and the rnc is all fired up taking on an actress eva taking on an actress eva longoria rnc chair reasonsness-grade internet comes taking on an actress eva longoria rnc chair reasons with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >>> rnc taking on actress eva loan gore i can't. latino victory project claiming it does not support latino candace. only democratic ones. rnc priebus joins us. good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> blasted the actress. totally bogus organization. here's the thing. they started out and say we want the political landscape to match the identities and reflect the realities of the american people. great. they say they are nonpartisan organization. okay. then you start looking at who is in charge of this organization. well, okay. eve longoria was the c

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and so you put it in perspective in that in 2009 to 2010 at the rnc, we raised $198 million. are looking at two the three times those numbers particularly with the influence of the outside groups, and you are looking at the billion dollar campaigns on the national level going forward and it is an impact, because it is towards the tv ads and the negative campaigning that a lot of the americans say they don't like, but they keep buying into it. >> and goldie while american crossroads is gearing up for the blitz, president obama's advocacy group says it is stopping major outreach until november. does this help or hurt democr s democrats? >> i don't know fit does help. we should be dealing with the level playing field even as michael says the wild, wild west and i have a big problem with the big money politics, and we have to play by the big rules and en gage the opposition where it is, and if they don't run until the fall, it is going to stymie other dems. and on the other hand, we are seeing a brand new day in politics with the billion dollar campaigns, and we are watching coun

the rnc became kind of a hydra-headed monster. fannie mae comes out of the construction finance zero. that problem can be traced back to the rfc command the export import bank which also belongs on a list of those that are politicize heavily and subsidies they give him be in the federal loans that have been granted -- general electric has also been adversely rewarded by the export import bank the obama administration, so the politics become very unfortunate. starting with hoover, continuing through roosevelt. the many you see these subsidies come into play in a big way the political aspect of this becomes absolutely all-important. the politicians on top of it. very rarely can you cite one of these programs that successfully benefited the united states economic development. >> host: you look at ge specifically. a look at their corporate income statements coming is a difficult to think of them as private companies when you look at where their revenue actually comes from, what the profit centers are what they remind me of, mussolini

the rnc is under the impression the best way to drive loyalty that i stumbled into it.y don't use sold t-shirts with the big picture obama and a slogan i will bdm to. i of the commander in chief. because he i the one who has stumbled onto something simply they were unprepared for a and must me often surprised by the results. i like that better. don'tou? >> author of tonight's comments will be sent a copy of my book "border war" coat written by teeeighteen former d.a. agent currently a special agent of florida law enforcement. "border war" said by its. do believe the president has served justice for the september 11 attacks? >> no. but he got in bet with the muslim brotherhood while claiming to be enemies of the people. >> there is no justice equal to those atrocities. give me a break. we have record debt and worst race relations in decades i believe we have been fundamentally transformed. we love the feedback. e-mail us that lou@loudobbs.com follow-on twitter or go to facebook or ofloudobbs.com. at it is it for us tonight to. former director of national intelligentsia b

party, and 2 or 3 candidates, that was a good amount of rationalization in this autopsy report by the rnc on the presidential election. senate within their reach. but also not tpwhr their grasp. >> there are certain candidates that were not viable in the states. primaries are a good thing, not a bad thing, at the end of the day, most people in tea party want us to have a majority and move forward. lou: it is amazing a number of people, juan, your views to immigration reform. john boehner keeps pushing it. people talk about the tea party reaction. but it is not tea party reaction iit is conservative, and moderae republicans saying, are out of your mind? where are -- where are they headd. >> right now they are still on track, boehner pushing to get something done in this june-july time frame before the recess, we talk about tea party opposition. you heard last week tom donohue of tame khrer sa chamber say, iy don't get's hind immigration don't -- >> this is the business community, but mainstream republicans, still have real questions about immigration. certainly something rushed through at-

. >> up next, the rnc's 2016 debate plan. it might impact the way the gop picks its next nominee. we'll talk to the man who heads up the republican party and headed up this big decision to make this big change. >> right now i want to share more pictures of new york city. president obama is about to get a guided tour of the 9/11 memorial museum. we'll bring you his comments live as soon as he speaks. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to s

