about 2016 and the likely candidates, assistant speech writer for ronald reagan peggy noonan and former advisor to president clinton doug schoen. everybody. [applause] this is a very special day for me. i wanted to make a point to peggy, people ask me how did you get to be press secretary and i actually point back to one book i read in 1994 when i became press secretary on the hill and it was yours, what i saw at the revolution. oh, my goodness. changed my life and gave me confidence to be a conservative woman. thank you for that. oh, my goodness, thank you. [applaus [applause] okay. am i crazy? it is not too early to start thinking about who is going to run in 2016, doug? absolutely not. with marco rubio, i think going to terry branstead s birthday party in the caucus
petraeus scandal. that s where everyone gets a big-shot lawyer. the former cia director hired robert barnett. the new york times calls him a superlawyer who has represented the last three preponderates. paula broadwell hired dee dee myers. jill kelley is being represented by abbe lowell, who represented john edwards. and gloria allred. lots of lawyers and no one s been charged with anything. the 113th congress, meantime, will have the fewest number of veterans since world war ii. just 19% will have served in active duty, down from 80% in 1977. iowa governor terry branstead wants to end the iowa straw poll. michele bachmann won this year. he thinks the move strengthen the iowa caucuses. and it looked like hillary clinton was getting a little sleepy during her trim to asia. her eyes were closed for just a
candidate. earlier this week rubio passed on a question on the age of the earth, calling it one of the great mysteries. not to scientists, they say it s 4.5 billion years old. jeb called rubio s response a head-scratching type of answer. senator rand paul of kentucky is ready to follow in his pop s footsteps and make a run for the top spot, but the 2016 republican field may be missing out on one famous campaign ritual, the iowa straw poll. after 33 years, governor terry branstead said the event outlived its usefulness. that s an understatement. it does not predict success in iowa. just last year, michele bachmann won before finishing sixth. as the northeast recovers
patrick murphy. and officials in st. lucie county missed the deadline on the two day recount. and the county had to finish processing more than 37,000 ballots under florida law previously submitted results will be certified unless the state grants an emergency exemption, those earlier results gave murphy the lead and murphy declared victory and his campaign is doing so again today. the campaign of allen west refusing to concede. republican florida senator marco rubio visiting a political hot bed. he traveled to iowa appearing at a featured speaker at terry branstead s fundraiser. he s told the crowd about 2016 and how to turn the nation s struggling economy around and emphasizing raising taxes on the wealthy won t get it done. we start with a simple notion, the way to turn aur economy around is not by
subsidies and handouts, the industry has lost 10,000 jobs while growth in wind power has slowed every year of his term. now he wants to double down for another year on this failed approach at a cost of $12 billion. while romney is against subsidies for wind energy in march he supported a filibuster by senate republicans which preserved $24 billion over ten years in taxpayer subsidies to oil companies. joining me now, howard fineman, huffington post erltd director and msnbc political analyst, and josh green, a senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week. great to have you here. josh, i think the politics of this are interesting for a number of reasons. one of which is that there is some bipartisan cooperation on extending the tax credits and part of this is the basic geography of interest group politics. you have folks in iowa saying that this is a mistake to oppose it. iowa republican governor terry branstead took issue with the romney campaign website using the term win