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Republican party. it just took cantors defeat for the rest of them to notice. joining me now is joe madison. thanks for being here. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >> joe, the media complex rules the party. where is this going for a party trying to rebrand? >> well, its going to go straight to mississippi? thats where its going to go next. and this is what i was saying this morning. and that is, mississippi may be a different animal during the general election. clearly a republican is going to ...

Who is a very controversial tea party type, compared the president to hitler and then neel kashkari republicans really dont want donelly to have to be on the ticket and hear from him between now and then. >> thats right. california republicans i have spent a lot of time in california reporting on the republican party. they are a party in shambles. it is less of a statewide party than interest group. there are in about 25% of the voting population. wr you have republicans in districts with huge h...

Committee were the clintons. hillary clinton was concerned if you left us to the republicans, it could hurt her. thats interesting. >> clinton is going to be very much at the center of this. what this does is it puts democrats in the room when key decisions are made, when documents are gone through, the idea is to avoid democrats having to be completely surprised by something that might pop up. >> smart politics. >> and finally, conan obrien as we get back to you guys in new york, talking about ...

Groups and trying to get across this message that rand paul is doing. rand paul himself is outside the traditional party establishment on some issues. he himself didnt even support the immigration bill in the senate. so as much as they sort of talk the talk, theres still, you know, a lack of a sort of positive message from the bills theyre but suing and the legislation theyre really going after to sort of make that case more broadly. >> what do you think, though, phillip? do you think rand paul ...

Only candidate you could look at and say is heavy enough has enough stature accomplishment, intellect. around the block enough off to be able to compete at that level so far is potentially jeb bush. certainly nothing that chris christie has done. nothing marco rubio or rand paul has done. makes them him ear clintons equal when it comes to survey the world. address it the way she just did with the combination of toughness and light touch. if she is the democratic nominee. we will be in the fight ...

Disrupt the vote in any way it could. and there was violence. the ministry of information says there were 140 attacks or attempted attacks and almost a thousand polling stations had to be closed for security reasons. one out of every six. cnns anna joins me from kabul. anna, the numbers when you put them in the context of afghanistans history in the previous elections, actually quite a success, correct? >> yeah, absolutely, fareed. there is no doubt about it. doesnt matter how you want to tell t...

Dollars into a race like this, working on these national messages, what gets lost is the vote and the voice of the real folks who live there. and i think thats exactly what happened here. >> well, thats very interesting, though, because theres a little nugget out there, chris, that session that this election may have been a small part of obama care, not really the big picture, but a small part called medicare advantage. and that a lot of the elderly voters who tend to go to these kinds of electi...

Whole dam board. it, stand up right now. youll walk the streets and prevent another doctor 100 million from being spent. >> this is ridiculous! this is nuts. this is crazy. my wife, i give my wife everything. i do anything i can for my wife. im sleeping with her. who are you sleeping with? >> whew. taxpayers in a tanzy over the money that this superintendent in california is taking in. nearly $700,000 in compensation. he also got a cushy loan for his house and gary b., you say there is a lot mor...

Snowbirds. an african-american population above the national average and hispanic population well above the national average, particularly in the southern tip of the state. like america has san francisco, florida has key west. over the past 60 years, florida has voted for the republican presidential candidate twice as often as the democrat. but the democrat has won the state three times, including clinton in 96 and president obama twice. the average margin of victory in all of the elections was ...

>> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically since the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town but a not-so mrks small city. >> the changes come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the voting population. while the hispanic population ac...