russia. and we cannot turn our head away from that and stick it in the sand. grover, do you need to respond? i really want to move to the freedom caucus. i think the democrats should focus on this stuff and let us reshape the supreme court and 15% of the economy through the fcc which you think is uninteresting. i m delighted you think it s uninteresting. okay. on any other day, we would have been this would have been the lead story because republican president went after republican elected officials today on twitter. first he said the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems in 2018. he named names. put all the names of all the folks. he said all of these people, paul labrador, jim jordan, they would need to get on board or we would have both great health care, massive tax cuts and reform. that was to bakari s point. then on and on. you can put his tweets up. so, he is putting his own party on no
joined by former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts who joins me now from louisville. congressman watts, it s great to have you back. you re a regular on the show for so long. i guess you will be now again. as a big surrogate for mr. paul. senator paul. why has j.c. watts of oklahoma, evangelical man of the south, bible guy, why are you with a libertarian guy like rand paul? well, rand, chris obviously has some libertarian leanings but i think he has the right perspective and i think he wants to do the right thing. and over the last 2 1/2 years that i ve been talking to him, that i ve had his ear, i think he s wanted to learn, and i think the things that he s done he s not just take on just your typical conservative issues on the social side and on the economic side, but he s gone much further than that and he s gone into nontraditional constituencies. i think he s tried to be very consistent in striking up a dialogue with those nontraditional constituencies. and i think that
despite the hawkish neocon talk the average working guy and woman in pennsylvania goes wait a minute that s us who has to do the fighting, our kids. we re not going to into another stupid war that people laugh at afterwards and our kid comes home beat up. senator paul looks at what his father did in 2008 2012. he sees someone who in almost every primary was in the top three. he starts with the base. question is how does he get number one or two? what s his percentage of the i d say thisit s about 20%. libertarian base, 20%, 25%. add in the young voters that s his coalition. here s who he takes into battle with him. mitch mcconnell from paul s state of kentucky. national journal reports a group of house members, mainly tea partyers in paul s corner. justin amish of michigan paul labrador of ohio he s pretty conservative. mark sanford of south carolina who s an interesting fellow in all kinds of ways.
the white house, when senator paul announces tomorrow he ll be joined by former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts who joins me now from louisville. congressman watts, it s great to have you back. you re a regular on the show for so long. i guess you will be now again. as a big surrogate for mr. paul. senator paul. why has j.c. watts of homoklahoma, evangelical man of the south, bible guy, why are you with a libertarian guy like rand paul? well rand chris obviously has some libertarian leanings but i think he has the right perspective and i think he wants to do the right thing. and over the last 2 1/2 years that i ve been talking to him, that i ve had his ear, i think he s wanted to learn, and i think the things that he s done he s not just take on just your typical conservative issues on the social side and on the economic side but he s gone much further than that and he s gone into nontraditional constituencies. i think he s tried to be very consistent in striking up a dialo
politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including immigration reform. quote, prominent immigration supporters like marco rubio have also backed off any deal saying the obama administration has quote, undermined negotiations by not defunding his signature health care law. paul labrador of idaho says the president is trying to, quote, destroy the republican party and gop leaders would be crazy to enter into talks with him. involved in the pro-immigration movement said after obama poisoned the well, the chances for substantive reforms seem all but gone. let me go to david on this. david, this seems to be the new excuse for everything. the die dared to protect his baby and in sheer political terms, they must have having fought for it. they re blaming him for self-defense. self-defense politically is now the reason for blaming him for everything.