rick santorum has three degrees.ntorum who also said during the last election cycle, i don't want to help black people by giving them somebody else's money, i want to give them a chance to earn a job. so there's a conflict there. those statements are very antithetical to somebody who's saying, i care about the poor, and the republican party needs to do more. >> let's talk about this minimum wage thing. i'm always trying to be political. i'm trying to understand. did harry reid and the democrats ever expect to win this vote? >> no. >> okay, why did they bring it to the floor? >> this is theater right now, chris. everybody knows this senate, this congress, is not going to accomplish much of anything. >> on minimum wage, why would the republicans stand today, except for one person, corker of tennessee, right down the line except for one member, who's an interesting member, corker, by the way, say we don't care what you guys throw at us between now and november or how many times you say people ought to make $10 an hour,

in the middle of the fight cory gardner got endorsed by rick santorum. the guy who came in second to mitt romney in the republican primary after campaigning as the guy who would use the presidency if he got it to advocate against birth control. contraception according to rick santorum is not okay. >> one of the things i will talk about that no president talked about before is the dangers of contraception. the whole sexual libertine idea and many in the christian faith thought it was okay. >> rick santorum didn't become the nominee for president in 2012 but he wasn't far off. he basically came in second. here is something to keep an eye on now in terms of whether or not the republican party will have to go through another fire and brimstone don't use contraception phase in presidential politics. part of the reason that plays so prominently in republican politics every four years is every four years all of the republicans who want to run for president have to try to win the iowa caucuses run by the republican party. for almost a generation the iowa republi

i want to thank ted strickland and rick santorum.he debate's going to continue online at cnn.com/crossfire, as well as on facebook and twitter. by the way, i don't know what you're doing for lunch tomorrow or breakfast, but at 12:30 eastern, you're going to get a chance to debate with me and s.e. cupp in a live video chat. you can tweet us the questions in advance using #crossfire, or bring them with you to the debate. check the website for the details. going to look forward to seeing you there. from the left, i'm van jones. >> from the right, i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, hundreds of girls kidnapped and sold into slavery. tonight, we hear from the man responsible. >>> and breaking news out of colorado, where a plane has just crashed into a home. we are live. >>> and is the nba profiting from donald sterling's racist rant? yes. you heard me right. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight we begin

if the state doesn't reverse what they did, prepare for a very santorum 2016. invest now in cowboy style dinosaur saddles for the straw poll. while the hard-core social conservatives are apparently resurgent in iowa and quietly -- nobody is paying attention in the beltway -- but they are quietly royaling national republican presidential politics for two years in the process. while that's happening in iowa there is also the world's tiniest effort under way to are bring back mitt romney as the republican presidential nominee again for 2016. do you see the picture? mitt 2016. also this is one of the weirdest mitt romney things i have seen in a long time. mr. romney is back. a house race in idaho. i can't pledge for sure this is a green screen. it looks like they have dropped him into a pseudo oval office in front of a green screen to create the impression that mitt romney may not be president of the united states of america but he's definitely the president of something. watch this. >> washington spending is out offal control. you can take it from me, the conserva

senator rick santorum out with a book called "blue clr conservatives: recommitting." mother's day to those in your life. >> thank you. >> i want to revisit the new cnn/orc poll on the question of what should obamacare, 61% keep it or make changes. 38% repeal it. most people feel it's too early to tell if it's a success or failure. 38% said i think it's a failure. nonetheless, it's about repe repealing it or keeping it. is it time to drop repeal obamacare and work with what's there? >> i think it's important that we focus on developing a health care system that works. this one isn't working. you can say we need to change it. you probably have a lot of partisan whose are probably saying fix it because they don't want to say repeal it because that goes into the republican message. >> what about republicans whose message has been, as you know, repeal it, repeal it, repeal it. >> my guess is 38% of almost all of them are republicans. among democrats, i think they probably are feeling a little bit of affinity toward their party as elections approah and say let's just change

