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going to trash talk peter king. >> that's okay he can come on and trash talk me back. >> well, this is something, i guess did anybody ever look at this book from the national u urity world and say, you know, even though you're having fun you revealed too much. >> no. >> did you worry about that. >> there's nothing in the book, i take actual public dialogue and work it into the book. when we accidentally put ted kennedy on not-fly list, that's in the book, when we tried to divert a plane because well-known terrorist, cat stevens was on the plane, that's in the book. there's theme that's make the book but not specific dialogue. >> what is the most absurd aspect of the war on terror that you experienceed that you felt as if that was great you hope people read this in the book and take something away from it. >> it was that everybody was a suspect. we had a time leading up to iraq where you were either a democrat or patriot. everyone was a suspect. everyone was spying on everyone else and that environment is in the book to point of absurdity in my view. >> all right. we're going to brea

they don't want to work with anyone to the left of them. >> leftist peter king. >> they want to work steven king, but not peter king. they don't know how to win. they won with a historic majority in november. they could do so much and be so productive. >> they had a huge victory with the court where they could have easily claimed. that doesn't, the court has stopped the executive action. therefore we're going to move forward on this bill. they had a perfect out. >> what's the expression. snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. they could have declared victory, gone home and moved on to more pressing issues. instead they have to reenforce this vision of themselves as being obstructive. >> that side that's trying to undermine john boehner, who would they suggest as a possible speaker if they could depose boehner? >> i think steve is absolutely right. they do not have a viable contender. daniel webster was their choice, you know, he didn't end up getting more than a handful of votes in january. so they don't, and this is a problem for the conservative movement right now. and i spent

peter king says that is not presidential. senator rand paul is expected to announce in april. he and ted cruz agree on most things but paul believes he is more electable than cruz. the race begins. >>> the former secretary of state could be gearing up for an announcement of her own. hillary clinton meeting with president obama yesterday. no details about what they discussed. last night, the front runner for the democratic nomination was told to expect a more transparent hillary clinton moving forward. >> i am all about new beginnings. a new grand child. another new hair style. a new e-mail account. why not a new relationship with the press? >> a new relationship with the press. clinton describes the relationship with the media as complicated when asked if there was an announcement coming soon. >>> breaking overnight. a new report claiming israel has been spying on negotiations with israel and iran. who did israeli spies good that supposed information to? a blockbuster report this morning. we are live next. >>> breaking overnight, israel accused of spying on nuclear talks with

i think peter king has sort of figured out that's not happening. do people care about benghazi?nk that's fairly unlikely. this is the 45 -- sort of the tea party wing obviously in the house, but there are a lot of republicans who do want to get something done and have a report to stand on in 2016. >> mitch mcconnell said the day after the election we're not going to use this congress to shut down the government and grind things to a halt. we have to achieve something we can run on. >>> the roundtable is staying with us. up next, the nasty side of social media. this is "hardball," the place for politics. amopé and its premium foot care line. the new amopé pedi perfect foot file gives you soft beautiful feet effortlessly. its microlumina rotating head buffs away hard skin even on those hard-to-reach spots. it's amazing. you can see it and feel it. my new must-have for soft, beautiful feet. amopé pedi perfect. >>> the royals are in washington. prince charles and the duchess of cornwall met today with president obama at the white house. nbc's peter alexander joins us live now. peter

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peter king is standing by.is a leading member of the homeland security and intelligence committees. >>> our correspondents and analysts are covering all the news breaking right now. first let's go to barbara starr for the very latest. barbara? >> reporter: wolf u.s. and british commanders secretly ordered out of yemen over the weekend, now another country where the u.s. is gone and has no influence. yemen now on the brink of civil war. amid the rising unrest the united nations warning the worst may be to come as groups vie for power. >> unless a solution can be found in the coming days the country will slide into further violent conflict. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells cnn, al qaeda fighters which have vowed to attack the u.s. are now moving quickly to increase recruiting and continue plotting attacks. the u.s. just became essentially blind on the ground. more than 100 u.s. military commandos like these who had been tracking al qaeda, known as aqap secretly ordered out of the country by the pentagon over th

