trying to become a republican nominee against jeanne shaheen.arts off with a double digit lead over brown if you believe the latest poll out of new hampshire, but his potential candidacy is another setback. here's why. they could face a slew of defeats in what some say could be another gop wave like 2010. the big fear is that scott brown while he doesn't defeat a jeanne shaheen, takes away precious resources. >>> i'm announcing today that i formed an exploratory committee to prepare a campaign for the joan, we want to get into this whole scott brown and how long it's taken him to get into this thing a little bit, but the big picture here, republicans found another, you know, plausible challenger to a democratic incumbent in a purple state. not exactly a red state. >> sure, no, i mean, look, if it really is a wave election, chuck, we both know pretty much any pair of hands with an "r" next to his name wins and that describes scott brown. it's incredibly brazen. i'm not a new hampshire republican. even new hampshire republicans have to be saying t

jack shaheen. his lectures and writings have focused on negative imimagines ander stereotypes of asians, blacks and other minorities and disadvantaged groups in the world. he has been a professional film consultant on popular -- on very popular hits like syrian that and three kings which i'd like to learn more about, and he's received several awards for his contributions to cultural understanding. and his new book, "a is for arab," draws from a trove of of objects and materials from a collection that he had donated and deposited at new york university. this is a special collection of more than 4,000 images including motion pictures, cartoons and television programs as well as toys and games featuring anti-arab and anti-muslim depictions. so we're going to actually start can jack shaheen, and then we'll move to john tchen and dylan yeats. thank you. >> well, thank you for that very gracious introduction. i'm extremely pleased to return to this museum. wiz here -- i was here right after it opened a f

>> my name is rafat last name shaheen. >> and what's your business? >> it's home furnishing business and the company is j edge. >> okay, all right, sir. >> thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak on this item? please come up. >> the other mic please. >> i just dropped in. i'm just wondering how many have public access which is for the handy cap to this building. that's what i was just wondering, how many entrances, you know, was -- will accommodate the handicap and physically disabled. >> thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak on this item? >> my name is david dixon and i have a showroom on the second floor, approximately 22,000 square feet and we have been in this location for almost 30 years and are quite concerned about the possibilities of relocating to the galleria. at this juncture, the galleria's about 95 percent rented, as far as i'm aware. the ability to move my facility there is non existent at this point. the other options are minuscule. it took us decades. we were one of the first tenants in the showplace b

shaheen also, i'm wondering about the /phrarpb plan that was put forward. what you said was you're going to get a 30 day notice to leave and that doesn't sound much like a transition plan at all. you know, while i understand the parking issues, 250,000 square feet of office space is going to generate a lot of people and that's a whole planning code issue that we have nothing to do with, but i understand the loophole in the code because we have the opportunity but at the same time it is a historic resource already, and any changes to that building would have to go through the /skaout any of our whole code and review process so, you know, i'm just really torn about this because i really see that -- you know, and i understand that, you know, starting ten years ago i had an interior design partner and in 2001, 2002, 2003 , the internet had a huge impact on our business and ability and need for focused design center space and that was, you know, ten years ago, the /#12* years ago, but clearly if one building is 95 percent full, i don't know how full the 2 henry

shaheen up to 52. that's a reelect number. brown, 39. that's a 13-point lead for democrat jeanne shaheen over scott brown the carpetbagger. we'll be right back. vo: once upon a time, there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place. where castles were houses and valiant knights stood watch. for the kingdom was vast, and monsters lurked in the deep, and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real. avo: all of great britain, all in one place. book on expedia before march 16th and save up to thirty percent. >>> welcome back to "hardball." house democrats are pushing john boehner to remove congressman darrell issa as chairman of the oversight committee. yesterday, of course, issa staged an effort to berate former irs official lois lerner. and when elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on the committee tried to speak, issa cut off his microphone. >> i have a question. if you will sit down and allow me to ask a question, i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. >> well -- >> we have -- you repres

