. >> peter roskam on ukraine and the select benghazi committee. obama's big week and margaret carlson and megan mcardle debate guns. we begin the program with the house democratic leader nancy pelosi of california. thank you for being with us. the president accepted the resignation of eric shinseki who you have highly praised and said the problems run much deeper than that. do you have any sense of who you would like to see replace him? >> someone who would get confirmed very quickly. that would be very important. before going on to what is next, i want to say how much i do admire secretary shinseki. he is a great patriotic american. as they say in the military and on the battlefield, we leave no soldier behind and when they come home, that is a pledge that the secretary kept as a general and as a secretary. >> when you say someone who would be quickly confirmed, is there any name that comes up in mind or any type? >> management. it would be useful to have someone who has an understanding of what the challenges are. some of the challenges relate t

>> i think he would personally prefer peter roskam. they are pretty close.ut i asked someone out there who is really plug it in, is he an ideologue or operations guy john mark they said he's an ideological operations guy, not the right winger that jim jordan and some of the others in the conference are. to getguy who will want things done within limits and if boehner and mccarthy want to move, they will have to have steve with them. the problem is i can't quite see what they are going to move on. closed-door meeting with the republican from labrador this week and he told his fellow republicans and they supported kevin mccarthy for majority leader, they would be supporting the status quo and in his words, you will prove we are still not listening to the public. what type of change does the public want at this point in the republican ranks? republican ranks are interested in seeing a party that can govern effectively and move legislation. one of the important things to her member about kevin mccarthy as he was the man who recruited many of the people elected i

the other race is between roskam and scalise. the contention is there is the republican leadership right now has a person from ohio, boehner, cantor and somebody from virginia. they say they want someone in leadership to represent them because right now it's too much from the north and too much moderate states. that's the core of the debate between scalise from louisiana and roskam from illinois. >> with that said, perry, you know as well as i do that there was a lot of talk regarding infighting would have ultimately hurt republicans as they head into this mid-term election, there's concern that there would be battles between the tea party and the gop establishment. are you seeing rumblings of that there today? >> not in this race particularly. i think you're going to see that on the campaign trail. next week there's a big race in mississippi between cochran and mcdaniel. that's where it's really playing out, the tea party versus conservative fight. right now most of the candidates running for leadership in the republican party i

in two thousand six along with peter roskam of illinois and michele bachmann of minnesota. for two decades, he worked for bill thomas, a brainy gop house member, and ran his california office. the question is, how conservative is he? he is not a tea party republican, libertarian, or a neocon." there are a lot of tea party members who are not sold on this leadership team, because none of them are from states that are in the south where the republican base is, at this poin t. -- he is of labrador probably more liberal than eric cantor on immigration. he was one of the gang of eight trying to negotiate on this until he walked away. mccarthy has showed some openness on immigration. no one is going to act on it now because the rest of the congress is so -- so much so has to look over their shoulders for doing anything on it. mccarthy will be somebody similar to eric cantor. they were friends. the dissension will remain within the republican conference. host: from north carolina, good morning. caller: c-span guests and america, good morning. host: good to hear from you. caller: i

well, roskam is, as you mentioned, the chief deputy whip.he's been mccarthy's key lieutenant for the last couple of years, helping wrangle votes on the house floor. scalise is the conservative republican study committee chairman, and he's been trying to portray himself as the conservative alternative to roskam. and then substitutesman is a -- studsman is a member of the 2010 class, lots of members. he, like labrador, has been trying to tap into that feeling, and he's portraying himself as the even more conservative alternative to either of the guys, roskam and scalise. so that looks to be a real toss-up race. you know, i would guess that scalise is probably ahead at this point point, but it will probably have to go to more than one ballot, and, you know, it really remains to be seen if anybody can run away with it. >> this gop leadership election on thursday held behind closed doors, tell us a little bit about the location, where the vote will be held. there won't be any c-span cameras there, but how about the process itself? what's that lik

gwen: peter roskam will be burning up your phone. what's happening in mississippi and perhaps kansas as well. are they saying oh, no? >> in mississippied that cochran had an -- thad cochran had an early june and an initial primary with a tea party challenger. gwen: chris mcdaniel. >> chris mcdaniel. who polled more votes and didn't get to 50% and going into the runoff. the conventional wisdom a runoff turnout goes down and the one with the more motivated and more passionate supporters is going to win and that's likely to be the tea party candidate. thad cochran's strategy is to now expand the electorate and go after some of the democrats who would have voted for him in the general election because he's an institution in the state. very, very difficult to pull off. smart operatives can pull it off he has haley barbour on his side and maybe it will work but going to be tough. gwen: haley barbour two nephews and kansas talking about pat roberts who is also with the next most endangered incumbent. we seem to be clicking as we go down. th

