scott walker. ted cruz and rand paul tend to but scott walker certainly not as well-known as either one of them.u look at the results of the quinnipiac poll i cited earlier in iowa, that's an indication that he is starting to get out of the state of wisconsin and he was brought to national attention because of all the fights that he had, the recall election, having to run for office three times in five years, it certainly gets you on the national stage.-xy[ so sfg little better known. it will be interesting to see what happens in terms of the budget battle in in this new right to work legislation that's going through in wisconsin how that mighthyt4j4(p&c@ affect some younger union members. but at the very least scott walker couldrñ >> you mentioned the age group and it would be aazqñ contrast if you have a younger republican with an older democrat. hillary clinton will be 69 in 2016 if she runs. that is, though younger than%2uh ronaldaa#éç reagan was when he first attained]eg7ñ office. but talk az[qz÷ bit about thenc contrast. you've got this grassroots on one side and you haveh@wq hillary even

. >> scott paul says absolutely a puts americans to work.nce of american a manufacturing. hopes whole but some say by american campaigns are stupid. it doesn't raise american wages. >> that doesn't make sense. then i give somebody a job. >> but they buy things from the americans but do they held the americans which create jobs in american wages. john: by allowing free trade everybody gets the best price period we can specialize then we let the world specialize what they do best. john: i would say most economists say free trade wythes just about all but. >> no question but i will suggest another point of view that by american recirculates money in our own economy to give people additional opportunities. if something is bought and the profits head back to china in some cases their own by the chinese government and who knows what they will do with it. john: i know what my money to go to the state owns communists company. >> but what do they do? they cannot spend dollars in china they can only be spent in america. >> the very same thing they do

rand paul scott walker and chris christie trail closely behind, with no other candidates cracking doubleits. but in new hampshire, rand paul jumps into the top spot with a 63% rating. in iowa "the washington post" is reporting, that robert costa is reporting, that every gop contender is trying to win the state. on the democratic side of things hillary clinton continues to show an overwhelming lead in new hampshire, with 56% support. elizabeth warren is a distant second with 15%. >>> you didn't see ted cruz's name on any of the polls. the texas senator with 3% support. that may not stop him from jumping into the fray. he said on sunday he is looking at a 2016 run, quote, very seriously. and he used an appearance on nbc's "this week" to take a swing at another white house hopeful. >> look jeb bush is a good man. he's a good governor. i respect him. if he chooses to run it looks like he's going to he's going to have to make the case to republican primary voters concerning his record. concerning his support for common core. concerning his policies on immigration. i think we'll have a debate

jeb bush, scott walker, and rand paul 48-41. in new hampshire, as we get closer to the voting, a left ability will be a big issue. looking at the candidates nationally, which ones have the best chance to convince republican voters that they can take on hillary clinton. >> i will sound like a great chronicler and that these matchup stone mean that much this early. hillary clinton a much better known to gear. but i think you need someone who can break the democratic advantage. that is why jeb bush for marco rubio -- or marco, you need someone to appeal to nonwhite republicans. >> jeb bush and marco rubio. >> i know you think that he is a serious candidate. >> i think the one who has gotten attention that really needs to prove he can perform his rand paul. he can appeal to younger people. the other thing is the electoral college. you've got a take for states away from the democrats and you can't just have the inside straight. chris christie has a looming possibility to convince people he can compete in blue states. he's going to ha

scott walker and rand paul those are important swing states. the question is a looming temperature -- a looming question. is it better to have a coronation or is it better for her to have a tough nomination fight to toughen her up? >> it seems to be the question. there is a way you can split the difference. no viable candidates have emerged to take her on so far but that does not mean she is not on the ground in iowa or new hampshire. that does not mean that she is not participating in public forums. if the campaign had their way they would figure out a way somewhat of a challenge. >> one of the biggest advantages , financially and every other way. her merging relatively unscathed. she should go out and fight for the nomination even if there is a bunch of tin cans you are fighting against. the worry for a lot of people is without that opposition what she will do is kick back and coast and that will be bad for she does that. >> if bernie sanders challenges her does she take that challenge? >> the democratic party will have to have the debate. th

mike huckabee, rand paul, and scott walker. the question is whether it is better for hillary clinton to have a coronation or is it better for her to have a tough nomination? >> this seems to be to primary question. there's a way to split the difference. no reliable candidates have emerged to take her on so far. but that does not mean she is not on the ground in iowa or new hampshire. that does not mean that she is not participating in public forums. it definitely does not mean the republicans will be dropping a study stream of research on her. if the clinton campaign had their way, they would figure out that it is somewhat a challenge. >> one of the biggest advantages she has is not having a serious challenger. financially, and every other way, while republicans tear each other apart, she remains relatively unscathed. if she goes out and fight for the nomination, even if there is a bunch of tin cans you are fighting against, you have to go and fight. without that opposition, people are worried that she will coast and kick back.

