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The first u.s. highways were built in the late 18th century. we once had a tradition that many people build roads and they charged you a fee to use them. it was true almost everywhere in the country at one time. >> sean: mr. speaker, you are the great historian, and i am looking at a disruptor that won the presidency. after eight years, i would classify it as abject failure. we have had a year of significant success. one of the keys to the success of the speech was rooted in the fact that the policies, principles, positions the president has taken is working. where do you see this disruptor fo...

California wasn't so much anti-. >> he nearly knocked out a sitting president in '76. he came back -- >> but since '80 you can't find a time where that hasn't happened. >> i would agree with you. >> so that's the precedent. >> what do you think, peter? >> i think it's a new paradigm. i don't know whether he can win or not. he's either going to explode in success or flame out in abject failure. but he's doing something that we haven't seen in american politics in a long while. excite the electorate or a portion of the electorate, and also excite the media. now, the media in great part may want ...

We have tried that. and the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. the american people are simply not going to stand for a third middle eastern war. my goodness we've tried this. the bush doctrine and i think kevin's freudian slip was telling was invade and conquer and occupy huge nations in the middle east and somehow reform them and they'll be just like wisconsin except maybe milder winters. it hasn't worked. it's been abject failure. the person going to have the hardest time with this is jeb bush because this is his brother's policy on ...

Declare big government's war on poverty a failure? >> michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. it's high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these kinds of approaches get results. cynthia tucker is a visiting professor at the university of georgia...

That official number grossly understates the impact and effectiveness of anti-poverty programs like food stamps, social security, and unemployment insurance. the times said, quote, a fuller accounting suggests that poverty rate, the poverty rate has dropped to 16% today from 26% in the late 1960s. nonetheless, conservatives have branded the war on poverty as a failure. here is a video of senator marco rubio, one that he released on this, the 50th anniversary week. >> 50 years ago, president lyndon johnson declared a big government war on poverty. well, since then american taxpayers have spent ...