then john mccain realizable party he was in. [laughter] -- he moved even further to opposing all environmental priorities. so, let me say that what i concluded from all of this is this was an extremely polarized issue before barack obama moved to the white house. democratsissue where and republicans had parted company's active the elite level and bed the left -- and then the level of average voters. the data international opinion surveys from pew. stood inwhere things 1987 in terms of a split between parties and where they stood in 2012. you can see environment as one of the issues where polarization had the, much more extreme -- become much more extreme , by the timeine this campaign was launched in the first two years of obama's presidency, it was virtually impossible for elected office holders in the republican party to consider joining the bipartisan coalition that would've been necessary to pass the legislation. question, whyg did the people who were supporting it think it would work? i'm going to leave that question talk a

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john mccain is making ronald reagan will over in his grave and he said that you don't attack a fellow republican and the fact is that he has been skewing ted cruz and other republicans who went against obamacare so strong that they said that it was necessary perhaps even have the government shutdown. they probably were right in focusing all that attention and putting them on the right side of obamacare as far as most of the public is concerned considering the mistakes that were made. but john mccain was talking about calling them idiots. >> ted cruz always held back his personal attacks. it wasn't until john mccain had begun then. >> the bottom line is you shouldn't hold an appointment hostage you should judge a person on whether they are good or not. including doing what he wants of our economy and it is his prerogative to lease nominate people who are put in power and advise and consent. they don't hold these people hostage. neil: so you think that john mccain is doing some of us to make up for the fact that he looked like he was very unpopular and this is a way to assuage those who

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senator john mccain there. dana bash standing by. very heavy price will be paid. outline for us what that price might be. >> reporter: well, before i tell you that, the nuclear option was just detonated on the senate floor, as we were playing that tape from senator mccain they finalized the vote. it's backwards, counter intuitive the vote 48-52. what that effectively did was say the ruling of the chair, which was that anything -- that the particular nomination needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster, that that was wrong. so it overcame that ruling and what that does is set precedent for future nominations, for future judicial nominations, executive branch nominations. what that particular ruling and vote just did was change the rules of the senate. again, what we're talking about here what that nuclear option is, is to prevent the minority effectively from waging a filibuster that democrats in this case or majority can't overcome. threshold was 60 votes. and it is at least in the makeup of the current senate impossible for democrats to overcome that on partisan

and on the internet there is a video of a man calling out senator john mccain he criticized mccain for supporting us to prevention in syria calling for the top politician to be arrested and tried for treason we'll speak with the marine about his actions later in the show. it's thursday october thirty first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. we begin tonight with the latest revelation to leak regarding the national security agency and italian magazine called an around the is now reporting that the spy agency has targeted the internal communications at the vatican along with the in going and outgoing phone calls a future pope francis' according to the reports the n.s.a. was intercepting calls from in and out of the rome residence where the cardinals stayed during the papal conclave additionally the magazine details how the n.s.a. has been categorizing those phone calls into everything from foreign policy objectives to threats to the financial system that it can spokesman father federico lombardi quickly dismissed these allegations and said quote

john mccain kind of worked out a deal. but for some reason now the nuclear option, the only thing for harry reid to do, again, privately, democrats are saying, this could be short sighted but just gives you a sense of the partisanship. >> the poisonous atmosphere. >> the worry here this poisons the well even more. >> we'll continue breaking news coverage. dana is going to be with us. gloria's with us. jeffrey toobin standing by. historic moment here in washington today. democratic majority in the united states senate has dramatically changed the rules of the game when it comes to how to get confirmations through. lots at stake. hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. is caused by people looking fore traffic parking.y that'

john mccain, a foreign policy expert. am i making any mistakes, senator? >> no, you're not, bill. i would add that there are three factors in developing nuclear weapons. one is the material itself, the other is the weapon that would go on the missile, and the other two there preceding the pace. second of all, we look at iran on the issue of nuclear weapons. they're sending 5,000 hizbollah to syria and bragging about being in syria killing syrians. they are spreading terror throughout the region. they are responsible for the deaths of americans, and i would also point out on this whole issue of right to enrich, they've cheated, they've lied, they've provericated for years and years and years, and the fundamental has to be they don't have the right to enrich. if you look at the final print on this agreement, you'll see basically we have conceded that. that's outrageous and ridiculous, and by the way, our

