i won't read the other, ted graham and tim o'bryan's stories are equally troubling. i want to good on to "the new york times." which is really by far my favorite chapter. and is the most -- chapter that is truly sort of -- studs turkle, from one story to the other. i interviewed 17 out of 30 reporters there and so you get the whole going from rick, the bureau chief, on to rich, who covered the national security council, steve roberts, and marty schulte who were alternating congress and white house, bernie, the foreign diplomatic correspondent, and they weave in and out. i'll do a long one of marty. primarily because it tells what it was like there without exception if you started in the new york times at that time. marty said, got a bachelor of law degree and then i went into the service for two years and came out and took a v.a. course called, how to get a job. the burden of which was something to do -- go for had gone you're interested. and i wrote 110 makes and i was offered copy boy jobs, mailroom jobs. took the one at the new york times. when you got that job, a

these are the senators who voted against that in committee, orrin hatch, lindsey graham, ted cruz, jeff flake and jeff sessions all voted against strengthening the penalties for straw purchases. also today, there has been a huge release of new information about the elementary school shooting at newtown, connecticut, information in some cases different from what we thought we had known before. in detailed, very long search warrant reports released by connecticut prosecutors today, we learned a lot of new information about sandy hook. we learned about the large numbers of weapons of all kinds recorded from home to of the sandy hook shooter, different knives and swords and blades, a number of guns including the gun the shooter used to kill his mother before going to the school that morning. a huge amount, myriad of different kinds of ammunition. a lot of shotgun ammunition, some handgun ammunition and ammunition for the rifle with which the shooter killed 21st graders and six adults at sandy hook elementary. we also learned more today and different details than told previously about how th

graham. but john mccain starts walling them wacko and wacko birds. the people that were around rand paul around that. mike leigh, ted cruz. is there a change now? is john mccain too far out there and this is the new group that's going to run the senate and the gop? >> i don't know. i like rand paul. he's a very intelligent guy. he made some good points. but he does look -- i hate to say, he can look a little nutty. and anytime anybody talks for 12 hours you're going to look nutty. and it's the old guard who have been ineffective. they've lost the white house.

gun violence, joined today by parents of victims of the newtown school shooting for a ted hall event at the bill grahamuditorium. >>> 5:46. a policy to ease overcrowding in state prisons may be responsible for a rising number of sex offenders violating their parole. the san francisco examiner reports the number of sex offenders who violated parole in california went up 15% since a realignment policy 17 months ago. in san francisco the number of sex offenders violators went up. a lot of them serve very little time because of overcrowding. >>> now we're hearing that keith olbermann and current-tv reached a settlement in a $50 million lawsuit. that settlement was reached during a mediation session in san francisco tuesday. we don't know the terms. olbermann sued after he was fired last year. the network counter sued saying he breached the terms of his contract. current tv's founder, al gore, recently sold the network to al- jazeera. >>> if you cross the bay bridge before 10:00 on a week-day morning, you may see several cars pulled over to the side of the road and their hazard lights are on. it's not a mas

gun violence, joined today by parents of victims of the newtown school shooting for a ted hall event at the bill grahamivic auditorium. >>> 5:46. a policy to ease overcrowding in state prisons may be responsible for a rising number of sex offenders violating their parole. the san francisco examiner reports the number of sex offenders who violated parole in california went up 15% since a realignment policy 17 months ago. in san francisco the number of sex offenders violators went up. a lot of them serve very little time because of overcrowding. >>> now we're hearing that keith olbermann and current-tv reached a settlement in a $50 million lawsuit. that settlement was reached during a mediation session in san francisco tuesday. we don't know the terms. olbermann sued after he was fired last year. the network counter sued saying he breached the terms of his contract. current tv's founder, al gore, recently sold the network to al- jazeera. >>> if you cross the bay bridge before 10:00 on a week-day morning, you may see several cars pulled over to the side of the road and their hazard lights are on. it's not