shaheen: madam president, i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. shaheen: i rise today to speak to the importance of passing the pending legislation to support the people of ukraine in maintaining their independence at this very challenging time. russia's illegal annexation of crimea marks the first time that one european nation has seized territory from another since the end of world war ii. now president putin is continuing his military build-up along ukraine's eastern border and russia's actions in the crimea fly in the face of the basic principles of sovereignty that have underpinned security in europe and around the world for decades. the united states and the international community must stand with ukraine and reaffirm our commitment to ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. this moment is a real test for the international community, a test whether the nations of the world can respond in a unified way to support ukraine and to check russia. it will also test whether we in congress can

scott brown giving jeanne shaheen a run for her money. karl rove coming out saying he's giving $600,000 to ads coming out. what are the biggest challenges for scott brown and can he beat back the criticism he's a carpet bagger. >> it increases the odds of them winning the senate. they have another piece on the chess board to play with. scott brown's challenge goes beyond being a carpet baggers. we've seen tons of carpet baggers, hillary clinton ran for new york senate. his biggest problem is pulling off this historical feat against someone in a senate in one state and moves and runs in another state. he would be playing a little on history. i think scott brown's biggest challenge is being someone who's new to the process. we saw him talk about health care. we saw him talk about his truck. those are all things we heard about in 2010, in 2012 after he lost. in this current environment with everyone so angry at congress, at washington right now, we almost have -- if the general election is scott brown versus jeanne shaheen, you almost have t

we will start with jack shaheen and then moving to john tchen and dylan yeats. >> thank you for that gracious introduction. i am extremely pleased to return to this museum i was here right after it opened a few years ago and was impressed with the commonalities that exist with asian americans and arab americans and some of the stereotypes they had to endure over all these years including complementing john tchen and teeeighteen on their new book "yellow peril" the professor offered to buy me a lot today i will take him up on that. [laughter] but seriously "a is for arab" is based on for decades of work where i with my wife are collecting images of popular culture more than 2,000 television shows hundreds of comic books cartoons, and it all began innocently and never meant to look at this. i have green eyes. i a non-arab. it was nothing that appealed to me and tell one day i was upstairs in the mid-70s my children came running up the steps saying they have bad arabs. i did not know what you do except i went downstairs we saw cartoons like porky pig and bugs bunny trouncing of the arab

shaheen up to 52. that's a reelect number. brown, 39. that's a 13-point lead for democrat jeanne shaheen over scott brown the carpetbagger. we'll be right back. comcast brought millions of people closer to nbcuniversal's coverage of the biggest olympic winter games ever, with the most coverage of the most events on every device. and the most hours of streaming video on the nbc sports live extra app, including the x1 platform from xfinity. comcast was honored to bring every minute of every medal of nbcuniversal's coverage to every screen. so what's next? rio 2016. welcome to what's next. comcast nbcuniversal. >>> welcome back to "hardball." house democrats are pushing john boehner to remove congressman darrell issa as chairman of the oversight committee. yesterday, of course, issa staged an effort to berate former irs official lois lerner. and when elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on the committee tried to speak, issa cut off his microphone. >> i have a question. if you will sit down and allow me to ask a question, i am a member of t

[traditional arabic music played on an oud] (shaheen) the oud is actually the most prominent instrumentarabic music. it has basically five double strings and one single low string, and it has a fingerboard here that is fretless-- open fingerboard, and this is how the quartertone quality is being produced, because you can slide and produce all the sounds. [plays example] usually the oud is being played in the context of the small ensemble or a larger one as accompaniment to a vocalist or as a solo instrument. it's a very old instrument. it comes from the guitar family in persia. it's the ancestor of the lute and the guitar family. the oud is actually the most prominent instrument in arabic music, and it's as valuable as the piano for the western composer or performer. as far as i'm concerned, this is one of the greatest instruments in the world. it's very dear to me. ♪ her cheeks were like the lily white ♪ ♪ that bloom in yonder valley, oh. ♪ (narrator) the human voice is perhaps the most flexible of all instruments. [singing traditional japanese music] [choir singing] the great variety

jeanne shaheen moved there 27 years ago. seven generations of buried there.tate for 20 some odd years versus someone who moved from missouri who says you can't represent the state. remember, this is also a state where about a third of the population has moved there in the last i think 20 or 25 years. most of them from massachusetts. >> do you think brown beats her? >> i think brown is going to have a real good race. this is a small enough state. his real strength is he is one of the best retail campaigners. he is a guy he liked being around pickup truck. state of massachusetts when he ran there. i suspect we are going to see the same person. guaranteed. >> i think you missed out on some of the other races where republicans stand a good chance alaska arkansas withed to khat in louisiana. you mentioned dr. bill cassidy. i we have seen this nate silver of 270 fame believes that the republicans are likely to take the senate. larry sabato, the university of virginia. there is a growing consensus. particularly in the after math. >> putin is. not at all it's making

