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Honestly i'm not sure who he kind of jabbed more than "new york times" or jeb bush today. >> reporter: wolf one thing that's interesting about chris christie he's sort of been deflated in the poll numbers and in the media. but his speech is still new to a lot of people here. he's still introducing himself to a lot of people. it's too early to count chris chris christie out. he got a good reception here. >> reporter: i think you can see what's going on from all the other candidates they're setting up jeb bush. when he reports at end of this fiscal quarter he will raise an eye-popping amount of ...

It. it's inexorably creeping closer and closer toward speaker boehner. >> earlier in the year i think if you asked people who they thought had a better pulse on what the base wanted, to keep the base happy, they would have said between eric cantor and john boehner, they would have picked cantor. boehner has been good at knowing where the safety valve is and knowing how much pressure to take off of it. he took his time with benghazi hearing. i remember talking to tea party candidates earlier in the year, february, march, who were angry they hadn't created a select committee yet. he did it in ti...

There. if you look at the executive orders, for instance, this is a president who actually had historically low numbers of executive orders. fewer than his predecessors. fewer than george w. bush. fewer than bill clinton. fewer than any president since grover cleveland. the scale of the slope if you look at the numbers of the presidents, he's at the bottom. there's not the substance of it, but i think jonathan gets to the desire on the part of base republicans to delegitimize the whole enterprise, the whole fact that he's president is the problem. and greg sergeant, sahil, has a theory on john...

It's not too bad for chris christie that he has about a third of support among republicans when there are probably about ten possible gop candidates and we're still three years out. he, of course, has walked a much more moderate line than some of the other candidates and that will help him appeal to the youth, the latino community as well as possibly african-americans. someone like hillary clinton too at the moment is still benefitting from obama's numbers in 2012. it will be interesting to see how that changes when we get closer to the general election. >> it seems like moderate, though, is a...

Party, base republicans. one of the thing that came through, their sense of embattlement, peril and they're increasingly isolated in a world, in a country that is more and more dominated by the obama coalition. a multiracial, younger coalition. that is part of what plays into the politics you see from the republican party which are increasingly minoritarian, the approach of a group of people that views themselves as a small bull work against the masses opposed to a party. >> steve, what happens after this shutdown and the debt limit fight are over? and obama care is still the law of the land. ...