relief doesn t get any better than this. advil. what is defeating isil look like, including the preventing the ability of them to encourage the factors across the world? it means destroying the leadership, ability to control territory, their ability to have a source of revenue and their ability to claim that they re anything but a bunch of barbarians. that s what eliminating them and that s the instinct that we re seeking in iraq and syria. in a senate hearing today, ash carter agreed with the assessme in. t the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made two weeks ago that isis is not contained. chairman dunnford and i recognize that in principle there are alternatives to the
statement saying i m carefully considering this or i ve decided to throw my hat into the ring, and we haven t seen anything like that. and so, tamron, if you do take paul ryan off the table, the question is, who s next? and really, from every indication on capitol hill, there isn t someone right now who could get the 218 votes needed to be speaker and need e to actually on the republican side get the blessing of the entire republican caucus. and if that is the situation and there is a scramble to find someone, i wouldn t be surprised if house speaker john boehner has to stay in his job a few weeks, if not a few months more. you know, that scream you just heard is john boehner somewhere screaming at the he won t be doing zip-a-dee-doo-dah anymore. right, we all just heard john boehner scream. trey gowdy, greg waldon, darrell issa this morning on morning joe expressed his interest. a lot of talk, though, with
republicans have 233 members of the house right now and he predicts the end of the cycle he is the chairman of the he said they are going to have 245. he said we are going to pick up, republicans will pick up 12 seats this fall. i know you responded by saying you don t want to make predictions. i want to ask you a bigger picture question here and that is we know the nature of these midterm elections and you think you ve found a way to change that. to pick up any seats in the white house party in the midterm is practically unheard of and when it happens very small amount. when the democrats picked up seats in the 98 mid terms and democrats picked up five and shocking and not since james monroe had the white house picked up that many seats. you have 17 to pick up the house. is it fair to say you re playing a longer game where 2014 is about setting up 2016 when you ll have that presidential turnout environment and able to pick up big seats then potentially? first of all, i like greg
that was showboating and he can look in crystal balls all he wants. i ll look on the fundamentals how you win elections. on sever single one of those fundamentals we are exceeding every expectation. greg waldon talks about winning a historic number of societies. i ll give you history. we are in the minority party. we beat the republicans by $3 million in april because our grassroots are so animated. they can t wait to vote and they are spoupporting us with small donations. how do you get voters to turn out in the midterm? put people in the field. we have dozens of congressional districts covered by paid field staff and thousands and thousands of volunteers. those are the fundamentals that count. now we know from our research that we have a message that works across the board with progressive voters and moderate voters and we are going to stick with those fundamentals without making prophecies. are you expecting hillary clinton to be an active campaigner this fall on behalf
there are key races you will want to keep an eye as we go toward the 2014 elections. we are seeing signs that obamacare could play a crucial role when voters step into the booth. there is a special election underway in florida for a seat in the house. it shaping up to be a test ground on obamacare. carl cameron is live in washington. tell everybody at home, carl, why the florida race is so important to keep an eye on. greg waldon just said this seconds ago talking to reports: he said these types of special elections are not going to determine what is going to happen on the general election day, but they show which issues are potent and obamacare is