it all seechs into the consciousness of the american electorate. >> bill: new word, ba phenomenon arising. -- they only, bafoon arising. >> and when marco rubio made the cover of an establishment of "time magazine" as the republican savior, that is when he became a threat. that is when he was in their crosshairs. >> bill: glenn beck on deck. tea party, can it rise again? beck is next. >>. >> bill: we haven't talked to glenn beck recently so i demanded that he appear this evening. here is from dallas, thank you for answering the call. >> i didn't know what the ringing was. >> bill: i know you are lonely guy because i know you are talking on your radio program and internet, you are all over. you are talking about the tea party? >> yeah. >> bill: versus the republican establishment, right? >> no, i don't care if there is a tension or not but i think the republicans have betrayed their own values for so long. there a lot of people like me that tried to push the republican party into maybe, hey why don't you have common sense here? all the way along they have worked against the tea party and t

they cannot have a conversation with the single most rapidly growing part of the american electorate unless they address this. the business community believes strongly that resolving this issue is important to growing the economy. this is some reason to believe a consensus can be formed. it may be narrow. the main issue is, what is the administration and the advocates want? do they take martin luther king approach, step-by-step or make compromises or insist on anything and say whether than legislation we would rather have an through midterm? that is the issue. >>chris: you do not think democrats and the presidents would agree that enforcement first, boarder security first? >>guest: it depends on structure. enforcement, sure, i don't think many democrats or all democrats --. >>chris: do you do that of but move at all? >>guest: the question is the timings the metrix, yes, but not something that says never to the people. there is no practical hope of having some dined of prime minister status. >>chris: you saw the gang of eight and that is only four republican senators, let alone the gul

does it send a thought process out there in the american electorate that people on capitol hill can'tir act together? >> i think that is exactly the signal it sends. that there is a divide that simply cannot be bridged. we can't find common ground even over a defense secretary nominee. there may be other things that may be more serious or just as serious. for example, the debt ceiling where common ground is impossible to find. it does reflected a larger dysfunction within the process and more significant gridlock but very hard to overcome. >> kelly: you know as well we know that is painful to the future of our country. hopefully, great minds can come together and find a common ground at which you speak. michael, we thank you for sharing your insights. >> thank you i really appreciate that. >> heather: my alma mater. >> kelly: i used to live down there. >> heather: that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. >> kelly: we're proud of the tarheels don't forget about the blue did he have i ams. >> heather: i'll see you back here tomorrow. >> kelly: thanks everybody. have a great

it all seechs into the consciousness of the american electorate. >> bill: new word, ba phenomenon arising they only, bafoon arising. >> and when marco rubio made the cover of an establishment of "time magazine" as the republican savior, that is when he became a threat. that is when he was in their crosshairs. >> bill: glenn beck on deck. tea party, can it rise again? beck is next. [ male announcer ] any technology not moving forward is moving backward. [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] and you'll find advanced safety technology like an available heads-up display on the 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>. >> bill: we haven't talked to glenn beck recently so i demanded that he appear this evening. here is from dallas,

but one result of that was it was very hard for the american electorate to see all of these things popping up. like with good health care reform have to do with getting people back to work. the answer is not anything really. it was a good thing to do in its own right. and so you have people watching this burst of activity and not really perceiving the job that the obama administration presented as a much worse things that we could've had. if i have talked to already, i thank you. let me stop there and see what other questions we have. matt. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. >> we will take some questions. >> this is a bit of a town meeting. if you are comfortable saying your name, please do. please line up at the microphone and please ask a brief question as opposed to a long speech. >> my question is people were blamed for lack of personal responsibility, but the banks are in a position to see whether people could take it and if they didn't, if they chose not to look, that was their problem, and that would've put more money in people's pockets and we wouldn't have had these hundreds

they can't have a conversation with the single most rapidly growing part of the american electorate. ic community, unless they address the issue. and the business community leaves strongly that resolve on this issue is important to growing the economy. i think there is some reason to believe a consensus can, formed. it may be a narrow one and i think one of the main issues, what do the administration and the advocates want, take martin luther king's approach through civil rights reform, step-by-step or make compromises to get something done with the republicans or insist on everything and say, legislation, we will have an issue in the midterm election. that is one of the big issues. >> chris: you don't think the president and democrats would agree to decide the idea a lot of conservatives suggest of, enforcement and border security first? >> well, that is going to depend on the semantics and the structure, chris. enforcement, sure. i don't think many democrats -- not all democrats -- >> you do that before you move at all on the 11 million -- >> those are details, the question is, what

