now, two days, do we have an answer? well, hindsight is always 20/20, and of course, he s going to say that he always had the interest of the 7th district of the highest priority, but the fact of the matter is as larry said he was a loofr and his staff was aloof and distant and we had a runoff tuesday night in arkansas and there were d.c. folks here for that and they agreed he wasn t in touch with the people for an elected d.c. congressman, living so close to his district. he should have spent much more time there and any this is a lesson for all elected officials. when you re in d.c., if you re an elected official and you ignore the electorate you won t be re-elected. the larger issue let me ask you the larger issue for the party, though, overwhelming since, at least the day after that this was about immigration reform and you had a number of people that this means immigration reform is dead, will we see members of the republican
the anger that they re experiencing and that s going to be a problem. we ll continue to follow the breaking news throughout the hour. mick, thank you so much for your information from the pentagon. bobby gosch and we ll continue to bring you the latest information from the senate floor. developing now these are pictures from sao paulo, where there are police clashes ahead of the most expensive world cup in history with threats of workers walking out, the nation of brazil is facing huge expectations. we are just learning republican congressman jeb hensarling from texas will not run for majority leader and we ll get a look at the other republicans jocking for that position as eric cantor reflects on his stunning loss. i was in my district every week. there is a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home. we ll take you live to capitol hill, virginia and this. suspect may be driving a light or white-colored ford
and my family. the debate is over over why he lost his job in the first place and how it could impact the party s overall message coming into the midterms. in a press conference yesterday, cantor addressed his stunning defeat by relatively unknown tea party candidate dave brat and while he did not weigh in specifically on why he thinks he loss, he did address the speculation that he did not spend enough time in his home district in virginia. i was in my district every week, so i you know, there is a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home, but never was there a day did i not put the constituents of the 7th district of virginia first, and i will continue to do so. meanwhile, the vote on a new house majority leader is set for a week today and luke ruser joins me now. you heard developing news regarding congressman hensarling and many other names are on the list there. what are you hearing? this news from jeb hensarling
the end they are going to be weaker. how will this impact the president s agenda? i mean, the irony here is that this means that doing immigration quickly would actually be the smartest thing for republicans. i m not saying they are going to do it, but it proved, you know, this is a toxic issue for them. they would like to get this done with. they are not going to do it before the election. there is an opportunity for them to do something in the lame duck so they don t have to keep dealing with this riled up base, and i don t think this election was particularly about immigration, but it fuels the resentment against the republican establishment, and if they could take that off the table, i think they d be well served. mudcat, you know, in the battle for replacing cantor as the majority leader of the house, again, congressman hensarling has launched his share of ugly attacks on president obama, like this one. listen. i m not sure how much more
equivalent to funding the travel expenses for the alabama watermelon queen, paying for pottery classes and the thousands of other things that squander the hard-working money of the hard-working taxpayer. very quickly, answer that because i have one follow-up question for congressman hensarling. go ahead, congressman. jeb, we are all for sitting down with you as we have, as we did in the last debt ceiling cliff that you perpetrated on the american people, to negotiate specific spending cuts. the budget control act cuts spending by over $1 trillion. i supported that. we are ready, willing and able to negotiate going forward. we are going to support spending reductions. we also are going to support generating revenues because you can t say that you re not going to exceed the debt ceiling because you don t want to raise taxes on the wealthiest. let s take a balanced approach, the kind of balanced approach the american people want us to take. one final question for congressman hensarl