news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. so the new york times is just completely wrong. no one s actually saying no one is denying the true substance of the report? i mean, eastern, carney, jay carney the other day said, no, we re they don t allow money to be exchanged for access to the president? but the president routinely meets with those who support his agenda, and i mean, what is the take away here? well, yes, the take away is that you will not be asked to produce a brown paper bag with $500,000 in it as you approach the white house gates and he yes, you can say that you re not making a transaction for access to the president, but the reason that groups on the left are starting to have some concerns about this is because they could picture they could see into the future, megyn, and though they might agree with much of what the president s agenda does, let s take a look into the past. what if karl rove or ken melman, the president s campaign ma
0 sequester. so the question is why won t he work with with us? and the answer, quite simply, is because he wants higher taxes. republican governors meeting today in washington are asking the federal government to solve the spending crisis and not to add to the burden on the states. don t pass the balancing the federal budget on the backs of state governments because we re still recovering, too, from the national recession that we ve been through. and the obama administration filed a legal brief friday asking the supreme court to strike down a key part of the defense of marriage act. the administration s case deals with the portion of the law that bars recking on negz of same-sex marriage by the federal government. the pressure on congress to end the sequester. mr. obama said friday after meeting with japan s prime minister that it s not too late to solve the crisis. let s take a listen. i never think that anything is inevitable. we always have the opportunity to make the rig
karl rove used anti-gay marriage initiatives to really rev up the christian conservative evangelical vote. it would have been a really courageous thing for him or laura bush for that matter to have said something? 2004 when karl rove was helping ride that issue to victory. so better late than never, but it s late. nine years ago, everybody is changing. so many people are changing on this. tell me how you read it. i read the platforms. i said ate while ago. the republican platform on this issue sucks. it s terrible. they have not changed as a party. the party still has to play to its hard right like it does on guns, immigration, everything else. how are you going to make it truly bipartisan? we re going to continue working with republicans like those you see in the ads, republicans like ted olson and ken melman. more and more folks are evolving towards support for marriage equality. some of those folks have actually supported marriage equality for a few years now. some of those clip
0 mitch mcconnell, what matters to the republican far right now are the few who dare to be even further right. now it s come to this, the huffington post and washington bureau chief from mother jones. both are msnbc political analysts. the 2013 version took on his constituents with anti-immigr t anti-immigrant, bill defense talk. here s his exchange with angry right wing tea partiers. why didn t the army go down there and stop them? because the only thing that stops them, i m afraid to say and it s too damn bad, but is a gun. that s all that will stop them. the border is 2,000 miles long, sir. i don t know how many troopings and army people you think would have been required. i ll give you expert information he said to build that dang fence. joan mccain is the perfect expression, the perfect embodiment of the kind of schizophrenia. he s also a guy who wants to get deals done. he can t do that. he s in many ways, an admirable senator. let s take a look at je krkkel hyde here
on the wrong side of history on this one. strangely i actually think that glenn beck makes a good point. ken melman who used to be the chairman of the rnc, he wrote for the op-ed journal making the point that, in fact, conservatives do not need to lose their core convictions in order to embrace gay marriage. what s more conservative than less government and more freedoms for americans? so it s strange to think that the republicans, in fact, should be leading on this issue. but the problem is they re not. and if you look at recent polls, i saw one recently also in the wall street journal that showed young adults between 18 to 29, 62% 63%. up from 45% ten years ago. that s an indication where the country is moving. i m looking at the polls. let me show you this. not only are they on the wrong side of history, they re on the wrong side of public opinion.