. >> what do you make of senator shaheen being among those who were pushing strongly to get this feature delayedded yet again. >> it's not surprising. it's absurd, that the people with the decides votes on ramming a healthcare bill through congress that nobody wanted, that actually prohibited people from keeping their plans and basically lying to the american people, are now touting the fact they have an constitution? they have delayed the implementation so they can try to get through the mid-term election. the only way to get rid of obamacare is to get rid of senators and congress people that pushed it through. >> but if they push this far enough back, and the real pain is going to be put off, it helps them, doesn't it? >> people still know it's looming, and they still can't plan. they're still confused. they may have a temporary break and may take the pressure off some employees and individuals but they're still getting the layoff notices, still deeply learned about the fact that they were misled, and they want some type of resolution, and i also, and have for many months, questioned t

(shaheen) the basics of the structured and improvised music is the maqam system. system, you have a set of scales that has certain characteristics. a certain feel, a certain mood. for example, there is a certain maqam that could relate very much to an evening time for example, or certain maqam can relate to a sad state of being. for example: [guitar plays tune using chromatic scale] in arabic music, the intervals is very much identified by what we call quatertones or microtonal intervals. and these are intervals that, from my experience with the western ear, it's very difficult to hear this quality because it's an interval or distance between two pitches that the ear is not used to. for example, if we listen to the third note, and i'm going to count, this is the first, the second, and the third. again. okay, so these are the first three notes in a scale that ifamiliar to many people that's called minor scale. okay, we can call it also-- we call it in arabic music nahawand it has a name. now let's listen to the third note in a different scale. first, second, third.

jeanne shaheen and barack obama are tied at the hip and there is no question that she was one of theiding votes for obama care which is not going to be a good issue for the president come november. i think scott brown's candidacy is a good news. the republicans don't need a victory there. this is all good news for the gop heading towards november. >> thank you all. millions of american men and women wear the military uniform with honor. two who don't are general jeffrey sinclair who sexually abused and mistreated a junior officer and colonel james pohl, the military judge who let him off the hook. no jail time and he gets to keep his pension and other benefits. they both disgrace the uniform and prove the military chain of command justice is a fraud. thank you for watching. we will see you again next week. >> "political capital" is a production of bloomberg television. ♪ . . >> it is march madness on "market makers." we will tell you about building a perfect bracket. wait until you hear who the biggest names on wall street are picking. why the final four has become the most valuable

brown could be the republicans' best shot at beating shaheen this fall. he spent the last year fund-raising for other gop candidates. >>> and before we go, today's tdr 50 trivia which, which mining town in colorado claims it got its name because there were too many other towns with silver in their names? it's not a precious metal, but you will win an on-air shout-out if you're the first person to tweet the correct answer to @dailyrundown. the answer and more coming up on "the daily rundown" when we come right back. >>> it's time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. jen launched rent the runway on the web in 2009. customers rent dresses and accessories for a fraction of what it would cost to buy them. mobile became 25% of their traffic. so they launched a very successful app last year. for more, watch "your business" sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members c

. >> new hampshire has a democratic senator jean shaheen. t new hampshire democrats actually were mad at that because they just spent a week trying to define scott brown mr. tea party and the president of the united states says he's a moderate. >> your saying there's a gap between democrats and states in the white house? >> shocking. >> shocking development. >> is that the president's freelancing or is it a staff issue? if you're going to do an interview with a political reporter from the new england cable network you're going to get asked about the senate race in new england. >> part of this was the president trying to be a little funny. i think he had a talking point in a briefing binder that he ignored. when it comes to scott brown this is a personal thing with the president. scott brown is the republican who was elected and caused huge headaches for the white house when they were trying to pass health care. he was trying to make a little, take a little bit of a jab at scott brown. >> do you sense any fear among republicans, being so conf

