like, for example, steve king in iowa.e unveiled his new how to spend rich people's money for after the election, his group singled out congressman steve king of iowa as the problem, as the kind of todd akin, richard mourdock, christine o'donnell, nut job who might cost the republican party what would otherwise be a shot at winning a senate seat. "there is a broad concern about having blown a significant number of races because the wrong candidates were selected. representative steve king, a six-term iowa republican, could be among the earlier targets of the conservative victory project. he has said he has not decided whether he would run for the senate but the leaders of the project in washington are not waiting to try to steer him away from the race. we're concerned about steve king's todd akin problem." but you know what? they are not getting rid of steve king. this effort to stop the process of picking ever more right-wing purists in republican politics is not working. because republicans, i mean, in iowa where the sen

people to get our mind around. >> not so lucky for reince priebus, we could be seeing a lot more of steve king2014 senate candidate. king told "the des moines register" yesterday, i have never wanted to be the guy who looked back and said woulda, coulda, shoulda. this is by far the most positive kind of opportunity for a senate seat than i'm ever likely to see. >>> up next, once upon a time it was republicans who used wedge issues like gay marriage, guns and immigration against democrats. now the democrats are the ones using those issues to divide republicans. that's ahead right here on "hardball." you're watching it. the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." culture wedges have long been used by republicans as we know as wedges to divide democrats. in 2004, for instance, republicans placed a gay marriage ban on the ballot in ohio as i said to help get the conservative vote out and it worked. president bush won ohio by two points. as a result, he won that election in 2000. but now -- he won it after the supreme court helped him. now it's the democrats' turn to use wedges, actuall

policy people to get our mind around. >> not so lucky for reince priebus, we could see a lot more of steve kingng told "the des moines register" yesterday, i have never wanted to be the guy who looked back and said woulda, coulda, shoulda. this is the most positive kind of opportunity for a senate seat i'm ever likely to see." >>> up next, once upon a time it was republicans who used wedge issues like gay marriage, guns and immigration against democrats. now the democrats are the ones using those issues to divide republicans. that's ahead right here on "hardball." you're watching it. the place for politics. can your longwear makeup last 'til five o'clock? it will if it's new outlast stay fabulous foundation. it's a primer, concealer and foundation in one for all day flawless skin. new outlast stay fabulous from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. but we can still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next. all in one place. i'm mer

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a panel today was moderated by republican congressman steve king of iowa. yes, that steve king. but the real star of the discussion was republican congressman louie gohmert of texas. and this was his contribution to the question of do we fight too many wars. >> one of the things that we have heard over and over again since vietnam is, you know, well, we don't want to get in another unwinnable war like vietnam. i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is, vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it! folks, when you hear people talk about the lesson of vietnam, it ought to be this. you don't send american men or women to harm's way unless you are going to give them the authority and what they need to win and then bring them home. that's the lesson of vietnam. >> let us praise the brave conservatives who are willing to ask the question. willing to ask the question of each other whether america is fighting too many wars. let us also be cognizant while we praise them, among the a

welcome back to the kaiser report max kaiser time now to turn to steve king. bunking economics steve's also got a project on kickstarter he's raising money for a dynamic financial simulation minsky steve king welcome back to the kaiser report by the way him. steve tell us about this. kickstarter project well the starting point is i want to call him mr right now and what i do is i try to model the economy and the belief that it's always an equilibrium pretty damn close and it doesn't have banks doesn't have debt and doesn't have money which are all absolutely assumptions that dominate conventional economic theory so i built a method for simply build models that strictly monitor you can have banks and saw their financial transactions shadow banking whatever you can model you can put in there it stunned them a could snowmaker librium and it's a close a way of getting a lynch looking how the economy actually operates and the stuff which is dominated by economics and didn't i didn't see this process coming and they don't know why we're still slowly dragging away out

but just like steve king, hartzler voted for the republican bill that went nowhere.he bill that passed the senate and signed by president obama. she told mcclatchy newspapers there wasn't any intention to deceive here. hartzler and king aren't alone. as the blog points out, several house republicans did the same thing. these ones voted against it and are taking credit for it and hope you the public don't see anything wrong with this. let's turn to michelle goldberg. also republican strategist susan del pecrio and karen finney. susan, got to ask you first, i mean, what's going on here? is this a communication problem here? you know, why would the republicans pull a stunt like this. >> i don't know why a handful of republicans would decide to do this. frankly, you should be proud of every vote you take in congress and you should stand up for it. and what they are doing is downright cowardly. if you voted against it, say why you voted against it. there's nothing wrong with that. but taking that vote was -- taking that vote and manipulating the day the president signed i

