i believe that john boehner really is a legislator at heart. he wrote no child left behind with ted kennedy. he's dealing with this caucus that doesn't want to follow him. but they are starting to see their power hemmed in by their losses at the polls. and they really have now they re to go to either follow john boehner or continue to make noise. you can make all the noise you want, but john boehner's allays are saying, go ahead and make your noise, we'll start legislating and start running a house that's functional and maybe even pass a law or too. >> that is -- a functional house! >> i know. this is the beginning. >> but -- yeah, the very, very -- in the basement. the basement of a functional house. >> the dawn. >> patricia, when you talk about leverage and levers of power, one of the earmarks and i'm not going to argue in favor of bringing back ear marks, but those diminish the speaker's power, and if you look at what he has left in his arsenal, money and fund-raising is something that john boehner has been proven to be really good at. and i

it's just one of the things i discuss with john boehner. what's next following consent charges at the ares the. where to put your money as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. >> we begin this morning with the crisis in the ukraine holding a referendum. the voeds billion held days after russia test fired a new blas tick missile. that's for joining us. >> it's a pleasure. >> what's your sense of the latest in russia? is the bigger threat upset within the country or russia against the west? >> i think both are interesting and important story lines. almost 70% of ukrainians would want to remain with the ukraine. there are no independent monitors so there is no way to know what the people of ukraine think. it's very dangerous and has the possibility of escalation. >> i was very taken aback when john boehner said we need to be pressuring the europeans. he actually went as far to say we need to get russian banks but we need europe's support. what's stopping the allies from coming up with tough sanctions against russia and putin. >> the exposu

john boehner in the u.s. chamber of commerce have apparently joined forces to go against a common opponent , the republican party. baker and chamber president tom donahue blaming republicans for not supporting so-called comprehensive immigration reform. legislation that offers both amnesty for illegal immigrants and open borders. speaker boehner who has been wildly divergent in his views on such legislation today blamed members of his own party for resisting his leadership on the issue. he told the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce that there are some members of my party that just do not want to deal with this. remember he was walking his republican colleagues on this same issue jgo. >> the appetite among my colleagues for doing this is not real good. but here is the attitude. don't make we do this. this is too hard. [laughter] you should hear them. lou: the u.s. chamber of commerce again tells an audience in washington they believe the democratic party is now the party of big business because open bor

the short answer, is john boehner. john harwood wrote this week that at least the possibility of a deal may not be completely dead. yet. really? >> really. now, that's not another way of predicting that it's going to happen. but i think there is a possibility of it happening and here's why. you mentioned that the country is getting browner. that's definitely true. the republican party, however, is not. this is a party that's dominated by older whites. and so there's very grave difficulty moving that party, many of their members look at immigration reform as something that in effect licenses more people to come into the country, change the culture of their communities in ways that feel threatening to them. but john boehner knows like many republican strategists know that if they don't do something big about this problem, that they're fated to have difficulty in presidential elections as far as the eye can see. it's not such a big issue in mid terms. because older whites vote at heavier rates than hispanics, for example,

republican house speaker john boehner said he wants immigration reform. he rejected the sweeping overall passed in the senate and favors a step by step approach. >> we've talked about this literally every week for the last 18 months. i made it clear over the last several months that until the president gives us some reason that--some confidence that we can trust him to implement an immigration reform bill we really don't have much to talk about. the ball is in the president's court. >> some members of boehner's caucus are clearly frustrated by the lack of movement. congressman jeff denim in california put forward an amendment to the defense authorization act seeking legal status for immigrants who serve in the military. he called it "the enlist act" but it's not going to happen. g.o.p. house leadership blocked it. >> we've got this narrow window. the closer we get to the midterm elections the harder it is to get things done around here. it's hard to believe that things could get harder, that this place could get more dysfunctional, but it's very hard righ

let's turn to first speaker john boehner. he is expecting his entire caucus to follow him without building consensus, without an agreement of any kind and with every poll saying they will get slaughtered after polls. >> it doesn't make much sense to me the things we are seeing out of his office. one of the things you are seeing out in the midterm elections and all this kind of stuff is that while we do have people getting behind tea party candidates, the tea party has largely been underestimated by the media that wants to believe the tea party people will stay home or back bad candidates. when you see that they are doing, it is not because they are that fantastic, they are united and defeated first and foremost. you can't survive another four years. they are stepping up and doing the right things to get republicans into office and carl has been very good to me, promotes my books and stuff, so i'm not that guy. i disagree with knocking tea party people out early. i do agree when he says let's send the best people in the fight

