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Speaking out about all of this. jonathan, thank you very much. >> sure. bill: a day of heavy hitters yesterday at cpac including wisconsin governor scott walker who came out denying he was comparing union protesters in wisconsin to terrorists when he said this. >> i want a commander-in-chief who will do everything in their power to insure that the threat from radical islamic terrorists do not wash up on american soil. if i can take on 100,000 protesters, i can do the same across the world. [applause] bill: that raised some eyebrows. reince priebus chairman. republican national committee. how a...

I can take on 100,000 protesters, i can do the same across the world. >> he makes an analogy, stephen, between taking on the union protesters in his home state of wisconsin to taking on the isis militants. then they had to walk that back. big deal or not? >> yeah, it's a big deal. those are 100,000 not just union protesters but of his own constituents, the people he represents in wisconsin as governor. he compares them to isis terrorists. i think if this were actually the middle of a presidential campaign he'd be in much worse shape as a result of it. it's 2015. i don't think most people like ...

Does. this is a wide-open race. people are talking about this race as if it's jeb bush scott walker, marco rubio and maybe that's about it. we haven't heard from -- we haven't seen a real organizational rollout from a few of the other republican governors who might get into that ris. we haven't seen much from people in the senate. this is way, way, way too early to be saying. >> gene, back to scott walker's comparison about fighting 100,000 protesters and isis. to me it shines a lot on -- you can go back to a county organizer who became president -- how when people are running for president, h...

This week? was there anyone that broke through? >> well, look e.j.'s right in that this crowd was always going to be the crowd that was looking for the conservative alternative alternative. right now that's scott walker. he's the person that sort of lit up this room probably the most at least in a surprising way. they reacted well to senator ted cruz as well but everybody felt that was to be expected. walker, of course, has made a couple of stumbles or at least some critics have seized on comments he's made over the course of the past couple of weeks. and the remark that he made here about isi...

The man who has come to be known as "jihadi john" but one group says he is not to blame for his barbaric actions. instead he says it is the government's fault for turning a gentle man into a terrorist. we'll talk about that. plus this. >> the point, we capture and bring them to justice what does that do? isis is still doing its thing. it is very narrow approach. bill: parents of murdered journalist james foley speak out about "jihadi john." what they're saying about their son's terrorist killer today. martha: wisconsin governor scott walker taking some heat for comments that he made about unio...