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i think steve king should be ashamed of himself. >> hogan, i see you shaking your head. you're not disproving? >> i disagree with that. i think the media coverage has been blanketed. if the president says he pays for his own vacation, we want want to foot the bill for security and travel. i don't think think it's a dog issue or racial issue. i think the optics are atrocious for this president -- we just talked about young saving something about wetbacks, how it reflects on our party. this is how it reflects on the democrat party continuing to spend, continuing not to understand we're out of money and to do things like this makes him seem out of touch on where the rest of the country stands where he's sending his family on vacation on our dime, he's not focused on what he should be doing. >> so house republicans, it's okay for them to spend millions and millions of dollars defending doma, a clearly discriminatory law? >> i don't disagree. it should be uniform across the board. >> kids taking spring break vacations, i don't see the problem. >> you're couching it in terms o

got the knives out for two tea party senate hopefuls: iowa congressman and alleged corn-packer, steve king, [laughter] and georgia congressman paul broun, who, despite being a medical doctor, said this: >> god's word is true. i've come to understand that. all that stuff i was taught about evolution, embryology, big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. [laughter] >> stephen: and paul broun knows pits of hell because that is evidently where he's speaking from. [laughter] well, the tea party isn't going to take karl's new stab-you-in-the-back superpac lying down. tea party activist erick erickson says, "i dare say any candidate who gets this group's support should be targeted for destruction by the conservative movement." that's right, karl. you cross the tea party and you could end up like the last candidate they targeted for destruction barack obama. [laughter] hmm. think about it. [ laughter ] clearly -- clearly, the republican party is tearing itself in half. i guess nobody remembers this guy, ronald reagan, the white marco rubio. [laughter] he had a little somethi

iowa congressman steve king joins me now, you're speaking in cpac in about 30 minutes.arks seemed to be aimed squarely as republicans such as yourself, you're against a path to citizenship, against same-sex marriage, you equated it to socialism and said it was an attack on sacrament of the church. is there still room for staunch conservatives like you in the republican party, congressman? >> i smile when i hear that, still room for staunch conservatives, that's what the core of the republican party is. yes, there's a struggle going on within the party between some people that want to redefine or rebrand the republican party and those of us who stand on our first principles and our core principles but in the end we're not going to be a party if we abandon our principles and one of the wise members of congress said after november 6th just because the american people did something such as they did, electing barack obama on november 6th, is no reason for republicans to abandon our principles. >> as you know, ohio senator rob portman really made headlines by coming out in su

republicans are all waiting for steve king. tea party conservative represents western iowa. if he runs, what does it do to the race? >> chris, most important contest for us to watch in all of 2014, regardless of steve king runs or not. if he does decide to run, he will clear the field. he will be the republican nominee. we have seen the other republicans who might be, including kim reynolds. >> who said she will only run in evidence to your point that nobody can beat king on the primary. >> just like the presidential contest for democrats, like how everyone is waiting on hillary clinton. if he runs, he has a chance to win, but given that, you know, he's had some troubles in the past, iowa the state that president obama won. so not going to be easy for republicans, but, again, king did win a very competitive house race in 2012, as well. >> one other race where there is tea party versus establishment. georgia seat is open, saxby chambliss leaving. a lot of republicans talking about running. paul brown, a tea party guy already in the race a lot of other candidates talking about

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so speaking of one of those ideological guys in the party, and switching gears, iowa congressman steve kingrently going to potentially run for senate in iowa, happened to be going after the president's children for taking a vacation in the bahamas. now, how does this fit in to the republican branding exactly? or any kind of solid senate strategy? yes? >> you're asking me, karen? >> yes, i am. i mean, seriously when you're at the point going after the president's children, i mean, come on. >> you would think steve king would have seen that didn't the nra learn its lesson when it was going after the security of the president's children at their school? it was not like they were vacationing in north korea or something. aren't we on good terms with the bahamas? >> susan, you knows, the other piece of this revealed earlier this week, there's been this agreement you don't really reveal where the president's kids are vacationing for security reasons. that got blown. and then, you know, he sort of decided to blow that up even more by attacking their desired location. who cares. if the kids want to

a panel today was moderated by republican congressman steve king of iowa. yes, that steve king. but the real star of the discussion was republican congressman louie gohmert of texas. and this was his contribution to the question of do we fight too many wars? >> one of the things that we have heard over and over again since vietnam is, you know, well, we don't want to get in another unwinnable war like vietnam. i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is, vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it! folks, when you hear people talk about the lesson of vietnam, it ought to be this. you don't send american men or women to harm's way unless you are going to give them the authority and what they need to win and then bring them home. that's the lesson of vietnam. >> let us praise the brave conservatives who are willing to ask the question. willing to ask the question of each other whether america is >>> the man who made the video showing mitt romney insulting 47% of the nation's v

