chris cillizza, susan page, ron fournier.re watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> let me finish tonight with that odd attack on the president and first lady by former governor mike huckabee. there are a few rules in politics regarding what's in and out and one is that you leave the other guy's family alone. ct rate and our competitors' rates you can't win them all. the important part is, you helped them save. thanks, flo. okay, let's go get you an ice cream cone, champ. with sprinkles? sprinkles are for winners. i understand. the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. >>> let me finish tonight with that odd

>> and joining us our political panel abc political director rick klein and national journal's ron fournier the american people 54%, think the president exceeded his authority. he was released 117. i should ad that president bush released over 500 during his 8 years. what do you think? american people don't like this. they think the president shouldn't do this. >> i think if the poll was taken right now, i believe this poll was taken a week or so ago. if it was taken right now i think those numbers would be even higher. we have a history of when an ally has been attacked. fear dictates our actions. i think it would be interesting if you overlay what's happened in france where a lot of us published the photos of the cartoons and a lot of us urged news organizes to print the cartoons because we didn't want our fear to overcome our values of free speech. over lay that here in guantanamo and i wonder personally, you know, should we let fear dictate the way we handle these monster99%2gr"u jxmx jo[ça!xva<82!ñtarc ó5q:,np5ñ]wd@/aw"v+yh.9gbw 9b sisters? -- monsters? >> is there any reason we can't.

do we have ron fournier's tweet? news dawn breaks. >> what's the suspense? you're killing me? >> look at her there. you know. she knows geopolitical subtleties. right? >> the grammy winner tweeted it's more than obnoxious. is there a more obnoxious man in the usa than the governor of new jersey. chris, sit down and shut up. christie is a malicious bully. >> cher goes so go. >> so goes cher. all right. let's go to our top news. >> yeah. because that's not it. although i'm not sure why you did that but -- >> no. i just -- i actually did it -- i actually -- i -- i liked what happened as far as like ron fournier's response. did you see -- let's go to south carolina quickly, because last night the south carolina polls came out, because last night you had mitt romney. >> yeah. >> and he's down in mississippi. >> uh-huh. >> right? >> yep. >> and people are still saying the establishment is still knocking this guy. go well wait. what's he doing? >> eating barbecue with the people. shaking hands. make as speech in mississippi

co-host of the five, dana perino ron fournier of the national journal. laura ingraham, and neera tanden president of the liberate think tank, the center for american progress. >>> let's put polls up on the screen showing jeb bush in the lead. over chris christie and paul ryan. mike huckabee is close behind in a third tier with rand paul and ben carson and scott walker. if he runs, how serious a contender is he? >> we're in the let 1,000 flowers bloom part of the primary. we're to slightly more informed speculation as to who might run. i think huckabee will start strong in iowa. i think that what they're all needing to do is to figure out some personnel. watch for that and also what sort of big ideas might they have. i think the polls schobel jeb bush in the front might be a name i.d. issue at this point. i don't think the polls are accurate yet. >> it's interesting, huckabee didn't say he et cetera running. what he basically said he can't be on fox and actively explore, and one of the big issues for him is always money. he as going to spend the nest fuse

columnist ron will ron fournier of the journal. fox contributor liz cheney and kmarlz lane, journalist. was the speaker wrong or netanyahu wrong to accept the invitation. >> neither were wrong. this is foreign policy. second, the president has gone out of his way to show disdain for congress for foreign and domestic policy and for netanyahu in particular. it was made the point in the weekly standard today that it is not good protocol to have mr. cameron lobby our congress about policy he favors -- >> let me quickly point out. cameron called members of congress saying don't pass a sanctions bill threatening sanctions against iran? >> correct. the president's people were apologizing for not consulting them on congress. we might be sure if a deal is reached with iran and if a climate deal is reached in paris, the president will try to treat those as something other than a treaty and go around congress. israel is in a tough neighborhood. 726 days, the president will be gone and they will still live in a tough neighborhood and they won'

