for republicans, i have not heard an attack that way by republican unfortunately. to go -- the goal of progressives is to control individual lives. that is why, you know, they did not start out saying let's kill 40 million people . that's what it was about, but the plans because there were socialists -- and the democratic party is now a socialist party. their plan involved remaking human beings, remaking human beings. and the only way you can accomplish that is by a totalitarian state. everything the democrats to is an attack on individual freedom and laying the groundwork for a totalitarian state. they would deny it if you confronted them. i am waiting for republicans to wake up. i have written this book. we put it in the hands of every member of congress. [applause] the only member of congress who call me was center ron johnson of wisconsin and said he wanted to put it in practice. people on the are in see tell me they want to put it in practice. i will believe it when i see it. as i said, republicans -- the republican party is, first of all, a party of small bus

republican party did not take up this campaign, although republicans are -- they must be governors in 30 or 33 states. but i didn't get support, and i -- if you go on the internet you can find me described as a torkamata. the american association of university professors, they're stalinists. that's who they are. and they want to indoctrinate students, and they fought me so they could indoctrinate students. that was their goal. of course they're winning. however, here's the thing about socialism. it doesn't work. so, at in are some point they bump into reality and have to regroup, and when they bump into reality, we win. [applause] >> as he beamed his wisdom towards' last night, president obama told us that isil was not islamic. >> you mean the islamic state is not islamic. >> doubtless if he had been around at the time of the spanish inquisition he would have told thus pope wasn't catholic. do you consider this latest intellectual -- is further evidence he has adopted the arab narrative and, as such, isil will never be defeated -- >> i think obama demonstrated, by saying nothing and d

drawn maps to republican-drawn maps. host: this starting in 1996 where you see a lot of red and showing the margins of victory. that changes over time, that brings us to 2012. guest: it's important because when you have all that purple on the map, when there are so many competitives parts of the country, all you have to do -- when there are so few competitive districts, you're sort of locked into a small problem. like being down three points with a minute left versus the whole second half. host: ask what federal legislation controls how congressional districts are set up. >> a very ancient piece of legislation makes it so that congressional districts go in one person and then daub one represented districts. you could pass legislation that requires multiple representative districts. there are pieces going back to the 60s which set the number of congressional districts which is today 435. >> just like bill clinton said, the federal government keeps shooting themselves in the foot by not passing bills. you've got to remembe

for national republicans, tax- cuts are an unalloyed good. but kansas republicans? well... >> they like their senators to have a strong republican point of view. the demands of being governor are quite different. and when he came back, he sort of pursued what was very, very obviously a strongly conservative agenda. >> reporter: when those cuts opened up a projected budget shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars and threatened the level of school funding, that unsettled moderate kansas republicans and widened a rift between them and conservatives that had been around for years. two years ago, brownback led successful primary campaigns against moderate legislators. but this past july, those republicans retaliated against brownback by joining 100 fellow republicans in endorsing the democratic opponent, state legislator paul davis. davis has seized on brownback's experiment label. is this a state that isn't particularly fond of experiments in politics? >> well, i would say yes. it is definitely a state that is not particularly fond of experiments. they don't want a

republicans. these are the findings from a report commissioned by a republican group. crossroads gps backed by carl row, an american action network on how the gop is regarded by women. the data is based on eight focus groups in a poll of 800 registered female voters. in 2012, republican presidential candidate mitt romney took a schlacking from female voters. they voted obama by a 12% margin. so the republican national committee vowed to erase the gender gap and woo women voters. but the gap still exists. 49% of women view republicans unfavorably, whereas 39% of women view democrats unfavorably. geographically, republicans do it especially poorly with women in the northeast and midwest, so how do republicans propose to close the gender gap and reverse it? pursue policy innovation that inspire women voters to give the gop a, quote/unquote, fresh look, but the top policy issue, female focus groups respond to equal pay for equal work. a democratic initiative. in fact, on the broader question of who, quote/unquote, looks out for the interest of women, democrats hold the adv

