we'll talk to rick santorum later.u think the party is shaking itself into position at least to a consensus going forward? because it was so many factions within it ripping apart. >> you have an establishment that was the mitt romney faction when he was running for president and everyone else, the much more right-wing base and so you see it in the ran paul, chris christie battle. you see parties very, very divided. they can't get it together, even on immigration reform which you would think would be a plus for them wooing hispanic voters -- >> do you think hilly will run? do you think she can win, or has her time come and gone? >> i have no idea whether she'll run or not. the signs just seem to indicate it but who knows. i think against a fractionalized and weak republican field, she can win. >> what if it was chris christie. if we slimmed down chris christi, one of the most popular governors in america, ever, someone that relates to real people, talk as straight game. >> i don't think the base of the republican party

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rick santorum. ladies and gentlemen did we know who karen santorum was beating before she ever met rick -- dating before she ever met racket and more importantly did the children need to hear these stories? did have any bearing on the presidential race other than to smear rick and karen santorum? mitt goes a long do this is a delicious apples to apples comparison. mitt has a 5,400 word essay for devoted to him in the washington post. in that essay we learn stop the press seeing 15 he cut some boys here and we learned at the same data barack obama switched his position on the rights and the boy allegedly was a homosexual. the story isn't switching his position. the point is that we have to cover that was a homophobe half never -- never mind he is now deceased. his family disputed that story. that's what we needed to know about mitt's youth. san newspaper, 5,500 words on barack obama as you if. we learned he loved basketball. that's the take away. this is a newspaper that would love to to do muckrakin

former presidential candidate senator rick santorum.ome back to you to ask the same question i asked the senators. how significant is this? we know it's a big reaction. is it a big deal? >> i think it's a huge deal and i think it's a consequence of the policies of this administration. you look at benghazi and what happened there. we had an attack on our embassy. we've seen really nothing other than cover-ups. we haven't seen anything from this administration really go after the people who were responsible or the network behind it. and there -- i'm sure if you're looking at it from a terrorist perspective, you say, well, here's an administration that's pulling back, that's tim duncan, and the opportunity to go after additional embassies. so this is to me a direct consequence from what we saw in benghazi and the general program that this administration has, which is not being aggressive in confronting -- >> the critics of the administration's drone program would say tim duncan in the face of terror. >> i was going to say even the presiden

rick santorum. no stranger to iowa.n't seen senator ted cruz at such a high profile event. what can you tell us about the optics. >> to start with senator ted cruz, he's trying to make a mark in this universe. he's scheduled to speak at a dinner in fall. this will be his first major speech. his father is a pastor, a cuban immigrant who is a pastor in dallas. so we will get a chance to see both on stage together. as far as rick santorum, he made a little secret that he's interested in a presidential run. he's been traveling all over the state. he was out in council bluffs. he was in des moines at the state fair yesterday. he's here in ames today. he's still ostensibly being coy about his ambitions. i talked to him about that yesterday. >> i have many decisions. look, one of the things -- i was in town in sioux city yesterday showing a movie from the movie company that i'm involved in, trying to engage folks at a different w 6th to start taking back the popular culture. we have to start having an impact. that's what i'm f

did we need to know who carnet santorumfuls dating before she ever metric santorum? more importantly, did their children deserve to hear these stories? , did it have any bearing on a presidential race other than to smear rick and karen santorum? romney:. mitt romney comes along. this is a delicious apples to apples comparison. mitt romney has a 5400-word essay devoted to him in the "washington post," and in that essay, we learned, stop the presses here, that when he was, what, 15 or 16? he cut a boy's hair. oh, yes he did. [laughter] we learn at the very same day that barack obama switched his position on gay rights. the boy allegedly was a homosexual. ah-ha! the story is not barack obama switching his position. the point is that we have to cover mitt romney was a homophobe. nevermind this man is now deceased. his parents, his family said that story was false. this boy's family dispiewlted the story. but there was an essay about it that we had to know about romney's youth. shortly thereafter, same newspaper, 5 # 5 -- 5500 words on barack obama youth. what did we lear