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. >> in recent months the president who will not have to face the american electorate again, and may nking more long-term has made it increasingly clear that he personally believes same-sex couples should have the right to marry. >> my personal view which is that i think that same-sex couples should have the same rights and be treated like everybody else. >> there had been growing speculation about whether or not the obama administration formerly weigh in on the looming supreme court fight over california's proposition 8. voter passed measure that states only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in california. >> today's sources confirm the justice department will file a brief in support of gay marriage. while dozens of other outside parties submitted their brief for the court consideration, legal scholars on both sides of the issue believe when the administration speaks the justices listen. >> when you have the president of the united states, our highest elected officer taking such a strong stand on this issue, it does give the supreme court some incentive to str

as sort of republican maneuvers top cement more power for an increasingly smaller piece of the american electoratehe minority piece, and that not minority in the traditional sense, but minority in terms of white rural conservative voters who are no longer that representative of america. >> it really is the case. number one. the country is going through significant demographic changes, as it often has, but it's really happening in front of our eyes right now. and at the same time you see this sudden surge in new laws and new efforts to change the rules to make it harder for some people to vote, to entrench in a sense minority political power in ways that hadn't been the case before. and you might put those things together and say one is the reaction to the other. look, there have been other realignments. there have been other challenges to political parties, as you may know, i worked for bill clinton in the early 1990s, and the democrats felt locked out of the white house just as much as the republicans might think they are now. some of the changes clinton pushed were -- ultimately, that's the way

because i think cantor understands, and perhaps correctly so, that republicans don't care about the american electorate or middle class, they just care about cutting taxes. so he wants this kinder friendlier gop message. the problem is there are still the people in -- there are still the same people in the house caucus that there always have been. which is to say a bufrk of conservatives who don't want to push the ball towards the middle. >> i think you hit on it in your introduction. we're talking about to a point. we're not seeing any evidence so far. lots of words moving across the screen about how we want to, you know respect perhaps have a pathway to citizenship but i won't comment on the senate bill. i do think this is a good idea, but i don't know how we get there. this is where the republicans remain among themselves. it is true that each side depends on the other, but i think republicans are operating from a pretty weakened hand right now and i don't think cantor did much beyond sort of cosmetics in terms of seeming kindler and geptlntler. everything is something of a nod toward the 47 respect

but one result of that is it was very hard for the american electorate to see the forest with all these trees popping up. like, what did health care reform have to do with getting people back to work? the answer is not anything really. although it was a good thing to do in its own right. in my view, not in everybody's view. and so you had people watching this burst of act -- activity in 27 directions at once and not perceiving the really excellent job that the obama team did in preventing a much worse fate than we could have had. so i think i've talked too long already. let me stop there and see what sort of questions. i'm in trouble here. of. [applause] >> thank you. >> you'll take the questions. um, this is a bit of a town meeting, so if you're comfortable saying your name, please do. and line up at the month, and everyone will get a chance. of so, please, have a brief question. as opposed to a long speech. [laughter] >> i'm dr. caroline poplin, i'm an attorney. my question is, should the banks have been forced to write down mortgages? people were blamed for lack of, quote-unquote, pe

once again looking at the same polls, they unskew a slightly different message from the american electorate>> i hope and believe the republicans will allow the sequestration to go into effect so that we can start down a path of trying to get control of spending and reduce the deficit. >> the big boulder standing in way of any kind of resolution is the issue of taxes and the closing of tax loopholes. republicans won't hear of it. even if polls show that 76% believe deficit reduction must be a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts. which may sound familiar because back in december when voters again said they wanted tax hikes as part of a deal avoiding the fiscal cliff, here is what republicans were saying. >> the election wasn't a mandate to raise taxes. >> an obsession to raise taxes is not going to solve the problem. >> sound familiar? yes, it does, and that's because republicans are stuck in a loop. it doesn't matter if it's the 2011 budget deal, december's fiscal cliff, or the march 1st looming deadline. the only problem this time is that if they take the wrong option, they won't jus

