bernstein. she s vetting other people and there s a third young man three as of now. filed yesterday. we ll keep tabs on that. appreciate it. republicans are outlining their plans for governing if they take control of the house in november. a pledge to america, focuses broadly on jobs, spending and taxes. the pledge spells out many of the same themes newt gingrich put in the republicans 1994 contract with america. remember that? that was ahead of the gop s takeover in 1995. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash in sterling, virginia, where gop lawmakers unveiled a pledge today and dana, is there anything new here? you ve been speaking to john boehner exclusively today about this very subject. reporter: look, a lot of what if people look at this, a lot of what they say will not be new to them. big picture, the republicans are saying that they are going to try to cut spending, they re going to try to make the tax cuts permanent. they want to repeal the presiden
did he know you were coming with the pledge. absolutely. knew what the meeting was going to be. there is no alternative. what is the alternative run as an independent and lose in the fact of the matter is, if you are going to beat hillary clinton, you are going to do it as a republican and everybody gets that. i guess though that he is such a independent thinker, i mean, look, he signed the pledge today and he says he is going to support the party. i you believe him but, you know, might like a year from now think well, you know, the republican party hasn t treated me fairly because i would do this as long as fairly. i am going to go rogue on you. i think for some people, you know, their word is their bond. and i would imagine. except he has an escape hatch he says as long as he gets treated fairly. didn t say that today. he said he was treated fairly. as a new candidate. here is the thing. there is a lot of people running in our party now that haven t been involved in the p