something goes wrong, but this is the time when they will actually go against the conservative rank and file. it s particularly dangerous when it gets to john boehner in the house because he is in a much more vulnerable position in terms of his leadership. there already this sort of no-confidence vote floating out there. but when push comes to shove, they will not allow this to go through because they ve learned their lesson repeatedly before following ted cruz off the edge of a cliff. liz mair, what was rand paul s calculation in joining the democrats and to vote for them? rand paul put out a statement after that that made the point, i don t think he intends to support the measure that will include this funding. i think his criticism is probably similar to what mine would be. even if you go ahead and do what we re now contemplating doing, we re still adding, i think his
i agree with liz. i don t think they re actually going to be zany enough to actually shut down the government over this. and, you know, this is a point, they will run it to the last moment. there s always the risk that something goes wrong, but this is the time when they will actually go against the conservative rank and file. it s particularly dangerous when it gets to john boehner in the house because he is in a much more vulnerable position in terms of his leadership. there already this sort of no-confidence vote floating out there. but when push comes to shove, they will not allow this to go through because they ve learned their lesson repeatedly before following ted cruz off the edge of a cliff. liz mair, what was rand paul s calculation in joining the democrats and to vote for them? rand paul put out a statement after that that made the point, i don t think he intends to support the measure that will
welcome back. the ranks of republicans vying to be our next president growing quickly. more than a dozen declared and potential gop hopefuls gathered in new hampshire at the first in the nation leadership summit talking a little policy and a lot of hillary clinton. want to bring back our panel ed judy and mary. one indication of this is what rand paul put on his website. he has liberty not hillary. basically looking for anybody out there who has any information about political donations to the clinton foundation. so you got to ask yourself, okay, fine, he wants to get scoop on hillary. that s okay. but shouldn t he be focusing on where his platform is on his website? oh, sure. and he will. truth of the matter is there are 19 candidates who spoke before
the implication in this context was that it should be legal for an american business to say we don t serve black people. that implication got lots of attention for obvious reasons. again about a year ago. but then rand paul put out a statement saying, okay, i would have voted for the civil rights act. and then of course he was elected to the united states senate. and he s a serving senator. cut to today, literally today about four hours ago. and the very fine hardball program hosted by my friend chris matthews here on msnbc. his guest was congressman ron paul, senator rand paul s father. as of this morning officially a candidate again for the republican nomination for president. that same civil rights act of 19674 question came up. and frankly you should see this. we pick up the action somewhere in the middle. we do encourage you to watch the whole thing on the internet. watch. you would have voted against that law? you wouldn t have voted for the rights. i wouldn t have voted fo