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By the end of march, that's this year a goal that bush leaked to confidants in february to clear the field of challengers. what we seem to have here is a party caught between two extremes, the mushy middle and a ticking time bomb. we're joined by april, author of "the presidency in black and white" and nicholas of the "new york times." i'm going to start with liz. this is -- well people tell me what he is doing is running for the establishment. that's his first goal. take on hillary later on. >> i think that's probably correct. the question that i have about the strategy is is this really a fi...

Democrat from massachusetts. dick durbin said earlier in the program about not your daddy's gop. as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think there's been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the former republican leader, bob michael, a mainstream conservative because he was too close to tip o'neill. they weren't snarling at each other. and, yeah, what you have is a real -- you have a reversion now...

To have overcome logic. >> congressman dan kildee. joining me now, former congressman, barney frank, democrat from massachusetts. dick durbin said earlier in the program about not your daddy's gop. as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think there's been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the former republican leader, bob michael, a mainstream conservative because he was too close to tip o'nei...

Democratic conference. senator schumer, thanks very much for being with us. >> your "polar star" at your service here, ma'am. >> when it comes to the unemployment insurance issue, specifically, 1.3 million americans cut off from unemployment benefits. we're learning tonight at least three republican senators are saying they will vote with you, the democrats, for that extension. do you think it's possible it can pass the senate? >> i think it is possible. the pressure is mounting on our republicans because what's happening is this. the tectonic plates beneath our politics are changing. the issu...

Three republican senators are saying they will vote with you, the democrats, for that extension. do you think it's possible it can pass the senate? >> i think it is possible. the pressure is mounting on our republicans because what's happening is this. the tectonic plates beneath our politics are changing. the issues that dominated the first five years of president obama's term, "a," the deficit, "b" health care, obamacare, are giving way to a new issue and that is the decline of middle class incomes, the lack of good jobs and the increase in poverty. and the public is feeling that. and so on ...