. >> joining us from the rnc by phone is sean spicer.want to ask you also about the immigration issue and boehner's refusal. doesn't that hurt republicans going forward to be steen at least as blocking any progress on immigration? it's been a year since the senate passied the bill. >> i think it's a false kmois to assume just because the senate passed something we have to deal with it. the house has made it clear we fleed to do this right. that means doing it in a way that secures that we secure the border first and ensure we reform the immigration process and don't find ourselves back here as the same problem we did when we tried to reform in the '80s. >> at this stage also when we look at immigration though, time is running out. if they don't do something in next couple of weeks, there won't be time next year or effectively before the next election. >> tandrea, we rushed through obama care and look where that got us. i think what the house is doing is doing this in a way that ensures that it's done right and do it in a way that ensures

>>> a lot of you might remember this powerful moment from condoleezza rice's speech at the 2012 rnc. >> and on a personal note, a little girl grows up in jim crow birmingham, the segregated city of the south where her parents condition take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant but they have her absolutely convinced that even if she could not have a hamburger at the woolworth's counter, she could become president of the united states. yes, yes, america has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect, but we know it was never inevitable, it took leadership and it took court and jury and it took -- courage and it took believe in our values. >> less than two years later, eric holder. >> in too many of our school districts, significant divisions persist and segregation has recurred, including zero tolerance school discipline practices while well intentioned affect black males at a three times higher than their white peers. >> what a difference is in speeches. this is, the ram -- rahm emmanuel was very angry because the attorney general called the nation a bunch of ka

rebrand himself, rnc chair reince priebus will lead off the festivities.ew blood, congresswoman michele bachmann will be in attendance. 9-9-9 anyone? the pizza man himself, herman cain, will be there. but the failed presidential candidates keep on coming. nothing says change like rick santorum, rick perry and, yes, newt gingrich all on stage. and all the way from texas, mr. filibuster, he's a proven leader. he led his party to their worst approval ratings ever. he's ted cruz, and no leadership team is complete without the birther king himself. yes, donald trump is change you can believe in. you know him, you love him, say hello to dennis desousa, the anti-obama filmmaker who just pled guilty to campaign finance violations. he's there. but the all star of this team is "duck dynasty" star phil robertson, straight from making derogatory comments about gays and african-americans, he's ready to lead the gop. ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the 2014 republican leadership team. >> i don't want to make people's lives better by giving them somebod

if we're talking about rnc surrogates, we don't usually count president clinton as one of them. they're the ones who continue to bring this up. health for any -- >> don't you thing you look a little bit desperate at this early stage to roll out this kind of -- >> desperate? what the democrats want, rather the hillary clinton machine wants, is to be able to go on this faux book tour, create a narrative that she's got great -- what is causing people pause including i think probably the clinton campaign and democratic party is that her record is starting to get away in the way of her rhetoric. whether it's benghazi, boko haram. >> you're hypersensitive to that record. >> i mean, look, i love this administration's foreign policy record. i'll put it up against anything a republican says any day of the week. when dr. rove went on national television and made his ridiculous medical diagnosis that's about as bad as his medical prognosticating, reince priebus and republicans ran to his defense and they're welcome to do that. i think that that was as much a play for 2016 as it was for 201

here's the iron imitable rnc chair reince priebus. quote, we're happy that were americans were able to find work last month but more and more people are dropping out of our workforce. then priebus adds this jab, obamacare is to blame for slashing workers' hours. speaker john boehner joined the jobs numbers welcome news and put on the -- actually put in the shiv. quote, president obama ought to call on his democratic-led senate to take up the stacks of jobs measures so we can get this economy moving again. there aren't any jobs measures. all this stuff with infrastructure, democrat stuff, they won't lift it up an inch. anyway the house majority leader eric cantor followed boehner's lead issuing a statement that reads in part, it's time senate democrats stop ignoring these stacks of bills so that we can help hard-working americans deal with their stacks of bills. very cleverly put by some staffer up there. i got to tell you, they weren't even showing up for work today. they issued these statements on paper. they didn't even phone them i

