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>> well, let's see after eight years of obama, we will greatly have increased the debt more than we ever have in our lives. we will be exhausted militarily. we will have lost most of the respect we ever had in the world. not one country on the planet laura where we are respected more than we were when barack obama took office. she has her fingerprints on foreign policy secretary of state. not that we are going to have to defend previous presidents. she will have to defend her record with this administration. she is smart and articulate but she is vulnerable. this benghazi issue is not going to go away especially if people like me have anything to do with it for one thing, i have made a promise to people like charles wood whose son was killed in benghazi, his son tyrone and to pat smith whose son sean smith were murdered that night and nobody has answered for it yet. and we can't let this go until we get the truth of what happened do you think the people of this country the broad base of people are going to vote on the basis of benghazi? i mean, i care deeply about it and i know you do as well. >> yeah. >> they're voting on gallup poll a few weeks ago demonstrates this again jobs in the economy. going to talk about this next segment. the more republicans kind of latch on to the foreign policy question and make this about putin or ukraine or egypt or libya, i say it's a real risk that we go back to what mccain tried to do in 2008 which was a collosal flop or to what some extent romney tried to do in the last election rather than focus on jobs, economy, obama care, a new growth agenda for america and that middle class that you talked about so powerfully in your first presidential run. bringing that middle class back versus more of the foreign policy focus. >> if we can communicate to the working class people. go home from work and lifted heavy things. their muscles are tired and they have sweated through their clothes. when we can explain how a republican-led true conservative leadership gives them power to do for their families. -- we are going to win the election. if we can't communicate that then i agree with you things like benghazi don't matter. you go to the restaurant, open up the menu and more than one thing on that menu. i think republicans can open up a menu and we have more one than one item to be able to talk about. benghazi is not the only thing, it's not the lead thing, but here's what it does really represent. it represents whether we can trust hillary clinton to pick up the phone at 3:00 in the morning like her ad from 2008 said and if we find out that when she picks it up she just says what difference does it make and hangs up the phone, then that is an issue and she does need to answer for it. >> she is going to argue that the last era of real prosperity for the country was during the clinton era. i believe her husband is going to make that argument on the stump. is he going to go to places like arkansas, governor huckabee, and kentucky where he is spending a will the of time right now working for alisyn grimes. look, this was a period of great growth for the united states. it was the clinton era. we are going to bring back that prosperity to america. i think he is going to go right to those same states in that area of the south that he won and he is going to try to get that magic back. think they -- he powerful. is probably the most successful politician ever to emerge from arkansas. i mean and you are right up there, but he was president. >> yeah. >> that's going to be a powerful argument to make versus the last two presidencies where we have seen declining american influence and power. >> bill isn't on the ballot it will be hillary clinton. it's not a forgone conclusion that she is going to be the nominee. look, i don't believe for one moment republicans ever have to cede the economic issues to anybody. but we have to explain that when government taxes us more than they should be that what they're really doing is disrespecting the work that americans are doing. so, it's how we communicate our message. and the fact that we are going to talk about empowering mothers and fathers to pick their children's schools, to pick the house of their dreams, and not let the government dictate to them where they are going to live. how much food they can put on their table, what kind of food it's going to be and where their kids are going to go to school. those are the kind of true issues that i believe we can motivate america with. >> governor, great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> next on the rundown, whether will the republican focus on foreign policy damage the party's chances in 2016. then, the president says you are punishing your family if you don't sign up for obamacare. is anyone buying that? 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[woman] so we got our 4-star hotels... for half price. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com in the impact segment tonight, jockey for position at cpac talking points. lots of interesting speakers at the annual conservative political action conference in washington. republicans who may need to do some reputation rehab with the base. new jersey governor chris christie whose star has fallen since bridge gate gave a terrific speech mostly on the economy and was well-received. florida senator marco rubio once considered a darling of the tea party before that is senate's immigration reforeign policy in his address. >> there is only one nation on earth capable of rallying and bringing together the free people on this planet to stand up to the threat of total -- total. >> i think this is a serious miscalculation. according to a recent "new york times"/cbs news poll only 34% of republicans say that the united states should take the leading role among all countries in trying to solve international conflicts. by the way, that's a 24% drop from when the same question was asked soon after the start of the iraq war. and january's gallup poll also shows us that the people think the government's number one priority should be