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Think mayor mik cockmickco -- m net. is that a problem, theyre just not integrated into the national gop platform? >> i think republican mayors feel like theres a giant lost opportunity and the convention was a great example. the chairman was mayor villaraigosa of los angeles. you mentioned mayor castro and several mayors -- >> on the democratic side. >> had prominent roles on the democratic roles. republicans have mayors who are out there. phoenix is a great example, the mayor of phoenix, greg ...

That can say that theyre not going to expand medicaid for the poor, you shouldnt be hearing from politicians, democrats or republicans. we dont take the oath about the poor people. the rabbis, the ministers, the priests, they should be out there because youre right, the target is not middle america and the upper class. its not union workers. its not people with regular good-paying jobs. its the unfortunate poor folks that are doing without. so im not going to let a glitch stop in the way -- soon...

New yorkers have not elected a democrat for mayor in more than two decades of the recent polls showing thats about to change, though. the latest survey has democrat bill de blasio crushing his republican rival by more than 40 points. its a familiar scene playing out in u.s. big cities where republican politicians have suffered a major setback. you have to go all the way down to the countrys 13th largest city, thats indianapolis, to find just one republican mayor. so why have gop mayors become an...

Then has to get to the right of him. its a disaster, its embarrassing, its shameful. but hey, theyre republican. what can i tell you. >> maggie, will he get pushed out, cruz? >> pushed out by whom? >> by the gop. >> what gop? i mean the problem is that ted cruz is a co-chair of the nrsc. there was an attempt by the washington establishment to co-opt cruz knowing that he came from the tea party. hes not interested in playing that game. right now what donors and the establishment are finding on th...

To politics now. last weekend it was hillary. this week its bill clinton stumping for virginia gubernatorial candidate and former aide terry mcauliffe. the richmond times dispatch has chosen not to endorse any candidate in the virginia governors race. the conservative charlottesville daily progress endorsed lieutenant governor bill bawling, a republican who is not on the ballot, a slap to ken cuccinelli. congressman mark sanfords fiance spoke publicly for the first time about the relationship ...

Way forward and thats the problem youre seeing. so i dont know exactly whos shoving ted cruz right now. well see. >> all points well made. maggie, nick, congressman, thank you for stopping by today. vice president dick cheney says the tea party is a good thing for the republican party. this morning on "today" cheney says he does not see a real rift in the gop and called the tea party an uprising that could bring change. still, vice president cheney said he would not call himself a card-carryin...

A bad guy is not going to come around with a -- if they do, theyre going to have it and be pointing on you. theyre not just going to strap it on and walk around in the street. >> you can use your gun to hunt, you can use it to go to a shooting range or on your private property. but i think carrying guns openly, i think its unnecessary. i just think its frightening, frankly. >> the demonstrations came on the same weekend that chilling new details were released on the newtown school shooting massa...

Get it done. when the united states government cant produce people who want insurance and given the incentives that they have theres something wrong with it, but not the concept. and why republicans willig nor the fact that not everybody has insurance like the congress people, like the middle class, like the upper middle class, and give a break for those. i would hope that every church and synagogue reaches out to the poor. >> youre pragmatic certainly about this issue. would you be pragmatic in...

Hu huge lost opportunity. >> what kind of impact will this mistake have on national politics? >> i think what it does is it removes a voice of common sense. i think some of the problems were seeing in washington are now we know that washington politicians are out of touch. they dont see their constituents in the local grocery store. they dont have to get things done. if they dont pick up the trash on a thursday like mayors do, we hear from it. so that lack of accountability, that lack of having ...

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