tillis was at 60% in january. $10 million american with american cross roads with $2 million. $10 million in outside money in terms of the republican primary came in. the tea party candidate, outside groups scraped together a couple hundred thousands. it is clear that jeb bush, romney and the outside help he got got him over the 40%. they have the same fight in georgia and mississippi and kentucky. i agree with karl rove in that most of the places the democrats are hoping to win the fight. in kentucky is doesn't look like it is registering much. but there is a couple places where it is legit might and we will see how it plays out. i think there is still a struggle within the party. it may turn out that the right candidates get nominated. >> karl, what your view of the kentucky primary? where does that stand? mitch mcconnell coasting now? >> first, joe mentioned $10 million spent by the outside groups. $3 million on tillis and the other $7 million sent going after hagan. as to kentucky, i think mitch mcconnell is g

tillis called it a great idea. he even supported an obamacare exchange in north carolina, so thom tillis thinks he can attack kay hagan over something he thinks is a great idea? watch close. seems like thom tillis wants it both ways. >> of course kay hagan supports obamacare but she's running ads slamming tillis for calling it a great idea. she wants to run against greg brannon. who else wants brannon to win tomorrow's primary? well, rand paul does, because after spending saturday with rupert murdoch in kentucky, paul headed to north carolina today to stump for greg brannon on primary eve. all of the republican establishment wants thom tillis to be their candidate in north carolina, but not rand paul. and he might get his way, or at least he might prolong the fight between those two republican candidates. if no candidate gets more than 40% of the vote tomorrow in north carolina's primary, then there's going to be a runoff in july. that would be two more months of negative ads and one republican spending money bashi

tillis opposed that. there are another 180,000 north carolinians who would benefit by extending unemployment compensation. that's 560,000 people. if they all vote, good lord, you know, that's all kay hagan would need to win, but there's something even worse and more insidious about it. if you listen to what tillis said on the tape, not only the divide and conquer strategy, but the absolutely outrageous assumption that he made that there are people who choose to be poor so that they can get food stamps and welfare. that people actually make a decision to be in that condition. they say to themselves, well, i don't want to get a job that pays good money. i'd rather get a little pittance on welfare and food stamps. that's a ridiculous statement to make about any human beings. people want to work. they want the dignity of work, they want to earn decent money to take care of their family. no one says, aha, i'm going to be poor so i can get food stamps and be on welfare. it's an idiotic suggestion. >> very idiot

for tom tillis, the ap saying mr. tillis cleared the 40% threshold to avoid a runoff.s, speaker of the republican house of north carolina, versus incumbent democratic senator kay hagan in the fall. in ohio, incumbent house speaker john boehner, he was defending his seat against three republican primary challengers. turns out, speaker boehner barely had to try to hold on to his seat tonight. he won handily with fully 69% of the vote. i love election night. even in early primary election night. the first signs of spring. oh, look the crocus. stay with us. we have much more ahead. t powern feel great on your skin? actually it can. neutrogena® ultra sheer. nothing outperforms it. nothing feels cleaner. its helioplex formula provides unbeatable uva uvb protection to help prevent early skin aging and skin cancer. all with the cleanest feel. you won't believe you're wearing such powerful sun protection. it's the best for your skin. ultra sheer®. and for on-the-go, new ultra-sheer face & body stick. from neutrogena®. on buying a car for...er face & body stick. when i was intro

thom tillis won easily on tuesday. north carolina will probably be the most closely watched senate race in america this fall. it's a pivotal state for republicans o to pick off if they're going to win back the senate. now the establishment has the candidate it wants. this time it stopped the tea party grass roots from nominating another christine o'donnell. it stopped the tea party from giving away the election to the democrats in the primary. so this was not a good week for the tea party. at least on the surface. i say that because if you look a little closer, there was a different story that emerges. the tea party candidates got shellacked and they are running away from republican primaries. the wind on that level is out of their sails. but why is that happening? is it because republican voters have suddenly moved to the miltd toward moderation, toward compromise? or is it because the republican establishment moved toward the tea party? take thom tillis, he has all the establishment endorsements and gotten title, sta