jobs and the economy. translation. the g.o.p. electorate and a strong majority of americans have concluded that the iraq and afghanistan wars probably made us weaker, not stronger. overwhelmingly americans support and respect our military. they are not isolationists but they also want our attention and our money focused on the home front. remember, when the american people rose up against that idea of intervention in syria last year? if rubleio isn't careful, he will follow in the footsteps of john mccain who also staked his candidacy on a neo conservative, really muscular foreign policy. of course, mccain was roundly rejected by the voters for a man with zero foreign policy experience and who voted against the iraq war. today, according to the public policy polling outfit, mccain is the most unpopular senator in the united states. perhaps that's because people acquaint him with more military intervention. i think what most of us want is what george w. bush initially promised. a more humble foreign policy that focuses strictly on america's national interest. just as they were in 2008, the voters are more receptive to politicians fighting to raise the standard of living for americans than other country's sovereignty including ukraine. that's the memo. joining us from w. unique views of the situation. from houston kristin and from new york kelli ann conway a g.o.p. pollster. chris, have at me, where am i wrong in that talking points memo about the proper focus for republicans and conservatives who want to take that white house? >> well, there is no doubt. okay? jobs and economy is number one and obamacare is 1 b. okay. so i don't differ there but i respectfully differ in the approach that you say we shouldn't necessarily be the world's police force. i'm not for nor is senator rubio for dropping in the navy seals and the marines tonight in kiev. but, at the same time, we have got to stand up against what is wrong edmund burk said it for evil to prevail. we have got to put sanctions and get together with eu members, u.k., germany and france. maybe stop buying some russian oil. we have got to take a stance. look at venezuela, 25 million people have had their civil liberties stripped from them. shutting down tv stations in the ukraine today. we have got to do something. we buy 800,000 barrels a day of oil from venezuela. we are funding that total totalarism. >> people feel we spent too much two wars. spintd a lot of money looking around where did that money go? why isn't my life better off? they care about other countries, of course they do, they are charitable, wonderful people, unless america gets really stable and really strong really soon, this chaos that chris is rightly describing around the world is going to get worse. go ahead. >> no, it's true. it's the trillion dollars -- also a billion dollars we just sent to ukraine. the eu sent 15 times that. people look at that and say it's going to gets into the hands of the corrupt oligarchs anyway. is it going to help the freedom fighters. trying to distinguish between the hot spots around the globe, they distinguish between trying to keep the nukes out of iran and north korea and getting involved in a port in russia that putin wants for his own purposes they distinguish between u.s. national interest and they distinguish between supporting israel and getting involved in every squirmish around the globe. in the "new york times" poll you had equal number of republicans and democrats resisting further intervention and i wants -- independents are just one point above. tri partisan support when and when not to intervene. it's not because people aren't paying attention. >> they are. >> it's all the stuff and all of our attempts that change the world and export american values abroad and get the arab spring going. maybe if all of that had worked to make us freer at home or us more prosperous people would be like yeah, let's go, let's spend more money and not worry about the debt so much. none of that has made us more free, maybe more secure to some extent but not more free and our standard of living is not going up. so, i think people are so freaked out boo this middle class keeps going down. if this keeps going wish all the intervention we want but the american people are going to keep saying nothing to it. >> there is no doubt it's about jobs and the economy. you have to be clear and define what we are talking about. we are not talking about boots on the ground and not talking about dropping a bunch of tanks in kiev and venezuela. we are talking about standing up to what is wrong. if ronald's reagan and george h.w. bush 41 who i had the honor and privilege of working with him, if they had done nothing we would have never won the cold war. we have to stand up. >> i went back and looked at the g.d.p. the debt ratio in 95 was 42% -- 1985 it was 42%. comparing then to today the finances were completely different. the world is more dangerous and is going to get more dangerous unless we get our economic houses in order. rand paul looks like he won the straw poll. the least interventionist among all the candidates. no isolationism. >> but people are not into interventionism as goes national security go. one of the three legs in ronald reagan's three legged stool. there is a place in the dialogue. economy back to romney. that doesn't work either. >> no auto-to-isolationism. directly ahead another set back to obamacare as new study says uninsured americans aren't signing up. our own lou dobbs has the latest. and medical marijuana ads also geraldo is on tap to talk about it. captain obvious: i'm in a hotel. and a hotel is the perfect place to talk to you about hotels. all-you-can-eat is a hotel policy that allows you to eat all that you can. the hotel gym is short for gymnasium. the hotel pool is usually filled with water. and the best dot com for booking hotels, is hotels.com. it's on the internet, but you probably knew that. or maybe not, i don't really know you. bellman: welcome back, captain obvious. captain obvious: yes i am. all those words are spelled correctly. 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