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A very divisive primary on both sides, really, which resulted in some newcomers getting involved which is why, any uncertainty at all, the fact so many people are not long time political players that manage to get through this process, state conventions and local conventions where they get nominated. >> after voting, rufesults are sent to congress and what happens? >> congress, actually, joe biden the president of the senate will unseal these votes and do the official count to ensure that donald...

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Intimidation thats been sort of suggested by bridgegate and thats suggested by some other episodes in christies rise through new jersey politics. the flip side of the tough guy personality thats always been such an asset for him. >> rand paul has caught some flack from some of his allies and advocates for not doing more to grow his infrastructure. one of the things he is doing a keeping up a presidential style travel schedule. apparently over the next couple of months he may do as many as four s...

Has tried to encourage his supporters to go to the caucuses. social conservatives have had their own push. activating his e-mail list, encouraging people to go, sharing a video with them about how to attend the caucuses. we have all the factions in the gop competing in hopes of becoming the dominant force for 2016, because the people who are elected tonight to go to county conventions and district conventions and state conventions will decide the party leadership for 2016. >> david, this is -- t...

Legislates and operates like this, the worse it gets. the barriers, the firewalls to the constitution have been breached. >> you talk and go in to great detail that the left has been the progressives, the statists, as you call them, have been successful. in other words, beyond their wildest dreams. which is why you say post-constitutional america. now, how does this give more power to the states and what was the anticipated? you quote the federalist papers a lot throughout the book. what were th...

Legislates and operates like this, the worse it gets. the barriers, the firewalls to the constitution have been breached. >> you talk and go in to great detail that the left has been the progressives, the statists, as you call them, have been successful. in other words, beyond their wildest dreams. which is why you say post-constitutional america. now, how does this give more power to the states and what was the anticipated? you quote the federalist papers a lot throughout the book. what were th...

Currently, in matters that relate to the republican rules. i think the real issue is, will the republican party remove the power grabs, which ben ginsburg, who you mentioned, oversaw in the convention rules committee, and im submitting a motion to repeal all those power grabs that can be repealed, by the republican national committee. and theres a lot of support on the national committee for that. >> i imagine there would be. and the state, when it comes to national committee, very much state-ba...

Without objection, the resolution is on the table. >> conventions arent supposed to look like that anymore. vocal delegates were objecting to rules put in places en essentially by john sununu, chairman of the rules committee, convention drama in the afternoon that i think the rnc tried very hard to avoid. andrea mitchell is on the convention floor for us in tampa. do we know what that was about on the convention floor and how it resolved? >> it was resolved in mitt romneys favor. they completely...

The nomination but draw attention and cause an embarrassment. if he had one more state, iowa, nevada, nebraska, he would have been able to get on the official ballot. they actually sent top operatives, one of the top advisors to mitt romney, to nebraska to make sure. now the rules changed so the partys nominee, person who really rolls out the delegates, make sure those state conventions have that kind of power. sununu who knows something about the conventions. actually the last republican nomina...

The last several days. next week the rnc, republic national committee and convention will vote on changes of rules. first of all, it has to do with caucus states. states rather than having primaries have informal caucus meetings. in the future they have to bind their delegates to the outcome in the caucus. this year a number of states held their caucuses and then said, well, thats not going to have any effect on what delegates we send to the convention for the nomination. we will will decide tha...