i endorse thom tillis. joining me now is stephanie schrock and you guys are supporting is kay hagan in that race. >> sure are. >> here's the latest polling we have in the head-to-head matchup, thom tillis and kay hagan, 43-43. it's going to be a very closely fought battle. how do you see the dynamics of the race playing out? >> this race just started today. thom tillis couldn't beat the tea party on his own until he became the tea party. all this conversation, as you started off with the establishment embracing thom tillis, if this is the republican establishment, i do believe the establishment has become the tea party. as we look at the weeks and months that are going to come, there is going to be a clear choice for north carolina between a united states senator and kay hagan, who fighting for north carolina families, economic opportunity, bringing common sense to the senate, versus a state senate speaker, or excuse me, a state speaker, who has really ushered in an incredibly right-wing legislative platfor

thom tillis called obamacare a great idea. tillis even supported an obamacare exchange in north carolina. so thom tillis thinks he can attack kay hagan over something he calls a great idea? >> the origins, by the way, of that great idea, quote, it was an interview several months ago. tillis was critical of the health care law before concluding that it was a great idea that can't be paid for. it's a quote he says with sarcasm that hagan took out of context. we'll bring you much more on all of the other primary races to watch today over the next hour. but we had to start with that big one. now let's turn to the other big political headline this morning. just a half hour ago the white house released what it calls the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever generated on climate change and its impact across every region of america and major sectors of the economy. but will the president take any meaningful action in the long run? can he change the politics on this? today's 1300-page report shows the average temperature in the

for tom tillis, the ap saying mr. tillis cleared the 40% threshold to avoid a runoff.an house of north carolina, versus incumbent democratic senator kay hagan in the fall. in ohio, incumbent house speaker john boehner, he was defending his seat against three republican primary challengers. turns out, speaker boehner barely had to try to hold on to his seat tonight. he won handily with fully 69% of the vote. i love election night. even in early primary election night. the first signs of spring. oh, look the crocus. stay with us. we have much more ahead. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd. i'm d-a-v-e and i have copd. i'm k-a-t-e and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is no

brannon trails tillis by 26%.er of citizen jane politics and daily beast contributor patricia murphy. it's always good to see you especially when we talk about things we don't understand happening in southern races. >> welcome to the south. >> exactly. so how did thom tillis do this? they were running neck and neck a few weeks ago. now he leads by a healthy margin and is expected to win. but is this truly a story of a -- of the establishment candidate triumphing over the fringe candidate? >> well, a couple of things to note here. this race is actually tightening up a little bit. a ppp poll came out this morning showing greg brannon closing that gap by nine points with thom tillis. tillis is right at 40%. he needs 40% plus one vote to get through without a primary. greg brannon has been able to bring in people like rand paul, has been able to knock thom tillis down quite a bit. in this last week, nobody saw that coming. but what has thom tillis done right? he has spent a ton of money. he obviously is the big money

for tom tillis, the ap saying mr. tillis cleared the 40% threshold to aindividualvoid a .of the republican house of north carolina versus incumbent democratic senator kay hagan in the fall. of interest in ohio, incumbent house speaker john boehner, he was defending his seat against three republican primary challengers. turns out, speaker boehner barely had to try to hold on to his seat tonight. he won handily with fully 69% of the vote. i love election night. even in early primary election night. the first signs of spring. oh, look the crocus. stay with usme. we have much more ahead. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close. new at&t mobile share value plans. our best value plans ever for business. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain, you turned up the

thom tillis had this to say about that.i think for the most part, the market needs to define that. when we create artificial thresholds then you run into a big problem. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think the minimum wage is a winning issue pretty much all over the country. there are plenty of people who may be conservative on this or that issue. but if you ask the basic question should people who work every day get paid something much closer to a living wage, the answer is, yes. it's a conservative value that you ought to be paid if you work. but also on your point about mobilization and reverend barber has led an extraordinary mobilization down there, i think this is going to be the first electoral opportunity to cast a ballot on what's been happening in north carolina. over the last couple years. and so, i think -- >> what about that, reverend? >> well, i think you're exactly right. when we were mobilizing, people were fighting for unemployment. fighting for medicaid. thom tillis called us whiners and losers.