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. >> rick santorum joins us for party talk. plus -- >> his 43% approval rating isn't exactly inspirational. the 2014 challenge for democrats. and a blast from the past, monica lewinsky at 40 and talking. our panel takes it on. >>> and balancing it all: work, home, parenthood. what women want with moms eisen craznow. this is "state of the union." i'm candy crowley. we begin in a hometown where 200 schoolgirls are kidnapped. she managed to talk to one of the girls who escaped. >> what kind of cause? is it one or more? >> seven. >> seven lorries. and this was at 10:00 at night. >> it was. >> did that make you feel they had come to get you, to get the girls? >> yes. >> that's when you knew they had come to kidnap you? >> they said, we enter this lorry. i was saying i will drop down. >> that was really brave of you. >> i got in the bush. >> you got in the bush. what happened then? >> they were gone. >> can you describe the men who came and took you? what did they look like? were they wearing civilian clothing or military uniforms? w

earlier we heard from rick santorum who told me this afternoon he is eyeing another run in 2016 but that he has a lot of considerations to weigh. >> i don't think it's any surprise that the last campaign, everybody knows, took a toll on my family. and that's my first responsibility, to be a good husband and father. so we're trying to get things together here in the interim to make sure that we're in a position that we can do that. and plus, you know, there are political considerations, fund-raisi fund-raising, all sorts of things you have to look at. >> santorum is still playing in the political world. just a short time ago he announced a big endorsement for chris mcdaniel, the tea party insurgent candidate in the state of mississippi who's trying to unseat six-term senator thad cochran in the primary. that race is turning out to be a real dog fight. >> definitely. okay, john roberts. have a good time in my hometown there. and work hard, too, of course. okay. >>> moving on now, there are questions swirling around a sports legend, why federal investigators are looking into the business de

mitt romney, rick santorum, tim pawlenty all suggest we raise the minimum wage. nobody, nobody on our side of the aisle thinks that is good for jobs. >> that is not true. i think what santorum and pawlenty and others have said is yes, you have to strike a balance. oftentimes when you're looking at an issue like the minimum wage, you can strike that balance. but we're doing a much better job as a party, and so are many of the candidates. we're drawing the contrast against the failed policies of democrats. the failed policies of the obama administration. >> if that were true -- >> why is president obama's average approval rating at 40%. >> that were true, if republicans really did have a positive proactive message, then all these campaign ads that are actually hurting democrats in all these states would be about that. but they're not. all they do is -- >> they absolutely are. they're drawing contrast. >> for policies, hillary, they're drawing contrast with the policies that haven't worked and drawing a vision for what they woo do. >> they're trashing the president

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>> and all the republicans who are mad at mitt romney and tim pawlenty and rick santorum because they'reight. and more than half of the republicans actually agree with them. now, the rest of you republicans, wake up! you're saying no to giving a raise to hardworking americans, no to extending unemployment insurance. you don't want to stretch out the runway for active job seekers? no? no wonder the gop is about as popular as hair lice, okay. republicans with national perspective and national ambitions understand this. romney says, and i love this, i think we ought to raise it because frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay. see? that sounds pretty good to me. republicans, give america a raise and it might raise your poll numbers. what do you think? are you with mitt? >> i love mitt romney, but not on this. what we need is an environment to create jobs. the regulations are just killing us. i come from coal country. you know what is happening to our economy. we are getting killed by the war on coal. 188 jobs just last week that paid $75,000 a year, not $10.10, $75,000 a yea

conservatives. >> i think santorum was wrong on this point. point i think he was wrong when he ran last time, and i think he'll be wrong if he runs on it against this time. i want immigration reform on the table. i think the gop needs a facelift. >> yes, it does, larry. that's sort of the point. >> yes. >> if we're talking about poll after poll after poll of people saying we support a higher minimum wage, we support immigration reform, you don't have to support them both, but study after study shows that most people -- that is the point of what i was saying last week, if the republicans want to lose every election for the rest of our life, they can ignore what most people want. the point of an election is the majority victory. >> you're exactly right. >> at least that's what i thought it was. >> if you and larry kudlow can get the republican party to take up and move on immigration, you would be a hero within the democratic party and also jeb bush and all the people who want to run for president for the republicans in 2016. >> that's a little

