Cpac 2013 News Today

Cpac. as you know, hes been fighting to defund planned parenthood for years. and hes still refusing any federal funds tied to the affordable care act. what does that mean for your constituents on a day-to-day basis? >> well, it means for my constituents and many, many others throughout the state that women will have no access to health care and health preventative measures. because planned parenthood, where we have no physicians, and in many parts of our state, are physicians who do not take peo...

You have to have more sharing of the wealth of america in order to have a strong middle class and a sustainable economy. >> congressman peter welsh, thank you so much, sir, for joining us so soon after meeting with the president. >> thank you. coming up, does the republican road to 2016 run through cpac? stay with us. >> the gop of old has grown stale and moss covered. i dont think we need to name any names. im the worlds worst cleaning lady.

Wouldnt be surprising in this case if it comes out to be rand paul. i think what you are getting this year which i have not felt in previous years is there a lot of friendly fire here. its -- you saw it a little bit in that clip you played from rand paul in the backroom, the breakout sessions here. people are actually shouting at each other as they talk about what went wrong in november. and how they fix things going forward. so theres a whole lot of wrestling over the soul of the party here, ev...

Thats why i got a subaru. love. its what makes a subaru, a subaru. from historic white smoke at the vatican, to more blowing smoke at cpac, here are todays top lines. 47 kt man. >> elected the 266th pope. here are other names he could have selected. >> any white smoke here? >> number 5, pope w. bush. >> are you surprised barack obama i was not elected as pope? >> republicans want to balance the budget. president doesnt. they havent said that. today was a good start. >> obamas charm offensive. ...

Senate floor, house floor, when rand paul goes out and talks or ted cruz goes out and talks, they sound like crazy people to most of us. within the republican party, they are now in a sense of a kind of establishment. theyre very difficult to push off. and cpac is where that dilemma kind of comes to a head. >> there are some real debates for this group to have. we were talking about this earlier today. rand paul gets out there and comes up with a very noninterventionist approach to foreign polic...

People who dont need to have handguns, those people who are mentally ill, those people who have criminal backgrounds, those people who have criminal intent, that they should not be able to own weapons. >> goldie taylor, as ever, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> going to wait to see what the nras wayne lapierre will say tomorrow at cpac. coming up, do unto others. charity and the paul ryan budget collide. first, hampton pearson has the cnbc market wrap. good af...

Friends. thats a great reachout, a warm reachout by louie gohmert. >> no, its -- where to begin? the problem is, and i think david got to it, there is a republican party and there is the conservative movement. it used to be like when the john burch society was the substitute for the crowd at cpac. what the republican party did was to push those people to the side and say, okay, there, there, you can go ahead and believe fluoride is the great work of the devil or the u.n. is fluoridating our waut...

Joining us. mns m msnbc political analyst, david corn. and joy reid, managing editor of the grio.com. david, between allen west saying theres nothing so fearful to progressives on this green earth than a black american who wants a better life, and rand paul describing certain members of the republican party as covered in moss, im beginning to wonder if this years cpac is about horticulture as opposed to polit politic. >> mitt romney, sarah palin, allen west being there, its like the zombie apoca...

>> lets get right to our panel. joining us, dana milbank live at cpac. msnbc political contributor jimmy williams in washington. jimmy, we know now who was responsible for recording mitt romneys infamous 47% speech. of course, conservatives are complaining this guy wasnt a mutual observer, that he was pushing some kind of agenda. but for arguments sake, lets assume hes not a mutual observer. so what? it doesnt change what mitt romney said, does it? >> its almost like the movie "can "the help". t...

Thats pathetic and an affront to working people across this country. it really is. >> dana, i realize youre wearing a somewhat impressive badge today. there we are. dont believe the liberal media. who was that given to you by? >> i picked that out myself, martin. im under cover as you can see at cpac. im a few feet away from governor perry talking to fox news. i want to say in contrast to your earlier segment, i find him to be an intelligent and handsome man and quite a bit larger than i am. >> ...