this was peter king's reaction when asked if he would support cruz should he win the party nominationust hope that day never comes. i will jump off that bridge when we come to it. >> pretty blunt there. so why is cruz running? >> it's true as peter king said that cruz is a very unpopular figure among many washington republicans, but he does have a base of support among christian ooefkales. and those play a disproportionate role in the state of iowa. cruz has a chance of doing relatively well in iowa because so many people who vote in iowa caucuses are conservative christians and i think his strategy is to emerge as their candidate, to knock offer the candidates on the right. and to make a decision between him and jeb bush. south carolina is a very conservative state, might be a state where ted cruz could have a chance. that's what he sees as his path. >> this is an incredibly crowded field with the republicans. is that an indication that the party establishment hasn't been able to clear out some of these guys who don't stand much of a chance like maybe they did a few years ago? >> we'

el representante peter king dijo que no darÁ un debate inteligente.cado reacciones fuertes y encontradas entre los republicanos en washington sobre su postulaciÓn a la nominaciÓn republicana a la presidencia. ninguna reacciÓn mÁs fuerte que la de este posible contrincante. >> no tiene calificaciones de legislaciÓn aprobada que muestra liderazgo. no tiene experiencia real. para mÍ es sÓlo un tipo con una boca grande y ningÚn resultado. agregÓ que es un falso conservador, dijo que le serÍa muy difÍcil apoyar su nominaciÓn a menos que cambiara. pero esta congresista republicana cree que le darÁ energÍa a la base del partido aunque no esta de acuerdo con Él en todo legislatura republicana: estoy con Él. en los temas domÉsticos no estoy de acuerdo con Él. pero creo que es una voz importante para nuestro partido. yo creo que le va a dar energÍa. >> cruz se opone con vehemencia al presidente obama. en el 2003 en el proceso ha empleado que muchos aquÍ no aceptan. >> mayormente se ha creado enemigos. es una persona llede creo que le gusta imponer su punto de v

. >> fellow republican peter king wasted no time smacking him town calling it remarks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world. now whether you agree or disagree with his assessment it will be interesting to see how his staunchly gop assessments are received by the public. >> he's a tea party fire brand. >> obamacare is a train wreck. we are seeing our constitutional rights under assault. >> reporter: a climate change skeptic. >> i just came back from new hampshire where there is snow and ice everywhere and my view actually is pimple debates on this should follow science and data. >> reporter: he wants to disband the irs. >> abolish the irs! [ applause ] >> take all 125,000 irs agents and put them on our southern border. >> reporter: never mind there aren't near 125,000 irs agents. senator ted cruz wants to be president. he kicked off his campaign today, not back home in texas, but in virginia on the campus of liberty university. >> i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ic night the promise of america. and that is why today i am announc

i hope he listens to the peter kings and the mike dents and the reasonable people in the republican caucusho want to see the nation continue to move forward and don't delight in this crisis to crisis situation that is self-imposed by the republican tea party. >> may 31st that's when the highway funding bill will run out. we'll have a nice little visit about that before we get into the five or seven month debt ceiling issues. >>> up next, why scott walker may want to rethink his hero worship of ronald reagan. >>> new warnings on climate change. >>> and we're taking your questions on "ask ed live." stay with us. we're right back on "the ed show" on msnbc. photos are great for capturing your world. and now they can transform it. with the new angie's list app, you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done and angie's list will find a top rated provider to do the job. the angie's list app is the simple, new way to get work done on your schedule. the app makes it easy, the power of angie's list makes it work. call, click or download the app

peter king is also considering a run. he says this. the republican party and the american people have to be able to find a more qualified candidate than ted cruz shutting down the federal government and reading dr. seuss on the senate floor is not the marks of a leader of the free world. ouch. >> i think it tells you and is reflective of the very wide spectrum of diversity of thought that exists in the republican party right now. i am one that thinks it's fun. i think it's fun to see all of these different voices representing different parts of the republican party out there in the campaign trying to court voters, trying to develop a message, trying to make themselves good candidates opposed to what democrats have which is plain vanilla one flavor and that's all you get no toppings. i think for republicans, the field is much more interesting. okay. there's people running for president to become president, there are people that are running for president for other reasons. i don't know yet what senator cruz is doing. i think that's his r

peter king today said, "shutting down the federal government and reading dr. seuss on the senate floor are marks of a carnival barker, not leader of the free world." i'm getting to love you again. it's st. patrick's day. plenty have called cruz nuts. here's just a sampling. >> the idea you have to prove your manliness by doing something, meaning shutting down the government to achieve something you know he's not going to achieve is quite nuts. the analogy i used in my column is cliff diving without any equipment. it's quite nuts. >> to tell american people you can defund obamacare was a fool's errand and deception to the american people. i have to say, stop, you're wrong, you're crazy. >> i have to say, ted cruz comes in, obviously so completely ignorant. ted cruz -- ah -- >> he's a train wreck. >> he is a total train wreck. >> this ted cruz, a lot of people in texas just think he's wonderful. i don't want to rain on their parade. this bomb throwing stuff and i'm the lone wolf and i'm the man in the senate, it's nonsense. >> you really want a commander in chie