and with citizens united is the fact that american voter turnout is by world standards abysmally low we had an election in venezuela recently eighty five percent of the electorate turned out when korea was reelected in ecuador eighty three percent of the electorate turned out over the last time we had seventy five percent of the american electorate turn out really is a serious problem and these guys are just committed to making it worse pap you're an attorney and and quite familiar with a lot of how laws made it seems to me in the voting rights act so far has restrained southern states states that have a history of racist behavior and yeah we now have the you know the koch brothers and ally can and you know all these these groups that are pushing these voter suppression ideal laws that will you know we know are going to hinder minority voting in states like wisconsin and michigan and indiana and pennsylvania should the voters right at voting rights act be expanded rather than struck down well there's been plenty of people who have said that if you think about it the voters' rights act is just it's fairly limited if you really think about it's only sixteen state

the turnout of women voters, young people, hispanic voters and even african-american voters. i didn't think would be able to surpass what obama was able to accomplish at the african-american electorate of 2008. but they did come especially in ohio and accounted for their victory there. but ultimately the reason obama won was the central rationale for the romney camp came. when it announced in june of 2011 and the unemployment rivas 10% and in the last month of the campaign of a 7.8%. so their comments regarding the right direction as the economy showed improvement, obama's numbers for now. >> that's the academic cancer. >> david, what is the one thing he would not want to have change? what is that one moment? [inaudible] [laughter] >> would've something that's happened in your favor that that is that it slipped -- what is the one thing you would want to go to the campaign without? >> let me say i think eric's answer would have been an academic one. job numbers have continued to churn along there. our great fear was the reversal of the numbers would start going backwards. >> like last month. >> i can't count on month. >> i would put us in uncharted waters. so that was a concern. but

the nra has [ inaudible ] its way over the american electorate. 30% said they would be less likely tohan actual gun issues. ron in indiana. >> hey, stephanie i have been listening to your conversation about the drone strokes and they are horrible and people getting killed, but my concern is what are we doing as a government as a country, when this technology eventually gets into their hands and they stop dropping them on us. because that is probably going to happen. >> stephanie: who is they? >> caller: whoever we are dropping them on. the terrorists. >> stephanie: uh-huh. >> caller: i would believe that eventually that is going to happen here, just like the planes flying -- >> another country getting drones and flying them here? >> caller: yeah, in other words what are we doing -- look this -- this technology i'm sure we already have people been contacted about selling it to them -- >> stephanie: but i don't understand your point so we should not use technology -- >> they still show up on radar. >> stephanie: yeah. somebody made that point yesterday. they were like what if mexico dec

. >> reporter: the american influence will be unprecedented with 11 electors coming from the u.s. that is second only to the italian contingent. there is growing interest in the possibility of an american successor, too. >> anything is possible. i think that it's considered more likely than the past. there are no nominees or primaries. it's just as likely as there would be someone who didn't appear on any of the lists at all. >> reporter: cardinals will be heading to rome in the coming days. the cardinal whirl will be among theme them and will preside over a special mass in honor of the resigning leader. openifer davis, fox news. >> straight ahead, a mean midwest storm blowing through several states. the remnants are head ourselves way soon. >> and could make for an interesting friday, a fraction of what they getting there and it doesn't take much here in d.c. we'll talk about that and the weekend coming up. scott what, are you working on in sports? >> coming up in sports, details on the wizards trade and a redskins coach caught on camera. and we had out to the ice for a live repor

he is a latino and that is the fastest growing part of the american electorate which mitt romney, oflost to president obama 71% to 27%. my question to you this morning is: we all know, we have all seen marco rubio. he has gotten a lot of exposure lately. he is working hard at it. are you afraid of marco rubio? democrats, progressives? is he going to wrest control back for the republican party? the toll-free number. and do you think that this de deification of marco rubio will work? already, you know, there are some people who are like kicking the tires and saying, hey this may not be all we think it is here i mean, remember one of the things that catapulted marco rubio to fame, part of his personal story, right, he is the son of immigrants. he says, in fact he says this his official line in his biography that he used to win office in florida and to win the united states senate seat was he is the son of immigrants. his parents fled cuba when castro took over cuba. the typical floridian cuba family that castro forced out of cuba and ran away from cast row and came to the promise land.