marine sternly addressing john mccain at a town hall meeting in his home state of arizona. his name is blaine cooper read an impassioned letter where he called him treasonnist for encouraging thed a -- to encouraging to act against syria. >> you have went against will of your people. and syria regardless of your position and vote whether it's a yes or no, it's still a political smoke screen. you swore an oath to protect us and protect from all enemies both foreign and domestic, the simple irony is the domestic enemy now in this country is the people in government of the united states. and mccain and you and the rest of our leaders are accountable for their actions. >> i was joined earlier by marine blaine keeper himself to talk a little bit more about what happened that day and first asked him what pushed him to accuse senator mccain of treason in such a bold fashion. >> well, with the destablization in syria, i felt as a citizen and what's going on in government that a lot of these people that i talk to throughout the internet who are very good close friends of mine throug

john mccain, who has been of late willing to work across the aisle, has said the same thing. so really is going to be interesting to see how and weather that really plays out because on the flipside, you have the democrats leadership saying, how could it possibly be that much worse than it is now? if you are going -- a few republicans are going to obstruct, okay. you're obstructing now, so this the best that they say they can do in order to get the senate wheels moving at least in some part of the system, and in this case, it's the president's nominees, and of course, it's important for the president legacy wise, because who he puts on the bench, it's a lifetime appointment. that's a very important legacy for any president. >> gloria, as the president just before the president made his reaction, his statement reacting to what the senate has decided for several hours, republicans were arguing the democrats were doing this, harry reid was doing this, because they wanted to change the subject from obama care, the affordable care act, to implementation of that, to

. >> i say this, i would give the due to john mccain. it was -- i was -- it was in some ways more of a challenge for me to communicate with him, than with president -- or barack obama at the time candidate obama before the election. but as i look back on it. if either one of the political candidates had come out against what we were doing, or come out against the tarp, we would have been defenseless. and it would have been easier for john mccain to demagogue it. i do think he was behind and the weak economy was a -- you know, by and large a benefit to barack obama. i was even more uneasy during the election about john mccain. and he never -- he was ultimately supportive of the tarp, and never came out against what we were doing although i admit i had a few sleepless nights about it. >> for all the talk about continuity and alignment do you think that came out in the right place? >> i think that -- the decisions that tim geithner made proved out. i think the aggressive stress tests, the compelling recapitalization, those were the right an

his endorsement when he was running for president and he got it and then ultimately, john mccain had to give it back when it turned out he's the god sent hitler back. you can't take that guy's endorsement and it turns out his whole idea of defend iing israe is just getting all the jews there at once so god can zap them all at one time. these guys exist. they are still around. they've not gone anywhere. last year, a group called the messianic bible institute held a meeting to talk about their strategy. their plan to hasten those end days is to -- jewish people. to convert jewish people, they hope by the millions, convert jewish people to accept jesus as their messiah. this is how they're trying to trigger the end of the world and last year, at their big event in texas, their keynote speaker was glenn beck, to whom they gave a defender of israel award before i kid you not, they all sat down to a big pork barbecue on the 50 yard line of the dallas cowboys stadium. they used a lot of jewish iconography, they try hard to seem very pro jewish, but the big idea is to make jews accept jesus

so, in 2008, when john mccain was securing the republican nomination for president and running against barack obama, john mccain sought and received the endorsement of a megachurch pastor from texas named john hagee. he got a lot of attention at the time because he was super, super, super anticatholic. he's the guy who called the catholic church the horror of babylon. his real kick has always been israel. he founded christians united for israel. he's published books like the battle for jerusalem and jerusalem countdown, which kind of sounds good for the jews. this is what he means though when you really get him to spell it out. >> god sent a hunter. someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. hitler was a hunter. how did it happen? because god allowed it to happen. why? because god said, my top priority for the jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of israel. >> god sent hitler to get the jews into israel, so it was a good thing? wow. this guy's a big influential texas tell aoe advantage televangelist megachurch guy and so, john mccain went and sought his endorsemen

