vote against the tea party. vote thad cochran. >> the owner of this radio station is saying this came directly from one republican group against another republican? >> at the end of each of those add adds it has to be connected to a group. that group is haley barbour. >> he's got some answering to do on that. >> we did reach out to both camps. they're saying these are baseless and false. >> cochran, i don't believe that for a minute that's my editorial. >> let me read the statement, not including the votes which were allegedly bought by the cochran camp, our grassroots volunteers have already found around 2500 ineligible votes, that is votes cast in the republican runoff on june 24th, by voters who voted in the democratic primary on june 3rd, we are examining all the data that we can gain access to in order to launch a legal challenge, and our preliminary findings indicate that further investigation is certainly warranted after we've examined all the data, we will make a determination about possible legal recour

>> that's true, the tea party has not had a good year overall. >> is the tea party in decline? >> it's certainly not dominant. take a look at the 7th district in virginia and eric cantor. >> the tea party still has the rest of the republican party terrorized. people are terrified to do anything that looks moderate. >> quick question to you, is the tea party monolithic? is it monoolitic? >> it's spread out by where the money goes. that's a problem to begin with, the leadership of the republican party needs to decide where to put the money in these races. it's very hard because there's so many different races with different issues at the very local level to decide where to put the money. >> they have a ton of money. >> i'm going to go back to the point i made before. there's so many districts where the unemployment rates are very, very high, relative to where they used to be, where the sense of economic optimistic has virtually evaporated and this is going to affect family after family and affect the voting. >> let me get in with this exit question, if the midterm elections were

it is the tea party that is the albatross. i think that is really hurting the republican party.results in a not being a national party at the moment. john boehner has to engage in all kinds of antics in order to please tea party. >> is the tea party our trust party of the year? -- is the tea party the albatross of the year? >> is going to give very good republican year if the same thing happens to obama that happened to bush. that is a sign of how toxic he is seen. republicans aren't running away from the tea party, they're rushing to embrace the tea party. >> thank you very much ,ramesh and margaret. we will see you all again next week. ♪ political capital is a production of bloomberg television. ♪ >> tonight on "titans at the table," i traveled to what many consider the las vegas of the east. macau. this is part of what attracts people? >> yeah. >> the small territory on the south of the chinese coast raked in $45 billion of revenue. more than seven times that of vegas. >> did you ever think macau would surpass las vegas by that much? >> it makes perfect sense. the resorts are

challengers losing but tea partieds being sort of -- really about establishment, the tea party, but way a lot of the primary victors are fusion candidates. >> guest: that's right. the difficulty that we have with uk is that they're not part of the conservative party. the tea party generally in the u.s., as far as i can see, are within the republican party. so they're fighting -- >> host: too a degree, yes. also in -- >> guest: they're fighting within the republican party. whereas a fielding of a candidate is a separate party. that may well be a develop of the tea party. the tea party could end up being, i suppose, party challenging the republican#;t party, and if that were the case the republican party would have a serious problem because essentially instead of contesting primaries and then deciding on one candidate, you would have the democrats, the republicans, and the kind of tea party representative. >> host: you have that with the ross perot -- that was very much a similar situation where the third party, i think he killed bush in 1992. and that is very much the danger. >> host:

i think what you are seeing here is sort of the meltdown of the tea party. the tea has been boiling a little bit too long here. the republican party, let's face it. thad cochran is as conservative as they come. ideologically it's a tea party. the question is are there people who believe in government. are there people trying to burn the entire thing down. that's what you are seeing from mcdonnell. this scorched earth politics throwing race into the equation, putting out this sort of bounty. he's not going to win the challenge. he's going to sully thad cochran and his party. >> now, tara, you know, speaker boehner is suing the president, for example. it was supposed to appease the tea party. now he's getting are criticized by other conservatives. one writer who is called for impeachment wrote, the lawsuit simply reinforces the president's assessment that his opposition is unserious. now, boehner did this for the tea party. now he's getting hammered for it. doesn't it show the disarray in the gop, tara? >> oh, absolutely. s clearly he's gone way over the line.

