republicans may be in for another soul searching primary crisis as tom latham and extreme conservative steve king may both have their eyes on that senate seat. we'll be right back.

after all, it wasn't even a year ago that congressman steve king of iowa compared america's immigrant selection process to that of picking out a dog. >> pick the one that's the friskiest, the one that's engaged the most, and not the one that's over there sleeping in the corner. you get the pick of the litter, and yourself a pretty good bird dog. we got the pick of every darn civilization on the planet. >> right, pick work dogs, not lazy dogs from those donor countries. congressman king said later his remarks were meant as a compliment. charming. so there has been an evolution by the republican party and it's not because rick perry accused anyone of not having a heart. senator mccain, how about some of that famous straight talk? >> i'll give you a little straight talk. look at the last election. look at the last election. we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons. >> now, losing dramatically. i'm not so sure about that. mitt romney only lost by 44 points among latino voters, a hair's breath really. if republicans think the lati

we broke the hastert rule. >> it is also -- i mean, hearing someone like steve king maybe change hisone is also leadership maybe doing its job and infiltrating the market. putting out people like marco rubio to talk about immigration in palatable ways. amnesty means you have to apologize for something and that's a messaging thing that might be trickling down even to the local guys who could probably vote very safely against it and not deal with any consequences. >> talking about that messaging that's perhaps why rubio on rush limbaugh radio show today of all places talking to the rank and file. you talked about polling, running in virginia and finding out the deep level of passion that people have about this, especially republican voters and talking about race is a zero sum game and people feeling something is taken away from them, a lot of people feel like what am i losing in this? people getting the pathway to citizenship and why everybody has to talk about enforcement first, tough on them first and then give them something to stick before the carrot but it's going to be very diffi

. >> among our guests this hour, we're talking to iowa representative steve king, maine senator angus king, texas representative joaquin castro, and from "america's got talent," nick cannon. our special edition of "starting point" live from the nation's capital begins right now. good morning, everybody. welcome. this is what it looks like in washington, d.c., today. a beautiful day, not quite as warm as yesterday. it's something like 36 degrees. 28 if you factor in the windchill factor. but actually, compared to four years ago, it's quite balmy. i'm soledad o'brien. this morning i'm joined by newark's mayor cory booker, who you notice is completely underdressed for the weather. i said, it's warm, but it's not that warm. the president kicking off his second public term as leader of the free world. our national correspondent john king is here. we have reporters blanketing washington, d.c. dan lothian at the white house. brianna keilar at st. john's episcopal church. suzanne malveaux on the parade route. the turnover not expected to match the 1.8 million spectators back in here in 2009.

and african-americans who they lost by nearly 80 points, yesterday iowa republican congressman steve kingding democrats for their nasty habit of playing identity politics. >> neither can we disregard the vicious attacks on republicans that came from democrats during this last campaign and it was designed to divide people down the lines of race and ethnicity. they are masters at identity politics, and i think many republicans just seem to ignore that. >> steve king was not alone in his sentiments, addressing the rippon society on tuesday. speaker john boehner had this to say. >> we're expecting over the next 22 months to be the focus of this administration as they attempt to anilealate the republican party. i do believe that is their goal. to just shove us into the dust bin of history. >> kevin mccarthy doubles down. >> this person's main goal is to continue to try to break the republican party. he is out of touch of where america is at with what he is trying to do. it was more of a speech for a progressive party agenda. >> then there was congressman paul brown who offered this choice anal

they didn't really need that particular demographic represented there. >> steve king. >> and so if they her firing off this, they could also listen to allen west or michele bachmann or somebody else. i think it says a lot about the declining. >> the ones you mention had faded to, michele bachmann. >> i think economic times are better. the demographic doesn't work as well when the stock market is at a five-year high. >> do you think that tina fey brought her down a bit? >> just as you were talking about biden being imitated on "snl," i think tina fey, and "game change", the movie completely toppled her. >> i still think a couple of those clips were tina fey. >> you can't tell. just won another aware, the s.a.g., the screen actors guild. she is good for something. thanks for joining us. dana, you're unbelievable. when we return -- you're unbelievable too. the republicans need to avoid being a parental second place party. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating

