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Republicans, standing in solidarity with ted cruz while mitch mcconnell is opposing what he's doing on the senate floor. that, as one republican aide said to me, was more of the establishment ranks, looks deeply dysfunctional to our chief donors and shows the party from where we are right now. democrats sit back dumb founded. democrats know there's a lot of political liability with this bill but as long as ted cruz does this, the focus is on him, his ego, whatever he's doing here in washington, d.c. so they're more than happy to led ted cruz take center stage and go as long as he wants. thomas...

Emeritous of the zoo will join us live. while you were asleep rand paul finally stopped talking. the kentucky senator protesting the obama administration's domestic drone policy with an old-fashioned filibuster, stopping only for an occasional drink or a bite of a snickers bar that he brought with him while delaying the eventual confirmation of cia john brennan in order to make this point. >> no american should be killed by a drone on american soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. that americans could be killed in a cafe in san fran...

In that country who could begin to compete with him. he was physically and politically larger than life, complete theater, ultimately bad for the country. he was saved, if you will, by the oil windfalls. you just get a sense of a kind of theatricality that you almost never get in politics. seriously anti-american and anti-democratic, just about populism. >> there are a couple terms, tee at rickal, long-winded that remind us of someone else in the region, castro. chavez, in your view, was he the end of something or the beginning, or is he the middle? >> more towards the end. you're right, he wa...

History and a different set of threats around the world than we went in to. so there's a lot of play here, very complicated but part of the reality of the 21st century an i'm afraid we are going to be operating in this mode for a long time. i know that's a long-winded answer but that's how i feel about it. >> isn't there i wonder a reality we ought to acknowledge about how sort of the internal politics of the republican party on capitol hill changed in the obama era? you talk about maybe he's spent too much time barn storming, maybe should have called boehner, other leaders to camp david. my r...

He talks about it all the time. but i think what he needs to do is talk about it with enough specificity and concisely enough to make it fit in a debate answer. that's a hard thing to do. that is what his greater challenge is. i think the president, he needs to make no mistakes. he needs to try to get through this intact and believe his lead will survive it. >> bret: does make nomean hold ? does it mean dean smith and the unc basketball four corner offense? or does it mean he goes on the attack to try to get under governor romney's scen? >> i think for the president, one of his bad habits that...