paul. >> also, scott walker. >> watch out for ted cruz for all the reasons we talked about. >> one more.white guys on a stage and one very smart woman. >> we are not done yet. we will talk about hillary clinton including jeffrey epstein. we are going there after the break. ♪ >> we are back. we spent the last segment reviewing republicans and now we are talking about democrats. let's talk about the nominee in waiting hillary clinton. she is giving a speech tomorrow. no message -- is that a problem that she should address and if so how? >> can i sell her stock short? she has been in the public life for 20 years and nobody knows what she is for. >> should she address it now? >> her whole campaign is predicated not on winning but sucking up all the money and staff and oxygen from other campaigns. >> no rationale and message. is that going to keep her from getting the nomination? >> there is a rationale. she says the economy is not working for everybody as it should. >> she should step up tomorrow in san francisco. >> i don't think she should. >> meanwhile -- >> the stories are out there abou

also is scott paul he is the president of the alliance for american manufacturing and scott, let's startsome of your thoughts on this. you think that currency manipulation is an issue that does need to be tied to these talks. explain why. >> absolutely i think we erode the benefits of free trade if we let this most of 21st century protectionism continue. we have a history of trying to open markets with our free trade agreements. we've addressed intellectual property and tariffs. but we have some companies gaming the system. china and japan in particular. i think our concern is we're not going to get that level playing field for american workers, for american business unless we deal it. it's not only me. it's paul krugman. it's rob portman the former usdr under the bush administration. so these aren't folks that want to kill a deal. they want to make it work right. >> if you look at currency manipulation, that's in the eye of the beholder. there are people who could look at what our federal reserve has done for last seven or eight years and say we've been engaged in the same currency mani

a new quinnipiac poll shows him in third place behind wisconsin governor scott walker and rand paul. >>> also in washington something a little wacky. you don't see this every day on capitol hill. a few inches of snow on the ground there, that's not the wacky part. a few inches is all republicans james inhofe needed as evidence to disprove climate change and global warming as he oftens to it as and spoke on the floor about the issue and brought the prop. >> it's a snowball and that is just from outside here so it's very very cold out. very unseasonable so here mr. president, catch this. uh-huh. >> hey, "a" for theatrics and presentation. >> we have a snowball. this is the evidence that global warming, as he says, is a myth. he does admit the earth's climate is changing but he does not believe humans are to plame for it. >> pretty picture there. >>> well digging out this morning in northern alabama which got more snow than washington. more than 10 inches. it was so hazardous police used military humvees to patrol the roads. secondary roads this morning are still bad. schools will remai

not only as the first choice ahead of rand paul scott walker, chris christie. he second choices. he pops up more. bush 30 paul 18 walker 18 christie 18. a bit of an edge. new hampshire a long time away. >> mitt romney out of the race. new hampshire and iowa wide open. there are negative things for jeb bush to be sure. his general election favorability is low. i think he's undervalued now as a front-runner even though he has trouble with the grass rot roots. he jumps up with second choice. we compared them on a range of issues. who would be better to beat hillary clinton? jeb bush. family connections, republicans in new hampshire say 59% say that's why he is where he is. only 31% say because of his quality. in the speech in detroit, he said when people get to know me. they won't think of me as my brother or my father. they'll thing of me as me. when he brings the conservative governing to work it's a big plus. >> a big challenge. trying to overcome the foegs that he's a legacy candidate. we asked what are deal killers? we had, for bush, 41% of republicans said th

paul a lot. he has the libertarian side to him. what do you think about that? >> there's a couple of things and i think that scottker is rand paul's dangerous threat. i know that rand paul has been running against hillary clinton for a year now but two boxes that he doesn't check, one is the executive experience. it's being a governor and even though rand paul is very -- he's being very specific about his foreign policy crafting the fact that so many people especially republicans and this will hurt him in primaries think of him as an isolationist, that gives scott walker room to you know, if he's really a fresh candidate, if he knows about foreign policy he could make great gains but if he's weak on foreign policy that could act toward walker's detriment. >> because isis and radical islam is a huge front burner issue, people are considering it their number one priority as much as the economy which we haven't seen in five years. do any of the candidates that are on that screen do any of them seem to be articulating the right strategy or you look at it and you say, do you know what? maybe they don't have military e

