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Welcome back to hanchlt coming up in a little more than an hour, my msnbc documentary "rise of the new right." here's a clip. >> but in 1992 the hard right's pat buchanan ran and lost in the republican primary against the incumbent president george h.b. bush to. placate the right, bush's team gave buchanan a speaking slot at the republican convention. he used it to lay out his vision for america. >>? block by block, my friends, we must take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. >> some blamed buchanan's rhetoric for hurting the bush re-election effort pushing mod...

That's unacceptable. we need this to happen in days. >> okay. >> this oil spill must stop in days. 90%, i hope that he's right. >> okay. let's take a look at record of bp to make your point, sir. the oil spill estimates coming from bp range from 1,000 barrels per day initially. look, we have a chart here. watch it on the reruns tonight, actually better watch it now because we've got the special tonight at 7:00 on the "rise of the right." take a look. what we're showing sheer only 1,000 barlgs a drels a day was initial estimate and now it's up 2060,000 barrels a day yesterday. this is a reality...

Groups like jerry falwell's moral majority. but in 1992, the hard right's pat buchanan ran and lost in the republican primaries against the incumbent president, george h.w. bush. to placate the right, bush's team gave him a speaking slot at the republican convention. he used it to lay out his vision for america. >> block by block, my friends, we must take back our cities. and take back our culture and take back our country. >> reporter: some blamed buchanan's rhetoric for hurting the bush re-election effort, pushing moderates to voted for the democratic candidate, bill clinton. but buchanan's ...

Watching there is a person who could hit the stump, campaign in iowa. >> right. >> and as you know very well, you're an expert where evangelicals are strong. her reference to the fact rights are god-given which is a fact that is written into our declaration of independence. no surprise there. but running on that kind of language, very strong church language there, that seems to be ringing the bell. >> i don't know if michele bachmann is ready. if sarah palin goes into iowa, i think she starts off with between 30% and 40% of the vote. she shoulders out all the other conservatives and mitt romne...

Language, very strong church language there, that seems to be ringing the bell. >> i don't know if michele bachmann is ready. if sarah palin goes into iowa, i think she starts off with between 30% and 40% of the vote. she shoulders out all the other conservatives and mitt romney is the only one that could stop her given, "a" standing in the moderate ring of the party, "b" he has conservatives and "c" there are republicans scared of sarah palin. these races come down to the conservatives. as ron reagan knows, for example, ron reagan against george h.w. bush. >> yeah, but reagan won that. >> yea...