like possibly rick santorum. could make a run again.you're looking for sort the establishment conservatives within the party, people who are maybe seeking re-election this year like mitch mcconnell and so forth, they're just not there. >> chris christie. all right. >> i think that also speaks volumes. it's a great point to make. >> thank you, guys, so much. >> thank you. >> they are armed with their p diplo diplomas, their dreams and a mountain of debt. the outlook for college graduates and their fellow millennials. get up and dance, there we go. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years. become the next business to discover the new new york. [ male announcer ] see if your business qualifies. does your mouth often feel dry? a

neil: even rick santorum said that you are not going to the great party to appeal only to rich white >> we have to repair the lost and demographics. we have to win them back. neil: how do you win back the hispanics or women who for some reason? >> what about bread-and-butter issues? >> certain aspects a capture what they say. that is part of the theatrics. we have to stay focused on bread and butter issues job opportunity, job creation comment energy self-sufficiency and balanced budgets. there is something every american will like to. that is my future. i might disagree with one or two things but i want my family and my kids and friends to be a part of that neil: you mentioned some of crazy republican that is how they are viewed that they just fly off the handle. >> then there are crazy democrats. neil: absolutely. >> clinton raised the bar but it will take leadership. neil: would you do it again? >> i am not looking at 2016. neil: jeb bush? >> a good man. but let's let ideas bring people for word but don't play the name game. neil: that is where the of money crowd goes. we will get

that seems to be the winning strategy. >> that is so fungible in the 2012 races that santorum all the money goes to him. it is fungible following leaders and ideas so let them speak and the money will follow. neil: even herman cain was getting money. >> italy takes you so far then it has to be ideas. neil: what about the of coke brothers how they are treated by the left? >> go down the street to see what they have done. you can say this or that but a lot of people on their rights or the left have to of -- have given. >> baby they threw $1 billion a way to good causes like the arts and curing cancer. there are targets because you cannot give that that level without being targeted by the democrats or the left. but we have a broken campaign finance system it would die me a bad thing for republicans to say it is wrong and it is broken. the party of the reform minded republican to figure out how to fix this system. every american knows it isn't working the way it should and there are solutions long-term. neil: as a former ambassador to china you see them into a deals that could be worth hu

and rick santorum also said that the republican party needs to do retargeting.sing on big business but outreach to the blue-collar workers similar to ronald reagan who helped him win two terms. >> that is what our strength is on our message in economics in particular is still toward the corporate boardroom and not toward the people who work for this corporation. and that is what we have to change and show that the policies we are for will directly benefit people's achievement of the american dream. >> reporter: we should point out that santorum has joined in the tea party establishment, throwing his support behind chris mcdaniel. he is from the neighboring state trying to unseat brad cochran there. >> sounds like there is a lot of good action. >> behind the scenes there in new orleans. >>> new fallout today after the resignation of eric shinseki. the secretary stepping down yesterday following weeks of controversy over officials hiding up cover up as to how long veterans were waiting for treatment. >> reporter: eric shinseki is out but the problem such as long w

the polls shows the a good split between governor mike huckabee, ted cruz, rand paul, mike santorum are's a deep bench as opposed to everyone behind one candidate like hillary clinton who has a lot of baggage. the economy is critical but it has a candidate that people understand what i'm going through. what it is like to put food on the table and make a paycheck. that's a good thing. the gop candidates connect with middle class america. >> one with thing i would like for you to hit on is whether or not people will be making calls to jeb bush here. >> definitely. the establishment in the republican party needs a candidate. mitt romney was that candidate last time around. that candidate tends to win the competition. christie was their guy. they are reach aring out to jeb bush. another potential establishment candidate scott walker faces a similar problem. he promised to create 250,000 jobs. he's halfway there and the term is almost up. they are searching for someone to run against the rand paul, ted cruz wing of the party. >> chris christie's approval ratings are low. i believe it's 38, 3

