this is a pivotal moment for the republican party and this republican senate. the republican party of abraham lincoln, and theater roosevelt was transformed before eyes. messages of decency, rationality and unconditional is a moral compass. and now that donald trump and ted cruz, any days ahead of us with compromise. the radicals in the republican party has turned bipartisanship into a dirty word. i think most of us would like to express disappointment in the way the party is taken but never would we say these things publicly because these extreme elements of the party will soon be running the party. republican should think long and hard about the simple fact that if they followed the course of the republican leader everyone will be responsible as trump and cruz as the division of the republican party. they will join him in what they have done to the party. it will be a much worse republican party. there is no clear example of this as republican leaders response to a supreme court victory. , vacancy i should say. clearly there is no evidence of that. upon justi

the nevada republican party is amazing. the nevada republican caucus is nuts. now that neither ron paul nor his son is running anymore, nobody knows if the ron paul people will hijack and take over the process again this year like they have every other year the caucus has been run much to mitt romney's chagrin. nobody has any idea who will show up. they had 44,000 republicans show up in the first year. 33,000 in the second year. nobody has any idea how many will show up because the party is so disorganized and so strange, they didn't keep a list of the people who turned up the last time they did this in 2012. they can't even contact the people and say do you want to caucus again. they didn't make a list. they didn't write down anybody's name. there's been pretty epic problems in the nevada caucus even though they had the small turn out in 2012. it's still took them days, days to count the vote in 2012 in clark county which is where most of the population lives. this year they decided to speed up the counting process by making the vote stop earlier in clark coun

is when republicans are the majority republicans must comply with a different set of rules. the fact of the matter is the rulebook has been burned by the democrats and what we are operating under is the status ad quo that they advocated back in 1992 and 2005 and 2007. so mr. president the senate has every right under the constitution not to have a presd hearing and we shouldn't go through some motions pretending like we are whether this is really about the personality of whoever the president nominates. i have confidence that president will nominate somebody who he thinks is qualified to be on the supreme court. i would point out though that this nominee will not be confirmed and i don't know many leading lawyers, scholars andiln judges who would want to be nominated for the united states supreme court to a seat that president obama will never fill. so during this already very heated election year and the election is lardy underway,dy democrats are voting in democratic primaries and republicans are voting in republican primaries andnd caucuses. the election is lardy underway

on a republican, democrat, republican line and a special line for latino voters. marie is from minnesota on the democratic line. caller: hello? host: you're on the air. caller: thank you. i would like to ask you a very important question. stand ontly is your illegals coming to this country and they cross the border illegally. i am a mexican. i'm an american born mexican. my father and mother came from , and guest butre come i ended up being an orphan. i want your stand exactly. why is it we have to have illegals take to dent over illegal immigrants? -- take accident over illegal - dent over illegal aliens? why is it we cannot come together as a nation with mexico improving the mexican economy. come on, please. . want my culture back i want to know how the mexican people in mexico. i could care less about how the united states has handled it. i want my culture back. all, what's of is toant to emphasize illegal immigration to the united states but we want to ensure our legal immigration system works properly. that's an important concern. days, we allowed as many imm

when you go to these republican rallies, republican voters say they're not getting anything for it. where's the tax cuts, where's the fight on our issues. so you have republicans who think even when we're winning, we don't get anything. so they look at candidates, if you have a title, you're a senator or a governor, especially governor in presidential politics used to be the great brand. forget it this year. mr. trump benefits because he doesn't have senator or governor before him, he's mr. or businessman, he's not a politician. >> remember the who won't be fooled again? this is it. these voters are saying we won't be fooled again. stop telling us that we have to support somebody who you tell us is the only person who can win because we're telling you we don't -- we don't believe that anymore. and this, of course, benefits donald trump. by the way, i think it also benefits someone like bernie sanders. i mean they're the flip sides of the same coin, right? >> i do think there's a strong contrast between the republicans and democrats. hillary was valued heavily in iowa because he was

a republican governor? breaking details on what could be the ultimae curveball. >>> plus chilling new images of the uber driver who admitted to a mass shooting in michigan happily wandering around a gun store just hours before the rampage. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we are live in texas today preparing for the final republican debate before super tuesday. it is exciting, we are counting down the hours until tomorrow night's debate. this might be the last opportunity candidates have to stop donald trump and his momentum. breaking right now, cnn is announcing the official lineup and podium placement. in the center of the stage will be front-runner donald j. trump. to his right, senator marco rubio of florida, to his left, senator ted cruz of this home state, the lone star state of texas. to senator cruz's left will be governor job kasich of ohio and all the way over here will be dr. ben carson. this could be the last chance that these other candidates have to try to stop the momentum of the m