boehner, and why throw moneyt that race that john boehner is going to win? do they believe there could be and upset, and what are they doing here? >> well, they want to give john boehner a run for his money, and show that the tea party is strong everywhere in the country and even in john boehner's district. the worst he has done in a primary since elected is 83%, and so if the tea party challengers can come up to drop imhim below 83%, that is an easy storyline to say, we have weakened john boehner and made him look weaker in the district. nobody believes that they could win, but if they could drop him below 80 or even 60%, that is the storyline that the tea party want t wants to tell. boehner is not sleeping on the job here, and he is running ads for the first time in year. and he is spending a lot of his own money here and not taking for it granted that he is going to win, but even though we are, he is not. he want ts to keep it up into t 80% range and shut down the tea party race once and for all in this state. >> and thank you, both. >>> and checking in o

speaker john boehner has read establishing such a committee for more than a year. despite white house defiant of correctional oversight. beaker bandit today cited the disclosure of incriminating e-mails in the white house as the motivating factor in creating a select committee. e-mails that showed been roads pushing the u.n. ambassador susan rice to blame the benghazi attacks on anti-islam video despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. evidence that we now know the white house was aware of her it's speaker boehner wrote that these revelations compel the house to take action to ensure the american people have the truth. i intend for them to have robust authority and bible expected to work quickly to get answers. the boehner reversal came just after there'll i set issued a subpoena for john kerry to appear before his committee. their eyes are looking for answers as to why the state department refused to release an unredacted version of the incriminating road e-mail despite five separate house and senate committee investigation into the september 11 terrorist at

speaker john boehner joined the welcome news and put in the shiv. quote, president obama ought to call on his democratic-led senate to take up the stacks of jobs measures to get this economy moving. there aren't any. all this stuff, they won't lift it up an-inch. anyway, the house majority leader eric cantor followed boehner with statement that reads in part it's time democrats stop ignoring the stacks of bills so they can help hard-working americans with their stacks of bills. cleverly put. they didn't even show up to work. they issued these statements on paper. >> it's unconscionable. it's unconscionable of all the people to say stop sitting on your hands, start passing some legislation. here's a dude who's basically a dead end for any kind of bipartisan effort of anything at all times and then has the audacity two weeks ago go back home in ohio and say, oh, whoa, it's so hard passing legislation, telling members of his own party to buck up. i mean it's outrageous. >> let's look at strategy behind this. i don't know the president's strategy for be

house speaker john boehner says, quote, the obama administration is so intent on obstructing the truth about benghazi, it is even willing to defy subpoenas. senate leader harry reid claims republicans are wasting americans' time by staging a partisan political circus. white house minority leader nancy pelosi is pushing for equal representation on the select committee. voting this evening will create seven republicans for the division and five dems. whoever is in the majority typically has majority. like pelosi did with the climate change panel. and the special committee that investigated watergate had four dems and three republicans. we start with nbc's luke on the hill. luke, this was a tmiscommunicat administration to cover their behinds during an election year. because of that, this continues to play out. but let's talk about the purpose of this specific panel. because it doesn't sound like it's being formed to answer some of the biggest questions, like why the ambassador was killed and how we can prevent this from happening again. is this committee just politics and the blame game

it's a miss con 1e7gs that john boehner wants to do this in terms of bringing it to the floor. personally, we'd like to see immigration reform happen? yes. when it comes to the politics, john boehner has been a hesitant leader, not one to push around people in the cloak room. i doubt lit happen this year. >> what's interesting about what boehner has done, by leaving this option out there and at least saying i personally want to do immigration reform, he's basically frozen everything in washington. the white house has internal review going on looking for options for executive actions. as long as there's the slimmest chance boehner can put something on the floor, they'll hold off. >> why do republicans want to do that? they can win the senate right now, why ged into a difficult i have visive fight? if they don't get this done next year, there's fear next congress won't happen. >> that's my question i guess. do any of the republicans, especially mitch mcconnell is vulnerable. he has a tight race. do any of them feel pressure to show congress can do things? that's one of the attack