alise, peter roskam and marlin stutzman. mr. scully's wins the outright majority of votes on the ballot, it will be a head to head matchup on the second ballot. i think his supporters are confident that they can and will win out right on this first ballot. i spent time with him last night in his office and he was planning to be up until 2:00 a.m. making calls. he had the look in his eye of a guy who thought they were right on the cusp of getting to that magic number of either 116 or 117. it remains to be seen. has his way,ise it will be a clean victory and he will be the new house majority whip. if it goes to a second ballot, anything can happen. the significance of having a red state republican leadership? guest: the lack of a red state presence has been a source of tension within the house republican conference. a bit of a sore spot for the conservative members were arrived in this massive wave in 2010. many more who arrived in 2012. they feel they are ideologically underrepresented in the uppermost echelons, but also geograph

in two thousand six along with peter roskam of illinois and michele bachmann of minnesota. for two decades, he worked for bill thomas, a brainy gop house member, and ran his california office. the question is, how conservative is he? he is not a tea party republican, libertarian, or a neocon." there are a lot of tea party members who are not sold on this leadership team, because none of them are from states that are in the south where the republican base is, at this poin t. -- he is of labrador probably more liberal than eric cantor on immigration. he was one of the gang of eight trying to negotiate on this until he walked away. mccarthy has showed some openness on immigration. no one is going to act on it now because the rest of the congress is so -- so much so has to look over their shoulders for doing anything on it. mccarthy will be somebody similar to eric cantor. they were friends. the dissension will remain within the republican conference. host: from north carolina, good morning. caller: c-span guests and america, good morning. host: good to hear from you. caller: i

the only way he loses is if marlin stutzman, this indiana wild card, throws his support behind roskamnd that puts raskam over the edge. >> luke, watching this back and forth a little bit, if you're john boehner, do you -- are you secretly now probably hoping scalise does win because you need that protection, that if it ends up being three blue state guys again, roskam in the number three post, that it only maybe gins up the conservative angst? >> chuck, i can speak for bob too, we both have had the privilege of seeing the scalise whip count at some point during this process under the condition of anonymity. there are committee chairmen on there, people close to john boehner and people close to leadership. you're starting to see the boehner coalition move over for that specific reason. steve scalise has run on this idea that he's going to be the red state guy that represents red state issues and we can't have all these blue states and purple states representing us. he wants to do that. every aide i've spoken to within leadership have all said this. steve scalise is conservative but is

. >> peter roskam on ukraine and the select benghazi committee. big week and margaret carlson and megan mcardle debate guns. we begin the program with the house democratic leader nancy pelosi of california. thank you for being with us. the president accepted the resignation of eric shinseki who you have highly praised and said

roskam is from illinois. he is not helping people vote for him. he did say he would appoint somebody from a red state. he is trying to quell some of that attention between the north and the south. viewers can follow all that from daniel neuhauser. >> in iraq, the military sunni group is taking control of key cities. and now threatens baghdad. has said house president obama has not decided how to respond. he met with the leadership of the house and the senate today. senators discuss the current situation in iraq. and the president's policy in the region. comments from majority leader harry reid, marco rubio, and john walsh. this is one hour. mr. president, over the past several days, the world has looked in horror as asus -- i sis, the islamic state in iraq and syria, has swept across iraq. they are sweeping closer to baghdad. there are no efficient outside bag dad -- outside baghdad. they pose a threat to iraq and surrounding regions. it is an understatement. and his advisers are considering options to combat the threat. concerned members of congr

other support roskam. be close, but there are of course regional and philosophical ramifications. >> i won a race in the democratic caucus by seven votes out of 200 cast. some members do tend to double commit, so you don't know for certain until it's over, but it is in court and for the republican party because john boehner has had his difficulties. this gives him a fresh start. maybe this will be good for boehner. i don't know how tom views that, but mccarthy is generally a well-liked member. he has counted votes before. he could certainly do the job of majority leader. and if republicans can use someone from the south, that is helpful to them. >> the relative calm i am hearing from both of you on the elections coming up today, but what if we have a tea party candidate make a good showing? will that shift the dynamic in congress? recs you have to make some accommodations to the tea party faction. we need to unify this caucus. it is a difficult job for the speaker to do that. skalise's major arguments. you