you can say that there was a republican nominee confirmed in the last year of a republican presidency, but no situation is precisely analogous, and this is mostly about power, it's not about principle. republicans can stop them because they can. >> right. obviously that was after the robert bork situation and doug ginsburg, god forbid, smoked marijuana years before and pulled as well. i don't doubt this action will be popular among republican rank and file. do you somebody who wants a republican to win the white house in november, do you not worry about how it might play among moderates, independents in pennsylvania, ohio, et cetera? >> i have zero worries. it's compelling to take the case to the american people and say the next president will decide the direction of the court. this isn't just a regular seat. this will change the balance of the court. it's far too important to be decided in an election year. i don't care about the thurman rule, it is important. a year isn't too long to wait. the courts will continue to function. all decisions will be upheld by the lower court. our dem

republican. hello. caller: hello. i think that the big winner in iowa was donald trump. i would like to say that the guy started from zero. no political machine behind him. nothing. running against sitting senators and sitting governors. his message has resonated with the people so well in so deep. a close second to a sitting senator who has camped out in iowa for the past year. spending an ungodly amount of money trying to buy the votes. compared to him, donald trump has spent next to nothing. i think it is amazing. i think it is an amazing phenomenon. it will carry into new hampshire. host: what do you like about donald trump? i like the fact that he is a real leader. i like that he can communicate with people in an honest way. is, you know in john wayne movies coming you know what he was going to do in any situation. you knew it. the same thing with donald trump. you know how he will react. you can trust him. host: ok. republican from california. we will find out what will have her in new hampshire. so, share, the

in the south the votes of black republicans and what republicans are being stolen by fraud, deception or violence. in 1896 we had four states in the union that had a black majority of adult male population. that means if blacks are voting in the south 95-5 for the party of lincoln and yet mckinley does dismal in it one of the states and it's because you take a look at, turnout in the north is 88%, 75, 88% in some states. in the south it runs in the mid '30s. the reason is because essentially from 1873 on there's a systematic effort to wipe out the black vote in the south. >> host: eric pollard says the ku klux klan was the armed auxiliary of the party. >> guest: and they were. south carolina they wore red shirts in order to hide in the blood. there is no election that goes by without violence being perpetrated on a large scale, hard for us to understand today, on black voters in the south. people being routinely murdered for the simple exercise of the ballot drama was there any pushback nationally trafficked there was an effort that mckinley champions, efforts to take with remaining f

and those that pay those transfers tend to vote republican. scott: in a city where civil rights memories remain strong, there's still a fight on, but the colors have changed from black and white, to red and blue. scott mauldin, birmingham, alabama. fernando: thank you, scott. alabama's red history is long, with a forty-year republican streak. it hasn't gone democratic since jimmy carter ran in 1976. >> coming up next, money and endorsements. are they the real predictors of who will win their party nominations? and, kelly and crew -- one year in space. can their mission change the health of our nation? fernando: over 150 years ago, the "new york times" threw its support behind an illinois legislator, abraham lincoln. it marked the beginning of a longstanding tradition -- the newspaper endorsement. historically endorsements have , mattered. but in this election cycle we're seeing a trend -- a seeming rift with the voting public or a decision to go silent. when iowa was center stage, the "des moines register" threw its support to marco rubio. the

nobody worked with republicans, because republicans refused to work with him. the question becomes, do you think because bernie is talking about making some and hillarychange clinton is talking about massaging the system, that just aboute you're talking making some significant change, that you are not willing to compromise? spectrum, caller. so if you start the conversation milder,e, where is the caller -- where is the middle, caller? over here. conversationthe here, where is the middle? over here. where are you? here.ect bernie isn't going to be unrealistic about what he can get done. andhe knows what he wants he shows the direction. i think hillary clinton is moving in the same direction. thatst a celebration. now talking ant about universal health care, fighting being more progressive. they're now talking about all these things. guess what? until bernie came into the race, he has actually moved hillary. what does that say about how you congress as a country? >> seems only fair now we go to our line for republicans. wisconsin.waiting in michael, you're on wit