he has muted the republican criticism. they say he was late to the game, should have been involved in syria earlier but he's essentially doing what they want to do as well. >> that rolls the ball forward because they want to argue about the past, the points that you just made. did he pull out troops too early, et cetera, but if you move the discussion to what we're doing now and you lay out clear steps about what this coalition of the willing is trying to do, and explain a complex situation in a strong, passionate way like that, you can potentially bring the american people along with you, it potentially neutralizes it as a campaign issue which will be important for a lot of vulnerable democrats in the states looking close. >> you have to think this unanimity among democrats and republicans, white house and capitol hill, unless this goes very well over the next couple of weeks which no one seems to think this is a couple week mission that's going to fade quickly. we'll get into discussions about ground troops, possible com

democrats and republicans who the a.f.l.c.i.o. report, are you supporting republican candidates and if so, where? at ere are to be honest igher levels there are the candidates that we support. we're talking about senate and governor are democrats, but at the local level -- and i can't speak offhand to the names of them, that are the republican candidates but the main thing is at the federal and state governors we've seen a real hard turn to the right by the republican party and they are bent on opposing policies like the minimum page, opposing policies that will help working people. and instead are about protecting privileges of and the wealthy. >> so at that level, governor, senate, u.s. senate and house races it's democrat? >> right. >> following up on the point about gridlock and the fact you think it would be worse if republicans control the senate. is that a motivating factor for voters for potential democratic voters this election cycle? are you featuring that in your ads or messages at all? >> what we're featuring is not gr

look at who the republican nominee is in alaska, iowa, new hampshire, it's military veterans on the republicanunning in purple states, swing voters are wary of republican positions on economics and social issues. they're moving to the right on foreign policy, running as hawks, making democrats like franken feel uneasy, why they're spending like hawks as well. >> the president shifted and changed his position or timetable, no question. molly, any reason to think he'll respond to the political pressure on something that's much more a commander in chief issue? >> the white house feels this is far more complicated than the binary do you go in or don't go in. obama doesn't want to feel like we're going to bar. i don't think anybody is talking about actually sending troops in this situation, so it's a question of what sort of steps do you take short of that and also about rhetoric, about whether you sound soured of bellicose or leaderly or dithering. the problem for the president is not that he is perceived as cautious. that's a good thing, but that he's perceived as sort of reactive and not having

the republican party was divided. i thought that was one of the more thoughtful debates we have had during the course of the past few years in which the house did work its will and it listen to the american people. to that extent it was unlike the balance of the session. i think the party, although divided, there was no acrimonious debate within the caucus. a thoughtful discussion. i think there is a large majority that believes we need to consider the thoughtfully and appropriately in a timely fashion. >> i am a club member and freelance op-ed. steny made the point about jobs that there are over a million jobs and 1% additional unemployment rate and yet the message stays and the policy has stayed for the last decade of rich tax breaks as a way to create jobs even though sierras and 5:jobs create jobs. why is that the case that message is stuck for rich tax breaks and also wired their 50 million fewer voters in the off year elections than in the presidential presidential election? i does your voters? >> you have vows

republican line. >> yes. i want to talk about how the democrats keep crying about gerrymander but in a state like georgia does this person know in the 1980s there were really no safe republican distributes. when democrats controlled gerrymandering they didn't create any republican districts. when republicans gerrymander they are merciful about the democrats in the safe distributes. like mississippi, there were zero safe republican districts. like in ohio, a 12-4 map in favor of republicans is unfair. i would agree. but i don't like this idea of purposely mixing rural and urban areas and parts of different counties and distributes. i think that disenfranchises voters and it's a way for people trying to change the system in an unprecedented ways. i think districts should remain compact but should be fair. think republicans trying to draw a 10-3 state where romney won -- i think that's going too far and things need to be reformed a little bit. guest: in georgia, i think that's a nice illustration of why gerryman

are republicans a lock to retake the senate? from abc news, "this week" with george stephanopoulos begins right now. >>> and we begin with the latest in the battle against isis. the significant expansion of the campaign inside iraq. and news that the president will lay out his new strategy this wednesday in washington. martha raddatz is here with all the latest. good morning. >> good morning, george. the president's speech will lay out a strategy to destroy isis, far beyond what he's proposed in the past. a complicated, long-term and urgent mission that could likely mean air strikes in syria. day after day, the brutality of isis stuns the world. this week, images of the horrific execution of a second american reporter. and over the weekend, a mass grave discovered. 15 bodies, each shot in the head, and vows from the terrorist group in iraq and syria that america should be on guard. >> americans should be very concerned. this in many respects represents the most significant threat that the country has seen since september 11th. >

