host: congressman steve israel. thank you very much for your time. we are back with our reporter roundtable. jonathan allen, an overall assessment about whether or not democrats take back the house in 2012. guest: the map that congressman steve israel is talking about where he has 75 on the board is bigger than most prognosticators do as an independent location will look at. he talked about winning 25 or 30 seats. he has to do that as a net. right now it's not there. whether that changes over the next nine months is another issue. a lot of times it takes a while. if you ask people in 2010, and sutter, the would have said the democrats will lose seats but not lose the house. you look at republicans now and say that they are likely to lose some seats. host: jessica taylor, you mentioned this. in your analysis, and in the report, he's saying it could be close to 25. but your analysis shows that it is 5-12. 12 at the most. guest: 12 could even be a generous assumption. democrats, a great night for them would be 12-20. that puts them a little bit closer i

fast and furious gun trafficking investigation. >> this week on us in makers d, -- "newsmakers," steve israel. thanks for being here. >> great to be with you. >> two reporters of course helping us with questions. jessica taylor and jonathan allen of "politico." jessica, you have the first question. go ahead. >> congressman israel, thanks for joining us here. you talked about in recent months about the generic ballot, the national democrats "wall street journal" had you up for six points. by our calculations, the 25 seats you need to gain back the house, best case scenario, we have you at about 12 right now. how can you make this work in some of these more competitive districts? ones that maybe haven't gone your way in redistricting? and especially with the president at atop a ballot that won't be -- -- be a help in some of these swing districts? >> the generic is one of the most certain indicators of success or failure in history. in 2006 when we were in the minority we were up about five points in the generic and we won. in 2010 when we were in the majority the republicans were up about five

an abc news crew was also denied joining us now, steve israel, tonight. >> good to be with you. >> a poll just conducted found that 64% of americans support the pipeline, 22% oppose. and 13% undecided. i appreciate the environmental concerns, but is it wise politically for the democrats to fight this thing? >> i would imagine if you polled the american people before the oil spill in the gulf of mexico, the majority of the american people might have supported that, and then when the well erupted, the vast majority said wait a minute, maybe we shouldn't go that fast. you have to prove it is safe. let me give you my second point. these republicans, this is why they are so -- they are sliding down this hill. this is why the bottom is dropping out of them, because they are hypocrites. when in the history of tax cuts did the republican party ever condition a tax cut on an oil pipeline or on anything else -- >> right, but they are now backing away from at tachg it from the whole issue of tax cuts. boehner is saying we'll attach it to the energy bill. >> this is why the american people no lo

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we're back with steve israel of new york.hat keeps you up at night. why is that? >> because in 2010 we lost the house not to house republicans but to carl rove and the coke brothers, special interest groups who spent unlimited amounts of money not disclosing who was funding those commercials, beaming into congressional districts and affecting the impact of those elections. this was a huge advantage that the republicans had in 2010. we're not going to concede that to them in 2012. >> you're going to use super pac money and try to win back the house. how likely is that going to be? >> two things, first of all, look, i'm a huge baseball fan. i love my new york mets. i've never been to a baseball game in history where one team doesn't get bats. so if a republican will use super pacs, we will too. when we take the majority the first thing we'll do is pass the disclose act so people know who's funding those pacs. we don't want corporate companies to -- >> your -- let me just stop you for one second. that analogy is a little flawed.

the presence of terrorist groups that operate to get steve israel meanwhile israel's most placid neighbor jordan may seem to be a bedrock of stability but experts say that isn't so because the media the neighbor to be used it's a country that israel has a. relationship with it also has the longest border with and i think it is most vulnerable to. destabilizing influences from almost everywhere else spill over from syria spillover from iraq there are very serious problems and jordan one look at the map is enough to show that israel's position in the real. could be described as potentially problematic at best however israeli authorities seem to be less concerned with reinforcing good relations with neighbors or preparing for those relations to worsen instead they obstinately continue to confront iran with the word of words for now in tel aviv it is a ghost party now almost every polling station in russia is now equipped with web cameras just days ahead of the presidential vote the measure was introduced to secure maximum transparency after last a samaras parliamentary election triggered all

