concerned veterans for america, which is the group that kicked off the anger about the va system in arizona. this is a mainstream position being advanced by mainstream republicans and democrats were unwilling to talk when george bush was president. that has an effect. it has an administration that in this case, in the case of bergdahl was ready to celebrate something being shocked at how politically difficult everything can become when you have republicans assigning the weakness to them. assigning the motives of book sales for someone who is not even announced she is running for president. thank you both. thank you. coming up, four states, four executions in 24 hours. the equal justice initiative s brian steve venson joins me to discuss all of that just ahead. sfx: car unlock beep.
obamacare. i think the challenge for paul ryan and for chris christie is not just to sound moderate and say there is actually a robust conservative vision that is somehow more moderate than that, that is winning and still conservative. i think that is the sweet spot. i m not sure they are there yet. governor huntsman, what are the two best things you can say about the positive impact ted cruz is having on your party? well, i think he s actually throwing out some interesting narratives that capture the attention of leach grassroots organizers and, two, i think he may prove the point that you can move from right to a more mainstream position over time and maybe capture the imagination of the party. i think he is doing the reverse of what we have seen mccain and romney do in recent years, that is wrapping up the right wing of the party. he has a narrative that allows him to do that. he s a very exciting, and i think, captivating figure and i think over time you ll hear more
klein who has a great analysis of this. while the house progressives fantasy land no compromise effort, ryan s fantasy land no compromise effort is the official position of most every republican. house progressives don t need to learn how to compromise, but the house republicans do need to learn to compromise and there s not much evidence they re there yet. and if you read david brooks column had in the new york times, the big effort to equate that with the sort of mainstream position. the president has already said that he was open to cutting medicare. i don t know why. but he is. he s open to all of these things. and we just try to pretend like they don t happen. because after all, it s an either/or thing, maybe we need more exploration, maybe there s global warming, maybe there s not global warming. it s only a 98-2 question, but 2% of the people say it s not happening. maybe the earth is 6,000 years old, maybe it s not.
boehner a lot of cover. he still could not marshal the support. now with two members of his leadership going against him, cantor and mccarthy, although paul ryan interestingly voted for it, what does that mean for the caucus tomorrow? it s interesting. some folks speculated perhaps john boehner might not get enough votes on the first ballot to become speaker. a lot of folks think he ll be reelected without any type of incident, but there s a coalition within the house republican conference that is ready to go against what they view to be the mainstream position, the compromising position in any capacity. what i think is going to be fascinating, andrea, look forward to the debt limit. if you re a rank and file guy and john boehner said, hey, i need you. you can go back and say, yeah, but eric cantor didn t vote what you needed him on, why do you need me? it s going to be interesting to see how it moves forward, and i
fringe republican. no. megyn: he s, you know, a guy who s very well liked and beloved by many people in the republican party. so for him to say this, does that suggest to you that this is a mainstream position and that more, more people may be signing on to this? to say it s a mainstream position megyn: that it could become? it certainly could become. and mitch daniels, we should point out, too i love the way he said that, government works better without unions. most ceos would say our business would run better without unions as well. the issue here is he s got a case to build because it was six years ago that he eliminated collective bargaining from public employee unions in the state of indiana. he s got a distinguished career in national service as director of office of management and budget. and on the other hand, though, you ve got governor scott walker saying, wait a minute, first responders should be unionized. and the reality is we ve got two states and the great geni