and we'll be joined by the rnc chairman and get his input on how republicans can win. marcia blackburn of tennessee. and rev repped rodriguez president of the hispanic leadership conference and one of the leaders. and crystal wright is with us. editor of conservative black chick.com. and david web b and founder of tea party throw 65 and a fox ne news contributor. great to have you guys here and it will be fun. i want to start off with immigration. sammy to you on this one. house republicans decided not to take this issue up this year. a lot of people felt relief it was not going to be a contentious battle. what do republicans need to put on the table in the way of immigration reform that is not only effective to deal with the issue because that is the first reason but how to deal with it in a way that is politically effective and not to do political suicide? >> governor, first, today's complansy is tomorrow's captivity. the republican party must cross the jordan of immigration reform. i am a proacher now and i am so sorry. >> we'll pass the plate and i will get the mon

but the problem is, why isn't the leadership in our party like the rnc, like on the house, the senate where you want to look at it, let's put forth the faces of the congresswoman, me, david, and the good reverend here, and the more you put forward the faces that our party looks like the faces of america, the more people will feel welcome, but you can't feel welcome, pardon me, governor huckabee, if all we see day in and day out on national television is old white males. i know we're bigger than that. >> do you feel welcome in the conservative movement? >> i resonate with the ethose. on the economic and limited government and social values that i still deem to be important, but it's a matter of optics. the perception is it's angry white republican males. why is the republican party so angry, according to those in the latino and african-american community? why are they angry? and they're opposed to everything. the republican party needs to revutalize itself by creating ronald reagan's optimism. if we can talk about justice without being big government justice, if we capture justice and

the on friday as i said before he i then met the delegates of the rnc meeting at summits prop who is the presidents of the opportunity. also regarding the people to hit the six thousand athletes to make in a way too salty before friday's opening of coal security is the main thing on everybody's lips out of the sleeve is a great piece presents. the patrol vehicles with c that ships in the forces behind is a total of one hundred of thousands the patrol members please only course is that the document the making socks before we bought them i say this but tensions in. in the world's also added today off to spend sitting at the map on the twenty minutes most insight regarding bought the farm. this is what they can expect the atmosphere about that. experience the abdomen we spent this but mum is it about taking what she had to sigh. the digging into some ladies attended the after its head and saying cool piece of very negative media coverage about the song to me. some are even afraid to come here. monday arrived and restock and wondering what all from the press was involved in a very impres

former rnc operative tim miller, now co-founder and executor of america rising.istory in doing opposition research back when the political parties controlled it. now it's this. what is it about a super pac? tim, i'll start with you. what is it about having total autonomy, not being in the rnc building or in brad's case the dnc building doing this? what is the advantage of being your own entity? >> the growth and opportunity project after the last election and tried to determine what the party at large could do this cycle to do a better job of competing with the democrats and beating the democrats. to his credit one thing we identified is that there are certain functions that it makes sense to have groups on the outside of the parties because of campaign finance rules. there are certain things that, of course, will happen inside the rnc but still you could have specialist organizations whether it's data, voter data or data that comes from opposition research and have an organization on the outside that's focused entirely on that that can complement what's happenin

so rnc's chairman, reince priebus, earlier today he banned his staff from appearing or showing on thewas issued today. joining me now, reince priebus of the rnc, and chairman, welcome to the program, glad you're with us. >> thank you, sean, appreciate it. >>> let's go through it. you demanded the apology -- who is the head or leader of that propaganda firm? >> yeah, phil griffin and you got the apology, where does it stand now? >> well, in their professed world of tolerance, they're hitting all eight cylinders of intolerance. they started with melissa perry, and then the comments from martin bashir, about sarah palin. one of the comments was the physical disabilities of the soldier hero from tuesday night and using that as a political statement. so here is what we did. this tweet came last night and first thing in the morning i called mr. griffin, left a message. sent him a letter saying that we are not going to allow any of our surrogates or myself and all the other world of republican surrogates on the show, until they one, apologize, and number two, did something of some corrective