they wanted to knock out tillis. so they were -- democrats were running ads against tillis to be able to try to make sure that either it was extended to a runoff or they could run against brannan. >> yeah, but i think it would be wrong to take away the lesson somehow that it's always the winning move for republicans to take the more liberal or the more moderate candidate. when the establishment has chosen candidates i think the last few years, denny reberg in montana, rick berg, north dakota. >> they lost. >> they lost. and were acceptable to the establishment. you go back in recent presidential history, mitt romney, john mccain, these were not the conservative alternatives in those years. the winning formula is a conservative one for republicans, and i think in a thom tillis they have a conservative. >> it's also a unified party. you can't have the tea party in revolt against republicans, or that would play right into the hands of the democrats. >> absolutely. i mean, the goal here now is to win back the majority in

that could be a problem for tillis. because in the interim, there's going to be a special session of the state legislature. which means he's speaker of the house will be very front and center and he said he absolutely will not step aside from his job as speaker. in the legislature, it has been pretty controversial in north carolina because the republicans have taken control of the legislature as well as the governor's office. and they've really moved to a much more conservative agenda. that's one of the main issues that kay hagan wants to use. so it could be problematic. probably not fatal if tom tillis doesn't -- if he gets into a runoff. but he would have a lot of advantages in a runoff as well. >> chuck, we keep hearing either senate majority leader harry reid or other democrats try to castigate republicans for relying on outside money. and tried to encourage voters to think of that as a suspicious sort of intrusion into the state. talk about the outside money that's coming in in north carolina and maybe the koch bro

>> excuse me, yes, tillis was going to get above 40%. they started to say, hey, we weren't trying to meddle in this primary. it's all fun and good. we didn't try to do something we didn't achieve but the momentum may be shifting. i think paul is contributing to that and i also think democratic ads could be a factor. >> talk a little about thom tillis. up until the last few days there was the general expectation, yeah, he's going to break 40% and win this thing and it's a victory for the republican establishment. there's been a lot of talk in this race in north carolina and some other races, lindsey graham, south carolina, thad cochran, mississippi, that maybe the republican establishment has learned how to tame the tea party. when i look at what thom tillis has done to position himself for this thing, he's basically gone and adopted tea party rhetoric, tea party positions on issues. there's a clip of him going around where he has the same position on global warming as greg brannon, so in a way it seems like the tea party maybe has tamed

the biggest loss, perhaps, came in north carolina, where state house speaker and gop candidate thom tillisefeated tea party favorite greg brannan by more than 18 percentage points despite an 11th hour push for brannan by rand paul. they put support for the tea party among republicans at just 41%, down from a high of 61% in 2010. we're back with dan and jason riley, and james freeman also joins us. so jason, what's happening here that this year the tea party challengers in these primaries aren't faring as well? >> i guess reports that the gop establishment staff have been greatly exaggerated, paul. >> it's not because everybody has suddenly fallen back in love with them? >> partly, they're a victim of their own success. >> the tea party? >> the republican party to the right. i think the candidates, the tea party candidates, it's tougher for them to distinguish themselves from the establishment, in the case of thom tillis, you're talking about a house speaker in north carolina took on a tenure reform, cut taxes, raised the cap on charter schools. it's hard to get to this guy's right without

but the truth is that thom tillis, you know, moved right a long time ago. and if this is the establishment's desire for a candidacy, then they have embraced the tea party politics of america. >> i want to play this clip of thom tillis. it's, i think, from a few years ago. it's been surfacing and going around a lot now. in which he has his own kind of 47% moment. take a listen. >> what we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who run assistance. we have to show respect for that woman that has cerebral palsy and had no choice in her condition, that needs help, and that we should help. and we need to get those folks to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government and say at some point, you're on your own. >> i've never heard that from a politician. we need to get those folks to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent -- that's pretty ugly stuff. >> that is not a leader of the citizenry of north carolina. i mean, what kind of -- right.

