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I don't think that chavez's moment can hold together over the long-term. the opposition though facing the election in 30 days that they're under enormous strain to try and hold together behind enrique who was the candidate in the last election, and not clear how they will do, but in the long-term, i think like the castros of cuba, with chavez gone, it's only a matter of time before his movement collapses. >> greta: and called president obama a clown, called president bush 43 a devil. >> okay, well bush 43 once called him castro without brains so i think the better of that one. >> greta: an equ...

Joining us now to discuss the stars of the lone star state is chairman of the slate group, what a title, jacob weissburg, author of the article "a pair of aces." >> thank you, alex. >> let me ask, what do -- we just talked about turning texas blue, the castros are stars nationally. what is the opinion of them in texas? do you have the sense of how beloved they are in a statewide level? >> oh, i think they're both very popular politicians. julian is a very popular mayor of san antonio. that said, they really wowed that convention. >> how do you square then -- this is what i don't understand abo...

Starting to lean the more african-americans do on jobs and economics. if democrats can register more voters and they probably will because they have a better relationship with hispanics, then i think that, yeah, texas in ten years will be competitive. >> the sort of latin -- the story of latin immigration in the u.s. may not be, you know, my mother crossed the border from mexico. i was indicated in stanford and harvard. i don't speak spanish. i can speak to the latten community. i can speak to hispanic concerns. i can speak to national concerns. that seems to be the model for the castros at le...

Of thousands of soldiers and do not want to go to war again with israel. any egyptian leader who would want to see the palestinians tail not wag the dog. so it was in his interest, i think gonna little overboard and it's important for the administration to say you had the story earlier tonight where they obliquely said, you know, we were hoping for real democracy and they're going to say it's wrong and may not get the aid, unless you relinquish the power. and he says it's a temporary coup d'etat that never happened, it didn't happen with hamas or hitler. with the castros, once you see the dict...

And worked hard across party lines on that. they didn't get there but i think that was real to his heart. though i don't agree with other minority-related policies at the level of his cabinet, it was the most ethically diverse of any republican candidate in u.s. history. so that is a real part of what texas republicanism meant to him and there's no reason why the castros or other groups coming out of there can't build across party lines and sort of -- >> i got more texas questions as soon as we come back because lbj, barbara jordan, texas is a big prize. a lot of electoral votes. we'll speak m...