is john boehner committed to amnesty? he danced around the issue, he has changed his mind nine times we have counted over the last year. are the republicans really going to base it by going with an amnesty piece of legislation? >> you get worn down after a while. anything other than that would be racist. i think it is hard to keep fight that fight, but the reason people come to this country is because of the rule of law. in other countries people from their noses at the rule of law, people don't believe the citizen should follow it. we have to preserve that, that is what makes america to student. lou: do you believe we still remain distinct? making all kinds of decisions whether we have immigration, marijuana, those in prison. it piles up. >> it is a very ad hoc method of governing. lou: and a constitutional republican. great to have you. vice president joe biden quoting teddy roosevelt. but misrepresenting the man and his views on immigration and the country. here is one of teddy roosevelt quotes revealing his true belie

we are watching as fox news reported last hour, speaker of the house john boehner will establish a special congressional committee to investigate the benghazi terrorist attacks and will this get answers to serious questions remaining two years after the attack. pro russian separatist clash with riot police in ukraine. the country is on the verge of all out civil war as president obama and german chancellor said they are united on the need to impose more sanctions on russia they are certain to be on the moinds of voters. jobs and the economy. today we have new information on the employment front. it is the topic of our panel where you can join the discussion. but first fox news alert. house republicans announce a special congressional committee will investigate benghazi and the white house response in the response of the attacks. welcome, i am john scott. >> thank you, john. i am in for jenna scott today. there is a subpeona to secretary of state john kerry to testify about why white house e-mails this week were omitted from previous administration's submission to congress. ed, the joint ne

as speaker john boehner finally announces a select committee to investigate benghazi. a recent fox poll shows 61% of americans think the administration has been in cover-up mode on the issue. it's pathetic handling of the attack that killed four americans, has bred more distrust and more cynicism in a pu public that needs good news. a new poll released this week shows half of the americans think the american dream is dying or is dead all together. we know rages are not keeping up with the cost of living incre e increases. we know good paying jobs are being replaced with low paying ones in the retail or service industry, and health care premiums and out of pocket costs are soaring for many americans. it shouldn't surprise anyone that the same poll shows 47% of americans think we should be less active in global affairs. the economist has a new piece out today titled what would america act for. it's bemoaning their reluctance to act in foreign policy. as long as moe americans don't see their lives getting better, they will have nor appetite for making the lives of syrians

what do you think reince priebus, john boehner and eric cantor would be saying about those apples? they'd be doing the republican equivalent of high-fiving each other. whatever that is. they'd also be doing cartwheels on fox, telling shane hannity that they were, in fact, in heaven. anyway. eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post." and alex wagner is the host of now, msnbc. two great people to join me on this. the absolute hill arte you have to look at it, when everything is turning up roses. >> reince priebus. and i just love that name, comes out and just dumps all over it and kantortore does it, we're talking republican stuff. maybe the unemployment rate doesn't sort of get to their erogenous zone the way it does to the democrats, but certainly the stock market through the roof. wouldn't they be maybe saying good fine work by this man? good work? >> everything would be coming up roses, happy days would be here again, except that's a democratic thought. it would be morning again in america. democrats tell the story, right, because they've got

john boehner and i had a talk soon after he became speaker. we were in an ohio state football game and he came up to me and we were chatting and he said "ted, i can't control these people." i suppose thinking about the tea party members. and he said "so i'm just going to turn them loose and see what happens." and at the federal level we've seen what happens when you turn these people loose. they closed down the government and they obstruct and they refuse to do anything that's in a positive direction for the country and in ohio at the state level they've controlled, they've passed legislation that, in my judgment, and i think in the judgment of many ohioans, is very extreme. and so they may not be winning today phenomenon the ohio primary and in the primaries in indiana and north carolina, but they are a vital force within the republican party and the republican party's got to deal with it and if they don't deal with it they will become a regional minority party at the very best. >> and let's be clear, too, eugene. north carolina, tom tillis,

which is the more honest john as it were? the ohio john boehner or the san antonio john boehner? >> yeah, i think the ohio john boehner. i think -- look, i think there are a lot of member who is would on some level like to take care of the issue to get it out of the way, but most of them would rather someone else do it, not them. i don't think there's been any real movement or work that's been done particularly on the republican side to push forward with a legislation. at best, platonic show like they are going through the motions. at this point, i don't see how he can pull together the votes he needs on the republican side to pass a bill. >> john, what was the news yesterday in politico thatbone cast i won't say doubt, but shadow of a doubt whether he's pick up the speaker's gavel. i'm running for re-election, i expect to be speaker, but i can't predict what would happen. i'm going to be 65 years old, i never thought i would live to be 60. it's morbid. 65 is not that old. in terms of speakership, there's been a lot of prognosticating of whether or not giving up the gavel or the

