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From president trump. >> on tuesday, republican ron estes needs your vote and needs it badly. >> looking to rescue republican nominee ron estes. >> i want to go to washington to change washington. >> policieswise, estes and thompson are worlds apart. >> that is why i support keeping politicians from becoming lobbyists. >> estes says this election is about the governor or trump but he recognizes its implications. >> i think there is some national emphasis on this just from a standpoint of, this i...

From president trump. >> on tuesday, republican ron estes needs your vote and needs it badly. >> looking to rescue republican nominee ron estes. >> i want to go to washington to change washington. >> policieswise, estes and thompson are worlds apart. >> that is why i support keeping politicians from becoming lobbyists. >> estes says this election is about the governor or trump but he recognizes its implications. >> i think there is some national emphasis on this just from a standpoint of, this i...

Kristen has hit on it. president obama, this was almost sort of the politics of guilt. its a shame on us if we forget. the rhetoric is very sort of emotional as kristen said. its not as political why this would be a good vote. the reality is, for some folks, mark pryor in arkansas or max baucus in montana or kay hagen in north carolina, folks, democrats who are up in 2014. its not clear that this would be a good political vote. you had congressman beccerra, what he said was great. suck it up, be...

Republican political strategists called me. i was working in the capital in the press room. he said i have a young guy i want you to meet. he might run for congress. thats all i need to do today as a courtesy to brian i interviewed him. i was going to ask him a couple questions about federal issues and move on. 45 minutes later i was still hanging on his every word. i decided then, he was the real deal. i remain convinced of that. >> greta: he is run in a democratic district? >> he has made this...

Republican political strategists called me. i was working in the capital in the press room. he said i have a young guy i want you to meet. he might run for congress. thats all i need to do today as a courtesy to brian i interviewed him. i was going to ask him a couple questions about federal issues and move on. 45 minutes later i was still hanging on his every word. i decided then, he was the real deal. i remain convinced of that. >> greta: he is run in a democratic district? >> he has made this...

Because the outcome is a foregone conclusion. >> thats, of course, now president barack obama talking about this gerrymandering and the way that -- in the midst of a redistricting right now. it is a very fraught thing, lawsuit that -- that the department of justice has contested redistricting plan that -- texas proposed as violated the voting rights act. you are in what we could call, i think, safe district in terms of -- >> i think so. i have a man that spent $9 million to lose to me. >> really...

Republicans generally around the country want tea party support. this is a significant and fairly broad movement. but they dont want to associated with tea party access. i just dont mean race. i think theres real anti-government excess, you know, arguments against social security or medicare or medicaid. youd have to be in a pretty safe district to associate yourself with that kind of, you know, policy views. so i think its kind of awkward for republicans. there are, in fact about two dozen hous...

The house. >> the republican party or what were hear something. >> the house republican caucus is much more conservative than it was ten years ago, or 20 years ago. >> part of that is all their moderates lost. >> exactly. all their moderates lost, and theres a strain of thought that is -- its not quite libertarian, but its fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders intent and anti-government. and i think this is -- and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. >> ...

Years ago. >> part of that is all their moderates lost. >> exactly. all their moderates lost, and theres a strain of thought that is -- its not quite libertarian, but its fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders intent and anti-government. and i think this is -- and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. >> richard, take a listen to rush limbaugh today and his reaction. >> they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every single democrat who voted for th...

Doesnt -- >> an interesting aside from robert gibbs saying president obama, that last night the action in the congress, the passage of health care reform, meant more to president obama than any election night and gibbs says that what the -- what all of this has shown is that president obama is willing to make the tough decisions and, again, the democrats certainly trying to underscore he had to make several tough decisions over the last couple weeks about how to get this through. weve been talki...