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Republican activists, officials, poirpt leaders, who want to hear from all the potential presidential hopefuls out there. today's speech could be especially important for the former florida governor. let's discuss what's going on. gloria borger is here and joining us from the cpac conference our national political reporter, peter hanby. this is the first time we'll be seeing jeb bush in front of a very major activist base of his party. what's the tone you expect him to strike, peter? >> reporter: well, jeb bush advisers have told me that he plans to benefit from low expectations here. people i...

Activist base, the people outside the beltway, outside new york. people like rand paul, people like ted cruz who really the activist class, they're the ones who show up and vote in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. so beyond this jeb bush-chris christie feud, there's sort of a larger fight here within the republican party. the reinvention of the party has not ended. >> and you're right. the article by phillip rucker in the post, it's long and it's great. all comprehensive. phillip, the deadline to sign up for the health care insurance under the affordable care act, that's tomorrow at ...

Jeb bush has been running around saying we have to do immigration reform, climate change is a real problem, doesn't necessarily sound like someone who is completely in touch with the party's activist base and that could be a bigger problem for him. >> i think that's absolutely the case for him. last time i ran for office was 2002. the republican party looked different. >> does not look like iowa. >> jeb bush is a real affable guy but he cares about governoring a and policy. he seems hot and cold and not necessarily in tune just tonally with the base of the republican party. >> and the fact tha...

Financial institutions. in a lot of casings in the clinton years, democrats were saying he says his could be coming to an end. >> that sort of anger plays very welon social media and that particular group of voters is very active with social media. i think progressives have done a good job on capital collateralizeing on that medium. they are adept at using those medium to spread their message and keep the heros like elizabeth warren and keep their elected officials pure in the same way you see conservatives do. >> i think in congress you can sort of do what bernie sanders does and stake-out as...

The activist base, not in a good place. not feeling good about health care. this has been something that something on the activist base have been wanting harry reid to do for a while. so i think this is also about a moment of reassurance to the democratic base who is feeling a little bit, you know, under attack and under siege a little bit because of how poorly the health care rollout is going. >> let's talk about the likely next steps as far as the senate is concerned? just normal business? >> well, you saw harry reid quickly turn to the defense authorization bill. i think they do not want to...