so that is pathetic in its own right. >> i make a quick point about john boehner. we talked with for about how he didn't do one. >> absolutely. >> but now i think that there is something new and i think that this may actually benefit the republicans are out there pushing and now they have a real reason and something that renews the vigor of the investigation. so maybe he did the wrong thing but it turned out all right. >> we will see how it turned out. so many choices that the republican leadership will have to make now that we have seen job creation and the economy could bolster itself with unseen possibilities before us now. michael good one and james and mercedes, thank you so much. a reminder to vote in our poll tonight. which congressman is your choice to tear the select committee? trey gowdy, pete sessions, mike turner? go to loudobbs.com. and up next, the markets finished lower. a job supported that saw the unemployment rate move much lower. lower. michael holland is with us my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by

speaker of the house john boehner named republican representative trey gowdy to chair a house select committee on benghazi. on september 11th, 2012, 4 americans, ambassador christopher stevens and fiown woods on contract to the c.i.a. were explain in an assault on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. ambassador stevens is only one of 7 u.s. ambassadors to die in the line of duty in the nation's 240 year history. >> i'm not telling you how to do your job, but i'm going to ask you some questions. if you can't answer these questions, i'll draw whatever conclusion i want to draw. can you tell me why stevens was in benghazi the night he was killed? do you know? do you know why requests for additional security were denied? do you know why an ambassador asking for more security days and weeks before he was murdered and those requests went unheeded? do you know the answer to why those requests went unheeded? do you know why no assets were deployed during the siege? do you know whether the president called any of our allies and said can you help, we have men under attack. can you answer tha

want: john boehner did not this. he got a lot of report -- support and cosponsors and john boehner initially were resisted. he wants to defer to the committee chairman, most notably the chairman of the oversight committee. then, the pressure -- there was an e-mail from a white house , notor that came out because of an investigation, but because of a lawsuit brought by a conservative group through the freedom of information act. that is when john boehner said, ok, we need more power and we have got to step it up. not crazy about this idea, but he is saying they could continue doing their investigations. of committee chairmen who have on thisated benghazi special committee. john kerry will testify. it is just a matter of when. he was not there when benghazi happen, but as far as the documents republicans claim the state department has not been as forthcoming as it should be. >> this is a headline from fox news's website. republicans want new clinton area wheren benghazi talking with to zach, manager of edit -- of the h

durante meses, quizÁs aÑos, he estado buscando una entrevista con john boehner y john boehner no querÍa hablar con nosotros, asÍ que se nos acabÓ la paciencia, se ha acabado el tiempo, y decidimos subirnos a un aviÓn, fuimos a washington, nos metimos a una conferencia de prensa y ahÍ le preguntamos por quÉ él, john boehner, estÁ bloqueando la reforma migratoria. la pregunta no le gustÓ. ni modo. esto es lo que pasÓ. sr. boehner, vine a washington a preguntarle por quÉ usted estÁ bloqueando la reforma migratoria. >> ¿yo? >> el senado la pasÓ hace un aÑo. sÍ, usted personalmente. usted la puede presentar a votaciÓn y no lo ha hecho, el senado ya lo hizo hace un aÑo. >> bueno, actualmente de la reforma inmigratoria es un tema del que he hablado durante 18 meses, desde el dÍa siguiente de las elecciones de 2012, el hecho de que el congreso tiene que hacer algo respecto, y he dejado en claro que no vamos a lidiar con la versiÓn del senado. son 1300 pÁginas que nadie ha leÍdo, no lo voy a hacer. creo que la forma de hacerlo es ir punto por punto de una manera que tenga se

these days the house republicans give john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. #. >> so one of the president's funniest lines is he for one night becomes comic in chief. but how did funny man joel mchale fare as the headlining host? >>> and more pro-russian violence in ukraine. is moscow ginning up the violence to justify further military incursions? >>> and circus performers hung by their hair. escape a death defying fall, all caught on camera. definitely not party of the show. this is "way too early." hey, hey everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. it's monday, may 5th. welcome to "way too early" the show that loves cinco day mayo. even though we only speak spanish un poco. we're going to work on that. we want you to take a shot of te quit tequila every time we talk about the white house correspondence dinner. let's talk about what we know overseas and in ukraine the violence is spreading deeper with street violence e is rupting. hundreds of militants storm on monday dmond dmanding they be released. the men sma

