republicans? i will get into some of those numbers in a minute. we were primarily interested in that question because we wanted to begin to try and answer if there are divisions are they just fleeting, are they going to go away? this is a temporary blip on the map or are these divisions likely to persist and so there is this literature out there that says when you only hear like-minded ideas, all the time, when you live in this echo chamber, your ideas get reinforced and people begin to he come more polarized. weooking at media sources were hoping -- by looking at media sources we were hoping to project that perhaps if there are divisions, they would persist if there are these divisions in media sources so that is the second thing. -- the second thing that we looked at. final question which i think was probably the more -- most challenging part of the project which was we wanted to specifically look at social media as well. social media, the reason we wanted to focus on that specific question was

a conservative republican, a moss-covered republican. a libertarian republican. i don't want to be told by my party who have appointed themselves the republican purity police that i do not along. -- that i do not belong. i do not want to be called a rhino. actually, i have changed my mind on that go ahead and call me a , rhino. for me that stands for republican that is inclusive not obstructionist. i just want to be a republican and focus on the things we agree on as a party. not the things we disagree on. i do not want to wage fights against republicans that can win in their individual districts and states. call me crazy, but i would rather use our resources and energy beating democrats, not other republicans. mike lee can win utah. but he probably cannot win in new hampshire. chris christie can win in new jersey. but he would have a hard time winning in alabama. i do not care how many times ted cruz hugs barack obama. i do not think he can win the majority of the latino vote, the women vote, in new jersey. i want to win elections. that requires fielding candida

as republicans from guam and washington, d.c. even though they drink the gop milkshake, there is one place where republicans have the upper hand. they have more women serving as governors. on the gop side four women are currently residing in governor's mansions, january brewjan brewe arizona, susanna martinez in new mexico, mary fallin in oklahoma and maggie hassan in new hampshire. republican gubernatorial advantage in 2014. 36 states are set to hold gubernatorial elections next year. and according to rutgers university, 37 women have filed or are likely to file for races. set to feature high-profile women running as democrats. >> a lot of people are considering what they want to do in the future if they can be of greater service. >> you? >> i'm among those people. >> today, i am proud to announce my candidacy to be the 48th governor of this great state. >> the only pennsylvania woman in the u.s. congress. now she wants to become the state's first woman governor. >> i think people are very ready. i feel very ready to run and to

it's also republican members of congress against republican members of congress. and particularly, right now, it's republican senators against republicans in the house. and none of the old alliances appear to be sticking. so this is all very fun. it's all fascinating to watch, at least, as the house goes to bed for the year. the plan in the senate, however, seems to be that they will never go to bed again, ever. the senate stayed in session all night last night. they took a vote to confirm a judge around 1:00 a.m. then they stayed all night to take another couple of votes to confirm another judge and another nominee around 9:00 a.m. tonight, they are planning on staying all night, again. they're going to stay overnight all night and eventually take votes on totally noncontroversial judicial nominees for federal courts in montana and new hampshire, on the new secretary of the air force, a couple deputy and assistant secretaries of state. then they're going to stay all night again tomorrow night, into saturday, taking more votes that will all pass, without a doubt.

the republicans don't have any power. all they can do, maybe, if they get the ca hone as is, in terms of legislation in washington. thr they have the house, but nothing in the senate. they can't stop him anywhere, yet, he's out acting like he's got to overcome all of this opposition and all of these mean people that want to prevent the american people from realizing their dream, these dastardly republicans. so the phony scandals. it's just another vehicle to continue the same modus on randy. all that stuff. >> why do you think, though, a lot of people are unhappy about the phony scandals, a lot of republicans. a lot of people hate the irs. in early may, he says this is a serious problem. now it's phony, and it's just a campaign tactic? is that what you're saying? >> he's got a slavish media. he can say whatever he wants and he's not going to be called on it. he can do pretty much whatever he wants. he should have added in my previous answer to your question, that he couldn't get away with any of this without a slavish med

