mcconnell now has to go. i think they re both nervous. mitch mcconnell and john cornyn. both men are facing tea party challenges. then there s senator ted cruz. here s what happened. mitch mcconnell and john cornyn ended a ted cruz-led filibuster. playing with the debt ceiling is like playing with fire. mcconnell and cornyn rallied support for the bill. that s the kind of thing that kentuckyians are sick and tired of. democrats are count on the tea party to help them hold on. the democrat allison grimes will pose a formidable challenge. could we see mitch mcconnell ousted? yes, you very well could see that. in the epic battle between ted cruz and the senate republican leadership, the republican base is about to finally have its say. early voting in the texas senate republican primary actually started today. mitch mcconnell s number two in the senate, john cornyn, who ted cruz refused to endorse is one of eight republicans on the ballot, which inclu
negative ads attacking mitch mcconnell. super pacs knocking off senators, governors and congressmen. mcconnell now has to go. i think they re both nervous. mitch mcconnell and jon cornyn. both men are facing tea party challenges. then there s senator ted cruz. here s what happened. mitch mcconnell and jon cornyn ended a ted cruz-led filibuster. playing with the debt ceiling is like playing with fire. mcconnell and cornyn rallied support for the bill. that s the kind of thing that kentuckyians are sick and tired of. democrats are count on the tea party to help them hold on. the democrat allison grimes will pose a formidable challenge. could we see mitch mcconnell out ousted? yes, you very well could see that. in the epic battle between ted cruz and the senate republican leadership, the republican base is about to finally have its say. early voting in the texas senate republican primary actually started today. mitch mcconnell s number two in the se
comparison by some of your critics of this week s scandals to those that happened under the nixon administration? i ll let you guys engage in those comparisons. you can go ahead and read the history i think and draw your own conclusions. my concern is making sure if there is a problem in the government, that we fix it. good morning. it s friday, may 17th. what a beautiful friday. gorgeous. look at that. look at that. we may have a little bit of sun around here. beautiful friday. hope you re going to have a great weekend. with us on set senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post and currently the hardest working man in show business, sam stein. i saw him last night working like 10:30 at night on air. chairman of deutsch ink, donny deutsch and a man who would agree that sam stein should ever have the moniker working man in show business, host of msnbc s politics nation and president of the nation action network reverend al sharpton.
pittsburgh and, kind of character studies and i found it helped a lot in tackling these big books of nonfiction because you learn dialogue and learn to study people and so it was helpful. this is not your first big book. i say this is a big book, but not your first one. you wrote a biography of archibald cox, did you not. yes. he was of course the principled and famous watergate special prosecutor who was fired rather than back down from president nixon and that led to the unravel, as you know of the nixon presidency. he was my law professor in harvard and i wrote that book fairly early on out of law school. it was another big project and took 7 years, and it was a lot of fun, that i have to say was easier in a since of one life, you kind of know where you are going from start to finish and this once had so many movable parts, this was scary at first, because it was just such a big project. well, that raises the question about why you did it. obviously, this was a topic
ameri america. ameri captioned by closed captioning services, inc bret: next on special report, president says it prevented a second depression and critics say it hasn t accomplished a thing. we ll look at the stimulus one year later. conservatives gather at mount vernon to lay out principles they hope will return them to power. regulating power sources to forestall global warming runs into opposition from a government official. a new treatment of the power play involving a philandering president and ponderous prosecutor. all that plus the fox all-stars right here, right now. bret: welcome to washington, i m bret baier. today is the one-year anniversary of the signing of the stimulus package. depending on whom you listen to, it s either been a qualified success or an unqualified failure. senior white house correspondent major garrett rounds up reaction. reporter: president obama knows america doesn t feel much like celebrating the one-year anniversary of the stimulus.