in the most important speech in the american political calendar president obama looked at the americas an electorate on side in the first state of the union address since his reelection he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expanded plans to bring home troops from afghanistan he's going to church or karen has been listening to what the president had to say. in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all paris spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates of extremist groups have emerged from the peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is of all. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drone everyone knew that's what t

the united states. as american catholics watch what's going on there, what she enthusiasm look for? >> the piece, looking at the footage today they'll be able to spot the american cardinals. there are 11 who are electorsvote and a number of other cardinals from the united states who are likely to be present. so as we start to see footage, i think people will be looking for the faces they recognize. and i think the bigger picture as we look at what's coming in the conclave, we have a tendency to only understand our own limited perspective and it would be easy to have that american lens and say these are the issues facing the church. the church in other parts of the world in south america, the church in africa, the church in parts of asia face a very different perspective and i think what we'll see over the coming days is really a chance to kind of expand our own vision as american catholics to say here's what it's like to be a catholic in another part of the world where the issues are very different. >> do you think the focus there is on those issues that are of concern to americans? >> some of them are. i think certainly the abuse crisis that's faced the church over the last at least decade, though it

the turnout of women voters, young people, hispanic voters, even african-american voters. i didn't think you'd be able to surpass what obama was able to accomplish with the african-american electorate 2008, but they did. especially in ohio. and i think ha accounted for -- that accounted for their victory there. but ultimately, i think the reason that obama won is the economy got better. this was the central reason for the rationale for the romney campaign, and when mitt announced in june of 2011 the unemployment rate was 10% and in the last month of the campaign it was 7.8%. so their trend lines were going in the right direction, and as the economy showed improvement, obama's numbers got -- >> that's no fun. that's the academic answer. [laughter] david, what's the one thing you would not want to have changed, what's ha one moment? >> election day. [laughter] [applause] >> what is something that happened in your favor that you feared, jeez, if that had gone, if that had flipped, sort of taking the same question in reverse. what's the one thing you wouldn't have wanted to go through this campaign without. >> well, let me say, i think eric's answer may have been an academic one, but i

can put on north korea in the most important speech in the american political talent president obama look to get both lawmakers and the electorate onside in the first state of the union addresses his reelection obama talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expended plans to bring home troops from afghanistan damaged as you can has been listening to what the president had to say in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all pair of spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates in extremist groups have emerged from the already been peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is evolving . but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's w

the turnout of women voters and young people, hispanic voters. even african-american voters. i didn't think you would be able to surpass what obama was able to accomplish with the african-american electorate in 2008. but they did. especially in ohio. and i think that accounted for their victory there. but ultimately, i think the reason that obama won is the economy got better. this was the central reason for the rationale for the romney campaign. and when mitt announced in june of 2011 the unemployment rate was 10%. in the last month of the campaign it was 7.8%. so their trend lines were going in the right direction and as the economy showed improvement, obama's numbers got better. >> that's no fun. that's the academic answer. david, what's the one thing you would not want to have changed? like what's that one moment? is it the supreme court ruling? what is something you had -- what is something that happened in your favor that you feared, if that -- if that had flipped, taken the same question in reverse, what's the one thing you wouldn't want to go through this campaign without? >> let me say, i think eric's answer may have been an academic one but i don't think it was an inconsequentia