amanda, rick santorum is getting into some of the races. he threw his backing in oregon, georgia. do you think he can make a dent in either of those races? >> i think this is the social conservatives trying to have a voice. you have the establishment. and the social conservatives, there's a much more libertarian strain to the conservative movement than there was a few years ago. more people, for example, are in the republican party are supporting same-sex marriage, criminal justice reform. people like rick santorum are beating back on some of that. >> before you go, one of my favorite beats in the race right now in idaho for the top job there. butch otter, a little worried about his governorship, exhibit a in the debate where he insisted that perennial candidates and the spectacularly bearded walt bays joined in resulting in a circus. st gone viral. take a look. >> you have your choice, folks. a cowboy, a biker or a normal guy. take your pick. >> i don't know. i kind of want all of them. to win. >> i spoke to the governor and we talked about how mitt romney was coming into his sta

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. >> i saw your program when you were speaking to rick santorum. that was interesting.one thing i found interesting about your program is they don't give it up to anybody. you sort of have to answer to libertarian ideals and understands the way in the world should you and you explain to me why it's better. >> rick santorum and this brings up the republican party, because he has been very aggressive toward libertarians. i'm a -- >> makes no bones about it. he doubled down with you. >> absolutely. he says he will not defer to young voters when its comes to appealing for votes in the 2016 presidential election, nor should any republican. it should be a party of conservatives, not people who are rationally inclined. and many conservatives, by the way, are now becoming very philosophically libertarian. they're taking a look at foreign poll and i and obamacare, maybe limited government is a good solution. >> you hat another remark that was funny. >> i misspoke a little bit. >> you didn't. was freud involved? >> perhaps. >> take a look at this dramatic individual video out of

. >> we also heard on sunday from former republican presidential candidate rick santorum who said he'ssidering another run. while democratic senator elizabeth warner of massachusetts said she has no such plans. isn't it refreshing to hear a candidate say, yeah, i'm ready instead of i'm not going to run? >> they're all going to run. everybody in her phone book is going to run for president of the united states. she knows all the political types. what i think is going to be curious, though, as things start to get going is, you know, how the press seems to have anointed hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. go back to 2008. between hillary and barack obama, they love obama a lot more than hillary. they turned on hillary. it's just curious how turnabout is fair play. they love her. >> andrea, with all due respect to rick santorum, shouldn't they stop recycling candidates? >> 100%. let other people go in the race and run this time around. when i was watching marco rubio, he was thinking, what am i going to say? no, i'm not ready? of course he's going to say he's ready.

i want rand paul and rick santorum and i want ted cruz.m duke it out and see -- >> that means libertarians, they're for legalizing marijuana. >> that's true. gay marriage. >> legalizing prostitution. i'm not sure many republicans want to run on that. >> may come to that at some point soon. >> all right. now to the news. roaring wildfires in southern california are causing more destruction and evacuations. this is a situation that is just blaring out of control out there. bone-dry conditions are refusing to let this up. a lot of people are suffering. >>> also girls are not only ones showing a little skirt at school today. we'll explain one school district's controversial campaign to protest sexism. ♪. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into fin

on things that even rick santorum wants done, we should do something on minimum wage. >> that soundsike a long answer to say you don't expect much to get the president's desk. >> it's a long answer to say unless they change, we can't get things done, things that the american people want. minimum wage. pay equity. those kind of things. >> let me stop you at minimum wage. this is -- it seems -- it doesn't seem like there's any deal making going on. and i say this and you've probably heard a few of this talk about this on the air, i talked about it with senator santorum, you brought him up. if you could get republicans to agree to $9 an hour, would you take that deal? >> chuck, i am known for a lot of things, but one thing i've been known for is a deal maker. that's what i did. i ran the floor for senator daschle for all those years and you can ask republicans then, who were here then, i was the guy they came to to get things done. >> i know that well. >> right now on minimum wage. it seems that we should have a wage that would get people out of poverty. that's what 10.10, that wasn't j