it was the rnc welcoming committee which then got raided and become the rnc8, timing or planning acts of terrorism, which were in reality acts of nonviolent civil disobedience. beyond fort way lewis and pmr and there is -- there seems to be a much larger agenda that we've seen in other activism nonviolent equals terrorism equals anarchism equals justification for whatever spying and law-enforcement action we want to take. lawsuito read from your . you write -- that is a very extensive list, larry hildes. >> it is. is it turns out it incomplete. and those were all agencies that we had documents obtained from proper -- public records act request showing that were directly involved. now we're finding out there are more agencies. the evergreen state college was giving regular reports to the state patrol come to the thurston county sheriff's office, and to towery and rudd about activities of sds on campus at evergreen, and there is an extensive discussion about the conference about the dnc and rnc protests and the chief of police is the source for the information. yeah, now we have l.a. th

. >>> we're back with the dnc's mola lathy and rnc's sean spicer. for our outrages of the day. i'm the mom of a kindergarten in a new york city public school. today, al roker decided to criticize bill de blasio for his decision to keep the public schools open in the snow. roker took to twitter and said, why are schools all around new york city closed. it's going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy get changed. i've been in d.c. for a few days, i'm not going to second-guess the mayor, i am going to second-guess al roker, who should know for new yorkers who aren't millionaire tv stars means if schools close, parents are missing work and in lots of cases not even getting paid. plus over 700,000 kids in new york rely on schools for free, hot meals. i'm outraged that al roker unleashed a blizzard of privilege and stuck his shovel where it doesn't belong. don't mess with al roker, man. >> i just did. >> the snow didn't stop hillary clinton today. she and her daughter, chelsea, were at an event for women and girls in new york.

the rnc has made some head way in that regard, opening offices and placing aides in at least 11 states carolina, louisiana, and virginia. but priebus said he knows more needs to be done. >> we've got to grow our party through addition and multiple occasi multiplication, and that means building the party where we're weak and building where we're strong. we've got to make the door even wider so that people can come through, and that means all as pecks of our party have to be welcomed in that door. >> the party appears to be gaining some ground, maybe. but not much. according to an nbc news/"wall street journal" polling, 11% of americans had a positive view of the gop in 2012. in january 2013, the number was 12%. that's a margin of error business. last month, the number was up to 16%, although there's a significant margin for error. combine that with a 55% negative rating, and it's clear there's still a long way to go. with me is the former head of the republican national committee, michael steele. >> hey. >> who, in many ways, a lot of people thought you might be the anecdote to -- >> wo

but you will see republicans in 2014, the rnc just put up a website about benghazi on the rnc home page there. so they want to ham their point home because they definitely want to use 2014 to start damaging hillary clinton now in advance of 2016. >> you know, mark twain said that a lie can make it halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. i think the republicans have realized that and realized that you don't have to particularly with the speed of the news cycles now, you don't have to operate in this zone. the democrats seem to have more of a sense that it's something about fairness that you can't actually do that. and i think that's to their detriment. this is how the game is played. now it's full of distortion, and they have to play the game too. which saw this with mike dukakis. we saw this with john kerry. they do it again and again. the democrats are a little slow to recognize that's it not about honesty. thank you, nia-malika henderson. thank you, dana milbank. >>> up next, the reason joe biden might not run for president. things zero to 60 in 3.4 sec

what does rnc chair have to say about that.y will you next. >>> and one of the biggest olympic upsets of all time. the miracle on ice when team usa beat the soviets in hockey. the current team usa gets ready to take on russia for hockey. that's coming up. >>> just when you thought you couldn't be surprised by anything that comes out of vice president biden's mouth, listen to this. >> there isn't a republican party. i wish there were. i wish there was a republican party. i wish there was one person you could sit across the table from and make a deal. make a crow mice and know when you got up from the table it was done. that's what political parties and nancy is able to do. that's what the president's able to commit to. but there is now. all you had to do was look at the response of the state of the union was it three or four? i'm not being facetious. i think we should get focused here. >> all right. we're here with you, sir. >> the vice president says, in part, there is not a republican party? >> look, he also went on to say tha