republican senate. again, the senate has repeatedly over the years considered supreme court nominees in both election years and in the final year of a president's term. justice kennedy who serves now, a fellow californian, was nominated by president reagan in 1987. i was over on the house side, i didn't have anything to do with it, but i sure watched it. and kennedy was confirmed by a democratic senate during reagan's last year in office. and my republican friends say oh, but this senator said this about it and that senator said that and joe biden said it doesn't matter what people say, it's what we do. and 14 times in history, we have voted on in an election year. so my republican colleagues who suggest that this process cannot be done before president obama leaves office are fooling themselves. history has disproven them, and the constitution is going to chastise them. whoever says i want a dead constitution. read this. this is very clear. it absolutely is. so i guess i have the message for my republi

those five people have done more for the republican base than all the republicans in congress combined.ç and so they watch the court turning into something they don't control any longer with a real sense of panic. >> all right. senator sheldon whitehouse. thanks for your time together. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. tomorrow night we're on earlier, catch us at 7:00 p.m. eastern instead of 8:00. at 8:00, chris matthews, my colleague, will host a special "hardball" college tour with the one and only bernie sanders. tomorrow night, "all in" one hour earlier. set the alarm on your iphone now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. >>> we're trying to keep everybody on their toes this year. skipping around. you might see us at any time. >> you never know. >> at some point we're going to be broadcasting from under people's beds. hey, it's time! thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this particular hour. it's ni

he also talked about the republican candidate marco rubio. however, he said rubio is a nice young man and that he wouldn't talk about him like he talks about cruz, at least for now. >> he has not hit me. i'm treating him nicely. when he hits me o, is he going to be hit. actually i can't wait. i said that about cruz. we were both being very nice and he was being very noise and all of a sudden he said said thank goodness, it is file. >> and on the other hand, ted cruz focused much of his speech in carson city on the nevada caucus. he urged the nevadans at the event inside a brewery art centntr to get out and vote tonight and to encourage others to caucus with them. the nevada attorney general opened the rally for cruz again this afternoon. cruz also campaigned this morning before heading to carson city. during his event this afternoon, he said nevadans have a chance to make a difference tonight. >> the country is watching you tonight. in 2012, about 32,000 nevadans showed up. here in carson city, fewer than 2,000 showed up. if every person here

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senate republicans should meet their responsibility. senate republicans should do their job. give the nominee a fair hearing and a vote. membersy, republican sent a letter to the majority leader. willsaid, "this committee not hold hearings of any supreme court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on january 20, 2017." unusualthey take this position in defiance of the constitution? >> the presidential election is well underway. americans have begun casting votes. they can decide and concrete way court should go. ,hey voted to elect a president barack obama, and 100 senators in this body. a four-yeared to term and 11 months remain. the american people voted for each of us to do our jobs for his long as we serve in office. the american people have chosen a president. not for three years, for three years and two months. they elected a president for four years and this president's term continues until january 20, 2017. the republicans conveniently ignore the obvious. the well of -- the will of the american people was expressed in empowerstion and it him, under the co

have you seen a republican on a republican debate stage defending taking federal tax payer money and giving it to planned parenthood? he thinks they do terrific things. i don't think so. i don't think conservatives in south carolina think so either. >> i have never seen you unload on donald trump like you have in the last couple of minutes. are you concerned that if he wins south carolina he can't be stopped? >> what i'm concerned about, george, is our country is in balance. i've devoted my entire life to fighting to defend the constitution and the bill of rights. the heller decision, i represented 31 states. representing heller in defending the second amendment. we talked about abortion restrictions. i represented a coalition of states defending the ban of partial-birth abortion. we won that case, 5-4. i don't want to see our my daughters, caroline and katherine are 7 and 5. i don't want to have to look at my daughters and say, the free comes to that america has had for two centuries, you don't get because we didn't step up and put back. justice scalia's passing changes the entire c

on the republican side, a knowledge shipup between two republican candidates, donald trump and ted cruz, hoping that a guy like marco rubio or jeb bush or chris christie can somehow break in to the top tier. these results after a year, the candidates are meeting the people, looking them in the eye. and that's why tonight's judgment is so important for the rest of the world. ♪ this land is your land ♪ this land is my land. >> it has already been one of the quirkiest and unpredictable presidential races in decades. >> what the hell do we have to talk so much, just do it right? >> the results will begin to answer some key questions. how vulnerable is the political establishment? >> you know before it was called obamacare it was called hillary care. >> and what's the depth and duration of voter anger? for the candidates a win or surprisingly strong finish tonight will mean a bonanza of media attention. and voters who are beginning to pay attention, in the republican race the focus is on donald trump. >> unless i win i would consider it a big fat beautiful and by the way very expensive w

