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This defeat for cantor indicate that there is a, i guess, a newer kind of movement by the tea party? what happened? >> well, the message to the tea spaert talking about for the last five years, one of personal and economic freedom. a debt free future. thats the message of dave bratt and won on and he won because the grass roots tea party activists in the district got out and talked about the issues with fellow voters. >> so lenny, we heard from senator graham earlier today who won his race in so...

How do we begin to do that more and more. shes perfectly positioned to do that. if she gets trapped responding to mitt romney, gets trapped in responding to a tea party, even to an elizabeth warren, she will find herself in a bigger mess. mainstream republicans who care about immigration, care about budget reform, have to be able to talk about things in ways, no disrespect to the things ken may be doing, have to talk about it in a way thats bigger than the moment. eric cantor lost touch with his...

Primary and asked people who voted for david brat the guy who beat cantor asked them what their main reason for doing so was. only 22% of them said immigration. its only about one in five voters who voted against cantor saying that immigration was what motivated them. the rest, the other four out of five anti-cantor voters pointed to other reasons like cantor was, quote, too focused on national politics instead of local needs and that hed, quote, lost touch with voters. and on the day -- on the ...

At one point you mentioned the grass roots effect. while i dont think this is huge signal of things to come. eric cantor counted the hand went to work for them. and they came back and showed them who is bottom. >> grass roots in virginia are unique from the rest of the country. so close to washington, d.c. they are around so many different political consultants and they are very sophisticated. they understand whats going on im not surprised by. this the grass roots in virginia are organized. coa...

At one point you mentioned the grass roots effect. while i dont think this is huge signal of things to come. eric cantor counted the hand went to work for them. and they came back and showed them who is bottom. >> grass roots in virginia are unique from the rest of the country. so close to washington, d.c. they are around so many different political consultants and they are very sophisticated. they understand whats going on im not surprised by. this the grass roots in virginia are organized. coa...

Of people, really shaking up things in congress in the republican party, in the republican leadership. a lot of people thought eric cantor would be boehners successor. and soon, by the way. and now people are saying this is a sign of the tea party resurrection. >> landmark victory, really, for the conservative movement. calling it a political earthquake. i know john berman last night was sending me furious e-mails. >> we were looking at it. im like, i cant go to sleep and mark preston, i know yo...

The osc lost touch with the team last night. they still dont know their whereabouts. you may remember last month another team disappeared and ended up being held for more than a week. this happens as the new government here in kiev fresh off successful elections on sunday greatly escalated its assaults on the militants. an official telling me that it is, quote, now or never for this government to fight this insurgency. ukraines new government is only two days old but it is already riveted with g...

I think hell get a pretty strong united front in favor of what ambassador taylor was just talking about, which is an escalating set of sanctions against this act of aggression. >> well, lets still denying those are russian troops that he might have to order back to their bar racks. so it seems like were a few steps away from that. former ambassador william taylor and charles kupchan. thank you very much for your time on this important story. >> thank you. coming up, what are the russian people...

We could do that in the ukraine. that is not going to start a war but tell putin we are serious. >> why do we do that? >> we are doing it because there should be a military option on the table. every one i have seen on the news media this whole last few days talks about the first thing we are going to do is take the military option off the table. oh, really? thats our greatest advantage right now. putin doesnt care about economic sanctions. he doesnt care about what the eu thinks. the only thing...

We could do that in the ukraine. that is not going to start a war but tell putin we are serious. >> why do we do that? >> we are doing it because there should be a military option on the table. every one i have seen on the news media this whole last few days talks about the first thing we are going to do is take the military option off the table. oh, really? thats our greatest advantage right now. putin doesnt care about economic sanctions. he doesnt care about what the eu thinks. the only thing...