squandered what hundred million dollars of donations from big business and corporate sponsors, and the rncandered money. they ran a bad campaign. the candidate that was nominated was not -- people did not see a big difference. ronald reagan made his speech that says we have to nominate can seees that people bold colors and not pastels. when there is no candidate that was more pastel than that romney, they ran a poor campaign . the establishment candidates fared worse than tea party candidates in congressional and senate elections. instead of looking within to see the facts that obama campaign's ran a fantastic get out and vote ground game. mitt romney and republicans ran campaign.r it was like watching the navy battleddle mall cops -- mall cops. that is what it was. i was on the ground. they are pointing the finger and blending the tea party. now, my message to karl rove, if you stay on the same course, karl rove will lead you to even greater disasters in 2014 in what you sell in 2012. tea party activists have come to understand that if you vote for the lesser of the evils, you are still v

with me now is a former mississippi governor and rnc chair, haley barbour.hank you for joining us. the president's state of the union. did he help or hurt himself? >> the biggest surprise is that there were no some prizes. i think it speaks volumes when the speech was designed to end on its very highest note, which was recognizing this young american hero who was wounded overseas. most state of the union addresses don't and on a crescendo. they have some big idea or something that comes at the president's mouth instead of, here is this -- congress is right, by the way, but here is this young man that was all torn up. >> let me ask you about the republican strategy. some say, let us play rope a dope this year. the middle-class is not happy. avoid mistakes and don't do anything controversial, that will be a winning formula. >> when i was chairman of the party in 1994 we did something unusual. we did contract with america. we did it because some of us thought that it is easier for people to vote for you if you give them something to vote for. a lot of people th

errol, let me bring you in about the rnc's claim about a boycott that day which was quickly rescindedce there was an apology. what was the republican national committee trying to do with this? >> some of this is almost the equivalent of professional wrestling, right. there has to be outrage, drama, there has to be a demand, but i mean, realistically this is a bit of a negotiation, right. we're not surprised there's politics involved here and reince priebus needs to show his party he's going to stick up for them and their conservative base whenever and however he has to. but, you know, as we get closer to the fall elections and certainly the 2016 campaign, the networks, especially msnbc and the republican party, are going to do this little dance where the republicans are going to say, we may not put up any guests. we may not give you any candidates. we may not give you any debates. it's a negotiation. if msnbc does what it's supposed to do and has the kind of impact that we think and expect they will have, believe me, the republican candidates will be right alongside each other debatin

the rnc has no debt. it's not just about the committees.out super pacs who can accept funds from big donors. since august, the koch brothers super pac has sent more than $27 million in tv ads targeting democrats in 2014. the gop and its donors are focused in 2014. democrats, do they have the only one eye in 2014 and the other on 2016? let's look at some things here. party usa has aligned itself with hillary clinton and said it's not going to get involved in the 2014 house and senate campaigns. more than 33,000 donors, another democratic group raising money for reasons other than 2014 arguably is arguing for action, the group that supports president obama's legislative agenda. they raised $26 million last year, so are these groups taking away money from the dnc and national party and hurting democrats' chances of winning in 2014? the republican party has a singular focus on 2014 and it could pay dividends for them. is it going to be up to president obama and hillary clinton to send messages to their super pacs and groups that support them th

this is the new cnn rnc poll numbers, all americans, registered voters, choice for 2016.ber, it seems like a long time ago, christie was slightly ahead of hillary clinton, 48-46%. now hillary clinton is way ahead of christie, 55-39%. that's a pretty striking switch. >> yeah, she has clearly been the beneficiary on the national scale of his down fall. and that's because of independent voters. christie, if you look deeper into the poll numbers, christie has lost 20 points with independent voters. and hillary clinton has picked up those independents. and so she is really gaining from his problems. whether that would last in the long-term, whether those independents would end up voting for hillary clinton, of course, it's early. we do not know. but right now, this is a good -- has been good for her. >> and i was talking to a christie source before coming on with you who really underscored sort of the point that i made in the piece, which is that he wanted to stay above the fray. he wanted to be somebody who was not going to say the kinds of things you saw in that memo. and a

