enjoy from government, people back up. >> don't forget the mclaughlin group has its own website and you can watch this program or earlier programs at any time from anywhere in the world at mclaughlin.com. could anything be more simpler or more character building. issue two, democracy or mao to be crazy. since 1990, nearly 35 years, the washington, d.c. base c