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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:11:49:00

out somebody like thad cochran than maybe some of these other states that have done it in the past. what is your feeling about mississippi republican party? >> mississippi has benefited, as kasie pointed out, more than any other state. whether it was the old days with jamie wh jamie witten and all the way through. at the same time, boy, the republican party is changing. i agreed this would not be the first state that would throw out or bring home the bacon but, you know, this is a weird thing and there are a lot of weird dynamics here. >> charlie, thanks for joining us. coming up next, vanessa williams is bringing back the golden age of harlem with a new

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:11:44:00

i pray good health on him. >> reporter: cochran says he is doing just fine. >> i feel very good. i'm doing a good job, i think, of carrying out my responsibilities as a senator. >> reporter: this is one of the poorest states in the nation where 1 in 4 say they have trouble affording food and nearly half of the state's money comes from the federal government, more than any other state. do you think the state still appreciates the work you do considering the tea party and their opposition to federal spending? >> no. i think they very grateful for the federal dollars that have been spent in mississippi. >> reporter: earmarks were banned in 2010. that same year, cochran steered so much money back home, they nominated him as porker of the year. do you think the earmark process, the end of the earmark process has ultimately hurt relationships in the senate? >> no, it's not over. we are up here in washington to make recommendations on how federal dollars are to be spent and, you know, if you really want to boil it down, that's

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:11:47:00

tea party's best year for knocking off republicans, established republicans in d.c. but this really might be their one shot of tag down and old giant, huh? >> i agree. if an incumbent senator loses a primer, this is it. her piece was great, parse of this is tea party versus brick ho -- bringing home the bacon. part of it is age. some 76-year-olds are great on the stump and some stumble along the way and been in washington too long. chris mcdaniel was 6 months old when he was in washington. both mississippi senators are from the northernmost part of the state. in fact, actually both roger wicker and thad cochran are from

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a little town called ponatalk which is 2,500 families and 6,000 people and both of their senators are from there. the southern part of the state where mcdaniel is from feels a little misrepresented and jackson really sort of doesn't. panatalk is where jim weatherly who used to be a quarterback for ole miss was from, joe. he wrote a bunch of songs for gladys knight, including "midnight train to georgia. >> so he and both senators are from ponatalk. >> i have no idea. charlie, what do you think about the state of mississippi? i lived in mississippi five years. it's sort of like south carolina as far as a republican party is there. they are sort of a establishment e more of an establishment southern party. this is just a gut feeling based on knowing mississippi, they seem a lot less likely to throw

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what an earmark is. people are calling it that. so the process hasn't been changed. >> reporter: senator cochran hasn't faced a serious re-election fight in three decades. for now, he's keeping up his official schedule, breaking ground at a new development in starkville and christening a new combat ship in neighboring alabama. cochran's team criticizes mcdaniel for waffling on whether he would have voted for federal aid after katrina devastated mississippi. >> the question was not whether i could back it or not. i said during the interview i would support disaster relief. it's the funding has to reach the intended beneficiaries. >> reporter: and cochran's campaign says mcdaniel is relying on money from groups outside mississippi. the club for growth opposed a bill to slash flood insurance premiums. can you identify any areas where you disagree with the club for growth? >> i can probably identify 20

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