. >> on meet the press rnc chairman said it will be a sticking point. >> it is going to be an issue.ome up. we are going to be at this point at some time if hillary clinton runs for president. the issue of his health and age is going to come up. >> a new study finds celebrities bad behavior could have a positive influence on our teenagers. kids are learning lessons about greed and excess and insect rit from stars like justin bieber. it discourages them from taking rugs and drinking. >>> a study from university of california berkeley shows they break the rules without considering the circumstances. they are five times moor likely to pull over the vehicle. mercedes drives. the wealthy agree with gordon gecko. greed is good. >> have you ever thought that you were done with something only to realize not quite over yet? at least yours was not on live tv. check this out. >> no, no he, that's a little bit unfortunate for the spaniard. they don't understand edge li . english. the commentator saying no, no, no. one lap to go my friend. >> not done yet this happening he was finishing in 56th p

the rnc chairman prooef srevis senator ron johnson. >> former president george w.ring after having a partial knee replacement. a spokesman saying push is doing great. he is already up and walking around. since leaving the presidency bush 43 has become quite the athlete even hosting a 100 kilometer bike race that supported wounded veterans last month. we covered it for you. hopefully he is back up on that bike soon. his dad jumped out of a plane on his 80th birthday. >> quite the athletic family. >> on the schedule for today talking about temperatures, they are rising and a lot of flooding out there, too. >> that's right. good >> good morning henter and ainsley. talking flooding across parts of the gulf coast. take a look at the flood watches in houston and louisiana and parts of mississippi. we have been seeing heavy rain moving over the southeast. on top of the rain we are talking about as much as 8 inches potentially even more than that forecast for today and also tomorrow. this will be a big concern across the gulf coast. they are in louisiana and parts of missi

also michael steele, formerer chairman of the rnc. welcome. i don't know how late everybody was out? >> too late. >> you seem in good spirits. >> i'm watching on tv. i keep seeing shots of you up there. you were presenting awards with the first lady. what was the president talking with you about before going up there? >> we talked about a lot of things. kids, so many different things. he did the tell me that chris christie was going to get it. it was interesting to hear the room. especially when you heard the crowd go ooh and he said the roller coaster situation. last night washington showed up at the anniversary dinner. in washington we are politically correct. out in the world, twitter was abuzz with joel mchale's quotes, comments, his speech. everyone in the room said, oh, he went there. you didn't want to laugh. i was on stage and i are really didn't -- there were things i cringed on. sometimes we have a right to be. but at the same time there are people outside of washington. the young people liked his skit. >> we were talking about it on

simply a way of being able to use their rnc as opposed to internally. of my old favorites will continue to see that. some companies have looked at growth rates are not necessarily what they want. there are some interesting acquisition ideas and you will see some of it will be cost-cutting, some of it will be expansion. the other thing that is important to note. looking at it from an investor standpoint, we are in too many sectors. let's be a strong one, two, three player. things that were not strong, let's get out of them. >> how do we pinpoint what is next? >> honestly my own personal view, give it to somebody who knows what they are doing. >> if you look at it here, it will see more activity, energy will continue to see more. retailers had some activity. frankly multi-strategy acquisition has not had the greatest activity. the health care site is stunning. the other side you have to note is cross-border. europe, asia. >liz: it is just hard to find te right companies who wants to sell. good to see you. leon kalvaria, citigroup vice chair. grt to have y

the rnc chairman, reince priebus. time we're going to vom control over the moderators and the panelists, he says it's one of his biggest applause lines. he says people go wild. they thought there were too many got ya questions. they're going to make this official today. they're going to make a change for the republican national committee to control the media partners for the debates and how many there are. we figure that means will be half as many debates this time. maybe 10 instead of 20. the way they'll enforce this, if there's any candidates that aren't part of the rnc system, they won't be able to participate in the official ones. so who will this help? this will help the establishment candidates, the people who are already well known. your equivalent to mitt romney. and it will help the broadcast na networks. it will hurt underdogs, your newt gingrich, your rick santorum. the ones who need the oxygen of 20 debates. and hurt the cable networks. >> mike, what do you think of the contrary point of view put forward b