iowa's steve king, another campus character of the right, has decided to champion a cause that he's triedefore. king wants to quash or at least clarify the 14th amendment which protects birth right citizenship. back in 2010 king said, the framers did not consider the babies of illegals when they framed the 14th amendment because we didn't have immigration law at the time. so they could not have wanted to confer automatic citizenship on the babies of people who were unlawfully in the united states. well, king has racked up 13 co-sponsors for his latest edition of the birth right citizenship act, including the great birther louis gohmert. finally, the gop clown car is still rolling across the sagebrush. >>> next, the 67 republicans who voted against hurricane sandy relief last week were panned from all sides, and not just by northeast republicans like chris christie, but talk about all politics being local. steve palazzo, one of the no votes, tried in 2005 to get cash for biloxi, a part of mississippi hit hard by katrina. this nugget showed up in a pamphlet at the time. we will rebuild and

can he win the primary, though, against steve king? >> we've been saying it for about two years. to go forward for another two to four years. changing of the guard if you will. there's another liberal line as i was mentioning that is gone. earlier we had the loss of ted kennedy. now you have harkin also leaving the senate. who takes up the gap for democrats? >> right. well, we'll see in terms of the help committee which obviously harkin was chairman of. we'll see in two years how the cards shake out on that. i think that's a real question right now. there's been a lot of talk about the republican party being at a crossroads with conservatives and kind of right of center granch. but in a way senate democrats are also at a crossroads. you have a younger generation, more business minded democrats versus an older generation which one by one, cycle after cycle, is retiring. >> let's talk about that. republicans, the gaps there and the more moderate republicans, o olympia snowe gone. georgia senator saxby chambliss announcing he would not run again. chambliss was facing a heated primar

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martha: i agree with you and i asked steve king about that moments ago.so the people can decide which side they like, what they agree with. theyer getting no meat in either of these. >> to get beat up i on the tphaort of the house by republicans in a motion vicious way. >> come on. >> you just did it. what are you talking about? you guys can never say anything nice about this guy, i don't know why. he's president of the united states, say one thing nice. martha: i'm getting very lonely at the white house and i think you guys should come over and play to card. thank you box, thank you mary catherine. bill: tanteros got a radio show, shys unavailable. reroll in mary katherine ham, the hammer comes in, she and beck her hitting it off already in a swimmingly fashion there. martha: i know. we have a new duo in the works. bill: i think perhaps we just found our new duo. martha: we love mary catherine and we love bob. bill: we are hearing from the parents in newtown, connecticut, and what a story they have. what they are now doing and saying that they want all a

entertaining the notion that they ever will like this guy at a press conference today was represented steve king and louie gohmert we have a bill here from britain no we won't we won't get downgraded of course not that's impossible until it happens and when it comes to preparing for these things the proper is often seen as a chicken little like people who were buying generators and stocking up on food in the northeast they may have seemed a bit paranoid until this so these effects one student york city causing damage and destruction never seen before in america's largest city. now when it comes to preparing for the fat tail to start wagging it's what one of our next guest compares to waiting for a train that may never come but miss that train and the opportunity is gone while our other guest says that if that train were the state let it go right off that cliff good riddance they are eric frye and joel bowman of the daily reckoning and they are both in the flesh in my studio here today thank you guys so much for being here it's a pleasure to have let's start with going over cliffs getting on trai

when he refused to answer she continued to press him and wouldn't let up tea party congressman steve king refused to address specific spending cuts that the republican party would support in the debt ceiling debate mccullum also did a great job of showing that republicans are intent on letting america default on its debt and don't have a plan b. to deal with the debt ceiling. the bad the rush limbaugh's show yesterday all rush but was in the middle of a tirade on gun control when he decided to attack look. and others who support responsible gun safety laws speaking about proponents of gun safety laws she believes are only would rules rush said quote. good people they never use a gun to kill kids they use abortion for the. good ole rush making light of gun violence and fueling the war on women's rights in the same sentence looks like he's still trying hard to take back the right wing media's biggest nut jobs that a smell is jones and a very very ugly and coulter conservative pundit was on fox so-called news last night in an interview with sean hannity coulter talked about her theory behind

