and compromise their basic fundamental commitments. it is not unusual, but it is dangerous. >> rick perry said this about other elected officials, he said th they're guided by a divine plan. he said more and more republicans are falling into line that the president is the chosen one. >> i'm so glad for moments like this that i'm not a christian because the whole theology is alien to me and you can just imagine what kind of politics have been justified this way. some of the people among the very worst. but look, the question you're ag is that we had a republican party that in the 1990s was busy denouncing bill clinton and his scandals in the language of the death of outrage and invoking