every time the rnc takes two steps forward it is one back. we remember rosa park's bold stand and her role in ending racism. many accused the rnc of saying racism was over. they clarified the tweet. it is just one example of how they say the republican party tries to reach out to black america but doesn't have a clue. do you think it is the message or the messenger? >> well, no. our message, the message of conservatives and the republican party, that of freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, religious freedom, civil freedom, i think, is the right message. it is a message that resonates with people in all communities. personally, i think that that tweet and the whole hubbub surrounding that was much to do about nothing. it points to the fact that the republican party has had a problem reaching out. i happen to be one of those who has been a big critic. i think that you might say the republican party has been borrowing from the denver broncos playbook and has had about as much success. so i've been a critic and a skeptic. what the republ

the rnc is expected to pick a convention location this summer. >>> in california, a rare illness is causing some children to become paralyzed. as wendy gillette reports, doctors are having a tough time identifying just what the illness is. >> reporter: sophia jarvis seems like a normal healthy 4- year-old girl until you notice her left arm which she has nicknamed lefty. >> lefty is my favorite arm. >> reporter: sophia's left arm is paralyzed. researchers say she's one of as many as 25 children in california who have developed a mysterious polio like illness that paralyzes limbs. >> it can effect one or more limbs and the prognosis that we've seen so far is not good. most of the children we've seen have nod recovered use of their arm or leg. >> reporter: some of the children first had symptoms of a cold but health experts still don't know if the illness is caused by a virus or something else. >> even though it's acting like polio where the paralysis develops suddenly over 4 hours, it's definitely not polio. in fact, all of the children who have been confirmed to have the illness were vaccina

police then down quake relief on sticking to the rnc. it takes an average of two allies did find it nice to get nice to have our own. people even mentioned that families can carry it home and they need help or go over communicate to two weeks. the house cool it creates an atmosphere in math. munich the man. most people he can reach audiences will induce change perceptions i was going to get there. i keep telling him down gently. i can have a nice gesture for the bounty of tying ill yesterday. yes the fact that it's the long route. as an opera jenkins and the latter days and cold and cloudy morning here and plenty of meteorologists and the more he gives us the latest. his complaint after it's going to be another cold drinks had carried house the net very cold this winter because we have a couple of the major snow storms and snow is still on the ground because the spell of the colder weather but snow to melt away this week because the spring like one is expected to take the lead. it's going to be at seven decrease its good to be another co

his democratic party rival much the rnc is poised to take over. he's been a mecca for not doing more for italy's economy during his ten months in office. monday the sand of the city directed a chilly need radical change we needed new government if we want to get out of the square miles he said. you share the top of that. after years of recession. europe's third largest economy is still plagued with problems unemployment is at twelve percent and millions of frustrated by falling living standards. remedies. one prime minister takes our money. another arrives and they take more. at thirty nine wins he would be the country's youngest ever head of government. dennis dunn angered the united states by releasing sixty five inmates from bagram prison. afghan officials said they have no reason to keep them in in jail. the us military says they do the taliban fight says he will only return to the battlefield to kill more nato and afghan troops. as a summit in turkey the afghan president devoted respect for his country's sober and take if the judge additional

>> that's exactly -- that was rnc audience there was nervous laughter when i said that.i've got op ed as party we can't just be the party of no. we've got good solutions. we're going to be meeting with the president, i want to share with him that this administration has a chance to be laser focused on job creation. we're not doing that. this president feels like he can act union rat lally with the pen and phone he can make decisions without congress, i don't agree with that, if he's go to make those decisions, let's increase domestic production of energy creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs. obamacare is such a job killer in our economy, we're at 36 year low in terms of labor force participation rate. why not approve the keystone pipeline today. in five years of study, tens of thousands of jobs obama administration's own folks have said, no, this is not going to do damage to the environment if we approve it versus rejecting it there are specific things the president can do to create jobs. republican party needs to be all about growth, opportunity, creating good pa