this shutdown of congress has been under taken by a republican majority in the house and a republican minority in the senate that used their rules to obstruct and filibuster. the past four years have been proof that elections matter. america's stockholders, our voters, surely know they need new leadership on their bord of directors which we call the congress. america's challenges demand a serious majority that won't tell the middle class you are on your own but that reassures them we are on their side. one that reminds them of the good congress can do when it takes responsibility and translates the will of the people into the meaningful progress. in "young guns" kevin mccarthy said this: should we regain the american people's trust we will insist our feet are held to the fire. if given the opportunity to govern we will deliver on our commitment. if we don't, i am competent the american people will send us packing. demonstrab demonstrablely the republicans haven't delivered on their commitment. in a gallop poll, 59% of the american people said they disapproved of congress. they disappr

will becutive overreach a key theme for republicans. that debate clip kay hagan says she wants to pass the bill and that republicans are stymieing this. from the redthat state democrats that are part of the bill. let's take a look at the big picture. in north carolina it is currently listed as leaning democrat. you have two complete tossup democratic seats. tom harkin in iowa. mary landrieu in louisiana. on the republican side you pointed out that pat roberts is the most vulnerable senator right now in this cycle. explain. we saw vulnerabilities with pat roberts after the primary facing an independent candidate, but this past week there was a lot of back-and-forth with democrats trying to drop out. looks like he will not be campaigning but his name will be on the ballot. i think that senator roberts is very vulnerable. part of the challenge is he has to get his campaign up and running the higher-level. strategists are working with him to do that. the math is a bit tricky for independents, but it is the race to watch particularly because

republicans thought they could get him in a more republican leading year. think molten will win that seat. he doesn't have the baggage of incumbency, when terror is rising as an issue. republicans thinking one seat they might pick up might be slipping away. that's it for "inside politics." thanks for sharing your sunday morning. "state of the union" with candy "state of the union" with candy crowley starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> another barbaric act by isis renews international fury. today -- >> they are not muslims. they are monsters. >> a british aide worker becomes the third westerner beheaded by isis. we talk with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough about a u.s.-led war without u.s.-led combat troops. >>> then, what it will take to bring down isis and who can the u.s. trust to join the fight? two veterans of the war in iraq, retired major general paul eaton and retired general james dubik will join us. >>> plus on any given sunday it's about football. this woke, it's about violence against women. senator amy klobucha

and republicans are -- republicans want to face teerny. they want to see him get beat up but they want to face him because of this baggage that they can continue to bring up. it will be interesting on tuesday and still a race in november. guest: i don't know, if he wins i think this becomes a harder seat for republicans. that they need that baggage to sort of beat up on teerny. and we've seen him really go negative against moleten. i think this indicates that he is very much in trouble. there was at least one poll that showed this within the margin of error. but within that matchup, moleten had a much more comfortable lead over the others, the matchup was much closer. he isn't your typical challenger. he has some very well respected democratic strategists boo hind him. he's an iraq veteran and stanley ms crystal one of the made one of his first endorsements wading back into politics. and i talked to some democrats they said that was maybe a turning point certainly in the race. >> and the boston papers endorsing his opponent. >> they've mix

it's not like the republican brand is doing so well. people loving the republican party.two parties and it's an anti-washington mood, not just anti obama. >> there is -- voters have a b.s. detecter and when they see these guys do that, they rode the coat tails of obama. >> in an election like this, you are not going to get a lot of middle of the road voters, this is not this time. there's no big polarizing issue. you need those margins, you need those groups on the outside and all those votes will count and you are not trying to bring them in, this is the corollary, mary landrieu is in a very good position. >> one out of ten it work for, nine you the of ten it didn't. very quickly. time for our fun segment here. this week it is joe biden. he's not running against hillary clinton and yet the media teases it as if he is. >> he is a sitting vice president of the united states. that's usually what they -- >> we know he's not running against hillary clinton. >> that's true. >> but we pretend -- am i wrong? >> it would be so great. >> this is really on you. you guy cover it, so