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not only as the first choice, ahead of rand paul, scott walker, chris christie. he second choices. he pops up more. bush, 30, paul, 18, walker, 18, christie, 18. so he starts out with a bit of an edge in new hampshire. a long time away. >> mitt romney out of the race. new hampshire and iowa, wide open. there are negative things for jeb bush in this poll to be sure. his general election favorability in the swing states is low. i think he's undervalued now as a front-runner, even though he has trouble with the grass roots. you cited one thing. second choice he jumped up to 30. we compared them on a range of issues. who would be better to beat hillary clinton? who would do better on terrorism? jeb bush. family connections, republicans in new hampshire say 59% say that's why he is where he is. only 31% say because of his quality. in the speech in detroit, he said, when people get to know me. they won't think of me as my brother or my father. they'll think of me as me. i think his record as governor as a conservative republican governor, that will work for him. it's a

most of the gang is there, jeb bush, rand paul, scott walker, even donald trump. donald, what are you doing to yourself and the nation? supposedly he's launching a serious looksy into running for president in 2016. chuck woolery joins me, the former host of love connection and scrabble and lingo, the original wheel of fortune host and has a dream come true, who happens to have a very active twitter account, and you are quite a conservative. welcome to the show. >> well, i am a conservative, i don't know whether i'm quite one or not. i am a conservative. which is unusual coming out of the environment in hollywood. i have my views like everybody else, and donald trump would be a great secretary of state. kennedy: really. >> can you imagine him sitting down -- he would sit down with the iranians and do a complete colonoscopy on those guys. >> he did something, he'd try to fire them. >> iran, you're fired. >> i would love to see that show! it would be great. kennedy: i know mitt romney had an uncomfortable relationship, you know, professional on stage of course, with

he was backed by 16% of those surveyed, followed by rand paul and governor scott walker. hampshire holds the first primary. 25 million viewers tuning in the grammys bus night. the broadcast highlighted how big, live events still ruled the airwaves. analyst and director of research at bloomberg, paul sweeney joining me here in studio. good to see you. let's talk about those numbers from last night. as expected, a big hit for cbs, but still down from last year. why? paul: they were slightly down, but still good numbers over the competition any day of the week. a competitive threat was "better call saul" something that was widely anticipated. a big night for cbs and for the music industry. it goes to show you how no matter how the music industry changes, this is still something there is a lot of interest in. mark: and live events, whether music or sporting event, have advertisers figured out that even though people could probably take it and watch it later, they would still rather sit at home and watch it live? paul: yes, we see this more with choices for video. it is not jus

news and world report compiling the latest ranks, jeb bush in the lead, followed by scott walker paulate director of his last campaign said they would probably move to jeb bush. he probably benefits most. i think you really will see a lot of republicans look at scott walker just because the wisconsin governor has a unique place in this field, appeals to the moderate establishment part of the party, also appeals to conservatives. he could be that bridge candidate. he also doesn't have baggage from the past like some of these guys, like jeb bush would because of his brother's presidency. he was in washington doing the rounds with major donors and conservatives. i think you're going to hear more about scott walker in the weeks to come. >> sam, what is mitt romney's decision not to run mean for potential fields of democrats, if anything at all? >> i think there's a slight chance it could end up shortening the timetable of the republican primary, and that was one of the liabilities i think the republicans had in 2012 is that mitt romney it took him a long time to sew it up. frankly, i thin

new good for rand paul and scott walker. karl rove will take a look.y are after jesse watters in vermont. watters isn't taking it lying down to use a cliche. he will strike back up ahead. if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? well, there is biotene specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants... biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy too. biotene, for people who suffer from a dry mouth. >>> personal story segment tonight, new poll by bloomberg in the des moines register taking 402 likely iowa republican caucus goers, voters, whatever. the iowa caucus about one year away. governor scott walker of wisconsin leads the poll 15%. rand paul 14. mike huckabee 10 ben carson 9, jeb bush 8. joining us from austin, texas, karl rove. so, i don't think tells it us very much. jeb bush is not going to run in iowa. i don't even know if he is going to compete there he is a moderate. and that's a conserva

