if you let john cornyn back in the senate, he will go back to bayonetting republicans. stockman is a truly ridiculous figure, but it is not clear that cornyn, despite being ranked the second most conservative senator by the national journal is going to win this thing. two years ago, everyone knew who was going to be the next republican senator from texas, it was going to be senator david due hurst. he got to the right of him and beat him by budget digits in a runoff. and that's senator ted cruz. howard fineman, here's the challenge for an msnbc host, describing steve stockman, it is generally a challenge. we use all these words all the time to describe the far right opposition, that is sort of intent on the president's demise, that believes in a whole variety of awful, terrible and ridiculous things and nothing could quite capture the dark, wierd magic that is steve stockman. >> well, i'm tempted to say that the great thing about the earth is if you poke a hole in it, steve stockman comes out. i mean, you say this stuff coming out of texas is -- you know, you thought it

john cornyn has it in check. and the other thing he is going to do is he is going to mobilize the moderate chamber of congress republicans. they're not going to sit on their hands and just let him be. they are going to stand behind john cornyn. so it's going to be an interesting show, but john cornyn will be here for awhile. >> well, the interesting thing, you talked dana, about his tweets. he sent a letter out to his supporters today really going after john cornyn. the letter says, quote, dear patriot, you are in a fox hole fighting to save our constitutional republic. and the last thing you need is a republican bayonet in your back. but that's what liberal john cornyn has been doing to you every day. this is a letter he sent out. now, let me show you how liberal john cornyn is. he's got an "a" rating from the national rifle association, 100% score from the national right to life committee, and a 94% from the koch-backed group americans for prosperity. i mean, doesn't sound too liberal to me, dana. >> no. i mean

john cornyn was against the government shutdown strategy, against the ted cruz filibuster. i think increasingly conservatives are realizing that, among other problemsish was not a good way to achieve conservative goal. >> curt, you are a father. i really believe child psychology factors into dealing with the republican party here. i feel as if after what josh has said, we have had an unruly child throwing food against the wall. because that child is throwing less food against the wall, somehow we're to applaud or reward that child when in reality it is unacceptable to throw food against the wall. >> that is the wing, tantrum wing, beyond ideology, the wing that doesn't want good behavior. good behavior in washington looks ideologicaly bankrupt. >> john cornyn, it will be an interesting year for you. thank you for my panel. that is all for now. see you at noon eastern. "andrea mitchell reports" is coming up next. [ female announcer ] make every smile a 3d white smile with crest 3d white toothpaste. it removes up to 90% of surface stains in just 5 days. unleash your smile wit

this time it's the number two republican in the senate, john cornyn of texas. cornyn is being charged by tea party favorite steve stockman. mitch mcconnell also being challenged by a tea party favorite. mark murray joins me live now. mark, let's talk about steve stockman. what do we know about him? >> he's a very controversial member of congress. he just recently won election to congress, had been out for a while, came back to congress. he's certainly been able to grab a whole lot of headlines. he's a tea party favorite, someone who is often been accused of talking birthers situations and someone who has the ability to grab headlines but he will start out as big underdog john cornyn. big financial advantage, also a primary coming up. not a lot of time for steve stockman to make up ground. >> cornyn joins a growing list of gop senators up for re-election next year getting primary so to speak. who else is on that list? >> well, on that list it's actually the number one senate republican as mentioned, mitch mcconnell, cochran of mississippi and lamar alexander in

i wasn't focusing so much on the liberal john cornyn. i did like that steve stockman told supporters they would not have to face actual bayonets. >> not yet. >> nobody wants a primary challenge, regardless of how comical you think it is or isn't, it's bad. this is a demonstration that there is not cohesion in the republican party. there's a lack of leadership in the republican party and right now, doesn't even look like anybody's getting the tools in an effort to build a bridge to bring that party back together. that's the problem. >> let's talk about cohesion and leadership. there's at least an indication there is some lacking at the white house with the announcement that john podesta, former clinton white house chief of staff is coming on board the obama white house to become counselor. not exactly, maybe you know, being a white house correspondent, what exactly is he going to be doing? >> i think he's going to be trying to steady the ship over there. this guy has a long career in washington. he's done a lot of this work before in the