let's do shaheen-portman. mr. president, the stakes are simply too high to ignore this issue. we can't leave it to future generations. last year, my first grandchild, joe, was born. i don't want to look back in 20 years and tell joe that when we are in a position to do something about climate change, we chose not to because it involved some difficult choices. now, joe is going to live through this century and god willing into the next. unless we act now, his generation will pay a very high price for our inaction, tonight, throughout the night you're going to be hearing about that. you're going to be hearing about the department of defense's research into this and the costs that we will pay for addressing -- when we have to address this. i don't want to have my grandson think of me long after i'm gone and ask why didn't we do anything to address climate change while we could? so, mr. president, ininvite my -- i invite my colleagues from both sides of the aisle, both sides to join in this endeavor. we really owe it to the nation and we owe it to future generations. thank you, mr

we must make the shaheen-portman bill law. it is only one example of what the senate can and must do to help stop climate disruption. it is a small measure modest in its impact, but it is a start, and if we do nothing else as a result of this debate tonight, let it lead us to bring back shaheen-portman. so even if, unlike the overwhelming majority of scientists you have doubts about the science of climate change remember that the economic benefits of addressing it even if it is, you think a dream or a nightmare some feants a -- fantasy remember that supporting renewable energy promoting greater efficiency in motor vehicles and buildings will save money add jobs make for stronger buildings and better vehicles, and most important save wasteful energy use. that argument ought to be enough to convince anyone that these investments are smart for america. so whatever your reasons may be whether you're motivated by the need to ensure a livable climate for future generations whether you're moved to action by americans suffering by mil

shaheen: thank you, mr. president. i'm pleased to join my colleagues tonight in talking about the economic and environmental imperative of addressing climate change. i want to thank all of the members of the climate task force, all of my colleagues who are here, and particularly senator schatz from hawaii for organizing tonight. the fact is, as we've heard, climate change is real and it is happening. according to the union intergovernmental panel -- the u.n. intergovernmental panel on climate change, a group of 300 scientists from over 130 countries who have studied climate change for over 20 years, global emissions must be stabilized by mid-century in order to avoid the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences of climate change. studies from the national research council and the u.s. global climate research program reinforce that global temperatures are steadily rising and contributing to more extreme weather events and rising sea levels. and scientists from the university of new hampshire have found that human

shaheen: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire is recognized. mrs. shaheen: i want to agree with senator cantwell, our colleague from washington state, because in new hampshire we are also see the impact on our traditional industries of climate change. it's contributing to sea level rise. it imperils businesses and homes in coastal communities like portsmouth. new hampshire is very popular. hampton beach is experiencing greater storm surges and beach erosion. and the outdoor recreation community is facing shorter winters, less snow, and that results in fewer tourism dollars. and wildlife and public health are becoming increasingly vulnerable to diseases. in new hampshire, tourism is our state's second largest industry. it accounts for $9.3 billion of the state's economy. it provides jobs and economic growth throughout the state. but climate change could put some of new hampshire's best attractions in jeopardy. the fall foliage in new hampshire is a main draw for visitors from around the world who spend millions annually to see our beautiful landscape

senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you have an amendment from me -- [inaudible] what the amendment would do is to add number 8 to section 6a which would support the efforts of the government of ukraine, civil society and international organizations to enhance the economic and political empowerment of women and to also address violence against women and girls in the ukraine. and i want to thank senators johnson, boxer, durbin for cosponsoring the amendment and senator cardin has also asked to be added as a cosponsor. and let me just point out the reason that i thought this would be be important to add to this legislation is because if we look at how ukraine fares when it comes to their treatment of women, they rank very low in terms of women's political participation. they're 119th out of 136 countries. only 10% of women in parliament in ukraine are women, and 45% of women in the ukraine report that they have been subject to violence at some point if their lifetime. in their lifetime. so i think this is an issue that it