. >> house speaker john boehner is forming a select committee. >> another select committee? another investigation. and more partisanship. >> there've been 13 hearings on benghazi, 50 briefings, 25,000 pages of documents released. >> there may be other documents. >> what we really need to do is get our hands on the documents that the white house has been withholding. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> peter king acknowledged that there is kind of an overreach danger. >> republicans could be seen as somehow encouraging a political fight over the fact that four americans were murdered. >> it is a political stunt. >> benghazi seems to not have resonated other than on fox and a couple of other groups. >> everybody knows it's a political stunt. >> it's a conspiracy theory without a conspiracy. >> they're all tried and true red herring. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. benghazi. >> 13 hearings, 25,000 pages of documents already handed over. over 50 briefings. a smoking gun at every turn, but still no fire. and yet with nothing else they can seem to agree on, benghazi will be the go

house speaker john boehner put on the investigating committee. the six on the screen plus chairman gowdy. democrats are still on the feps whether they will participate or boycott altogether. which way will they g. guy benson is here and julie is here. both are fox news contributors. julie, i don't know if nancy pelosi called you for political advice. >> rarely does. >> put her on pretend phone. what would you tell her? >> reluctantly i would tell her unless trey gowdy steps down as chair on the committee it is nothing but a show trial. let me explain why. democrats don't look at it as a trial. yet trey gowdy referred to as a trial and people in the white house as a defense. it is not a trial. it is an inquiry and what steps to take to increase security abroad. to say that you have deemed that people testifying about this and it is a trail to me speaks that it is a political stunt and they are raising money of now and i would say the democrats should not participate in a show trial. >> gieshgs she said the democrats should stay home. >> i think it

it was a tipping point for house speaker john boehner. darrell issa of the house oversight committee is subpoenaing secretary of state john kerry to testify later this month on whether there are other unreleased documents. >> we're still not getting documents as we have requested. we've turned all these things over as far as the subpoena. and we're asking them to turn over the documents that we have requested. these things are trickling out, we're asking the simple question, when will we get all of the documents? he obviously wasn't in the lead when all this occurred. secretary clinton was. but now he has the responsibility to make sure his state department is releasing all the documents we have requested. >> marie harf said yesterday there are no unreleased documents and that the entire exercise is a fishing expedition. >> what the republicans allege that there was attempts by this administration to cover up or spin what happened is 100% false. >> a fox news poll shows that by a margin of 61% to 26%, voters believe the white house is try

. >>> and in an exclusive interview with sunday morning futures anchor, house speaker john boehner says this is a serious bipartisan endeavor. listen. >> what i tried to do was find people who had worked on this investigation and others who frankly have not, but bright, energetic, and people committed to getting to the facts. this is a serious investigation. i don't want theater. i don't want a side show. i want the members of this committee to find the facts for the four families who lost their loved ones. >> don't miss the full interview on sunday morning futures at 10:00 a.m. eastern, tomorrow. >>> and a solemn procession in new york city. the unidentified remains of those killed on 9-11 brought back to ground zero. but the day not without controversy. and there is this. russian president vladimir putin scoring big time in sochi, showing off his hockey skills. why he's on the ice.

take care. >>> so john boehner went full robot today. he cries. yes, you might think he would rust if he went into robot mode. but that didn't happen. >>> are you a one note party at this point? >> it's clear that obamacare is the number one, number two, and number three issue going into this election. >> when president obama announced the resignation of kathleen sebelius and nominated sylvia burwell to replace her as head of the department of health and human services, sirens went off all over. will burwell's confirmation be another front in the obamacare war? business insider was more certain. here comes the next big fight over obama care. politico.com, republicans hope to turn burwell's nomination into a proxy war. fox news, the same proxy war idea. they should use the hearing as leverage against obamacare. reuters nails it right to the point, republicans to push anti-obama care message in u.s. senate hearings to confirm burwell. they'll nail her. i will vote for her in the finance committee. >> great. best of luck. look at the headlines about