of the presence of terrorist groups that operate the good steve israel meanwhile israel's most placid neighbor jordan may seem to be a bedrock of stability but experts say that isn't so because the media the neighbor to be used it's a pantry that israel has. peace relationship with it also has the longest border with and i think it is most vulnerable to. destabilizing influences from almost everywhere else spillover from syria spillover from iraq there are very serious problems and one look at the map is enough to show that israel's position in the real. could be described as potentially problematic at best however israeli authorities seem to be less concerned with reinforcing good relations with neighbors or preparing for those relations to worsen instead of the absolutely continue to confront iran with the word of words. in tel aviv he didn't r.t. while on our website r.t. dot com reports the behind closed doors discussions between israel and senior u.s. officials that israel saying it won't give the us a heads up on any potential attack on iran to shield washington from possible al

. >> congressman steve israel of new york is in charge of getting democrats elected. chair of the democratic election campaign committee. thanks for being on the program. >> good to be with you. >> let's start off with a lot of criticism going at the guys with the payroll tax cut issue. they've been open about putting what they would cut to make sure the payroll tax extension is paid for. how come democrats have not put out solid pay-fors saying they would possibly see a surtax on millionaires which has not garner a garnered attraction before? >> what's wrong with asking millionaires to do more? i watch eric canter, i like speaker boehner. i like them personally. to say we are the ones blocking progress on a middle class tax cut when we want to extend it for a year and we are the one whose said let's not ask the middle class to pay for middle class tax cut, let's ask people making over $1 million to pay for it. let's ask oil companies to pay for it. what is it about the middle class they despise so much unless it's i paid for by tax increases in the middle class. i do

. >> congressman steve israel is a democrat from new york and chairman of the democratic congressional cane committee. good afternoon. >> hey, martin. >> before we get to your tea party compatriots, i wanted to ask you about a comment by republican front-runner mitt romney that's generating quite a bit of attention. he said that he's not concerned about "the very poor." what do you make of a comment like that, knowing that we have the highest rates of poverty in this country for something like 50 years? >> well, it may be the first time that mitt romney has ever told the truth. look, mitt romney says he's not concerned about the poor and not concerned about the rich. mitt romney is concerned about one thing and one thing only and it is mitt romney. he doesn't know which mitt romney he's concerned about. is it the mitt romney who ran left of center as governor massachuset massachusetts, the mitt romney who ran has a far, far right wing extremist in florida? you know, he is likely to be the leader of his party running for president, and house republicans have been supporting those kind o

. >>> i want to bring in new york congressman steve israel, chair of the democratic congressional campaignsee you, congressman. >> good morning. >> i know something reverend al sharpton was talking about, voter i.d. is important to you as well. let me ask you to weigh in first on the contraception controversy. how big a role do you think these social issues are going to play in congressional races? has your view of that changed over the last couple of weeks? >> no, no. look, a year ago the house republicans, and this is why they're doing so poorly in every poll, house republicans were willing to shut down the federal government over a woman's right to go to planned parenthood for health care. then they try to redefine rape. they were sent to washington, particularly the tea party republicans were sent to washington to tray to create jobs, reignite the american dream, build the middle class. instead they have been focused on these social issues, focused on redefinding rape, shutting down planned parenthood, and as a result of that, being so badly out of tune and out of touch with their own

our campaign coverage continues on newsmakers tomorrow with steve israel of new york. people talk about the goal to win 25 seats and take control of the house of representatives this fall. you can also listen to the program on c-span radio or stream it at c-span.org. >> at least half of all energy that the navy uses both afloat and ashore will come from non of fossil fuel sources. >> the first to use nuclear power for transportation, ray mabus on the reasons for a new energy standard for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on either potentially or volatile places on earth to get energy. even if we got enough, we are susceptible to price shocks. when the libya situation started and the price of oil went up $40 a barrel, that was almost a $1 billion fuel bill for the u.s. navy. the only place we have to get that money is operations or training. our steams rigid our ships steam laws and our planes fly less. we trained sailors and marines less. >> more greater thanray mabus sunday night at o'clock eastern. >> janet napolitano said u.s. immigration laws are outdated. the dep