and 93 republicans voted it can stick. republicans of this congress refused to bring it to the floor. i talked about a certainty but republicans said one of the things it wanted to bring. but mr. henson laying is very much opposed we believe it is a positive effect on job creation and makes money for the treasury that irony is the president wants to balance the budget rejects the mechanism that makes money for the treasury. my expectations are, and i have urged the business community large medium and small who are affected and facilitated with the creation of jobs to engage with democrats and republicans on this issue my own view is if that bill was brought to the floor it is another instance where not bringing a vote to the floor makes them transparent which is what the young guns said they would do 41 said the air for a permanent reauthorization of the import/export bank and never brought to the floor. now we have the extension through june 30th as you know, and that is giving uncertainty to the vendors or borrowers from

for all the republican candidates, it's possible someone who wants to run in '16 as a republican can get to the end of cycle and not have gained much and still do well. but you get a leg up in honing your message -- paul ryan has one of the best stump speeches in the party, if he gives that for candidates -- >> charlie: are they thinking about innovations like that? >> there's that and the working class message, but it's technically he's more comfortable. he's saying something, a stump speech from the heart about what he really believes and it's inspirational. >> you will see a lot of the republican candidates or punitive candidates, people thinking of running or definitely running, they all will be out the next two months and we'll see not just hillary clinton, but we'll see a lot of them. the country won't see them because -- >> charlie: by but you guys -- can. >> -- but the political press corporation will follow them -- press corps will follow around. >> after the day of the mid-terms, the job one is changing on immigration, developing a populous economic message, building an inf

occasionally, someone will say to me well, if the republicans were to win the senate, what would republicans do? well, what we would do is try to come up with sensible proposals that lead us in the right direction, proposals that have so much common sense that they attract the support of enough democrats and the house of representatives and the president to become law. this is one such proposal. our bill provides three solutions to the problems i identified. number one, it would end partisan advocacy on the national labor relations board. the board would almost a six-member board of three republicans and three democrats. a majority of four will require both sides to find a middle ground. number two, it reins in the general counsel. businesses and unions would be able to challenge complaints filed by general counsel by taking them to the federal district court and then will have greater transparency about the basis and legal reasoning for charges brought by the general counsel. number three, our legislation would encourage timely decisions. first, either party at a case before the board may a

all you need is for a republican to hold republican seats to pick up the senate. wave elections don't typically have a high turnout. there's normally a break to one party. we're not seeing that yet. i think there's a lot of things that the wave, quote wave, is not there, but it's very important to say, guess what, republicans pick up seats in the house and i believe the senate without a wave, and i think that's the key to the cycle. last very quick point is money. mark and i have been doing this a long time. there's never been $100 million campaign in kentucky. the scope of which money is being spent means there will be a national zeitgeist, but in the states, there is so much money, we may see things we have never seen. >> i'm going to ask you about immigration. for weeks, the president and the white house have been talking about the possibility he would take major executive action to delay deportations for millions of illegal immigrants. take a look at what he said this week. >> it continues to be my belief if i can't see congressional action, i need to do at le

and republicans are -- republicans want to face teerny. they want to see him get beat up but they want to face him because of this baggage that they can continue to bring up. it will be interesting on tuesday and still a race in november. guest: i don't know, if he wins i think this becomes a harder seat for republicans. that they need that baggage to sort of beat up on teerny. and we've seen him really go negative against moleten. i think this indicates that he is very much in trouble. there was at least one poll that showed this within the margin of error. but within that matchup, moleten had a much more comfortable lead over the others, the matchup was much closer. he isn't your typical challenger. he has some very well respected democratic strategists boo hind him. he's an iraq veteran and stanley ms crystal one of the made one of his first endorsements wading back into politics. and i talked to some democrats they said that was maybe a turning point certainly in the race. >> and the boston papers endorsing his opponent. >> they've mix

than tilting republican.xplain the category >> i think mitch mcconnell has the benefit of being able to run for re-election in kentucky. if he was running for re-election in a more competitive state, more even partisan state, then i think he would be in significant trouble. his negatives are still high. a long time in coming. these are not things you want coming into an election in 2014. i think he has been, so far, able to sufficiently couple allison grimes with president obama and i think she's been on the attack. she's been good on the attack against mcconnell but she has to i think increase her own positives in order to make the jump. i'm not sure that she is there yet. >> jessica taylor? >> you have -- kansas is a very interesting situation, one that republicans, it was not part of their calculus to even have to defend this. this is the home state of national republican senatorial chairman jerry moran. he is going to make sure roberts has a good campaign there. they're sending in an expert to do that. th