peter king called him a carnival barker.iling up, which by the way, i think that is offensive to carnival barkers. why is everyone-- why don't republicans like him? >> so, ted cruz has a penchant for leading republicans into battles they can't win, and then when they ultimately surrender and walk away from the battle he says, "if only you'd stayed in the battle long enough you would have won." the mix of that and people who even agree with him don't love his style. so, you know, if-- there is a poll of republican voters and only about 23% of them said they would consider voting for ted cruz for president. the rest either said they wouldn't or hadn't heard of him yet. so it will be interesting to see how he plays with that 56% that hasn't heard of him yet really. >> larry: he's throwing all the republicans under the bus, and he's running as a republican. >> he wants to be the republican nominee for president. and frankly this time around even though a the love republicans aren't crazy about him don't underestimate him. in thi

texas senator john cornyn refused to officially endorse him and republican congressman peter king posted"the republican party and the american people have to be able to find a more qualified candidate for president than ted cruz. shutting down the federal government and reading dr. seuss on the senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world." ted cruz and his wife heidi will sit down for an exclusive interview on "today" later on this morning. >>> the national search is on for the little girl seen in this photo from a hurricane katrina rescue. the veteran hugging her wants to track her down. on twitter the #findkatrinakid was shared thousands of times. the air force times says the resilient girl reminded the vet that he wanted to spend his life helping people saying if i never do anything else again, that hug and that smile made it all worthwhile. >>> the latest on that downed lufthansa airliner that crashed in southern france this morning. new details are coming into nbc news as we speak. >>> plus game on. the new football rule that will keep fans in fr

peter king who's on nbc sunday night football talks about sam bradford. >> i personally really like samord both as player and a person and the one thing though i don't know yet is we haven't seen him under the kind of pressure and the kind of microscope that a star athlete in philadelphia is always under. >> all right. we have more at 10:00 o'clock and tomorrow the owner jeffrey lurie speaks here and also hear from andy reid talking about eagles players and talking about how he might miss philadelphia. back to you guys. >> all right. howard wearing out jerry jones there. >> i know. he was out of breath walking with you howard. i'll tell was. >> all right. thanks howard. >> we'll see you back here at 10:00 o'clock. >> that's right. coming up next is inside he had dig. have a good one. ♪ >>> oh my god! >> crash caught on tape. and the nasty confrontation. >>> then, racially profiled? what empire star taraji p henson says happened to her son. >> he did everything the cops told him to do. >> and the pregnant american who could face the firing squad for allegedly murdering her mom in paradis

it's been a wild off-season for the birds but nbc's peter king believes the moves make sense. >> chip looked at his team and he was honest with himself and he goes you know we're a ten-win team. that's good. it's not good enough. he took a realistic view of his team and said, we're going to get better. and he took risks about it. but he thinks they're better and we'll see. >> well if you're a football junkie, you'll be ecstatic to know the arena league tooks off sunday. they conduct the media day today. considering the upheaval at novacare, we had to ask the former eagles quarterback about the current eagles quarterback, sam bradford. >> there's no questioning his talent, his ability to work, his intelligence. sam has all that. we all know what the question is. can he stay healthy? he's been injury-prone. if he can stay healthy, this will be a tremendous deal for the eagles. if he doesn't, it will be a bad deal for the eagles. >>> to baseball. philly's left fielder dominick brown is dealing with tendinitis in his left achilles and has been sidelined but offered this update on his prog

afforded your plan, people who want to take it to obama undermine ability to take it to obama, peter king said this group has no concept of reality. can you run a house with that kind of group in your membership? >> we do have members who disagree from time to time over the tactic that we decide to employ. but remember, republicans are united in this idea that the president far exceeded his constitutional authority. and we all want to do things to stop the president from illicit activity. >> john: you are all working to do the same thing but they are -- undermining him. >> we get in argument over tactics from time to time. the goals were all the same. >> john: did they have plan that could have succeeded signed by the president that would have gotten them with they wanted this small group you say that basically undermined your effort? >> not that i know. >> >> was it fruitless? >> >> house of representatives as said house is rambunctious place, 435 members. a lot of members that have different ideas of what with we should and shouldn't be doing. >> john: can you lead those members? >> i a