i mean, the tea party generally in the u.s. as far as i can see and follow it are within the republican party. they are fighting -- they are fighting primaries within the republican party. was ukip r. fielding of the candidates and separate policies but that may well be a beloved of the tea party. the tea party put into being i suppose a party challenging the republican party but if that were the case i think the republican party would have a serious problem because essentially instead of contacting the primaries and deciding on one candidate, you would have either the democrats, the republicans and the kind of tea party representative. i think of ross perot. i was very much a similar situation where the third party, i think he killed bush in 92, and that's very much danger. >> host: we talked about the political class. do you use yourself as -- >> guest: no. i've done other things. i've been four years and i'm a writer, historian to work in a bank for 10 years but i've been different things. i think it's quite unhealthy to have

people said tea party should be a separate political party. so saul would say, no, you work within the existing power structures, and you take them over. is that where you are? >> guest: that's pretty much where i am. i wonder what he would say today with the way the internet disintermediates politics. i do think it's still a two-party system and third parties lose which is why i've always worked in the republican party and will continue to do so. i think we'll get to the point where there will be a new party, but it probably means the republican party dies and something, say the liberty party emerges as that they were. but i don't see any way of getting out of two dominant be parties controlling the process. but that doesn't mean you can't put ideas back into the party. progressives, i think, have done a pretty good job of taking over the democratic party. and what was consider insanely radical during the bill clinton years is now standard democratic policy. and you have nancy pelosi and barack obama who have self-described progressives, they

it left the tea party red hots pouring gasoline on the fire. boehner and his allies know the danger if they don't stifle or contain the palin wing now. last time republicans let an impeachment craze take over the party under president clinton they imploded in the 1998 midterm election. they kicked out their own speaker of the house. it was a disastrous move to try to impeach clinton. boehner launched the first counter attack within hours of sarah palin's comments last week. others are are joining the fight. yesterday neocon field marshall bill crystal who helped sarah palin to the nomination in 2008 slammed her as peddling a phony issue. >> no responsible elected official has called for impeachment. the problem is you get joe biden as president. the republican task is to elect a senate and president in 2016. not allow democrats to make republicans look extreme. >> the head of the house judiciary committee bob goodlatte also blasted sarah palin. >> we are not working on or drawing up articles of impeachment. the constitution is clear as to what c

that makes absolutely no political sense to the rest of us but for some reason makes sense to the tea party the republican party. >> joe has a level headed approach. it's clear john boehner doesn't want to go down this road. but it feels like he's going to reach a point where he feels he has to, and he's going to -- this one i think he's going to hold at bay as long as he can. thank you. >>> up next, people aren't as worried these days about the economy, the deficit, about health care as they were a few years ago. could that be because president obama's policies actually help on all three fronts. vital nutrients as you age? [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health. ocuvite. that's goohhh.o go right in your glove. see that? great job. ok, now let's get ready for the ball... here it comes... there you go... good catch. perfect! alright now for the best part. let's see your pour. ohhh...let's get those into the bowl. these

oh what of people say the republican party is corrupt the beginning of the tea party movement is to be a separate political party. so people say you work within the existing power structure. >> fating is pretty much who i am with the internet and politics but i do think that it is loose which is why i worked with the republican party and will continue to do so if they do not nominate another bob dole there will be another party but the republican party dye's may be the of liberty party emerges as the alternative but i don't see any way to get out of the two dominant parties that does not mean you cannot putd3e ideas back in to the party. event considered insane the radical during the bill clinton years with nancy pelosi and barack obama. >> host: you say that division at times looks like all out to warfare?

