bosnia. i think a very dark day, but i think putin has left our president with no choice. he needs to impose sanctions, and i know putin will impose his own. it will be a real sort of sense of spite and kind of hard line approach. and we ll have no choice but to do more. in fact, i think the end of this is going to be to cast russia out into the cold and the problem is i don t think putin really cares. i think this is where he wants to take russia. i think it s kind of a bad day for east-west relations but maybe an even worse day for the russian people and by the way, taking crimea out of the ukraine will make ukraine a much more western oriented country. so if russia was looking to kind of keep ukraine as a friend, neighbor, ally, they have done something quite to the contrary of that interest. well, two very different
that. as senator, i ll take on the tough problems like raising the minimum wage, taking on the gun lobby and come can batting child poverty. let s come together and get things done. jenna: but some candidates are embracing the hard line approach. there s been speculation republican senator marco rubio may run for the white house in 2016, and he s been standing by senator ted cruz in the campaign to change obamacare, even if it means the shutdown continues. the new york times saying this today, quote: eager to regain for president,ervatives as he mr. rubio has fully embraced mr. cruz s effort to blom financing for the new health care law, standing with him through news conferences and procedural maneuvers that led to the shutdown. joining us now is larry sabato, the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia. great to see you. hello, jenna. jenna: all days, larry. let me just start at the beginning 5% approval. first of all, who gets the 5% approval, and have
republicans say yeah, if you go show me the cuts you re going to put into play, therefore, eventually balancing our books and not precontinueding as if we can afford to spend the way we are. steve: a republican from georgia has kind of a hard line approach, some are characterizing it as, where you tie the government s spending, the debt limit, to a one-year delay in obamacare. it s no secret there are and 43 other republicans have signed on with him. that s a problem for jane who are is trying to keep john boehner who is trying to keep his coalition together. this is more than double that. but how many times have the republicans tried to defund obamacare? rand paul and charles krauthammer had some observation last night here on the channel about whether or not that would be futile. people are realistic. we know we can t win every battle up here. but we should use that leverage to try to make obamacare less bad. all the news reports today are
exactly what he wants. this is not going to fly with the public. a new pew poll shows 53% of the american people will blame republicans if the country goes over the fiscal cliff. only 29% would blame the president of the united states. house speaker john boehner has less support each day for a hard line approach. republican opposition to tax increases is slipping in congress. anti-tax lobbyist grover norquist no longer as a majority of supporters in either chamber. the hill says newly elected republicans refuse to sign the anti-tax pledge during the campaigns and another handful of returning republicans have disavowed their alliance to the written commitment. it s about time. at least they paid attention to the election. today bobby jindal scolded the entire party for the approach to the economy. hold it right there. this comment, he sewer sounds like a democrat. we ve got to make sure that weren t the party of big
cop between mcconnell and john boehner. can you help explain that? mitch mcconnell who runs the senate republican caucus, he s definitely playing the role of the bad cop in that he does not want to compromise at all on tax cuts, has taken a much more hard-line approach, has the bulk of his time talking to the wall street journal editorial page, basically speaking to the base. where you have speaker boehner talking in much more conciliatory tones and talking about getting a deal. i think that s going to be the dynamic. mitch mcconnell is up for re-election in 2014. in a very conservative state where it s not inconceivable the tea party would run somebody against him if he does not take a hard-line approach. people need to remember that as these negotiations unfold. for boehner, he wants a deal. i do want to comment a second on the interview you had with paul ryan. ryan might not think that there is a mandate, but the president does, congressional democrats do, and the public does, i