john cornyn just has too much money. he's an incumbent. and steve stockman is running on thin ice and trying to say he broke the 11th commandment. what else does he have? i think john cornyn is here to stay. >> i like when we look to the right of the right an see who's standing over there because this brings us to where we are with dick cheney's comments on chris christie. they're sort of positive, kinda nice. they're not besties, but take a listen to this. >> i think chris is a promising figure. i don't agree with him on a lot of things, i'm more conservative than he is. chris christie has got to do a lot of work to earn the nomination, just like anybody else. >> do you think he'd blow up on the campaign trail? his temper would blow him up? >> i don't know. i don't know him that well. i had lunch with him once. i watched him operate. i wasn't a fan of the way he welcomed barack obama to new jersey when the hurricane hit. >> you would think that chris christie basically took a camera in with him and let them shoot him pulling the lever for

they want republicans to dump john cornyn and replace him with him. stockman, lest you forget him, is a prime member of the birther crowd. still playing to the racists out there who barked that the president is somehow a manchurian imposter who donald trump suggests no one knew in high school. whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. stockman's also right up there with the real life loony toons. he's also a fan of warning that waco was just a leading indicator that the black helicopters are coming. he said we could reduce the number of abortions in this country, by the way, with arming unborn babies with guns or at least says if they were armed with guns that would prevent abortions. an argument that leaves you wondering about the nature of the man's thinking process. let's put it this way. this guy stockman makes michele bachmann sound like madam curie. who was born to an american mother while refusing to accept president obama born in hawaii. quote, one of the things i always questioned was the documentation of the president. whether that was frau

out and say he would support the re-election efforts of john cornyn. so that's -- >> what does that mean given the argument. former vice president dick cheney looking ahead to 2016 and the prospects of chris christie. >> i think lichristie is a promising figure. he has to do a lot of work to earn the nomination just like anybody else. >> do you think he would blow up on the campaign trail, his temper would blow him up? >> i don't know. i don't know him that well. i had lunch with him once. i watched him operate. i wasn't a fan of the way he welcomed barack obama to new jersey when the hurricane hit. >> he said he had to. >> he was the governor of new jersey and he was doing what he thought was necessary. >> you think he overdid it? >> i would have preferred -- i don't know that he had any other choice in terms of what he was supposed to be doing for people of new jersey. like all of us, we carry what we have done in the past around with us and you have to explain it and support it. >> i don't understand. he wasn't a fan of what he did in new jersey in

john cornyn feel pretty good, despite stockman's let's say vocal support of gun rights. it is just another round of what is shaking up to be the no holds barred competition within the republican party to get as far right as possible in order to win the affection of a base that demands no less. in north carolina, the frontrunner to take on democratic senator kay hagan, has started an assault and in an interview, called protesters of that state's republican governance, whiners and losers, and eric ericsson's candidate is dedicated to secession. actually, i'm sorry, nullification. the gateway drug to secession. he said he would be part of the wacko-bird caucus. >> looking at recent history, we're seeing a narrative play out in the republican party right now especially on the national scale. especially in the u.s. senate. would you be proud to call yourself the member of the wacko-bird caucus? >> oh, yes, i have done papers on that. >> done papers on the caucus. meanwhile, in the great state of wyoming, the primary battle with absolutely zero ideological conference. her fath

john cornyn doesn't have anything to worry about. but these guys, still, they're realizing that there's no way to know where the front lines are, and that you can only really be -- >> and they've been conditioned. and i think you can't overstate the fact that everyone in washington, until the shutdown happened, knew the shutdown wasn't going to happen, because obviously that's a crazy idea. their world got flipped upsidedown when the shutdown happened. when literal a few dudes in the think tank in washington called the shots and made the government shutdown. all of a sudden it's like, whoa, if they can make that happen, all bets are off. we don't know what the rules are. >> and seeing everybody attack john boehner for that. that's amazing. chris hayes, very nice of you to stay. thank you very much. great to have you here. the one story in politics right now that feels like it was lifted from outtakes from the sopranos today got even more new jersey than it was yesterday. and it looks like it now may be turning into a real problem for

