mitchell reports , officers down. we could have buried two police officers over this. this is an ambush is what it is. secret service scandal, two top officials, including a member of the president s own protection detail being investigated for crashing their car into the white house after a party. were they under the influence? the deep seated concern is that the shine of the secret service has been rubbed off. we cannot keep having this discussion. utter disbelief, john kerry s outrage reaction to the republican letter to the iatola stretches from washington to the 2016 candidates and hillary clinton has weighed in on twitter. during my 29 years here in the senate i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed anything comparable to this. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. ferguson, missouri, now the center of the nation s attention after a rally celebrating the resignation of the controversial police chief was ending last night, shots from unkno
our crossfire quiz. 13% of the voters turned out for yesterday s primary. there is valid criticism of eric cantor that he might not have taken his challenger seriously enough. the criticism that he was too focused on national politics is late l unfair. his job as majority leader was to expand the party. i had the pleasure of working with him on some of that in some capacity. he was deeply committed to reaching younger voters, women voters, middle class voters. it was a priority of his and should have been. now, eric cantor is moving on and new blood is coming in. and that s part of politics and a good thing. i fear the takeaway will be a narrowing of the party. republicans shouldn t lose sight of cantor s important mission which is expanding the party. in the crossfire tonight, strategist kiki mclean and tim phillips. kiki, someone else who wants to expand the republican party maybe to his peril is jeb bush. i know you probably appreciate his position on immigration, but
room. always watch us live or dvr the show so you won t miss a moment. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. now let s step into the crossfire with stephanie cutter and s.e. cupp. wolf, it s an historic day. republican party in the middle of taking yet another giant step out of the american mainstream. let s not get ahead of ourselves. this is one district in one state. the debate starts right now. tonight on crossfire. the takedown of eric cantor. this is a miracle from god that just happened. is the tea party winning the republican civil war? on the left, stephanie cutter. on the right, s.e. cupp. in the crossfire. kiki mcclain, a democratic strategist, and tim phillips, a republican strategist. will the republican establishment crumble? what message does it send to democrats? tonight on crossfire.
extremi extremist. finally about president obama. about time, stephanie. let s get started here about the president. now, tim, kiki had a good point that cantor was trying to have it both way. he was trying to be mr. new republican party in washington, but go back home to the district and be mr. obstruction. now, he allowed himself to be defined by talk radio. let s listen to some of this. if eric cantor gets in and is re-elected, we are going to have amnesty. cantor reversed himself over and over and over again on the issue of amnesty. how do you think barack obama, nancy pelosi, want to win this primary? they want eric cantor to win because eric cantor is an ally in the biggest fight that will occur in the next six months to maybe even sooner. in washington. which is a fight for immigration amnesty. now, those people are giddy today. they re not in the district. but they basically drove the
right? people put out a book before they announce they re going to run. she is generous in the world and most famous in the world. icon, a phenomenon. she is going to be judged differently. she doesn t want us to know certain things about who she really is and i don t mean anything nefarious there. she is a guarded person. i found in doing this book, i spent about seven years doing it, she is a fascinating, spontaneous person in a way you never see in this stuff. she is a real lightning rod, the. but the real thing is that she is now running a campaign unlike anything we have ever seen and we have to figure a way to cover it that doesn t get down in the weeds with this rich? i have to say go, kiki. i appreciate some of the things carl said but at the end of the day what we re talking about is release of her book and she was secretary of state and she s shared series of moments and a look at history that s important for everybody to see