before republicans can win back the senate, is that the republicans also have to run a gauntlet of frankly right on right primaries. we'll have more on that calendar challenge later in the show. and then will is the question of whether any dam can pull a mcauliffe and do something they haven't done, which is win with the obama voting coalition without the president himself on the ballot. mcauliffe pull that had off in virginia. house and senate races will test the viability of the two parties' driving strategies, which message is more powerful, democratic attacks, or the republican exploitation of public fears about the health care law. there will be a special election to replace bill young in from a's 13th district. it is one of those perfect 50/50 seats. the democrats have even a long shot of making the house competitive and getting close to the 17 seats they would immediate to retake the chamber? that florida '13 special, yeel overdo it, but it will provide a clue or two. and then there is the 2014 x factor. the public's disgust at washington and everyone in office. this is unchartered

thus becoming republican cult followers. and then just like they were followers of jonestown. they let their leaders of the republican party pass out policy kool-aid. that actually kills people and it's killing some of them some of these republican cult followers for example right now in twenty three states led by mostly republican lawmakers these twenty three states are refusing to expand medicaid under obamacare even though it's free free money for the first three years ninety nine percent forever after as a result of this literally millions of low income americans in these states won't have access to lifesaving health care or medication. it's going to cause deaths as millions of americans include the followers of the g.o.p. and these are red states. include the followers of the republican party who helped give the republicans control the house of representatives. meanwhile as republicans are taking away health care from their followers they're also taking away their food last month thanks to republican opposition congress

republicans want entitlement reform.he president asks for higher taxes, and new spending programs. >> i'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high quality free school available to every single child in america. redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates. >> our taxes on job reducers, more spending will continue to destroy jobs. >> the sequester showdown and one telling moment was after the state of the union. was that speech a turning point that some republicans said, he's not hearing us? this thing is going to kick in. >> the president's not hearing the american people. they want spending cuts. and they see that as the only mechanism where spending cuts are actually taking place. >> turns out the republicans almost liked the poison. it was clearly a blunder by the president. it was just a complete misreading of the opposition. >> i

that isn't the whole republican party. it's not the suburban republican party. the rush limbaugh republican party. that we're the ones being beaten up on. >> right. i want to be clear that that's not rank and file. right. >> right. but you said your goal was to turn the republican party around. how do you think that went? i think it's clear where the republican party has gone. and it's not in the direction that you say you wanted to take it in. it's in precisely the opposite direction. >> i think there are a lot of republicans in the north and midwest and a lot of parts in the country who would hate the idea of being in a party that was seen as racist. >> absolutely. >> they hate that image. and really would vote against it on paper. >> those were the voices we were looking to elevate in the rank and file of the party which helped us elect african-americans to congress, a broad spectrum of folks with recognition of historic links but importance going forward. >> what african-americans in congress? >> okay. one of the problems you've got there is that you were re

so the republicans here, republican leading people offended by that? >> no. it seems like john boehner was waiting a very long time to do that. and he could do that with very minimal blowback. he didn't need tows people to get that budget deal passed. so it was sort of a win-win for him. i think the other interesting republican breakup this year though, looking ahead was ran paul and chris christie. chris christie gave a speech saying we're not a debating society the we have to win elections. i think that crystallizes the gop fight of the year. do we win elections or stand on principles? >> i think this is a big question going into 2014. it's not like john boehner was listening to conservatives because he wanted to. house republicans and senate republicans have been really worried about primary fights. look at mitch mcconnell dancing this whole year around energizing con seventives, opposing conservatives. the big question going in unanswered is are republicans, are the conservative tea party activists going to have the power to knock out more and more modera