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john cornyn now looks like, i guess a moderate? if you think about it -- >> this will have the effect of making him look like a moderate. >> he doesn't want to, that's the difference. >> he may not want to, but just look at the larger effect on our politics. suddenly, steve stockman is a conservative, john cornyn is a moderate, conservative democrats are the left, and progressives are like gone, good-bye. >> socialists, which is what we've been hearing. but part of this has to do with the kind of what the base of each coalition wants, and there's some amazing, fascinating polling on this about how liberals see themselves and identify and how conservatives do, and part of that has to do with how we feel about compromise, right, as an actual end towards making the country a better place. both of those after this break. >>> earlier, we asked you if the left needs its version of the tea party? we got a ton of answers. mike from facebook says "no, but the occupy wall street folks need to get hip to wall street politics to have any real

i've known john cornyn for years, i've covered him for years. i don't think of him at heart as that kind of guy. he was a corporate republican. he was part of the george w. bush machine of compassionate conservatism years ago. but now he's playing to that crowd. and the fact it was a google hangout is significant. one of the things that's changed here is that you marry that long tradition of american fear of government, of resentment of the other, of conservative versus liberalism. you marry that us versus them with modern technology in the fact you can speak discreetly to your own crew and stoke up your own crew, wave the flag with them, and you have the tone of the republican party today. they're largely speaking to themselves. >> yeah. and on occasion they get caught, sam. one thing i've noticed here the way howard pointed that out is yes john cornyn was a regular conservative republican until ted cruz became his running mate. driving out of circulation, it seems. >> yeah. well, listen. this is a complex matter. because to cornyn and others'

cornyn. >> jon: he's not conservative enough? >> this guy? >> don't let us up government, gave support to soldiers and rooted out crooks. rose to the top in just one term, kept texas nm power, made lesser states squirrel. big john. >> jon: that guy? the guy has gotten high marks from the groups like chamber of commerce, american conservative union, the national journal named him the second most conservative senator behind only alaska's representative painting of jesus drilling for oil. [laughter] someone is going to commission that. [ laughter ] i'll tell you what give me a taste of this steve stockman guy. i want to know what is considered tea party electable these days. it's amazing what they are saying is covered by obamacare. if you decide to become transgender you can get that covered. >> good to know. >> next time i call your show -- [laughter] >> jon: i get it because -- it's funny because he is an (bleep). at this point the only guy that could live up to the ideals is ronald reagan himself. >> ronald reagan brought about

. >> no, but they're saying essentially, we're with you, but for john cornyn and others beat up by the outside groups, it is important to show the conservative bonafide -- they're still attacked as rinos, they can't do anything for these groups, they're almost grasping at straws, trying to show they're true blue conservatives. >> and at a point they're going to have to make a decision on who they side with. i want to play you a little piece of tape. this was paul ryan, making the case on conservative talk radio last night. and part of the republican leadership's case for why everybody should vote for this paul ryan case, is that it will prevent another government shutdown in january. he made this case on conservative talk radio, this is what he talked about, let's listen. >> this prevents a government shutdown in january, and prevents -- >> you guys are all worked up about that. a lot of us don't really care about. >> he says we don't care about that. where do you go from there? >> the irony is, the house has been in the last three years the place where conservatives have held down. th

cornyn, the foformer supreme cot absolutely it jittery because eve stockman, a marginal candidate, is running against him in the primary. he has come t against the dealal. is it continuing civil war in the party of charles' affectcti? it is. has $32,000 --an raid $250,000 and has one elections. and weiner --yans oehner's understood was that the republican party could become a marginal party. shuttingng down -- if down is their way of governing, it will not work in the general election. >> lindsey graham says is is aa fight for the het and soul of the republican party. >> it pbably is, because he said so. what you have going o on is serious. you have pple who want to govern, house republicanan leadership, and people who ar not interested in doing that. you have people on t other side who see govnment as the enemy. you do not want to feed d at beast. you do nonot fe it cutting everything out. that is whatat they wawant to d. the scorched earth policy i mentioned earlier, getting rid all the assets indiscriminately. i can undederstand the responsie members of the republican party, , the