the dnc came up $10 million short of what the rnc had. you know what?em for a lot of democrat sincere wondering whether or not those grassroots obama supporters will be democratic supporters going forward or whether or not obama is his own entity and doesn't really prop up democrats going forward. >> speaking of president obama, we are waiting to see him arrive at the middle school there in adelphi where he is expected to talk about connect ed. >> this is the initiative that the president has going for more than a year. he is expected to announce $750 million pledged from various telecom companies to help get about 99% of the country connected on broadband and wireless, or 99% of schools throughout the country. he is expected to announce this major initiative and the major funding that he is expected to get from that. >> a live picture, i don't think he's quite there yet. he is expected any minute. thank you so much for coming, domenico. we will see you tomorrow morning. >> sure thing. >> for more from domenico and the rest of the political team check o

rnc, republican scene torl mainstream super pacs and backers. there's a variety of allied groups endorse k tea party candidates and they are targeting republicans deemed insufficiently conservative virtually coast-to-coast. mitch mcconnell senate side gop leader leads polls over his tea party rival in kentucky. number two senate republican john cornyn in texas is the first to face a tea party primary next week. first of the cycle in texas next tuesday. john cornyn faces tea party challenge. in that case he's pretty much favored. tea party support for his rival has fizzled. tea party has a lot of power. most of the in couple bandits anticipated they would be challenged. they voted accordingly, raising money and organizing. most vulnerable in mississippi facing a strong challenge from chris mcdaniels state senator down there, gretchen, who is putting on a serious challenge and has lots of strong tea party support as well. >> all right, carl. if anyone knows about elections and players you do. >> really get started tuesday of next week. >> we'll lo

>> it's trouble for democrats in november, but the rnc chair needs to stay on message.point we need to have a solid message. instead of going out there responding to the vice president, we need to stay on this is what we will do to create more prosperous america and a better america. >> come up with ideas, angela. >> they've come up with ideas. >> haven't heard them. >> i think richard is making a point. we haven't heard them enough. we'll wait and see if that happens. >> exactly. >> richard, good to see you. >>> there is a bitter rivalry going on and it is heating up. on the ice at the winter olympics. russian president vladimir putin cheered on the men's hockey team as they took on the u.s. who came out on top? we'll let you know. >>> a verdict could come any moment in the michael dunne murder trial. the jury is deliberating behind closed doors. what did they ask for? what did they want to see? how close are they to a verdict? what will it be? will they find dunne guilty or 0 innocent? >> i'm not sure anybody has been involved with a jury out as long as these folks ha

. >> that particular inmate was from the rnc and we had just received him in from the county.was upset for one reason or another. i don't even know what it was. he was at the front of the bars being aggressive. i told him to go have a seat in the back of the cell and remain quiet. he wouldn't. he disobeyed him, and then he was insolent toward myself and the lieutenant and it progressed toward them. >> the handcuffs -- >> nobody hit you. >> yes, you did. i swear on the honor of my mother. you hit me now. hit me again. when i leave, he'll hit me again. don't touch me, man. >> as captain morgan processes the paperwork -- >> he hit me severely in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my ankle. >> -- the inmate continues his tirade against him. captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorted him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense

when christie had a walk-through of the rnc in 2012, samson was there. when christie was campaigning last year, samson was there. when bridgegate broke, christie stood by his man. >> i sat and met for two hours yesterday with mr. samson. general samson. and i'm confident that he had no knowledge of this. >> two months after christie made those comments, the allegations of samson's conflicts of interests just keep rolling in. his firm represents the owner of the railroad construction company inc. they have won almost $16 million worth of contract work from the port authority since samson became the chairman of the port authority. some of those contracts samson voted on. mr. samson took public role in promoting and defending a del for the port authority to take over operations of the atlantic city airport. a deal that could ultimately lead the a lucrative purchase or lease agreement with the owner. but samson's firm was representing that same owner of the airport. samson recused himself from discussions and votes on the issue. samson's firm also represente