good evening. >>> has won the nevada republican caucuses. in its current it ration where nevada is an important early state and goes right after south carolina and has this incredibly influential role in the republicans choosing their nominee, in the entire history of nevada, only one person has ever won. that guy is mitt romney. the first time the nevada caucuses were held in 2008, mitt

most of his initiatives were passed with few republican votes. is that itself now feeding the kind of mistrust and government? >> definitely. it is a structural problem. 80%-90% of congressional seats the two seats for parties. the only contest is between the democratic nominees themselves in the primaries and there, the person who is more radical tens to win among the faithful. this is what happens. if you had a redrawing of congressional districts which meant that these people had come up against other parties, they would automatically tone down their rhetoric in that we do america well. that is what is to happen. >> that is the gerrymandering phenomenon. what about the money phenomenon? ulrike herrmann? think the money is an extreme problem, especially with wall street. who paid literally billions of dollars for the election campaigns. that is why they had such a strong lobby in congress. many tea party republicans who want seats to not have enough money. rebellingy of voters against the power of the elite, against the lobbyists to give a for

even more shockingly, the republican leader and several republican members of the judiciary committee said yesterday they would not even meet with the president's nominee. i heard one of our colleagues in the senate last night on television, when asked pointedly and directly if the president nominates someone from your state to the supreme court vacancy, are you saying you wouldn't meet with that person? my colleague on the other side of the aisle ducked the question. this is stunning. remember, the president is obligated by article 2, section 2, of the constitution to send a nominee to the senate. that is the process the founding fathers established. that is the president's responsibility. how can the senate republicans refuse to even meet with the person selected under that constitutional process? how is that being faithful to the terms of that constitution? how are the senate republicans upholding and defending this constitution by this evasive historically unprecedented action? sadly it appears the senate republicans have calculated that it's in their political best interest to ke

with the republican caucuses tonight... candidates are taking advantage with appearances all around town. senator ted cruz was in reno yesterday...holding a late night rally at the boys and girls club. he was welcomed by supporters including nevada attorney general adam laxalt and radio personality glenn beck. cruz fired up the crowd by promising to defend the constitutional rights of citizens. today... he has rallies in fernley, minden, carson city... before heading back to las vegas. senator marco rubio also held a rally in reno yesterday... after jetting in from elko. local supporters... including lieutenant governor mark hutchison and senator dean heller were there... reminding everyone of the importance of rubio outlined his conservative platform... and touched on the issue of land ownership here in nevada... which got a roar of support from the crowd. for today's caucus. and yesterday... doctor ben carson spoke to a crowd of more than 400 at piper's opera house in virginia city. it was the first time a president or th

the republican party itself winning. traditionally the role of south carolina has been it saved george bush senior. it saved george w. bush. the establishment candidate. something changed in the last five years. that's now newt gingrich won this thing in 2012. >> if trump wins in south carolina, the odds of stomping him in the republican primary diminishes. thank you. >>> what happens when the case is yet to be heard. i'll explain. >>> there's a hugely important policy that on occasion when my children visit the set they get to play a piece of video of their choosing on air. so behold, a baby gorilla. my daughter is watching right now. because she joined us, ryan gets to see a baby gorilla on television. there's more. this is a baby tiger. ryan is a good and thoughtful sister who is thinking of her little brother david who couldn't be in the office today. here is some video of the baby tiger for david from ryan. >>> in the hours after reports of justice antonin scalia's death, he was celebrate bid the fierceness of his i