. >> peter roskam on ukraine and the select benghazi committee.bama's big week and margaret carlson and megan mcardle debate guns. we begin the program with the house democratic leader nancy pelosi of california. thank you for being with us. the president accepted the resignation of eric shinseki who

. >> and illinois congressman peter roskam said something different. >> i believe you are a white knight and the administration is trading on your reputation, and you have made a bad choice. >> several sources say that the treasury inspector general is inspecting the circumstances surrounding the missing e-mails in the related information technology issues. chris? >> more on this with the panel. mike emanual reporting from capitol hill. thank you, mike. >>> the pentagon is confirming that the u.s. has established 24-hour surveillance in northern iraq. we are also told that special operations advisers will arrive very soon. and chief correspondent ed henry tells us that u.s. air power may not be far off. >> reporter: as kurdish forces try to hunt down the militants from isis today in the key city of kirkuk, they confirm that president obama is targeting militants and not just in iraq but syria as well. >> there is a willingness by this president that has been determined, demonstrated to act where necessary to save guard the national security of the united states. >> reporter: and the pres

you had pete roskam from illinois. this is seen as a win for the tea party. >> mike, thanks. >>> up next, talk about great health care. you're paying for it. you can see kevin mccarthy, by the way, his first tv interview, house majority elect on fox news sunday this weekend. health care, you're paying for it, but you can't really get it. you'll hear that story. here's what our affiliates are covering tonight. philadelphia with the preliminary report saying the truck driver who plowed into the limousine carrying comedian tracy morgan and several friends was speeding. morgan is recovering, but one of his friends was killed. kvrr in north dakota was something that looks like a scene from caddyshack. in reality, it is a police chase that goes through a golf course in moorehead, minnesota, and ends up at a shopping mall in fargo. the driver was arrested. no one replaced their divots. >>> this is a live look at thornton, colorado, from fox 31 in denver. a huge explosion this afternoon led to a fire. the remnants there. witne

kevin mccarthy, john boehner from ohio, and marlin stutzman of indiana, and it's significant that the roskam did not win because that's a knock on the establishment. he was kevin mccarthy's deputys' he didn't get this. it's also significant this did not go to a second ballot. three candidates in there, harv thought you wouldn't get the absolute majority and they would have to kick this over to a second ballot with the third-place finisher coming in. the fact seive -- steve scalise won this on the first ballot is significant. he said he had a lot of votes on this, appeared to be in the lead, and you can't be whip if you don't whip your first vote -- >> jeb in texas was going to challenge mccarthy, pete sessions would do that. both ultimately dropping out. what happened there and do we know the vote count that lifted mccarthy to his position? >> no. they're not giving us the vote tallies. was thought that raul labrador, the conservative congressmann from idaho, they vote against everything, decorrect controlling, the hurricane sandy bill, thigh voted no on almost everything. they used to tell

the top contenders for the whip post are marlin stutzman of indiana, peter roskam of illinois, and stevelise of louisiana. the g.o.p's leadership elections are set for next thursday. general motors is recalling more cars for an ignition switch problem. this time it's for 500,000 chevrolet camaros, mostly in north america. g.m. said a driver's knee could bump the key fob and move the ignition switch out of the run position, causing the engine to shut off. g.m. says this recall is not related to its earlier recall of more than two million vehicles that also had ignition switch problems. oil prices edged up again today, on worries the escalating insurgency in iraq could disrupt oil exports. oil futures had their biggest weekly gain of the year. tech stocks helped boost wall street today. the dow jones industrial average gained 41 points to close above 16,755. the nasdaq rose 13 points to close at 4,310. the s&p 500 added six points to close at 1,936. for the week, the dow lost nearly 1%. the nasdaq fell a quarter of a percent. and the s&p dropped less than a percent. in ukraine, government

are you surprised that a democrat strategist some someone like roskam can actually compete?i am not surprised. i know he's a suburb of chicago scarce the mess out of the folks that want someone from a red state. it's not surprising at all. the folks that are pro business, typical old school republicans absolutely want him there. he's the current chief deputy whip. in most instances he would be next in line for the gop. what's more interesting than that is the fact that morris rogers said i don't want anything to do with this. it's all white men. it will have to be geographic diversity if anything for these folks. >> angela, thanks. >> thanks. >>> up next, the latest state to get on board with raising the minimum wage. my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven s