>> ted cruz has caused confirmation because he was refused to endorse john cornyn. i don't anticipate him getting involved. stockman will pretty much be a n nuisance. cornyn will have to watch his right flank. after all, cornyn has taken some votes that are not popular with the right. he's a remember of the republican leadership where tea party folks are trying to take down the leadership. cornyn has been kind of guarding against that right flank ever since the beginning of this congress. he should have little problem dispensing with stockman, but he's someone he'll have to at least pay attention to over the next several months here. >> so basically, given that setup, that is why ted cruz doesn't go in and endorse him wholeheartedly, because he's been really guarding against the right flank? >> yeah. cruz has been careful about balancing the support from the right wing and not trying to do anything to show he's breaking from the tea party right, even if it means not endorsing the senior senator from his state, which you know is very unusual. >> let's look at where t

if you take a live look at the senate you can see that john cornyn from texas is on the floor right now. they've been taking turns throughout the night. two big nominees they're trying to get through, one is nina pellard who was confirmed to the d.c. circuit court. the other is jay johnson. he would lead the department of homeland security. no decision yet on him. whole reason this happening, last month democrats changed the rulings, a simple majority is needed to end filibusters to presidential nominees. the republicans are weakened, so they're using everything they have, every minute to consider the nominees and reid says they'll work through until it's done. >> also a vote on the bipartisan budget dealing we heard so much about on wednesday. the house is expected to take up the bill crafted by senator ryan and murray. outside hard lined conservatives say it stunts growth. democrats worry it does nothing for expiring unemployment benefits. a vote in the senate is expected next week on the bill, that would fund the government for the next two years, senate republicans are expected to o

so they want to do everything they can to reassure enough voters john cornyn is conservative, our guy has done well for the con stitch win sis and for the issues that you care about. >> all right. just want to show everybody, though, senator cornyn is up by 44 points on congressman stockman right now, at least in gop polling numbers that have gone out that was obtained by politico. we have three months to go until the primary. wayne slater, the dallas morning news, thank you, sir. tomorrow, a look at the kentucky senate race that wayne brought up there. we've got senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. could face a strong democratic challenger in secretary of state allison grimes. [ male announce] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at s

i want to read john cornyn said, the website is the least of obama care's problems. now are shifting about the complaining of the website and slow moving site to the policy and their disdain for this program. >> reporter: very true. we're going to see them tocontie to do that in the house of representatives, the house ways and means on health care, administration officials where they'll move forward with concerns regarding what they believe is the misleading claim by democrats and you got it, you like it, you keep it. this website news is real welcome news for a lot of house democrats for a long time felt that the administration hung them out to dry. remember, a lot of folks in 2010 lost their jobs over this law. this website to be up and running, it makes it at least more politically viable because you can say while there may have been problems in the get-go, at least people are getting health care and getting those life saving benefits. what's going to be interesting to see going forward, what's the next gop line of attack on the law? they've done everything they c

also the mitch mcconnells, john cornyns, lindsey grahams all scared to death at this moment that the mark levins and glenn becks of the right-wing media circus will finger them for destruction the way kim yung-un fingered his own unsuspecting guardian uncle over in pyongyang. which not north korea, but boy is it getting tough over there on the american right. david corn, washington bureau chief for "mother jones" and jonathan capehart, columnist for the "washington post." both are proud, i hope, msnbc political analysts. john boehner faces all-out revolts from the tea party, a bit of an anger coming from the conservative media htitans like mark levin and glenn beck. listen carefully. what beck said is the reason they love wackobirds like cruz and lee, they're taking orders from him. >> i find him feckless. >> i think john boehner is one of the prime examples of worthless, worthless republicans. these guys are big government progressives. they're not liberals. they're not rinos. they're progressives. we have to take a stand. mike lee and ted cruz, they did what we told them to do. mea

