when those who are supposed to uphold the law continually break it and the very very ugly reince priebus just by j.p. morgan chase losing a whopping two billion dollars risky trading republican party chairman priebus thinks wall street needs less financial regulation in an interview over the weekend previous made it clear that republicans still oppose the types of regulations that would have prevented j.p. morgan's losses and protected both american taxpayers and the american economy it's clear the wall street has absolutely no control over its own actions and needs regulation but priebus wants to let the big banks continue the destruction of the american economy and that is very very. coming up conservatives are quick to argue that millionaires and billionaires make their wealth on their own without the help of the american government that's far from the truth how do we stop the greed is good mentality taking over the country and we store our history as a cooperative and collaborative nation. is he. ok. our first comment and i comes from bob. you called into our viewer rant line and had

if all the weather pattern holds like it is right now, priebus looks great.artly cloudy and a comfortable 76. >> a few weeks ago we looked at the orioles upcoming schedule as the first real test as to whether there first place had any potential to stick. tonight, weather permitting, they will have a chance to close out test run #one. looking pretty solid. they took a series in new york and a sweep in boston and to the rays from this past weekend. no need to start comparing the opposed to the 27 yankees yet. but if they can take new york at the yard, that they have the chance. >> jason hamels goes after a team leading fifth win. he gets to start for new york against devaughn over -- ivan novak. >> and the player to coach dale hunter with their reputation for making decisions quickly and standing by them, he stood by that decision to leave the capitals less than two days after the season-ending loss. he took over in november after the team fired woodrow. them general manager says he did not try to change his mind. he told mcfee wants to return to canada to spen

jack van berg at hollywood park in california, he traded two priebus winners. his advice, do the work and -- preakness winners. his advice, do the work and enjoy the ride. >> i'm having a blast. i'm back home and i did the jim rome's show. i did all of the school interviews. i was at the laker game the other night and they interviewed as, mario and died. it has been an absolute dream. -- morelle and i -- mario and i. it has been an absolute dream. we are soaking it all up and enjoying every minute of it. >> the countdown clock leading up to this summer's games, for some reason it does not work today. today in greece, the official lighting of the olympic caldron, they did it using the sun and a mirror. runners will carry that torch across greece over the next eight days before it makes its way to england. by the way, using an old- fashioned wall calendar, you can calculate the games will begin x here is what we are working on for 11 news tonight. held at gunpoint, police say a man claims two men forced him to empty his pockets and then cleared his bank account.

joining me now, the chair of the republican party reince priebus.to have you back on the program. >> thank you. >> a lot has changed in the marriage debate over the past week because of the president sitting right where you're sitting now. will this be a defining issue for your party in the fall? >> i'm not sure it's going to be a defining issue, but clearly for people in america where gay marriage is the number one issue, we clearly have two candidates. on the one hand, you have barack obama, who is now going to promote and perhaps crusade for this issue. we have mitt romney who's been consistent, and i think in line with most americans, which is that marriage ought to be defined between one man and one woman. for those people that this is their issue, they have a clear choice. but i happen to believe that, at the end of the day, however, this election is still going to be about the economy and whether or not this president fulfilled the promises that he made to the american people, which he clearly didn't. >> do republicans tread carefully on this

. >> exclusive interviews with david axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. >>> plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders faux rasmussen and the exit of afghanistan. >>> and chewing over the week with jeff zell mi and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." vice president biden questioned mitt romney's business credentials on the stump. the obama re-elect team pumped out a small buy ad with a big bite attacking bain capital, the equity firm romney founded. >> they made as much money off it as they could, and they closed it down, they filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families or the communities. >> like a vampire. they came in and sucked the life out of us. >> within hours camp romney was up with a web ad of its own and a story of its own. >> sti almost never got started. when others scheide away mitt romney private sector leadership team stepped in. >>

