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i'm lindsey reiser. we have a lot to get to this busy tuesday, starting with a terrifying kidnapping in mexico. the fbi now offering a $50,000 reward for the safe return of four u.s. citizens taken at gunpoint. this video you're watching now shows part of that kidnapping according to a law enforcement official. a gunman appears to drag people into a white pickup truck, one of whom was in mexico for cosmetic surgery. the u.s. ambassador to mexico saying an innocent mexican citizen was killed in all of this. what we're learning about the kidnapping victims and what is being done to bri...

Think they're so focused on playing to the base that they're hurting themselves in a general election. >> do you agree? >> yes, it is a very real risk. one of the more troubling parts of our politics right now is that if you ask most activists on the right or the left what animates them, it is the worry that the other side is taking the country in the wrong direction or destroying the country. and so inside a republican primary, democratic primary, speaking to these base activists, you're developing your message on what is it that my base is against, what are they worried about, what are they ...

Chris christie was not even invited to attend. so instead you heard from these conservative base activists. whether that's going to end up being a reflection of where the new hampshire electorate is rem remains to be seen and is probably unlikely. >> it's interesting because you did also kind of hear a little bit from paul ryan talking about his budget and a little from rand paul, sort of this idea they need to try to come together as republican party and ignore that there's this inner party dispute. i wonder if that is for 2016 is that going to be a message that they think is going to work or...

In trying to seem more well-rounded than that, for his run for governor in purple state virginia, a state that just cast its presidential votes for a man named barack obama, again, although he's been trying to soften up his crusading social conservative antiabortion activist bring back the sodomy laws image so as to run statewide for governor in this purple state, ken cuccinelli has been hobbled in those efforts. he's been hobbled in his makeover attempt. by the rest of the ticket he's running with. by the rest of the republican ticket that virginia republicans chose to run alongside ken cucci...

Hardcore republican party base activists. so they not only picked fire and brimstone ken cuccinelli, they also picked him a running mate who is not going to be an asset in any effort to soften the virginia republican party's hardline tiny tent message. >> their minds are perverted. they're, frankly, very sick people psychologically and mentally and emotionally and they see everything through the lens of homosexuality. when they talk about love, they're not talking about love. they're talking about homosexual sex. the military has been decimated by this lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender polic...