competition going on for where will the obama library be, chicago, the hometown paper there, to be considered the favorite, honolulu and new york also in the running making bids for presidential library. what is the key to selecting a site for a presidential library, rick? it s where the president wants it to be. it s where the president s library will be, wants it to be, that s where it ll be. i don t think he wants to be stuck, beautiful as hawaii is, way out in the middle of the ocean. i think hawaii is a state that could benefit from a tourist attraction. it could. not many people think of it. go that presidential library in new york. there s no reason to go to hawaii for anything else. put a library there. not just in chicago but contemplating having it on the south side of chicago, which is very under developed, lower scs status and maybe it could be a magnet boosting the community. that s a powerful statement. perry bacon jr., rick, we will
people in kcolorado trying to gt them to register. not a single person was interested in her pitch including those already 0 old enough to vote. they were like, why? why would i bother to vote, she explained. it is important for democrats even in an election year when participation among latino voters drops. so here it is. democrats are sounding the alarm early and looking for ways to recharge young hispanic voters to to get them fired up and ready to go from the last election of the obama presidency, the last mid-term election. what can they do? what should they do in the seven months until election day? short of actually passing immigration reform in congress, well, here with us to discuss that msnbc contributor perry bacon jr. the political editor of the grio.com. the former director of hispanic press are for the obama 2012 campaign as well as msnbc contributor victoria did i francesca from the university of texas and joining us from los angeles we have fabian nunez, the former demo
cpac, i spent my 18th birthday at cpac, i became a woman in a legal sense at cpac, when you see it s totally tumble weeds, when these are the demographics to be reaching out to, that s concerning. i appreciate that. perry bacon jr., thank you for helping us with that video. the conservative rhetoric carrie sheffield for coming in. is there a possibility chris christie could come out of all of this with his political future fully intact? we ll look at it. my hygienist told me that less tartar means less scraping. so i m going pro. [ male announcer ] new crest tartar protection rinse. the only rinse that helps prevent tartar build-up and cavities. a little swishing. less scraping.
he and the liberty people are taking over the republican party. it s not going to be the republican party that we re used to seeing. all right. for more on what went down there at cpac, msnbc contributor perry bacon jr., politics editor at thegrio.com. we have an msnbc contributor josh barrow, a contributor with forbes, kerry sheffield. we found out her brother was one of the people included in that video saying the party should evolve on gay marriage. perry, i ll start with you since you put this together. a bunch of interesting quotes. i like the guy who says he has the math figured out. they get exactly 17% of the black vote and beat hillary clinton. there s your formula for winning in 2016. putting that aside, i wonder if you could tell us we ve been talking since 2012 about the republican party put out its you a topsy after that election and how they have to change, how they have to broaden their appeal to win national
they made the headlines. while chris christie, well, he made a nice speech, i guess. and that might tell us as much about governor christie s personal political standing as it does about the state of republican politics. joining us now, perry bacon jr., veteran political journalist and political editor for the grio.com. thanks for being here tonight. thanks, steve. i know you ve been at cpac obviously so you have a front-row seat for all this. i guess, you know, we sort of set this up by talking about chris christie and i can sort of imagine the past year before this scandal all hit, the past year was sort of building toward this moment for him. he was never going to be the favorite of everybody at cpac but this was a answer fchance t and show them, hey, i a lot more in common than you ever thought, and by the way i can win in blue states. we see a polite reception publicly there. i wonder in talking to the activists, talking to the people there, what are they saying about? what ar