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Mayor of the city encouraging peaceful protests, encouraging protests on his city. the mayor in his statement earlier as these protests go on. next up, the push back on benghazi. hey matt, what's up?
Position. he's fighting hard but he may be fighting a very uphill battle. i think we have seen that play out in individual cases but not necessarily across the board. >> and the national tea party was not invested but it was a grass roots tea party sympathizing eruption, susan page. >> because they didn't think he was going to win any more than of the rest of us can. they a did. they are allied with him now. to republicans who want to be elected, don't be in washington. don't compromise with barack obama. i think if there are two big victims from this result, one is eric cantor and other is pr...
Means to the country going forward because, obviously, if we follow the money, we will find out maybe where the ukrainian allegiance will go. >> there will be loan guarantees and the u.s. will be one of the leaders in the international monetary fund. he made that very clear. we were there for the ukrainian people. there is going to be a tug of war, as there was. this whole crisis, most recently, was precipitated by the ukraine's government saying they wanted to align with the european union financially and russia upping the ante and putin offering 15 billion. the push/pull of russia demanding ...
It is important underscore at a time there's so much politics going on. in the halls of the senate, especially among republicans who were uneasy about this, many of them were uneasy to begin with. there were a lot of kudos for mitch mcconnel and john for doing this. they felt they put politics aside. that brings me to the other man we've been talking about, ted cruz. i have to tell you, i have rarely seen so much anger frankly at somebody in the senate among his own colleagues and his own party as we're seeing for ted cruz. he knows that. he's not unaware of that. he got it over and over again...
Bringing the smoking rate down from 42% to 18% over the past couple of decades. you think about it, it used to be cool to smoke, people did it in airplanes and restaurants. it's now socially shunned. you have to go stand in the rain on the sidewalk to smoke, and this is an extension of the same thing. it's not cool, it's not what everybody does. >> right. it is striking when you see a big company do something like this. it's a reaction not only to government, it's a reaction to the culture, there's an interplay there and we talked so much about gridlock in washington, the push is a fairly bipa...