to make that argument about the guys going hard right if you end up with kevin mccarthy or peter roskame are names a lot of people don't know but they're seen as establishment, not the tea partiers by any stretch >> let's start with mike rogers who gave a splendid interview on this show 15 minutes ago and who is retiring. why? he performs in a bipartisan way as chairman of the house intelligence committee. he and the democrat work together. guy like that leaving congress and leaving and he happens to be republican is a really bad signal for the -- >> why did you retire? >> let me -- i got a day job offer. >> who said he didn't get a better job offer? >> he did, but the business model of congress is broken. the goal in each party is to blame the other side for not solving the problem, and who loses? the country loses, and american foreign policy loses. we just talked about the threat to america from this new isis organization, the islamic state of syria and iraq, and if we don't have a smart, strategic view of this, congress should be on board with this, we are vulnerable, and we are vul

he rode that case all the way to the third most powerful position in the house edging out peter roskam martin stutzman everybody indiana. that was the core of his support, the southern conservatives frustrated with the current leadership. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up on the lead," the president putting 300 military advisors on the ground in iraq. what exactly can they do? we'll ask a general and former centcom commander coming up next. think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. okinawans stay soeen active as they age.y... but okinawans know one reason.... ...they eat well to be well. okinawa life has... ...isoflavone, a key

in two thousand six along with peter roskam of illinois and michele bachmann of minnesota. two decades, he worked for bill thomas, a brainy gop house member, and ran his california office. the question is, how conservative is he? he is not a tea party republican, libertarian, or a neocon." there are a lot of tea party members who are not sold on this leadership team, because none of them are from states that are in the south where the republican base is, at this poin t. -- he is of labrador probably more liberal than eric cantor on immigration. he was one of the gang of eight trying to negotiate on this until he walked away. mccarthy has showed some openness on immigration. no one is going to act on it now because the rest of the congress is so -- so much so has to look over their shoulders for doing anything on it. mccarthy will be somebody similar to eric cantor. they were friends. the dissension will remain within the republican conference. host: from north carolina, good morning. caller: c-span guests and america, good morning. host: good to hear from you. caller: if it

peter roskam, one of our distinguished leaders. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. one in 68 is diagnosed with autism, mr. speaker, and we have an opportunity to come alongside those families that are dealing with this diagnosis by supporting the autism cares act. it is a holistic approach, one that takes on research education, early detection and intervention, for those all across the autism spectrum. there's so many times that we can get into dollars and cents and chapter and verse and future savings and all of these things, but think about it. beyond all of that is something that's much more important. and it's this. we can be a part of helping children reach their potential as adults. it is the desire of every parent to see their child reach full potential. so we can do that by coming together with this legislation, think about the joy that is involved in that. i'm pleased to associate myself with the work of

peter roskam, our deputy were put together a group of about 15 of us to have dinner with them one nighta couple weeks ago. i got the book for free, autographed. but i was just -- lincoln has always been compelling figure i think for any politician in any american, the greatest president of the most critical time in the history and i love the way his political skills, you know, had so much to do with holding the country together in holding this party together. i think there's probably a lot of lessons. this is a republican majority in the 1860s that had never been the majority before. a new president, but a new senate majority that never functioned that way. not as if a then had been part of a republican majority. so how do you act? how do you relate? what is the appropriate ballot between presidential power, legislative oversight of the critical situation and just like in sheer political scale and cunning. and manipulating the various factions. so anyway, we had a wonderful discussion about that and it got me really interested in reading the book. there's two other biographies i promise

roskam oft lease, ofinois, and stutzman indiana are in line. some say barry goldwater's brand definertarianism helped -- in the mid-20th century. this panel includes one of the first reporters to embed with presidential candidate. political reporter is the moderator. >> and now it is my great pleasure to introduce our moderator, mr. brahm resnik. [applause] brahm resnik is an anchor and reporter for 12 news, the nbc affiliate in phoenix. he has reported on politics and government at the local, state, and federal levels, and has covered every policy issue of consequence in arizona from education to immigration. please give him a very warm welcome. [applause] >> great to be here. welcome to you all. can you hear me in back? everything working fine? good. let's start by introducing the panel. robert robb became an editorial columnist for the "arizona republic" in 1999, and his columns generally appear three times a week. he also serves as a distinguished associate for the morrison institute at asu. robert robb. [applause] in the center, david weig

