0 conservative alamo. instead, it would be a little bighorn. cruz bids to become a custer for our time, an actual shutdown of the government the only realistic outcome of his strategy would work for conservatives only if voters blamed it on obama s intransigence. so americans would need to side with the distrusted faction of a disdained institution which is pursuing a budgetary maneuver that even republican lawmakers regard as desperate, desperate, doomed. wow. what a day this is. joining us now are two msnbc political analysts dave corn of mother jones and sam stein with the huffington post. sam, what probably brought this to a head? what finally got people like gerson and krauthammer and others i assume out there over the prairie to say we d better be careful here. if cruz gets control of the opposition here of the republican party, we may be in trouble. i think it was the sheer overtness of it. it wasn t as if he was trying to set the stage for a government shutdown. he was sort
this backslash overblown and voters start to think about anthony wooerner as a serious politician once again. may be i what he is trying to game out as he does this poulg. what sort of timeframe do you think we are looking at here, when, if he decides he wants to get in, when does very to say i m in or out? he is sitting of on a huge war chest, more than $4 million, more than twice as much as some active mayoral candidates have right now in new york city. co-actually jump in with a huge television ad campaign pretty late in the race. however, i think you want to look for a desitting in next month or two right now, christine quinn, she the favorite? front-runner, a lot based on name recognition, a lot of new yorkers aren t paying attention right now. you got think if anthony weiner jumped into the ray he is the only guy who has the same recognition she does. michael greenbaum, new york times, thanks for helping us sift through that fascinating story. thanks for having me.
back to politics now. campaign filings release last night show a new but old name maybe entering the new york race. anthony weiner, the former disgraced new york congressman, resigned in 2011 after that twitter sexting stan scandal spent $100,000 on polling, consultants and office space. so, is he back? joining me with more on that, michael greenbaum of the new york times, thanks for coming in a saturday afternoon to help us sift through this stuff. thanks for having me. i want to show our viewers at home this is a web page that s devoted, of course, campaign spending and there you can see it there if you look closely, anthony d. weiner, mayor, 2013. is he in? no one spends 100 grand on polling if they are not seriously considering it. but so far, he hasn t really jumped in or given us any idea what the polls said. so, there s some speculation he might not have gotten the feedback he was looking for.
0 we will see. we are keeping our options open, haven t made any formal announcements, we will see it will be up to my family and certainly utah. who has been the crowd favorite at cpac so far this year? i m sorry? the crowd favorite so far at cpac who has been the crowd favorite and/or your favorite? you know, i haven t listened to very much of t of course, i always love to hear mitt romney spaep speak. i think s great a great guy, a great leader. and so, you know, i will get home and we will hear all the buzz about it over the week. so we will wait and see. about a dozen of the speakers at cpac this year are african-american. how does the conservative movement expect to gain more minority support next cycle? the problems we face in america are not black, issue, white issues, they are not gender issues they are american issues. we have to get to everyone and tell them that conservative principles are principles that will make everyone s lives better this long run and we
at its peak. right now it is closer to the earth, so it looks laverager in the sky. we have video that we ll show you when we come back in the full forecast. right now it is currently in the 60 s across the metro area. light mist being reported along with fog. watch out for that if you are heading out earlier this morning. forecast for today, the clouds and drizzle hanging around through most of the morning. temperatures hardly warming up. only getting to the upper 60 s to near 70 degrees for the high temperature. stay tuned for the video of the super moon. also the seven-day forecast. this morning s top story comes out of howard county. an episcopal priest is being kept on life support after being shot by a homeless man. sheldon dutes has more. this church was many things in his life. st. peter s is still trying to make sense of thursday s deadly shooting. we really want to celebrate the life to of two neighboring kind-hearted women who in their death were trying to