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. >> i am a real republican. >> in a year when that whole issue of what it means to be a republican is being hotly debated. >> oh yeah, oh yeah. >> so what does being a real republican mean about you and by implication, what are you trying to say about charlie? >> hey, i'm just saying real republicans are our guardians of the taxpayer's money. that's what i'm saying. and real republicans are careful. they're watchdogs. hey, it's not our money, it's the taxpayer's money, not ours. >> are you implying that charlie's not a real republican? >> you'll have to ask charlie that. charlie claims that. i'm not disputing any of that. but i am just saying, hey, people are talking about this and the inquirer did a big story. this is not norbert natel saying charlie did this or that. read the inquirer. the only thing i put on my facebook is mostly what -- these are good reporters. and they're also saying that in the msd investigation, charlie's name keeps coming up. we don't hear about david mann. we don't hear about chris smitheren. amy murray. his name keeps coming up. >> this is why politics is s

donald trump is not a republican republican. lot of american they want change from president obama but don't want to endorse things like the iraq war, donald trump offers an option. >> dickerson: naps trump does well here is that it, of to the races, it's done you? mentioned once he he gets further how much of a big thing would it be if he won? >> so much depends on how rapidly the rest of the field winnows as region as you have say kick, rubio, bush, competing, continuing to go on the more difficult it becomes for anybody to stop him. but i was talking to terry sullivan who is rubio's campaign manager in the spin room last night, they view, this is a delegate battle as he talked to you in the interview this morning. also basically a matter of survival. that you just keep going and keep going and eventually others will fall away that when you get campaign when it is winner take all that's the time when the anti-trump faction becomes large enough to carry those states. >> dickerson: based on the stage they may literally fall away

ananhere is a look at the top three republicans. jenna a-b-c 9 reporter deborah souveraign is live at east high school. that is a republican caucus up numbers there, deborah? deborah yes jenna...the votes are in and theyeyave been tallieie a total of 46363 ople cast their votes here a total of 463 people cast their votes here tonight at east high school... and the winner here...is marco rubio. the florida senator...won this precinct with 165 votes.. in second place was donald trump with 101 votes. and ted cruz came in third place with 88 votes. results at 1;18 101 44 ben carson rand paul 12 rick santroum 10 jeb bush 5 kasich 4 now when i last percent of the precincts acorss the 165 deborah deborah jenna all those out on caucus night may see some snowy weather later tonight. fred, how quick will this winter storm be moving through? 2 line super: fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) a blizzard warning is of siouxland, all the counties shaded in purple. expect heavy snow and high winds conditions later tomorrow. the hd radar shows the

at this point in the republican race, everybody who is running for president who is a republican not named donald trump is losing. overall, it's not that surprising that the losing campaigns that still survive are starting to crack up a little bit. what is strange today about ted cruz firing his national campaign spokesman is that nobody really expected that this was the way the ted cruz campaign would start to crack. that's because of the very specific character of the ted cruz campaign. the ted cruz campaign has been comfortable being ruthless. we saw it most starkly in iowa. night of the iowa caucus, the ted cruz campaign tried to win the iowa caucuses by tricking ben carson supporters into believing that ben carson had quit the race. first we knew about it it was a couple of tweets that surfaced from a ted cruz endorser and some reports that ted cruz surrogates were actively spreading this rumor. there did surface a ted cruz logo e-mail. is anybody going to be held accountable for whispers and rumors. the ted cruz campaign had operationalized this dirty trick. they were doing pho

vast republican race. today in durango hills, hundreds of people, something like 700, 800 people were gathered at a ymca for a midday campaign rally for ted cruz. we're getting down to the wire in nevada. the caucuses are tomorrow. these are the last things the candidates are going to do. these are the last day events. this is really important in terms of trying to win nevada. this is closing argument time for the various campaigns who can get their candidate here in person and on the ground. this ted cruz event today was supposed to start at noon local time. there was supposed to be a candidate press conference ahead of time. even with the incredibly tight schedules that the campaigns and candidates have to run, the cruz campaign had to blow up its schedule and keep all thoeds -- those people waiting. all the people are waiting. all the reporters are waiting for the press conference. everything got pushed. everything got left waiting because the candidate and a bunch of his top staffers were holed up in t

and on the republican side, 42% of the people who turned out to vote identified as republican -- i'm sorry, as independent, 39% on the democratic side identified as independent. >> ifill: pretty close. >> that's pretty close. kasich needs a big turnout among independents. in 2012, the turnout among independents was almost 50%, and back in 2008 it was 37%. so it's somewhere right in the middle there. it's probably a good number for kasich. the question is: is it good enough? the other question about who is nervous tonight, marco rubio has to be very, very nervous. he came into iowa with a head of steam. as we saw in this report, he's been struggling since the debate to get that momentum back. if he falls behind a kasich, a jeb in this primary, it's going to be a very difficult pivot for him to say that he's the candidate now who has the momentum going into south carolina. >> ifill: everybody says, we're going to south carolina, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're all going to south carolina. tamara, we were in new hampshire in 1929 when bill clinton declared himself "the comebac