republicans are looking at the long game here.i think this is an opportunity to reposition the party to save some of the down ballot races. they're doing pretty well in local elections. they won the mayoral race in san diego. they really need to look at this as an 8 to 12 to 16-year plan to build the republican party. they have a candidate now who i think has the opportunity to have voters take a second look t republicans and say, yeah, this isn't the republican party you're familiar with. you may not vote for me in this coming election, but you might want to look at the republican party moving forward. so i think they are repositioning themselves. they lost 300,000 registered voters between 2012 and 2014, the republican party. they've got a long way to go. they're basically now hitting rock bottom. and so for them to turn this around, it really is going to be a long-term, a long, slow change in the party. i think last night was a good night for the republican party to start that transformation. >> and the republican party aside,

the republicans played a blunder. they should have taken that senate bill but they couldn't because their members were hearing from their constituents. if you're the chamber of commerce and want to get something done, you need to educate th the constituents. >> matt, i really want to hear from you how to smooth out latino participation so they and other minority voters don't disappear mid terms and then come back surging in polling places in national years. >> simon said it earlier. you need to invest in that. there needs to be an increase in the investment. latinos are three times less likely to report that someone from a campaign contacted them or asked them to get out the vote. it's not just the issues. it's not that the president needs to put issues on the table to mobilize latinos, but the campaigns need to look at at thitheir old models,er go into these communities and talk to latinos and make us feel like we have a seat at the table and they're interested in our vote. if they do that, the candidates are rewarde

in any case, the jeffersonian republicans took over. and as much as they could, they reversed those policies. paring back defense spending. they got rid of the internal taxes, and later the national bank. and they also moved away from the -- a close relationship with great britain, which it really developed during the quasi war. when the commercial clauses of the jade treaty p expired, they asked if they would want to renew them, and the jefferson administration said absolutely not. when jefferson was compelled to send a diplomatic mission to london to try to resolve all of our outstanding differences, he refused to submit the treaty to the senate. and that was followed by a further deterioration in anglo-american relations. largely over maritime issues. the british practice of impressment, which was removing seamen from the vessels on the high seas, and then the british orders which restricted our trade with the continent of europe. and under the authority of which british seized something like 400 vessels and cargo. the republicans re

bush who we lost, republicans lost the election of barack obama are coming back to the republican sidebecause of this isis threat and obamacare is a huge reason why. republicans actually have an opportunity to wirch back women, if they could not stick their foot in their mouth. >> our country doesn't have the luxury of quibbling over division anymore. the three steps that i mentioned before, united country, again for the gender-driven media. america is ready to be america again. that should be the solution, the slogan for republicans for the long term is that we're tired of being black american, gay american, hispanic-american. let's just be americans again. got these people we have to kill. number two, start finding people who charm and do not chafe. we should have a zero tolerance for the shrill, the hysteric, the witch. >> a touch tigh time with that also as a conservative, we have to win and overlook slivers of differences. if you have a credible winner, a candidate with an 80% acu, pick him, or her, over the quack with 100%. >> one thing reminds me of. in '84 ronald reagan ran on

it is in favor of republicans at this point. are of the analysts it isting, even though still really tight, republicans seem to be doing better with the surging and the polling. they are making gains. democratic candidates have not dropped but they have not seen taking gains. if the momentum is going to republicans way in the end, we will know that within a few weeks. if republicans are getting a surge among undecided then that democrats are not going to see the gains they have hoped. it was not the data driven guy telling you great things in the data. it gives you a sense of how difficult it is. >> what was your takeaway? --might take away was that -- races races than that are closer than they thought they would be. that is not ideal for organized labor and democrats. it is not as bad as they thought. i do think there is concern among labor officials that them at kratz aren't hitting home this economic message. the message is not resonating with voters. >> the candidates themselves are having trouble getting traction with the a

