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White house that these delays are not political? >> well, the argument is that there is a court decision in nebraska that sort of invalidated the route they planned for keystone. now that the decision has been made, they need to rethink it. if youre like chuck, there is a cynical lens through which to view this. they do want to put this off until after november. there is a huge donor base in the democratic party that wants them not to do this. from everything i hear and read, you get the sense t...

Its fair to say, look, this is guy who made quite clear his feeling on climate and environmental activists and $100 million when senate democrats go to the floor, harry reid going to the floor at least once a week condemning republicans and trying to gin up money from their donor base. you know, give and take is very fair in this situation. i dont think its an unfair comparison. when you make decisions like this in an election year and it is as you point out andrea, an issue that theyve spent a ...

>> as they wear blue and gray and black suits on the senate floor he wants to have the koch monitored for all the republican senators. a lot of people look at senator reid, huh, where are we going here? >> you know, its really kind of curious because most americans dont know who the koch brothers are. its almost a message to the democratic donor base to scare them into action and to put money into the democratic super pac or campaign committees, money to push back against the ads because the koc...

Favors republicans and well see if democrats can have a comeback and really goose their donor base, as well. >> good to see both of you, thanks. coming up, well go to afghanistan. richard engel is voting on the historic election there as a photographer is killed covering the saturday vote. later, he wanted to see the birth of his son, what the mets second baseman got was a debate about paternity lead. its time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. ray goodman is the owner of ne...

>> great to join you, ronan. >> give us a recap of that article. whos this group thats courting jeb bush so aggressively? >> you see john mccains donor base, the gop elite, they are very worried about chris christies stumble over the bridge and weary of rand pauls libertarian bent. they are looking at jeb bush, an old name in republican politics, trying to get him back in the conversation. they are actually consulting with him and courting him to try to enter the 2016 race. >> his numbers are lo...

A bugaboo among many conservatives, thats one of things hes pushing is the common core educational standards initiative. put those things together and look at his personality. he doesnt seem to really want to do it. hes not showing signs that hes interested. yes, hes saying look, ill make the decision later but unlike say marco rubio, who has a political committee thats expanding its donor base, getting donors in every state and looks like hes positioning himself to run for president, jeb bush d...

An ophthalmologist from bowling green, kentucky, and beat the choice for u.s. senate. rand paul representing the libtarian wing of the party. he, you know, has courted rand paul, and got his support. and then for rand paul, you know, ill eat my tie if he doesnt run for president in 2016. he needs to make himself a little bit more palatable to the republican establishment, expand his donor base, and try to grow what is really sort of a limited set of voters inside a republican primary. >> you kno...

A two-front war ahead of the 2016 campaign. hes going to the mitt romney donor retreats and trying to court romneys donor base. >> and golfing with romney donors in utah. >> and last year he traveled to iowa at the same time with cruz. he knows he has to win iowa, compete with cruz in iowa. so hes playing two different games at the same time. its very difficult for rand paul because its going to be hard to establish himself as someone thats a nominee for the general election while trying to beat...

Support. "mitch mcconnell is an important ally and a conservative voice in washington for the people of kentucky. the commonwealth is stronger because of his service and i look forward to continuing to work with him." that is a nice endorsement. if it sounds at all familiar, its the exact same endorsement word for word that paul gave to the "associated press" back in july of last year. here it is. "mitch mcconnell is an important ally and conservative voice in washington for the people of kentuc...

Kentucky. the commonwealth is stronger because of his service and i look forward to continuing to work with him." that is a nice endorsement. if it sounds at all familiar, its the exact same endorsement word for word that paul gave to the "associated press" back in july of last year. here it is. "mitch mcconnell is an important ally and conservative voice in washington for the people of kentucky. the commonwealth is stronger for his service and i look forward to continuing to work with him." the...