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Backlash whose governors hammered organized labor, hammered the interest of the left, did everything to disempower and look what that produced in this election. >> right, chris. responsibility for this. again, there is an african proverb that one should never build their shield on the democrats. of all the times to lose, you lose right before the redrawing of lines? were redrawing lines and democrats again decimated because when it comes to the of politics works, we have been we have to reconnec...

Going to turn to ted cruz as the accomplishment answer to donald trump. they are going to turn to someone, you know, like chris christie or marco rubio and this is why ted cruz doesnt actually want to be perceived as the main stream candidate. it benefits him to set the contours of this debate, this war right now as a proxy battle he said marco rubio is. and this is really how he wants to frame this. ted cruz doesnt want to be the mainstream moderate establishment candidate. and hes going to wor...

It that it was just a few years ago, the establishment seemed afraid to take the tea party on. they were trying to koco-op the tea party in some way. weve seen the likes of haley barbour in mississippi come together and say, were going to fight back, because we dont want you to take over our party. >> in 2010, the republicans believed they lost about a half dozen seat because they had unqualified challengers representing the tea party who lost to democrats. they didnt want to see history repeat ...

So hickenlooper will have a fight on his hands. you know, one thing, wolf, just to go back to the cochran race for a minute, which is so interesting to see. because i think its become a proxy battle for what is going on inside the republican party. and if you just look at the surrogates who have gone to that state. dana knows this better than anyone. john mccain has gone there campaigning for thad cochran, talking about the way, you know, the military money that is being spent in the state, for ...

Have to do with politics? well, we know that president obama makes a show of filling out his bracket ever year, plenty of politicians are happy to brag about their home state schools during march madness. this year the tournament is a proxy battle between two politically active balance narz, the home of the witch saw state shockers, theyre undefeated, the first team to reach the tournament without a loss in 23 years and they will be one of the top seeded teams when the bracket is announced today...

>> there are deputies that were once lawyer to -- loyal to the previous president. this isnt a coup, as i think president yanukovych would want you to believe. >> of course. heather, final question to you. in terms of whats been playing itself out here and frankly in syria is the proxy battle. this is yet another one between russia and the west as president putin is trying to con sell date power, obviously here in ukraine that was part of his -- a broader plan. weve seen him doing that in syria ...

Boehner and cantor, now its boehner and cantor allied with the rest of the house, all hating ted cruz. so thats a much better situation, if youre john boehner or if youre eric cantor or if youre obama or democrats or the country, for that matter. >> is it sustainable, given this is a proxy battle which stands in for the larger war for the republican establishment or the republican insurgency, who wins this battle and how does it factor into that larger war? >> its always hard to predict the futu...

So where it used to be, everybody kind of debating how this was going to go and it was ted cruz, aligned with house tea party members against john boehner and cantor, now its boehner and cantor allied with the rest of the house, all hating ted cruz. so thats a much better situation, if youre john boehner or if youre eric cantor or if youre obama or democrats or the country, for that matter. >> is it sustainable, given this is a proxy battle which stands in for the larger war for the republican e...

Is theyre training everybodys fire on ted cruz. so where it used to be, everybody kind of debating how this was going to go and it was ted cruz, aligned with house tea party members against john boehner and cantor, now its boehner and cantor allied with the rest of the house, all hating ted cruz. so thats a much better situation, if youre john boehner or if youre eric cantor or if youre bop obama or democ o or the country, for that matter. >> is it sustainable, given this is a proxy battle which...

>> what does the u.s. do? the u.s. often talk about having a moral sense of responsibility. you have children being gassed and women. you have 110,000 dead people. what should the u.s. do? >> humanitarian aid. the money could be devoted to humanitarian aid. >> while the killing continues? >> the killing will continue any way. this has been going on for years. its turning into a proxy battle. theres no contemplation that any attack will end the civil war. i feel bad but sometimes you have to reco...