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Gina haspel. hell get a new good secretary of defense. i was just listening to julian castro. he cant beat donald trump. ill take any bet anybody wants to make, he could not beat donald trump. theyre not big enough. they have to go after a long list of achievements and a huge personality. >> but i go back to can the president keep -- you know, how much more patience does -- do sort of mainstream conservatives have? >> i think mainstream conservatives and far right conservatives, you can see pati...

Wouldnt be in the potential jeopardy that he may or may not be in. >> absolutely. no. and he also had pretext to do it given how politicized jim comey had made the fbi who certainly made a lot of mistakes. an incredible moment in this investigation. >> on the probe in 2018, what do you think? do we believe it wraps up this year? do we believe it happens early this year? what do you think happens? >> i actually think that it will wrap up sooner rather than later. my hunch is that mueller and his ...

Steve bannon, the takeover we have seen with president trump. >> it looks like a fun meeting. i hope you are enjoying. >> reporter: i have been here ever year for several years. >> enjoy. hope theres good food. >> thanks. >> casey hunt at c-pac. thats always my thought, i hope theres good food. casey talked about two wings. in my mind, for the help of viewers, i think there are four wings at c-pac. the libertarian strand, as casey said. rand paul is going to win the straw poll. reince priebe us,...

With people like scott whacker, the governor of wisconsin, and others in the establishment of the party. and steve bannon, who really represents this insurgent outsider wing. his critics say that he has fomented anti-semitism with the website that he used to run, breitbart, and kind of engurgeed the alt right as a strand of the conservative movement. weve seen that blow up today here already in the halls of cpac. richard spencer the white nationalist who was somewhat famously punched in the face...

Russia and putin than they were before trump came on the scene and started talking about this. this is going to be the first big test, martin, of the ideological divide between trump and the more mainstream conservatives. you know, on a lot of issues during the primaries and the general election we saw big difference of opinion between trump and his fellow republicans, and this is the first test. whos going to run policy? is it going to be congress? republicans in congress who are going to contr...

Capabilities which he really does have. >> we have seen some of the division this week within the party itself. are you proud of the way your fellow republicans are handling this at this hour? >> well, i think there is a majority of mainstream conservatives who want to govern, who want to do the right thing for our country, who have serious disagreements with president obama but certainly know that he is the president and want to get as much as we can going in the right direction. thats the majo...

It set a bad tone for the republicans. there was a yearning for both democrats and republicans to work together and get things done. were seeing more of it this year. here is my theory. if the tea party loses its third election in a row for president, theyll lose their grip. if you had to look at the senate or the house, you would divide republicans in three groups moderates, susan collins is left. but the majority are not hard right tea party people. they are main conservatives. because the rep...

Caucuses, residential caucuses in which ron paul was running and got the majority of the delegates from that race, ron paul strain of republican conservatives has been running the eye with republican party. too much emphasis on the libertarian part and they are trying to take back control of the party for mainstream conservatives. heres a little sampling of what was going on last night. >> if people want to support ron paul, thats fine, but there are people who still conservatives. there are peo...

More mainstream conservatives, theyll rationalize that away. theyre not going away. >> i talked to virginia republicans who at this same convention where cuccinelli was nominated, e.w. jackson, the farther right lieutenant candidate what happened there was a crowded field of lieutenant governor and moderate republicans and establishment republicans at this convention who said, our candidate isnt going to win, we already have to deal with cuccinelli at the top of the ticket, well give them e.w. j...

Everybody come out. mainstream conservatives, evangelicals. the key test is what pieces of the coalition turn out in higher numbers and do they coales around one candidate? that was huckabee key four years ago when he coalessed the evangelical voters here. turnout was way up then. they liked huckabee. he was the former preacher. are evangelical voters turning out? thats what the romney campaign is counting on. they want more women, more senior citizens to come out and play. they think the number...