Earth institute. North carolina chappel hil chapel hill. National geographic. Eyre talking about host let me take his point in the larger issue of Foreign Policy and what yesterday, bobby jindal, who is likely to run for president , speaking at the Iowa RepublicanParty Convention in des moines, had to say. [video clip] i thought long and hard about what i want to share with you today. I want to share with you my greatest concern, my greatest frustration, my greatest fear of the Obama Administration and his legacy. There is so much that worries me about president obama. I worry about 17 trillion of debt. I worry about an epa that will strangle our economy. I worry about more taxing, spending, borrowing. I worry about a diminished america on the world stage. I worry about Economic Growth of 2 that he calls recovery. Me theng that worries most, not only as the governor of louisiana, but as the father of three Young Children, is this president s attempt to redefine the American Dream. By that . Do i mean if you listen to this president long enough, if you watch his policies, what you hear, what you see is a focus on class envy. What you hear and what you see is a president intent on dividing us by geography, by age, by gender, by success. What you see is a president who talks about redistribution a president who seems to believe that america is about equality of outcomes instead of equality of opportunity. I dont know about you, but that is not the American Dream my parents taught me about. The American Dream is not about growing the federal government, growing its taxes, its spending. The American Dream is not about managing the slow decline of the great economy of this great country. The American Dream is not about making us more and more like europe. Host Domenico Montanaro, that seems to be the theme we are hearing from republicans taking aim at the president and Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy, the economy. Guest those of the two issues we are dealing with right now. What you dont hear about his health care. It is interesting. That seems to have shifted a bit, especially when we look at this midterm. You have so many issues now as a hotbed on the foreignpolicy front that the president having to do with that is seems to be the avenue where rep opponent where republicans are able to hit the president for being weak. The economy is not gangbusters, but it has been pretty even and down from a high of 10. 8 unemployment to about 6. 3 now. Foreign policy is where republicans think they can hit the president , calling him weak, worse than jimmy carter almost is what they are saying. the cleanout fundingknow cantor was local gop Party Housekeeping to cleanout Tea Party Paul antineocon leadership . Guest before he had his battle over leadership in the local Republican Party he lost that battle. It was one of those things that i think people after the fact have been saying, maybe we should have paid a little bit more attention to that. It was one of those inner party nerparty battles that was kind of on a small scale. There were no polls suggesting he was in trouble. His internal had him up to 34. Up 34 inee how you are your internal and down 11 in the actual. The only neutral pole was up, like, 11 or 12. It was a surprise. That was only if there was a canary in the coal mine. That was probably the only one there. Ive seen it happen in couple of times and it did not translate on the electoral scale. Host your former colleagues d the impact of the poll it did suppress the cantor people. If he is going to win by that margin, no need to show up. Guest we had a reporter at the strawberry fair. Our reporter said, you know, bra t got there in the morning, 10 00 a. M. , when the doors opened, he shook every hand in the place. Eric cantor kind of breezed through five hours later. There werent even strawberries anymore. He thought the race was no big deal. You saw the stats. They spent more on steak than brat spent on his entire campaign. We rely so much on polling. There hasnt been a lot of good polls. You would think the internal poll would be better. That is by anecdotal reporting. Still, pretty underrated. We do need to be out there and talk to people. Big thing with that internal poll is that the internal poll is used not just a leak to the media and go, oh, well, this is a joke race. The point is to see where you are with your own strategy. If you think you are up 34, what you are playing for is margin of victory. Can i getaying to see above 60, can i set myself up for a possible leadership thing later . Cantor was the heir apparent to boehner. If his internals had showed him hes5, up 1, up 10, running a different race. If it is up 34, you run the race that eric cantor ran. You try not to mess up. You try not to give yourself opportunities to take a winnable race and throw it away. Guest they think it was democrats that swayed the race. They say the eric cantors Campaign Manager came out and said, there have to be 15,000 democrats who voted. The problem for the party is if they continue to have this kind of denial attitude that there wasnt something that actually happened, it was just democratic didntg, president obama legitimately win in 2012, it was voter fraud if they continue to have that kind of attitude, you dont fix the problems that do have electoral consequences. Host all the attention on Randolph Macon college. Two candidates from the same college in the seventh congressional district. Our guests, Derek Wallbank of Bloomberg News and Domenico Montanaro of the pbs newshour. We welcome our listeners on cspan radio heard coasttocoast. Good morning. Caller good morning to you. I just would like to know from your guests what hillarys credentials exactly are, what her accomplishments were when she was secretary of state. Pressing reset buttons with russia didnt seem to work. Putin just laughed at it. We