seen this kind of showdown on the hill and the interesting thing about ted cruz behind the scenes has offended john mccain, lindsay grahamer the filibuster against john brennan he has managed to ruffle a lot of feather in both political parties. >>> ted cruz has promised to shake things up in his own party. remember during the confirmation hearing for chuck hagel, remember during the benghazi hearings with senator clinton. he was tonally the most aggressive. he is not playing by the traditional rules of the senate. and to be frank, the people who support ted cruz, many of the people who voted for him, that's exactly what they want. >> but amy walter, at some point the senate is senate. he's going to need republican support and democratic support to get through something he needs. john mccain called him a whacko bird. >> the other day ted cruz said i take that as a badge of honor. to chris's point, you have to give ted cruz some credit. which he came with this tea party fervor and it hasn't gone away. but the senate and the house are two very different places. folks in the senate will tell you this is the place where deco

graham camp than the rand paul camp. however, it was striking to a lot of people that the bright stars of the republican party like florida senator marco rubio and texas senator ted cruz joined rand paul in the filibuster against the obama administration's drone poll sane i think that's what really fired up folks like mccain and graham seeing some of the young stars of the republican party, the young tea party stars going on a tangent regarding national security and foreign policy and the republican party definitely isn't known for. >> let's play what rand paul -- just gave an interview this morning to glenn beck on his radio show. here's a little bit of what rand paul said regarding his critics. let's play it. >> government were comprised of angels we wouldn't need rules and so i try to make it less about president obama and more about what if some day we elect someone who wouldn't -- who would abuse this power? >> senator, there's been some criticism of your filibuster last night including from apparently lindsey graham saying that the idea is that we're going to use a drone to attack a citizen in a cafe in america is ridiculous. >> well, i agree it's ridiculou

seen the conflict with the establishment as you point out, john mccain, lindsey graham pushing back against rand paul and ted cruz, and the new guard. women tend to negotiate those things a little bit more diplomatically, not less forcefully but more diplomatically. jenna: you say the women have the ability, specifically the conservative women you mention to reflect and express the message of the g.o.p. better over the next couple of years, or maybe to the advantage of the g.o.p. over the next couple of years. still let's go back to the message. do you think the g.o.p. message, the conservative message in this country is u know, put in the right form? is it actually out there in the right way to be kpwupbd, whoever is the one to communicate it? >> not right now. this is something that really needs a lot of work and maybe women can lead the charge on this. conservatives tend to argue in facts and facts tending to cold. when we talk about the deficit or debtor tax rates all of what we're saying as a conservative, i believe is accurate, but it tends not to resonate because it's not cast in more emotional terms.

ted cruz, senator from texas. marco rubio from florida. and rand paul from kentucky. that is the new guard. old guard is mccain, lindsey grahammcconnell. i got to say, guys, when you look at it, the republicans, conservatives who would you rather have going forward representing you? the new young bucks -- they got it going on. by the way, for the record, mr. mccain after all this came out and said he thought rand paul was wrong for doing what he did. scratching my head all day why don't you embrace the young guys instead of continueed infighting? >> kimberly: it's interesting how it is lined up with who is pro and con versus a display of democracy. so what do you think about it? young guns? young bucks? what does this happen on libertarian island? >> greg: i'm still thinking 12 hours without peeing. that is a leak the white house is happy about. the big story here is not about the old or the new guard in my opinion. it's turning president obama to dean wermer. he is the bad guy in the animal house franchise. it's a movie, actually. obama generally was the cape crusadeer for justice and ho now is perceived as petulant hypocrit

and ted kennedy, our overall number one, the legislator versus lloyd benson who won our play-in match-up. >> benson beats grahamenson beats graham. and lots of votes online, almost 1,000 votes, maybe more. so everyone get out and vote today. and robert byrd versus tom daschle on the other side. so robert bird who did so much for west virginia. tom daschle, mr. leader. a good 8-9 battle and they will face off against each other so potentially a kennedy-byrd match-up or kennedy-daschle. and hugo black versus robert wagner for people who don't know who they are -- >> not the actor. >> right. it's not the actor, robert wagner. this is robert wagner, who is responsible for social security. for a lot of the new deal initiatives. for collective bargaining and labor agreements. this is the guy who was really fdr's ally on the hill to get most of the stuff done. hugo black is the last senator to serve on the supreme court. >> right. >> you know -- >> only an eighth seed. >> and he's responsible for lobbying disclosure. we wouldn't have lobbying disclosure if it wasn't for him. >> folks, go and check out the write-ups at