he'll have to play within the rules set by the rnc, which is the right way to go. >> let's move to themittee on benghazi, the i think congressional investigation. >> the attack. frankly, why call for this, 20 months later? >> we don't have an answer. there's no clarity what happened there eight weeks before the 2012 election hold on september 11th, 2012. there's no answers given by the obama white house. it's clear that the white house dried to obfuscate on what happened. there's a needed follow up. this is it. >> what do you thip? >> the murder of ambassador sevens and three other brave americans in benghazi is a real tragedy, obviously. i think we can all agree on that. the way the republicans split sized this issue, af five or eight -- after five or eight investigations, 25,000 documents have been turned over. they have created a part sap committee to -- partisan committee to investigate. it's a complete partisan hat job. the verdict is in. the republican fundraising arm is raising money off of benghazi. it is raising money. >> what do you mean by that? >> when the republican - when

. >> the rnc piled on, releasing this video bashing the president's management style. >> we're not going to let up until we eliminate the back log once and for all. >> we'll keep slashing that back log so our veterans receive the benefits they've earned. >> meanwhile democrats are starting to track. just georgia congressman john bare owe and david scott became the first two democrats to call for shinseki's resignation. >> the veterans have been waiting long enough. three people in my district have died. >> and i'm disappointed with the president today. there was no urgency. plmt, mr. president, we need urgency! we need you to roll up your sleeves and get into these hospitals! >> the political heat is only going to get worse for the white house as just about everybody v.a. facility in the country is under some form of scrutiny in the local media. >> growing outrage this morning surrounding the scandal involving the phoenix v.a. >> workers are accused of, quote, inappropriate scheduling practices. >> charges of a coverup, and they include the v.a. hospital here in san antonio. >> the presi

the rnc chairman is here in studio. with me the tea party and establishment need to unite on issues? that's next. true business-grade internet comes with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >>> welcome back to "hannity." >>> welcome back to "hannity." soon after the polls closed, university president ben sasse outperformed preelection polls, ran away with the contest, beating his opponents by double digits. here to discuss is ben sasse. congrats to you. >> thanks, sean. welcome to the biggest cattle state in the union. >> i'm all for it. i'm a big steak lover. i hopefully am helping the nebraska economy. >> we appreciate it. >> a lot of people talk about the battle between the establishment and the tea p

bush became chairman of the rnc.going on here is chairman of the south carolina republican party and the south is going to be difficult for chris christie. i mean, that's going to be tough. >> quickly, do you think chris christie is going to look at jeb warily for the next few months? >> surely. as mitt romney was becoming the nominee, he was getting drafted. now the draft effort is for somebody else and he's not the popular girl at the dance anymore. >> it's a fickle sport, politics is. >>> when you look closely at the math, there's a drawbrak. >>> and later, he's the star of two television shows but there's nothing like cracking jokes about the president to the president's face. coming up, joel mchale talks to me about the weirdest gig that comedians can have. jeff... hey, scott! top of the mornin' to you, sir. this is no time for lollygaggin', lad. but we love lollygaggin'. we do. but it's a battlefield out there! you know the chickweed is surrounding yer sidewalk and the dandelions are stealing precious nutrients

rnc president reince priebus seconds that motion. >> health is fair game.ink the month of important reason for me as leader of this party is what's the record of hillary clinton. what's the record as secretary of state, benghazi, boko haram, syria, russia, those are the issues. >> last week former president bill clinton came to his wife's defense but he said say it took her six months to get over the condition. democrats say the republicans are afraid of facing hillary clinton in 2016. >>> according to the "the new york times," general motors is investigating its own legal department for the botched handling of an ignition defect linked to 13 deaths. gm reportedly knew of the defect for over a decade but only issued a $2.6 million vehicle recall in february. federal regulators fought the automaker with a $35 million fine last week. more punishments, very likely on the way. >>> this morning, a whole lot of eyes will be on the graduation of wake forest, jill abramson the now fired executive editor of "the new york times" will deliver the commencement of the g