we'll also hear from congressman steve king of iowa.his is an hour, 15 minutes. >> five to six years ago the national debt was not really a big deal. people didn't even know we had a national debt or deficit. but then a grassroots movement known as the tea party started to emerge. [cheers and applause] and what made the tea party so effective was not only it came from the grassroots, but it had three core values; fiscal responsibility, constitutionally-limited government and free markets. and because of the tea party, we were able to put patriots like michele bachmann, joe walsh into congress so they can make sure that congress will not continue to spend my generation's money. [applause] we need to save the tea party so that we can save america. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jenny martin from the tea party patriots. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> thank you. [cheers and applause] picture this: college students in this country who are optimistic about the future and look forward to living the american dream. after college th

the productive economy not the rip off opponent of the people i bring span to promote it there steve king we're here on the west side of manhattan over on the far west side and looking east just a couple of blocks side the viewers can't see it but i can sit and i can see the headquarters of the new york times and of course in that building occasionally would walk paul krugman there economics editor now paul krugman is a guy who believes that there should be no real supply demand economics there should be no integrity in the banking system there should only be money printing in till the cows come home and using the stock market as a guide a success how come this guy it gets away with such intellectually dis. honest editorials should realize nuremberg trials were so micro dman perpetrating the the financial hole of cos that he is you and i going to be on different sides of this to some extent because crude is talking about the delusions that come not from the sot of this river but found down chicago and the delusional idiots found the ocean secada economists to the people he actually thinks

and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with steve king khan is professor and author of the book debunking economics the emperor dethrone so a lot more right wing politicians like mitt romney for example are just hysterical about death mitt romney speaking last august. how the president promised that he was going to cut the deficit in half. yeah didn't happen did it he's more than double that he's had almost as much debt held by the public five trillion dollars as all the trier presidents of the country give mine. and when you look at all of the debt of the country what's about the size of our entire economy. this puts us on a path to become like europe you see we don't have to guess what the future looks like if we stay with the current president we can see what's happening over in europe and what's happening so professor king. what there's a lot of people who are scared to death about this i mean if i said this is a really big dangerous. and it's five you know inches toll and you're scared of it and say well look there's one fifteen inches tall that's the pro

take steve king he tried to boil it down to a marriage licensing issue. >> a license is by definitionermit to do that which is otherwise illegal. a license to drive, a license to fish, a license to hunt a license to cut hair a license to do brain surgery, or a license to join the bar, or actually own a bar. >> michael: maybe equating marriage to owning a bar or hunting does more to damage the institute of marriage than same-sex vows do, congressman. and that was not the answer to some trick question. king posted that scripted argument on his own website. the republican national committee and karl rove know comments from king and his illth are turning away potential donors. here is one quote . . . so is equality the latest political gateway drug? our next guest is tyler deaton is the campaign manager for the young conservatives for the freedom to marry. he come us to from washington, d.c. tyler welcome into "the war room" tonight. >> thanks, mike for having me on. good afternoon. >> and to you. some argue that the gop's core values are incompatible with giving same-sex couples the righ

government policy is getting in the way of growth as opposed to companies see slack demand spirit, steve kingovernment policies are getting in the way? >> let's compare this recovery in the reagan recovery. mr. reagan and his unemployment rate peaked at 11%, and he had equally intractable problems. right now if we look at the recovery, the economy has grown on average of about 2 percent per annum since it began. at the same point mr. reagan had a growth rate. he was producing 400,000 jobs a month. that is the kind of jobs grew three need to get the unemployment rate down to 6% in 3 years. if we had that kind of jobs growth, reagan growth we would get their jobs and unemployment rate down to where it belongs and it would not have to be sitting people on the bench to get down. dennis: there you go again. thank you for being with us. good day, sir. and more reaction on jobs as well as talk about recovery in our country's wealth. today's all-star "money" power panel. president of american wealth management. a senior writer at the weekly standard in a fox news contributor. welcome. you're sitting

iowa republican steve king blasted out that he supported the violence against women's act.right there in the no column. arkansas's tim griffin says he was proud to support the house vawa. but you have to read to the last paragraph to see that he supported the house version and voted no on the actual law. missouri's vickie hartzler votes that she was pleased to support efforts to protect all women in this country from domestic abuse and other forms of vier lempbs. but she wasn't pleased enough to vote for the actual law. i wonder if she was pleased enough to vote against it. did these republicans think we wouldn't notice their claim that they voted for it even though they votersed against it? nice try, but we gotchya. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to