outside groups are helping jeanne shaheen for broken promises. >> you can keep your insurance if youlike it. >> the facts, more than 20,000 new hampshire patients have had their coverage canceled. >> the gop has also added colorado to its list. mark udall was safe until cory gardner challenged udall, who now faces a similar barrage of health care attacks. >> obamacare doesn't work. it just doesn't work. tell senator udall to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> the gop's 2014 road map includes three must-win states where democrats are retiring. south dakota where mike brown leads rick weiland. west virginia, where shelly more capito leads natalie tenant, and montana, where steve danes has a double digit lead over former lieutenant governor john boelginger. open seats in michigan and iowa are also open targets. these were states twice won by president obama, but they suggest a tough fight until election day. mark pryor of arkansas, mary landrieu of louisiana, kay hagan, and mark begich, all face strong gop contenders with ample war chests to pummel them. th

and if he's against jeanne shaheen, he'll have a battle. 33% favorable/42% unfavorable.n this area's midterms, the toughest things if you aren't an incumbent is if you used to be an incumbent. it's one of the lessons i took away from alex sink and i think what we learned in the florida 13th special election. she became the establishment candidate early, the de facto incumbent in that race. that also was probably worth a couple of points in the negative column. that's not going to help brown be an outsider here. by the way, bill brox, the last nominee to be able to get a nomination in another state. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." coming up next is chris jansing. she's going to have more on the health care signup push by the white house. we have 13 days to go before the deadline. they hit 5 million yesterday. bye-bye. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and a good source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber.

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that would be to take out gene shaheen, the democratic incumbent.atory committee on part of former massachusetts governor, scott brown. he was the tea party favorite who captured ted kennedy's old seat in massachusetts. he has many ties and now a home in new hampshire and has decided to at least get an exploratory committee going to run for senator from there. we're on top of that and we're on top of this. jon stewart saying something last night that got me laughing and then it got me thinking. it's not what conservatives are saying. it's how we're saying it. after this. [ male announcer ] this m has an accomplished research and analytical group at his disposal. ♪ but even more pressive is how he puts it to work for his clients. ♪ morning. morning. thanks for meeting so early. oh, it's not a big deal at all. come on in. [ male announcer ] it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. ♪ [ children laughing ] ♪ ...is the smell of salt in the air. ♪ it's the sound a seashell makes. [ seagulls calling ] away...is a place that's beyond your imagination

we could take up and pass the bipartisan bill recently reintroduced by senators shaheen and portman to increase the use of energy efficient technologies across all sectors in our society. this new version of the bill has 12 sponsors, six republicans and six democrats, and it would save consumers electricity and money. a small but meaningful start on a journey towards changing our direction on climate change. or we could level the playing field and help new clean energy technologies get off the ground by giving them the same tax advantages currently utilized by fossil fuel projects. the bipartisan master limited partnership parity act, which i'm proud to cosponsor with my colleagues, senators moran and stabenow, murkowski, landrieu and collins, democrats and republicans working together, would level the playing field for renewables and give them and other new technologies a fighting chance in our energy market. there are so many other steps we could do in combination if we would but get past this endless, pointless debate that has long been resolved in the halls of science and move forw

shaheen: thank you, and thank you senator gillibrand. i rise in strong support of senator gillibrand's military justice improvement act. i want to commend all the senators who have worked so hard on this legislation and all the groups who have been involved. i was very proud to be an original cosponsor of the legislation and after more than a year of meeting with military sexual assault survivors and bringing attention to this ongoing crisis, i am encouraged by the historic opportunity we have today. as senator levin said, this is an important debate for us to be having, and i certainly applaud senators mccaskill and ayotte and everyone who has been involved in this effort because i think it sends a very important message to our leaders in the military and to those who would perpetrate crimes of sexual violence. but today, we have not only the opportunity to make meaningful commonsense reforms to our military criminal justice system but we also have a chance to send a very powerful message to the tens of thousands of victims, many of who

if he does, he'll be taking on a sitting democratic senator, jeanne shaheen who held the senate seatt she was the governor of new hampshire. three terms before that, she was a member of the state senate. she's a known quantity. scott brown has had a vacation home for a long time. if he decides to get into the race which looks probable, he faces two big challenges. number one, he has to convince new hampshire voters he's the best person to represent the best person to represent them. that's always the case. number two, though, he has to convince these voters. it's not like that's ever been done before. they could manage to shed any of that carpet bagger stigma. after already serving in the same body from another state. according to the u.s. senate and historical officer, that thing that scott brown is trying to do has only been done twice in u.s. history and not since the 1870s. today scott brown took the first steps towards trying to pull it off. he has less than eight months to do it from the internet and a whole lot of work. well, that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back he

