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These programs in the face of the democratic challenges and pressures they're under. >> i understand you are sympathetic to cutting entitlements. i am not. i am very sympathetic to these guys demands and leaving social security alone ch just as a matter of political tactic, what is the most effective form of pressure that you have seen base activists use against their own side. republicans have been dealing with these kinds of fights on the right for a long time. democrats don't much have to deal with this. >> if you look at the bush administration and president obama from a polling perspectiv...

With a solution to strengthen these programs in the face of the democratic challenges and pressures they're under. >> i understand you are sympathetic to cutting entitlements. i am not. i am very sympathetic to these guys demands and leaving social security alone ch just as a matter of political tactic, what is the most effective form of pressure that you have seen base activists use against their own side. republicans have been dealing with these kinds of fights on the right for a long time. democrats don't much have to deal with this. >> if you look at the bush administration and president o...

Screens. >> it was a very pointed part of his vfw speech. >> i was surprised. in terms of the republican base activists who follow this closely, that was a big applause line but for most americans shall even if they're interested in for sure foreign policy, this is far afield. >> playing to the concerns about leaks that put people in danger, that could play politically. >> it certainly could. it's shameful and could be criminal. one of them comes right out of the situation room. the president is sitting there with face cards of people he wants assassinated by drone strikes. the virus they intr...

>> look, both parties are crossways with their base on some elements of this proposal. but the upshot of our poll is that democrats are more aligned with independents now than republicans are. what that means is that republican members of the house are squeezed between primary voters, their base activists who don't want them to compromise and general election voters who do want them to compromise. it may not matter for a lot of house members because they've got safe districts. they're not going to face challenges, but the party as a whole has a big problem there. that's why john boehner's tryi...

The floor na the ball is now in the house's court. we don't know whether john boehner can bring any of his members or enough of his members along. our poll also as you know says that when asked should democrats cut sbiet legitimates 52% said a clear majority said no. >> look, both parties are crossways with their base on some elements of this proposal. but the upshot of our poll is that democrats are more aligned with independents now than republicans are. what that means is that republican members of the house are squeezed between primary voters, their base activists who don't want them to co...