now that's a -- >> this was an atrocity. >> but, i want to bring this over to rick santorum.ou're not serving right now. we did see at the end of the week that the speaker appointed a new special commit tooe. there have been countless reviews, hearings. do you think it's wise politics for the develop to be pushing this again? >> there's a fire storm across america about what a lot of republicans believe we have not been diligent in taking this issue on. and this e-mail, is going to confirm all of that and so, i think the speaker has no choice but to move forward and, he needs to put on someone who has credibility among the republican base. i think trey goudy is that person. i'm hopeful that the speaker will put him in that position. >> i think it speaks to the forces in the republican party. john boehner didn't want to do this. he was forced to do it. and i think, let's look at what should be done here. there have been 33 investigations. over 25,000 documents. what ought to be done is not another bogus committee. the real work to protect the embassies. the committee appointed

mitt romney, rick santorum, pawlenty, they represented blue states and you have a different need andifferent kind of voters than you do if you're the governor of texas or a senator from a very conservative state. >> just in time for mother's day, we have a new poll out, let's put out the results. who's your favorite first lady? barbara bush, hillary clinton tied at 27% and michelle obama close 24. laura bush comes in at 17%. gets a little bit more complicated when you break down these numbers into different groups. what do you make of this poll? >> i think you almost have four winners and everybody likes first ladies. michelle obama has a narrow lead over hillary clinton when you look at democrats among african-americans and michelle obama has a big lead. when you look at republicans they tend to favor barbara bush over laura bush. these are for the most well liked people on the political stage or ex-political stage. you can't say that about their husbands or a lot of other -- a lot of other people involved in american politics. >> sort of like to see what would happen if all of the

. >> meanwhile, former senator rick santorum backed john boehner's decision to create a special committee's a firestorm tout there across america among a lot of republicans who believe that we have not been diligent in taking this issue on. i think the speaker has no choice but to move forward. >> former u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice has declined an invitation to speak. some students and faculty protested against her role in the iraq war. and this weekend was the white house correspondence dinner or nerd prom, as we call it. vice president joe biden ditched the dinner while president obama and joel mchale brought the zingers. here's a look at the best hits of the night. >> listen. are you going to this snorrespondance dinner? >> no, it's not not worth it. >> you know the difference between the tattoo and the koch brothers? >> no. >> they're both painful, but you can get rid of a tattoo. >> hey, girl. >> hey, are you going to dinner thing tonight? >> hell no. i have important things going on in the capitol. okay. right. thanks. >> these days the house republicans give john boehn

i thought of that when i heard rick santorum say we are not a libertarian party.ve party. we are both dash you and senator senator up from different vantage points saying to the tea partiers or libertarians that you have had your time. good-bye. >> i don't necessarily say that. i had a chance to meet with senator santorum and agree with him on a vast array of issues. in my statement, i -- said that we need to spend time in the bod i don't the south side of san antonio. and show up where oftentimes you don't see a lot of republican candidates and i think if we conveyed those principles of small business, limited government, streamlining regulation, lowering taxes and emphasizing strong national defense, then more often than not we will do well. >> as a texas land commissioner, what would any of that have to do with that? >> i get to be a happy warrior. advocate for the principles that are important and made texas one of the fastest growing states that faces its own challenges. economically, we have shown that the texas miracle can be won and achieved. i admire his

nothing says change like rick santorum, rick perry and, yes, newt gingrich all on stage.s, 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 somebody else's money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families. >> all i want to do is see this guy's birth certificate. perhaps it's going to say hawaii. perhaps it's going to say kenya. >> let's repeal this failure before it literal

is a no schaffl elfed y and rick santorum and romney for a minimum wage. >> how do you respond to thewing. out even though you laid the 25 issues in unstoppable the alliance,left right wonderful book, i read it obviously. you thinkues where there can be coalition building collaboration on the hill and ever which poll and survey and study i read of late, ralph, suggests to me in one way or another that the american people know there is a system of government that is broken and that congress is dysfunctional. you have seen the paltry approval ratings for congress and white house not much better. way behind the president even. keep getting the supreme court decisions that keep allowing more money to be poured into this. there could be a left right alliance in washington, be seen, theains to american people seem so turned off to the process and the way works.shington what to you do about that? >> i don't sugar coat the obstacles. there are obstacles. the established power vs. to be challenged. be challenged by a left right alliance that becomes more visible and more active and sense of it