. >> steve israel runs the dccc, appreciate. >> thank you. break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. only one who thinks an amendment to the constitution may be in order. that's next on "the war room." ♪ >> hail, hail, the song playing it's one of my favorites "the victors" university of michigan's fight song. i can't think of a better song to lead us into tonight's campaign front which is of course in michigan. mitt romney was born in detroit but questions are being raised if the michigan native can win the primary tomorrow. more about the romney campaign and why it's struggling in michigan. we'll turn to the white house coursecorrespondent who has spent the last few months on the road in the campaign. thank you for joining us. i hope you heard my u. of m. fight song intro. >> i did. thank you for having me. >> next time i'll ask to you sleep it. from your perspective ari there has been talk and we've been talking about it tonight that santorum seems to be experiencing a second surge of some sort in michigan. i won

measure pending in the senate is expected to receive a vote on thursday, meantime, congress ann steve israelw york, told his supporters had raised $650,000 online within days of a congressional hearing on this topic held earlier this month, bret. >> bret: james, thank you. attorney general eric holder called questioning today over the tracking gun problem nope as fast and furious, appropriate, neutral and different from previous hearings on capitol hill and ardent in defending his on actions over what he called a fundamentally flawed mission. >> once this was brought to my attention, i stopped it. i stopped it. >> okay. >> in spite of what other attorneys general might have done with briefings that they got. when this attorney general heard about these practices, i said to the men and women of the united states department of justice, to the field, to people at main justice, this ain't going to be the way we conduct business. stop it. >> bret: this just in, we're getting word about republican senator from maine. olympia snow, will not run for reelection. after amount of consideration and refl

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militants of the appearance of the presence of terrorist groups that may or parade the good steve israel i mean we know that the syrian army has advanced weapons and interests of arsenal of. other. weapons so it's always these really tendency to prefer stability a stable regime and the fear of the. situation is these now in syria the lack of stability the ongoing struggle may also effect the border between israel and syria or it hold out given given that israel is concerned about the consequences of a potential collapse of assad's regime as you said earlier assad's regime did have elements of stability to it now we're seeing total lack of stability there how does israel help to stabilize the situation in a neighboring country is it is it working to improve the border relations their border security. well the border is quiet but clearly it's not in the hands of israel it's in the hands of the syrian people i also believe that you know with me for an interview intervention or interference will not need it's up to the syrian people the syrian society to decide. the fate of the country so th

. >> steve israel runs the dccc, appreciate. >> thank you. >>> newt gingrich moneybags sighs he hatesdea that really rich guys can buy elections, but he is going to do it. and "wall street journal" wants government to break up the big banks. how do you think they will rule on a case that could erase affirmative action. and the sheriff has another new with jennifer granholm. >>i am jenniffer granholm and you are in the war room. it's a beautiful thing. >>jennifer granholm on current tv. >>i'm a political junkie. this show is my fix. >>in politics, she was a gutsy leader. in cable news, she's a game changer. >>be afraid, be very afraid. now, the two term governor from michigan is reshaping the debate with a unique perspective and a forward-thinking approach. >>our goal is to bring you behind the scenes with access to stories that you've never seen before. >>she's a trailblazer determined to find solutions. >>one of the key components of a war room is doing a bit of opposition research. >>driven to find the thruth. >>i'm obsessed with the role of govenment. >>fearless, idependent and abo

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then on news makers a look at the house races this fall with democratic new york congressman steve israel. then the house hearing on the program "fast and furious." >> about 2020 at least half of all energy that may be used will come from nonfossil fuel sources. >> the first to use nuclear power for transportation the navy secretary on the reasons for a new energy standard for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on either potentially or actually volatile places on earth to get our energy. we are susceptible to supply shocks and even if we have we are susceptible to shocks. when lybia, when the libya situation started and the price went up $40 a barrel that was almost a billion dollar additional fuel bill for the navy. the only place we have to go get that money is operations or training. so, our ships steam less, mens fly less. >> more with the 75th never of the navy on "q&a." >> this morning, ari berman discusses his book on reshaping american politics. then, ash jain

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