i think the members of this committee appointed by john boehner are very good. jim jordan has been asking the best questions. i was surprised by couple of people whether or not on this committee. jason chavitz, and -- it's a missed opportunity not to have them on and not to be making that committee. when you talk to jason, you see him interviewed here, talk to him on the phone, if an administration official changes their story by a nuance, he gets it right away. i hope the democrats take it seriously and decide to appoint members but that sounds like it won't be the case. >> there was talk on the hill there was going to be one member there and someone said if we're in, if we're in, if we're out, we're out. >> there's a lot of dissent and disagreement. that's the problem. there's a camp that feels that they have to be represented as much as they can, and then there are others who say, you know, a boycott and this token one person, i think it would be very strange -- they couldn't effectively represent the democrats on that committee. i think the 7-5 ratio is fair

it isn't important what my future is or john boehner. as we go into the future to keep america number one. >> appreciate the time. >> thanks to nancy pelosi for sitting down with us this week. we are back at the table next to discuss one of the most hotly debated topics of the week and always in politics. >>> our friend rachel madmaddow pointed out the this week execution is the one form of capital punishment that can't be stopped once the government begins trying to kill a prisoner it is all but impossible to take back. you can try to halt the proceedings as oklahoma did when its execution of clayton lockett went wrong but once you start you can't stop. 32 states in the country and the federal government now allow capital punishment as the ultimate stand of oh punishment. there is little doubt. he was sentenced to killing a woman in 1999 after she and a friend interrupted a home burglary. they were beaten, araped. then shot stephanie before watching her buried alive. it was hard to find sympathy by the fact he was killed by the governme

mitch mcconnell, john boehner not talking about it. if they get through 2014, will 2015 be what i call the year of the revenge? will john boehner and mitch mcconnell, especially if mcconnell wins the senate leader, will they bring up the immigration reform, the debt ceiling, will repealing obamacare become amending obamacare and will that be the revenge against the tea party? >> we have to seechlt you mentioned mitch mcconnell could possibly be the majority leader. we don't know about the house. is there going to be a revenge against the establishment in the house where the tea party says it's our turn now to have a leader that looks a little like what we want to do. i do think it's instructive to look at clinton's presidency. he was able to get more things done in those last six years because he had those two houses of congress that were in the other side of -- >> if mitch mcconnell is the leader with 52, 51 and still has ted cruz, the tea party won't win many races but still have allies in the senate. how does that play out? >> it in

these days the house republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. >> that was one of the really good ones. good morning, everyone. >> speaking of orange, look at that sunrise over new york city.

and john boehner was saying no for a long time and something broke. >> john boehner's been in politics for a long time, so he knows the history of this kind of fishing expedition is what happened with white water, this idea of trying to find some scandal, any scandal, hoping that maybe you get a thread you can tie a scandal to. but, yeah, there have been at least four separate reports produced on benghazi, three of which actually came from the house of representatives, so he knows that his own people have investigated it. and i think part of what probably worries establishment republicans like john boehner is what's left out there is the stuff that's being produced by people like this citizens commission on benghazi, these kind of conspiracy theory-minded groups that have created themselves -- >> part of what i call #benghazi. the netherworld of conspiracy theorists. >> a lot of birthers are involved in that, benghazi citizens commission mooucht. so what they've got left is the really kind of crazy stuff. and that won't look good for republicans. >> i also thought it was fascinating. b

house speaker john boehner has put together and called for the select committee on benghazi. and now we know the names of the members. and this is important because we were wondering what the breakout would be, republican/democrat, who will be on it. here are some answers. republican representative trey gowdy, south carolina; lynn westmoreland of georgia; jim

what can we expect from john boehner in terms of wanting to hear from john kerry. >> i think john boehner was very strong when he said the white house concealed these documents. that's a strong allegation, a well founded allegation. you can see john boehner ratcheting up the pressure and becoming increasingly frustrated by what has clearly been an effort by the white house, the administration, to with hold document from congress. the house oversight reform committee which originally subpoenaed these documents received in the past month 3,200 pages of new documents. so for people who want to say benghazi is an old story and we know everything there, it's simply not true. when i hear people say that i think they just don't know what they are talking about. martha: the house oversight committee wanted seen a power for a long time. but they didn't get support from john boehner on that. does the game change now? >> i think it does. this is one of the president's top aide. ben rhodes had the president's ear. he spent time with the president. he briefed on the president's behalf. he has been a k