tom tillis, the state house speaker, the front-runner, as you mentioned, and people are saying that tillis that magic number. i spoke to a pro in raleigh who pegged it at 47%. i don't think it will be that high but tillis has been steadily creeping up. that's sort of the consensus now that he will break that number and avoid a runoff and if he doesn't, as you mentioned, it's going to go to a runoff in mid-july, which could be a really troublesome thing. jake? >> of course, the precedent here is when ted cruz kept an establishment candidate from winning his primary and the way that the republican party is facing here with tea party challengers and if the lieutena lieutenant governor did not fend off a race and ted cruz went on to win. >> that's right. it's interesting, jake. the funny thing is that a lot of primaries, the national press has made this a traditional establishment versus tea party narrative for a senate race sort of but it's a little bit limited for two reasons. one, tom tillis is actually very conservative. that was texas and came really pushed through a lot of landmark conse

this is going to become what tillis is known for. this race hasn't really started to be engaged on both sides. kay haguen has this and i'm sure we're going to see a lot more of it. >> it does seem odd to have a leader of a state, who you talked to on the phone, saying our goal here is to get the sick people to attack the poor people. >> no, chris, what his point was and the context of what he said was to make sure we get assistance to those who need it and stop enabling those who take advantage of the system. that's his point. >> wait a minute. what's the -- what was he saying to the people of cerebral palsy, get out there and look down on people on public assistance who you think shouldn't be on it. join an army against the poor people. what's the point of bringing the sick people into a battle with the poor people? what's the idea here? >> the context, chris, as i said, is to make sure that the assistance gets to those who need it. and if you want to look at the numbers, the fact of the matter is that he is doing well in n next. hi

tillis is, again, and established candidate.oks like he would do better against kay hagan, and that is why you have a lot of focus on this race, but it is interesting that rand paul, a very credible candidate himself in 2016 as a potential republican presidential candidate, has actually been stumping for another. >> the irony of bastille day. of theproviding most outside money for the primary, and which candidate seems to be benefiting the most? >> well, i think a lot of the big pacs, like crossroads and others representing be established republicans are probably reviving the most. there is probably some tea party funding for mr. brandon. i do not know if evangelicals were helped along by mr. huckabee, former governor huckabee, who has really stepped up to the plate for harris. >> sir, i would imagine that their message just cannot be that whatever president obama is for, we are against. platforms?eir what do these candidates stand for? >> that is a good question. i do not think it has been very easy for them to differentiate th

tillis, fairly impressive that he almost got to 50%.o focus now on kay hagan on what i call my desert island race. if i could have only the result of one senate race on november the 5th, this would be the race i'd ask for. it may be the most evenly matched competitive senate race in the country, and it could be the purest test of the two parties going into the fall, republicans who benefited from the coverage of the race portraying tillis as more moderate, at least as compared to his conservative primary challengers are doing the best to neutralize the race. >> the mission is to beat kay hagan and make kerry reed irrelevant. >> democrats led by the hague and campaign want to make this race about republican overreach in the state. and a referendum on the unpopular republican governor in the state, pat mccrory. hagan called the election a choice between two very different records saying "tom tillis has spent his time pushing a special interest agenda that has rigged the system against middle class families." a recent analysis of ad data f

the person we don't want to run against is thom tillis.it goes to a runoff and they have failed to do that. >> if the establishment does prevail f they get their candidate through, did it come with a price? brannon has all of the markings of another todd aiken waiting to happen. he talked about if we had state militias. on the other hand, to tamp down the tea party insurgency, to make himself acceptable, here's an example of what thom tillis had to do. this is from a republican debate on the issue of climate change. this is what tillis is talking like in the primary. >> is climate change a fact? >> no. >> no. >> no, god controls the climate. >> no. >> so i'm wondering, there's an example of thom tillis avoiding a land mine in a republican primary, but if that's the thing he's had to do to keep the tea party from revolting to get the nomination, that seems like the kind of thing that will hurt him in the fall. are there more examples where he set general election traps wsh. >> it does, there are. he's kept a little space between him and the

