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people. tip o'neill got along with ronald reagan. ted kennedy got along with orrin hatch. joe biden got along with john mccain. nancy pelosi got along with john boehner. ruth bader ginsburg got along with antonin scalia. all we are asking is house republicans to get along with each other. first time in 100 years there is no congress because of ambition or power grabs, dysfunction, and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this. it's embarrassing, it's dysfunctional. it's dangerous, it's stupid. those are words that republicans have used. >> yep, we still do not have a u.s. hou...

Comes back to this point, to this house chamber where he is sitting, where he delivered those scathing words against donald trump before backing down, and he learns what everybody else in donald trump's political life has learned. that selling your soul to donald trump leaves your soul in ashes. loyalty is never returned and you always end up losing because of it. >> and everything kevin mccarthy has done in the two years since january 6th, beginning with that trip to marching, but to appease all of these people now who are saying they will never vote for them. looking the other way when they ...

Texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave weigel. you have ken buck. i've got to think he is voicing john mccain's private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans' private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? >> cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty -- that's pretty widespread. i've heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republic...

Texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave wiegel. you have ken buck. i've got to think he is voicing john mccain's private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans' private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? >> cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty -- that's pretty widespread. i've heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republic...

Because, well, he is not really letting it fester, but letting this issue to hang out there so they'll look crazy or they think it makes them look crazy. in buck's case i think he was being very savvy. the walk-back of what he was saying was more surprising to me than anything else. you know, this is what smart republicans should say. stop talking about the president's birth certificate. >> now, buck is complaining that he cannot get tea party audiences to pay attention to something like the national debt because they want to talk about the president's birth certificate. this starts to make me...