the turnout of women voters and young people, hispanic voters. even african-american voters. i didn't think you would be able to surpass what obama was able to accomplish with the african-american electorate in 2008. but they did. especially in ohio. and i think that accounted for their victory there. but ultimately, i think the reason that obama won is the economy got better. this was the central reason for the rationale for the romney campaign. and when mitt announced in june of 2011 the unemployment rate was 10%. in the last month of the campaign it was 7.8%. so their trend lines were going in the right direction and as the economy showed improvement, obama's numbers got better. >> that's no fun. that's the academic answer. youd, what's the one thing would not want to have changed? like what's that one moment? is it the supreme court ruling? [laughter] what is something you had -- what is something that happened in your favor that you feared, if that -- if that had flipped, taken the same question in reverse, what's the one thing you wouldn't want to go through this campaign without? >> let me say, i think eric's answer may have been an academic one but i don't think it was an inconseq

we look at the african-american community where the turnout in 2008 was maintain in the overall electorate in 2012. we look at the latino vote that went from 9 or 10% of the electorate to 11% depending on which polls you look at. that vote became more democratic but that vote supported at a higher level pro worker candidates going from 67% to 71% support for president obama. in union household votes we worked to expand the way the vote not only interacted at the ballot box but impacted voters knocking on doors and talking to people in their communities and believe that is the most effective way to move a message. and the vote that came larger and more progressive. we are proud of a 77% win ratio. you've heard folks begin to focus on the sunlight's foundation analysis. they said they were 84% efficient. where we invested we got an 84% return on our investment. something we are proud of given the economic imbalance that exist. and i want to share with you some numbers our members did in the field. one our members knocked on 5.5 million doors across the country over a 240 day span. for those

. >> president obama won by the votes, and it's not that the people are liberal. american electorateore left and the hatest numbers by gallup, gallup did a poll of 9,000 people before the election, which by the way this led to some of the confusion on the polls and that showed this electorate was plus 3 r, plus 3 republicans. gallup. that's a huge poll and now they do a poll that says, 47% of americans identify democrats or independents who consider themselves democrats, versus 42% who lean republican. so, something feels like it's shifting chris. >> well, i mean, there are a lot of things that go into that and this is the kind of stuff that i talk about every day. a lot of people don't want to identify with the republican party anymore because they've had it with the republican party, and not standing up for republicanism and conservativism. so, that's part of it. millions of conservatives didn't show up and vote on election day, and that's another part of it. and also if you say you're not a democrat, you're not a supporter of barack obama, there's a price that comes with that, a s

the american people don't care what the size of government is. >> jon: see, gretchen if you say you want smaller government, the electorate rejects it but if you want it to function more efficiently the electorate likes it even though it's clearly not what you believe. it's a power of the language. that is why this is called a beard and not a chin-faking face pube. i like this game. [ laughter ] to me fair, it would be curlier if that were the case. let's play error and adjustment. >> the error is medicare and social security and the adjustment is save and strengthen entitlements. i guess that sounds better. >> jon: it does (bleep) sound better. it does sound better for the actual plan for entitlements which would cut them which sounds (bleep). [ laughter ] this is the kind of messaging strategy that the republicans have had in place for years. maybe this strategy is starting to have diminishing returns. maybe they've hit peak lumps. there's endless reserve of word-ipulaitions has run its course. is there a way to gain advantage. >> it's time for a new republican that talk like adults. >> jon: like with curse words. let's get this country back

get to 51% of the electric tour rate they'll have to -- electorate they'll have to -- the republicans. >> pull some votes of previously offended demographics. >> jon: 93% of african-americans voted for obama. perhaps pull some from there. >> that's a possibility. >> i got this, al. that is never going to happen, jon, never. >> jon: there's no way the republicans can chip away at the african vote. >> that ship has sailed literally jorchghts yes, sir, nothing is written in stone. >> that's true. i mean maybe the republicans could have a conference where they talk about outreach to minority voters. >> jon: right, right, that could help. >> and maybe they could hold that minority out reach conference, um, i don't know earlier this month at a former virginia slave plantation! never going to happen. >> jon: i forgot about that. >> i don't know how the hell she got in here it's called the hispanic room. not young black chick room. >> jon: al, where are republicans going to get the vote? >> maybe asians, i don't know fiscally conservative gay people if that's even a thing. or possibly hawaiian pranksters but look, it still won't get them over the top. >> jon: romney lost the femal