republicans are caucusing. and about 900 sites with a far larger field to consider, about a dozen candidates are vying for their votes. and we know there are some sur preeses showing up at those drp-- surprises showing up at t >> people are talking about all of us. we're going to take our country back. we're going to run it the way it's supposed to be run as a great, great country. we're not going to make the mistakes. we're not going to -- remember this: i am not giving anything from all the special interests. i'm funding my own campaign -- it's called self funding. i'm doing my own. so i'm not going to be told by ford or by anybody else what to do. i'm doing the right thing for you. we know martin o'malley surprised democrats at one of the caucus sites here in des moines just now. all of this follows the final push the candidates have been making for months leading right up through today. they didn't stop until the last few hours of this campaign. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you so much 6 >> woodruff: most c

he has to nominate, he may nominate a republican, somebody approved by republicans or a republican governor or sitting senator or somebody who comes from an ethnic. he is doing it and has to put it to the republicans and say look, i did my job now you have to do your job. i think the american public will not accept a republican senate that doesn't even give hearings or give the american people a right to hear what a candidate has to say. >> let me -- >> and again in the end we may have a vacancy. >> let me read what the president says he is looking for in the nominee. a deep respect for the judiciary role and an understanding of the way the world really works. that is what i'm considering as i fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint the judge to the highest court. and it sounds like he is saying maybe you should fulfill your constitutional duty, as well. so what kind of person do you have in mind? >> well, there are two ways he can go. he can pick a real liberal and know it would be rejected and give the democratic nominee a terrific political issue, that would politicalize the court. i t

there that could hurt the republicans in november, do it now so republicans can make their judgment now. >> yeah. and there were many republicans that privately communicated to the campaign in 2012 that holding back when governor romney initially resisted, or at least took his time in releasing those tax returns, that it was a mistake. and to put it out, disclose it, and go on. >> and he did that, and it ended up not hurting him at all. >> he eventually did. and if you remember during the general election, what the democrats did was make requests for additional disclosures. and when those additional disclosures didn't come, the democrats framed it as this is somebody you can't trust. what is he hiding? now even though there is nothing to hide and he could be trusted, those questions in the voters' minds were oftentimes crucial in whether or not people decided -- >> what's so interesting about it, mitt romney is doing the exact same thing that donald trump -- that was done to him, including, you know, engaging in hypotheticals about this might be in there or this might be in there. a

black people, historically, will republicans. -- were republicans. i don't see any of them speaking to issues for black people. not one time did they mention the water crisis in flint, michigan, where black people were being poisoned. not one time to they mentioned the police brutality. not one time to they mention mass incarceration. no party has paid attention to the black people of america. what would the green party do, specifically, to address our needs? particularly unemployment, underemployment, jurisprudence, -- as far asrly sitting down with black leaders. for anrakhan sat down interview. double trouble not sit down for an interview. a smear about using campaign, hillary clinton used was to farrakhan to smear barack obama and clarence thomas. they tried to smear him, he made some comments in support of mr. farrakhan. host: possibly we can get in a few more calls. guest: robert ray's really important issues. thank you for that. -- raised really important issues. the green party has a plan for racial justice now. it's a plan developed by the m

these are not the faces one ordinarily sees at republican committee meetings or republican conventions. for that matter, at republican primaries. host: have you ever seen a race like this? guest: certainly this is unusual in virginia. we are seeing more and more of these big personalities, particularly at the state level. our governor is a member of the clinton privy council, and he clearly helps to deliver a big win for mrs. clinton on tuesday and hopes told the state for the democrat in the general election in november. this was a state that was on autopilot for republicans for years for about four decades. the republicans carried the state for the presidency, a very rapid shift in the demographics of the state. an explosive growth in its population has turned this into a very purple state in very short order. host: finally, we are talking to jeff schapiro of the richmond times-dispatch. how much political capital does governor mcauliffe have in the state among democrats? acknowledgeuld this as well, he won by plurality in 2013 because of who he wasn't. a fiercely conservative social