that fox might as well be an extension of, i don't know, rnc, tea party, pick your choice. i think he is doing that to get his base back. they got obamacare. one lousy law that is a disaster. so i don't think they are all that thrilled about what's going on. he wants to shore up his base. as long as he talks about the partisans at fox, he doesn't really have to confront, you know, what's happened to the american worker, to the american people. >> i really don't understand. first of all, i don't think it's a good tactic to constantly go after fox. maybe it is to raise money. i know far right and the far left always throw a bomb so they can raise money saying all these horrible things are happening both ways. but, fox news had nothing to do with the targeting irs. absolutely nothing. not one of us works there. healthcare, the web site, none of us. we had absolutely nothing to do with it benghazi, not one of us was within a thousand miles of it and we didn't do anything about the silly video but he comes after us about it. >> he says these things surface, that's what he said,

republicans over at the rnc did a very good job of matching that.re can match the democrats as well. the grass root organizations. is there any way to know whether that can be effective in a mid-term election. it didn't look like it happened very much in 2010. >> that's an interesting question. i think it will be one of the more fascinating points that people like me and kevin pour over after the mid-time elections. not to get too much into the weeds on this but the way the president turned over the role of grass roots leaders to sort of be an autonomous mobilized force is not the way it is going to be mobilized now. it is active and free to engage in the mid-term election. a lot of people are going to watch and say, can those engaged people who are really inspired by the president in 2008 and 2012. can they be engaged to be more active? hopefully, they can be. >> democrats need that. welcome to "at this hour." come back again nd aagain. >> congrats on the show. >>> coming up next, finding a job is never easy. it is even worse when you reach out and

. >> and benghazi, republican are promising, we talked to the rnc.ant to talk about old news, there's nothing as a policy the first lady is more attached to for a longer period for her public career than health care. this is -- i mean, wouldn't you think this is built into the polling that already exists on her? that people know she was the original, you know, person preobama trying to push this kind of plan. >> i think that's why she didn't want her fingerprints on it publicly. she did this kind of behind the scenes in meetings. she told the president you have my support, how's it going? she was talking to ram emanuel a lot about it. and she was talking to other aids about it along the way. and she was even convincing lawmakers to go along with it. >> but from the state department, what should she have possibly done or said about health care? that would have been quite odd hearing something about the secretary of state from it. >> the early '90s, you're the expert on this stuff, on health care reform back then. given what she had done back then, any

i'm not here as a chris christie supporter and rnc is neutral in the 2016 race and he has not announced. that being said i think there is a sharp contrast should those two be the nominees. you have hillary clinton who had several scandals where she did her one song and dance and then we have gotten no further. she wouldn't get interviewed for the review board. chris christie who is out there taking more and more questions from the general public who stood for 119 minutes taking questions that the national and new jersey media could. it is basically a huge contrast in the type of leaders that they are. secondly, i think what you have seen from chris christie is that when the problems occurred and every administration, every organization is going to face some kind of problem or hurdle, hour a leader deals with them is important. what christie has done in terms of addressing the problem, firing people and taking corrective action goes to speak to the kind of leader he would be. >> i am going to hit pause here. the breaking news that the governor is starting to answer the question. we will

ohio or maybe every city in ohio has to think that they've got a pretty good chance of getting the rncright? as cleveland points out in their application to host the convention, as goes ohio, so goes the nation, right? ohio has become the proto typical swing state. ohio is split down the middle politically. it's absolutely a presidential bell wear, in '04. ohio went for george w. bush for two points. in '08 the state went for barack obama by five points. in 2012 the state went for barack obama by 2 points and he won the presidency. that pattern holds back to 1960, the last time ohio picked somebody who didn't go on to be the winner of the general election is when ohio loved richard nixon too much. because ohio is such a bell weather, and because it's always so close there, ohio has ended up being really really important in election years, and that's not just because of how they vote in terms of who they vote for, it's also become important how ohio votes literally. how they go to the polls, whether or not they find it easy or difficult to cat their very important vote. how ohio votes m