admiral locklear, i want to follow up on the question that my colleague, senator shaheen, asked you with regard to the submarine capabilities of our country and i believe you said that you are an advocate for greater capabilities for our attack submarine fleet, if that's right? >> that's correct. >> certainly you talked about the importance of the virginia class submarine and particularly with our capability in the asia-pacific region. one question i wanted to ask you is, what percentage of your combatant commander requirements for attack submarines are being met? >> let me provide you an offline exact percentage but they're not all being met. >> they're not all being met. in fact last year i think it was about 50% in terms of combatant commander requirement requests for attack submarines, so i would appreciate an update on that, but my sense is, it's probably not much better or even -- may not be any bettering may be lower soism look forward to those numbers. so we're not meeting all our combatant command requests for attack submarines and as we look forward to the los angeles class sub

. >> we know jean shaheen is nervous, it ties down the democratic committee with one more competitivewhen they already have six endangered seats. >> another expensive headache they don't need. >> the boston media market, very expensive, any money they spend there is money they can't spend on opportunities elsewhere. >> thank you both so much. you can call this great expectations. our friend, our colleague, savannah guthrie and our friend mike feldman, marry the over the weekend in a beautiful secret ceremony in the arizona desert. it was this breaking news, this special report at the reception afterward that has everyone jumping for joy. take a look. >> this is an nbc news special report. here's savannah guthrie. >> puts me in the mood to break some news. >> makes me feel something about to happen. >> i think we need to break some news. well -- we, are four months pregnant. [ cheers and applause ] >> i did drop a little bit of news. we are four months pregnant. >> congratulations. >> and in a word, priceless. savannah, we could not be more thrilled for you and mike. we want you really

senator scott brown has moved across the border to explore a challenge to incumbent democrat jeanne shaheen. we explore the contours of the midterm election landscape with stu rothenberg of the rothenberg political report and roll call newspaper and amy walter, national editor of the cook political report. why are democrats so worried, amy? >> you laid it down politically, it's the map is the most important thing that makes them nervous and the political environment. when the president's approval rating is sitting at 42 or 43%, even if you're in a relatively democratic or competitive state, that's a tough place to be as a democrat. if you are in a red state, that is dismal. >> woodruff: that's what you're saying? >> there's a dynamic in mid-term elections there's a reason why the president's party won house seats only twice in the last 100 years in mid-terms, is the voters express dissatisfaction with the president and the party candidates suffer. >> ifill: one of the states that romney won in the 2012 election where there are now democratic seats endangered, some of them are democratic ret

. >> senator shaheen, thank you very much. senator fisher. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the witnesses for all being here today. first of all i would like to say, mr. secretary, that i appreciate your comments that you made last month with regards to modernizing our nuclear capabilities. and also with your attention that you have given the issues that we have with icbm's. i do thank you for that and for prioritizing those. in the president's speech in berlin last year, he opened the door to additional reductions in nuclear forces, and since that time we have heard numerous testimony, and we have heard that from commanders that further reductions should only come as part of a negotiated agreement with russia. is that your view? >> yes. >> and general dempsey, do you agree with that? >> i do. >> as i understand it the russians, they are not interested in further reductions at this time, is that true as well, mr. secretary? there are not any further conversations on this issue. as far as i know. >> general dempsey, do you also agree with that? >> i do. >> so now

massachusetts senator scott brown is exploring a run in new hampshire against incumbent democrat jean shaheenng me now, rachel bay, and jonathan alter. welcome to you both. good to see you. we'll go ladies first, rachel, and begin with you. this is a district the president had won. and former adviser from the white house david plouffe calls it a screaming siren and says it's a sign of a turnout problem. do you agree? >> i do agree. and actually, not every democrat would say that. some of them are sort of i think ignoring this loss and brushing it off. so if democrats were smart, they would see this as a sort of come to jesus moment when it comes to obamacare. sink was supposed to sort of -- not have this in the bag, but she had a real shot at this. if you look at how this district has been voting, it's true that it has voted for republican members of congress, but when it came to her, they voted for her to be the governor, to be a democratic governor in florida. they also voted for obama in 2008. and in 2012. on top of that, this is a woman who is known around the state. she was popular. and