make the republicans fight for something.ake the republicans the grinch of christmas, because democrats, you have everything in your corner to put them in that position. the budget is expected to cut the deficit by $85 billion over the next decade and fund the government for the next two years. there is no long-term extension for unemployment benefits in this deal whatsoever. which is bad. it's heartless. on one hand, the republicans say, well, the economy is not doing very well under obama, but on the other hand, we're just going to stick it to the folks looking for a job. starting december 28, 1.3 million americans are going to stop getting unemployment check it is this bill passes within the next hour or so. make no mistake, this will put some people out on the street. earlier today, nancy pelosi made a heated case to extend the unemployment benefits. >> it's absolutely unconscionable that we could possibly consider leaving washington, d.c. without extending those benefits. work ethic is strong and respected in our country

democratic majority, and the senate republicans felt left out. that's a part of it. then you put into that as well continueds grumbling over the change of the rules. it was not at all clear until a few days ago that they had the 60 votes needed. now i think what you're seeing is you don't have very many senate republicans who are suicidal, and they recognize if you didn't let this go through, even if it was a vote against it in the end they would look like complete fools and their ratings by go from the 6% into the negative. >> there is another year to run in this congress, and it's an election year, what changes after january 1st. >> what changes for a lot of republicans in the house the primary days are through and they have to worry about general elections. and in the senate, they have their general elections and there are nine, at some point you have to win a general election. if you're so unpopular you're really vulnerable to a general election challenge even with redistricting. i think there are issues like immigration reform that could hap

if there is a republican president in the republican senate, they're going to rue the day that they did this. >> on the very day that this debate went ahead, there was that, well, they all do it. was there not only a quantitative, but qualitative change in what happened this year leading up to harry reid's fateful issue. >> why i would take issue is that the democrats picked the fight. it was something a little bit different. first, filibustering executive nominees. the first time sitting member of the house had been filibustered or blocked in a hundred years. it was after the republicans in the senate promised they would do so only under extraordinary circumstances. if you look at circuit court of appeals nominees blocked for the district of columbia, you didn't have even the fig leave, which we had the last time that republican leader bill frisk threatened this action, well, this person is extreme, or this person didn't qualified. the republicans in the senate said they're not extreme, they're not qualified, we're not going to confirm anybody. it was daring democrats to go further. on

now they go to know. >> it's interesting because the republicans who voted for obama and the republican party itself there seems to be a lot of confusion and a lot of dissatisfaction and discouragement. you wrote this book for a number of reasons but my question is did you plan the timing of this book? >> yes i did. i'm going to drop this thing right before the republican party shinki in d.c. takes the beer truck strayed over the cliff with a government shutdown that will drive their numbers to an all-time low. then i started thinking if it's at an all-time low no one will believe that the republicans can come back to power. at least we have a reason for hope. the timing has been. >> it's unbelievable because when you read it you will see it's exactly, it fills the void that a lot of people feel when they are democrats and they want good candidates on both sides to raise the level of the national conversation and raise the quality of our candidates. or a republican who wants the party to stop. >> i don't know if i'd say it quite that way. >> we showed some polls this morning on the show

these dastardly republicans. so, the phony scandals, just another vehicle to continue the same mode mod id operandi homophobes, war on women. all that stuff. >> a lot of people are unhappy. phony republicans because a lot of people hate the irs. in early may he says this is a serious problem. now it's phony. and it's just a campaign tactic? is that what you are saying? >> he has got a slavish media he is k. say whatever he wants and not called on it by the media he can do pretty much anything he wants. i should have added in my previous answer to your question that he couldn't get away with any of this without a slavish media. the media doesn't question him. in fact, it is on board with his agenda and trying to help him advance it i have gotten to the point where what he says is irrelevant. i can give you quotes of what he said in 2002, 2005, 2007 about healthcare. i give you quotes on what he said about global warming and all these things that they are irrelevant. what you have to do is watch what he does. he is