there's some good news on the rnc side of the party. they're leaving the more conservative tea party rivals behind. the campaign in georgia between the two top establishment guys have gotten fierce. purdue revealed that he wrote another million dollar check to his campaign last month. and kingston's campaign is dropping mailers, attacking purdue on common core and tying him to president obama, trying to go to his right. another bit of good news for senate republicans is what's going on in montana. a new democratic poll shows that the republican congressman steve daines leads appointed democratic senator john walsh by double digits. it con firms what we've been hearing for a while, it is creeping into territory where democrats may end up walking away from it. finally on the money front, politico reports that the koch brothers plan to spend more than $125 million this year to boost conservatives. the group has already spent more than $35 million on democrats attacking senate races. not surprisingly the koch brothers was a big part of my c

. >> that particular inmate was from the rnc and we had just received him in from the county. he 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, then he was 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 escorts 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. >> twisting my oonk ankle, man. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation w

meantime, rnc chair is saying he doubts very much hillary will run at all, citing a string of controversies the past month but also hinting at a big upside for republicans if miss clinton is the democratic nominee. >> i think hillary is a non product. sometimes it's worse running against a blank slate. hillary has decades of history for us to explore. you know, her role in hillary care when she was first lady, her senate experience where there's nothing significant to point to and her secretary of state experience that's not just significant but all kinds of problems for her. >> is it important whether or not hillary is running at this point in time? >> i don't believe so. i mean, does it really matter if she's running or not? it's something to fill up a 24-hour news cycle. that's it. >> eric, you have to admit, there was some pretty strong words over the weekend, over the sunday talk shows and governor patrick worries about the inevitability, the fact that everybody assumes that hillary is running. is that a problem? >> it's a problem for anyone that wants to run against hillary clinton. t

on "meet the press," rnc chair reince priebus weighed in. >> the issue of her health and her age is goingo come up. >> do you think she suffered some sort of brain injury that raises legitimate questions about whether she's healthy to serve as commander in chief? >> i'm not a doctor. >> no, he is not a doctor. but a lack of a medical license is not stopping anyone in the conservative media from a thorough expectation of clinton's supposed symptoms as diagnosed using the rovian stethoscope. >> he said we have to worry. the con did cushion she had, did it cause brain damage? >> the presumption is she's healthy. but when you undergo a terrible concussion and have a clot near your brain, you have to account for that. >> but why trust the experts at fox news. leave it to a guy that knows his way around a doctor's office. like someone who had his fourth heart attack shortly after becoming vice president. >> well, i think any presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate is going to have to answer questions about their health. i wouldn't want to pre-judge mrs. clinton's health. i don't k

michael steele is a former rnc chairman and current msnbc political analyst. >> hey. >> thank you forere. >> thank you. >> is there at this point a distinction between the tea party and the republican party? >> oh, i believe there is. and there has been for quite some time going back probably to 2004, 2005 where a number of activists around the country grew increasingly tired with big republicanism. the war, the spending, some of the personal intrusions like the terry schiavo case. this has been a trum beat within the conservative base for quite a while. and the way the types have performed on the larger issues. that tension is real. so they may take a licking tonight, but they will keep ticking. there is more, you know, gains to be made down the road. they play long ball a lot better than i think a lot of people give them credit for. and they should. because the opportunities are right there to define the nature of what republicanism is, what conservatism in s in this era. i think that's what's they're trying to do. they've taken over a number of leadership roles as chairman, committ