who is thom tillis? does he have a chance to tip the balance.teven colbert weighs in on rand paul's big debates over the weekend. that and much more. stick around. scott: hello! nbr: scott - we're concerned. you just fed your lawn earlier this spring and now you're at it again. scott: (chuckles) indeed, a crucial late spring feeding helps defend the grass against the summer heat to come. nbr: we knew that - right guys? oh yeah! scott: feed your lawn. feed it! the was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com >>> earlier in the show, we told you about thom tillis' victory in north carolina. the crowded gop senate. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends according to a study by the american media project across the country spending on ads, it's surpassed the 43 million mark. that's a 45% increase of two years ago. over 109,000 ads have already aired.

tom tillis is the speaker of the house. the establishment candidate. he had one opponent that was backed by the tea party. senator rand paul went in the day before the primary to campaign for him. another opponent had support from evangelical base of the party. he was backed by mike huckabee, the former arkansas governor. this was a real test. the establishment went in on behalf of tom tillis. they propped him up with some money. gwen: not with just some money, a lot of money. >> the key was, could he get above 40%, and, therefore, avoid a runoff, which would have been costly, potentially debilitating, would have been harder to bring the party together. he got 46% of the vote. it was an impressive victory for him. as we looked around, in ohio there were a number of tea party challenges. in the state legislature. john boehner had a challenger. the incumbents and the establishment won across the board, and we'll see whether this is a pattern as we go forward. gwen: this is a cautionary tale not only for kay hagan, but other democrats, too. >> well, it is

i have spoken with tilly chang about the possibility of the transportation authority staff providing technical support to the working groups in terms of understanding how transportation systems work so i'm requesting the ta staff collaborate with the working group >> we'd, glad to do that. thank you >> thank you. >> okay. great. we'll go on to public comment any member of the public wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 14 public comment. >> now is the time for the members of the public to comment relative to the san francisco transportation authority board and seeing none, public comment is closed. move on >> item 15 adjournment. colleagues, we're adjourned. thank you. >> good morning. welcome i'm with the city's office of economic workforce development well, we're incredibly excited to celebrate this land. i've been working think this project since 1999 thank goodness what we didn't know it was going to take so long we're incredibly excited as my career as a planner this is one of the most exist projects to see happening 17 hundred units ever housing in this

tillis has repeatedly said he's a conservative. and he was going to push that conservative agenda.that. but at the same time they campaigned on the idea they would create jobs and improve education and living standards, et cetera. haven't done that. they reached right into the bedroom, right into the voting booth and said we'll take away rights, not add jobs. >> yeah. nia, you know, it's kind of like peeling back the layers of an onion here. theoretically governor mccrory is the leader here. but really truly if we're talking about the legislation itself, the leadership and sort of the center, the nucleus in all this is the legislative committee. which is drafting the new voter i.d. requirements, the anti-union measures. these are taken almost to the letter and enacted and placed into law not just in north carolina but in states all over the country. >> that's right. and i think what we'll have to see is where republicans stand on this. the recent poll out of elan college shows that republicans among the legislature, only about 40% approval rating in north carolina overall. somethin

tillis?noted that all of the republican candidates chuckled about a question about climate change as if they'd been askeds about their belief in the tooth fairy. what drives that disbelief? well, first consider this. last spring, pew research noted something else. that while only 40% of americans said that global climate change was a major threat to their country, more than 50% of canadians, australians, french, and germans gave that answer. more than 60% of italians and spaniards. and more than 70% of japanese. what accounts for the difference in concern? as i tweeted this week, fewer americans worry when climate change than canadians, aussies, french, or germans? hey, do they have talk radio there? in other words, this all-important matter of global survival has been relegated to the trash heap of our partisan divide fuelled not by scientific debate but by bluster generated by men with microphones. how do we change things? here's a terrific suggestion that came from a letter to the editor o