i don't want to be called a tea party republican, a conservative republican, a moderate republican, a whacko republican, a moss-covered republican, a libertarian, a vegetarian, a humanitarian or a rastafarian. i don't want to be told my people if my party who have appointed themselves the republican security police that i don't belong. i don't want to be called a rino. actually, i've changed my mind on that. go ahead and call me a rino because for me that stands for republican that's inclusive, not obstructionist. i just want to be a republican, and i want to focus on the things that we agree on as a party, not the things we disagree on. i don't want to wage primary fights against republicans that can win in their individual districts and states. call me crazy, but i'd rather use our resources and our energy in beating democrats, not other republicans. mike lee can win utah, but he probably could not win in new hampshire. chris christie can win in new jersey, but he would have a very hard time winning in alabama. and i don't care how many times or how hard ted cruz can hug barack obam

no, over 130, 140 republicans. if the republicans out there. care about anything other than tax cuts, if they care about the environment or women aright to choose or sense of community in our country, and i think that they do. are they overwhelmingly support gun safety, immigration, and the rest. they really are just going to have to weigh in. it's not a small group, i think it is really important to note that. >> you can see my entire interview with leader pelosi and the rest of our special report, women in politics, tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific here on msnbc. up next -- can adam levine make obama care sexy? no, seriously. can he? people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions-- it matters. ♪ but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance and we won't just g

it's republicans and particularly it's how republicans.ore of a fighting mood which means writing off the rest of his presidency is going to be dangerous. >> so calling them out by name is something that could be interesting in 2014 midterm election if the president goes directly at them and not washington as a whole as he used to say rhetorically. >> absolutely. at this point, the president is fighting for his legacy. it's not a re-election that he's fighting for. it's about cementing his legacy and covering his accomplishments. aca is major. and just like sydney hoyer pointed out on the house floor the other day, there was the prescription drug deal that had just as many issues. so he's fighting for his legacy and he's got to continue to do that. >> angela rye and ryan grim, thanks for your time and have a great weekend. >>> ahead, a big update to a story we brought you lance month. a police officer caught on tape shooting at a van carrying children. >>> and the right wing response to nelson mandela. hypocrisy defined. we're breaking out

what makes every republican, i mean, almost, i think every republican and almost every democrat i canhink of love teddy roosevelt as a president. was it the rough riders, san juan hill, the heroism of his youth. what was it? why is he on mt. rushmore? he's up there. >> he is, indeed. i think it's a combination of things. one is, as you say, he had a cowboy mentality and a physical sense of being a big active guy. but at the same time, he came from the east, so he spread east and west. he was just so colorful. somebody who came over from britain said that there were two forces of nature in america. niagara falls and teddy roosevelt. but also, i think he knew how to speak and communicate. he said, at one point, thaz harvard buddies might think that he talked in too folksy language, but he could meet people emotionally. and he went out on trains more than any other president had. he'd be gone for weeks on end at whistlestop tours, stopping at every village station, waving to people. he loved the that emotional connection to the people. people loved him at the time and they still look bac

republicans want entitlement reform.he president asks for higher taxes and new spending programs. >> i'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security front. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high-quality free school available to every single child in america. redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates. >> our taxes are job producers. more spending because we continue to destroy jobs. >> last winter our cameras followed you through the showdown, the sequester showdown. and one telling moment was after the state of the union. was that speech a turning point that some republicans said he's not hearing us, this thing's going to kick in? >> the president's not hearing the american people. they want spending cuts. and they see that as the only mechanism where spending cuts are actually taking place. >> turns out the republicans almost liked the poison. it was clearly a blunder by the pre

that's how low the republicans went. john boehner gave them their moment and they saw what became of and it that was a very important lesson for the house republican caucus. many of them walked out of that saying never again or at least not in an election year and so the whole point of this gar begin is to push everything past next year's mid term elections so that the republicans can now focus on just, in their minds, just attacking health care because they believe that this will be an issue that will work for them. gwen: a victory for patty murray, for paul ryan or john boehner himself? >> i don't think it was a victory necessarily for boehner. any bipartisan teal -- deal has eluded him for years. ryan got a deal but it's a double-edged sword for ryan. inside the house, his stock went up. in iowa, maybe not so much. so it depend on what his ambitions are. gwen: molly, what do you think? >> i think boehner is quite strengthened by this deal. that clip e-- you showed where boehner really went off on these outside groups