>>> and first republican peter king trashes ted cruz saying they both make lousy presidents. why i love peter sometimes. >>> and early battle among 2016 front runners, jeb bush and scott walker have the knives out for each other. isn't that interesting? i guess that the bushes know that walker is riding high in the polls. >>> finally, the lucky number that republicans have gotten their hands on. 47. this is "hardball," the place for politics. you hired someone to clean the gutters? a aa aa. ds ds. >> welcome back to hard ball. 47 republican senators sent a letter to iran trying to derail push back. the current secretary of state john kerry also blasted the letter. here he sx. >> my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. during my 29 years here in the senate i never heard of nor heard it being proposed anything comparable to this when it says congress can modify the terms of an agreement. they don't have the right to modify executive between executive leaders between countries. >> he was cut off after several minutes. >> mr. secretary i know this is a well-written speech -

peter king glitch had some interesting thoughts about how technology is affecting the game of thronesience. >> their brains are shutting down a little bit. you don't need to remember your mom's own number. it's crazy because it's right there. what do private detectives do? back in the day, they had to go down the rabbit hole and now you just go down the internet and find out anything about anybody. it's crazy. cory: natalie manual talked about how she learned the sacred languages she's required to speak in the show. she talked to me about how technology is helping her do that. >> he sends me all my lines and then he records it and i have it written down phonetically. it's just repetition to get it right. we have amazing dialect coaches on the staff. cory: the first episode of season five aired -- season five airs on april 12. is facebook becoming the new face of journalism? details on that story next. you can watch a streaming on your tablet, phone, apple tv you name it. ♪ cory: you are watching "bloomberg west" where we focus on information, technology and the future of business. let

republican congressman of new york peter king said he would rather jump off a bridge than support cruzto me he's a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> would you support him in at the hess the nominee? >> i hope the day never comes. i'll jump off the bridge if it comes to it. >>> here he is. >> imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of obamacare. imagine abolishes the i.r.s. imagine repealing every word of common core. we will get back and restore that shining city on a hill that is the united states of america. thank you and god bless you. >>> well, there he is giving blessings to a bunch of students who were told if they didn't show up, they would have to pay $10. the common core might be just the beginning, when he ran for the senate in 2012, he told a crowd the tea party republicans that abolishing the irs was just the beginning. >> we need to eliminate unnecessary and unconstitutional agencies. we need to eliminate the department of education. we need to eliminate the department of commerce. the department of energy. the national endowment of t

peter king serves on the house homeland security and intelligence committees. the prime minister's welcome was something to see. it was so much pomp and circumstance. you departmentsidn't see half the room refusing to stand because more than 50 democrats didn't attend. you had a overwhelmingly friendly audience. >> i think this speech allowed the proper protocol was breached that said it added to the dialogue. i think congress democrats and republicans, responded very favorable to the speech. >> they did. you say democrats and republicans. the democrats that were there seeing it favorably. maybe that's why he chose this afternoon when appearing with his defense secretary from the white house. here is part of what he said. >> if we're successful in negotiating this will be the best deal possible to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. nothing else comes close. sanctions won't do it. even military action would not be as successful. >> that's the key line. is it a deal better than military action even if it's not a very good deal? >> no i think a bad deal

. >> reporter: another republican new york congressman peter king issued a blistering statement today shutting down the federal government and reading dr. seuss on the senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world." >> i just came back from new hampshire where there's snow and ice everywhere. my view actually is simple. debates on this should follow science and should follow data. and many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. >> jerry brown, a democrat said cruz's position on global warning should be an automatic disqualifier. >> it's shocking and that makes him absolutely unfit for running for office. >> reporter: cruz has taken aim at the democratic front-runner hillary clinton, over her handling of the 2012 terror attacks in libya. >> i believe she has deliberately stone walled the american people. they deserve the truth. >> ted cruz coming out, he's the first, and obviously very controversial. not polling very high when it comes to the republican primaries. who is next? >> reporter: e

listen to cruz yesterday and then congress member peter king from new york. >> imagine in 2017 a newvery word of obamacare. i believe in you. i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. >> cruz may be an intelligent person, but he oversimplifies. he doesn't provide leadership. he has no real experience. to me he is just a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> he calls him a carnival barker. the 21-hour speech on the floor of the senate when he was trying to shutdown the government in fall of 2013 was not presidential. >>> senator rand paul is expected to announce in early april. he and ted cruz agree on most things but rand paul believes he is more electable and has a better chance of beating hillary clinton. >>> what would the ted cruz economy look like? he is the first out of the gate. we fact check his talking points. that's next. ♪ ♪ i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. phot