senate leaders mitch mcconnell, best-known senator on the republican side, john cornyn, the number two guy from texas, with tons of money are voting no. as is lindsey graham. roberts. david, this is what's stuns. we know politics has a lot to do with television these days and radio and, of course, still the newspapers and getting your name out there. people's names -- everybody knows mitch mcconnell follows american politics. everybody knows probably lindsey graham. these guys spent 20 years building up their reputation -- no, they're afraid of losing to people that nobody's ever heard of. >> mitch mcconnell, in particular, he has won several elections in kentucky, but at really low margins of what you'd expect for a national political -- >> why is he afraid of -- >> because already his disapproval rating, mitch mcconnell's is -- look what he gets to do now over the past few months. when he wants to, he can say, i'm a deal maker, got the deal that ended the government shutdown. he wants to say, i'm against the budget bill, he can say that now. >> my question is, why is a guy a well-kno

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host: what do you think of senator john cornyn. caller: stockman is going to get my vote, cornyn has too much going on. host: why? on things is caving he should stand up for, he does not had a spine. it is too easy to go along with democrat ns in the lobby. host: he was one of the republicans that voted against moving forward on this two-year budget deal, he did not vote for it. only 12 gop senators voted to move forward. catching some heat and he may come around and do a good job in the end. as of late, he has not been the conservative i would like to see. host: do you oppose the two-year budget deal? caller: yes. host: let me read for our viewers the 12 senators that voted yesterday to end debate on the two-year budget deal and move forward with debate to final passage. here's a list of those republican senators. lamar alexander, roy blunt, saxby chambliss, susan collins, isaacson,n, johnny portman.in, rob reported yesterday that not necessarily all of these senators will vote on final passage for the legislation. one of them bei

he's not going to beat john c n cornyn. we don't want to touch this guy. >> that's a prediction from you? >> i think a safe prediction, you heard it here first, that steve stockman is sadly for people who enjoy irony and ridiculous behavior in congress, will not be with us that much longer. >> dana milbank, thank you auz always. with this talk of collaboration, we talked to our facebook fans about what it will take for our nation to come together again. steven loudy said, rational thinking and action should cover it. like us on facebook and join the conversation. we'll talk to you about all of the news. up next, boehner as the grinch, how immigration protesters are trying to get lawmakers attention on hill. outspoken advocate for reform, ken salazar is coming up. i'll be back to join you at the top of the hour at 4:00. we're aig. and we're here. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into sp

mcconnell facing a primary in kentucky, john cornyn and john thum coming out against it. is this idea of a republican civil war real or see people going to their camps? >> i think the civil war is real. i think folks like boehner and ryan are living in the real world when it comes to politics. they saw the recent shutdown, they got clobbered. they decided no more suicide mission. it's a measure of how far we've fallen as a society that people are congratulated for coming to an agreement on the deal that's going to hurt a lot of people. that's both parties. it's bizarre to me. >> it is a sort of a new normal, alex. lets go through quickly what is in this deal causing this rift. if you look at it from the outside looking in, isn't a lot to your point, to bob's points. it increases spending $45 billion in 2014, replaces sequester cuts, replaces ds 2 billion in part by increasing airline fees. every airline customer has to subs dies not raising taxes on the rich, employees, they will subsidizing not doing a tax on the rich and doesn't touch unemployment. another wealth transf

if you have a primary member like mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, none of those guys are going to vote for it. you might win concessions, but the underlying gravity that pulls people to the positions that we've seen is still there as six or seven incumbent gop senators facing primary challenges. >> i actually respectfully disagree with you there. i think mcconnell's nay vote is interesting, we should pay attention to it. he looked at the spending levels next year part of the sequestration cuts. mcconnell wanted to keep as is, he wanted the status quo, ryan has conceded the cuts. mcconnell didn't want to get the fees ryan enacted. within the republican party there is disagreement on how to handle the sequestration. some like mcconnell think it is a real hammer to use on the democrats to get things like chained cpi, others want a deal on sequestration now -- >> because they want to get rid of that. >> exactly. >> joining me now, president of americans for prosperity, the conservative political organization founded by the koch brothers. why do you not like this deal? >> it goes well beyon