america had republican mayors. oxymoron. today, bloomberg reported this week winn bill de blasio is sworn in as new york's mayor in a month, end 20 years of non-democratic control of new york and make all 12 of mark's largest cities democratic controlled. the republican party of the obama era grows ever more isolated from america. today's gop writes off america's cities, all the voters of america's cities as straight-ticket democrats. doesn't even try. relies on the suburbs, on the excerpts, on rural america it stokes resent its toward urban america in non-urban america it is utterly and in many ways intentionally alienated the exact voters jack kemp was so eager and so desperate to bring into the fold. voters who just 20 years ago seemed to be ready to at least give the gop a look. this is the backdrop for what is going to happen this coming friday in detroit. city where barack obama won nearly 98% of the vote over mitt romney, native michigander, mitt romney, last year. detroit on friday, the state republican par

republican senator, marco rubio was the first, first likely republican presidential candidate to release a statement. which says -- this budget continues washington's irresponsibledesixes spending more than the government takes and placing burdens on americans. >> democratic leader of the house. nancy pelosi said, tonight's agreement represents a step toward enacting a budget for the american people and preventing further manufactured crises that harm our economy, destroy jobs and weaken our middle-class. i look forward to discussing the details of the agreement with my colleagues in the house democratic caucus. >> with president obama still in the air, on his way back from south africa, the white houser ud this statement. today's agreement is a good first step. congress has a lot more to do on the front in the immediate term. congress should extend unemployment insurance so more than a million americans looking for work don't lose a life line right after christmas and our economy doesn't take a hit. joining me now is, ezra klein, msnbc columnist. and sam stein, msnbc, political analyst,

and i'm not a republican. people think i'm a republican. i'm not.a registered conservative in new york. and i've been saying speaker boehner needs to go. >> you'll never get credit for that. >> i don't want credit for that. >> no, but what i'm saying is, the left will never look at people like you and me and say we're anything but republicans. but -- i have attacked the republicans more than i have attacked -- i was saying that you wanted to get george bush on impeachment -- remember they were claiming impeachment, i said go after him what they were doing on champion and rom owes. but somehow i was a big bush fan? come on. >> they forget the areas where we disagree. >> wow. i mean, that is just some hard-hitting -- i'm not a republican type audio, isn't it? well, here's the dynamic duo taking the gop to task. >> when i saw you, you were -- my perception was, you were totally, completely at peace. >> yeah. >> your job was done. and you seem even more at peace now. >> i am at peace. >> paul ryan. you, sir -- you, sir -- >> how are you doing? >> i love

if you're republican.re are two ways to rehabilitate your image after you've -- you've you've damaged with it with iraq or katrina. one is do hard work oh of repairing your reputation by governing well again. the other is to neutralize the damage by tarring your opponent with the same sort of liability. and i think that that's why the analogies to katrina and iraq have been impressive lengths. if in six years now republicans repeal obama care and try to implement paul ryan care and it's an implementation debacle, democrats will say it's worse. it's an easy way to balance things out when you've kind of screwed up your own image. >> it feels like a combination of trolling and working out some deep psychological issues. you've covered the right. is this trolling or psychosis or psychological reaction to disappointment in bush? >> i mean, i would say that if i were president obama, i would say where is my jet landing, where is my flight suit? there is something deeply disrespectful about these analogies when y

being a republican in the current congress.t is by acclimation, of course, the worst congress ever. >>> also republicans peddle the decision to close it. it's all part of an anti-catholic agenda, they say. really? >>> finally you can count on republicans to have a sour note on race. yesterday the rnc tweeted, we remember rosa parks' bold stand on her role on her end of racism. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> fresh off his big re-election victory in new jersey, chris christie now has a big lead in the latest snapshot of the 2016 republican primary race. according to a new cnn research poll, christie's up by nine points over his rival. rand paul second with 15% followed by ted cruz and paul ryan tied for third at 11%. marco rubio is at 10%. and rick perry is incredibly up to 7%. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." former secretary of state hillary clinton and husband bill may say she's still undecided about whether she's going to run in 2016, but they are certainly putting pieces in order. their m