then congressman steve king went there in an interview on automatic budget cuts. >> we have the president these things. he sent the daughters to spring break in mexico a year ago and that was at our expense, too, and now to the bleepds most expensive places there, that is the wrong image to be coming out of the white house. >> and sean hannity made sure to mention. >> and he goes off to play golf tiger and the girls are on spring break. >> so what if they are on spring break. it is despicable and careless. from the start, the white house has asked news outlets not to report on their children when they are not with their parents or there is no vital news interest. yet today the weekly standard reports exactly where the obama children are. the headline reads, white house scrubs ski vacation report. and breitbart is at it again, the same headline, this isn't about controlling the media. this is about security. it's about privacy for minors. it's about decently. it's a long-standing tradition. the media outlets do not report on the president's minor children when they are not attending an off

but that hasn't stopped one tea party congressman steve king from jumping on the story.ted the president for letting his kids go on spring break while the country is dealing with automatic budget cuts. >> we've got the president doing these things. he sent the daughters to spring break in mexico a year ago. that was at our expense, too. and now to, one of the most expensive places there. that is the wrong image to be coming out of the white house. >> no, congressman, you're wrong to be talking about this. it's offensive, ugly, and needs to stop. joining me now is salon's joan walsh and co-host of the cycle, author of a brand new book, "i would die for you," why prince became an icon. thank you both for coming on the show this evening. >> thanks, rev. >> joan, what's the motivation behind the right bringing in the first daughters into this? >> well, you know, they have a lot of motivations and it's not the first time that they've done it. i think you and i talked about it before when the nra ran a ridiculous ad claiming that the obama girls got police protection, armed gu

obama care repeal bills are now being sponsored like congressman michele bachmann and steve king.s hasn't stopped congressman ryan from engaging in this useless posturing. there is more. ryan's budget would balance the budget by 2023 instead of 2040 and cut food assistance from the poor. and create medicare vouchers and cut $716 billion from medicare and the same cuts that ryan proposed when he ran for president. rick scott's plan today to accept the medicaid expansion failed in the republican's controlled state senate down in florida. now it is a big blow to the people of florida. but the medicaid expansion has generally been embraced by states across the country as republican governors keep coming to obama care. joining me is chris van holland of maryland who was involved in a lunch late last week with the president. the house budget chair, mr. ryan. chris, good to have you with us tonight. appreciate it very much. you bet. how is ryan's budget to be considered a serious play when he is basing it on things that have been, and he will knows will be rejected in the future? >> well

the last clip of the guy who played steve king may wind up being the next senator from the state of iowatly right. >> so i think to be terrible you could say, well, it's not the majority of the republican caucus saying these crazy things but it's not a tiny fringe either and they do grab the headlines. this irritates party leaders and, of course, michele bachmann and others are hoping that people will take the bait. but you know what, you've got to take them seriously because they have votes. there are a dozen, two dozen, three dozen of the 435 members of that body. it's a serious thing. >> and is that not the issue, joe, that they argued and elected and the republicans do have the majority of the house and just laugh them off at your own peril as long as they are making laws with these extreme positions. >> well, you are absolutely 100% right. just look at this last vote on affordable health care act. that was, what, seven votes. all that had to be changed was seven votes. >> right. >> and i think that, quite honestly, thank god for this program and what you're doing over here because i

latham of iowa has decided not to run for the seat of tom harkin potentially clearing the way for steve kingng suggested president obama's parents may have telegraphed his birth announcement from kenya. so stay tuned. could be tricky. be right back. [ man ] visa prepaid opened a new world for me. i have direct deposit on my visa prepaid. my paycheck is loaded right on my card. automatic. i am not going downtown standing in line to cash it. i know where my money is, because it is in my pocket. i got more time with my daughter, we got places to go. [ freeman ] go open a new world, with visa prepaid. more people go with visa. [ male announcer ] available at walmart. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the one big lesson the republicans took away from the 2012 spanking was time to broaden its base. if they want to appeal to more people and why with a conservative plilt kal action conference why not invite chris christie to speak at their annual meeting? look at this approval rating up in jersey. 74%. that's in a blue state, that democrat state that hasn't gone republican in a presidential year since

