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Should not misstep in if you want to be the presidential nominee. what did he do? >> well it wasn't that he misstepped as it relates to winning in iowa. it was that he was perceived as flip-flopping to curry favor with iowans that is to say -- >> a politician? >> yeah. hard to imagine but what he did was say that he was open to the idea of continuing a rule that said your gasoline has to have a certain amount of corn-based alcohol in it. it's a subsidy by another name. he's opposed to subsidies in general but said he was open to that continuing. people said you're flip-flopping, you're flip-fl...

Election. so it's going to move house republicans even farther to the no compromise position. it's hard to imagine there was much room for them there to go. but what it means is that the democrats will be talking to the broad majority audience of the american people. in other words, the republicans are going to drive themselves into a corner where they're talking to a very narrow group of the country, and democrats will be talking to not just democrats, but independents, and republicans who are looking for solutions. >> and congressman, you mentioned the immigration, you've been front and cent...

Party. they'll be so mad at you. what's that like? >> oh, listen, what i try to keep an eye on, is that i don't work for the party bosses in washington. i work for 26 million texans. >> but you are a human being. does it sting? >> as a human being, i can't control what they say, how they behave. i can control what i do. so every interaction that i have with every senator, republican or democrat is consistently civil, courteous, respectful, treating them with the dignity they deserve. >> carol, this is the third time i've come down to texes too interview senator cruz since he's been in the sena...

We love getting your tweets about this show. keep them coming @howardkurtz. maybe i'll read one before we get to the end of the program. we'll get to that sad shooting near the capitol in a moment. but first if there's one image that's almost a parody of the media nair ty in the great government shutdown, it is this, a bloodstained john boehner as presiding over a house of turds. refusing to finance the government unless obama care is defunded or delayed. and that has produced some contentious interviews such as this one with cnn's ashleigh banfield. >> you're telling your listeners that we re...

That. all right, moving on now, this morning in washington, truly a sign of the times, federal tourist attractions are closing as some of the more visible victims of the government shutdown. elsewhere, officers are dark and employees are booted out on unpaid leave, and democrats and republicans are blaming each other for yet another failure to compromise. here's rand paul, senator rand paul, republican, who spoke to cnn today. >> our first position really wasn't so much a compromise. we don't want obama care. we think it is a bad idea and going to hurt people. we offered to get rid of it com...