no, over 130, 140 republicans. if the republicans out there. care about anything other than tax cuts, if they care about the environment or women aright to choose or sense of community in our country, and i think that they do. are they overwhelmingly support gun safety, immigration, and the rest. they really are just going to have to weigh in. it's not a small group, i think it is really important to note that. >> you can see my entire interview with leader pelosi and the rest of our special report, women in politics, tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific here on msnbc. up next -- can adam levine make obama care sexy? no, seriously. can he? [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but that's okay. you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car, and we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. learn about it at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's you

or be republican. i can see that in cities in the south quite well, and some of the most diverse counties in the country are these black belt from the rural south and maybe the suburban south. does it hold in the north as well? i think of places -- you think of new york city. a very diverse series of counties. and yet whites were overwhelmingly voting democratic there, and probably did for president as well. does it extend beyond the south? is it the south driving that? maybe a broader point to make is, one of the things i think we are seeing here is a southernization of the republican party. i think i have read that half the republicans in congress represent southern districts. so we are seeing that as a powerful driver. it extends to the rest of the country, but is the driver of the south. actor the question of most diverse counties. >> that is an outstanding question. we have explored it fairly extensively. initially, we were concerned that this might be a southern phenomenon. that is why we them --

in essence -- and i don't think this was geared towards republicans. i isle -- and this was nothing look standing in a town hall that makes you change your mind. this is how this happens, how people change their minds in washington. to get a bipartisan deal or if something leads to another opportunity for republicans and democrats to work together to solve a problem. >> hillary, the elephant in the room as i mentioned is obama care. on wednesday the chaos commences. isn't that what democrats are really going to have to run on? whether they like it or not. i don't believe you're going to have a choice. you're going to have to deal with obama care over the next year. >> i think there is a chance, a chance that by september we're actually going to have stories where people who couldn't get insurance, you know, like two of mice cousins at our holiday table, now because of preexisting conditions now can get it. there are so many benefits to this thing that have gotten lost in this trap of execution that, you know, it won't take much for enough people to tel

>> priority for the republican leadership as stated to us, is to have the republican conference in the house to coalesce and ubefy a -- unify around a health care plan. >> congressman stand by if you would. congressman price on the budget deal. he is the conferree. keep it here. >>> well, it is the typical end of the year deal i have seen in the three years up here. increase spending with promise of spending cuts sometime in the future. at the end of the day increases the deficit, raises taxes and fees an ennot address the long-term overspending problem in washington which is to reform endowments. >> republican from kansas in the same caucus. we're back with the panel. georgia republican price, you support the budget deal. >> i do. >> why? >> we want to stick to principle. no tax increases, spending less in the ten-year budget window than current law and making certain that we set in place the numbers available so the appropriations committee cans do the job for 18 month which is they haven't done in 6 years. when we pass the continuing resolution, what we're doing is putting in place

, black lesbian republicans. we have them on the national board of directors and in louisiana. so yeah. you better believe that we want to open this up to represent as much of a -- the diversity that we have in the organization as possible if and when this occurs. but my point is, just coming from -- i think this is something -- a conversation that needs to come from the right. it needs to be gay conservatives that make this case because we have more in common than separating us. we are at a polarizing point in this country where in order to get that conversation to begin you need to sit down with people you have more in common with. >> that you perceive you have more in common with. part of the polarization is we perceive we have so much less in common. a final question to you, gregory. nancy made an important point. i think this gives conservatives a bad name because, i mean, some of the viewers of the show are shocked to hear me say this. i have friends that are conservative and not bigoted and racist and we j