santorum or his campaign may have illegally encouraged a donor to donate and he approached santorumbout getting his campaign $1 million and he urged and said to give the money instead to the super pack fund which can accept unlimited donations. the campaign is subject of much lower contribution limits and could not accept such a donation. he later rate canted saying it was staff and him to give to the super pac. a couple of tweets on our question of who the future of your party is. i love ted cruz and rand paul. for hillary, the benghazi involvement and debacle are not helping her. the future of the republican party as fiscal conservatives and republicans such as rand paul and paul ryan. #cspanchat is the hashtag. ray, good evening. caller: i will try to keep it short. is the 15th of august, 2013, and we are looking at 2016. this is really kind of a circus. this is still going all three rounds but there were opening the gates to the circus. what i'm looking at is people running and what's even more scary is the ones that are there now, as soon as they get there, they are not keeping

i had to tie my hair in the ponytail. >> so rick santorum had bi-curious hair. yes or no. >> sweater vest. his hair is definitely, and that sweater vest is definitely bi-curious. cenk: good enough. we also of course had serious times. just a little while back, actually, a couple months ago, we had one of my favorite panels of all time. we had david si sirota, glenn greenwald on the same panel. i remember saying if we just had jeremy scaho who was in a couple of days before, those are the guys i called the four horsemen of reporting, the four loft reporters that really challenge the government, take on the establishment and et cetera. they were on the panel with us. i want to show you a quick clip. it's kind of interesting, because shane in a was doing a u block segment where she had the audience ask questions. >> all right, one more from dan again, he asked the rest you have, not cenk, what would you change about t.y.t. if you could be in charge for a day? cenk: oh, god one. keep it real. anybody? >> i'm happy to be here, this is awesome. i mean, i -- i would ha

. >>> and in the pretenders, rick santorum.he blazed the 2012 campaign trail with an uncanny gift for oatore will. >> one of the thing i will talk about, the dangers of contraception will. >> president obama once said he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. >> i don't want to make people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. >> you remember all that? unfortunely santorum was only the runner up for the republican nomination. history tell us, second place was just a stepping stone for many future nominees. conservative columnist byron york believes santorum could be one of them. although he should listen to his most recent speech. >> what the left does, what the pro-choice movement does is they just don't focus on their little issue. they focus on everything they do and every aspect of their life. they make it uncomfortable for students who come to austin to shower at a young man's christian association, ymca gym. because they live it. >> what? that's rick santorum firing up the young conservat

off in the corner, there was rick santorum, by himself. attention to him. >> jon huntsman was by himself, wearing brand-new sneakers, as if he'd never worn sneakers before. >> the worst thing was him eating the corn dog. >> this is actually a good thing, almost like a preprimary. what happeneded in 2012 is they didn't have that vetting process. you had all of the wacos jumping in. that really tore the republican -- >> this is the big difference for 2016 is the field will have more heavy weights and will keep the focus off of the side show that is donald trump and those guys. >> there's ted cruz where he stood on foreign policy. somewhere between christie and rand paul. >> that is an interesting way of putting it. you guys are going to be coming back. for more on mitch mcconnell's campaign manager, his holding my nose comment, and potential impact, check out our website, msnbc.com. up next, four day, to go in the garden state. corey booker tries to take the next step in his political career. we'll talk to one of the people trying to stop hi

i want to the start with rick santorum, who has recently in the last couple weeks on "meet the press,ted he might run again for president. he was there in iowa. take a look at what he had to say. >> my challenge to the republican party is to take a page out of our book and start putting forth an agenda of ideas to raise up folks who want to vote for us. you saw it for the last election. they didn't want to vote for president obama. at least he went out and talked to them. at least he went out and spoke about them. we didn't do that. we marginalized them. >> so chris, do you think he's on to something there? i mean, he gets the fact that the voters were marginalized, but is there enough within the republican party platform that's a wide, open-arm embrace? >> the idea of the republican party kind of taking more of a populous tack, if you will, yeah, there's a strategic value to that. the problem the republican party has, more specifically rick santorum, is he's never going to be the messenger of that. 2016 is going to be a very different race than it was in 2012. you had an incredibly w

just this weekend, we have seen ted cruz, of course, donald trump, rick santorum, and even claire mccaskill was out here on behalf of hillary clinton. if you're here in iowa, looks like the 2016 presidential

rick santorum, he is getting in it to win? he is getting in it to have a conversation?ic office in a while. what is this about? >> rick santorum was really the last man standing before mitt romney got the nomination the last cycle. he probably feels romney wasn't in the race or a different opinion he probably could have won it and he is trying to see if there is a way to make a run again. >> do you think there is? >> i don't know. we will see what the voters think. >> we know where the base is. is there a base on the democratic side for hillary clinton, jamaal. what are the chances she runs? if not -- was it smart for martin o'malley to signal he is moving closer to getting in? i think we are 1,190 days until the election. >> look. it looks a lot like hillary clinton is planning to run. her organizers, her friends are organizing ready for hillary, including harold dickey who says nobody is closer to the clintons than he is and he is a part of that movement. whether she chooses to or not she will have a table set and the car gassed up and ready to go if she wants to get