looks like tillis will beat the 40% threshold to aindividualvoi run-off. endorsed by jeb bush, mitt romney and mitch mcconnell. biggest opponent was the tea party candidate who doesn't believe in public education. republicans need to within this seat if they want to have a credible chance of taking back the u.s. senate. it is good for the establishment that they have their candidate. well, not necessarily. here is why. as speaker of the republican house. tillis had a legislative jenn the inspiration for the moral monday protests as you may remember. thousand of people pro testing out in the streets and in churches week after week. as tillis led the first republican controlled legislature in north carolina in 140 years to pass tax cuts for the wealthy, voter i.d. laws and new abortion restrictions. they also blocked medicaid expansion. today, kay hagen's campaign sent around this video of tillis from 2011. >> what why have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on the assistance. we have to show respect for that woman who cerebral pals

thom tillis winning big in his primary. staving off two charlies.sets up one the most expensive and closely watched races of the year against incumbent kate hagan. republicans were hopeful he would pull it off, and it appears he did. and this from the outside spending from the super pacs, it's expected to be a humdinger and one of the two that republicans are going to need to take the majority. >> so this is a game plan for republicans who hold on to their seats? >> yeah, tillis is only the second republican in the house in north carolina since reconstruction. so it's expected the democrats will focus in on that record. republicans likely to turn around and say, hey, at least this guy has accomplishments to talk about. kate hagan hasn't done necessarily as much as she could have in the past years. >>> and where in the world is toronto mayor rob ford? you know, she's supposed to be in rehab. his brother said, no, no, he's there but won't say where. what the heck is going on, ed? >> well, to not disclose where he is probably makes sense because we'll

chuck todd interviewed him at 9:00 this morning, tamron, and tillis said that he regretted using the "divide and conquer" but he said that he stood by the comments that there are americans who are living on the government dole who aren't deserving of it. aun one thing that thom tillis and others leave out is the welfare reform law where people have to get a job to get government p assistance in the 1980s and certainly the 1990s when ronald reagan made it a big deal about people getting welfare checks and doing nothing at all, and this is going to emphasize in some ways the empathy gap that the republicans have to wade through, and they are set up very well in the 2014 midterms bs, but in 2016, to cl the empathy gap with the democrats, and that adds to the fodder. >> and also, clay aiken with 40% of the vote there. those are the numbers i have in front of me in north carolina. >> yes, he is leading by 400 votes or so, and he has not been declared the overall winner, but okay shape right now, but we have to see who emerges from that runoff, but even if clay aiken emerges victorious, he

. >> and you wrote about this proxy war, and governor bush said this about tillis last week by bush,nt for the republicans to have a majority, and i'm convinced that it runs through thom tillis, and this is pointing to the concern of a runoff? >> yes, and republicans are terrified of greg brannon not only to get into the runoff and prolong ago primary, but to win the nomination then if this thing goes two more months. look, gregg brannon has been sued, successfully sued by partners for potentially misleading them in a business inv investment, and you know, he has flirted with the conspiracy theer the ris about september 11th on the radio, and now his cam can pain, would say, look, these comments were taken out of con t context, but it is all going to be opposition used against him if he can win this nomination, and the republicans are fearing if he gets into the race against democrat kay hagan, it becomes another potential representative todd akin situation in missouri where he becomes too far outside of the mainstream for him to win the general election in north carolina, and that i

and the importance of this race is the money and the people backing speaker tillis.ou know, we are -- the primary battle is tomorrow. if none of the candidates gets 40%, there will be a runoff in july. and of course the establishment folks are hoping that tillis will pull it off so that they don't end up having a candidate battered and beaten going into a runoff who could then possibly lose to senator hagan, who is when you look at the polls, she's not doing very well. they view her seat as one they could take. but if they don't get through -- if they don't get through tomorrow's election with tillis coming out the clear winner at 40%, the possibility that kay hagan could eke this out is very real. >> right. and you talk about that risk, bob. the tea party has been very interested in primaries. they think that they flex muscles. they argue it's good for the party writ large. the counterargument as we all know is sometimes you end up getting folks who aren't going to carry the day or are just too hot for a big race listen to brannon on the second amendment here for an