caring about guns and what do you mean i'm not running for president was former, former senator rick santorum who talked about the crucial role guns play in any happy marge. >> karen owns more guns than i do. i don't know about most men, b but, you know, the default gift for most men is to buy flowers on a special occasion. for me, the safe bet-- ammo. >> stephen: yes. why say it with flowers when you can say it with bullet? it's the gift that goes straight to someone else's heart. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and, folks-- ( cheers and applause ) a lot of ammo fans here tonight. ( laughter ) and it's more important than ever for these heros to stand up for our right to pear arms and/or plastic oak-bark tunics. because this is a critical time for the most important gun right of all, concealed carry. which is guaranteed by our constitution. now, yes, you can't see it written in there. that's cuz it's concealed. ( laughter ) so i was happy to see georgia's governor nathan deal stand up for the right to rock out with your glock not out. >> georgia's governor has signed a controversial gun bill into

rick santorum calls climate change "a beautifully concocted scheme." and rand paul says "the earth's 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say we had four hurricanes and so that proves a theory?" these contenders have plenty of company, including the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell of coal-rich kentucky, who says he doesn't buy climate change and regularly scorns president obama for talking "about the weather." republican representative dana rohrabacher says global warming is "a total fraud," and he's from california, where every inch of the state is under siege from epic heat and drought. then there's representative joe barton, former gop chair of the house energy and commerce committee who hails from texas, which, the story goes, was created in only one day by the almighty who spent the rest of the week drilling for oil. smokey joe barton says that noah's "great flood is an example of climate change, and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy." i'm not making this up. they really say these thi

rick santorum thinks republicans should support raising the minimum wage. >> let's not make this argumente for the blue collar guy but we're against any minimum wage increase ever. it just makes no sense. >> hillary clinton will make her first political engagement of the year. it's a fund raising event may 16th for her daughter's mother-in-law march ye margolies. vice president joe biden also hits the road. he'll deliver the commencement address at the university of south carolina. >>> a new pew research poll finds republicans are beating democrats for the 2014 midterms. 40% of voters say they would vote for the gop candidate in their district. margin of error plus or minus 3%. >>> republicans voted down a tea party backed resolution to secede. also called for legislation to nullify obamacare. common core education standards and the use of drones in the state. >>> the federal government ordering more than 1,000 pounds of medical marijuana for research on the heels of a new rule from the drug enforcement administration that increases the government's production quota from 21 kilograms to 6

in a break from the republican party, mitt romney, rick santorum and tim pawlenty say they believe the of $7.25 should be higher. >> i, for instance, as you know part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum raise. i think we ought to raise it because our party is all about more jobs and better pay and i think communicating that is important to us. >> say what? romney's comments come just two weeks after his own party blocked a bill in the senate that would have increased the federal minimum wage to more than $10 an hour. let's bring in cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. this is change of heart or has mr. romney always believed this? >> he's believed it and then he's been pushed back by conservatives in his party before and had to walk it back. now he's saying, look, if we want to be the party of regular joe and jane and we want to make sure that working people support our policies, we need to think about a higher minimum wage. you mention tim pawlenty, used to be the governor of minnesota, also rick santorum, the former senator, he

. >> i agree with rick santorum. >> how does that feel? >> it feels good. >> more hives?> no. >> rick was on the show last week, said basically the same thing. we also had the former governor tim pawlenty here. republicans probably want to figure out a way to strike a deal where they can get something in exchange for that that creates jobs. like talking about keystone. democrats need out of the corner on keystone. republicans need out of the corner on minimum wage. and they can find a compromise. they don't want to be this year and two years from now strapped with $7.25 around their neck. they just don't want to b the party of $7 an hour. >> i agree with you completely and they shouldn't be. i'm all for negotiating and cutting a deal, i just don't understand why you would need one on this. it's fine. take it. >> because there are a lot of people who believe when the economy's growing and i'm one of them. at .01% or .1% or whatever it is, it's not moving fast. that you probably don't want to jump up $3 an hour. that there are a lot of small business owners that will be hur

