do i think rudy juliangiuliani's comments will ultimately decide this race? no.ut could you very easily say, look i disagree with the direction barack obama has taken the country. i think it's been bad for the country. i think his vision of the future of this country is different than my version of the future of this country. that said i don't doubt his love for this country in his patriot patriotism. who would disagree with that? it's like opening a pact saying that children are great and they are our future. no one is against it. i don't understand why no one did that also because i'm not sure throwing rudy giuliani under the bus is all that problematic necessarily because he's not that big a figure anymore. >> i just like to make the point quickly what john mccain did with the voter is much braver than anything you might be asking scott walker or other republican candidates to do. first of all, he had to make a decision in the moment off the cuff, second of all, if you're the big politician coming down on an individual voter you could look a little bit scary a

and rudy juliangiuliani mounting a media blitz and being pressed by megyn kelly. >> mr. mayor, do you want to apologize for your comment? >> not at all. >> is the press being fair to the former mayor? i'm howard kurtz and this is "#mediabuzz". bill o'reilly hit back hard against the mother jones speech challenging his war reporting. david corn writing that the fox news host had suggested he was in the falklands islands covering the 1982 are war between britain and arrest again see in a. >> basically david corn, a layer, says i exaggerated situations. >> o'reilly says he's allege made clear as a cbs correspondent, he covered a violence protest in argentina in the war's after math. >> i was there in the street with my camera crews. the violence was horrific. soldiers fired into the crowd who were responding with violence acts of that ieir own. i never said i was on the falklands islands as corn purports. i said i covered the talk lands war, which i did. >> bill owe really'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar.lands war, which i did. >> bill o'reilly gets out there and

former new york city mayor rudy juliangiuliani said at a private dinner i do not believe that the president loves america. the white house called that comment a horrible thing to say. meantime, president obama is trying to stay above the fray and it continues to focus on the war on isis. today turkey and the uz.s. announced it will send 400-plus american troops to turkey to train and arm moderate syrian rebels. they have been fighting the president al asad regime. now they'll take that feet to isis. training of those syrian rebels could begin next month. as for giuliani's comments some republicans are staying clear fearing this extreme rhetoric could hurt their own party. raj? >> janelle, thank you. a same sex couple in texas has something no other same sex couple has in that state, a marriage license. two women tied the knot today in austin despite texas' ban on gay marriage. it was based on a one-time court order granted because one of the women has ovarian cancer. the state's supreme court moved to block other couples from doing the same thing. texas voters overwhelmingly approved a ban

they aspire to be leaders of the free world, but they're in no rush to stand up to irrelevant rudy juliangiuliani and is only hurting the gop brand and showing they're not serious about change. joining me now are e.j. dionne and jason johnson. thank you both for being here. >> glad to be here rev. >> e.j. before we get to the silence of republicans, i mean what's going on with rudy giuliani? what do you make of these comments? >> i mean these were appalling comments. i have to say i was surprised. i thought we might be done with this. the president's not on a ballot any more. there's absolutely no reason to say it. the thing he said that really bothered me and the way even more than he does a lot of america, which is absurd on its face is he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i was brought up. what in the world does that mean? what kind of code is there as if he lived in indonesia? is it a comment on who his mother was? what does that mean? i was just astonished by it. >> jason, i see you shaking your head. what is it a code for, using e.j.'s term? >> he's that black guy in the whi

one of his harshest critics former new york mayor rudy giuliani juliangiuliani in private at a meeting with donors rich republican donors called the president -- he questioned his patriotism saying he does not love america. later on camera he backed off that a bit saying that he's sure the president is a patriot but he questioned some of his tactics. he said that later he has been criticizing the u.s. mo than any other president. president obama at that summit you just talked about made it very clear that fighting terror is not the same thing as fighting islam and there were a lot of muslim leaders there. he got a lot of praise from them. again, a lot of chris sichlriticism from those in the united states who think that stance is soft on terror. what the president did announce are two new initiatives, a new youth exchange program, so young people in this country, they are trying to prevent from being radicalized, can get to know those in other countries. also one person a point person, in his administration who would deal with what this conference has dubbed violent extremism. seema? >