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Corporations, that produces campaign checks. >> i agree with you there. >> let me ask you this. you talk about leadership in the house and the senate. kevin mccarthy wants to be the next speaker of the house. hes going to join us coming up later in the program tonight. you are largely credited for leading the effort in part, you and mark meadows to push speaker boehner out. what do you think of kevin mccarthy? >> i like kevin personally and i would encourage kevin or whoever the new speaker is. ...

John boehner will be holding that gavel for a period of time. but do you want to slow walk this, do you want to interview every candidate? and do you believe it would be smart for the house freedom caucus to stand together and choose a candidate together? >> yeah, i think its very important. in virginia, i ran on the republican creed which has six principles. we want to interview all the candidates and ask them to put their ideas down on paper ahead of time. thats what the countrys all about, th...

That gavel for a period of time. but do you want to slow walk this, do you want to interview every candidate? and do you believe it would be smart for the house freedom caucus to stand together and choose a candidate together? >> yeah, i think its very important. in virginia, i ran on the republican creed which has six principles. we want to interview all the candidates and ask them to put their ideas down on paper ahead of time. thats what the countrys all about, the constitution is kind of the...

Isil, as well as addressing the flow of foreign terrorist fighters and importantly, chuck, to make new commitments against violent extremism. so what can we realistically get done? a few things in particular, we had new countries joining the coalition. three now countries joining the coalition. also today -- >> which countries? any countries of significance? >> nigeria, malaysia, tunisia. and certainly all three of whom are on the front lines in the fight in terms of the challenges that theyre e...

Unaccounted for in prison. a lot of questions by raul castro, but what is going to cause a change in that government thats been in power since january 1st of 1959, chuck. >> jose, its very important i thought we bring up that political prisoner point, these are people that the pope supposedly was blessing all these things, they put on a good show. when we all leave, something seems to change. >> im glad were bringing up his name, because he is languishing in prison. >> jose, i know you have a br...

Happened what happens in the senate despite not having majority. most importantly barack obama will be president and he will be until 2017. the problem they can not deliver on all commitments they have made to their supporters. which means that john boehner had to go. i suspect kevin mccarthy will face much the same fate. he will not be able to effectuate getting around the constitution. that is not possible. jon: kevin mccarthy is odds-on-favorite to win the speakers job. a guy named sean trend...

And jim sciutto. what for the president is the big thing? >> syria. thats the core, and other issues in the region as well. he wants to use this as sort of an anniversary moment to talk about modern leadership. thats what weve been told by the white house, to say modern leadership, what does that mean right now? in his view its all about diplomacy. hes going to hammer that on iran, on syria, on the fight against isis even since those are connected. he wants to say its about democracy. its about ...

Powerless, the plight of refugees, the plight of the marginalized did not matter. they were on the periphery of the worlds concerns. today our concern for them is driven cannot just by -- driven not just by conscience, but should also be driven by self-interest. for helping people who have been pushed to the margins of our world is not mere charity, it is a matter of collective security. and the purpose of this institution is not merely to the avoid conflict, it is to galvanize the collective ac...

Hair ran africa. >> ive looked through a report detailing how we can eliminate malaria by 2040. tell me whats at the core of this plan. >> sure. thanks for having me. when president obama started his remarks at the u.n. general assembly, he said its a moral outrage that so many kids are just a bite away from death, and really at the core of this plan is to change that. a child still dying every minute from a mosquito bite, and weve made tremendous progress. weve seen a 60% reduction in deaths fr...

>> now that hes made that announcement, there is a scramble to succeed him. the leading candidate right now is kevin mccarthy, the current house majority leader from california. ive been told hes been making calls through the weekend and has enough commitments to get the job to succeed john boehner. that has prompted a big fight for the people underneath him. watch for the battle for house majority leader to really shape up. there are a number of candidates vying for that. one of the things they...