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Democratic president although we were losing 800,000 jobs a month and the auto industry was on the brink of total collapse gives you an idea of what were up against because there is this ideological purity test that i think unfortunately too many republicans who know better are being subjected to. so i will go anywhere, talk to anybody, anytime to try to find common ground, to try to achieve our national objectives, but ill also stand my ground. and i think its a constant balance about where one...

Conservative organizations and they like the purity test. so far it seems like theyll hold to that if he does not get that endorsement from the freedom caucus, does ryan say thanks, but no thanks. that is the story over the next few days. >> as we await the arrival of the speaker -- looks like theres some movement there -- this is interesting, luke, you mention this. there are people on capitol hill that are criticizing others for who their friends are, who they hang out with, who theyre able to...

>> does she go over the top? what do you make of it? >> she gets the most improved award after the god awful snap chat joke, thats for sure. but a couple of things they pointed out there and we got a little sneak review of what her responses are going to be when the democratic debates come around, which is that hillary is, i dont know, doubted, high school trusted by a lot of the true believers in the primary process because shes been on every side of every issue. she was for the iraq war before...

Shutting down the government. ted cruz, kentucky senator rand paul, looking to reclaim his tea party mojo and the republican front runner donald trump. >> would you support that? >> i can tell you this, i would and i was also in support. if the republicans stuck together, you could have done it with obama care, also. they left a lot of people that really went in and wanted to do the job, and if they stuck together, they would have won that battle. i think you have to in this case also. >> alread...

Ted cruz, kentucky senator rand paul, looking to reclaim his tea party mojo and the republican front runner donald trump. >> would you support that? >> i can tell you this, i would and i was also in support. if the republicans stuck together, you could have done it with obama care, also. they left a lot of people that really went in and wanted to do the job, and if they stuck together, they would have won that battle. i think you have to in this case also. >> already planned parenthoods funding ...

Paul, looking to reclaim his tea party mojo and the republican front runner donald trump. >> would you support that? >> i can tell you this, i would and i was also in support. if the republicans stuck together, you could have done it with obama care, also. they left a lot of people that really went in and wanted to do the job, and if they stuck together, they would have won that battle. i think you have to in this case also. >> already planned parenthoods funding is planned to be the purity test...

Formidable. and ill say this i think theres a hunger right now amongst conservatives for a governor. and i think thats why youre seeing people like jeb bush and chris christie who are governors, who have name id at the top of that poll. >> but are those same republicans who are hungering for governor also ready to check off or not check off certain boxes beneath the title of governor on that purity test. on whether or not youre the perfect kind of conservative. so how does chris christie check o...

Wake-up call to republicans, a wake-up call where they real i the purity test is very real. any thought they had of trying to govern, is certainly going to be gone at this point. in terms of the broader midterm dynamics i dont know if it changes the calculus unless this guy, we dont know that much about dave brat, we havent heard that much. extreme rhetoric on immigration, but not a lot else. if he turns out to be a todd aiken, richard murdock, christine odonnell, if he says really inflammatory ...

Victory for the tea party as they pull the republican party further to the radical right. pelosi says as far as midterm elections are concerned it is a whole new ball game. >> i dont know that i would go that far, a whole new ball game. one thing i would say, i think this is definitely another wake-up call to republicans, a wake-up call where they real i the purity test is very real. any thought they had of trying to govern, is certainly going to be gone at this point. in terms of the broader mi...

Saying something very christian, very roman catholic. he is a roman catholic convert. something pope francis could say and it would be unremarkable. but as an american public official whose held public office and is a law enforcement official potentially if he becomes president, to say cross get border from some other country because you choose to do it against u.s. law and just move into the country to get a job illegally is not going to sell. what do you think? act of love. that might be a str...