if he does, he's taking on a sitting democratic senator, gene shaheen.vernor of new hampshire. before that, a member of the state senator. she's a local quantity. scott brown has had a vacation home there for a long time. if he decides to get into the race, which is probable, there are two challenges. he's got to convince new hampshire he's the best to represent them in the senate. that's always the case. number two, he has to convince them he is one of them. it's not like it's never been done before. it hasn't been done that often. it happened here in new jersey. robert f. kennedy and hillary clinton weren't from here, but they did manage to shed any of that carpet bagger stigma and win over the hearts and votes of new yorkers. they never tried to win after already serving in the same body from another state. according to the u.s. senate historical office, that thing has only been done twice in u.s. history and not since the 1870s. today, scott brown took the first steps to trying to pull it off and he has less than eight months to do it. a lot of work.

it's stuff that goes to udall and shaheen. it could even be gillespie in virginia runs against mark warner. in other words, steve, you've been in the consulting game a while. objectively how bad is the democratic story right now here in the middle of march? >> i won't sit here and pretend like the president's numbers are something the democrats are gleeful about, but if you look at where the electorate is today and you compare to 2012 when president obama was going into re-election, two things. the sour mood of the electorate was present then and many thought whoever the republican nominee was would beat president obama. and what happens is there is a reason that you have a campaign and there is a reason that you have an election. and that is because you cannot -- it's one thing for people to say i'm in the happy with the economy or the in-consume bent. it's quite another thing to say i prefer the alternative.the in-consume bent. it's quite another thing to say i prefer the alternative. and as the republicans nominate tea part

new hampshire senator jean shaheen joins me now. thanks for being with us. the president is saying that the allies are together, but there is certainly a different perspective from the europeans who rely so heavily on energy from moscow, and the americans. so the bottom line seems to be we'll take tougher sanctions steps, the ones that will really hurt, if and when vladimir putin takes the next move and goes beyond crimea. >> well, we have taken some sanctions measures. i think those are important. we need to send a very strong signal to putin, that he has violated international law and the international community is going to respond. here in congress, we need to pass legislation to support y ukraine. they need economic stability as russia has pulled out the support that they had been giving them. so i think that's very important. we're close to a vote hopefully before the end of this week. >> the secretary of state has been very unhappy with the fact that the imf provisions, which were so important to us internationally, are being pulled out of the bill in

this week i'm working with senators brown, shaheen, wicker, king, collins and warren warner to condemn the russian action in crimea. there's more to be done. senator menendez talked -- the aid and the sanctions that may be necessary. i sincerely hope the sanctions won't be necessary. i hope vladimir putin and the russians understand they cannot show this kind of aggression toward crimea without a cost. but i hope they'll do it soon so that we can see the return of stability to ukraine. ukraine is a critically important country, the second largest country in europe today. it was a major part of the soviet union and its independence i'm sure has rankled mr. putin and his dreams of russian empire. but the people of ukraine should decide their future, not vladimir putin. we need to work with those people in ukraine to give them a chance at self-governance,to to pursues the values we share here in the united states. i hope my colleagues on a bipartisan basis will join us condemning this russian aggression and standing by the people of ukraine. i see another colleague on the floor, mr. presi

from massachusetts who moved to new hampshire is going to run against the first term senator jeanne shaheeno run is a strong indication that that seat is in play because i don't think he would waste a year of his time running. and the same is true in virginia where there is senator mark warner will now face former rnc chairman ed gillespie. he's sacrificing millions of dollars to run. he wouldn't be doing it if he doesn't have his finger up in the air and said the winds are shifting. >> how about al franken? he may have arguably been a better comedian than a u.s. senator. >> he only won by 300 votes in 2008. his approval rating is very low. this state is trending democratic, but he has not matt sale with the voters in the state. if they get a winnable -- if republicans nominate someone who can win as opposed to someone who is too i had lomicily to the right for the state million dollars of the road electorate, he's in jeopardy. >> i'm out of town. but if you were a betting man, put your money on republicans? >> i totally bet on republicans taking the senate in midterms. the question is will