see the middle east blowing up. So, what policy positions does she actually have . Guest i think in a lot of ways she will say she pushed for smart power. That is her philosophy of how you go about foreignpolicy. I think there are a lot of avenues for republicans to try and hit back on Hillary Clinton, as youve already seen, and as your guest just noted. I do think that from secretary of state to senator to having been in the white house, she is somebody who is widely known. I think that name identification is a big issue when it comes to president ial politics. That is why you are sucking her lead in so many polls. You are seeing her lead in so many polls. Caller good morning and happy fathers day. I wanted to say first of all that i think hillary is extremely out of touch. She may have name recognition. However, as a woman who has, her whole life, voted across party lines for any woman, she is one that i would not vote for, especially not for commander in chief. Anybody who is that clueless about her socalled, suppose it safety and security on the anniversary date of 9 11 is not fit to be commanderinchief. I would like to see ben carson run for president. I think he would make a measured, intelligent person who could maybe straighten out our health care system. And i do believe that we need to have border know what kind of security, but something has got to be done. This has just gotten crazy and insane, whats going on down there. It is terrible. Host are you a republican or independent . Caller i was always a lifelong democrat until right after 9 11. That gore was god not in office when that happened. Host can i ask you a question . One of the stories driving the weekend was in the Washington Post and the l. A. Times, about mitt romney who criticizes clinton as a candidate. The record has been extraordinarily lacking and ineffective. It is hard to think of a place in the world where our foreignpolicy interest were enhanced by virtue of her serving as secretary of state. Your thoughts on his comments . Some speculate on a third president ial bid in 2016. Caller actually, i didnt know much about him when he started. As i started watching him as a person, i felt like he was a good, decent human being and would do the best he could for the country. However, i dont think he has a chance, but i do fully agree with everything he has to say about hillary. I also might like to point out that he was correct in everything that he rebutted obama about during the debates. Host thanks for the call. Domenico montanaro, react to the call. Portman, senator rob mike huckabee, senator rand paul, all mingling with romney donors. Guest so is brian schweitzer, the one democrat who could possibly run against Hillary Clinton, which is interesting. What is interesting about the you talk about the 9 11 switch for her from democrat to more hawkish security, she is what the bush people would have identified as a security mom. Thats what they felt were the swing voters in 2000 and 2004. There is that pocket of who they see as a suburban security mom, who they feel like is a group open to a republican message, especially on National Security. Outink as was pointed earlier, polling across the board has shown the world weariness that less lines up with doing more and more lining up with doing less. Host mitt, 2016 . Guest i just think that is a fantasy. It is fun to say, it looks like he is thinking more about running than before, but i think this is about legacy. If you watch the mitt documentary, it got under their skin. They felt like they were made to be a joke. He feels like his family he is a guy who is really successful in business, turned around a lot of companies, and feels like he is a real thought leader. I think thats what he wants to be. Host this is from jan. Eric cantors loss should be a warning a wakeup call to all politicians. Dont get comfortable, work for every vote. Guest true. All,u are in politics at whatever you want to do in washington, whatever committee you want to chair, whatever leadership position you aspire to hold, it all depends on coming back. If you are not here, you cannot win. Host a lot of speculation on the quickness of the vote for House Republican leader. [video clip] i do think the members are going to make this decision. We are going to do it next week. Im sure some will argue it is too soon, some will argue it is too long. But it is important we resolve this issue in a fair amount of time so that we can do the work that we were it left it to do. And so, the members will we were elected to do. And so, the members will make a decision. Do you want Kevin Mccarthy at your side . Otherork with all 434 members of congress before. I can work with whoever gets elected. Host did you want to weigh in on those points . Guest there is no question that holding an election quicker helps mccarthy. When i was talking to Pete Sessions ultimately decided not to run. He was running for a couple of hours. We were talking with him on the floor of the capitol after he came out of lunch with the texas delegation, which endorsed him, the biggest state delegation for republicans. Sessions was asked if he wanted more time. He said, sure, i would have liked more time to be able to run this. Sessions eventually drops out. There is no question that people who are a little bit nervous about having somebody who is seen as being in the leadership establishment they would have liked a longer campaign. They would have liked for the club for growth and heritage to be able to play a little bit more, to have people start getting fire under their feet. Mccarthy moved very fast to consolidate his position. He was working on this from pretty much tuesday night, the second they realized eric cantor was going down. They had two outstanding whips going on, one on the agricultural bill and one on the highway funding measure. I dont know what the