going to have to deal with, he sees what's coming down the pipeline and it is not pretty. and i think if one thing can be thrown away and that he would probably be happy to throw away, it is the hastert rule. crumble it up and throw it away in a ball. >> the hastert rule is how powerful the speaker is the speaker's control of his caucus, whether he can push them into line. more than it is about republican power. bits boehner's power and the way it works in the house is that the speaker is not that strong. >> ben smith with the euphemisms. coming up, will north korea light the fuse on an international crisis or will the u.s., china and russia band together to take the matches away. we get a live report from andrea mitchell who is on the korean peninsula. but first, republican senator rand paul knows what america needs. >> i think it's important that people know that for the country to get better it needs more than just politicians. politicians aren't enough. it needs a resurgence through churches, through revivals,