forth has polled abysmally, even among republican voters. last month the majority of the public, 60%, said it was a good thing the senate did not pass the gop health care bill last time around. all of which raises the question, why are republican lawmakers trying so hard to pass this thing? we got a clue a few months ago when associated press reported a gop donor at a koch brothers retreat republican lawmakers that his dallas piggy bank was closed until obamacare was repealed and he got his tax cut. june nevada republican dean heller denounced a gop health care bill and then faced serious immediate blowback from gop mega donor sheldon adelson and fellow billionaire casino magnate steve winn. these are the people republican lawmakers are probably at this point most worried about, wealthy donors who hate obamacare and who fund their re-election campaigns. the gop base has rejected the repeal and replace bills, yet republican senator pat roberts,
lines and racial lines and economic lines is getting really old. i think what trump and cruz and ben carson are all tapping into, this idea of bringing the country together and having policies that all people, latinos, blacks, whites, et cetera. i hear that. how successful have the republican party been so far in attracting a diverse following? how successful? or is it largely the party of white america in a country no longer just a white america? gerald, o i will say i think the establishment gop has failed abysmally in growing the party. i completely agree with you. how about that beautiful point of agreement? i like her. she s feisty. coming up, liar, the untrustworthy and dishonest. be we ll have the reaction.
to a lot of people. and i think what trump and ted cruz and carly fiorina and ben carson are all tapping into is this idea of bringing the country together and having policies that benefit all people. latinos, blacks, white, et cetera. i hear that. how successful have the republican party been so far in attracting a diverse following? how successful? or is it largely the party of white america in a country no longer just a white america? well, geraldo, i will say i think the establishment gop has failed abysmally in growing the party. i completely agree with how a point of agreement? we ll leave there it. yeah, i like that. i like laura. she is feisty. coming up, liar, the untrustworthy and dishonest. those are the top three words the voters now use to describe hillary clinton. 51% think she is dishonest and untrustworthy. ed henry is with the campaign.
inspector generals. i certainly believe that agreements could be made as to who that should be. but i don t think in a position to throw out a name. we certainly as a country have come together on really tough issues in a bipartisan way. i think we can do that if we find and can find that third party arbiter. i would encourage her to turn that over to whoever we can agree to. congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. and associated press filing a lawsuit against the state department. now, the a.p. is suing the force of release of emails and documents from hillary clinton s tenure from secretary of state. this after a new report giving the state department a flunking grade for its response to freedom of information act requests. all this stuff is out there. this is really about disclosure to the public and to the news media outside organizations that make those requests. there is a difference between being cooperative and being truthful. they have perform
but really when it gets right down to it, eric, the central issue is whether or not we ll need to put boots on the ground eventually in battle against isis. the white house is committed to degrading or destroying isis or icy as they re called from the white house. yet we know that the commitment to do that and follow through to actually, you know, meet our enemies on the battlefield is something robert gates spoke about, something that leon panetta spoke about, they butted heads with the white house over this issue time and time again in terms of focus and force that needs to be used against islamic extremism in the world. of chuck hagel, ran into some of the same issues no doubt. we haven t heard his whole story yet about why he decided to resign. he wasn t even two years on the job when he decided to step down. it is interesting, eric, when hagel was considered to be an odd pick in many ways. some people thought he wasn t qualified, qualified for the job. his abysmally. but he won ov