results of those are. What has been going on since, eric cantor, in absolute shock and mccarthys folks got in gear real fast. By wednesday, you saw a bunch of key people in mccarthys camp ready to go, ready to commit their political will. He moved lightning fast. He had a bunch of support locked up before other people were in or out. Guest it helps to be the whip. You have the private phone number and email. You can organize a campaign much quicker than any opponent could. Host and there is this tweet from james who says, mitt out romneyt turns was right about everything obama is wrong about. There was this influx of the your guests addressed southern border and the influx of children, or has the administration instructed media not to discuss . Guest we will have a piece on the border this week about these unaccompanied children that are coming in. I was on a Conference Call at the white house earlier this week. What they point to is not that there is a magnet because there is some openness from president obama on immigration reform. If you look at the murder rates in countries like honduras, el are the highest in the world because of the increased Drug Trafficking there and what is happening in those countries. People are being flushed out of those countries. Four reasons why people like my father came to this country they come here because they see the United States as somewhere you can be free and there is Economic Opportunity and there might be some family connection. That is why you are seeing this influx. What the white house points to is, they will say, if it was the case that it was the immigration openness from obama, you would see more people from countries like mexico, which are contiguous, and places like nicaragua and costa rica. You are just not seeing that as much as you are from honduras, el salvador. Host dolores is joining us from mcminnville. Caller good morning. Happy fathers day to everyone. The reason im calling is because im very concerned as a tennessee resident about obamacare, which i think is a good thing. I love president obama. I respect him. I wish some of the republicans would start working with him and show a little more respect to our president of the United States. Have republican congressmen, republican governor. Governor haslam. Not exceptingthem obamacare, taking on the medicaid. It is going to cause our hospitals to close down in rural ourties, which 70 of hospitals are in the rural counties, even the ceo of River Park Hospital is concerned that they are not making enough money because they dont have medicaid patients. And i think it is a crying shame that because they dont like obama, they are not going to accept medicaid for the state of tennessee. Host thanks very much for the call. We are seeing that in virginia as well. Guest youre seeing this across the country. Republican states are places where you are not seeing medicaid expanded and where you are seeing it fought. Ive written about this on pbs. I think the only time you are really going to see the Health Care Law become a net positive is when you do have a republican president who decides to say this isnt going anywhere, we are going to try to fix it. Because we are republican, we will show how it is going to be managed better. Make some sort of message that way and you bring people over on the republican side to let the antipathy as long as president obama is president , you will see this split and probably as a net negative. Host we covered a moment online. He traveled to Angel Stadium in to deliverlifornia, the commencement address to uc irvine. This is the headline this morning. He madeery end, reference to something he talked about in 2004 and at the keynote the theme of his campaign, hope and change. [video clip] cynicism has never won a war or started a business or fed a young mind or sent men into space. Cynicism is a choice. Hope is a better choice. Hope is what gave young soldiers the courage to storm a beach and liberate people they had never met. Studentshat gave young the strength to sit in and stand up and march for womens rights and civil rights and Voting Rights and gay rights and immigration rights. Against allbelief evidence to the contrary that there are better days ahead and that together we can build up a middle class and reshape our immigration system and shield our children from gun violence and sheltered future generations from the ravages of climate change. Today thee fact that single Largest Age Group in america is 22yearolds who are all just itching to reshape this country and reshape the world, and i cannot wait to see what you do tomorrow. Host uc irvine yesterday. Guest i think part of the problem for the president in these last couple of years, and what happens to a lot of president s, that hope, that positivity fades. Beendent obama has somebody who has talked about hope and change since 1991. All the way back then, we dug up an old video of him when he was at harvard, on a panel talking about how people in the innercity dont have hope. I think this comes from a little bit of a defensive point of view at this point in his presidency, where he is trying to fire up young voters, get them to understand that, even beyond his presidency, he wants to see his legacy carried out, especially on climate change, some of what they are doing with the executive orders. Host this from one of our viewers, bill saying, hope . Yes, indeed. 92 million now out of the workforce and actually 19 million unemployed. Caller good morning. Happy fathers day to all of the fathers. Yall are supposed to be newscasters. I want you to answer a question. This is the best we got. The world cup started thursday. And all them people are running around on that field spelling brazil wrong. It is with a z, not an s. Why yall dont catch it . Yall dont catch nothing. Guest to your point, they spell it with an s in brazil. In america