cornyn. what prompted that gop rebellion? well, they didn't cll at this time tea party for nothing, corn then's refusal to back ted cruz on a procedural motion aimed as defunding obama care is the reason corn nine now joins senate minority leader mcconn l mcconnell, senator thad cochran, senator mime cochran and senator enzi in a contest with the former vice president's daughter, senator lamar alexander on the lest of incumbent republicans with what could be a very tough primary battle. the question now is, could we see a rept of 20 ten when two republican incumbents, senators robert bennett and lisa murkowski, joining us to assess all of this, doug schoen, judith miller, fox news legal analyst, great to have you all here. let me start with you, doug, this is, i mean, this looks like a real battleground shaping up for the republican party. >> it is, this is the best news other than the budget deal president obama had all day. bottom line, the tea party has a fervent group of activists who vot

it's one of the ideas being floated and john cornyn says the issue should be addressed now. >> i don't have any doubt whatsoever if we were able to come up with an appropriate paid for and of substitute for this cut in military pensions, that it would pass like a hot knife through butter in the house of representatives when they reconvene. >> reporter: senator patty murray says including disabled retiree benefits in the cut was a mistake and she says it will get addressed after the bill is passed. >> mike emanuel, thank you. >>> breaks right now. the harvard university sophomore accused of making bomb threats to get out of taking his final exam is at this moment appearing in court. the feds say he faces up to five years in prison for this. investigators say he almost got away with it and would have but the ivy league student made a critical mistake. more on that in just a minute. according to an fbi affidavit, 20-year-old eldon kim used a temporary anonymous email address to send messages to the university indicating to the police and student newspapers he had bombs. here's what they s

let's talk about john cornyn in just a second. i want to get your take on the new push by the white house. three weeks, every day they'll have a new message, coming from the white house or somewhere else, touting the benefits of the law. they did this leading up to the launch of the law. we know what happened. is this going to work? what are they going to accomplish? >> this is the obama care advent calendar. this morning, someone mailed one to burman and it's good. we'll stick with it. one of the fascinating facts about the signature law, it's been terribly explained from the get-go. it's been a communications failure and a lot of folks have fixated on the negative, essentially the republicans have won that spin war. here's an attempt to start making a positive case. best day would have been three months ago, three years ago, this is probably better than nothing. this is defense, make no mistake about it. >> polls have shown he's taken a hit. the spin war has been winning against him. i guess it only makes sense that he fights th

steve stockman of texas, the tea party challenger to john cornyn has come up with an obama-themed barf bag. he's offering them as thank you gifts to his contributors. it features an image of the president of the united states and reads socialism makes me sick. speaking of a mess, stockman's campaign office was recently closed by a fire marshal there because it was so ill kept it was deemed a safety risk. now new photos reveal just how disgusting it was. taken during an inspection in november, the images there show the makeshift office inside a rundown former motorcycle shop. anyway, stockman campaign workers used to work and sleep in this place which officials have described as unsafe for habitation. >>> up next, hillary clinton's biggest obstacle may well be according to this writer, hillary clinton. that's according to one of the country's top political reporters. he has a prescription for it. he thinks she can win. and you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. about 700 people were in the london theater that collapsed at the time. >>> aim-sex marriage is now legal in new m

texas senator john cornyn tweeted, so obama care's fixed now that the website has been improved? not on your life. alabama's martha roby says, quote, the real problem with obama care can't be fixed with a tech surge. what we are seeing now is just the beginning. and from new hampshire senator kelly ayotte, obama care is still a mess. it's not a mess to people who can finally afford insurance, who are getting free preventive care, who aren't being discriminated against because of pre-existing conditions. but they don't think about that. they focus on attacking the president. >> i don't know how you fix the many fundamental problems of this program. >> this thing is going to be an unmitigated political disaster for the president. >> this really feeds into the president's competence. that's really the question now that people have. is the president competent to do his job? >> here's the question. here's the question people really have. just how desperate is the right. they didn't want this law to work, didn't want it to help people, but it is. so how much longer can they keep up the