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Shout-out from the cpac stage. matt schlapp is chair of the conservative union. the president may have been the highlight, but what a few days it was. matt, thanks for being here. i was thrilled to be there and speak at cpac and i know you had some of the biggest conservatives out there speaking. how would you rate your own conference? >> i think i have to resign. i don't think i will be able to top this. the last time a president went to cpac in his first term was ronald reagan in 1981. he's saying i know i wouldn't have gotten here without you. our poll came out today, and they are with him ...

Shout-out from the cpac stage. matt schlapp is chair of the conservative union. the president may have been the highlight, but what a few days it was. matt, thanks for being here. i was thrilled to be there and speak at cpac and i know you had some of the biggest conservatives out there speaking. how would you rate your own conference? >> i think i have to resign. i don't think i will be able to top this. the last time a president went to cpac in his first term was ronald reagan in 1981. he's saying i know i wouldn't have gotten here without you. our poll came out today, and they are with him ...

Shout-out from the cpac stage. matt schlapp is chair of the conservative union. the president may have been the highlight, but what a few days it was. matt, thanks for being here. i was thrilled to be there and speak at cpac and i know you had some of the biggest conservatives out there speaking. how would you rate your own conference? >> i think i have to resign. i don't think i will be able to top this. the last time a president went to cpac in his first term was ronald reagan in 1981. he's saying i know i wouldn't have gotten here without you. our poll came out today, and they are with him ...

And while trump has won and he's not really the conservative hero, they had something to celebrate. they were very happy. usually cpac events are like they're agitated, they're annoyed, they're anxious because what's going to happen to the party. and today they had what they wanted and, you know, trump gave it to them. like you said, red meat, no vegetables. >> one thing that's interesting, in ronald reagan's first appearance -- you were there. i wasn't there, but paul said he went back and looked at it, and it was a big appeal to get out for the mid 1982 elections. it might have been a squand...

>> so, matt, just for our viewers who don't follow the storied history of the acu and cpac very carefully, as i see it, there are about four constituencies there. wi there's a libertarian group, ideological conservatives, regular people, there are establishment republicans who some conservatives doesn't even think are all that conservative and this be there's the trump group. populists who also have some -- people have doubts about their conservative, you know tendencies. how does that all come together? >> that's very interesting. i think you've done a good job of describing the dynamics of a...