the tea party generally in the u.s. s far as i can see are within the republican party to klitzka to a degree. >> guest: they are fighting primaries within the republican party. where as u.k. are fielding other candidates. the tea party could end up being as opposed to party challenging the republican party and if that were the case of the republican party would have a serious problem problem. a sensual instead of contesting the primaries and deciding on one candidate you would have the democrats, the republicans in the tea party representatives. you have that i think with ross perot. that was very much a similar situation where as a third-party to think he killed bush in 92 trade that's very much the danger. >> host: we talked about the political class. do you see yourself as a professional? >> guest: no, i've done other things. i have been for years and i'm a writer and a historian. i have done different things. i think it's quite unhealthy actually to have professional politicians. i can see why they get involved but

the tea party's far from dead.een tea party candidates winning, seen their message continuing to drive -- >> we saw a tea party candidate take out eric cantor. >> exactly my point. it would be foolish to say the tea party is dead. tea party continues to drift republican party further to the right. there's something to be said particularly in places like mississippi where democrat and i can black voters say, we're not going to win this election, we're not going to get a democratic senator this state. what we can do is jump in the republican election and have sway on who's going to represent us on the republican side. instead of having a tea party candidate we can have a more moderate candidate. still, it's the best of two bad choices. but it's what can happen. i think the tea party you may see mor mobilizing around them. >> i think that the big takeaway from this is, thad cochran would have not won this election if it wouldn't have been for the last two days when they went to predominantly african-american stations

the tea party is separate. reagan talked about needing new leadership and ran against the ford wing of the party and the rockfeller wing and the nixon wing of the party. only two u.s. senates supported him in '76 and '80. he said we need new leadership. leadership that is unfettered by old ties and old relationships. the tea party is unfettered to old ties and old relationships. i spoke in dallas a few years ago to about 125-150 tea party for the weekend. i was their friday night keynote speaker. i met with a dozen or so. there was a woman from corpus christi, texas. and she said they have meetings and the local politicians would call and say we want to come to your meetings and her response was great, we would love to have you come, but you don't speak, you listen to us. i don't have a friend that would talk to a republican politician like that. it is so refreshing hearing the tea party be independent and unfettered to the republican party. james carvel in 1992 famously said over and over to democrats it is the

the beginning of the tea party movement do as they separate political party.aul walinski would say you work within the -- is that where you are? >> guest: i wonder what walinsky would say today with the way the internet to center mediates politics i think it's still a two-party system in the third parties lose which is why a fork in the republican party and will continue to do so. i think we get to the point where they do nominate another bob dole there will be a party but it probably means the republican party guys and something like the liberty party emerges as that alternative. i don't see any way of getting out of two-dollar parties controlling the process. that doesn't mean that you can put ideas back and at the party. progressives i think it done a pretty good job of taking over the democratic party and considered insanely radical during the clinton years is standard democratic policy. nancy pelosi and barack obama who are self-described progressives run the agenda. >> host: you say the division within the republican party is healthy but at times it look

they brought that with them to the tea party.don't know why people even have to discuss the difference between the make-up of the house of representatives. >> if you look at it this way, though, in 1964, there was opposition, basically democrats at the time, you know, so today, though certainly democrats not from the south, but what was missing? what was there in 1964 that could break the filibuster that isn't there today? >> to get something done. so to respond to public pressure and international embarrassment that followed the bombing, of the church in birmingham and the violence that was on public display all over the world and shamed america to finally act. also kennedy's assassination in there, that fuelled pressure. we don't have that right now. i'm thinking about this as you heard president obama yesterday talk about pass a bill, solve a problem. that is something we just don't see right now. because there isn't that pressure. >> as we talk about in present day, talking about the voting rights act, the supreme court rulin

branding of tea party patriots specifically. hey would always say this is a movement of independents and democrats bigger than the republican party. i think the arguments over this race have really soured some of that messaging. and it's frustrating for other republicans because they really thought on june 25th the republican party had reached out to new voters. even hillary clinton compliments ted cochran's outreach. and now it's being toasted an by the tea party who are making it a racial partisan fight that they thought they had avoided. they thought they avoided chris mcdaniel being a face of the party in 2014. and it's increasing bitterness for the tea party for the reasons you just stated. guys who claim to be bigger than politics are representing forces that they say once and for all are the reasons they lose elections to democrats. >> final question here. again, sort of part and parcel of the national media stopped paying attention to this thing, we said mississippi is not going to be a story in the fall anymore. republic