of course the rnc is going to brag about this.hey are doing something like having a special committee to investigate. it's obviously very serious. four americans died. there were warnings in advance and gets blamed on an american making a dumb video. >> who is in jail. >> it's outrageous behavior. i think we would like to know more about it and very happy trey gouty is going to do it. >> you're not worried about to beat up on hillaryican issue clinton. it's all political? >> certainly that's what the nfm, the non-fox media is going to say. when the facts come out, the facts are the facts. >> seven republicans, five democrats, not even a fair and balanced committee. >> the house, that's how the democrats did it. when did the democrats split it 50/50. >> this has been investigated four or five times. you had joint chiefs of staff look at this. how many more investigations? >> just this one from the look of it. panel, thank you. >>> coming up, when president obama took office he promised unprecedented transparency. a new level of ope

must -- if this thing looks political, and it's a bunch of republicans doing -- we'll get what the rncbeing political, the democrats won't -- they will withdraw. they will claim a victory. what is disturbing most of all and i say this to the democrats which is why no one in my party has felt at least some republicans did in watergate, we deserve to know the truth of what happened and i have heard more outrageous spins and lies how there's nothing to know or whatever for the purpose of politics, just as i've heard on the other side, when it involves american security, dead ambassador, dead americans. it is outrageous about our political system. >> i want to to goal now to twitter. if americans could be without that select committee. i want to know why our military did not go in and save them or even capture the terrorists. americans from polling have taken a great interest in knowing what happened because we lost an ambassador that night. specifically, they want to know whoi our military wasn't engaged. >> let me speak to her point. this is an issue of fact. the general when he testifie

joining me now, national reporter, erin carmone and from chicago, former rnc chair, michael steele.eople will have issues relating to you know a woman's right to choose abortions, et cetera. but the targeting of this one clinic in the state seems a little bit extreme to me. >> well, yeah. i guess at a certain level, you're right. effectively, as we've seen in texas and elsewhere, winnowed a lot of the companies of businesses out of business. the states are trying to put it on the question of abortion. that's probably how it should be. this is a mat that should be decided by the states that is, you know, like other matters, gay marriage and other issues decided by the states more and more. a federal law on the matters, i think, is more problematic in that you see the politics of south carolina, for example, and in kentucky with mitch mcconnell playing it self-out on a national stage where decisions, i think are going to be more and more in the future decided at local level. >> erin, i find it disconcerting what's happening at state's level, in particular, in missouri, this clinic has

sunday, the rnc chair reince priebus said the questions about mrs.nton's health are legitimate. >> health and wellness is fair game. i think what's big are for me is what's the record for hillary clinton, as secretary of state? benghazi, boko haram, syria, russia? those are the issues. >> talking about age and health, they're not talking about issues. meanwhile democrats are defending mrs. clinton and saying she's in the prime of her life and that republicans are just scared to run against her. >> new calls to screen train engineers for sleep apnea after it was revealed that engineer in that deadly collision suffered from that condition. repeatedly awakened when the airways closed during sleep. metro-north said a final decision has not been made. >>> general motors investigating its own legal department over the handling of ignition defect now linked to 13 deaths. that's according to a report in "the new york times." general motors learned of this defect more than a decade ago. only issued the first recalls in february of this year. last week, the co

joining me now is -- former rnc chair michael steele, i cannot read the teleprompter and white houseorrespondent and political editor at the huffington post, sam stein. gentlemen, i'm so overcome by benghazi fever the words have begun to blur together. sam, let me start first with you, as a reporter who watches democratic politics, should they participate in this select committee? >> i don't know whether they should or not. the sense i get talking to people on the hill right now is they're leaning against it for the reasons that james clyburn represented or james clyburn articulated which they think the outcome is already prejudged. and they also believe that if they don't participate in it, they can cast it as an illegitimate partisan-driven inquiry and not a legitimate fact-finding investigation. and so for those reasons i would be unsurprised, let's say. i wouldn't be shocked if they decided not to participate in this. >> michael steele, take off the red hat for a moment. and put on the blue hat. if you were chair of the dnc, what would you advise democrats to do in that situation