the questioning we just saw with john mccain is sort of home state john mccain, representing arizona and wanting to be able to go home and talk about more security along the border. also an important piece, if immigration, which was passed in the senate could ever move forward in the house that, border security piece is essential. this is one of mccain's sort of home state with national security implications issues and he pounded away at jeh johnson, wanting to get more of an answer. johnson saying he needs to talk to the people at dhs to know what he can provide. there's been a long frustration there. but it is the sort of second-term blues for the president with the kind of focus on nominees where the senate can use its power of advise and consent in the constitution to lemp leverage the administration on things like, this wanting to extract information. so the good friends mccain and graham are taking different approaches here, but it's a similar tactic in trying to get something out of the obama white house and administration. >> and this as, of course, healthcare.gov was on tria

the guy yells get off my lawn as john mccain and. victor in atlanta hey victor you on talk about foreclosures. first of all i'm a very big fan of you thank you. and you're not a. paralegal who keep up the great work. what i've been doing with. a year in the court system to. you know they illegally foreclosing on people out of. it bogus corporate standing up for murder what they do with the. state. of stewards the signature of the notary maybe and they use intelligence material court you know in the caribbean. and dennis how do you foreclose on people that have that legally in the keppel ian roberts the clerk the fury of court she allowed to go home and even allow them to go. to quote pain so not only are they rob the people but they are also robbing detector oh yeah victor i you know we're starting to get into the names of bureaucrats and people i'd rather not do that but . your idea and i don't know by your particular situation but what i do know is that millions of americans were lied to millions of americans are victims of robo si

he had that column about john mccain in the gutter. and he wrote a piece about how he was wrong when he called john mccain honorable. because when you become the g.o.p. favorite, right? the -- begins. chris christie, i'm sure, is is going to get used to it they are going to, i better not say this, bill, pig pile on chris christie like they did with romney. like they did mccain. >> i don't disagree with that the question is -- the question becomes because christie is so good at disarming that kind of stuff and confronting it, will right wing republicans in america rally to a moderate like chris christie? do you think they will? >> i think in the end if he is the nominee absolutely. i mean, look, the tea party didn't want romney to be the nominee, right? >> and 3 million didn't show up. 3 million fewer votes than mccain. >> they didn't want mccain to be the nominee but mccain was the nominee. the tea party types can be upset. chris christie is not conservative enough. in the end if you don't have the money and you don't have the, you kno

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in 2009, mccain-palin, much to the chagrin of john mccain, had $23 million that they transfer into the rnc. the rga and the rnc sat down, i was there by the way, and they decided to take a larger chunk of that transfer from mccain-palin and put it on the television into virginia. the rnc outside of a presidential election is never in the business of buying millions and millions of dollars of ads. so what we decided early on is that we would put together the best possible ground game, about $3 million worth into virginia to help ken out. and obviously the ground game, obama care, ken's campaign came together, closed the gap, i'm really proud of the ground game that we put together in virginia. i know ken is, i know their campaign manager is as well. so, you know, the day that the so-called, you know, republican establishment puts $11 million into a single governor's race is not enough, i think we're living in crazy world. so, look, we have a lot to pay for on the ground across the country coming into 2014. do i wish the outcome was different? of course. but obviously, it didn't work tha

john mccains say not only causes problems, here is john mccain. >> what we really did today and what is so damning and will last for a long time that could permanently change the unique aspects of this institution, the united states senate, is if a majority and change the rules then only a majority can change the rules, then there are no rules. so tony, what changed today. in the past, this morning when we started the session here in the senate. it took 60 votes to overcome a filibuster threat, what senator reid did is pushed that to 51. so 51 can move something forward, like an executive branch appointment that the president is trying to make. democrats say they won't use it for supreme court nominees or laws, bills, just use it to get these court positions filled. >> libby casey, appreciate it. i have to tell you, there's been plenty of talk about the filibuster, but it's taken on new urgency in recent years. randall pinkston is here now waya bit of background on this. >> yes, a little stroll through history. traditionally the filibuster has been used to allowing a senator to hold

kerry and john mccain. you have to have an enemy. it's much easier to report what is not than what is. this is first. and secondly, i actually want to speak in defense of "60 minutes" and i can tell you why. with the 24/7 365 days a week news cycle, it's very difficult to absolutely check your stories. and the expectations are enormous that right now, immediately, without even a moment of a thinking process, you're going to deliver fine news. "60 minutes" manned up, they're doing an investigation, they accepted the responsibility. and i think they are -- one of the greatest things they're trying to do is provide context to that story. >> it's so interesting that you say that, professor. because i don't know yet what happened there. but my very first thought was, we work on such shoestring staffs that, i mean, one or two folks out, and all of a sudden the difficulty. but i see you over there saying, nope, i work on shoestring and we get it right. >> we do. at global post, this is what we live and breathe for