would be ronald reagan's party, newt gingrich's party and i would argue, in many ways, it's the tea party. there is a philosophical, funneled mental break it was no longer a party raising questions about how government functioned. it was a libertarian way about the role of government in our lives. they would government was too intrusive and laid down markers that 50 years later, very cloeft to t to the heart of mod he were republicanism. >> we will hear from governor rockefeller in a moment and senator barry goldwater. this is a fascinating look back 50 years ago. he had to endure the full ho hostillery. you are coming out with a few book "on his own terms: the life of nelson rockefeller." talk about this. >> it opens with this scene, the defining moment in the history of the party and it certainly is a defining moment in the life of nelson rockefeller. this is history with the a face on it. this is nelson rockefeller, the man that the right loved to hate, in effect, taunting the majority in at a time cal palace over this particular issue of the force of the republican party on the issue

>> i certainly embrace a lot of what the tea party talks about. if you go back and look again at the rnc platform about lower taxes, balanced budgets, no to amnesty and no to obamacare, those are tea party principles and i embrace those. this campaign as an underdog is much more than just a tea party campaign. we're reaching out to republicans that believe the republican national committee platform is a document by which we can take america back to its greatness economically while based on personal responsibility, individual liberty and free and fair markets so to the extent that the tea party does that, i fully embrace it. >> if you end up in the united states senate, will you support mitch mcconnell? >> depends on who the opposition is. obviously if it's somebody who doesn't have the necessary leadership skills or has a much more liberal voting record, the answer would be i would certainly give it serious considering. i suspect on two things. there will be a more conservative and appropriate challenger in mitch mcconnell. if there isn't, i'll ma

he's extremely popular with the tea party.ton, he'll push it, he just has a deep desire to be on national television, and in whatever media he can, he wants to be president. and so that doesn't rub well with a lot of kansas ans. it's not something we typically like out here, and so i think that's why it resonates so well with people. >> mr. morgan's talking about a primary in the republican primary, you're endorsing the democratic candidate. i should say i made gentle fun of your name in an earlier television appearance today which cracked me up. what prompted you to take this somewhat dramatic step? >> well, chris it's really pretty simple, it has to do with the issues, mr. brownback is taking kansas in the wrong direction on three very, very important issues. he's enacted an experimental extreme tax plan, that's resulted in cuts to our schools. education is a victim of that experiment, and third, that's resulted also in irresponsible budgets and very substantial deficit spending. our passion is about the issues and about foc

. >> in the end, the tea party still controls your party. and the tea party is going to be anathema. this issue of affordable care act is starting to work in the right direction. but again, i just think that -- >> wait a second. >> why do you say that? >> we're going to have to have somebody -- you're nice to say that. >> why don't you say something nice about me? >> answer the question. >> you're going to need somebody to win the election and be the nominee that can straddle both parts of the party, the establishment wing and not so much the tea party but the libertarian wing, rand paul. >> who does that? >> you need someone like scott walker and marco rubio, but someone who can have one foot in both camps because if they're just libertarian or just establishment. >> they miss out. >> they won't cut it. >> do you think marco rubio has been count out too early? >> i think so, i won't even say he's been counted out. >> but we want you to weigh in on the fireback question. could elizabeth warren beat hillary clinton if a democratic primary? tw

the tea party favorite steve scalise in his first interview after being elected house majority w.h.i.p. plus, with thousands of children crossing the border, will the battle over immigration boost democrats or republicans in the november election. our sunday group weighs in. >> then, the fighting resumes p ipgaza has hamas rejects one cease-fire and asks for another. we'll discuss the conflict with benjamin netanyahu and top palestinian leaders. >>> and our power player of the week, designing and testing our navy's future ships. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. prospects for a plan to deal with the flood of children coming from central america are looking less and less likely. there are still big differences between the president and republicans. and congress is scheduled to go home friday for its five-week august recess. joining us now, a key new member of the republican leadership, lose lieu congressman and tea party favorite steve scalie congratulations and welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to be with you. >> for all the talk of th