cincinnati is on the short list of cities to host the rnc convention, while columbus has been invitedids for the democratic convention. cleveland is in the running of both, the only city with that designation outside of las vegas. connie travels the country as a journalist and as somebody who is watching politics and watching with a political eye as well. connie, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, todd. >> so let's talk about sort of where ohio is today. it's funny, about eight years ago when you had in 2000 gore pulled out of ohio famously about three weeks before the election to focus all his resources to florida, there was some question on whether kerry was trying to hard, that ohio was unwinnable. all of a sudden ohio bounced back to being a swing state again. there was this feeling it ever so closely was going to go the way of missouri and it was going to become where's ohio headed today and is it still because of its lack of population growth a state that is leaning republican or is it going to stick to its state emphasis? >> i want to point out when kerry ran in 2004,

perry, before the president's remarks were done, the rnc had a statement out, while we're eager to see the president finally engaging on this issue, this has never been about a single person or single resignation. it's past time for the president to step up and fix this mess. personnel changes aren't the answer to the problem for the veterans, it's just musical chairs. of course, this is following on 66 republican congress people and 13 senators calling on him to step down, implying this was the answer. is this a change in tune? >> it is a change in tune a bit. you've seen a lot of democrats in close races and allison grimes of kentucky and mark udall in colorado calling for resignation. no matter where you were situated, you were in a swing state, this was a good place to distance yourself from president obama. i'm not surprised reince priebus was calling for him to resign now saying it's not enough. >> paul, to say the same question to you on the other side of the aisle, for these democrats who already staked their reputation on this as a campaign issue, what's next politically? >> i

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. >> congressman, the rnc also has a benghazi fundraising website that reads, "hillary clinton and obamad about the benghazi attacks to protect their political future. join our fight to stop the liberalized. donate to the gop right now." are you offended the republicans are raising money using their benghazi obsession? >> rev, they have no shame whatsoever. they are exploiting the death of four americans, and my heart goes out to those four americans and those families, but to see them time and time again exploit this for political purposes is so callous, so insensitive, i hope this backfires and the american people wake up and see what's really going on. >> you know, today majority leader eric cantor was asked about the gop fundraising off benghazi. listen to this. >> mr. gowdy has said that the party should not be raising money off the issue of benghazi. do you agree? and if so, will you urge the nrcc to stop? >> look, there's a lot of discussion about the creation of the select committee and around the politics of it versus the policy of it, and i know that, you know, there's much bei

frankly if you look at communications, one of the communications staff at the rnc, what she said thether day they were going to latch on to this issue and make sure that as much attention is possible paid to it because they know that it fires up their base. that's all this is about. you know what? it's disgusting because we should make sure that we get to the bottom of it so it never happens again. they should support increasing embassy security. >> the way they're acting, it's a bottomless pit, the way they're -- benghazi is the bottomless pit when it comes to news coverage. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chair of the dnc, thanks so much. >>> still ahead -- the gop's race problems. is brought into focus in florida. the rapid response panel weighs in on that. >>> later, president obama is finally taking a stand against republican obstruction and calling them out. chris van hole toniglen to join. [ 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

. >> senator boehner, four people died in benghazi and should the rnc fund raise off of your committ committee's effort? >> our evideffort is to find ans for the four families who lost loved ones. >> and should you be fund-raising -- >> well, our goal is to find answers for the four families. >> and why is this fund-raising happening? >> our focus is on getting the truth for the american people and the four families. >> and we know that people are fund-raising, and he would not directly answer that question after having been asked multiple times, luke? >> and it is something that the speak ser is in that predicamen is not that the media is so fascinated about it, but it is because trey gowdy who the speaker tasked with being the head of the select committee on benghazi said on "morning joe" we should not fund raise off of it, because the seriousness of it is to be a sober and investigative panel. that is another divide. and for john boehner to have that position and hold nit an authoritytive manner, they said that in the house gop, we want the red blooded americans who love this red