steve king may be looking to replace tom harkin. he's compared immigrants to dogs.ss as a strategist, does it start to look redundant and like piling on? >> i don't think it can ever look redundant. again, these are words they have said, so they have to own them and be responsible for them. i think you're right, it does bleed out of where these local races are, because you're forcing republicans again, to get off whatever message they're trying to say and defend or condone these comments, but i would just say it's not they're saying these radical things. when you look at the polls, the american people don't agree with the republican party when it comes to handling the pared and raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. even if they do manage to shift off some of thinks controversial statements, they still have an uphill battle to climb. >> always a great conversation with you both. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> in one of the most watched murder trials in years, jurors will spend a second day questions jodi arias. the case has all the shocking and salacious maki

steve king is a voice against immigration reform. very different, but both cases, they might have people who are more tested. i think they prefer to see back, to sit back and watch the people brought down elsewhere. john cordon -- sorry. now it's jerry moran doesn't like to be in a position of fighting with the entire conservative infrastructure. red state dotcom with talk radio. they want the money to come from somewhere else and destroy these people first. >> one blogger put it yesterday or the day before, a coordinated campaign to keep the crazies in the closet. >>> goldie, before i let you get out of here, i want to talk about guns. president obama heading to colorado wednesday. once again, the push for stricter gun control. a group of republicans have threatened to filibuster gun legislation when it comes to the senate floor and also, goldie taylor, there seems to be a growing course of folks out there starting to think that the white house and gun control advocates may have misplayed their hand on this. what do you make of the

decided not to run for the seat of tom harkin, potentially clearing the way for fellow congressman steve king is far right. king is the guy who suggested president obama's parents may have telegramed his birth announcement from kenya. but progressives shouldn't celebrate yet. while king could not win statewide in a presidential election, he may have a shot in the midterm election where fewer people vote, mostly republicans show up. so stay tuned. could be tricky. be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the one big lesson in the republican -- the one they took away from the 2012 spanking was that it's time to broaden its base you'd think, but if they want to appeal to more people, then why would the conservative political action conference, cpac, not invite new jersey governor chris christie to speak at their annual meeting coming up? governor christie may be one of the few republicans who can nab votes from democrats and independents. a democrat state that hasn't gone republican in a presidential year since 1988. well, the head of american conservative union, al cardenas, defended the

first iowa republican congressman steve king with the solution for illegal immigration in the form ofstruction project on the house floor. >> you can't shut that off unless we build a fence and wall. i want to put a fence in and a wall in. i designed one. this would be an example, then, of how that wall would look. you can also deconstruct it the same way. you can take it back down. i also say we need to do a few other things on top of that wall. one of them put a little bit of wire on top to provide a disincentive for people to climb over top or put a ladder there. we can electrify this wire, not a current that would kill anybody, but would be a deterrent. we do it in livestock all the time. >> now for one that made the loser list. it never came to fruition. "just before advocates for senior citizens plan to host on stage a 24-foot cabin cruiser bearing the slogan "medicare vouchers are a titanic mistake," the capitol police sank the reference judging the symbolic titanic too heavy for the stage. authorities banished it to the side depriving senator edward m. kennedy and other speake

and steve king suggested the president's parents could have telegrammed in a birth announcement from kenya. let's listen to this guy. >> it would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of barack obama being born in hawaii and get that into our public libraries in that microfish that they keep of all the newspapers published. that doesn't mean there aren't other explanations on how they might have announced that by telegram from kenya. the list goes on. >> these characters that are okay for your convention, al, but not an elected governor who's very popular in jersey? tell me your rules. >> well, here's what we have. we've got 30 main ballroom speakers. the folks you mentioned, frankly, most of them are part of a 200-plus-person panel program we have. 30 main ballroom speakers we've got. 40 republican senators, 30 governors, 200-plus house members. what we've got to do is select 20. what do we do? we selected three governors. rick perry because his state is the number one state in job creation, and i think it's a model for america. bobby jindal because he's a bri

. >> steve king and michele bachmann and former house speaker newt gingrich where among the speakers saturday at the conference. this is about one hour, 20 minutes. the to six years ago, national debt was not a big deal, and then a grass-roots movement, known as the tea party, began to emerge. [cheers and applause] and what made the tea party so effective is not only did it come from the grass roots, but it had three priorities, including fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. because of the tea party, we were able to put candidates like michele bachmann into congress so they can make sure that congress will not continue to spend my generation's money. we need to save the tea party so that we can save america. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a representative for the tea party patriots. ♪ coming up ♪ >> thank you. picture this. college students who are optimistic about this future and look forward to living the american dream. they becomege, parents and put food on the table for their children, save for their retirement, and still have money left for leisure