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office as president but she's the only female candidate who is -- i think there is potential for her to be the vice president if she runs a strong campaign gurg the primary. she will be the only woman on stage in all the republican debates talking about hillary clinton so she has a great opportunity to raise hire profile and make different points and be a bigger figure in the republican party than she is right now. >> i think everybody who gets into these races thinks that they are going to be in the oval office. they all suspend disbelief, for at least a period of time see they will seems right behind the desk with the rug of the seal of the presidency on the floor in front of them. >> anything can happen. she is barely registering in the polls, but anything could happen. >> well, no not anything. not anything. >> i'll bet. never mind. let me ask you, the only guy in the group here tonight, perry, according to a new poll by the describer report never heard of it, 64% of men are comfortable with having a female president
koch brothers adelson and the rest of them donald trump. they are such hawks and they love talking it. you know war, war, war, war, war. >> that's right. >> do you think there's a connection? >> i do. look, when we talk about big money in politics let's not forget what dwight david eisenhower reminded us remember that? >> sure. >> about the power of the military industrial complex. that was back in 1960. that power has been magnified many, many times. these guys want more and more for defense, and i fear very much, chris, that your point is right. you've got a lot of republicans, and it scares me to death, who apparently feel good about perpetual warfare in the middle east, who are trying to sabotage what the president is trying to do in terms of preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon. that scares me very much and i think it speaks to the power of the military industrial complex. >> now, you have a very strong avenue, it looks like.
corporations and other donors the new group will take commitments for president obama's initiative and loretta lynch met with local officials, police and freddie gray's family, including his mother and here's what attorney general lynch told the baltimore police force. >> you've picked a noble profession. you've picked a hard profession but you have picked one of the best professions out there today because you have picked the one that lets you go out every day and say i'm going to help somebody and despite how some of people may want to choose to characterize you hold on to that as you go out on patrol every day. we don't always choose moments you know. sometimes they choose us and how we live with that and how we go through with that determines what kind of officers we all are. >> army captain, community leader author and baltimore native. his newest book is called "the work." thank you very much for joining
years, i respect her and i like her and people weren't so sure i could beat the richest person in vermont to become united states senator so i would say don't underestimate me. >> welcome to "hardball." that was vermont senator bernie sanders challenging hillary clinton in the 2016 democratic primaries. he's spent 16 years in the house of representatives and is in his second term as united states senator. he wants to be president and is taking on the clinton machine, if you will. senator sanders, thanks you so much. senator sanders, i salute your guts, and my question to you is do you have a romantic sense of memory and nostalgia for when another senator, eugene mccarthy went up to new hampshire and challenged another senator, former senator for the presidential nomination of the democratic party in 1968? do you feel like this could be a big challenge to the front-runner? >> i do, i do chris.
>> that's mike huckabee today in hope arkansas announcing his bid to run for president. when he ran back in 2008 he finished first in iowa thanks to strong support among evangelicals, but this year the evangelical vote to be split among ted cruz bobby jindal rick santorum and rick perry. the new nbc/"wall street journal" pole shows huckabee in the back of the pack with only 5% of the vote. his message makes his hawkishness on national security and strong socially conservative views with economic populism and has delivered harsh attacks on president obama and, of course, the clintons the fellow arkansans. how is the message in 2016 back with our roundtable. let me go back to cokie on this one. evangelicals, i just don't think this is going to work for him this time. your thoughts? >> you're quite right. he's got a huge amount of competition, including ted cruz who is appealing to the evangelical vote, and, you know in iowa it is huge but if they all split it up then we're on to new hampshire and jeb bush.
us, wes moore. >> my pleasure. >> sir, what do you think the president is up to here? what's the plan for the rest of his life apparently? >> this is an incredibly exciting news and development to share because i think the president, you know knows. the president has seen this from so many different dynamics first as an african-american growing up in various communities around the country going through the experience that he detailed in his own books and becoming a community organizer in chicago and eventually state senator and president of the united states. he's seen this evolution from so many different stand points and his takeaway in order to form a more perfect union we have to make sure that the conversation is more inclusive, not just statistically but anecdotically. we're seeing young men of color, young african-american men, who are not part this conversation so to see him devoting so much time and energy not just to his time in office and even his time out of office is incredibly exciting.
>> why do you think it stopped him from having a marshall plan young african-american men to be president, a year and a half left. why for all these years hasn't he said i look at our cities we all drive through them take a neighborhood or two in every city and say this area is in big trouble and it's getting worse. why hasn't he done that before? >> well i -- i don't want to -- don't want to separate some of the other policies that he's made and say the impact that it actually has had. >> why hasn't he addressed this problem before? >> if you look at many of the policies, even from obamacare to also other tax policies put into place, there are actually things that have had direct impacts particularly on communities of color. you know i think the president walks an incredibly fine line chris. the president is our first african-american president where he wants to be very clear that he is not the black president, but he's the president who happens to be black. i think we understand that and, you know we appreciate that
in america, guess what? you are part of the united states of america. you can't afford your taxes anymore. have you to start payingled fair share. do that by raising the minimum wage and rebuilding the middle class, by a massive jobs program rebuilding our from a florida. >> senator bernie sanders, have you on again and again. good luck in the race. looking forward to the debates especially the ones headed towards new hampshire. a lot nostalgia for me. up next president obama says he's found the mission not just for the rest of his presidency but for the rest of his life. it is about race and poverty and bringing opportunity to those who don't have it. this is "hardball," a place for politics.
compound over time becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like no matter how hard they try they may never achieve their dreams. this will remain a mission for me and for michelle, not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life. >> that's a powerful statement. welcome back to "hardball." that was president obama in new york speaking to the frustrations, the racial tensions, the protests and at times the riots that are now a focal point of his second presidential term. president obama has addressed the subject multiple times and in stark personal terms since the baltimore tragedy. for a president that has at times avoided racial politics he seems to have found his voice. and in those remarks in new york the president announced a new venture called my brother's keeper alliance, this is news big news. the front page of the "new york times" says staked by more than $80 million in commitments from
whistle blows ] my mom makes trains that are friends with trees. [ train whistle blows ] ♪ ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ ♪ i'm running for president because i know there's a difference between making a speech and making government accountable to the people who have to pay for it. i've walked away from my own income to do this so i'm not asking you for some sacrifice i'm not willing to make. i don't have a global cycstic fibrosis or a taxpayer paycheck to live off of it. i don't come from a family dynasty but a working family. i grew up blue coleary, not blue blood.