. >> and tom davis, you've been there. you're a former member from virginia. what is the back story here? the fact, perhaps, that his pollster had him up 34 points. i mean, this is sort of -- i don't know, malpractice, political malpractice on every level. >> i think they missed it. i think they knew this would be a closer race than they thought early on. they had a $300,000 independent expenditure. they spent a lot of money going after david brat. they knew there were some problems there. and they lost their chairman which was a cantor ally a couple weeks before, where eric was booed. but the larger story here is the difficulty of being a political leader in an unpopular congress, where you have to sit down and make compromises, and pass debt ceilings and produce a work product versus the expectations of the party base which wants people to stand up to president obama. it's very difficult to straddle that. i think most of us thought he would be able to do that, given the financial advantages and the fact that his opponent wasn't backed by the national groups.

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joining us are tom davis, former republican congressman from virginia and past chairman of the nationalublican congressional committee and adam brandon, from freedomworks, a conservative grassroots organization based in washington. how did dave brat pull this off an surprise everybody? >> it's a vote against the republican establishment. eric cantor instead of going after the president when he became a leader, had to sit down, start passing bills, like the debt ceiling, we opening the government that are very unpopular with the republican base. on weekend instead of being home in his district, explaining votes, he's raising money for the republican party and electing other republicans and created basically a vacuum where david brat stepped in and filled it. >> the theme about the mid-term campaign has been the republican insurgency versus the republican establishment. when somebody like eric cantor who has maybe 100% rating from conservative groups go down, how do you define establishment? >> eric is probably the most conservative member of the republican leadership in the house. that's

." >> on the next "washington journal" former republican congressman tom davis talksñr about the teaparty of 2014. associated press reporter alicia caldwell will examine the resources of the washington border. we'll take the calls on facebook and twitter . "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. s and senate are in session for business. the house gavels tuesday at noon. for what to expect in both chambers we talk to a capitol hill reporter. >> billy house is the national journal congressional leadership correspondent. house republicans will hold leadership holding elections to replace eric cantor. are there any other challenges. >> on thursday the conference will vote. >> how about the race for house majority whip. who are the candidates? >> right now there are three candidates. there's a group about 177 conservative members. which gives a heavy lift into the race. there's a late entry from indiana. he is said to be may be eyeing the chairmanship. >> house and senate scheduled to debate spending bills. do you expect congress to get all 12 of the spending bills passe

we begin the program with tom davis, a former virginia congressman. let me ask you this. the shockwaves from the biggest upset maybe ever. eric cantor. what affect will it have int he republican party? >> among members, it will have a huge affect. they will see their leader get in trouble for trying to work out an immigration deal. raising the debt ceiling. it made a tough situation tougher, not just on immigration but on everything. at least through the primary season. >> the narrative a few weeks ago was that the establishment, the chamber of commerce and karl rove, had turned back the tea party. virginia, doesn't that raise doubts? >> the tea party elements never went away. the republican establishment started to learn how to empathize with it. bring them into the fold. mitch mcconnell had a tough, theoretically a tough primary. he was able to get in and handle it. leaders are never popular, particularly when congress is at 15%. but you have a lot of people that are upset. wages have been stagnant for a long time. bailouts for wall street. two wars that went sideways.

tom davis: we're gonna be going out there in front of all those deadheads, and it's like "jerry! dark star!" we gotta do comedy in front of these guys. brent: yeah, i know. franken: go out there. now, remember, we're friends of the dead for a long time. oh, this is great, tom. this is great. we're going out in front of the dead audience

guest is the former congressman from virginia, tom davis.oin the conversation this morning -- host: i want to ask you about something that you said about to haveyour party, that to make these decisions you become radioactive to the base. that was fascinating. guest: right now voters are republicanicularly primary voters. they want to send that message of anger to the white house. when you behind the cut -- become the kind of angry representative who is in their face every day, they like that, it expresses their pain and anger. when you suddenly have to make decisions of reopening the government by passing it that you are collaborating, no longer expressing the anger, you are seen as part of the problem. that is hard of the problem that leaders face in an unpopular congress. mitch mcconnell faced the same thing in kentucky. he got out early and got out ahead of it with more resources thrown against him with eric cantor. he was able to overcome it. look, that is a problem for every leader. leaders who are popular in the district. host: when yo

guest is the former congressman from virginia, tom davis. to join the conversation this morning -- host: i want to ask you about something that you said about to haveyour party, that to make these decisions you become radioactive to the base. that was fascinating. guest: right now voters are republicanicularly primary voters. they want to send that message of anger to the white house. when you behind the cut -- become the kind of angry representative who is in their face every day, they like that, it expresses their pain and anger. when you suddenly have to make decisions of reopening the government by passing it that you are collaborating, no longer expressing the anger, you are seen as part of the problem. that is hard of the problem that leaders face in an unpopular congress. mitch mcconnell faced the same thing in kentucky. he got out early and got out ahead of it with more resources thrown against him with eric cantor. he was able to overcome it. look, that is a problem for every leader. leaders who are popular in the district. host: wh

we begin the program with tom davis, a former virginia congressman. let me ask you this.es from the biggest upset maybe ever. eric cantor.

we began the program with tom davis, a former virginia congressman. let me ask you this. shockwaves from the biggest upset maybe ever. eric cantor. >> among members, it will have a huge affect.