let's look at the tom tillis situation.nnen, the face of the tea party candidate, tillis beats him. does brokennen endorse tillis as they face kay hagin. how do the tea party republicans and the tea party members coalesce behind these establishment candidates? >> that's the tricky part. the guys at the top will always endorse. there is endorsements and there is endorsements. it depends on how enthusiastic they're going to be at the top. but it's also the case that the tea party is not one solid voting bloc controlled by the likes of richard daley. you've got individual activists who even if rand paul says now all good republicans must unite, will say why do we need two democratic parties? we might as well have the legitimate one if you're going to have two. it's a tricky proposition. and just getting an endorsement is no guarantee that you get thes at the core of the group. >> you mentioned rand paul. what do you see happening over the next few months as we head into the mid terms in terms of his strength, what he can repre

let's talk about the importance of the tillis win. our chief political analyst gloria borger and dana bash, our chief congressional correspondent. gloria, how big of a win is this for the establishment republican as opposed to the tea party -- >> the establishment fights back. you've had the chamber of commerce and other establishment republican groups putting millions of dollars into this race because they're sick and tired of nominating candidates that are going to lose in general elections. this was a very important win for them. rand paul, as you know, was on the other side of this. he endorsed the guy who lost. and it took him about what, a nano second, to turn around and say, okay, now i'm -- >> because he went in there, rand paul, to endorse the tea party candidate. >> tea party was split though. >> if there would have been a runoff, would have been good news for kay hagan, the dimmic incumbent. >> she would have loved that because the republican fight would have gone into the summer, ticking away from her. i think when you tal

tillis's visibility story being hailed as a win for the establishment. last night he laid it out in front of an energetic crowd. >> it's not the end of a primary. it's the beginning of a primary condition and add to beat kay hagan and make harry reid an irrelevant american. >> wow. >> tillis's win comes in large part through massive spending by the chamber commerce and groups like american cross roads. he faced a tough showdown with republican kay hague hoon easily won her primary. hagan has raised millions. and millions from democratic-leaning groups. 90% has been spent from outside money. before we move on to other races -- >> yeah, this is an important race. julie, ongoing battle between the tea party and the establishment wing, the republican party. i think in the end they're all going to come together anyway because everybody wants to win. but this is not 2010. it's not even 2012. the establishment, the empire strikes back that started in alabama. julie, you'll remember, with the chamber of commerce and the ricketts and several other people poured m

what we are saying is the terrible tale of tom tillis' political tragedy. they spent the year hurting the poor, attacking public education, attacking the sick, attacking teachers, young women, labor rights, taking north carolina down the road of tea party extremism. now they want to turn, and lead tyranny. block and ban people's right to protest. chris, one of the rules they put in place is that if you bring a sign in that a legislator finds disturbing, subjective, you can have removed or arrested. if you look like you might disturb. says if you present what they call imminently the possibility of disturbance, but it is not going to deter us, never has in the movement and never will. >> you mentioned tom tillis, speaker of the house, republican, running for senate against kay hagan. do you think he is going to own the full record of that north carolina legislative session as he tries to win statewide election? >> it is his record, he has to own it. he is speaker of the house, one of the most powerful offices in the state, speakers of the house across the co

tom tillis looks like he's going to be the ultimate winner. but he has to get 40% of the vote, right, to not have a run-off? >> that's right. if he gets the 40% threshold, he will be the republican nominee and will face kay hagan, the incumbent democrat. if he gets even a little bit below, 39%, that will spark a run-off. and i think obviously supporters of the other candidates in the race, including senator rand paul, governor mike huckabee, they've endorsed other people in the race, if tom tillis doesn't get that 40% hurdle or clear it, we have two more months on the republican side to watch a bloody, costly battle in the run-off and finally someone emerges. that would give kay hagan and her team eight to ten more weeks of sort of getting ready for battle while the republicans duke it out internally. >> we all remember how that worked out in the presidential election. ironically, it's mitt romney who i think has endorsed tom tillis. you mentioned other high-profile republicans endorsing -- by the way, bless you on the side of the set. i'm hea