. >> i think ted cruz is not expecting peter king's endorsement. ted cruz is a strong conservative. they disagree on policy on a lot of really important issues. i don't think this is going to have any -- are ted cruz's supporters meaner than jeb bush's? i think there's any evidence of that. i think they're more conservative. i don't think they're more mean. >> they kind of play off each other well. you could always raise money off of it. >>> we're setting a record. the fourth headline. this is from deadline hollywood. walking dead companion series called fear the walking dead. amc announcing a new show. it will be called fear the walking dead. it will be set in los angeles. i guess that means it will be about the la lakers. >> very nicely done. >> that's why i wanted to get that one. everybody loves the walking dead. >> i thought this was about the gary hart o'malley story. >> that's a fun one, too. >> not only does the walking dead do incredibly well the talking dead where they talk about the episode that aired, that does well. >> is that an actua

and congressman peter king has said you're not a responsible adult.ater off your back? do you not worry about that? >> oh, look, i think you're just trying to sweet talk me. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah exactly. look, i'm just quoting. i'm just quoting. >> look, i think a lot of people are fed up with washington. i'll tell you, after -- john mccain actually has become a friend of mine since then. >> seth: okay. i'm glad to hear that. >> we have a very warm relationship. but after he called me a wacko bird, i tell you, it was very interesting. i went home and several places i went, people across texas -- one guy in particular had made a baseball cap with a picture of daffy duck and the word "wacko bird" on it, which i proudly wore and now have in my office. >> seth: well that's great. so it led to merchandising. >> there you go. and actually to this day, the number of people who bring green eggs and ham -- you know, the reason i read "green eggs and ham" -- >> seth: yeah, you were filibustering. >> i was filibustering. 21 hours to stop obamacare. >> seth

peter king was brutally honest about ted cruz's qualifications. >> he has shown no qualifications.ed, did you want provide leadership and doesn't have any real experience. he's a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> would you support him if he was the gop nominee? >> i'll jump off that bridge when we come to it. >> that's certainly not an endorsement. rand paul had some harsh words for cruz's messaging. >> i'm a big believer that you should stand on principle and be true to your principles but i also think we should take those principles and try to bring in new people with them. i have spent the last kipcouple of years trying to go places republicans haven't gone and not just trying to throw out red meat. >> i'll tell you one place right wingers don't go and that's liberal talk radio. rand paul is right about a few things. cruz's speech was heavy on red meat and light on ideas and facts. cruz owned the media blitz. his announcement earned the candidate hours of air time over the last couple of days. cruz landed himself an hour long special on "hannity" monday night. he came out

just lynn to republican congressman peter king. >> you show no qualifications no legislation being --perience. so to me he's just a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> so as the gop train starts rolling toward a primary, is it already flying off the tracks? joining me now is michelle colon from the national journal and salon.com's joan walsh. thank you both for being here. michelle what does it mean that the first candidate is ultimate the most controversial. >> he wants to get out there, grab attention, and put down his mark el. you know we've got candidates like jeb bush who are establishment favorite. they'll have no problem raising big money, but ted cruz does have a problem. he's not beloved by the big-money people. he's going to have to work hard to make up ground. he needs an early start and get the attention before anybody else is out there. >> joan, all of these radio people -- rush limbaugh the head of the party and everybody else how do you explain that? and what impact will they have on the primary voters? >> i think they're helpful for sure, but i think a lot of mains

i want to play what congressman peter king said over the weekend regarding some within his own party, kelly. let's play that. >> there's a wing within the congress which is absolutely irresponsible. they have no concept of reality. listen, i am as opposed to the president's immigration action as they are, but the fact is it is essential that we fund department of homeland security. >> so some within the republican party still focused on immigration and also even affordable health care saying it will be repealed heard a lot of that at cpac over the weekend. seems that this is just the tip of the iceberg, kelly, in more battles within the republican party. >> there really is division within the party. there are roughly 50 or so members that are particularly conservative on the issues. if you go back to their votes, it reflects their home district. they don't pay a political price at home to specific voters that put them in congress to take the positions they're taking. they made a promise to fight these things they say they're sticking with it. other republicans, senators that represent

quickly, i want to go to new york congressman peter king, because he's kind of saying what you're sayinghn, but boy he said it strong. watch this. >> there's a wing within the congress which is absolutely irresponsible. they have no concept of reality. listen, i am as opposed to the president's immigration action as they are, but the fact is it's essential that we fund the department of homeland security. for these people to be threatening to defund the department of homeland security at a time when our threat streams have never been greater than any time since 9/11 is absolutely irresponsible. >> so, when that popped up on live tv this morning, i thought i was watching a democrat. >> yeah. >> well no he's been saying this -- >> he's a patriot. >> he's been saying it consistently, but it goes back to a year ago. during the election, if the republicans had been talking about immigration, not negatively, but in a positive way -- here's what we're going to do boom boom boom and led the way on that, and then they won the election in part on that, they'd have a mandate to do something. they d