. >> he's pulled so far to the right by rick santorum he couldn't win the election. so far to the right on immigration and the policies that he couldn't win the general election. if mitt romney had been the nominee, he was terrifying democrats, but that's not the guy who showed up. >> john, i want to pronounce your name correctly, it's nice to have you on the show. you're a good guy. here's the question, prediction yorb you're the expert on your side. what's more likely, the republican nominee of 2016 to be like ted cruz or rand paul or someone like them, or someone like mitt romney? who is more likely to be the nominee? >> just for the sake of winning the election, i hope it's not someone just like mitt romney. i think it will be someone coming from a more conservative wing of the party, someone who does play well to social conservatives and also someone who can talk to blue-collar and hard working families which the republican party has not done a good job of doing and mitt romney did not do a good job doing. >> could be santorum. >> i'm happy to go with that, too.

stephanie: wolf blitzer is saying don't say rick santorum, don't say it again. >> don't say it santorumt led to a spurt in fundraising. that's the greatest thing ever almost of this last cycle. producers now telling me to spend more time with mr. google. he got that look on his face when jack capriti says something off the wall. >> oh, boy, i don't get what jack just said, but i'm sure it's bad. they haven't talked to each other in years. stephanie: young conservatives are not pulling their weight in the culture war. you slackers. stephanie: because they're not willing to match the fervor of activists, even talking about abortion in game showers. as kids do. >> are abotherses in game showers a real problem? stephanie: no, talking about them. you know how we liberals are sending our young into showers to talk about abortion. what the what? >> promote abortions. stephanie: right, right, that's what you do. >> if only we had more abortions, then everything would be great. stephanie: he's a little weird. santorum said liberals were willing to bring activism into all parts of their lives. ev

cenk: i'm surprised that rick santorum wants them to vote.ith regard to voluntarying, it reminds me to some degree of the muslim brotherhood. they win the election and immediately want to change the rules so that from then on, it's very easy for them to win, but not the others to win. obviously by manipulating who can vote, the republicans of north carolina seem to be doing something similar. what's your take? >> i'm a native of north carolina, grew up there, spent my entire life there until i joined the military and hope to retire there. we used to be proud tar hills and have become pathetic tar holes, after running ruff shod over the people. there was an anti abortion bill tacked on to a motorcycle safety law. this is a desperate act of a party that realizes it's got a dying demographic and the best way to hold on to power is to limit the way it's coming. they can't outrun this. it's going to catch up with them at some point. north carolina used to be a progressive state. we had research triangle park, the precursor to silicon valley that o

as far as santorum in iowa goes, he did it the old fashioned way in 2012. all 99 counties, he courted voter by voter and it paid off for him in the caucuses. the challenge he has is politics is changing. both parties, activists are always looking for what's next. it moves so fast. go ahead, please. >> i want to get in, not for a lightning round, but flip to the democrats. the headline you were first to report was the trip made by the vice president heading off to the annual steak fry to take place next month. what is the message from the vp when he heads to the iowa crowd? >> there is no bigger event on the democratic calendar than the steak fry that takes place ever fall south of des moines. the message from joe biden is don't forget about me. i am still looking at 2016. he is not ruled out. i think certainly, if hillary clinton decides not to run, he very much wants to give it a long look. by going there and seeing all the democratic activists, i think he is trying to remind them that he may do this yet. he's run twice before. he has a lot of relationship