>> chairman priebus, they're probably behind the scenes to get out the vote.y doing things we don't know about. what we know is that as many people have discussed even today, that in arizona, it is a perfect example. this is a state that president obama wants to turn in his column. he is going to be competitive there just because of the immigration law that was passed in arizona. there is so much energy on the ground, grassroots energy. and they are registering new latino voters there hand over fist. sometimes 300%, 500% in different precincts and that is a challenge for the republican party and they know that. if arizona is in contention, there will be a problem in october. >> let me ask you about this. are you seeing any signs that the republican party is making some inroads as we move forward? >> i think short of the -- the rnc recently hired someone doing outreach on behalf of the republican party. but a.b. is right. last week mitt romney basically said the states that were contested and he thought that were viable for him to win and they included north ca

that's personal pricing. >>> i am joined by republican national committee chairman reince priebus. let me start out with where i left off with david axelrod, and that is these outside super pac groups. you-all spent about a day and a half trying to distance yourselves from the notion that reverend wright would be brought up by one of these fabulously wealthy people that want to come in and have their say-so in an election in the form of tv ads. isn't there just a huge problem here for you all as you move forward that you don't have or are not supposed to have control over what goes up on the air in your name? >> i think both sides have the same problem, and -- >> you have a lot more super pacs than we do. >> we don't know who's got what and how it's going to shake out. certainly obama spends nights raising tons of money whether it's george clooney and hollywood or people on wall street. mitt romney repudiated this particular issue and what's amazing about it to me, a day and a half spent and that the media and "the new york times" would pick up on a proposal to perhaps do something

i mean basically like raince priebus is saying there, it's good for president obama.s them something to talk about, where they don't have to talk about maybe sol of the negatives about not having the unemployment rate below 8% yet. >> you know, here's the truth. the obama campaign and democrats welcome a conversation with mitt romney on the economy. because then we get to talk about mitt romney's real record when he was governor of massachusetts, job loss, the debt that he actually increased on massachusetts. i don't think people see this as this is a good thing for us. i think that what we recognize is that americans understand that this kind of gutter politics is not the kind of thing we want as part of our national discussion. and it will make them take pause and say wait a second, why would people who support mitt romney think they need to do something like that in order to bolster their campaign. rather than use the $10 million to focus on a conversation on the economy. >> wesley, is axelrod right on this? is romney playing boll sides of the issue, where he gets

and the chairman of the r-n-c reince priebus made his positionn he thinks there should just be - lessegulaaions. in washington, peter doocy, fox news. we'll hear more later this month about that prostitution scandal involving the secret serviie in colombia. collmbia.a coonressional 23rd.... where seccet service director mark sullivan and acting inspector geeeral charles eewards ill testify security committee.lawmmkers satiifiee with the allegations that secret service agents brought prrstitutes into their hotel rooms, just before president obama's visit to cooombia.... so far nine secret service just last week.... aa ssed. 18-month-old liitle girl was kept off an airplane..... becaase her name was on the government'ss"no fly list". incidents like that, have aa lot of people saying omeehing needs to change. change.the american civil piberties union will be back in coort thhs week to argue that the list should be ruled &punconstitttional.the group repreeents sixteen muslims barred from flying. "in the modern ay, air travel ps absolutely fundammntally impootant to how we travel on to tra

two men or two women getting married, but many others side with republicans like rnc chair reince priebushere's what he told nbc today. >> i don't think it's a matter of civil rights. i just think it's a matter of whether we'll adhere to something that's been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years. i mean, marriage has to have a definition, and we just happen to believe it's between a man and a woman. >> priebus doesn't see it as a civil rights issue, but many renowned black leaders do, and you're going to hear from civil rights icon reverend joseph lowery in just a moment here on cnn. >>> black churches in particular have a lot to reconcile over same-sex marriage. they are a major source of support for the president on most issues, but as our athena jones reports, some just won't follow him down this path. ♪ >> reporter: from baltimore -- >> i love the president, but i cannot support what he has done. >> reporter: -- to atlanta. >> i'm not there with the president. >> reporter: to new york. >> it's no one's business. it's only the couple's involvement so

just today, republican party chairman reince priebus raised the very scary specter of voter fraud in republican governor scott walker's upcoming recall election in wisconsin. >> i'm always concerned about voter fraud. i'm always concerned about it, which is why i think we need to do a point or two better than where we think we need to be to overcome it. >> a point or two better. rnc chairman reince priebus saying today that voter fraud is so bad on the democratic side in wisconsin, that the republican candidate needs to win there by a super extra big margin in order to compensate for all those fraudulent votes that will inevitably be cast for the democrat. one or two points, he says, in a wisconsin election. that means he's talking about something like tens of thousands of votes. extra votes that the republicans need to make up because of all the democratic voter fraud in an election like this. he is that sure that there's that kind of rampant, one-sided voter fraud that it's going to decide the election if republicans don't do something about it. and of course, republicans are doing