kicking things off yesterday was the rnc chair. >> we're the party of freedom and the party of opportunity're the party of equality. we're the ones with that history. >> following his reminder that the gop wasn't always like it is today. louisiana governor bobby jindal. >> i'm tired of those saying that they're for tolerance. they're for diversity and they are, unless you happen to disagree with them. let's be very clear about this. the left wants to silence anybody that has a different view and a different perspective. >> how fitting then, that jindal was followed by a man who has made headlines for his own spectacularly unique brand of intolerance and ignorance. a man who last year compared homosexuality to beastality and wondered allowed whether african-americans were happier preentitlement, prewelfare in the good old days of jim crow. "duck dynasty" star phil robertson. >> i guess the gop may be more desperate than i thought to call somebody like me. >> indeed! the gop may be more desperate than we all thought. we have the editorial director at huffington post, howard fineman. howard,

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he's a serious contender for 2016 paul met with a group of pastors in memphis before addressing the rncng. the meeting was latest effort to reach out to african-american voters. in an interview paul seemed to buck his party saying "everybody's gone completely crazy on this voter i.d. thing. i think it's wrong for republicans to go too crazy on this issue because it's offending people. it makes him the biggest name and only possible presidential nominee to speak ill of voting restrictions. what about his record? while paul is saying the right things, he's also suggested that there's no need for voting rights and as the times points out, he's had a history of shifting answers, which if you're trying to court a minority voting bloc could pose problems with outreach efforts. my panel is back. we were saying before the break, he's sayi ining the right thing. >> absolutely. i applaud him. any time republicans actively say they want to go after the african-american e vote, that's a very good thing. however, you have to look at what he didn't say and what he didn't say is these laws are bad, th

you saw the rnc was mopped for an ad a few weeks ago, where they have a young guy who looks like a williamsburgd, this isn't going to connect with a lot of millennials trying to find jobs. around new york right now, because we've had the upfront season in which various media outlets try to promote themselves to advertisers, you see the posters that essentially look like young people in their bedrooms, have followers, over 1 million on youtube, right? and the notion that -- >> they're trying to ride on that. >> without trying to endorse what the nrs doing here, they say, if we look perfectly polished, we have an insight that's useful. not executing it in a way, or message that particularly appeals to you. >> there's a core value system i think that prides authenticity. i don't know if this is authentic. one of the things that interests me is these are attractive hosts. noir, there, young, charismatic black man. the very attractive, and cut to the shot where we see a leggy young woman there. can younger faces, and can sex sell guns? >> no. the funny thing is, this is the opposite of authenticity.

so far you've heard from republicans and talk to folks at the rnc who say, sure. they do want to tie this to clinton as much as possible ending her chances in 2016. >> nia-ml malika henderson. >> susan page, great to talk to you. >> thank you. >>> checking the news feed, president obama turns his attention away from the vshg a backlash to pushing u.s. tourism. he'll become the first sitting president to ever visit the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york. the hall turns 75 this summer. we expect to see the president in his first event of the day later this hour. he'll be meeting with travel industry executives. >>> the u.s. is getting more involveded in the search for those 300 kidnapped nigerian school girls. 80 u.s. troops are now on the ground in neighboring chad. the pentagon says they won't be involved in ground searches, but will launch a drone being used in the search. what's not their mission? taking on the terror group holding them. boko haram yesterday double bombing those terrorists killed more than 130 people. they're responsible for more tha

minister in the wot i'm wrong but sometimes that has been appointed caretaker prime minister at the rnc is right to press ahead with consequent even like shoes it makes it the position of state to continue to disrupt the shooting the team concludes the winter continues. after the us the uk china and france all offering help in rescuing went into nigerian high school girls abducted three weeks ago by the radical islamists of poker on britain sending a small team of government ministry experts nigeria's government often a three hundred thousand dollars reward for help. as momentum builds news of a fresh attack this one in north eastern town of gumbo that's according to police its left at least two hundred and twenty five today greenback dollar bills. try to help the region eighteen ninety area. echoing around the world. the kidnapping of eva two hundred school goes by quicker her m terrorists sparking global outrage the us great britain in front of three military intelligence and counter teams to help them hunt. not just a nigerian issue it is a global issue. there are extreme islam is a