does steve king somehow emerge to sadly, tragically, somehow take tom harkin's seat?es someone come out with the nomination because iowa is not a red state. it's certainly purple. but in the red states like kentucky and georgia and in the really red districts, you're still going to have this extremist view about government and about spending and also about immigration. i'm really curious to watch this unfold and see the education of marco rubio and whether he is doing this to appear centrist, appear reasonable but quickly backs down to the forces of reaction? or whether he perseveres with this and really tries to get something done. >> well, let's not forget the tea party aligned folks such as christine o'donnell, ken buck, plus todd akin who i guess is a tea party candidate but was in spirit only. they all lost senate elections that should have been slam dunks for the republicans. the gop needs to be careful. because they want to keep that as part of their constituency. they just don't want them running the show, i guess is what i'm trying to say. >> right. and if yo

we will talk with new york mayor cory booker, john barrasso, berniece king and steve king, maine senator angus king, texas senator joaquin castro, nick cannon, coahost of "america's g talent" and my conversation with sonia sotomayor is ahead. are you watching a special inauguration edition of "starting point" from our nation's capitol. we begin right now. >> good morning. welcome, everybody. president obama kicked off his second term as leader of the free world. being joined by "early start's" john berman. and our chief national correspondent john king and john berman. we have the turnout, not expected to match the 1.8 million spectators from 2009. about half as many people, in fact, the president's second time taking the oath in 24 hours. fourth time technically as president. you can see there, the president took the oath with his daughters and his wife watching. there is a requirement, of course, that he is sworn in on january 20th. that's why it's done officially, and then done for the public. the vice president joe dieden w -- biden sworn in by chief justice sotomayor. the first lati

congressman steve king with how president obama's mother managed to convince us all that her son was born in hawaii, not in kenya. >> i looked into that before he was sworn into the presidency. we look sbood the library of congress and we found the microfiche of two newspapers, only two newspapers in hawaii. each of them had published the birth of barack obama. that doesn't mean that there aren't some other explanations on how they might have announced that telegram from kenya. the list goes on. i guess she considered herself naming her son might be a minor setback for her son's future run for presidency. up next, mitt romney's 47% video to obama's debate disaster in november. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." first up, the video that turned out to be the low-point for the romney campaign. the candidates taped comments to donors down in florida that nearly half the americans are lazy and happy to be on the government doll. it's simply known as the 47% video. let's listen again. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote for the pres

congressman steve king is kind of a permanent troll. >> we could also electrify this wire with the kindcurrent that wouldn't kill someone but would simply by a discouragement from them. we do that with livestock all of the time. >> comparing immigrants to livestock and using a visual aid to do so on the house floor. here's another. >> a poet once said life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it's never easy when there's so much on the line. >> he was trolling the entire democratic process at that point. here's another. >> trolling. congressman allen west, former congressman allen west, begging america please be outraged by me, please condemn me. i live to cause pointless outrage. i am a troll. the thing about trolling is that the troll, by definition, is not serious. they're not serious about what they're saying. by definition, they're saying what they say only to make somebody mad. that they can drive otherwise serious people talking about serious things to be seriously distracted. they love the distraction and the disruption. they love deliberately causing it. trolls ser

congressman steve king with how president obama's mother managed to convince us all that her son wasorn in hawaii, not in kenya. >> i looked into that before he was sworn into the presidency. we found the microfiche of only two newspapers in hawaii, each of them had published the birth of barack obama. it would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of barack obama being born in hawaii. >> by telegram. i guess she neglected to consider the mother, naming her son barack husein obama might be a setback. any way, up next, these people are looney. from the 4 47% video to president obama's debate disaster in november, you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and

congressman steve king with how president obama's mother managed to convince us all that her son was born in hawaii, not in kenya. >> i looked into that before he was sworn in for the presidency. we went down into the library of congress and found a microfiche there of two newspapers in hawaii, each of them had published the birth of barack obama. it would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of barack obama being born in hawaii. that doesn't mean there are not some explanations on how they might have announced that by telegram from kenya. >> by telegram. i guess she neglected to consider the mother, naming her son barack husein obama might be a minor setback for her son's future run for the presidency of the united states. any way, up next, these people are looney. from mitt romney's 47% video to president obama's debate disaster in november, you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." now that we marked the highlights of the gop primary, let's go into the general campaign. the taped comments to donors down in florida th