blatantly coming out and saying i have an opinion just because somebody else does. >> it seems that the tea party drive you out of the republican party. i want to read from your resignation letter, in which you said, i ran to be chairman of the mississippi chairman of college republicans, not tea partiers. i believe that the republican party has allowed these groups to have too much of a voice and because of that, a platform of the republican party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion. i simply cannot be a part of an organization that has members who support these far right extremist views. that's something a lot of other observers have made, especially observers from the democratic side of the aisle that the republicans keep moving farther and farther in the rightward direction. >> correct. the biggest issue that pointed me to the brink of changing parties was -- because it was an ongoing thing. it took a couple of months. i knew my stances were different, but i just kept quiet, didn't want to come and say i was a democrat in mississippi, in the most red state in the nation. the republ

to the cliven bundy level or we see in some places the tea party, these lost causes the tea party, theyometimes they sputter. matt bevan didn't do too well. here, you know -- >> this is particularly pointed to for the republican party, not just because it's republican versus republican but the votes they are questioning are predominantly black folks. for a party in the heart of the south to be out there we talked about this, poll watchers is one thing but now to say, we're going to litigate this in the northern districts of mississippi, which are predominantly black and say these votes aren't legitimate is a really powerful message to be sending to the country and to minority voters. >> the thing is, what can -- if the best outcome they can get is to have a runoff election. if they do this, what do you think will happen? come on, you know it's going to happen. the people whose votes they have thrown out will come rushing back and they'll have to do it over again. may give the democrat a chance if they do it two or three more times before the general election in november. although, they

before going to summer break, a stunning display of speaker boehner's failure of leadership and the tea party's stranglehold on the gop. the wild series of embarrassments started this morning when speaker boehner touted a gop bill cracking down on illegal immigrants. >> republicans are committed to addressing the humanitarian crisis on the border in a responsible way. first bill on the floor helps secure our border and speeds return of unaccompanied children back to their home countries. >> but just hours later, speaker boehner

. >> would that be tea party people that she targeted?> i know a lot of republicans, i would not name them, though they are well known people and i have heard them refer to these people in the exact same manner. many of them are elected members of congress, in fact. i'm not sure that this necessarily shows anything against republicans per se or necessarily even the tea party. i think it's more about there are some rabid people out theren the left and the right. >> the problem she may have though, besides the fact that she is doing this on vacation, is that it does show that she is not -- if she wants to say that she is or the of independent, fair, doesn't have any problems with people. it's a tough sell. >> lois lerner cannot complain about being held in contempt when she clearly full of contempt. as irs commissioner she makes a prime time nbc host. slow lerner. >> member of congress fed up with the tea party. you know this is how they there are plenty. >> her job is to adjudicate. >> emails as well, which not exactly something that, you

the segment earlier where the republican party was characterized by the tea party extreme made me think,s where is the joe mccarthy moment, the joe walsh or the ralph flanders standing up to somebody in his own party and calling him out. that's what will happen . boehner -- i'm -- when he came into office i thought this guy's got what it takes to be speaker. he's a republican. i won't agree with him. he doesn't have are what it takes. he's trying to temperize the whole time. he's lacked the guts except in a few instances to stand up against the extreme right. the republicans are going to implode over this stuff. i think it may happen in 2014. they may snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2014. >> along that line do you think he might be scared that his number one friend eric cantor gets knocked off? two days later he has an idea of suing the president. he seems like his way of eliminating himself is to offer impeachment light, if you will. >> he's a nuts and bolts guy he's forgoting it's courage. we haven't seen any yet except in rare instances where he did team up to over throw th