>> but let's take congressman peter king for example. he's gone even further. to this. >> i said the other night at the republican meeting that they're self-righteous and delusional. we're talking about maybe 40 50 people at most out of a caucus of 247. out of a congress of 435. we cannot allow such a small group to be dominating and controlling the -- what happens in the united states congress. >> i mean, he won't stand up to them. maybe it's him. maybe he doesn't have the strength internally. but will we shut down friday? will we go over the cliff this friday? we only have a week extension. >> i doubt it. i think what we saw with the week extension is what's going to carry the day, that he will have to turn to nancy pelosi who really is the power in the house at this point and he'll have to put something on the floor that doesn't defund the president's orders and he will have to get democratic partners. i think he will do that again. he has done it in the past at the last minute. i see that happening. >> joan walsh, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks,

. >>> now let's bring in chairman peter king. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, martha. >> you know the threat. the public knows the threat. this was the first big test after the republicans swept congress. if there's anything democrats and republicans should be able to agree on it's funding for the department of homeland security. let me read you some of the words describes what yesterday's brinksmanship meant for your party. humiliating. congressional republicans are their own worst enemyiesenemies. as one of your colleagues put it, the american people deserve better. what do you have to say for the republican party? >> martha, there's an element within our party, a wing within the congress which is absolutely irresponsible. they have no concept of reality. listen, i am as opposed to the president's immigration action as they are. but the fact is, it'esessential that we fund the department of homeland security. you see what happened in denmark, in paris. what isis is doing with the beheadings. the people arrested in new y

host: congressman peter king yesterday on the sunday shows. that debate playing out all week in washington, d.c. we want to hear from our republican callers. first, a few tweets from members of congress on that side of that debate. here is congressman trent franks, one of those who voted no on the short-term department of homeland security continuing resolution the three-week bill that republicans were unable to pass on friday night. "barack obama's unconstitutional actions cannot be left unchecked." a tweet from steve king of iowa. "just one more finalf swing through and we areunnel cooked in to obama amnesty." representative kevin yoder. "president has shut down the government's ability to carry out immigration laws." host: we will start with a john from gatlinburg, tennessee. good morning. caller: good morning. boehner should have never -- they shouldn't have never passed with a past friday. the should of let it shut down. the first time they shut it down in 2013 was because of obama. this would have been on account of the democrats. boehne

. >> that was republican congressman peter king calling out his party's right wing.o approve one week's worth of funding setting up another crucial test for john boehner's leadership. >> we've got kevin madden former press secretary for house speaker john boehner, very key credential richard sock retease, a democratic strategist. we start with you, mr. madden. >> yes. >> what do you think mr. boehner thinks he can achieve by holding up this process when it looms over our heads like the last shut down and we foe how that went? >> look, i don't think boehner is interested in interested in holding up the pro he is is. i think so much of the maneuvering was an effort to try to get the process moving. he really does want to move his conference together i think that's his key goal right now. that conference they do believe that what the president did with his executive action was unconstitutional. they also believe the public is on their side. the election in 2014 this was a big part of that election and republicans won historical majorities. lastly if you look at the law,

>> peter king every three or four months he came to cumberland, maryland. me. a lot of people. you know that were friends before. a lot of new friends. >> isn't that one of the best gifts, finding out who your friends are? >> it's painful. >> it's a painful gift. >> it's a painful gift. but it's -- it is what it is. >> there's so much in this book about life and about despair and about lessons that you can only learn in the most ultimate way like this. so if you put aside any opinions you have any ideology you have you should read this. it's incredible. >> i think every american should learn about the criminal justice system because, as we sit here today, any one of you could become a target and you have no conception what that means. >> yeah. >> bernie kerik, thank you. the book is "from jailer to jailed." you can read an excerpt on our cite mojo@msnbc.com. >>> coming up, deadline day for iranian nuclear talks in switzerland. ann curry joins us live with details. keep it right here on "morning joe." there's nothing more romantic than a spontaneous moment.