these are republican primary voters. no, not really, because i think a lot of people in both parties are mad at the parties, mad at the system, mad at washington that is a factional type government. it's sort of very difficult obviously. people don't want to have time for things not getting done so i think it's normal and common and i expect that that sort of vein is going to play it out the next few months and we'll have a unified party when it's done and those folks are -- as long as they're staying in involved which they keep folks involved in the party that they will participate come november, 2016. >> i'll ask you what i asked debbie wasserman schultz about michael bloomberg, the former new york city mayor thinking seriously of running as a third party independent candidate. he said the level of discourse and discussion is distressingly banal and an outrage and insult to voters, welcome welcome a third party run by bloomberg. >> i don't view it as a third party, i view it as another democrat so you'll have two democ

he is now the face of the republican party. i hear these guys desperately hoping that that's not going to be the case. but donald trump is now the face of the republican party. they've made their bed. they have to lie in it. >> but democrats need to be extremely worried. they're down% in terms of granted, you had more conditioneds candidates in 2008. so what they should be focusing on right now is yes, you have, stop complaining about bernie sanders being this the race. you need him in the race because you need media attention. you need a lot of folks paying attention. they should be driving hard. registration, registration, registration. i don't understand why they're not spending a massive amount of money in texas to register those 2.1 million eligible unregistered hispanics. nearly 1 million folks in georgia alone that are unregistered. african-american and latino. that's where they should be. it will be a turnout game for them in ohio and florida. >> one of the things we learned yesterday. a couple of things we learned yest

and only four by the republicans. so two thirds of americans will be living in blue circuit america, while only one third of americans will be living in red circuit america. in their lives will be very different. juan: linda hirshman, what is the possibility of the court just deciding to postpone decisions on several of these key cases that we had mentioned that are supposedly coming up for decision in this term? >> so this is something that the court has done. for example, when i was doing research for my book on o'connor and ginsburg, i looked hard at justice powell who sat with o'connor for so long. how was sick and was away for several weeks. what the court did without saying a word about what they were actually up to was the took thek the faith -- cases were they knew or suspected that powell would be the deciding fifth vote and they put those off, waiting for him to come back. that therence is now justices have no idea when there might ever be a night justice. so if mitch mcconnell is true to his word, then it w

but, if it's a republican landslide or republican victory that brings in a republican senate that continues the republican senate, it becomes that much more improbable. >> right. >> that anyone acceptable to barack obama, hillary clinton, bernie sanders, would ever be put on that court. and you could be thinking of four years or eight years and you've got elderly supreme court justices. this is an opportunity he cannot pass up. >> and by that -- >> -- to shame them down. >> and by that mat rick, andrea, we may see folks in the white house counsel's office scouring all the past senate votes. who has been confirmed -- >> they know that already, ari. >> yes, they do, yes. >> andrea mitchell, kelly o'donnell. we are going to have much more on the passing of justice antonin scalia throughout the hour, including what legal scholars are saying about his legacy as one of the most consequential judges to serve on this court. next we're going to go live in west texas where the supreme court justice died just yesterday. ♪ the nissan rogue. with the power and performance of our intuitive all-wheel dr

primaries and republican debates. i don't think it's restricted, by the way, to mr. trump. i find it interesting everybody is focused on trump primarily just because he says in more interesting ways what the other candidates are saying as well. so he may up the ante in anti-muslim sentiment, but if you look at what the other republican candidates have said, that's pretty troubling, too. he may express strong anti-immigration sentiment, but you've heard that from the other candidates as well. >> it's not often, anderson, you hear a sitting president talk about an opposing party's presidential candidates like that. it's interesting to note he took a much different and softer approach when it came to the democratic presidential candidates. >> yeah, i mean, he talked about hillary clinton, not quite an endorsement, though. >> yeah, it seemed like he was trying to stay above the fray and not play favorites between bernie sanders or hillary clinton, though he did make it clear that he's known clinton for a long time. here's

scalise: the republicans have. the last time a republican house has balanced a federal budget was in 2002. the last time a democrat house passed a balanced budget was in 1969. when man walked on the moon. so -- but to get to your question. it really is an important point. because these showdowns and these crises, it hurts our country. it hurts our economy. it's not just making washington look dysfunctional. and actual -- it actually hurts the ability for the federal government to be more effective and efficient with tax dollars. look at the department of defense. if you have a continuing resolution instead of an actual d.o.d. appropriations bill signed into law, then they can actually do planning. companies plan years in advance. government agencies should actually be laying out plans as well. about how to best use taxpayer dollars. but if they don't know what their budget's going to look like until literally the day before it's about to take affect, it's real hard for them to do planning and a lot of times what th