ron fournier is senior political columnist, and ann geren is with "the washington post," and amy is aolitical report with the great "new york times." thank you, we have the heavywaits here tonight. first of all, is this the new macho test like at a carnival you have to bring the hammer down? you have to hit the presumed democratic nominee to show you've got it? >> and it's the easiest thing for the republicans to do, is to go after the presumed nominee. the problem is that's not all they should do. they also have to show they have a governing philosophy and inspirational message. if all they do is attack hillary clinton, she'll be the next president. >> wasn't governor romney familiar with the fact that already we had a reset button, we were trying to open things up with russia, maybe put ago smile on it? but at least hillary clinton didn't do what w did. he said i looked into putin's soul and found, what, god? i would be careful of that russian -- that future look at russia if i were a republican. >> i was the one who asked the question where bush said i looked into his soul. as bush

ron fournier of the national journal. liz cheney, and charles lane "the washington post." george, was boehner wrong to invite netanyahu to congress without consulting the white house? was netanyahu wrong to accept the invitation? >> neither were wrong. second, the president has gone out of his way to show disdain for both congress and foreign and domestic policy and for mr. netanyahu in particular. steve hayes makes the note it is by no means to have ambassador lobby our congress about policy favors -- >> let me just quickly point out, cameron called members of congress to say don't pass a sanctions bill, threatening sanctions against iran. >> correct. >> the president's people were apologizing to members of congress this week for not consulting them on congress. we may be sure that if a deal is reached with iran by june 30th and if a climate deal is reached in paris the president will try to treat both of those as something other than a treaty and go around congress. israel lives in a tough neighborhood. 726 days the president will be gone, they will still live in a tough

it's time for our sunday group, co-host "the five," dana perino, ron fournier laura ingraham neera tanden. dana, the real clear politics average of recent polls shows jeb bush now in the lead, as you can see there. a bit of a lead over chris christie and paul ryan. mike huckabee is close behind in a third tier as you can see here with rand paul and ben carson and scott walker. dana, if he run, how serious a contender is mike huckabee? >> in this point we're in let a thousand flowers bloom, as we turn the corner we're going from wild speculation to slightly more informed speculation about who might run. huckabee will have a strong stand in a few states. in particular, he'll start strong in iowa. that's important for him. i think that what they're all needing to do is figure out some personnel. be watching for that. who's going to be joining up with these guys? also, what sort of big ideas might they have? i think polling showing jeb bush in the front is just a name i.d. issue at this point. i don't think the polls are accurate. >> huckabee didn't say he was running. what he basically said

to make his party not look scary for those voters making a decision in 2016 about who to vote ron fournierresident. you have to remember mcconnell will be wrangling several members of his own caucus. if you think how senator cruz has operated over the last couple of years that potentially will put a lot of pressure or could on some of the more establishment candidates in the field. if you have cruz picking a big fight on capitol hill over immigration that has implications for somebody like jeb bush. >> to touch on the keystone issue the white house will not push it. what's the strategy? >> all signs from the white house seem to be that if a bill is passed that lands on the president's desk he would veto that. there are a couple of reasons for that. one, they simply don't feel like congress is the right venue for this project that this is something that should be approved by the state department. second a case working through the courts in nebraska about this pipeline. they want to let that be resolved before they move forward on the project. there's a theory though, that given that the pre

with me to share the reporting and insights julia pace of the "associated press" and ron fournier ofe on the 7:30 a.m. just about to leave washington national airport off to salt lake city you're having a live glimpse of washington politics. jonathan martin of the "new york times" broke the news, jeb bush is on the flight heading to ut tout meet mitt romney. jeb bush wanted to say i'm going to run for the republican nomination do you have any advice? now romney says he wants to run again. so it's an interesting meeting. and "the wall street journal" was there and saw governor bush at the airport. now that romney is in it was requested before romney sent the signals he was in. now that he's in, how awkward is this? the only way they don't run against each other, somebody says you're the better man, i'm out. not going do happen. >> it's fascinating, i think j-mart's story is perfect, the meeting was set to have jeb show respect to the party's 2016 nominee. does it end up being two guys saying i'm going to run, i'm going to run and they fight it out? or do they come to some agreement fo