these are broad principles which steve king from iowa, who is the most conservative guy in the house,ven agrees with. before we even get to the house, the senate is going to be a problem. the house is a huge problem. i think from what eric cantor said, from what the committee chairs are saying, that is long path which includes going through various committees and john boehner has to protect his speakership. he can't put something on the floor that's going to upset the right. the aides that i talked to on capitol hill think this is all a fantasy at this point. >> mcconnell said when the president address this is issue tuesday, i hope you will take a bipartisan approach rather than delivering a divisive part sfwlan speech. >> the fact that mccobble isn't endorsing would undermine boehner's -- >> mcconnell is up for re-election. so is lindsey graham who is a part of this group. the longer this hangs out there and the harder lindsey gram gets hit. we haven't seen that yet, are the people up in 2014 going to get hit on this. >> i think there potentially is a better chance. bill, you rememb

does congressman steve king become the front-runner?he could look at running and this will be a wide-open race and you also have a state that's very important in the presidential process so you will have a lot of national money being paid into the race. you'll have a lot of national interest and attention on the state and it's also a cheap state to advertise. so it will be great and one of the best ones of 2014, i think. >> pbs news hour. m manu, thank you. >> thank you for spending your saturday with me. >> thank you. >>> what two civil rights group have to say about the mayor and his ban on super sodas. leaders on capitol hill are trying to prohibit the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of assault weapons, but are they trying to hit the wrong target? this is msnbc. to the cleaning games. let's get a recap, merv. [ merv ] thanks, other merv. mr. clean magic eraser extra power was three times faster on permanent marker. elsewhere against dirt, it was a sweep, with scuffed sports equipment... had it coming. grungy phones... oh!

iowa, steve king might be running there.f all, will the so-called republican establishment be able to deliver candidates this time? will the mood of the base change or any meddling of the party establishment result in the same kind of backlash of 2010 and 2012 and will the prospect of that happening simply keep strong candidates on the strong lines? will the strong candidates say i don't want to be the next guy to lose to christine o'donnell? >> i think you are absolutely right and something i've been concerned about but i will report back from c-pac in marc and let you know because as you know, the conservative political action conference happening every year is a place where rising stars and incoming stars are trotted around the halls and put up on stages and meant to meet and greet and get to know them and make a splash, they meet the media. in fact, last year i met richard mourdock before we knew who he was. ted cruz, too, a full year before the actual election. so i'm really interested to see not just who they bring out

steve king introduced a bill in 2011 to clarify, in his words, the 14th amendment. amendment grants citizenship to anyone born -- it was written after the civil war for african-americans obviously. well, king argued it was not meant to include babies of illegal immigrants. take a look. >> anchor babies are babies that are born in the united states to an illegal mother, and the practice over the years has been to grant automatic citizenship to babies born on u.s. soil. they sneak into the united states, many of them, for the purposes of having the baby. they get the little birth certificate with their little feet prints on there, and then they stay here or go back to their home country and wait until that child comes of age, and then that child, they use that child to apply to bring in the family, the nuclear family, then the extended family. and it's out of control. >> you might expect something like that from the man who questioned whether barack obama's mom might have sent his birth announcement by telegram from kenya. king is at it again with anchor babies. intro

in iowa gop officials admit leading berther, representative steve king, will in all likelihood be nire nominee in 2014. in georgia the two leading candidates to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss are phil and ob-gyn who said that todd akin was partly right about legitimate rape, and paul brown who says he believes president obama is presently upholding the soviet constitution and as a member of the house science committee had this to say about evolution. >> i've come to understand that all this stuff i was taught about evolution and embryology ask big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. >> naturally the tea party doesn't think it's dead. it thinks moderate republicanism is dead. >> we're celebrating the death of the establishment gop right along with them. yeah. i got a cake and hats and, like, party streamers and everything. >> so with each sign that the gop thinks the other side is dead, how best for the party to live on? according to possible zombie, possible human mad rat conservative david brooks, just split the body in half. it's probably future it