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new good for rand paul and scott walker. karl rove will take a look.y are after jesse watters in vermont. watters isn't taking it lying down to use a cliche. he will strike back up ahead. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. [bell rings] you're not mr. craig. yeah, i'm confused where's mr. craig? well, i'm sorta mr. craig. we're both between 35 and 45 years old. we both like to save money on car insurance. and we're both really good at teaching people a lesson. um, let's go. cool. sit down! alright. sorta you, isn't you. only esurance has coveragemyway. it helps make sure you only pay for what's right for you not someone sorta like you. i think i blacked out from fear... did we ask him where mr. craig was? we did. esurance. backed by allstate. click or call. >>> personal story segment tonight, new poll by bloomberg in the des moines register taking 402 likely iowa republican caucus goers, voters, whatever. the iowa caucus about one year away. governor

scott walker 15, paul 14 romney, 13 huckabee, 10. and ben carson at 9.we'll let you know what candidate is not in that top five. and then our friends at the des moines registrar were able to reallocate romney second choice supporters. here is what it is without romney. walk, 16, paul, 15 huckabee moves up the most with three points, to 13. carson, 10. and, oh look there is an establishment candidate, jeb bush in there at 9%. mark halperin, you were behind this poll at bloomberg and the des moines registrar. scott walker in the poll position. how about that? that's your headline. that was an oh wow, how about that? >> strong performance. now an opportunity for him, mitt romney leaves a huge vacuum in the establishment lane, scott walker as you and i discussed, plays in both lanes. he can be a grassroots activist kind of candidate but also establishment candidate. he would be smart right now to not let jeb bush and chris christie lock up the establishment donors from the romney world. he can be the winner of iowa and the second best candidate this year. if

rand paul scott walker chris christie closely behind, no other candidates cracking double digits. >>>mat. the state department is vetting candidates for the post confirms the appointee will be an openly gay foreign service officer. >>> and evil eyed political watchers spot two top democrats on the grammy red carpet. only seen a few seconds, denny wasserman schultz and sheila jackson-lee. more than a dozen lawmakers headed to los angeles over the weekend to take part in grammy events, and to raise money. those are the things we thought you should know. >>> from the performances to unexpected controversial wins, music's biggest night proved again there's no business like show business. as the grammys were handed out, the big winner was sam smith who took hole four grammys, record of the year best new artist. powerful duet with mary j. blige among the night's memorable performances, more toned down than last year. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> some of the big moments, aside from performances, one of the more stunning things of course, everyone talking about when album of the year was announced which went

scott walker rand paul there's so many people at play.ook andrea i think it's important to remember this is likely to be the largest republican field in the modern history of the gop primary. the biggest field in the past was 2008 and 2012. you have upwards of 20 semiserious to serious candidates looking at the race. let's say we get 16 or 18 there's going to be a longer period than many people expert of whittling these people down because of the raw numbers. >> and now we're in the money primary. from my reporting over the weekend, mitt romney's decision was based on money on seeing from the money of his former supporters that he didn't have the support that he thought not just financial but the other political support that he thought he had from team romney, that it had gone to jeb bush and what i see happening now is the romney forces and whoever is still loyal to him wanting to make a play for marco rubio as a blocking action against jeb bush, anybody but jeb in romneyland and that could mean scott walker -- >> could mean chris christ

kentucky senator rand paul and governor scott walker were among the top picks. new hampshire will hold the first presidential primary and it would be a crucial state for christie if he does make a run for the white house. >>> this week a philadelphia judge is expected to approve a billion-dollar settlement against the nfl over concussions. the settlement will resolve thousands of lawsuits that accuse the nfl of hiding what it knew about concussions and the link to neurological problems. the judge has only asked for a few tweaks on the agreement from both sides. >>> the second of three public meetings will be held by the philadelphia area city planning commission tonight. that crew is seeking feedback to change future development in the city including transportation, housing and other investments. >>> and this is all about celebrating philadelphia. later today we're going to learn more about the first ever "i love philly day." organizers are reminding everyone about what is good about philadelphia the city of brotherly love. and i love philly rally will be held o