>> tillis is a more moderate kind of republican. he has a high name identification in the state already, but the most important thing in this race is probably the weakness of kay hagan as a candidate. she's a freshman. she got elected in a weird moment in north carolina when barack obama won the state narrowly, but won it in 2008. those circumstances have changed dramatically, so without the advantage of having either a weak republican nominee or a long fight, it doesn't look like she has a very good shot. >> how is it going? what do we know about tillis' results this evening? >> put it this way. he's doing better than he needs to in the places where we didn't think he'd do well at all. >> we're going to go back to chris as we get updates on that news. chris, thank you. >> you bet. >>> also breaking tonight, new details on the select committee investigating how the white house and the administration handled the ben za give terror attack. we just learned moments ago this committee will be made up of seven republicans and five democra

not just for thom tillis' win but the magnitude and the size of that win. the north carolina speaker joining me right now. speaker, congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> now everyone is saying by your win, by the magnitude of that win, by taking out at its highest point close to eight other candidates, you are prefacing a big win for the party itself in the senate. what do you think of that? >> well, i think we've got a lot of work to do, but i think that we've also got a failed record on kay hagan's part and obama's part to communicate to the american people. i think with that we've got a great shot in november. >> all right. now, we called the senator and have not heard back. i do want to get the announcement out that you had won and we were hearing criticism from democrats in the state that no one in the country has done more for the koch brothers than thom tillis, cutting public education, nearly $500 million and cutting taxes for the wealthy while refusing to pay raises for teachers. we can kind of see where this is going from the other side. how do

tillis was in control of the house. that ee what these runoffs do. they become a push to the right you notice in north carolina, north carolina was a battleground state in 2008 and there are 2000 house democrats, mike macintyre and larry kissell who held on for a long time. right now democrats are basically dead in the water in this state. the state is very hostile to democrats. the only democrats that really exist in places like charlotte and it's become an incredibly red state where it was once a moderate -- a state that barack obama put in play in 2008 and was a battleground state even a little bit in 2012. so this has become a very red state due to very savvy republican maneuvers when they were redrawing the district lines for 2010. so the state's plitt cliel mat has changed in a big way and you're going to see that and come to kind of roost here. >> there's so much going on in the state of north carolina. another race, the second district, i know you've been following clay aiken's race. i'm actually a fan of his, maybe not of his politics but of

i have compiled a brief list of a few of the highlights of tom tillis's sort of views. he doesn't believe in climate change, opposes increase in minimum wage. even seemed sketchy on whether there should be a minimum wage at all. he supports personhood, helped pass the most restrictive voter law in the country. he banned sharia law. that's vital. >> that's a good thing. >> he is a very far right conservative guy. he led this conservative movement in raleigh which went so far to the right that voters really revolted against it. i actually think for kay hagan, it's sort of a good thing that she now has her opponent and can start to talk about him and defy him. the narrative in the primary was that he was the, quote, unquote, establishment more moderate candidate. the reality is that he is extremely far out there. >> i think she wouldn't have minded if he had to spend more money fighting it out in a primary before she had that chance to define him, but certainly now she has something to focus on. the choice is always the incumbent or unknown, you can always say, well, maybe

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>> tom tillis as the backing of some high profile republicans, jeb bush, but mostly we're talking aboutgton, d.c. the people who really pour a lot of money in, who pick a lot of the candidates hope that they're going to be the ones that can be the best people to wind upbeating people like pay hag parksn who see as very vulnerable really key to republican chances of taking back the senate. >> woodruff: you spay pour a lot of money in to the races from washington or other places, quantify it for me. >> we're talking close to $20 million already at this point. just on television ads. 20,000 ads have been poured in to this race from outside groups. 90% of that money by outside group, is that is key. they saw what happened in 2010 and 2012 they lost potentially five seats capacity have already had mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader don't want the let that happen again. >> woodruff: the turn out was still low. >> turn out isçó low in primari, very difficult. that is one of the biggest challenges because their pillarr vote as african americans, hispanics, least likely to turn up at the po