. >> with attacks like that from wayne lapierre coming already on the day before she's even announcing this weekend and both from the right and the left you're not going to believe some of the knocks already thrown against her. plus the united states senator mike lee of utah will be with us. he says the constitution has been willfully subverted by the congress, by the president, by the supreme court. he makes his case here tonight. you can argue with him as you watch. finally let me finish with this historic moment from watching this weekend in american politics. this is "hardball," the place for politics. the beautiful sound of customers making the most of their united flight. power, wi-fi and streaming entertainment. that's... seize the journey friendly. >>> well hillary clinton's expected announcement this sunday may rob some of the excitement from another presidential campaign kickoff. senator marco rubio is expected to announce his presidential campaign on monday down in miami mp the first-term republican senator was elected in 20 so. tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people

you're going to have to ask wayne lapierre.lot of the comments are intended to incendiary. >> i think we've seen the base of the last eight, seven years that's been a profound reaction to barack obama, and they keep wanting to depict him as the other. whetherist demographically symbolic a secret socialist or a muslim i lose track. >> kenyan. >> or a secret kenyan. they keep saying he's not american, he doesn't believe in america, he's not an american exceptionalist, and the base has gotten so used to it that to score with them you can't go go from 1 to 10 you have to go to 11 12 or 13 to registered. >> particularly when you're talking about the clintons you really need to say anything you just need to say clinton and it kind of gets crazy. i think they do need to go the extra mile. >> rand paul is asking his twitter followers to send in any dirt on secretary clinton. do you know of her accepting money from foreign countries? report it now. it's like if you see something, say something. >> but they're not asking you to donate. >

so the confetti would still be falling when ted nugent and wayne lapierre rolled into town. that was a local plan in tennessee how they wanted to welcome the nra to their state. it quickly got very awkward. there may not be very many democrats in the tennessee legislature, but the ones who are left appear to be rather spunky. if republicans in the state legislature were going to override local community laws about where guns were allowed, and where they were not allowed, would republican legislators be willing to live under those same principles themselves? the democrats posed amending this legislation so it didn't just get rid of all the laws banning guns in local parks, their proposed amendment would also override the regulations that banned people from bringing guns and other forms of weaponry into the state capital. kind of calling the question. let's sew how republican state legislators feel about anyone being able to pack any weapon they want in the legislative chamber where they go to work every day. republicans said no to that. no, they did not want people to be able

convention each with ten minutes to rally the base and pay tribute to nra executive vice president wayne lapierreaimed his rhetoric at the former secretary today. >> when her husband stalked and seduced a young white house intern and later perjured himself, hillary didn't just look the other way. she actively participated in the coverup and ensuing smear campaign against the victim. >> let's bring in republican senator from colorado corey gardner. senator, thanks so much for joining me. we heard republicans take some shots there at secretary clinton. no pun intended, at the nra convention. the rnc wasting no time releasing this ad on the heels of the news that secretary clinton is running. let's just watch a quick snippet. >> hillary clinton has some explaining to do. >> used her personal e-mail account to conduct official business. >> wanted to reset relations with russia. >> not really working out well. >> potentially catastrophic move for hillary clinton. >> taking millions of dollars from foreign governments. >> pretty sinister seeming ad. the republican party must be pretty worried about sec

we had this conversation about wayne lapierre the other day, she would be the first female african-american republicans can't win a presidential election if they don't get more african-american votes and more latino votes and more college-educated women than they have in the last two elections. so you have two republican parties. if they want to stay a congressional party, then keep doing this. but the big house at 1600 pennsylvania avenue gets a lot harder to win. >> harry reid said if he within maybe days or a week that he will force the hand here. that he will use the technical ability that he has to force the hand here. tell us about the tactic would it work and how unprecedented would it be to use this to force a vote? >> on an attorney general nomination it's probably unprecedented. he has parliamentary skills where he can bring it up when they want to vote on something, he can step up and force the republicans to block him. he probably can't get her confirm confirmed, but he can get the republicans to vote no to bring her up. what he's said is you guys won the election, and mitch mcc

this is wayne lapierre, pretty powerful guy in the conservative movement.ons or you might love his positions, this is him at their convention on saturday talking about presidential politics. >> when he's finished he intends to go out with a coronation of hillary rodham clinton. yeah. yeah. i have to tell you, eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough. >> so you insult barack obama, you insult hillary clinton. im census.gov you see what's changing in america. don't take it from mainstream media guys like me. really? there's a way to criticize. >> i think some people might interpret this as let's go with the white guy next time. >> really? >> unless we get back -- if your strategy is let's go with the white guy next time go to census.gov watch the romney campaign study these things. sorry, but the demographics are changing. if you insult women and african-americans, good luck winning in presidential politics. >> all right, john from one kwhiet e white guy to another i'll take it back. thanks so much. >>> why is this day different from al