alise, peter roskam and marlin stutzman. mr.ully's wins the outright majority of votes on the ballot, it will be a head to head matchup on the second ballot. i think his supporters are confident that they can and will win out right on this first ballot. i spent time with him last night in his office and he was planning to be up until 2:00 a.m. making calls. he had the look in his eye of a guy who thought they were right on the cusp of getting to that magic number of either 116 or 117. it remains to be seen. has his way,ise it will be a clean victory and he will be the new house majority whip. if it goes to a second ballot, anything can happen. the significance of having a red state republican leadership? guest: the lack of a red state presence has been a source of tension within the house republican conference. a bit of a sore spot for the conservative members were arrived in this massive wave in 2010. many more who arrived in 2012. they feel they are ideologically underrepresented in the uppermost echelons, but also geographica

roskam more moderate. >> if you're listening to peter johnson, jr., he says it will be jarron as speakerdes, without all the other problems, always very, very interesting. a loft scrambling in the next six days for these two important elections in the house. >> indeed. good to see you. >> have a good weekend, everybody. >>> coming up on this friday, thousands of kids crossing the border illegally. some people say put them on a plane and send them home. is that the right thing to do? that is coming up next. look how bad the conditions are. then pop quiz, who is going to win this war of words? donald trump or rahm emanuel? first, cassadee pope performs "champagne." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less, we'll match it and give you 50 dollars off your next trip expedia, find yours >>> quick headlines now. the millionaire accused of trying to hire a hitman to murder his model wife back in california court. he will decide between a plea deal or trial. prosecutors say he's heard on audiotapes offering a friend $80,000 to carry out this plan. >>> and it wo

that was a knock against peter roskam. you've got john boehner from ohio and kevin mccarthy from california which is very democratic, some of the conservatives and a party based in the south said hey, we want someone from a red state. steve scalise is that person. we'll see whether they will competently do their business for the rest of the year. everything else is lining up favorably for them in the midterm elections. is there any chance that as a result of this we can have real any kind of meaningful change or pass along washington? >> unlikely. it is a smooth transition for republicans that you might not have expected nine days ago. you're swapping out eric cantor, who, you know, really wasn't as popular guy who had taken on a lot of baggage and some would say was the glass chin of the childrens. kevin mccarthy is a popular guy more of a silicone valley guy than a wall street guy. you have a new look for the party. you've incorporated conservati e conservatives more. i do think steve scalise will have to basically incor

when he walked into the office building, scalise had the support of 126 republicans, far more than roskamr stutzman. scalise had staff holding lists of lawmakers making sure they showed up to support him. scalise delivered the quick ballot knockout few saw. businessweek," this is their analysis of what happened. a party gets shut out of house gop leadership. in the political taxonomy of capitol hill, joshua green writes, scalise is a curious figure. according to "national journal," he is the fourth most conservative member of the house gop caucus. chairman of the republican study committee, a spot usually held by tea party inclined conservatives. the sort of people who frequently make misery for john boehner. most tea party folks do not view scalise as one of their own because he has been close to boehner and because he fired a key republican study th committee aide who now works for ted cruz. scalise's conclusion -- scalise red stateon ensures republicans will be represented. if you are incredulous at cantor's defeat, the tea party has not done more to further the cause. this is the leas

real thus far of a memorandum that came from david monk, the chief of staff of representative peter roskam, the chief deputy whip for the house g.o.p., inviting members to insert special provisions even of a partisan or ideological nature into the upcoming appropriation bills. we've checked and actually we've seen very little of that so far. our concern, of course, is with such inserts that affect the district of columbia. those kinds of -- by the way, it's interesting that there would be a whole memo inviting republicans to do so. they haven't done so very much on the bills that have come through the appropriation bills that have come through thus far , but i think that probably has a lot to do with how little policy the republicans have been able to get through the congress of the united states. when you're driven to appropriation bills for policy, you've been driven to a very low level for a lawmaker. well, the bait hasn't been much bitten, and i'm pleased of that for the nation. i simply want to say, if such ideological policies attached to appropriations may be inappropriate for natio

peter roskam, our deputy were put together a group of about 15 of us to have dinner with them one nightcouple weeks ago. i got the book for free, autographed. but i was just -- lincoln has always been compelling figure i think for any politician in any american, the greatest president of the most critical time in the history and i love the way his political skills, you know, had so much to do with holding the country together in holding this party together. i think there's probably a lot of lessons. this is a republican majority in the 1860s that had never been the majority before. a new president, but a new senate majority that never functioned that way. not as if a then had been part of a republican majority. so how do you act? how do you relate? what is the appropriate ballot between presidential power, legislative oversight of the critical situation and just like in sheer political scale and cunning. and manipulating the various factions. so anyway, we had a wonderful discussion about that and it got me really interested in reading the book. there's two other biographies i promised