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Is a preview to the fall budget battles. president obama saying its ludicrous that the republicans are talking about shutting down the government over defunding his health care law. some republicans saying thats what they intend to do. some republicans like ted cruz and mike lee. ive been speaking to some republican leadership who say theres really not an appetite for shutting down the government over this, alex. however, that doesnt mean that solving the budget issue is going to be a simple one...

Binghamton and scranton. he is very popular with voters in scranton. president owe bam a ma will be talking about college affordability. it comes on a number of stops he has made where he calls for lowering the corporate tax rate, investing in infrastructure, job building projects. all of this really a preview to the fiscal fights we will be talking about in september when congress is back in session, alex. >> oh, i cant wait. okay. >> i cant either. >> i know. here we go again. thank you so muc...

People thinking im going to win this from the right and theyre going to chop each other up and then have a guy with a 72% approval rating in new jersey going out there and you get 25, 30% of the vote, you win. >> i always believed the -- a moderate could win the republican primaries by being the only moderate in the field. >> how fascinating do we call chris christie a moderate? which is a republican -- >> republican primary -- >> in the republican stakes thats a moderate. this guy is the first ...

It. theres some governors i like. walker has been pretty good and a few others. im not here to nominate anybody. im here to say, american, its time to put nixon, ford, rockefeller, scranton, help us or were going to get our lunch handed to us again. its time to embrace constitutional covertive jim -- conservative jim because the countries in dire shape. >> neil: you hear from tea party types they would rather lose on principle than win with mediocrity. to your point. moderate type candidates. do...

Were learning new details about that will bus tour, martin, which is specifically where hes going to be going according to officials familiar with the trip. the president will be heading to upstate new york and making a couple of stops, buffalo, syracuse, bighamton, the associated press reporting hell also stop in scranton, white house wont confirm those stops though. we should say that. this is a part of his larger economy tour that he has been taking. hes already made five stops and one white ...

The stoppins the presidents go to make? >> reporter: thomas, good afternoon. we understand hes going to make several stops next week, including to scranton, buffalo, syracuse, and binghamton. the white house hasnt confirmed those stops yet. we do know that hes going to be traveling to those places to talk about the economy. this is really a part of his broader economy tour. as youll recall before he started vacation, he made a number of stops, five total, talking about the economy, mapping out p...

Goldwater that june, it made rockefeller toast. frantic in treaties for scranton to reconsider a jump into the race, but he wouldnt budge. he wouldnt budge, at least, until a few days later when goldwater joined southern democrats that were trying to kill lyndon johnsons civil rights bill with a filibuster. one of six to cross over and join with the south in that filibuster and on the cusp of winning the republican partys nomination. thats when scranton changed his mind and entered the race. >> ...

For delegates. and the words his campaign used to criticize policies later showed up in one of presidents lyndon johnsons campaign ads. >> governor scranton, the day before the convention he called goldwaterism a "crazy quilt collection of absurd and dangerous positions." scrantons campaign was a lost cause. goldwater had the votes already, he won the nomination and then he lost in the landslide to lbj in november. scranton went back to pennsylvania, finished up his term and never ran for office...

Government. he ran for congress in 1960 and won in a district that went for john f. kennedy that same year. two years later ran for governor and won, again. his first year in office considered a smashing success. poured money into education and enacted a sales tax. that fleury of action led to calls for scranton to seek the 1964 presidential nomination. but he didnt show much interest in that. what scranton didnt realize at first and what almost no republican of the old guard recognized at that ...

Had still been alive. i had that thought twice this week william scranton and harry bird jr. had died. one was 96 years old and one was 98. both absent from the political stage for decades. played no role in the current one. except well, they kind of did, not directly, but their stories loom over american politics today. they illustrate the roots of the deep and intense regional, racial and cultural divisions that define the two parties today. they result in the maddening gridlock that no one se...