are not republicans and other republicans.ht be right. and i think that it's very real and very palpable. mitch mcconnell just blurted out all this stuff. and it was like, thoughts became words. and it's very clear that a lot of ticked off conservatives feel the same way. take it or leave it. a a lot of them are angry. >> i don't think anyone likes it. paul ryan said this is a fantastic deal. >> what he think he did a? >> a showing that it least it's the first baby step towards government. these guys are not elected just to make speeches and that includes getting a budget together. >> $20 million is not much, it's pocket change. but it doesn't include a 1.4 trillion tax increase order to complete destruction of the sequestration, which the democrats wanted. and it does not include 10 christmas trees with all sorts of giveaways and the democrats also wanted as well. and i guess they want to have indefinite unemployment. >> so it's something that is over which republicans and conservatives and you might provide that. and you can

it is only the republicans in congress that oppose them, not republicans around the country. these loopholes are so big, you could drive the biggest vehicle in the world through them, mr. president. but we're where we are. despite the cost of the republican shutdown this fall, last week's jobs report proves the american economy continues to gain steam. private sector businesses have added more than eight million jobs over the last 45 consecutive months. if kweupbsz -- republicans insisted on short-term cuts that laid off teachers, firefighters, the economy would be growing even faster than it is today. mr. president, the presiding officer knows, we all know that we need an infrastructure program. for every $1 billion we spend as a government on infrastructure, roads, bridges, dams, highways, water systems, sewer systems, we create almost 50 thousand high-paying jobs. despite last week's good economic news, congress can and must do even more to create jobs for millions of americans who are still looking for work. unemployment compensation. mr. president, we need these extended

republican. if these lawmakers cut off unemployment benefits, a majority of independents in each district say they would beless likely to vote for that lawmaker and more likely to vote for someone else. that includes speaker boehner's district, ryan. >> and that's great, but where were these liberal groups during the budget fight when this mattered? congress has left town at this point. and so you're going to have unemployment benefits lapse. if in the middle of the budget crisis you had liberal groups on the air saying this is the moment to save unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless. why aren't democrats making a bigger deal of it? then maybe we wouldn't even be going through this. now, it's terrific they're making such a big deal about it now. when they come back in january, it does look like there's a decent chance they're going to be able to get it done. and hopefully it can be done retroactively. you're putting these people through unneeded stress by putting them on the benefits, o

before republicans can win back the senate, the senate republicans run a gaunt the of gauntlet. there is the question of whether any democrat can pull in auliffe and do something democrats had not been in the obama era. win with the voting coalition without the president himself on the ballot. i pulled that off in virginia. house and senate will testify between the two parties. which will be more powerful than the attacks on the insablt to govern. the health care law. the public wants to punish and not sure about the reward. the last time they felt like it was in 1992. there was a republican president who seemed out of touch and a democratic party who had broken the party's brand of 40 years in power and looked like they were corrupt with the most famous at the pop of the ticket. voters didn't reward the majority. clinton won 43%. he picked up house and senate seats. the majority of americans say they belong to neither party. a rarity in decades. they have a huge problem and if they don't watch out, they have outside a political force. a gaggle of political junkies. 2013, 14, 16

there are two republican party's right now. there is the republican party in washington d.c.. it is such, especially because sobol pockets of it, such an ideologically driven parties that does not allow a variety of views. i am not talking liberal views and conservative views. i am talking the variety of views the we had when for instance the heritage foundation, heritage was about education reform. getting a lot of different conservative together -- jack kemp would have horrible fights and they would come together and come up with a tax reform plan, there would be battles on the budget. there were a lot of different ways forward and conservatives, we believe even into the 90s, we always talked about a legislative laboratory of ideas, talked about the marketplace of ideas, always talked about the free marketplace of ideas, close the doors, go downstairs, debate nonstop among ourselves until we came up with the best plan for reform. that is not the case any more. in washington d.c. if you veer off the path a little bit to the right or a little bit to the left, there are ideolog