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rick santorum said while rising tides lifts all boats, it does not lift the boats that have holes in them. a lot of the emphasis is the free enterprise step to create the opportunities, but does their need -- but does there need to be more emphasis on the folks who have boats with holes in them? >> i think if you look at the numbers for the chronically unemployed are overrepresented, those individuals who lack the schools -- skills necessary for the opportunities for the jobs of today. one of the items we talked about 14 months ago here that we have made bipartisan progress on as an agreement has been reached is the skills act. trying to consolidate the federal dollars that go into worker training programs to make it easier, make their one-stop shop for a person who was in a situation where their background and skill set is not suited for a career for them to take off. it is true, we have to do all of this. we have to create the environment for people to succeed and that starts with tearing down the barriers. a lot of vested interest out there to create so much difficulty in understa

however two other republicans were considering the race i in 2016 former senator rick santorum and former minnesota government tim pawlenty. they said think also support raising the minimum wage. republicans in congress refuse to allow it to come up to a vote. >>> on the democratic side conventional wisdom says they should avoid talking very much about obamacare. and hagin said republican leaders in her only state opted out of the medicare expansion, and that left 500,000 north carolinaens unable to enroll. >> this is some of the most vulnerable citizens in our society. they will continue to seek care in emergency rooms and leave chronic conditions unmanaged which is detrimental not only to thr health but to the economy, too. and it leads to higher costs for the patients. it drives up oh costs for hospitals and the insured. >> hagin's republican opponent tom tillis has been hammering hagin's support of obamacare for months. by the way, this race is one of dozens that will feature ads by the koch brothers. the koch family intends to escalate their 2014 campaign spending to more than $125 m

like rick santorum and others. and they've done that before. >> they sway people's opinions.that is what they do. >> just for the record, google claims that they put the most relevant search result and part of that has to do with this and that goes into the equation for the algorithms. but if you look at the way that undecided voters approach any sort of election, oftentimes it is worth limited resources. >> so to your point, i do kind of worry because they overwhelmingly donate and you have to wonder, all it takes is one or two rogue employees. >> eric schmidt believes there's a culture and they claim that they don't do any kind of manipulation at all and we don't have any proof of that. >> the best thing would be for them to pay attention, especially those on the right there that are so far behind and so focused on the turning out this and there's a lot that can be done in a positive way. at the same time we can learn a lot about how we can target voters who might not otherwise we on our team. >> was also interesting is looking at these different ways and who you're friends

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it will hurt underdogs, your newt gingrich, your rick santorum. the oxygen of 20 debates. and hurt the cable networks. >> mike, what do you think of the contrary point of view put forward by in a store by ron clain that in fact the republicans would end up regretting this. because at lot of debates with unruly process helped mitt romney to rise above less electable candidates. and even though it's a pain in the butt, it helps elect the most stable candidate emerge many the pack. >> there's no question about that. and the thing is people paid attention to these debates. they want to add conservative commentators to the panels. politico is saying the consequence of this is to be easier questions. easier questions is going to be less coverage, less attention. the reason to have 20 debates, to have media partners is they were covered everywhere. it was great for the party. >> i think there's a real chance republicans will look at the end of this and go this is a really good idea that didn't serve our process that well. >> mike allen, happy friday. tha

president for simply publish that he purposes and i can only assume who those people are maybe rick santorum or something like that but i have no idea. you would agree republicans are the underdogs going him in the national action because of immigration women the two areas they have not captured i think with the right leader it can change i think again jeb bush may be the person to do that because he has you know especially on immigration reform his very his much different opinions on the base of the party and there's a much even what he does and he's just you know he's much more sympathetic i think darman the exact quote but he said it's about as an act of love i believe he said it's an act of love when immigrants come into this country a little is i just i think it's going to be an interesting i don't know if republicans are are we just this is my take on republican party right now to make it as simple as possible the face of america is changing it is no longer an older white man obviously there's the hispanic population there's new title still out there and i are not in the mainstream i'm