hundreds of tea party conservative groups were in fact denied. some still waiting. some still waiting, just for the record. >> well, i guess you and i can argue that all day, mr. chairman. we need to get on with this hearing. and allow mr. koskinen get back to his job. > mr. koskinen, why june 13, why that day? let me ask you this. why not -- why not february 2 when you first learned there was a big gap in a bunch of emails that looked like they were missing? why not february 4 when, as mr. caine testified -- and mr. koskinen, you know mr. caine. do you know tom caine? >> i do know mr. caine. >> is mr. caine a solid lawyer, professional good employee at the internal revenue service? >> certainly is. >> all right. so why not february 4 when mr. caine, who testified just last thursday, said they knew her hard drive had crashed? will not tell us, look, we might have a problem will not disclose that to somebody on february 4? how about this, how about mid february when mr. caine said last thursday that we know we knew then in mid february that e data on her computer was

the rise of the tea party fits in pattern. after exhaustive research, the scholar values necessaria williamson and peet are scotchford concluded it was perhaps the central issue for tea party members something reinforced by eric cantor as loss. in an abe of sh about political ideology, more government, less government, different government, but as smallium huntington noted many years ago, the force that seems to be moving the world these days is not political ideology, but political identity. everyone is asking the question, who are we? and who are we not? even in america, even on july 4th. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed, and read my "the washington post" column this week. let's get started. >>> so let's make sense of all of this turmoil in the middle east and where it's likely to lead. joining me now to do just that, robin wright is a longtime foreign correspondent having reported from an astounding 140 countries. her latest book is rock the casbah, and farwaz gerge is 'tis london school of his latest book is "the knew middle

stone-cold furious about yesterday's heated republican senate primary in mississippi, which pitted tea partyand short-haired severus snape chris mcdaniel against incumbent senator and man in reverse mortgage ad thad cochran. i say it is time for cochran to go. he's a big government washington insider famous for channeling federal cash to his state. >> he got a tremendous amount of funding for mississippi and the mississippi gulf coast after katrina. >> no one brings home more bacon to his state than thad cochran. >> he's about bringing home the bacon. >> bringing home the bacon. >> his calling card is that he brings home the pork. >> stephen: he brings home the pork and the bacon. though, to be fair, to be fair, hog meat is mississippi's official state currency. the point is... [cheering and applause] the point is, thad cochran is playing the dirty politics of promising people stuff and then delivering it. but not chris mcdaniel. he's so against federal spending that he told a crowd at ole miss, i'm not going do anything for you. i'm going to get the government off your back. then i'm going

daze conservative tea party base, to get them excited about him. yesterday he got a huge political gift. the perfect opportunity to prove to the base what a true believer he really is. well, at least that's what adam quasman thought he had been handed near tucson, arizona. those protesters were there to blockade a busful of immigrant children reportedly coming to town. he saw a huge political opportunity here. after all, what issue riles up the tea bartender base more than fighting immigration. it was a chance for him to be a hero to tea party activists everywhere. raise money to get out front of immigration. and so he did, sort of. >> adam was making a speech. >> the reason why lady justice holds a blindfold over her face -- >> the republican congressional candidate stopped, he got word a bus was heading down the road and took off for it. >> thank you. >> it's what he and the oracle protesters were waiting for, a confrontation with a bus full of migrant children. he tweeted from the scene, bus coming in, this is not compassion, this is the abragat

we know many of the tea party constituents are clammering for i impeachment. when speaker boehner says he's not going to do something, we see soon after that his tea party caucus roll over him. he said he wasn't going to shut down government and ended up shutting down government. you're right, the lawsuit they are going to be voting on this week, may just be the opening salvo in what becomes a demand from the tea party to impeach the president and demand which at the end of the day speaker boehner will not be able to resist. >> congressman, maybe i missed the news story here or sound bite. what's the legal basis for impeachment? what executive orders has president obama done that exceeded his authority to put him in a position to be impeached? >> you know what's crazy about this, ed, right? we've seen the statistics now, the reality is that ronald reagan had many more executive orders and george bush had more executive orders than president obama. when it gets down to it, we've got this really weird argument that republicans are presenting. on the one hand, th