political districts and while somebody like ted cruz may be a war on the republicans parties. a lot of people may not like him his base loves ted but howard what happened to conservative democrats conservative that well this is what i think happened if you look at the base of each party so let's say you've got the hard right republican base and the hard left democratic base what i think and you know granted i'm a democrat but i think that my experience with my party proves this out democrats particularly the ones who get elected they tell their base to shut the f. up i know we're on the internet but they used to be the republic thousand sequelae you know they be quiet we're going to win this the republicans at least today today's moderate republicans i mean the party leadership i see it still seems to me as if they feel like they've got to throw their hard right a bone you know they've got to show you know our you know we're not totally with gay people together you know well we don't trust them either they've got to kind of throw them a bone i think that the democratic base is

republican activist, republican blogger, former mayor of new jersey, who was a buddy of the governor,hris christie, he had been given a political appointment to this agency, the one that runs the bridge. they testified later that when chris christie's old buddy, when he gave the order to close down fort lee's access to the bridge, that was an unprecedented request. they were never told to do anything like that before. and they were asked to keep quiet about it. they were asked if they could notify the town, maybe make a statement? the answer was apparently no, just forget about it. don't tell anybody about it. so fort lee is about to have a city-wide log jam of hell, and were given for notice? we were not to tell anybody about it? no, forget about it. no, just do it. don't tell anyone. that all happened reportedly two weeks after the mayor of fort lee rebuffed requests from chris christie's allies to endorse the governor's bid for re-election. was it an illusion, now, nobody is under any illusion about the new jersey politics, but really? shutting down whole towns and parts of bridges

every democrat voted for a republican budget, while two thirds of republicans voted against the budget and were willing to lead the government shutdown. we have to get past this shutdown mentality. >> are you willing to shut down the government. >> i didn't want to before and i don't want to do it now. >> but that's what he does >> i wanted to vote for a clean cr. in fact in this show about a month ago, we were talking about the democrats were only asking for a clean cr. that's all i was asking for. let's do a clean cr. the xwugt control act is the law of the land today. that's all i wanted to vote for. the democrats don't want to vote for that. >> but you're not willing to do it today. >> i would be willing to vote for a clean cr. >> let's go do that. >> the leadership right now is in the midst of injecting things that weren't part of is the budget negotiation. that's why i want to read it before i vote on for it. i want to make sure no back room -- >> did we get you to agree on something? >> we would actually vote for a clean cr. that's all i want to vote for. it sounds like javier w

many more than when i first started with the republicans. that is a constitutional right in this country. they are organized. hasnumber of people increased substantially. i think lots of them appeal to money for -- for money from a lot of advocacy groups across the political spectrum send out mailings to people. there is no ambiguity about what is right and what is wrong. >> does that make it harder to govern? if you were chair of the budget committee today, dealing with well-organized, intense groups, does that make your job as chair harder? >> do you agree? in its mostcracy glorious form, but also a constraint on reaching some of these agreements that we are talking about today? >> absolutely. steve raised a good point in terms of socializing. i suspect it was true when martin was in the legislature. there was a good deal of socializing between republicans and democrats both top we got to know people on a more personal level. i never felt that my vote could be bought for the price of a dinner or a lunch. it gave more opportunities for us t

because republicans get sick, too.is about them, he as bend clinton even as they are cutting some things, even as they were balancing the budget, they found common ground. i would love to see speaker boehner -- and did you. >> but there's another way to see this. >> we had a republican congressman who said this deal, this budget deal got done in spite of president obama, because he wasn't involved. is he relevant? >> i think he's highly relevant. >> how so? where does it end? >> actually this addresses tim, too. this is the problem for president obama that president clinton did not have -- the tea party. . and they really hate president obama. so the more he engages president obama, the more impossible it is for tea party republicans to come on to smp. >> no, that is not -- they hated bush. they said vicious things. >> terrible. >> think back to the reagan years. i was scarred for life. i think that's overstated. the truth is president clinton moved right. it was a conservative play. >> that was not something that -- >