i think more republicans traded across the canadian frontier, simp lay because there were more republicansliving in those remote areas. about you people traded with the enemy, and they did what they had to do to sort of survive the hard times of the war. what people always do during hard times. is that it? >> the battle was the culmination of six days of army and navy conflict. up next we travel to plattsburgh where david fitz-enz, author of the final invasion: mratsburg the war of 1812 most decisive battle. >> ship saratoga, bat of plattsburgh and cumberland bay. >> this is a battle that's lost to american history. this was a huge celebration. people knew how important the battle at plattsburgh was. but in the meantime things have changed. that poem became the national

i think more republicans traded across the canadian frontier, simp lay because there were more republicansliving in those remote areas. about you people traded with the enemy, and they did what they had to do to sort of survive the hard times of the war. what people always do during hard times. is that it? we're done? okay. thank you very much. >>> okay. first i want to announce following our next presentation, we will take a ten-minute break. our next speaker will be speaking about mr. madison will have to put on his armor, coburn and the capture of washington. steve vogel is the author of through the perilous fight and the pentagon history. he's a veteran journalist who wrote for "the washington post" until 2014. most recently covering the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. his reporting about the war in afc was part of a package of "the washington post" stories that was selected as a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize. he covered the september 11th attack on the pentagon, and also covered the fall of beryl -- of the berlin wall. he's actually currently workin

i'm going to say culturally comfortable with republicans before they are going to vote republican. the same question is out there for the latino community as far as i can see. ten years ago there was a real possibility or some republicans thought so that republicans could get a good chunk of the latino vote, but there's a big part of the republican party that's really, really key in restricting immigration from latin america. and not only keen on doing that but they make their keenness known in language and body language and whatever else that the latino community finds very offputting and much to the dismay of those republicans who would like to see immigration reform, the republican party appears to have lost most of the latino vote for the next generation just by the vibes they give off, if i can use a technical term. so, i am not holding my breath until there's an influx of blacks into the republican party even though there are some republicans -- and sincerely care about the issues that blacks are interested in. one of them was congressman jack kemp, who ran for vice president

today's news, kansas state republicans won't let him quit.sas secretary of state stepped in to stop this thing in its tracks. >>> last night we brought you late breaking news about the united states senate and about the republican party's hope and expectation that they're going to take over the senate in the elections this year. in kansas, the incumbent senator, pat roberts, is a republican, up for re-election. he had a tough primary against a tea party guy but survived it. national republicans thought that his seat in kansas was a safe one and they can put it in their win column as they try to find six other seats to take over the senate. part of the reason kansas looked safe is because it's freaking kansas. they're so red, they voted by mitt romney by 22 points. kansas hasn't senate a democrat to the senate since 1932. but this year, republican senator pat roberts has had this great luxury of running against two people at once splitting the vote against him, with a popular and well-financed independent taking as much of the vote as the demo

>> how strange it might be with republicans controlling both chambers. >> and republicans saying can'tou interpret an election -- that's an interesting wildcard. the flip side is what if it's a bad day for republicans? two ways to look at it. thanks to attorney raul reyes for joining us. >>> the last primary election day of the year is two days away. in massachusetts democrats are hoping the governor's race is not a repeat of the special election that filled ted kennedy's seat. there's a name you probably remember there. we'll explain when we come back. carmax is the best place to start your car search.e, great for frank, who's quite particular... russian jazz funk? next to swedish hip hop. when he knows what he wants... - thank you. do you have himalayan toad lilies? spotted, or speckled? speckled. yes. he has to have it. a cubist still life of rye bread... sold. it's perfect. which is why we'll ship a canary yellow jeep with leather seats from dallas to burbank if it's the one frank wants. carmax. start here. alright, we got one shot. let's go twins-right 24 stretch. hit him with a h

backing republicans." so, my assumption is, as i luke at the list of the top donors, the top 16, how many of them give predominantly to republicans? well, one would assume, given how great the magnitude is, it's got to be a lot of them, probably all of them, or if not all of them, most of them. at least half of them. mr. president, do you know how many of the top 16 groups give predominantly to republicans? zero. the top 16 political donors in this country all give either overwhelmingly to democrats or, at best, evenly between the two parties. you have to fall to number 17 to find a group that gives more heavily to republicans thank to than to democrats. now, that's curious given the story that's being told by our democratic friends about these evil republican billionaires stealing democracy. gosh, the top 16 donors aren't republicans. and how about the koch brothers that we're told are somewhat like th the grinch who stole christmas? where do they fall? you have to go down to number 59 on the throi list t