. >> reince priebus joins me now. okay. four years to -- good morning. four years to get to the 6%.hat's about what all the estimates say if all the policies stay where they are, as they are right now. that's the estimates that get us there. what's -- that's not much of a bold prediction. is it not? >> well, i think the main point here, though, chuck, is that we've got to do better than where we're at today. and certainly we have to do better than what barack obama promise md he would do by the end of this first term. face it. we can try to poke homes here and there, but the reality is that this president promised by the first quarter of 2012 under 6% unemployment, if we spent the trillion dollars, which we did spend, a few years ago. face it. and i would listen intent lip to the previous segment, the fact is, people in this country know that we're not going in the right direction. we know this president didn't fulfill his promises and i think what mitt romney is saying we've got to do a whole lot better than where we are today and he's going to help bring about that change. >> it's

you have reince priebus.n one hand, you have barack obama who is now going on promote and perhaps crusade for this issue. and we have mitt romney who has been consistent and i think in line with most americans, which is that marriage ought to be defined between one man and one woman. so far those people that this is their issue, they have a clear choice. >> so with that said, john, last week with the president made the big announcement, first read andle others, they have really been silent in a response to the president's historic announcement. >> republicans want to try to make this issue about the economy. they know in the environment of 2012, social issues are often a wedge issue for democrats. that is to say democrats can use those issues to portray especially among some suburban women, independent voters, as intolerant, extreme. advocating same sex marriage is a little bit different because it puts the president out on the edge. republicans generally speaking do not want to look, if they're the crusading

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. >> joining me now the republican national chairman reince priebus. thanks so much for being with us. well, first of all, the battleground polls that are out today show this is basically a tie going into the final six months of the race. what about the president's charge and it was laid out very well by stephanie cutter that there is progress, there's progress on the jobs front, there's progress on the economy, that he inherited a mess. and that he is digging the country out of a huge hole? >> well, it may be the best that barack obama can do, but andrea, it's certainly not the best this country can do. it's not up to the promises and the standards that barack obama set for himself four years ago. i happen to believe that people ought to be held accountable to their words and promises, and clearly, on the most basic promises that this president made to the american people whether it be jobs, whether it be the debt, the deficit, health care, even green jobs, i mean, even his own pet issues, he just hasn't completed the mission and so i'm not going to l

marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. [ cheers and applause ] >> rnc chairman raines priebus defended that. >> mitt romney is a gracious, caring promise that believes every individual in this country including people who are gay deserve the dignity and respect that every american deserves but that doesn't change the fact that we believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. >> you think the fight for gay marriage is a civil rights struggle? >> i don't think it's a matter of civil rights. i think it's a matter of whether or not we're going to adhere to something that's been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years. i mean marriage has to have a definition. >> meanwhile, family research counsel president tony perkins is taking issue with rand paul for these comments he made friday night in iowa. >> the president recently weighed in on marriage and, you know, he said his views were evolving on marriage and call me cynical, but i wasn't sure that his views on marriage could get any gayer. >> views on gay marriage could get any gayer

. > >>> rnc chairman reince priebus appeared on "meet the press" and laid down the republican stance be between a man and a woman. last week, north carolina voters turned out in reportedly record numbers to approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. the vote has launched the state into the forefront of the national debate and inspired one lawmaker to take his opposition to the federal level. joining me is congressman bath miller from north carolina, thank you for being here, sir. >> thank you. >> what were you hearing from our constituents prior to the vote in terms of how big an issue this is for them. >> i think it was a big issue for north carolina. but apart from a if you right-ring politician who is said north carolina was telling gays and lesbian does move to san francisco san francisco if you want to be gay. in some of my gay friends took it that way, i don't think that's the way most north carolinians felt who voted for the amendment. i think they understand that society is changing, they understand which way history is heading. but they feel a discomfort with t