. >> if george bush and john mccain have a problem with direct diplomacy led by the president of the united states, then they can explain why they have a problem with john f. kennedy, because that's what he did with khrushchev, or ronald reagan, because that's what he did with gorbachev, or richard nixon, because that's what they did with mao. that's the choice in this election. >> after just nine months as president, obama was awarded the nobel peace prize, but in his first five years, much of his foreign policy has been dominated by the wars he inherited, his expansion of the global war on terror has made his supporters uncomfortable and earned disingenuous praise from former bush acolytes. >> the obama administration has clearly reached the point where they've agreed they need to be tough and aggressive in defending the nation and using some of the same techniques that the bush administration did. >> at times during the obama presidency, the possibility of direct talks with iran, once a central foreign policy goal, seemed remote. but this weekend, everything changed. >> today the

there is no republican ideas like more than john mccain, none. you may recall, i was for hillary in 2008. [laughter] >> we are going -- with a lot of books designed to we going to end this with a question from a 20 year-old journalism college student from cal state. he is holding a book, "never trust a liberal over 3" and he wants to ask you a question. >> i go to cal state long beach and was just wondering center in the neighborhood, with one if you come to my college and gives my liberal professors a talking to? [applause] >> well -- well, i book all my college beaches for young america foundation. you can find the link to my webpage but it's kind of late at night. let's just go toilet paper their houses. [laughter] thanks. you've been a great audience. i'll see you at the book signing. [applause] >> great job. >> thank you. i love this. ♪ ♪ >> booktv attended a book party for all for and cold held at the offices of the daily caller in washington, d.c. [inaudible] >> oh, sure. hey, good to see you. what did you do recently? it was something

john mccain had that problem, mitt romney had that problem. romney edged out or tied rick santorum. he needs 20%, 25% to get out he doesn't need to win the whole state. >> the cover story, put it up one more time, take a look at the cover of "time" magazine. can we get it up there? i think we can. the elephant in the room. there it is. there it is. the elephant in the room. i wonder if he's going to like or not like that headline on the cover of "time" magazine. we'll find out. he's going to be on a lot of tv shows in coming days. >>> unmanned aircraft and passenger plains co-existing in u.s. airspace. faa launching an effort to make that a reality. we're going to tell you what's behind the push. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we

came up with john mccain. it will be dealt with in the campaign, at some point, christie will have to release medical record showing exactly what kind of health he is in. you know if he is in -- if he is in dire straits, i doubt he will have endurance to make it through the campaign. i don't see, use now. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. >>> right versus harder right. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in philadelphia. let me start tonight with this. you know a politico crowd is going nutty and maybe scared when they start blaming the one guy who won. the crazy angry right of the republican party spent the last several hours attacking new jersey governor chris christie like he was the creature from the black lagoon. all the guy did was manage to carry 60% of a deep blue state to a normal sane political party might offer a map to victory nationwide. didn't happen that way. on tuesday night republicans put up two tea party candidates. one in an alabama primary and th

>> for the more conservative democrat, if i vote for hillary over john mccain? >> a conservative is not a man that teams up with teddy kennedy. >> conservatives, i should say, more than republicans, who just won't accept john mccain. >> and what about after mitt romney lost? >> romney is not a conservative. >> mitt romney is all over the map. >> mitt romney's position on the issues, not conservative enough. >> hmmm. something tells me that the not pure enough argument is not going to work with mr. "i favor anti sodomy laws, god will punish america for abortion rights," ken cuccinelli. so republicans, i'm all ears, what's your excuse going to be this time around? what could explain your loss of them nently winnable election, an election in which the historical cards are already stacked in your favor, and you proceeded to stack them further by purging voters from the rolls and passing voter i.d. law. will you accept the truth that cuccinelli is as outside the virginia mainstream as i don't know hugo chavez would be? would you accept that ken cuccinelli's views are

