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I give him 48 hours to stay on message? >> i'm an issues guy. >> the big affect of all of this wiener issue would be the down ballot races. that's why they are so concerned. they can see the senate in the grasp. they could see gains in the house. a possible governing majority. >> can i just say about -- >> the argument comes to light -- >> let's think about if this does have the -- i believe -- we had an october clinton fund-raising scandal hit two weeks before the election. it went from clinton double digits to single. he wins. democrats didn't get the house or the senate. we may -- the ultim...

>> i'm an issues guy. >> the big affect of all of this wiener issue would be the down ballot races. that's why they are so concerned. they can see the senate in the grasp. they could see gains in the house. a possible governing majority. >> can i just say about -- >> the argument comes to light -- >> let's think about if this does have the -- i believe -- we had an october clinton fund-raising scandal hit two weeks before the election. it went from clinton double digits to single. he wins. democrats didn't get the house or the senate. we may -- the ultimate affect of this may be an eight perso...

Not have a fight over the debt ceiling again and issues like planned parenthood stopping everything thanks to ted cruz and the rest? it sounds like they are still in revolutionary spirit on the republican side. >> there is but there is counter revolutionary spirit. look at the discharge petition that pulled the bank out of the financial services committee. that got 218 members of the house which they flexed their muscle and showed that they have a governing majority. if they want those 218 can continue to get together. you might see some coalition style politics. but the time is running short....

And in fact in state legislatures we have seen democrats in the minority vote for a republican for speaker or leader of a house so that they have a say over who controls that house essentially and have a kind of moderating influence on that. can you imagine democrats doing something similar here? >> sure. that's been the rule in the new york senate for the past five years. it's also been the way things worked in the texas senate for several years. it certainly is possible. right now you have 257 votes for yourself on the republican caucus. right now each one of those will get one vote. it migh...

But there's nothing that requires that. and in fact in state legislatures we have seen democrats in the minority vote for a republican for speaker or leader of a house so that they have a say over who controls that house essentially and have a kind of moderating influence on that. can you imagine democrats doing something similar here? >> sure. that's been the rule in the new york senate for the past five years. it's also been the way things worked in the texas senate for several years. it certainly is possible. right now you have 257 votes for yourself on the republican caucus. right now each...