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Were not so visible to the press. >> you were in the previous segment you were expressing a lot of disgust with, i guess, the republican leadership and the republicans who may be arent as committed to the conservative principals as you define them and that sort of has been whats animated the tea party has been this frustration with the quote/unquote republican establishment. this was as much as i always said the tea party movement to me is as much a rebellion against obama and the democrats but ...

Staggering, no? >> right, actually at this point what we absolutely need to be interpreting those numbers. and i think looking back at the primaries, there may be faults with our primary system. our primary process, but that was not the problem here for the gop. the problem was, that mitt romney latch onto the self-deportation idea and took the hard right tack and he held onto it. it was so unnecessary. it wasnt just like that that he misspoke. this was an idea that he floated out there. and the...

Is useful. these crowds that romney has gathered, especially a late night crowd in colorado, its a contrast. the obama campaign is going after that base doggedly because they know its about the battlegrounds and they know suddenly they have an uphill fight in some of the them they werent expecting. >> and they keep telling us about their advantage in organization. they were out there months and months earlier in terms of opening offices and frankly spending a lot of money on the ground game. but...

Disagree with michael about, it stood out from this convention, it was not a unifying thing from the convention in one respect. she was talking about a republican party thats not the republican party we see right now. her talking about immigrants, her appeal to a much more inclusive party, much more party that would be much more welcoming and much more full of brown faces and that is not the party -- thats one of the partys biggest problems. its not that. she was taking it to the future. thats a...

Together. bill: that is one impression. give me another one. >> the impression i got, number one, he is open, he recognizes there has to be some healing after this very tough fall primary process and he was very receptive to that. in fact he and his staff know that they have to do some things. secondly, he recognizes that in order to help bring the party together, it is going to have to be built around ideas. i havent gotten him to embrace 9-9-9 yet but im still going to work on it but he has sh...

11 secret service personnel and 10 department of defense personnel. government officials familiar with the case also tell me tonight, all 11 secret service personnel had their security clearances revoked effective today. effective today they can get those back if they are cleared. all 11 have been interviewed at least once by agency investigators. im told those under investigation for among other things bringing prostitutes back to a hotel secured for members of the american delegation...

Many people expect mitt romney will begin the process of putting this nomination to bed and being done with a long, difficult primary process, that the president is here calling out romney, calling out paul ryan and saying, oh yeah? you say that youre the deficit hawks? well, im going to prove to the american people that youre trying to hurt old people, children and sick people. so hes laying it out there. megyn: chris stirewalt, thank you, sir. >> reporter: you bet. megyn: all right. you heard ...

Tested by fire here in this primary process, and i think at the end of the day governor romney, who i think is likely, or rick santorum, or newt gingrich or ron paul, whoever emerges as our republican party nominee will be stronger for having gone through this very tough, difficult primary process. jon: former rnc head and former counselor to president george w. bush. ed gillespie thank you. jenna: he was talking about whether or not there is still room for a late entry in the republican preside...

Showing in michigan even though it was mitt romneys home state. santorum coming in just three percentage points behind former governor romney. heres a possible reason for the tight race. michigan allows democrats to vote in its republican primary and there was a push to get some of these democrats to vote for santorum. in fact, that was the thrust of robo calls heard around the state over this past week, take a listen. >> on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massach...

States? >> its very hard at this point. look, youre a professional in this, im not. for someone to start to get in to raise the money to put the organization in place. its hard to see how an outsider now engages the primary process. >> do people possibly turn to rick santorum and say we dont like the top two guys? >> theres a lot of his agenda that wouldnt generate widespread support. as of right now, less than 5% of the total delicaegates have bee allocated. by the time we get to super tuesday,...