Big Institutional Shift News Today

Michelle, dillon glenn, former special assistant to president george w. bush, now a managing director of gugenheim partners. start with the thesis, do you buy the basic thing that weve seen as a shift in the institutional behavior in the republican party? >> did you see the story in the "new york times" today about karl roves new pact thats basically devoted to fighting the tea party. that to me shows you at least see a big institutional shift among the republican establishment or the republican...

>> look at what actually the candidate did himself, look what he stated, how he performed in the time debate, the republican debate on foreign policy in boca raton. but i actually just want to bring up a point that -- >> i think he shows that there was common ground that he was willing to even emphasize himself. for example, on libya. but i want to speak to this issue about a kind of rhetorical shift. i actually think theres more rhetorical confusion. and the confusion belies the fact that we do...

Party in the uk. it is a fundamental shift in the state, in the nature of the federal government, maybe not equal to the great society or the new deal, but in the same vein. so i think that was a big part of the society. and, again, were in a place politically where the temperature just keeps cooling. and a lot of those fights have shifted to the core. >> interesting. >> were outside of the election year now. so you dont have to have todd achin or mitt romney talking about conception. >> let me ...

>> and thats what i mean by this rhetorical shift. >> and, again, i dont have much stake personally in my own idealogical perspective in american bipartisan realism. i dont have a dog in that place except for the fact that its being replaced by something far more aggressive, right? if containment used to be the thing we all agreed on and now containment is some sort of crazy taboo. what does that mean about how things are moved? >> we saw it shift. when obama came into office in 2008, there was ...