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Will to supporters in louisville, kentucky, within the hour. hes promising to be a different kind of republican who wants to defeat the washington machine. how is he going to do that? chief congressional correspondent dana bash is in louisville for that big announcement. hes in. the big announcement still to come. what should folks expect to hear from rand paul this morning? >> reporter: thats right. you see the crowd is gathering behind me. theyre going to see a series of videos before they act...

Campaigns. when the conversation has changed to isis when it becomes about iran, that puts rand paul in a much different place than he was in his senate career. this is going to be one of the biggest challenges hes going to face on the republican side. >> one last thing, i notice that senator paul has dropped senator from his twitter hand. hes now dr. rand paul. whats that about? >> one of his messages is about crushing the washington machine. hes been a united states senator now for four years....

The base as a true conservative. >> too often when republicans have won, we have squandered our victory by becoming part of the washington machine. thats not who i am. >> its central to pauls campaign,ed claim that hes a different kind of republican one whos savvy about social media and can reach younger voters a libertarian whos questioned drone strikes, and nsa spying and gop military hawks, and hes joined democrats in calling for criminal justice and criminal sentencing reform and restoring v...

People in need with his medical practice. but it all comes down to the question of whether or not this former tea party darling can expand even more broadly to win a republican nomination. in many ways rand pauls platform for president sounds a lot like the 2010 tea party creed dough he used to snatch his senate seat from the cg 0 p establishment. >> too often when republicans have won, weve squandered our victory by becoming part of the washington machine. thats not who i am. >> reporter: but a...

Saying he wants to defeat the washington machine. kentucky republican senator rand paul is running for president. hell make the official official -- i dont know how many announcements you need but more than one this day in age. just minutes from now right there in louisville, kentucky. on his website today, he said this. im running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. joining ining me to discuss, g borger and ryan lizza. so gloria, early on we ...

Won, weve squandered our victory by becoming part of the washington machine. thats not who i am. [ applause ] thats not why i ran for office the first time a few years ago. the truth is i love my life as a smalltown doctor. every day i woke up and felt lucky to do the things i loved. more importantly, i was blessed to be able to do things that made a difference in peoples lives. i never could have done any of this though without the help of my parents, who are here today. id like you to join me ...

Keeping the republican base happy, convincing him he is as robust as republicans are on things like national security. and also keeping those enthusiastic libertarian supporters liking him. some of them have been a little critical of him saying hes gotten too fuzzy on the issues for them. and so hes got to kind of walk a fine line here and also appeal to the establishment of the republican party, many of whom think he doesnt have the national security credibility to be their candidate. >> that s...

And the pop culture lead. hes been a mass genius a glab yaiter, a biblical hero. now hes playing director for the first time. russell crow joins me here on "the lead" to talk about his new film and its message. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. well begin today with our politics lead. just hours ago a major anoungsment kentucky senator rand paul declaring washington, d.c. broken. he wants to be mr. fix it. the chance of president paul, the senator announced hes run...

Won, weve squandered our victory by becoming part of the washington machine. thats not who i am. thats not why i ran for office the first time just a few years ago. the truth is, i loved my life as a small town doctor. every day i woke up, i felt lucky to do the things i loved. more importantly, i was blessed to be able to do things that made a difference in peoples lives. i never could have done any of this, though, without the help of my parents who are here today. id like you to join me and t...

Beginning of the primary season. hes running an anti-establishment, antibig government, almost 60s style campaign. hes against the sim, against both pairs. hes against washington. hits slogan is defeat the washington machine and of course the washington machine since 2001 ha a war-making machine. there was an amazing echo of the 60s, chris, you and i are old enough to remember that it was against the system with a capital "s kgs tenor. it might not work at all with all the other microforces in i...