republican senator john mccain joins us. nice to see you. >> thank you, greta. it's interesting times. >> so very interesting times. so, senator landrieu in four neck of the woods u.s. senate has -- she has a bill keeping the affordable care act promise act. which is sort of interesting that we now have legislation to keep promises. >> yeah that is a little unusual that what we have already said was going to be the law now we have to pass another law to make sure that we are -- look, it's a lot deeper than senator landrieu and others who just want to extend delay things for a year. look, fundamental problems. people who want to keep their insurance, health insurance and they like it she they should be able to keep it insurance companies that want to continue to sell policies that as they have before, should be able to do that as well, and of course, this whole debacle the telling people that they are going to benefit by paying higher premiums which is the case with any young person that science up is -- flies in the face. that's the ultimate in social engineerin

people like john mccain and buck mckeegan. and those are the two names we're saying over and over, because the list isn't much longer than those two names. so, yeah, i think there's been a shift in the republican party, partly because there's a democratic president, partly because the iraq war has gone quite badly in a way that all political parties seem to recognize now. i think there's not a lot of appetite among most republicans for more wars and for more military spending. so i think in the primaries, i think christie will rhetorically be aligned with the hawks, but i don't expect him, for example, to pick a fight over the sequester or anything nearly that specific. i also think it's probably a position of mostly convenience, where he is now. the hawkish elements in the party are not really in the grassroots. >> no, yes. >> they're the same sort of people who don't care that much about restraining government spending. they're more moderate on their domestic policy positions. and these are natural allies -- >> those are his

my focus is more on john mccain. got great respect for the man. but i personally if i were in that position wouldn't answer the question. it's past. as i say in the book and as i've said nonstop over the past week we have to figure out a way to bring more people into our tent. we have to figure out how people can vote for ted cruz and colin powell. we used to win land slides. we won land slides because we expanded instead of contracted. we didn't moderate we broadened and made sure our conservative values applied to middle class americans. we got to stop fighting each other. >> shouldn't he have shown a little humility there? >> here's the deal. >> there's a much deeper problem. this is a fundamental philosophical split in the party. you won't get young people if you're anti-gay, anti-youth, anti-muslim, all these groups. there's a fundamental philosophical divide not a personal battle between john mccain and ted cruz. >> i think we're good. i don't have time to tell you why we're good. i think we're good. you get th

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case in point, veteran senator john mccain had this to say. take a listen. >> i reached out to them for the past two weeks, i reached out to them. i spent an hour in harry reid's office. i reached until my arm aches. okay? >> and they're saying -- >> they're governed by these hard over newer members of the democratic senators who have never been in a minority, who are primarily driving this issue. and they succeeded, and they will pay a very, very heavy price for it. >> senator, you are one of those newer members. i presume you wouldn't say senator mccain is wrong, correct me, but if that's the case, tell me why? >> i have very, very sincere and immense respect for john mccain for his service in the senate, to the nation in the military, but the agreements that have been forged in the past, in 2005, for example, simply haven't worked. that agreement was that there would not be a filibuster for the judicial nominees, except in, quote, exceptional circumstances,ent kwoedz. that agreement is in tatters. so is the one more recently concluded that

was for mitt romney. >> john mccain unfortunately was having to deal with excesses of the bush administration, he was having -- >> rose: and an economy that -- >> yes, exactly. >> rose: and very attractive candidate who did not have a record, in fact. >> no, of course. >> rose: running with a clean slate. >> of course, he didn't help himself with some of the things he said while lehman brothers is melting down on september 15th, mccain did not help himself with that and didn't help with how he responded to it, but, you know, i am not here to criticize john mccain. i am just here to say for all of those people that say you know what? we nominated moderates in 2 thou eight and 2012 and it didn't work. >> rose: so let's have a conservative and test our thesis, america is waiting for a real conservative. >> and that's why people need to rearead this book you don't havo test that thesis. we tried that in 1964. >> rose: so you are saying they chose the wrong moderates? >> well, it is not that they chose the wrong moderates. the fact of the matter is unfortunately our primary system has been rewardi