was john boehner in the house? did he smirk, have a laugh or sense of humor at all about it? >> reporter: we did not see john boehner in the room last night but some of the jokes that the president told were about the next presidential election. many of the jokes were about hillary clinton's inevitability and we didn't see vice president biden either but they made a video and michelle obama made a cameo in that as well. they ended up sneaking into the kitchen of the white house and got into the ice cream. they had left the kitchen, came back and she said, what, it has raisins in it. it's fruit. >> it's fun to see them making fun, poking fun at themselves and everyone having a good time. you've got to have at least one night a year to do that. >> of course. >> erin mcpike from the white house, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> not laughing at all, former secretary of state kocondoleezz rice said declined a speech i i invitation. now she says she will not be the commencement speaker. a lot of the students were upset with her, expressing that they did not like her connection

take care. >>> so john boehner went full robot today. he cries. yes, you might think he would rust if he went into robot mode. but that didn't happen. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd. i'm d-a-v-e and i have copd. i'm k-a-t-e and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. breo won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. breo may increase your risk of pneumonia, thrush, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking breo. ask your doctor about b-r-e-o for copd. first prescription fr

i can't figure out john boehner. some days i think he's just fearful of the far right, of 80 people in his party, and some days he stands up to them. i just don't quite understand why he did this, especially after darrell issa made such a fool of himself. i don't get this at all. republicans are not dumb. they understand national politics, at least as well and maybe better sometimes than democrats do. this is exactly what they don't want, is more moderate. these guys running this thing are the people who thought obama was a muslim and was born in kenya. i just don't get it. i don't get it. >> yeah, there's an aspect of it i don't get, and i do think it goes to the collective of the party versus the individual, but it may turn out like the affordable care act and the so-called weakness in ukraine, you hear a lot about it until obama works it out, and then they want the topic to go away. harder to make the topic go away when you devote a standing committee to it. don't know if they've thought that far ahead. governor d

house speaker john boehner as you said now calling for a select committee to investigate further. in light of that newly released white house memo some are calling a smoking gun, and republicans say they have plenty of other evidence. >> i have a document in my hands an internal state department document that goes to sheryl mills, hillary clinton's chief of staff, this is on september 12th. the state department had told the president of the libyan congress that it was a terrorist organization that had committed these attacks. so why is it we've told the libyans the truth and told the american people a lie? that's really at the heart of that. >> and senator lindsey graham saying what we saw was not the fraught of war but political smoke screen. and saying they've had enough -- they're not anxious to see yet another one. >> i think it's a colossal waste of time. we've had four bipartisan investigations of this already. i think it's just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources. so i hope the speaker will reconsider, but it looks like he has bowed again to those fro

john boehner could have gone down in history. i think the problem isn't so much the relationships, i think it's -- it's not even the policies. no heart what the president seems to want to do -- no matter what the president seems to want to do, there's going to be that tea party faction that just says we're against it. >> host: okay. bob cusack. >> guest: yeah. i mean, there's to doubt that john boehner has to watch the tea party guys in his conference and can the caller mentioned they were -- and the caller mentioned they were very close to a grand bargain, extremely close, which would have been very controversial. it would have been tough to move, certainly, through the house. but it raises the issue what is john boehner's legacy as speaker? and that could have been one, the grand bargain, but it didn't happen. could it be immigration? could be. but other than that maybe, you know, curbing spending here or there, but i'm sure that he wouldn't saw it publicly, but that crosses john boehner's mind. >> host: tomorrow is primary day

take care. >>> so john boehner went full robot today. he cries. yes, you might think he would rust if he went into robot mode. but that didn't happen. starts with back pain... ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. "start your engines" because you can't beat zero heartburn. woo hoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. ♪ "first day of my life" by bright eyes ♪ you're not just looking for a house. you're looking for a place for your life to happen. ♪ no matter what kind of business you own, at&t business experts can help keep it running... seamlessly. so you can get back to what you love. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. woman: welcome to learning. spanish in the car.c on. passenger: you've got to be kidding me. driver: this is good. woman: vamanos. driver & passenger: vamanos. woman: graci