>> i think everyone should keep their eyes on rick santorum.hey have a history of rewarding that person who finishes second. other second players were john mccain, mitt romney. there is that precedent. rick santorum might be the only person with that kind of populous economic rhetoric. if no one else takes that up, he could be someone to watch. >> mark murray, thank you. we look forward to doing this with you 870 more mornings till iowa. >>> the last few days have looked and sounded a lot like august 2015. still, at this the point in 2000, consider this, barack obama had served just seven months in the senate and hillary clinton looked like the inevitable nominee. if you go back to this time in 2005 specifically. let's bring in our gaggle. chicago tribute columnist clarence page. republican ad maker kim al phono. and "the washington post" chief correspondent dan balls, author of author of "collision 2012" that i spent most of my flight back to d.c. reading. nice to see you again in person. i want to put up some remarks that were rid written by

. >> could be santorum. >> i'm happy to go with that too. >> what do you think, mr.teve mcmahon, democrat? do you think -- i'm going to predict at the end of the year, it's one of those times like 1964, 1980, 1972 on the democrats side. or 2008 on the democrats side. after years of being practical and manipulative, parties actually show their souls and say this is what we believe. i think the next time that we have a presidential election, which is 2016, the republican party will be the conservative party. i think very conservative party. i think and it will stop playing games. they have been trying to run bob dole, and w. when he spent all that money, and a guy like mccain they didn't believe in. they didn't believe in these guys. they certainly didn't believe in mitt romney. i think they're going to run a true believer next time. what do you think, looking across the aisle? >> i hope they run a true believer. i hope ted cruz will be nominated because the votes obama got last time will be the starting point if he's nominated. >> let me tell you why it's not ted cruz

santorum or his campaign may have illegally to donate andonor he approached santorum about getting his campaign $1 million and he urged and said to give the money instead to the super pack fund which can accept unlimited donations. the campaign is subject of much lower contribution limits and could not accept such a donation. he later rate canted saying it was staff and him to give to the super pac. a couple of tweets on our question of who the future of your party is. paul. ted cruz and rand for hillary, the benghazi involvement and debacle are not helping her. the republican party as fiscal conservatives and republicans such as rand paul and paul ryan. hashtag.t is the ray, good evening. caller: i will try to keep it is the 15th of august, 2013, and we are looking at 2016. this is really kind of a circus. this is still going all three but there were opening the gates to the circus. what i'm looking at is people running and what's even more scary is the ones that are there now, as soon as they get there, they are not keeping their promises, they all seem to toe the party line. i thoug

. >> or cruz or santorum.ll see a lot of documentaries, news stories, all kinds of things in the months to come. that's the way the system works now. it's good. let's talk to the american people about who is out there, what they stand for. it will be clear when the republican stories come out, i'm looking forward to the weekend to see ted cruz and santorum in iowa. i think what we are going to hear from em them is a continuation of the backwards policy agenda. not just on women's issues but on economic issues like equal pay if health care h. >> let me ask you quickly. we are out of time. but right-leaning groups have been on the attack. an anti-hillary group posted this slap hillary graphic on oh the website. is she a candidate and you worry about her h being the candidate to unite the republican party, fire up the base? she is the front runner and the one democrat all of us, not just women, all democrats see as the leader of the party here. we'll see what she decides to do. she has a big decision to make. she

some 1500 religious conservatives cleared the likes of possible presidential candidates rick santorum and noted spiritual adviser donald trump. but it was texas senator ted cruz who raised the roof with the biggest applause line of the day. >> there was no more important regulatory reform that we can do than to repeal every single word of obama. [ cheering ] and that reaction right there shows -- >> john: because those evangelicals know the one thing jesus was known for is taking away affordable healthcare for the poor. it is red meat for the crowds but the president wasn't the only target. both cruz and santorum took swipes at mitt romney's failed 2012 campaign while others wrung their hands over the g.o.p.'s shaky future. if recent history is our guide, they could have ample reason to fear. dan balz is chief correspondent at the "washington post," also the author of the highly praised essential new book "collision 2012", obama versus romney and the future of elections in america. he joins us now from washington, d.c. dan, what a pleasure. thank you so much for being here on "viewpoi

it's not a path to the nomination, santorum, huckabee, et cetera.the moderate candidate or the mitt romney won last time, john mccain before that, this candidate tends to win the primary. chris christie, marco rubio, paul ryan. i think someone in that area is more likely to win the nomination. even in the republican primary, california has more votes than iowa does. you have to think about that. a moderate candidate can do well. rand paul, he talked about he doesn't support the civil rights act, doesn't believe in the minimum wage. i just don't see rand paul -- >> most republicans don't believe -- >> he had this aide who co-wrote his book in 2010, the south even event jer. there was an interview on npr with john harwood and rand paul, i don't think he handled it well at all. it's bad enough if you're associated with a neo confederate, but you should be able to handle the question about it. >> those are all the things that will bring out democrats against him. he does connect with a lot of republicans. if he can do better than his father did among so