ted cruz now, they're not afraid of older senators. they're willing to kind of break some china and mccain and lindsey graham are coming right back at themou said, in support of a democratic president. >> john, what did you see yesterday? >> well, i think it's interesting. "time" says in its headline, the drone debate scrambles both left and right. there are a set of issues, and particularly issues that resolve around civil iberties that standard partisan categories don't work very well. it's not only that there's fractures, fissures, you have pat leahy, totally respectable democratic senator who voted no on the brennan confirmation. you have ron wyden, the senator from oregon, who's very much on rand paul's side on this issue of drones. so you have these civil libertarian questions. you have the libertarian impulse that lives on the left and the right. you see suddenly the even weirder bedfellows and the notion that ron wyden, far to the left of rand paul on almost everything ends up being an alley ally. they go to core issues around due process, around interpretation of the constitution, around war powers. that kind of stuff sometimes,

graham. but john mccain starts walling them wacko and wacko birds. the people that were around rand paul around that. mike leigh, teds there a change now? is john mccain too far out there and this is the new group that's going to run the senate and the gop? >> i don't know. i like rand paul. he's a very intelligent guy. he made some good points. but he does look -- i hate to say, he can look a little nutty. and anytime anybody talks for 12 hours you're going to look nutty. and it's the old guard who have been ineffective. they've lost the white house. listening to them for the last couple of elections. there's this new guard who i don't think has really accomplished much of anything. you get the middle guard. the middle guard are guys like chris christie. governors, mcdonnell in virginia. governors who have really accomplished things. and those are who we should be listening to. those should be the models for the gop. >> blake, let me ask you the same question. want to add some important names. around rand paul directly that night was mike leigh and marco rubio and ted cruz. they were right with him. okay. he's aski

ted cruise, his filibuster made for some strange bed follows. but, of course, not everybody was happy. is that snarkers calling paul's stance weird and crazy. but what's surprising is that two g.o.p. senators lindsey graham and john mccain launched their own drone strike against paul. >> we have done, i think, a disservice to a lot of americans by making them believe that somehow they are in danger from their government. they are not. i don't think what happened yesterday is helpful to the american people. what we saw yesterday is going to give ammunition to those critics who say that the rules of the senate are being abused. i hope that my colleagues on this side of the aisle will take that into consideration. >> to take this debate into the absurd is what i object to. >> laura: now, don't get me wrong. they have the right to disagree with paul and the majority of g.o.p. senators who stood with him. but, given that the filibuster lasted 13 hours, why didn't either of them have the moxxy to debate their colleague face to face on the senate floor? what were they afraid of? presumably they could have done so either before or after their dinner with the president. were they jealous that a junior senator dom

on one side, texas senator ted cruz who joined senator paul on the floor during the filibuster. on the other side, senators john mccain and lindsey graham thursday. take a listen. >> if mr. paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he's talking about. >> let's introduce. maureen is a staff writer at salon.com. buzz feeds political editor and matt welch, editor in chief at reason magazine. and, matt, we'll start with you. it was a big week for your movement, so to speak. in fact, you couldn't contain yourself over at reason magazine. brian doherty said, "this was a very big deal. in 36 hours the republican party has completely changed." how so? >> that we're having this conversation to begin with. if you went to the 2004 national convention in new york city and listen to zell miller say it wasn't the journalist who brought us freedom of speech, it was the soldier. there was not a rand paul voice at that table at all. 2008, john mccain as the nominee. he's the most aggressively pro interventionist candidate sin