. >> on the next washington journal, former republican congressman tom davis of for junior talks about the influence of the tea party in the 2014 elections. associated press reporter alicia caldwell will examine the resources devoted to watching u.s. borders. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> during this week's question time, british prime minister david cameron answered questions about jobs, the economy, and in -- and islamic extremism in schools. ed miller band also question the prime minister about waiting times for passports issued through the home office. this is about 35 minutes. >> questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in wishing the england football team, the very british before their first world cup game this saturday in brazil. just her speaker, i had meetings -- mr. speaker, i had meetings this morning. i'll will have further such meetings later today. >> i wish every football team in t

. >> this morning, former republican congressman tom davis talked about the influence of the tea party in 2014. then the former state department and national security council official will discuss military operations in a rock. an associated press reporter, lisa caldwell am a well discussed the resources devoted to watching u.s. borders. we will take your calls and you can join the commerce station on facebook and twitter. " washington journal" is next. ♪ host: violence continues iraq. insurgents captured another major town on sunday. washington announced that it is sending extra marines and personnel to safeguard the facilities of the u.s. embassy. according to numerous reports, the obama administration is repairing to open a direct dialogue with iran on the security situation in iraq. but lawmakers back on the hill, we want to hear from you this morning on your m

jim gilmore, former governor of virginia, and president of the precongress foundation, and tom davis, former u.s. congressman from virginia and former national and republican congressional committee chairman. congressman davis, what went wrong for eric cantor? >> they miss diagnosed the electorate. they didn't understand what was going on on the ground. when you're in leadership you have to make compromises, pass debt ceilings and that was disconnected from the republican base, and he didn't go back to explain. he's all over the country amazing ronnie for other candidates trying to help the team but ignored his base. >> so, jim brat, governor, sorry, professor brat attacked cantor saying, quote a vote for eric cantors a vote for open borders, for amnesty. an issue he hit time and time again, governor. immigration reform. now in washington, i don't know that cantor was viewed as somebody willing to compromise immigration reform but that's how brat went after him. was that very important in the electorate? >> i think it's an element. i think the republican electorate is very committed t

host: he is a director >> former republican congressman tom davis of virginia talks about the influence of the tea party in 2014. former state department and national security council official will discuss u.s. military options in iraq. the caldwell will examine resources devoted to watching u.s. borders. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> q&a, with investigative reporter lisa myers talking about her career and the state of today's media. foreign affairs hearing on afghan reconstruction efforts with special inspector general >> this week on "q&a" other uest is emmy award winning journalist and investigative reporter lisa myers who iscusses her year, state of media and her further plans. news aftery left nbc more than 30 years at the network. myers, over 30 years with nbc news, how would you today?journalism guest: i think journalism is

let me bring in ed rendell and republican tom davis. thank you both for being here.ndell, you heard the congressman there, they're now currency, that hostages are now currency. would you go that far to think this now creates a new problem for american service members? >> the hostages have always been currency for the u.s. and many other countries. i remember when israel swapped almost several hundred of its prisoners to get one israeli back from an arab terrorist group. it's always been the case that hostages are currency. look, every military commander who has spoken out on this, current commanders, retired commanders have said, the united states military has always had a policy that in a time of war, we leave none of our men behind. so i think they did the right thing. i wish they would have bargained for stricter conditions, but they did the right thing bringing bergdahl back. i think what they did that was wrong was having the white house ceremony trying to make bergdahl seem like a hero. the information on that isn't clear yet. it should have been done quietly.

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kool herc guy davis just siri acts to cheapen sisters elizabeth mitchell and of course my dear friend tom chabon amazing tom just real quickly thirty seconds what is movement music jason just referenced and how community be used to fight for and influence ocean justice. well. music has always been a very powerful tool that's one of the reasons why dictators always get rid of musicians and and artists and very early on and i think pete seeger embodied the idea of the power of song he really believe that a song can change the world and it often has we shall overcome finally over ten for example among a lot of others that. say to me just. move move that movement music is is more of a term it's protest music but that spans every genre historically protest music was usually mostly folk music and now protest music is turning into you know there's hip hop there's punk music there's jazz music there's blues there's rock n roll in that all that's what i like let's listen must listen to some of it here jason thanks so much for being with us tom going to stick around and give a very special performa