didn't seem like -- rick santorum was actually campaigning essentially. he drove across the state in the same pick-up truck that he used in 2012. and he -- >> that's great. >> hit a pizza ranch, he went to blue bonny ice cream. >> you sound tired. was it boring? just admit it. was it boring? >> it was awful. >> no. we had -- it was great. >> you say it's deja vu all over again. contrived and not even sort of thought out as a new spin on things? what are you really saying? >> on the republican side in particular, right, rick santorum won the caucuses by the hair, they announced caucus night romney had won. and once that campaign was done, i mean he -- santorum and cruz and bob vanter plat, those groups, all those people fighting for so long ahead of 2012, it felt like they just went straight too more of the same, more of the, you know, wrangling over that. >> all there. robert gibbs, it's so early. >> come on now, it's obvious. >> so early but they're all there. >> the good news -- >> poor kasie had to go. >> only about 1150 days to go and you'll be done w

>> well, i told folks i'm still think santorum is wise of of the group. group. neil: if he runs against he has your backing. >> he was talking in iowa the other day talked about job creators, why not talk about the job holders, i could came wealthy because of 70 people around me, if not for them i would not be in this chair, main thing to be sensitive to that hotel clerk that checks us in at 2:00 a.m., and skycap that getsous plane at 5:00 in the morning they make our country work. i think that republicans care about them, that is why they want to get rid of obamacare which will be destructive to these people. we need to take the message, let's look out for the job holder. >> foster freeze thank you. >> thank you. neil: talk about perfect timing, as libertarians are about to take off, the ron paul channel turns on. right w, 7 years of music is being streamed. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the in

just ask rick santorum and michele bachmann.mpaign was flailing until she'll won that straw pole. it can breathe new life into a struggling campaign. now, it's up to them to do with that what they will and make a go of it, but iowa is still important politically and p.r. wise. >> and all the speculation on hillary clinton who came in third in 2008, she has not visited any of these early states. what's going on here? >> a, she doesn't have to because she's a huge, huge front-runner. she hasn't even signalled she's going to do it. but i think it's very interesting. you look at that display of all of those republican leaders and you don't see one of them, as best i can tell, who inspires a lot of confidence they can become president. iowa -- >> what! >> it looked like huey, duey and louie to me. >> what! >> senator cruz just got there. you got donald trump -- >> and scott walker and folks who are doing pretty popular things. >> what i will say about this particular moment is i think it's time for us to start shuffling the deck. i t

maybe they were like a tie, and a couple days later, okay, ran santorum won maybe they think, and whenme to pick delegates, they gave most of their delegates to ron paul, so, iowa, wow, why are they first? you tell me, but they are first, and iowa politicos have always been ready to fight to the death to defend that because it makes them seem important. the endorsement of an iowa politician is worth more than in another state like kansas or connecticut because iowa is first, and so iowa politicians get fought over by all the national brand name politicians of their party. must feel great, right? must feel like a million bucks or maybe like 208,000 bucks, which is allegedly what one republican state senator charged the ron paul campaign to switch his endorsement from michele bachmann to ron paul, which he did. the allegations were made by the iowa republican, a conservative news site yesterday. the state senator denies it and says the e-mail appears to show his list of demands are utter fabrications. now though the same site published sound of allegedly him talking and fretting about ge

my next guest says uncle sam is not making things even easier, rick sapper to -- rick santorum.do you make another of that? i was stunned be the numbers. i know you have 28 kids yourself -- just kidding. that's jarring. >> when you live it, as i have -- i have kids age 22 to five so pick an age, i'm living it or have just been through it. and that's when i was running for president. i went out and put out a bunch of policies that helped lower and middle income families, that help folks who weren't -have a , struggling to make ends meet. those are the folks having babies right now in america and we need to provide support for them. they're raising the next generation of americans, and as we see from some of the statistics, because they're being stretched so much, these kids are falling through the cracks, and we can't have that and have a successful america going forward. >> neil: do you think the republican party needs to focus more on the image? john kashich, the governor of ohio, clearly -- the republican party has a method for -- message for being heartless -- that's not fair