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Cpac. as you know, he's been fighting to defund planned parenthood for years. and he's still refusing any federal funds tied to the affordable care act. what does that mean for your constituents on a day-to-day basis? >> well, it means for my constituents and many, many others throughout the state that women will have no access to health care and health preventative measures. because planned parenthood, where we have no physicians, and in many parts of our state, are physicians who do not take people on medicaid, and we're eliminating that, that get mammography, for prevention, and other tests...

You have to have more sharing of the wealth of america in order to have a strong middle class and a sustainable economy. >> congressman peter welsh, thank you so much, sir, for joining us so soon after meeting with the president. >> thank you. coming up, does the republican road to 2016 run through cpac? stay with us. >> the gop of old has grown stale and moss covered. i don't think we need to name any names. i'm the world's worst cleaning lady.

Wouldn't be surprising in this case if it comes out to be rand paul. i think what you are getting this year which i have not felt in previous years is there a lot of friendly fire here. it's -- you saw it a little bit in that clip you played from rand paul in the backroom, the breakout sessions here. people are actually shouting at each other as they talk about what went wrong in november. and how they fix things going forward. so there's a whole lot of wrestling over the soul of the party here, even among this conservative core of the party. >> and yet, dana, i noted that marco rubio said bar...

That's why i got a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. from historic white smoke at the vatican, to more blowing smoke at cpac, here are today's top lines. 47 kt man. >> elected the 266th pope. here are other names he could have selected. >> any white smoke here? >> number 5, pope w. bush. >> are you surprised barack obama i was not elected as pope? >> republicans want to balance the budget. president doesn't. they haven't said that. today was a good start. >> obama's charm offensive. >> i know that you know. >> this is more of an offensive. >> you lost some weight, you're work...

Senate floor, house floor, when rand paul goes out and talks or ted cruz goes out and talks, they sound like crazy people to most of us. within the republican party, they are now in a sense of a kind of establishment. they're very difficult to push off. and cpac is where that dilemma kind of comes to a head. >> there are some real debates for this group to have. we were talking about this earlier today. rand paul gets out there and comes up with a very noninterventionist approach to foreign policy which comes from a libertarian streak. >> an isolationist. >> isolationaism. this drives people l...