well, we will definitely be keeping an eye on this. you have some cool social media, too. thank you very much for being here. best of luck to you, sir. thank you. off to a runoff on april 7th. all right. sounds good. we ll definitely keep an eye on it. thank you, sir. that wraps things up for the reid report. see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to visit us online at thereidreport .msnbc.com. the cycle is up next. where are my cyclists? what you guys got going on? a big show today. the man with that british accent we ve seen in those isis videos we know who he is know his name. we re going to have senator joe manchin on to talk about that. and also the dhs fight. we have army s point person on terror talking about why terrorism keeps repeating itself. also, a segment on the olympics and why you should be concerned it might come to a city near you. oh wait a minute. concerned, olympics city near you? sounds fascinating. we ll keep an eye on that.
senate mitch mcconnell in two weeks. as this deadline is approaching, just two days away, they haven t spoken. staff has spoken but these are two leaders of the same party running the united states capitol, running congress astonishing and tells you about the tension going on between the two bodies and the real differences in how they have to govern. mcconnell the reason he caved, is because he decided that it is better to prove he can govern than go ahead and go along with conservatives who say fight, fight, fight. boehner has a very different issue in his caucus in the house and that s why i asked him about the fact that if he s worried about his speakership because it s something that he probably should be worried about if he goes along with this. all right. dana bash thanks as always. i appreciate it. what happens if the funding cannot be extended by friday s deadline? let s turn to someone that knows the department from the inside. a former deputy secretary for
on the fight that republicans promised conservative base for the last four months they would have this fight. mcconnell would get a cool reception. it s the first year in the last five years he hasn t been here. his office says of course part of the reason he s not going is because he has to be here on capitol hill dealing with this homeland security situation, which is absolutely true. there s some truth to that. it s notable, it s not just mcconnell. mcconnell is not there. house speaker john boehner is not there. none of the top party leadership from congressional republicans are there which suggests to you just how deep this rift is between the activists and their leaders now that leaders are in control on capitol hill. i want to read you something that was on red state s blog today. it calls mitch mcconnell squealing like a pig. that is an indication of the rift that exists. i want to talk about the
language that he used. it doesn t win you points in the wider population among independents and less conservative republicans. is it time to stop with that kind of language? i don t know the exact blog you just read. this is a conversation that conservatives are having among themselves and as you just pointed out, language gets salty. the same thing is true on the left of course. those folks aren t necessarily trying to win over middle voters or independent voters. they view their goal as trying to bring their party leaders and this is true for right and left to bring party leaders to their own side of the argument. for those conservative activists who had been promised this fight for the last four months they really do think that mcconnell has surrendered this fight and surendrendered the leverage they were planning on using on this immigration fight. immigration is a major issue for republicans. your viewers have followed this
ask. the house passed a bill to fund the department. it s time for the senate to do their job. are you ruling out a clean bill? mr. speaker, do you think the senate should act? we re going to step away. john boehner left the building in fine fashion. he had tears in his eyes at the beginning of that. i don t think he was crying over the dhs fight. i think he was perhaps crying over he was talking about education shortly before that. we ll get to dana bash later to figure this out. as you heard, john boehner is standing tough when it comes to dhs funding. in other news this morning, we re hearing testimony from the american sniper trial for the first time. the judge wouldn t allow the audio to be played until after the verdict. that happened late last night. jurors found eddie ray routh guilty in the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield. ed lavandera looks at the