he has 16 percent of the republican vote with kentucky senator rand paul and scott walker trailing closeex is ready to blast off into the history books. they will attempt to launch a deep space satellite after a scratch yesterday. they will try to land a rocket booster off of the floating in the coastline of florida. a successful landing can accusellow them to reuse rockets and cut costs. did et have the right idea? >> ed phone home? >> scientists are hoping to communicate with aliens by cold calling the universe they say. a team of research in california want to use radio telescopes to trans mitt details to any one out there listening within a 20 light year radius. the plan still needs approval. >> the time now is 26 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up playing politics. >> what the heck was eric doing that for? >> outgoing attorney general eric holder on how his friendship with obama affected his decision. >> whyforget your credit card why your car could be the next target. >> ed cher ran performing "thinking out loud" at the grammys. what makes it an suv is what you can get in

there were a lot of rand paul and scott walker supporters and there is a sense that people are looking for anybody but jeb. >> indeed. and so if jeb bush is not getting a warm reception, i saw scott walker getting thunderous applause? is he the person drawing the most attention from the members at c-pac or is there somebody else capturing the imagination of the participants? >> i would name two people. first of all four of the last five -- they have a straw poll at this event which has very little value ultimately but the straw polls have shown the last four or five times ron or rand paul have won. so the pauls are popular in the young libertarian proud but walker received thunderous applause and shouting of run, scott, run, so he is popular. >> he's had a few stumbles and he was overseas with strange answers and some dodging of important issues that come up in the presidential race. is there a people that people are giving why they like him so much? >> the union stuff. like the period. like how he took him -- took on the unions. it is kind of a fox news audience and walker more than b

scott walker rand paul and ted cruz all punted. chris christie's office did not respond to our request for comment. bobby jindal jumped in yesterday with a statement of support for giuliani. marco rubio, to his credit said he believes the president loves america. jeb bush whose sent sent this statement -- governor bush doesn't question president obama's motives. he does question president obama's disastrous policies. >>> next week bush is heading to the conservative political action conference but he won't give a stead he'll sit for a 20-minute question and answer session. his place in the party architecture mean that while his rivals are engaged or field they have to engage in pandering, he can try to run a campaign like his brother's in 2000. if you recall then conservatism was passionate and the middle did not seem quite so toxic. joining me political reporter from "the new york times." here's my theory. the reason that jeb bush is going to be strong here has nothing to do with jeb bush. it simply has to do with the fact that th

and it turns out jeb bush, scott walker, rand paul, rick perry, bobby jindal and marco rubio were allani, yet not a potential democratic candidate were not asked about it, not hillary, vice president biden, martin o'malley bernie sanders or elizabeth warren. the rnc is crying double standard and they believe the numbers support this. martha? >> trace, thank you very much. joining us with more on this, our fox news politic editor, and fox news contributor, welcome, guys. >> good to be with you. >> have at it. what do you think? >> well, look one thing we should be clear about, there isn't much of a democratic primary to cover. >> no there isn't. >> it's basically covering a shotgun wedding between hillary clinton and her party and it's not a pretty sight. but even accounting for that, even allowing for the fact that there's just more news and more interest on the republican side this cycle even with that obviously this is out of whack. and it's always out of whack. this is not a new thing. what's new here is data that actually supports in realtime with comparable things, which is maybe

mentioned all the presidential candidates' names off the top of my head response, it was probably scott walker, rand paule top three. at that time but i did if at two different points through my speech. it maybe is a little hard to measure. one thing that's fascinating here -- go ahead. >> no, go ahead. one thing that's fascinating here. everybody is taking to the stage. there is criticism of obama. there is jokes about hillary clinton. the thing that really stands out in my mind is two things. one is the energy that is here. and it's an energy that there is a sense that there is a huge opportunity and a belief that whoever wins this nomination for the republicans, a lot of confidence here that they're going to become the next president of the united states. and the second thing is, more than anything else, i am hearing every candidate and people in the halls they are talking about solutions. they are -- obama is over to them. just got to suffer through the next two years from their minds and they're hoping that they will transform america as i said in my speech back to what it once was. great. >> i thou

