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thank you, wayne slater, and thank you, john feehery.way, we'll be right back after this. >>> let me finish tonight with a smash. the feelings and excitement of 50 years ago, when a college freshman, that would be me, witnessed the coming to this country, perhaps, the most welcomed group in american history. it helped that the beatles arrived a winter after kennedy was killed. it was a gloomy time. especially in massachusetts where i was a college freshman. that sunday night in the dark of february when the four young guys from england showed up on "ed sullivan show," everyone on our floor at holy cross gathered in the r.a.'s room to watch. here we were in an all-men's school watching young girls scream as the beatles sang "i want to hold your hand" and "till there was you." this was the early beatles before they became important to those of us dealing with vietnam and the draft and generational struggle that was only fun if you were looking at it from the outside. fighting with your father, having him angry with you for going to anti-wa

we have had wayne slater on from the dallas morning news. he says that he didn't get the information from your campaign. but why is she blaming you? >> greta, i have no idea. as you have had wayne slater on. he is the one who broke that story. but i think what really matters here is the issues that we're talking about. i'm the one who is standing up fighting for the future security of texas. i'm the one who is fighting for educating the future of texans and i'm the one who has the best plan for creating jobs in the state of texas. >> is she not going to protect the security of texas? >> she hasn't announced a single platform that he she will do to ensure the safety of texans whereas i have announced a plan of more than 50 pages of ways in which i am building upon what i have done as the texas attorney general of arresting child predators of going after those who commit sexual assault offenses, going against those who engage in human trafficking. i have a unparalleled record of keeping texans safe as the attorney general. i would build upon t

joining me now is karen finney and wayne slater, senior political writer, dallas morning news.ing on the show. >> thanks. >> karen, what does it say about some gop leaders that they continually cozy up with the man who calls the president a subhuman mongrel and other things? i'm talking about these things now. >> right. you don't have to go back that far. i think what it says is that there is a comfort level with that kind of language and that kind of hatred because they recognize he has an audience, a base of supporters. one of the articles said when they announce that nugent was coming their numbers increase. clearly there is a political reason that they don't feel the need to disassociate themselves with ted nugent. i think the problem becomes how you say a man like that stands up for liberty and freedom and then make an argument to the whole state of texas that you will represent the interests of every single person when that is the kind of hatred that you are supporting. >> the attorney general in texas there and candidate for governor, he defended campaigning with nugent.

wayne slater, thank you, always appreciate you. >>> to the white house now, president obama set to wrapgan state university where he'll be signing off on what's become quite rare in national politics these days, a bipartisan bill. he's going to sign the farm bill in michigan worth nearly a electrical dollars. joining me for a preview of tomorrow and more, kristen welker standing at 1600 pennsylvania. we'll get to the farm bill in just a moment. i want to start with immigration reform. after speaker boehner talked about the lack of trust with this white house on that issue, this is what president secretary jay carney said a few moments ago. >> i think that the challenges within the republican party on this issue are well known and they certainly don't have anything to do with the president. but as i noted before, the progress has been significant. >> all right, again that's speaker carney at the briefing. we should note that briefing is still happening right now. it is ongoing. there's the speaker continuing to take questions. kristen, it sounded like we heard what is probably going to b

wayne slater is the senior political writer for "the dallas morning news." thanks for joining us.t's one thing for ted nugent to be saying what he's saying, calling the president in effect a communist, a sub human. it's another thing for someone who wants to be governor of texas to welcome him in out on the campaign trail with him. what's been the reaction there? >> yeah. basically, that's the real problem for the abbott campaign. on the one hand, nugent is very, very popular with the republican base in texas. he lives here in texas. his ranch is adjacent to george w. bush's ranch near waco. he's a fixture at the national rifle association. so he's popular among the kind of base voters that abbott is trying to appeal to. the problem here is when you call the president a sub human mongrel, which has not only a disparaging reference, but also an historic racial reference in some places, and then when you call feminine women politicians fat pigs, then abbott has to make a decision. and he had to say, do i keep ted nugent on the stage with me, or not? he has chosen to do so. and that'

. >> wayne slater, i have never been to one of those clubs but i think i have a friend who went to one once. anyway, governor christie, the man once in demand, the man whose hand everyone wanted to shake and in front of as many cameras as possible, that guy travels under a veil of secrecy across the country. a few weeks ago rick scott dodged reporters opting to be ferried into the back entrance of a christie event rather than greet his fellow governor in public. as one republican donor told "the new york times," "people like to dealle with people who have clean skirts," so to speak. so indeed to speak. joining me now is political reporter for "the new york times," michael, fascinating reporting in "the new york times." chris christie is chair of the republican governors association and yet republican governors do not seem to want to social security that much with him. from your reporting how truly in danger is his chairmanship of the organization? >> first of all, i was at that board of fund raiser and we were waiting for rick scott to come in. it was very, very memorable to not see th

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gloria borger and wayne slater, the senior political writer for "the dallas morning news," who's beenstory. wayne, you've been talking to sources close to the greg abbott campaign. what are they saying to you about this furor, this uproar that has developed over the past 24 hours? >> they did not expect this to happen. they knew that knew gent was a controversial figure who had said outspoken things in the past. they did not know how loud this was going to become. they frankly did not expect what you did yesterday, and that is to historically point out the precedence in nazi terminology and in propaganda with respect to the issue of a subhuman mongrel and the use of that kind of language. they also told me that don't look to see greg abbott with anyone, with greg abbott having ted nugent with him in the future. that is not going to happen in the future. so i think people have learned this has blown up in a way they didn't expect and they're trying to run away from it. >> you think they would go one step further, wayne, and actually disavow and condemn these comments from ted nugent? >