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Trying to figure out a way to push back. the washington post reports that some party leaders convened at a dinner meeting where much -- according to the post several argue for trump made it to the convention the partys establishment must lay groundwork for a floor fight in which the gops mainstream wing could coalesce around an alternative. surprisingly it wasnt trump spotted immediately. carson wrote if this was the beginning of a plan to replace it with the will of the political elite i assure...

Nomination. >> i imagine the jeb bush folks are -- >> thats a pretty shallow well. >> well, i was going to make a small joke. if you look at jeb and marcos numbers, theres not a deep well to siphon from any of them. to win the nomination.way to go- it will come to at the end there will be a candidate who is the champion of the angry people. it looks like last night it might be ted cruz. then theres a champion more in the mainstream wing of the republican party. youd think that would be jeb or ma...

That mainstream wing of the party pretty fundamentally if somebody who was considered fringe, the paul family is now in the mainstream, at least rand paul in the republican party? >> yeah, it shows the way the republican party has shifted since the bush presidency. and youre right to set that as the milestone. however, i do think that despite the fact that rand paul is in many ways fundamentally opposed to this sort of neo-con wing of the party he has at least made outreach to some of the folks....

>> a lot of republicans just like in the primary, the republicans kind of rose and fell. rose and then fell. i think that the big issue going 2014 and im a personal believer and had this conversation in 2015 and 2016 is whos going to speak for the republican party? hes right. there is a big fight between the kind of libertarian wing and the more mainstream wing between chris christie and the ran pauls. i think that is -- who is going to own. >> we want to have somebody that owns the voice of the...

>> thats when he went under water. >> whats interesting about that montage is that a lot of the republicans, like what happened in the primary, a lot of the republicans kind of rose and then fell, rose and then fell, rose and then fell. and i think the big issue going 2014 -- and im a personal believer in actually having this conversation in 2013 for 2016 -- is who will speak for the republican party? i think essys right. theres a big fight between the kind of libertarian wing and the more mains...

And despite christies victory, he has been declared as a rhino, republican in name only. rick perry, a tea partier himself conveniently left chris christie off the list of what he was calling conservative governors. its not the first time that christie hasnt been invited to the party. the mainstream wing of the gop is firing back. led by the senates top republican mitch mcconnell who opened fire on the ted cruz wing of the party in the wall street journal. in an interview with peggy noonan, mcco...

Conservative of this mainstream wing, but theyre not fanatical, certain theyre right. >> we spent years trying to divert the catastrophe. do the people on the right know the problems if they default? >> i dont know if they -- they dont listen to anybody else. listen, if we default on our debt there is a good chance that the effect may be even greater than the default of lehman and eig back in 2010. you are locked in with all of these loans, and when the debt goes down, prices, people sell, as we...