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We're back with the national lead. unbelievable images from hawaii. more lava spewing across the big island with ash and toxic gases. you're look now at blue flames caused by highly explosive methane gas, a by product of the eruption and described as complete and total destruction. stephanie elum is live on the ground in hawaii. are residents likely to see any relief any time soon? >> reporter: that is the thing, jake and that is the hard people for the people living through this, there is no end in sight. it is sort of that groundhog day effect of each day waking up and for many of the reside...

In where the republicans are. not on just this issue, but a whole series of things. with so many things that need to be addressed in the country. and we can all acknowledge that. their willingness to come back again and again. and let's remember. i'm in minnesota right now. this is bachmann territory. we know crazy up here. >> there's no doubt. holland cook, if you were counseling right now a right wing talker to get off this subject, and he doesn't want to do it, how would you do it? >> it's going nowhere, because it's going to croak in the senate, and even if it didn't, it would get vetoed. ...

Them in terms of the primary opponents, and so rationality is out of the window. what we are left with is extreme rigid ideology which has never been a very good way to get problems solved in this town. >> and you have mentioned the bipartisan commissions and it has been a groundhog day effect happening and the quick history for those who don't know, you and your colleague senator gregg sponsored a bill to create a bipartisan debt commission to have congressional privilege a couple of years back and when it came up, some republicans who were for it fill buibustered it death, and then the presi...