and the rnc announcing the final 8 cities to host the 2016 republican convention.gas, denver, phoenix, dallas, kansas city, missouri and three ohio cities, columbus, cleveland, cincinnati, and appleton, wisconsin. maybe not appleton, i lied about that one. largely represent swing states and that's tonight's speed read. go to gretawire.com. do you think toronto is going to re-elect mayor ford or not? go to our gretawire poll. bill o'reilly is next. valerie jarrett is on with him. good night from washington. >>> tonight on "red eye." >> coming up on "red eye." are senior citizen water skiers a threat to national security? the shocking trend that has the pentagon on high alert. plus, is the president recruiting a race of evil space tigers to invade canada? >> the good news is they are already on board. they know this needs to happen. >> and finally, lady bugs. friendly insects or carriers of the world's deadliest parasite. none of these stories on "red eye" tonight. >> now let's welcome our guests. she never met a mirror she didn't like except the one time when it was

. >>> up next, the head of the rnc declares open season on the clintons as they dig back two decades for dirt on hillary. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here is what is happening. president obama welcomed french president francois holland to >>> we're back. republican chairman reince priebus, that's really his name, declared open season on hillary clinton earlier today on msnbc, responding to a question from andrea mitchell about whether bill clinton's impeachment matters. in the political fights of the 1990s should be fought again in 2016. here is what priebus said. >> is that a legitimate issue, rehashing the '90s if hillary clinton becomes a candidate for president? >> i think everything is on the table. i don't see how someone just gets a pass on anything, i mean, especially in today's politics. so i think we're going to have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton and some things may be old and some things might be new. hillary clinton provides a lot of opportunity for us. >> well, his comment are the first clear indi

former rnc chair gillespie may be an underdog, but they argue the candidacy a symbol of national environment favorable to them. still, republicans are saddled with an unpopular party brand, a problem for the handful of republican members of congress campaigning for the senate. democrats are using last fall's shutdown against them at every opportunity. montana congressman steve danes is doing his best to soften his image in a new ad, and expect to see a lot more like it, particularly from the house incumbents trying for the promotion. >> i'm running for the u.s. senate, because we need solutions, and washington needs montana common sense. >> finally, of course, there are at least a half dozen republican senate incumbents facing primary challenges that could at the very least batter them, drain them of war chests heading into the general election. over the weekend, in what could be a damaging twist for three-term kansas senator pat roberts, "the new york times" revealed he does not have a home address in kansas. the house on a country club golf course in dodge city that he lists as his voting

. >> could i defend, well, former ambassador rice, now rnc director, when she was on the program with, if you look at the bipartisan report of the senate intelligence committee beacon the pain points it was a copycat situation, came out of what happened which came out of that crazy video out of los angeles but it did track and the language used by her that day which is extremism rather than terrorism had come from the intelligence community. the refusal to mention al qaeda in that context was directly a decision by ta tray us -- petraeus as dci. so it wasn't that bad a performance. and for them to make a big deal about this thing i think is not going to get very far. >> the intriguing about that appearance on this program and others by susan rice that hillary clinton didn't make it, and whether it cost her her job as secretary of state, she didn't engage in that, as i didn't necessarily expect her to today. >> that's right. i think the republicans have beaten that drum. they'll continue to beat that drum. but i don't see it playing a central role in the election. i mean we all know, w

and now i want to know what rins pree vus, head of the rnc and head of wisconsin, does he have any comment on these documents? it's clear this goes way beyond any kind of political witch-hunt. john, i have to ask you about this. what about impeachment? is that off the table? that can't even be talked about because you don't have the legislative power there either? >> again, i don't think impeachment comes up at all. i think what needs to happen here is exactly what you said. he needs to come back to wisconsin, needs to sit down, needs to be honest. this is a matter of trust. he is the top elected official in the state of wisconsin. and he talks about trust me on this and trust me on that, yet we see e-mails just absolutely linking him to every single thing going on within the county executive's office in milwaukee, whether it be policy or campaign. and obviously the campaign took precedent over the policy based on some of the e-mails that we saw. i don't even begin to talk about impeachment if we can't get to republicans. they won't hold a hearing, they won't ask questions. >> john, let me