Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131025:05:56:00
Begin by saying what took so long? because this tea party phenomenon has been going on for a few years now. seems like it took a couple election cycles, christine o'donnell cycle, the phenomenon where you lost senate seats because of it. to get this kind of, calling it "establishment opposition" going? >> that's right. we were slow off to the dance. we were obeying what -- ronald reagan used to call the 11th commandment. we weren't speaking of ill of other republicans. but we were getting our lunch handed to us. well-financed groups were coming in taking it to senate right republicans. and it ...