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differentiating himself in foreign policy because those are shortcomings, for chris christie scott walker and rand paulextent. >> anyone want to defend jeb? >> i would like to yield all of my time to the judge for two reasons. one, you lived in florida and he was your governor. >> yes. >> second you just shared something with the couch. you were a first? >> he was part of that. >> he was not part of the that. i ran. he appointed more minorities to the bench in florida any governor ever will. almost his entire tenure as governor to florida most of the appointment to the bench were women, african-americans hispanics. that was a good thing prior to that the bench was 95% older white men in florida. so i like jeb. i thought he was a great governor florida. i don't agree with all of his positions. i'm not a fan of common core. but i have given up on idea, and america needs to give up on the idea of finding a candidate they agree with everything. if you agree with everything on your candidate i guaranty other people don't. you end up with somebody in there, somebody who is so far to one side they will never

according to a new poll huckabee is in third place among iowa caucus voters right behind scott walker and rand paulnow are sam stein and chris and ana marie cox. here's a big question to my mind. do you think the evangelical right is still a voting block that will come out in force in the 2016 elections? >> if i knew that for sure i would be hiring myself as a consultant in iowa. >> do you think they are a reliable voting block? >> i'm pretty sure they are. that same iowa poll that has huckabee, rand and walker in there the highest priority listed is terrorism and after that the economy. none of those top three speak to that, except for scott walker. you are seeing a split there. iowa often does belong to the conservative evangelical base. it would be new for it to not go that way. >> there's a lot of talk about if iowa matters. regardless of whether you want to win iowa or not, ones visits to iowa are a bell weather on how much these potential candidates can talk to the conservative base? >> it is a different kind of conservative that you get in new hampshire. a lot of people conflate iowa and sou

scott walker. he's five points behind senator paul. as the cpac gathering wraps up in maryland right now free markets, small government conservatives are getting their chance to take a close look at some of the other potential 2016 republican nominees. at the club for growth annual winter conference in palm beach. that's where john roen covering that meeting at the breakers hotel there in palm beach, florida all day. he has the very latest. hi john. >> reporter: eric, good evening to you. the club for growth is one of the most important and influential conservative groups in the united states. just ask senator that thad cochran of mississippi whose career was nearly ended because the club backed his opponent last year. scott walker, who was number two in the straw poll was well regarded in his talk this morning for waging conservative battles in wisconsin. though some members said they found him a little thin on economic and foreign policy. so perhaps governor walker has to study up a little more. good news for walker, though, a quinni

jeb bush and scott walker got double digit support in all three states. huckabee and paul. you could argue that might end up being the final four. in the democratic side hillary clinton leads the pack and she leads big. 68 69 65%. she's going away the democratic field. let me bring you to the desk. kathleen parker, those four, one thing i grabbed from this, there is no one front-runner but i think we know what the top tier is. the top tier is bush and walker. >> absolutely. i was actually surprised to see jeb bush doing as well as he is. he's starting from scratch there. the thing that i think is interesting is huckabee's place in that top four because i don't know how long that will hold. because one thing i heard from social conservatives is their going to follow the william f berkeley rule. >> if you look at it, you have the insider, the governor the evangelical and libertarian, right? so question is which one of them eats into the other guy's support here. that's what it comes down to. >> it does. you have three moderate but establishment republicans who will try to cut

it might be scott walker, it might be chris christie, it might be rand paul. think it might be rick perry. he put out a lot of -- put out a long list of people supporting him. >> you just mentioned scott walker. full-court press, doing all kinds of stuff. he wants to borrow money for roads, cut spending to public universities, to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars on a new basketball arena. his office tried to edit the mission statement for the university of wisconsin. these are all controversial things. he is now getting a lot of scrutiny. my question to you is is walker's record in wisconsin going to be a positive or negative in winning the republican nomination? >> these are all things part of his budget release this week. the local state press is scrutinizing all his presidential stuff. scott walker, you are now out there gallivanting in iowa and elsewhere. i think his record will be scrutinized. there are some successes to it to be sure. but the release of the budget and the fact they were tone deaf about it his staff is going to have a lot of work

that if you look at the poll what you see are the people at the top of the poll there scott walker, also rand paulare people who are seen as either really fresh faces in the republican field or anti-establishment in general. that's actually where mitt romney would have faced the most trouble i think. these are people who have defined themselves by breaking certain issues. rand paul talking about drone strikes, he gets independent support in those issues. he had interesting things to say after ferguson. i think that makes people like chris christie and jeb bush take pause. what republican voters seem to be saying is they don't want those old faces, they want something no. >> do you agree with that? >> no absolutely not. we know -- >> new faces inherently aren't somebody like jeb bush. >> sure. sure. we realize they're going to be running against an old name. the clintons again. there's a deep bench. lots of potential strong candidates who can be hillary clinton. >> lots of things to talk about. i have to give you props for getting in deflategate. thanks for joining us. >> leland, american oil worke